As much fun as the old Expanded Universe, now called Legends, was and as much as I loved it it’s fair to say that it had its fair share of problems. Among these were an over-saturation of stories that took place in a small time frame as well as a tendency to rely on the […]
Author: Michael Dare
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The Most Important Thing I Learned At Celebration 2016
It was at the International Star Wars Fandom panel, early Saturday morning, to be precise. Now, it’s not an earth-shattering thing, certainly, and con-goers will have learned this long before some halfwit writing pretentious long-form did so. But please forgive me, I’m new to this world. Celebration Europe 2016 was not just my first Celebration, […]
Rogue One Details Revealed – Everything You Need to Know!
It seems like an eternity since Rogue One was first confirmed and we’ve had almost no information to sate our appetites – thanks, in part, to a desire by Lucasfilm/Disney to minimize confusion between this and the Mission Impossible film, Rogue Nation. This ended when, a mere 2 months ago, we were treated to a […]
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A Claudia Gray Book Review! No, Not That One
With the release of Star Wars: Bloodline by Claudia Gray, I thought it would be a great idea to not review it – because truly that would be the hottest of hot takes, right? Instead I’d like to go back to where it all began with her debut Star Wars young adult novel, Lost Stars. […]
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Knowledge is Power: Legends in The Force Awakens
Crafting characters and universes is, put mildly, incredibly difficult. More difficult than threading a needle into a camel’s eye (such a small target and the hairy buggers keep objecting) or making pigs fly when the catapult is broken, it is nevertheless an essential part of storycraft. It can be done in hundreds of ways, big […]
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On Rebels, They’re All Fine Here Now, Thanks. How Are You?
This is not a full review; we don’t do that kind here. Instead we take a closer look at one or two itty bitty pieces. Written under the assumption that you’ve seen the episode, and as always BIG WHOPPING SPOILERS (for the show and one for The Force Awakens if you haven’t seen it) from […]