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I hinted at us coming to this episode earlier in the week, about a thematic similarity between The Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi. Well, here we are now: […]
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There was a funny meme going around back in the day, which had two images, which were the same shot of protesters with torches and pitchforks. And one photo depicted […]
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The May 2017 Vanity Fair cover story on The Last Jedi includes this: But Johnson, in drawing up his screenplay, decided to raise the stakes further. ‘I started by writing […]
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In October 2017 (before the release of The Last Jedi), Rian Johnson spoke at an “Ireland Week” event to talk about the movie. The Hollywood Reporter quoted him as saying: […]
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This the 9th of 11 episodes focused on the nature of hope as it’s depicted in the Star Wars movies, and the 8th out of the nine Skywalker Saga movies […]
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This episode didn’t quite go the way I thought. It’s the episode number that matches the year of release for The Last Jedi, so we’re exploring family themes (as with […]
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We talked about some story choices Rian Johnson made in The Last Jedi that were supported by J.J. Abrams in The Rise of Skywalker. But we didn’t talk about the […]
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The debate has already begun online about whether the story choices made by J.J. Abrams and Chris Terrio for The Rise of Skywalker enhance or undo the events of Rian […]
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The Grysk could be the next big bad for the Star Wars universe, capable of turning what we know about the GFFA on its head! Today, let’s add what we’ve […]
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A new excerpt from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire by Delilah S. Dawson takes place during the events of The Force Awakens. And what’s revealed in that excerpt seems […]