Please note: The following article contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 2 premiere. Human beings are a frustrating mix of cooperative, social problem solvers, and tribal, self-interested hardliners. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the United States and on this Election Day, where Americans are clearly divided about the future of the country, it […]
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Read more "The Burden of All Masters"The following contains major spoilers for the book Battlefront II: Inferno Squad, as well as the Battlefront II single-player campaign. Above the forested moon of Endor, a fleet unites against an enemy that is bent on the destruction of the galaxy. Soldiers are deployed to the moon’s surface to finally end a threat that has […]
Read more "Peace Through Power – An Imperial Perspective"When Darth Vader appeared in the hallway of the Tantive IV in A New Hope, silently surveying the carnage his Imperial stormtroopers wrought against the rebels, he instantly became the standard against which all movie villains would be compared. Thanks to the brilliant design of Ralph McQuarrie, Vader didn’t have to say anything to be […]
Read more "It’s Hard Out There For A Bad Guy – How Do The New Villains Measure Up To Vader?"Star Wars hit 1977 like a pop culture atom bomb. Audiences couldn’t get enough of the strange worlds and the stirring blend of science fiction and fantasy that sprang from the imagination of George Lucas. He took the template of a damsel in distress and turned her into an independent, self-assured rebel. He made a […]
Read more "Cinematic Catalysts: Star Wars Would Not Have Been Possible Without These Films"The following article contains mild spoilers for The Clone Wars TV series, Darth Vader Comic #1 (2017), and canon novel Lords of the Sith. "Governor Tarkin, I should've expected to find you holding Vader's leash." Leia Organa was defiant in the face of evil. Her quip was addressed to Grand Moff Tarkin but it was […]
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