Star Wars Celebration: Anaheim was announced in April on the last day of Celebration: Chicago, breaking with tradition and putting two stateside Celebrations in back to back years. The initial announcement was met with the usual mixture of excitement for the event and anxiety for our bank accounts. This past Friday, tickets went on sale […]
Author: Paul Depaola
Looking Back at Celebration Chicago
Star Wars Celebration Chicago has officially ended. We have all returned home to the boring world of jobs and everyday life, no more Stormtroopers and Jedi roaming the halls, discussion panels or celebrity sightings. Like most Celebrations, this was an exhausting but fun weekend reconnecting with my Star Wars family. We arrived in Chicago a […]
Star Wars Resistance So Far
We are now 7 episodes into the first season of Star Wars Resistance, approximately a third of the way through the first season. First impressions of the show have felt varied among fans with some welcoming it while others are hesitant to the change in tone and direction from what we had in the final […]
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It’s All Connected
Arguably the biggest shock of the year for Star Wars fans came at the end of Solo: A Star Wars Story. As the movie wraps up, the big boss of Crimson Dawn is revealed to be none other than Darth Maul. The red-faced Sith Lord was thought to be dead by the majority of the […]
My Favorite Gungan
Star Wars is an epic story with epic heroes and villains, but it’s also a story of everyday people wrapped up in extraordinary situations. We spend a lot of time talking about the extraordinary heroes, Anakin, Luke, Obi-wan, Rey, Kylo, etc, but it’s important to recognize the everyday heroes, the ones without special abilities. Each […]
What’s a Star Wars Fan to Do if They Don’t Like New Star Wars?
There is a problem in fandom right now and it got me thinking. When your whole life revolves around Star Wars, what happens when you no longer like the direction the franchise is going? In the mid-nineties, I was introduced to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. An epic series of novels telling of a lone […]