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Hello there, custom-made Obi-Wan Kenobi head by Centerpoint Studios.Image: Centerpoint StudiosA few months back, I was walking around DesignerCon and something impossible caught my eye. It was a Star Wars Black Series figure, but something was off. This looked different. It looked, dare I say, too good. The face looked so much better than usual. The outfit somehow more detailed and interesting. Then I stepped back and realized the entire booth was just that. Action figures that look standard from afar, but up close, are…

Image: LucasfilmLook. Hear me out.It would be insane for Lucasfilm to make Luke Skywalker the antagonist of a film. Let alone, once again, the first Star Wars theatrical release since 2019. Insane! Ballsy, which would be a nice change of pace for the risk-averse studio, but still, insane! And yet, dear reader. And yet. Luke Skywalker is the perfect balance of everything we’ve talked about in an antagonist so far. He’d be a big, shocking name, hugely important to Star Wars and worthy of the scale of a movie, but also one…

A documentary on the making of Mandalorian season 3 is now on Disney+.Image: LucasfilmIt’s been two months since season three of The Mandalorian came to an end, and now it’s time to find out how they got there. This week, Disney+ released the latest episode of Disney Gallery: Star Wars The Mandalorian, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the popular show. The first season of Disney Gallery was exactly that, a full season. But last year, it was boiled down to two episodes and this year, it’s just one. So,…

Satine Kryze seemingly changed Star Wars forever when she was introduced in Clone Wars as the face of a Mandalore unlike anything fans and stories had imagined in the decades since Boba Fett first appeared in Empire Strikes Back. But in her wake, as Star Wars has pushed deeper into Mandalorian storytelling, it’s like Satine has vanished from memory. Why?Spoilers of the Week: July 1stThe simple answer is, well, she died. Near the climaxof Clone Wars’ fifth season, Maul and Death Watch’s coup on Mandalore climaxes with…

Image: LucasfilmAfter many years of fighting, Bo-Katan is at last the Mand’alor she’s always wanted to be. Sure, she might not have the Darksaber any more (again), but hey! At least she’s got some shiny new Star Wars toys to play with.To celebrate the latest “Mando Mania” merch drop—the weekly Mando-themed toy and collectibles reveal that Lucasfilm and its various partners haverun throughout the third season of The Mandalorian—io9 has an exclusive video of Lady Kryze herself, Katee Sackhoff, getting her hands on some of…

The first two seasons of The Mandalorian ended with some kind of big Star Wars twist. In season one, Moff Gideon pulled out the Darksaber. In season two, Luke Skywalker arrived to help Grogu. And the expectation of something on that level for the season three finale seemed completely reasonable. Instead, fans were given a laundry list of payoffs that helped bring the season together in a satisfying way, which worked but also felt maybe a little too straightforward for a show that has thrived on exciting surprises.Bryce…

The third season of The Mandalorian has felt a little odd, hasn’t it? Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau’s space western slice of the Star Wars franchise felt like a breath of fresh air back in 2019, and the second season the following year helped show that the series’ breakout success wasn’t a fluke. By comparison, season three isn’t entirely hitting with folks. Why is that?Spoilers of the Week: July 1stWhile it still has its fans and those who trust in Favreau and Filoni’s direction, common criticisms around this third full…

Are the droids of Star Wars people? From the moment Wuher glowered at C-3PO and R2-D2 and snarled “we don’t serve their kind,” the galaxy far, far away has danced around the powder keg of its android heroes and villains as a fully fledged sentient species. But the more The Mandalorian has engaged with the idea, the more it has put Star Wars’ proverbial foot in its mouth.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesIn its earliest days, The Mandalorian at least wanted to try and…

In a show that utters the phrase “This is the way” more than anything else, this week’s episode of The Mandalorian finally felt like it found its way. After four episodes, each of which felt almost detached from the others, the fifth episode of season three finally wrapped several of those storylines back together—and, for the first time this season, the show has a direction... and an antagonist.Bryce Dallas Howard on a Feature Star Wars Film and Book of Boba FettSeason three, episode fiveof The Mandalorian is called…

This week’s episode of The Mandalorian left us conflicted. On the one hand, it did everything we say we want the show to do: our heroes go off on an epic adventure while also expanding the mythology of the franchise. But with all that happening now, at this point in the third season—and coming after an episode that seemed to spin the show into another direction—we can’t help but wonder, what’s the big plan here? What, exactly, is the Way?That said, there is one reveal that’s so incredibly magnificent, it almost saves…