Fear Leads to… Hope?
Does the removal of fear make room for hope? If so, how does that affect the end of the Star Wars saga?
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No One’s Ever Really Gone
Luke’s words to Leia are memorable, no doubt. But they may be even more important than we could have possibly imagine….
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A recent issue of the Dr. Aphra comic sums up how Lucasfilm defines those considered good and those considered bad. “Evil’s just a measure of how much your choices take away other people’s. A thesis worth testing —don’t you think?” I think it’s absolutely a thesis worth testing, because it has it backwards. Taking someone’s […]
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Besides simply being a lot of fun to watch, Kylo Ren, or Ben Solo if you choose, is one of the most complex villains ever written. As of the ending of The Last Jedi, he is most certainly a villain, albeit not one who is as fully entrenched in the dark side as he may […]
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Psychologist, author, and speaker Sherrie Campbell, in a 2017 article for Entrepreneur, laid out seven such characteristics. Being that Star Wars at its core is about the human experience, it would hold that we would see these traits in Star Wars characters. The question, then, is not if but when do we see such examples […]
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“Solo” may not have given us much about Han Solo, but it definitely changed his story arc.
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Aside from the snarky memes and Internet puns, Leia’s space scene seems problematic. Is there a way to fix it?
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