Ever since the second season of Andor wrapped up a couple weeks ago the show has been stuck in my head; every now and then I think about it and how just so very good it is. Andor feels like a singular work in the movies and TV of Star Wars. It zeroes in on… Continue reading What’s Next?
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Flavors of Star Wars
The original Star Wars is a weird movie. You’ve got a pair of silly robots bumbling about a desert and a young man finding the charred remains of his caretakers. An old man and a half-robot man fight with laser swords until the old man disappears. A farmboy flying a fighter jet uses space-magic to… Continue reading Flavors of Star Wars
Accidentally Relevant
Having decided to add a couple of Star Wars books to my to-read list, I just finished Reign of The Empire: The Mask of Fear by Alexanxder Freedman. Following in the steps of Andor, Mask of Fear is a political thriller set in the aftermath of Revenge of The Sith: the lasers and spaceships are… Continue reading Accidentally Relevant
Future’s Past
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic is set four thousand years before the main Star Wars movies. War wages between the Republic and the Sith Empire as the Jedi try to fight back against an unstoppable force millennia before the rise of Palpatine. Released back in 2003, the game was set in a whole… Continue reading Future’s Past
Rerelease
It’s May the Fourth and as decided proof that it’s gone from being an informal pun day to a bit of corporate branding, The Phantom Menace got rereleased in cinemas this weekend. I, being the Star Wars trash that I am, am going to see it tomorrow. Because I will rally against the commodification of… Continue reading Rerelease
Back To The Battlefront
Speaking of rereleases, the two original Star Wars Battlefront games just got rereleased for the PS5. They didn’t get a makeover (besides adding a few things that had been PC and Xbox-specific way back when), they’re just straight-up ported to a modern console. Which means that, once again, this is becoming a blog where a… Continue reading Back To The Battlefront
Corridors, Again
The Phantom Menace was on my mind last week because the video game based on the movie got rereleased and I decided to see how the game felt over twenty years later. I played The Phantom Menace sometime around when it first came out in 1999 and my father bought it for my brother and… Continue reading Corridors, Again
In Defense of The Phantom Menace’s Opening Crawl
The opening crawl to The Phantom Menace is decidedly dull. Where the crawls to the original trilogy spoke of civil war, the dreaded Imperial Fleet, and a second Death Star, The Phantom Menace opens with a discussion of the taxation of trade routes. Maybe the crawl gets interesting later on? Nah. There’s no evil Galactic… Continue reading In Defense of The Phantom Menace’s Opening Crawl
Gardening With a Lightsaber
One of the many collectibles in Jedi: Survivor are seeds. Some plants around the central planet of Koboh have seeds that you can collect and bring back to your cantina's garden. Me being me, I've been running around the planet and getting all the collectibles as I head toward the end of the game. So,… Continue reading Gardening With a Lightsaber
I’ve Been Here Before
There’s a bit in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor where you end up raiding a crashed Lucrehulk’s command sphere. You know, one of those big Trade Federation ships in Episode I. It’s a great time — and you get to fight a bunch of B1 Battle Droids which is always a highlight. Before long, you make… Continue reading I’ve Been Here Before
Essays, Not Rants! 