Episode 2,322: The Battle of Hoth From a Certain POV
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Hoth, the search for it, the battle there, and the escape from it, are the focus of the first dozen or so tales for the The Empire Strikes Back edition […]
Episode 2,321: ESB From a Certain POV Non-Spoiler Review
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The story of The Empire Strikes Back, as told by bit players, creatures, a Force ghost, and more! Here’s our non-spoiler review of the latest “From a Certain Point of […]
Episode 2,287: ESB From a Certain Point of View: Characters Revealed!
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The characters in the From a Certain Point of View stories for The Empire Strikes Back 40th anniversary collection have been revealed! We’ll run them down today… Punch it!
Episode 2,217: Flashback: 1979 Interviews With George Lucas, Part 3
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It’s flashback time! Back in 2014, I did a series of episodes looking at interviews conducted with George Lucas by Alan Arnold for the seminal book Once Upon a Galaxy: […]
Episode 2,216: Flashback: 1979 Interviews With George Lucas, Part 2
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It’s flashback time! Back in 2014, I did a series of episodes looking at interviews conducted with George Lucas by Alan Arnold for the seminal book Once Upon a Galaxy: […]
Episode 2,215: Flashback: 1979 Interviews With George Lucas, Part 1
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It’s flashback time! Back in 2014, I did a series of episodes looking at interviews conducted with George Lucas by Alan Arnold for the seminal book Once Upon a Galaxy: […]
Episode 2,150: “Recontextualizing” With Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi
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The “I am your father” reveal from The Empire Strikes Back is the ultimate “recontextualization” in cinema history. Recontextualization is a heavy word, one definition of which is: To place […]
Episode 2,149: The Theme of Failure in Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi
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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: […]
Episode 2,148: Comparing the Structure of Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi
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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 […]
Episode 2,146: The “Hardest Things” for Empire and Last Jedi Characters
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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 […]