March 13th, 20162142There is much on my mind as the burgeoning spoils of spring emerge. I’m restless, antsy, ready for change. Full of new hope. Here in Western Pennsylvania, USA, the change of seasons can be dramatic, but even years like this one in which the winter is barely existent, the coming of spring has this effect. (WARNING! Major Deadpool...
February 13th, 2016545You know the saying: “It’s the little things.” It’s difficult to imagine anything “little” about a saga as colossal as Star Wars, but it is truly the non-monumental moments that made me fall in love with Star Wars so many years ago and keep me as big a fan today. These moments are in no short supply in Star Wars: Episode...
January 20th, 2016664**This blog contains speculation concerning characters in The Force Awakens**So I’m assuming that everyone reading this has seen Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. If you haven’t, then you need to quietly turn around and pretend this never happened.Alrighty then, now we can proceed. There have been theories up...
January 13th, 20163117 This review of the novelization for Star Wars: The Force Awakens contains SPOILERS for the book and movie.
Written by Alan Dean Foster, the official novelization for Star Wars: The Force Awakens works well fleshing out certain characters, while filling in some of the blanks the audience is left with after viewing the film. Most...
December 10th, 2015063 We live in an interesting era.In exactly one week a new Star Wars movie will be unleashed upon the world. And this isn’t any ordinary Star Wars movie, this is a Star Wars movie with Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca! We haven’t seen these guys in action for over three decades (Okay we’ve seen Chewie,...
December 5th, 2015341 Duel of the Choices
-- A Guest Blog by Brandon Boylan
“I had no choice!” --Lando Calrissian
To some, Star Wars is nothing more than blasters and lightsabers. While that is perfectly okay, for some of us Star Wars is so much more. It is a lifestyle and a fandom that defines our very existence. At some point in our lives, we made...
November 21st, 2015264By now, we have seen at least five or six different versions or trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the countdown to the actual ‘premier day,’ is less than a month away! To say that I’m excited, well, that’s more of an understatement at best.
... "Sure you're up for this?”- Han Solo, Star Wars: The Force...
October 7th, 20150147The last time I was on Tatooine as Luke Skywalker it was in 1992 on my Super Nintendo playing Super Star Wars and I was ten years old. It was a great time and brought me wonderful memories as a young fan. Fast forward to 2015 and this time it’s my oldest son who has just turned ten years old and swinging Luke’s saber and taking...
October 7th, 2015247Hey Coffee With Kenobi readers, Joe2-D2 here. Sorry for such a long time between blogs. I’ve spent the last seven months recovering from a stroke that I suffered in February.So for my first blog back, I decided to pull something from the archives.A few years ago, a group of bloggers, including a few of our very own here at...
September 14th, 20158225 "Pain, suffering, death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain." - Master Yoda, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the ClonesPain, both physical and psychological, plays a major role throughout the Star Wars saga. Anakin's is perhaps the most obvious, but to a certain degree, every...
