Aggressive Negotiations: A Star Wars Podcast

Rebel Music. Star Wars Rebels made a splash a few years ago by introducing a new band of heroes from the period in the galaxy far, far away that's shortly before we first meet Luke Skywalker onscreen. The show has met with mixed success in the...

The Force of Perspective. Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke that many of the truths we cling to “depend greatly on our own point-of-view.” It was an artful dodge about Luke's lineage, but Star Wars fans have long wrestled with how far this applies to the...

Book Club: The Rising Force. The Star Wars Expanded Universe has been fluid, like a river of ideas, since its inception. In that great river have flowed many works, among them the Jedi Apprentice series released in 1999 which gave the back story of...

A Different Return of the Jedi. Released in 1983, Return of the Jedi spent decades as the black sheep of the Star Wars saga. Though the conclusion to a legendary film series, as its audience aged they created new complaints with each passing year....

Favorite Star Wars Toys. Few items in modern times have reached the totemic value of Star Wars toys. From the blockbuster figure line from the 1970s to the modern collectible market of today, even those who have never seen Star Wars have seen its...

Successful Star Wars Books. A topic around which many passions swirl for Star Wars fans, the Expanded Universe has always been a conglomeration of moving parts. Sometimes they mesh well, sometimes the machine breaks down and catches fire. So what...

Mandalorian Excalibur. Star Wars has in some ways always been a myth built around family, destiny, and the inheritance of important relics. The Star Wars Rebels series has come to embrace this aspect of the story as it relates to Sabine Wren,...

The Umbara Arc. As The Clone Wars series progressed, the gathering darkness of the Star Wars galaxy was explored in more depth. With this essential world building we saw many incremental movements toward the chaos that would mark the opening shot of...

The Umbara Arc. As The Clone Wars series progressed, the gathering darkness of the Star Wars galaxy was explored in more depth. With this essential world building we saw many incremental movements toward the chaos that would mark the opening shot of...

Rey/Jyn. 2015 started a new era for Star Wars, focused on female main characters. Rey and Jyn Erso are the new faces of heroism for the franchise, and who they are tell us a lot about what's new and what's constant in the stories we've come to love...