Identity & Choice

A central theme throughout Star Wars is the difficult relationship between identity and choice. Of all the Star Wars content that has been produced in the past decades, and that has tried to deal with this complex, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch have done an excellent job. I will take a closer look in this post.

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The Rise of Skywalker: What if Anakin isn’t in it?

We are all looking forward to The Rise of Skywalker and on social media the theories and leaks are flying around our ears like shrapnel. But for all characters we know are returning, one way or the other, in Episode IX, one name is consistently absent: Anakin. So what if Anakin isn’t in the story? Could that be? If so, then why? And what would it mean?

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The road to Episode IX: A Trilogy of Teasers

So last weekend we finally got the long-awaited Episode IX teaser. But how does it compare to the other Sequel Trilogy teasers? And what does that tell us about the upcoming movie? You may find the answer surprising!

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The First Order: Star Wars’ terror organisation

Many Star Wars fans view the Sequel Trilogy’s First Order simply as a Galactic Empire 2.0. It is however a very different beast. And that difference may have implications for how Episode IX is going to wrap up the Skywalker Saga.

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Star Wars: Resistance #18 “Descent”

Star Wars: Resistance raises the stakes this episode, Kazuda gets a trial by fire … and water … and he takes a huge step forward while Tam learns an unexpected truth about her friend. Another great episode.

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