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Much has been made about the validity (or lack thereof) regarding Rey’s familial “reveal” in The Last Jedi. Recently, we discussed the transcription of The Last Jedi script, made available at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library, which indicates Rey is speaking her greatest fear, not necessarily the truth:
Continue reading Rey’s Parents: The Director’s Cut
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One thing I really don’t understand is why so many people think we’ve received the full story about Luke in the Last Jedi. Shall we review?
It’s bots, BOTS, I tell you. Russian ones at that. (Frickin’ Russians). Could it all really be so simple?
Hold your horses…or should I say fathiers? Continue reading The Last Jedi: Discourse, Data, and Clickbait
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The Poe Dameron comic finale further underscores why I think the time skip will be measured in months, not years.
Spoilers for Poe Dameron #31
Continue reading What the Poe Dameron Finale Means for the Episode IX Time Skip
In the first article, we discussed how The Force Awakens portrayed Rey and Kylo’s relationship and how it differed from stories that use the ‘enemies to lovers’ trope in key ways. Now, we show why romantic Reylo is incompatible with the story going into Episode IX.
Continue reading Why Reylo Just Doesn’t Work in Star Wars: Episode IX
With filming for Star Wars IX well underway, we’ve recently been looking back at the last intra-film period, to see what members of Star Wars production were saying about the sequel trilogy during that time. Though the creative team seems to be keeping mum as we wait for Episode IX, some of them actually had a good deal to say between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
There’s a lot of really interesting insight, so…revisit some old quotations, we will!
Continue reading The Sacred Texts! – Lost Quotes from MaryAnn Brandon
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A discussion of what is and isn’t the message of The Last Jedi and the strange reluctance to apply it to the protagonist.
