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Star Wars – Every Force Ghost Voice Cameo in Rise of Skywalker

January 8, 2020

Are you a huge Star Wars fan? I think Rise of Skywalker puts me — a die hard science fiction fan — to shame. Can you place every Force Ghost voice we hear mentally chatting to Rey in the climactic and emotional Skywalker Saga finale? Spoilers follow for Rise of Skywalker. This should be obvious. […]

Star Wars Analysis – What does balance in the Force mean?

December 28, 2019

Since we first saw The Phantom Menace in 1999, audiences wondered what precisely it meant to bring balance to the Force. Anakin Skywalker was prophesied to “bring it” and at the time, we all assumed it meant to bring more Light Side and less Darkness. Which made no sense, since we all knew who Anakin […]

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The 6 Most Epic Lightsaber Fights in Star Wars (plus 3 that didn’t make the cut)

December 24, 2019

So many Star Wars movies. So many lightsaber and “lightsaber-adjacent” fight scenes over 42 years. Which saber duels are the best, the most visually stunning, or emotionally moving? I don’t know much about sword technique (<—- we wrote about that here) beyond endlessly watching Lord of the Rings or Xena: Warrior Princess, but I know […]

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The Force is dead. Long live the Force.

December 23, 2019

JJ Abrams and Lucas killed the Force by boxing it into their preconceived needs to tell a story they wanted to tell instead of letting the story tell itself.