Leia: The Greatest Jedi of All-Time (?)
The debate of “greatest” Jedi will never end, but we may have known the answer for years.
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Darkness Rises… or “Why Rey Had to be a Palpatine”
I said many times before The Rise of Skywalker that there are some things I didn’t want to happen, but I would get over it if they were done well. One of those things was Rey being from a powerful family, especially Palpatine’s. Luckily, it was done well. She had to be a Palpatine. For starters, we […]
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Luke is not perfect. Shocking, though it may be, he is also human. And, on the heels of barely surviving his adventures in Return of the Jedi, he struggled to even maintain that humanity. Yet part of the essence of humanity is how we share that humanity with others, both in personal and broader relationships. […]
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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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“Let the past die. Kill it if you have to,” says Kylo Ren. This has become the thesis of The Last Jedi to a large swath of fandom, and that is a problem considering that Luke disproves it at the end of the film; that’s not even considering that killing his own father did not […]
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Master and Apprentice SPOILERS ahead!
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Masks are a classic storytelling device, and Star Wars sequel trilogy has mastered using them in a classic way.
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There is still a lot to learn about the New Republic, but will its legacy be failure?
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DJ is, well, complicated. But understanding his story can help in understanding Finn, Rose, and the entire sequel trilogy.
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With the end of the Skywalker saga coming this year, how does one actually win the Star Wars?
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