285: #SWCA: Ongoing Activities at Star Wars Celebration

In our last (for now) look at The Acolyte, we're going to consider new interviews from creator Leslye Headland and how they build on what we saw in the trailer and what we already know from previously...

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Today, we're wrapping up our conversation with Jeremy Thorpe about diegetic music in Star Wars - that's the music the characters can hear in-universe. And there's yet another level to this, which is t...

24 Mars 202414min

You know how some Star Wars charaters are actually hearing the music that's being played a the scene they're in? Well, it turns out there are WAY more songs like that than you ever might have guessed....

23 Mars 202413min

We're finishing up our look at the new Star Wars Databank entries for the recently introduced Acolyte characters, and pointing out which cast member has been left out, plus which character has been un...

22 Mars 20248min

In addition to The Acolyte trailer, we got a whole bunch of supporting material about the new characters we'll be meeting - and an old one, too. We're gonna talk about five of them today, and connect ...

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Three different time periods? A Sith that no one ever heard of by the time of The Phantom Menace? Footage repeated from Star Wars Celebration Europe? These are just a few of our first reactions about ...

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The urgency to attack Mount Tantiss had to get even greater for Rex when he heard Omega talking about "M-count" experiments. Does he know what that means? We'll talk about why he should, and what that...

19 Mars 20248min

In our deep dive episode related to "Extraction" from The Bad Batch, we're considering the idea of the ticking clone clock. It's partly about the half-life of the Order 66 chip, and partly about the r...

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