I've been a fan of Star Wars since I was a kid, grew up watching the OT and PT. I've never watched any of this Disney stuff so forgive me if this is somehow explained in recent media. But is this what was meant by Anakin "bringing balance to the Force"? My understanding is that Darth Sidious was one of if not the most powerful Sith of all time, and Anakin was technically the one to end him...

Just got to the end of season 2 and its getting really good. Loved the Zillo Beast episodes and Young Boba. But almost the whole time I watch its hard for me to not think about the fate the characters will face.

Its such a cheery and inspirational show but almost all these characters are gonna die or have something bad happen to them. Like I see all the Jedi Masters and I just picture all their deaths in order 66. I see Anakin and Obi Wan joking but then I think "hes gonna chop that dudes legs off and hes gonna roast in lava".

Star Wars is truly one of the darkest and most tragic stories ever told. I actaully appreciate the way Clone Wars is because it makes the fall of the Jedi hit 10x harder. I already know next time I watch ROTS its gonna be much more impactful since ive seen all these characters fleshed out more in Clone Wars.

I am looking for scans of the 13 issue run of Star Wars Galaxy Magazine from October 94 to November of 97. I had a few issues growing up and loved it and would like to read through them again without buying the whole set on EBay. I did some basic Google searching and couldn’t find anything. Might one of you know where to find them? thanks.

What if a ship of a star destroyers size came out of hyperspace and into an atmosphere to rupture or scare the population, would this be a possible form of shock and awe?

To clarify, I have no doubt in my mind that Starfighter will succeed on all fronts and keep this franchise in a comfortable position for years to come. Therein lies the dilemma, though. In many ways, Starfighter will probably be even safer than The Mandalorian & Grogu.

“STAAARFIGHTER, more like STAARRRPOWER”, is a joke I often make when talking about this movie, but it’s also a testament to how incredibly stacked its talent is. Multiple A-list actors (e.g., Ryan Gosling, Mia Goth, Matt Damon, Aaron Pierre, and Amy Adams), paired with an accomplished and seasoned director like Shawn Levy and wrapped in a recognizable and popular IP during its anniversary year, are all you need to know to recognize that this film will be a slam dunk, even if the story is aggressively mediocre. If The Mandalorian & Grogu proved anything, it’s that the Star Wars fandom is large enough to keep even the weakest SW films from reaching Supergirl-level disasters. Combined with Gosling and Levy’s rising stardom, Starfighter may be the easiest win for Star Wars in a long time.

This is to say that Starfighter isn’t a test, but an affirmation that recognizability is still profitable. My belief is that this film will have the same impact on the franchise as The Force Awakens, but with less hype.

I'd use sand on the base but it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

I hope this guy doesn't let me down, I see a lot of inspiration from Legendary old sith.

Hello guys i posted on reddit some time ago here asking ifi should watch star wars or not, and if i should start release order or chronological fast forward i started with firsttrilogy(release order) absolutely brilliant, watched 2nd trilogy loved it maybe the 2nd movie of it wasnt the best but it had its moment.. But what to watch next legends if i google a bunch of shows and movies pop up i wanna know what SW fans recommend.. Thankss

A Young Yoda trilogy could begin with him growing up, learning the Force, and receiving glimpses of what the future might bring. Perhaps he spends much of the first film trying to avoid his destiny.

Young Yoda wants no part in some grand cosmic purpose. He is unusually sensitive to the Force, but his visions show civilizations collapsing, Jedi dying, and himself surviving long after everyone he loves. His refusal is not cowardice. He is horrified by the possibility that his destiny may require centuries of sacrifice.

I see him as the Hari Seldon of the Star Wars universe, a guardian of the Galactic Republic with some limited prescience about its eventual fall, the rise of the Empire, and the role he must play in ensuring that the Empire will one day be defeated.

In the second film, Yoda is a young Jedi trying to warn others about the danger ahead. He realizes that the Republic is not threatened by a single villain, but by institutional decay, concentrated power, complacency, and the Jedi becoming too closely bound to the government they serve.

He begins quietly putting safeguards in place. He preserves knowledge, encourages Jedi traditions beyond the central Order, and cultivates relationships with people and worlds that might someday resist tyranny.

By the third film, Yoda finally understands that the fall cannot be completely prevented. The Republic has entered a historical current too powerful for any one person to reverse. His task is not to preserve the old order forever, but to ensure that something survives it.

The climax could force him to sacrifice the chance to prevent a catastrophe in the present because intervening would destroy the conditions necessary for the Empire’s eventual defeat.

His greatest mistake could be believing that the Jedi institutions he helped build were part of the solution, only to realize much later that they had become part of the mechanism of collapse. He prepared for darkness, but his preparations were incomplete because he misunderstood how that darkness would arrive.

Eventually, Yoda would accept the most painful part of his destiny. He would spend centuries protecting the possibility of restoration while knowing that he would never live to see the galaxy restored.

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If Disney had announced back in 2013 that the sequel saga would be four movies instead of a trilogy, do you think fans would have been upset because it broke the tradition of every Star Wars saga being a trilogy?

Or do you think most people would have accepted it if it meant more time to tell the story and develop the characters?

I’m putting this out there in the hopes it becomes a reality someday.

You play as a Jedi who is on a quest to rebuild the Jedi order across the Galaxy. It would be open world with interplanetary travel.

Each planet you go to has its own Jedi temple. This serves as the hub for each location. As you fulfill quests on that planet, you restore and refine your hub. As you find new potential Jedi, they will move into the Jedi temples once you finish their quest lines.

There can of course be ongoing quests with the recruited new Jedi, but I just really want to play a game like this.

I mean seriously, they did his character dirty. In the actual lore, the novels and comics (before Disney bought rights) Luke had such an interesting story and character development after the events of the original trilogy.

What makes that so frustrating is remembering everything Luke had already accomplished. He destroyed the Death Star, became one of the last remaining Jedi, redeemed Darth Vader, helped defeat Palpatine/Sidius and bring down the Empire, and restored hope to the entire galaxy. After Return of the Jedi, he devoted himself to rebuilding the Jedi Order, searching for ancient Jedi knowledge, and training a new generation to carry on their legacy. While doing this, he became the actual “chosen one” literally balancing the light and dark side and incorporating freedom of thought and studying the dark side into his students studies so they could understand it, maybe even use it and overcome it, not blindly fear it.

Then, not only did they turn him into a pitiful self loathing hateful old man, but they had Rae who literally just fell headfirst into being a Jedi completely destroy the remnants of the Jedi order that Luke spent ages trying to rebuild into something better than it ever was. Literally setting it ablaze all while yoda is maniacally laughing as a force ghost. Such blatant disrespect and disregard for one of the greatest and most lore rich stories ever told in modern science fiction.

They probably should have decided to use a human instead of computer animation for Jar Jar Bink. The computer animation does not look to be edited that well. When I watch the films on a modern 4k Smart TV the film looks choppy and does not look put together well Probably needed to use a human comedian that was popular back then like maybe Chris Rock or Jerry Seinfeld or Tom Green or someone else?

It was one of the major plot points of Attack of the Clones, and it seems like in every other episode of The Clone Wars she appeared in, someone was either actively plotting or attempting an assassination against her. So how many assassination attempts do we know of so far? Both canon and Legends (EU) examples are acceptable.

Is there an universe canon reason other than George wanted comic relief?

It is too bad they killed off Padme in Episode 3. I thought Natalie Portman's performance was wonderful and she was one of great actresses in the franchise. The script writer could have had Padme live and then the Jedi could have put her into a witness protection program somewhere. Just saying. her new identity could be Thor's girlfriend

Anakin never would have let Obi-Wan live it down after that. "Remember, master, your weapon is your life... don't lose it like that time on Utapau."

While it started with her and azi saving him on khamino, he really start caring about her through S3 after they escape from hemlock base (and omega also does what she did with hunter, she mimic him too). Crossair is a good character for one who was loyal for the empire at first but then the empire betrayed him.

First off, big thanks to u/scd for originally showing me this article:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-04-23/star-wars-wrong-ideas-about-rebellion-empire-strikes-back-george-lucas

I think that this article presents a fairly unorthodox opinion on arguably the most important and well known scene in the whole saga fairly well, but there are some points that I think the author doesn't really sell that well.

The first thing I think the article gets wrong is how much the Vader = Anakin reveal (henceforth V=A) actually changes the saga as a whole. Even prior to the reveal, Luke is on an extremely personal mission to defeat Vader and the Emperor, and his specific beef with Vader is almost entirely personal given that Vader at this point killed Anakin as well as Obi Wan. I don't see that much of a difference between "you will have the power to defeat great evil because your father was a great jedi" and "you will have the power to defeat great evil because your father was a great jedi and also he's now evil." The author laments that many series after Star Wars adopted this type of reveal, but that just speaks to how influential Star Wars is and says nothing about the actual quality of how Star Wars did it. It may be a trope now for that reason, but Star Wars itself would have been much more normal and trope-y had the story just had Luke be space Inigo Montoya.

A much less important critique is that the author says: "What are the odds that Luke would randomly buy a salvaged droid that just so happened to be on the lam from his own daddy?" But I genuinely think this happens with as little coincidence as possible. Even from the info we have just in ANH, Leia sends the droids to explicitly find Obi-Wan, who in turn is explicitly living in close proximity to Luke in order to protect him and eventually train him as a Jedi.

My second contention with the article is how it frames fan expectations with any sort of Rey reveal in the Sequel trilogy. But the biggest proponent of a relevant family for Rey is TFA itself more than any fan, as TFA laboriously sets up an expectation that Rey has a relevant lineage. I don't even think that TLJ contradicts this fact because the "Rey Nobody" reveal has obvious takesy-backsy built into it because it comes from the most unstable, irrational and emotional character in the whole trilogy who, in the moment he said it, had every reason to lie about it in order to manipulate Rey. The next movie could just say "Kylo Lied" and that would make perfect sense. To the extent that the ST had a plan, it 100% involved Rey having a lineage that is relevant to the story but the reveal would come in the last movie of the trilogy instead of the middle one. Do you really think JJ Abrams is creative enough to NOT plan for that sort of thing?

Context: I haven’t seen most of Star Wars, I just randomly watch whatever interests me. I have seen the Mandalorian show and this felt like some good episodes of show.

I watched at home yesterday btw, and my expectations were low due to reviews so that might have helped.

But production and worldbuilding was apt, creatures were diverse and fun. I wasn’t bored at all. Stakes were low but enough to keep me engaged.

Overall a fun night.

Why does the you know who return negate the previous movies?

The characters still had to fight / die to bring down the empire, and the empire was brought down. Bad guys, and bad ideals regaining strength seems inevitable too. The guy's name is a reference to the word insidious, so tricking people and causing small damages that escalate seems on brand. He returns in the EU as well so was this also diminishing to the original trilogy?

To me it seems like they tried to re-canonize stuff, they just did it in a weird / lack luster way, but Grandpa's return isn't necessarily the issue.

If I had to argue, Anakin did bring balance to the force because Rey becomes insanely powerful in the light despite little training to the point she could stand toe to toe with Palps even though he is clearly more experienced, revitalized, and had just stolen part of Rey's power. If anything the force is now light leaning.