Star Wars storytelling

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 […]

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The Past Is Past, Until It’s Not: Marchion Ro’s Struggle Against History in The High Republic

I spent a lot of The High Republic struggling with Marchion Ro and the Nihil. I didn’t find them very interesting. Their motivations felt one-dimensional. Marchion Ro came across as every college libertarian who reads Atlas Shrugged and makes it their personality. They presented a host of technical problems for the Jedi — how to […]

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