284: #SWCA: Sunday at Star Wars Celebration

Maybe, from a certain point of view, the Jedi are in fact the bad guys of The Acolyte. Certainly "The Stranger" is, any which way you look at it. But as far as the Jedi go, the case is building on the...

29 Jun 20248min

A mystery revealed, and yet a mystery deepens! What does it mean that Qimir has been revealed as - Darth Qimir, maybe? Is he actually a Sith, or just an adherent to the philosophy? Does he have a mast...

28 Jun 20249min

It was shocking, action-packed, and paid off a month of build-up. "Night" is the second half of the Khofar episodes of "The Acolyte," and I think I didn't breathe for half of it. Our 7-takeaway breakd...

27 Jun 202411min

We're reached the midway point of The Acolyte Season 1, which is creating a compelling portrait of the Jedi Order at the brink of its 100-year descent into ruin. And while the plot seems to have alrea...

26 Jun 202414min

The Jedi Order as a politically aware group, with political (non-Sith) "enemies" and a desire to cover up events and situations that reflect badly on them, is not a new idea in Star Wars. On today's d...

25 Jun 20248min

"Day" divides the first half of The Acolyte season one from a likely "Night" start to the second half. It's an in-betweener episode where we set up the chess pieces for the next big move, while sharin...

24 Jun 202410min

In the last of seven episodes where I've been reflecting on my journey as a Star Wars podcaster over the last ten years, I'm considering the idea of whether we have been, and are still, living in a go...

23 Jun 20248min

The old Expanded Universe covered tens of thousands of years of Star Wars history - and then got rebooted out of existence. Now, after ten years with the new canon, Star Wars storytelling has finally ...

22 Jun 20248min