The Identity of Darth Vader
Over at FANGirlBlog, I tackled the question of who Darth Vader is. Is he still Anakin Skywalker or is he a distinctly different person? Click here to check it out!
Over at FANGirlBlog, I tackled the question of who Darth Vader is. Is he still Anakin Skywalker or is he a distinctly different person? Click here to check it out!
The final on screen confirmation of Darth Vader’s presence in Rogue One further confirms an undeniable fact about the Sith Lord, he’s the most popular villain in Star Wars. In fact, every Star Wars movie ever released in theaters has featured Vader in one form or another, but when we take Vader’s career into perspective,…
The Clone Wars first arrived as a theatrically released movie, which preceded the show’s television debut by approximately two months. It returned fans to the era of the prequel trilogy films, then, as now, still a topic which provokes emotional responses among fans (good and bad) and began the process of carving out a significant chunk…
We reviewed Marvel’s Darth Vader series over at FANGirl Blog. Just click here to find out what we thought of the Sith Lord’s titular comic! (It’s fantastic, but click through to find out why!)
For fans of The Clone Wars the season finale of Rebels’ second season ended in the fan equivalent of high octane adrenaline being injected straight into the heart. Why? It brought together master and apprentice, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. Their friendship and partnership was a driving force throughout the The Clone Wars series and…
The prequel trilogy begins in The Phantom Menace with the pronouncement that Anakin Skywalker was the fabled “Chosen One,” foretold by prophecy as one who would bring balance to the Force. Indeed, the prequel trilogy sets up Anakin Skywalker as the ultimate tragic hero of the Star Wars saga with the original trilogy focusing on…
“For over a thousand generations, the Jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic…” Intoned and infused with mystical gravitas by Alec Guiness, these words for millions of fans represented the first time we learned about the Jedi in Star Wars. Our own hunger and interest grew over the years,…
The planet of double suns, Tatooine looms large in the mythos of Star Wars. The setting for the first act of A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, the second act of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, and part of the concluding final act of Revenge of the Sith. Only The…
If the first three issues of Marvel’s Star Wars were intended to simply introduce our characters, the next three push our main heroes, Luke, Han, and Leia, off onto paths which come to define them in the following films of the Original Trilogy. Luke continues his path to becoming a Jedi, while the building blocks…
Of all the Jedi characters introduced or represented in The Clone Wars television show, only one had a fate left undetermined when the show was brought to a sudden end by the Lucasfilm acquisition by Disney. That character was Ahsoka Tano. In the final season of the show, after being accused of betraying the Jedi…