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We’ve hit the episode number that matches the year of The Empire Strikes Back‘s release! On today’s show, I’ll be talking about how this mostly isn’t a movie about family, […]
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We’ve talked about hope in Star Wars – aka A New Hope, but we haven’t talked about one of the other strong themes of the movie: family. Since it’s episode […]
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The Rise of Skywalker is, of course, the headline news in Star Wars for the month of December. And there’s so much more Star Wars happening this month, too! From […]
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In the last week, we’ve gotten multiple new commercials for The Rise of Skywalker, a series of Good Morning America segments, and a “Special Look” video. We’ll talk about all […]
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There are pages of things online about people grateful *for* Star Wars, but nothing I could find about expressions of gratitude *within* Star Wars movies. And so on this Thanksgiving […]
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“They fly now!” This, based on the reactions of Chewie, Threepio, Finn, and Poe, is an unexpected development. And it’s a particularly surprising reaction for one of these characters! I’ll […]
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Yes, at first blush, the notion of Leia actually needing redemption for anything seems impossible. But when you look at the sequel movies so far, there’s been a very strong […]
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Circling back to some “news” from earlier this month! On a Disney earnings call, Bob Iger talked about Star Wars movies going into a “hiatus” after The Rise of Skywalker. […]
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Daisy Ridley made a comment about all the time Rey spends with Threepio. But looking at all the footage and photos we’ve seen from The Rise of Skywalker, it sure […]
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I’m running a 99.8 degree fever at the time of recording, but the show must go on. And we’ve got a bunch of new Rise of Skywalker stuff to talk […]