The fundamental problem with the Star Wars prequels is that they’re a good story poorly told. When you lay out the narrative of the prequels on paper, beat for beat, it’s actually pretty compelling. At a time when galactic civilization had stagnated after a millennia of peace, evil quietly emerges, taking advantage of complacency and … Continue reading ATTACK OF THE CLONES and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
There’s nothing left to say about The Phantom Menace. When I decided to undertake this project, Episode I is the film I most dreaded. Not because it’s the worst one – on the contrary, I actually think it’s the best of the Star Wars prequels by a pretty wide margin – but because The Discourse … Continue reading THE PHANTOM MENACE and How STAR WARS Fans Broke Fandom
The Walt Disney company acquired Lucasfilm in December of 2012, but the most controversial move didn’t come until more than a year later. On April 25, 2014, every piece of Star Wars media – books, movies, video games, TV shows, comics, you name it – that was not directly overseen by George Lucas was deemed … Continue reading STAR WARS: CLONE WARS and the Failure of the Expanded Universe
In the year of our lord 2019, there are many, many more hours of Star Wars cartoons than there are stories produced in live action. With a total of 207 episodes between The Clone Wars, Rebels, and Resistance, that’s a little over 100 hours of canonical Star Wars stories before we even touch the ten … Continue reading EWOKS and DROIDS and the End of STAR WARS
It is an axiomatic truth that if you try to describe Star Wars as a science fiction story, some nerd is going to crawl out of the woodwork and sneer, “actually, Star Wars is a work of science fantasy.” As insufferable as these dorks may be, they’re not exactly wrong. Star Wars borrows a lot … Continue reading STAR WARS Legends: High Fantasy on Endor in the EWOKS Movies
On Friday, November 17, 1978, at 8 o’clock p.m., The Star Wars Holiday Special was broadcast for the first and only time on CBS. In the forty years since, it has become something of a contemporary myth; a bizarre, misguided, mistake that many knew about but few outside of its initial 13 million viewers had … Continue reading THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL At 40
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