Andor is a human story: it’s about love and loss and rage and resistance and the price we pay to make a better world, one that we ourselves may never get to inhabit. It’s also a human story. There are aliens in Andor. Brothers Benthic and Edrio return as part of Saw’s Partisans, as does […]
Read more "Who is Speaking About the Geonosians?"This week saw the release of the first three episodes of Andor’s second season and the 20th anniversary rerelease of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. On the surface, these two stories are starkly dissimilar. Andor is a realistic tale about the cost of war and the impact of fascism on everyday people, while Revenge of the Sith is the tragic […]
Read more "Exploring Sacrifice in Andor and Revenge of the Sith"In the middle of a raucous adventure film centered on hope and the good guys winning the day stands a singular line that breaks through the smiles to remind the audience that a war, even a just one with a clear delineation between good and evil, has a cost. “Many Bothans died to bring us […]
Read more "The Tragedy of Mon Mothma the Wise"There is still a lot to learn about the New Republic, but will its legacy be failure?
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CLASHING SABERS 