Star Wars

  • First Time Watching Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

    Having never watched The Battle for Endor before, I was truly shocked by its opening. Two decades before Anakin will slaughter younglings in Revenge of the Sith, this light and fluffy children’s movie begins by brutally butchering most of the cast of the first film. Caravan of Courage’s kid...
  • First Time Watching Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

    Finally putting an end to those irritating YouTube videos titled things like “The Star Wars movies they don’t want you to see,” Disney have added the 1980’s Ewok movies to Disney+, introducing a new generation to the bizarre made-for-TV films spinning off the furry aliens from Return of the...
  • Why Obi-Wan and Vader’s “Rematch of the Century” Makes Sense

    “The rematch of the century”. Those words, used by Kathleen Kennedy to describe Vader’s appearance in the upcoming, unimaginatively titled Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series, caused millions of voices to suddenly cry out in either enthusiasm, concern, or confusion. We’ve all long since presumed that Obi-Wan’s confrontation with...
  • My Rangers of the New Republic Dream Team

    The success of The Mandalorian has not only opened the door to a new future of Star Wars on Disney+, with many different series spread across the timeline of the saga now greenlit, but has also launched a smaller, interconnected hub of shows. Along with The Book of Boba...
  • My Hopes for The Mandalorian Season 3

    The Mandalorian season 2 may have ended weeks ago but, come on, we can’t stop thinking about it. It was a surprisingly definitive ending, with Din and Grogu parting ways, but a new quest is on the horizon. With the Darksaber in hand after a fateful duel with Moff...
  • Lunch Break Let’s Play – Star Wars Battlefront 2 Again

    Ben and Aadil are back playing some more Star Wars Battlefront 2 over Ben’s lunch break. Will they be as successful as last time or was it just beginners’ luck?...
  • Silence in Star Wars

    The Star Wars franchise has some of the most famous sound effects and music ever produced, so it’s a bold choice whenever it instead embraces silence. It’s surprising how often John Williams’ iconic music disappears from the films to allow the sound design to tell the story, whether the...
  • Tanked Up 247 – Raiding Tiny Lands

    On the show this week Aadil, Lucy and Ben have all played Tiny Lands from Hyper Three Studio and have a detailed discussion. Before this the show kicks off with Aadil’s thoughts on Hexia. Then after Ben has been playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Lucy finished Crash...
  • My issue with modern Star Wars video games

    Star Wars is a huge franchise, a franchise I am particularly fond of. I’ve loved it since being a kid. We wore out the taped TV versions, full of Christmas adverts, that were our only copy of the original trilogy. We almost destroyed the, now collector’s piece, Kenner Millennium...