Guest-post: “This is not going to go the way you think” by David Thompson

After a rather animated discussion on the Clone Corridor Community thread for TLJ, I was asked to write a piece on my thoughts regarding the film and it’s polarising nature coming from the POV of an EU fan. I’ll start by saying I came out of the cinema feeling odd; not unimpressed exactly, but hurt? Perhaps angry at the liberties taken, and the future taken away from certain characters. I felt like I did for a reason, and it turns out it’s harder to put into words than I thought…

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3 Soundtracks of Genocide …

The 8 Star Wars Episode films so far have contained three depictions of genocide; Star Wars touches upon many uncomfortable themes … and this surely is one of them. But it also always seeks to express in music what sometimes pictures and dialogue cannot. What do these soundtracks tell us of such horrors?

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TLJ Character Studies #4: General Hux

We need to talk about Armitage Hux! In our fourth instalment of this series after Luke, Finn and Rey it is time we face the question: who is the Red General? This will contains massive spoilers for The Last Jedi if you haven’t seen it yet!

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Review: The Score of The Last Jedi

Of course with a new Star Wars movie comes a new score. So what does The Last Jedi have in store for us? We’ll have a listen using the fact that we’ve seen the film. So this review will contain spoilers regarding the film itself in a spoiler-part that is clearly indicated!

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TLJ Character studies #1: Luke.

In the next few days we’ll produce a number of posts about the character arcs of key characters in Star Wars The Last Jedi. These will contains severe spoilers! We start off with Luke Skywalker! If you want to avoid spoilers, check our non-spoiler review.

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Review: The Last Jedi (non-spoiler)

We took our time for this review. No need to haste something so delicious. Taste comes from patience as much of the current fan-boy ranting on the web proves. So what does Clone Corridor think about Episode VIII: The Last Jedi? Absolutely awesome!

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