Allies and Enemies: How Maul: Shadow Lord’s Changing Dynamic Will Reshape The Series

In the fifth and sixth episodes of Maul: Shadow Lord, entitled “Inquisition” and “Night of the Hunted,” survival forces characters to consider alliances with unexpected and uneasy partners, while simultaneously revealing new threats that will push those alliances to their limits. With the arrival of the Empire on Janix, the series reshapes its central conflicts […]

A Fight For Identity: How Episodes 3 and 4 of Maul:Shadow Lord Will Shape The Future of the Galaxy (and the show)

The third and fourth episodes of Maul: Shadow Lord, entitled “Whispers in the Unknown” and “Pride and Vengeance,” respectively, are some of the most compelling episodes of Star Wars animation to date in that they are not just about action or survival. They are about identity, how it is formed, and what one does to […]

Shadow Selves: How Jungian Psychology Will Shape Maul: Shadow Lord

Stories, on the whole, are about identity. Regardless of the kind of arc they follow, characters are constantly discovering things about themselves, evolving, and growing in ways that enthrall the audience and compel them to watch further. Maul: Shadow Lord, the new Star Wars animated series on Disney Plus, will be no different—at least on […]

The Kenobi Code

Obi-Wan Kenobi is often considered as the greatest Jedi to ever live. There is certainly good reason for this, both in and out of universe. As the first Jedi introduced in the saga, he set the standard by which every other Jedi, even Yoda himself, would be measured in the eyes of fans. While the […]

Maul and Ahsoka: Light and Dark Manifest

When Maul, formerly Darth, and Lady Tano finally met on Mandalore, it felt like the moment had been building for years. But Maul didn’t know Ahsoka, and she knew him by reputation and connections alone. Why did it feel like this meeting, this moment, was inevitable? The answer lies in their paths. Maul and Ahsoka […]

How Rise of Skywalker Beautifully Links Rey and Qui-Gon

The Rise of Skywalker brought an (insert adjective here) ending to the Skywalker Saga. As Star Wars so often does, Rise of Skywalker referred back to past films in numerous ways, yet there is a feeling amongst the prequel generation (of which I am a card-carrying member) that the canonical beginning of the saga was […]

The Phantom Apprentice: A Shatterpoint

This article contains massive spoilers for “The Phantom Apprentice”!

The Eleven Day Clone Wars Rewatch

A definitive guide on must watch episodes in preparation of season seven!

This is the Way

Warning: Spoilers for Chapter 4 of the Mandalorian The Mandalorian culture has been one that has been expanded on during each era of Star Wars, be it Legends, The Clone Wars, or the modern Disney era. There was a war between the Jedi and the Mandalorians, but not much else is known other than that […]

How We Could See the Rule of Two in Episode IX and Beyond

A thousand years before the start of The Phantom Menace, a Sith called Darth Bane revolutionized the galaxy in creating the Rule of Two. This “policy” or philosophy, if you will, was intended to help the Sith Order survive. The Sith were fighting a war with the Jedi, yet they also were fighting themselves. This […]

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