Anakin Skywalker

We Didn’t Like... That This Overshadows Two Excellent Prior StoriesImage: LucasfilmDooku’s story in Tales of the Jedi, and “Resolve,” the final chapter of Ahsoka’s narrative, are loosely inspired by the events of two Disney canon stories that previously told both the story of Dooku’s exit from the Jedi Order and Ahsoka’s life after the events of The Clone Wars, before she joined the nascent Rebellion: Dooku: Jedi Lost, an audio drama by The High Republic’s Cavan Scott, and the aptly titled Ahsoka, by E.K. Johnston.Dooku’s…

Image: FunkoAnother New York Comic Con, another overwhelming, arguably intimidating number of exclusive Pop Vinyl figures. In fact, 2022's slate includes nearly 50 toys ranging from the MCU to obscure Disney characters—so we’ve decided to let you know about every single exclusive Pop coming to the con and where you can get your hands on them, even if you aren’t attending.Please note! At the time of this article’s publication, October 6, 5:00 pm ET, the assorted retailers haven’t opened pre-orders for their exclusive…

Image: Disney/LucasfilmJames Earl Jones has been Darth Vader since the original Star Wars all the way back in 1977. While the man formerly known as Anakin Skywalker has been canonically dead since 1983, Jones has consistently reprised the role over the decades, including in 2016's Rogue One and the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series. But all great things must come to an end, Jones has quietly confirmed that he’s gearing up to retire from voicing the galaxy’s biggest drama queen.According to a recent report from Vanity Fair,…

Screenshot: Lucasfilm/LegoWe knew that “Weird Al” Yankovic wouldn’t just be appearing in the Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation special, but singing an entirely new song for it. And now that the special has arrived on Disney+ today, the full song has been released as well, and frankly? It rules.It’s a short song, but it gives me early Miley Cyrus/Carly Rae Jepsen vibes, and I mean that in the best way possible:“Weird Al” Yankovic - Scarif Beach Party (From “LEGO Star Wars: Summer Vacation”)Scarif, if you don’t recall, is the…

Lukę Skywalker made good on Anakin’s dying words. Screenshot: Disney+/Lucasfilm“You were right about me. Tell your sister... you were right.” Those were the last words Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader, ever said while he was alive. In his last moments, the former Padawan turned Jedi turned child murdering Lord of the Sith admits to his son, Luke, that there was good in him, as Luke had hoped—and wants to make sure his daughter, Leia, knows that too.And now we know that Luke granted his father’s dying wish. Upcoming Star…

Screenshot: LucasfilmIf there’s one thing the villains of the Star Wars galaxy are good at, it’s cheating death. That’s both true in the fiction of the franchise as well as real-life, apparently, because Obi-Wan Kenobi series writer Stuart Beattie has revealed that the show’s antagonist, Reva (Moses Ingram), was supposed to die.In an interview with the Direct, Beattie revealed the Third Sister of the Sith Inquisitors’ fate was to die at the hands of Darth Vader after saving Obi-Wan in a moment of redemption. She was also…

Learner and master have at it. Screenshot: Disney+/LucasfilmNo matter what happened on Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, there was no way it was going to match Mustafar. Back in 2005, audiences saw Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) fight to the near-death on the lava planet in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. George Lucas’ visuals in the scene were stunning on their own, but John Williams’ music, titled “Battle of the Heroes,” really broughtthe scene together. The music beautifully…

Image: LucasfilmIf we take a step back from Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series feels like a narrative waypoint. We know Kenobi’s past, we know how he ends up, so whereis the movement in this series? How does Obi-Wan Kenobi push the arc of the galaxy far, far away towards its predetermined end? Truthfully speaking, I don’t think there is much movement, and I think that’s entirely on purpose. The point of Obi-Wan Kenobi isn’t to mark out great battles or universe-shattering encounters between the forces of good and evil, but…

Image: Lucasfilm Onthe one hand you’ve got the real life realities of Darth Vader is in the other movies so he can’t kill him. But that’s obvious and not really the issue we’re discussing.Back on Mustafar, Obi-Wan was ready to kill Anakin. In fact, he thought he did kill Anakin. And now that the two are fighting again, we get the sense this fight starts the same way. Obi-Wan is ready to end him. By the end though, we see a crucial manifestation of Obi-Wan’s conscious. He’s less inclined to kill “Darth Vader” than he is…

Obi-Wan looks upon a familiar face.Screenshot: LucasfilmStar Wars, on many levels, exists in series of parallels and couplets—a cycle of the rise and defeat of darkness, the fall and rebirth of light, an echo of a story told over and over across generations of families and civilizations. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” George Lucas says in the Phantom Menace documentary The Beginning,a statement that may be a meme now but remains one of the truest things ever said about the galaxy far, far away.But what happens when Star…