November 3rd, 20180232Chewbacca: A two-hundred-year-old Wookiee and copilot of the Millennium Falcon. That’s how he is described inside the Return of the Jedi storybook, and that’s how I grew to know him for most of my childhood. But Chewbacca is so much more. Chewbacca is that friend everyone wants and probably needs. He’s funny, intelligent, skillful,...
October 3rd, 20180170The much-maligned (at least based upon the first impression) Lando Calrissian was the first character we were introduced to that walked the line of good guy/bad guy that we weren't sure could be trusted. Even Han didn’t try to screw over the rebellion, he just wanted to be left alone. Lando, on the other hand, always looked out for...
September 3rd, 20182647When Maul was first brought back during The Clone Wars, I immediately thought it was such a cop-out. Bringing back another dead character because why? Can’t they think of anyone original to bring in? First, it was The Emperor in the Dark Empire comics, and then it was Boba Fett. Didn’t he die when he fell into the Sarlacc pit?...
August 3rd, 20184442“I desperately wanted to die,” Ford says. "I thought it would give the myth some body, and that Han Solo, in fact, really had no place to go. He would have best served the situation by giving it the weight of sacrifice, but that was the one thing that I was unable to convince George of. George has a predisposition to happy endings....
July 26th, 20183366Darkness has fallen upon the galaxy.... We last see Ahsoka Tano during The Clone Wars "The Wrong Jedi" (2013), descending the steps of the Jedi Temple after refusing the offer to rejoin the Jedi Order after she was found innocent of the Jedi Temple bombings. Exactly how much time has transpired between that time and The Siege of...
May 3rd, 20183318"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery One of George Lucas’s initial philosophical ideas when creating Star Wars was man’s relationship with the machine. Does it serve us or do we serve it? A concept at the forefront of the short film...
February 3rd, 20182154The spoken language is one of the many ways we, as humans, communicate how we are feeling to each other. And as decades pass, and the world changes, the spoken word also evolves because of any number of reasons, be it a cultural shift, technological advancements, political upheaval, war, economics, or globalization. By the end of the...
January 17th, 20182275A few weeks ago I decided to go for a walk in the woods near my house. It was late afternoon, and the sun had already started to set giving the sky a purplish golden palette. There was a light dusting of snow on the ground, just enough to cover the leaves that had fallen last November. I stopped walking and stood still for a moment to...
January 3rd, 20182575Typically in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey (monomyth), the hero is called upon to embark on a life-altering quest. After accomplishing each feat of the journey--accepting the call, crossing the threshold, encountering the shadow presence (in Luke Skywalker's case; his aunt and uncle and the Tusken Raiders). Once the hero...
