One of the biggest mysteries in The Mandalorian was resolved in season 3, when the man who saved Grogu from Order 66 was revealed. The way it was answered, however, offered viewers an even deeper question: Who was behind it all? As it turns out, the answer may have been hidden in plain sight the whole time. in The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 4 “Chapter 20: The Foundling,” it was finally revealed that it was Kelleran Beq who saved Grogu from the 501st Clone Troopers at the Coruscant Jedi Temple during Order 66. Beq, the “Saber Hand” Jedi Master Played…
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A core aspect of Star Wars Has always been lightsaber duels. From humble beginnings in A new hope To the modern duels in the Disney + live-fight Star Wars TV shows, lightsaber duels have changed and developed in many ways over the years. What of the lightsaber duels, in Star Wars Nearly 50 years of history, is the best? In order to determine this, it is important to look at all the aspects of a great lightsaber duel, and how they stack up against each other. Action choreography is, of course, incredibly important, but so is narrative significance, setting, score,…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Kick-started the Star Wars Sequel trilogy, but the movie actually started with a simple lie that is very easy to miss. Every episode Star Wars The film begins with an opening crawl, with knowledge that is necessary to understand the plot of the film. Some of the yellow, scrolling opening crawls contain more information than others, depending on the time gap between it and the previous film. Logically, this means that the first film in each trilogy has the opening crawl with the most new information. Not surprisingly, therefore, The Force Awakenstook place 30 years…
Star Wars just gave us our first look Andor season 2, and it looks like it could fulfill an intriguing thread from the original Star Wars film. The landmark and fan favorite Andor the first season dealt with the establishment of the galaxy under Imperial rule. Forces such as Luthen Rael’s rebel network and the Imperial Security Office were making stealth moves against each other as unrest steadily grew. While the second season of the spy drama series appears to continue, it also brings much more into play, particularly the establishment and early years of the Rebel Alliance. This topic…
Star Wars It gradually showed more and more of Luke’s new Jedi Order after Empire, and a survivor of Order 66 was much more instrumental to that than most fans realize. Previous Jedi were completely decimated by the Jedi Purge, even the likes of Luke Skywalker. Luke began picking up the pieces some 24 years after the Purge, collecting Jedi history and knowledge to restart the Jedi Order – and he did, on an ancient Jedi library world. Luke established a new Jedi Temple on Ossus and began teaching students the ways of the Jedi. The young Jedi learned a…
Darth Bane is one of the most important characters in the entire Star Wars timeline, but what do we know about him in canon? Most of Bane’s history originates in the Star Wars Continuity of the legends, with many of the details of his origin story coming from the legendary Drew Karpyshyn Darth Bane trilogy of novels. Bane, however, actually originates from George Lucas’s sketches for Star Wars: Episode I – The phantom menace. Darth Bane’s name was first mentioned in The phantom menace’s novelization, written by Terry Brooks, based on a story provided by George Lucas. The point of…
Although it has not yet received prominence, Star Wars revealed many things about Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi Order in canon. By helping launch the new canon, Star Wars: The Force Awakens began its opening crawl with “Luke Skywalker disappeared.” This resulted in Luke’s Jedi Order not appearing in the sequels, but being destroyed before them. Since then, Luke’s Jedi Order has appeared in a number of places, most notably being first depicted in flashbacks in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Frustratingly, though, it was never the subject of the story. More and more information about the Jedi Temple and Luke’s…
What are the main differences between Lucas Skywalker in Star Wars narrative of canons and legends? Since 1991, large interconnected networks Star Wars stories existed off the big screen. These stories come in the form of books, comics, video games, TV shows and more – all spanning the Star Wars Expanded Universe, or EU. That was until 2014, when the Star Wars the canon was redefined – and the EU became known as “Legends”. Since then, the new Star Wars Canon’s expanded universe has begun, featuring new stories that influence all new live-action projects. Due to this, Luke Skywalker’s characterization…
over the seat, Star Wars introduced the Acolytes of the Beyond – a dark side group that was prominent during the New Republic Era. The dark side, a perversion and twisting of the force to match one’s will, has many different obediences. The most prominent of these is the Sith Order, a group with a long and storied history that even uses the word “acolyte” in many cases, as exemplified in the series The acolyte. The Acolytes of the Beyond, however, have nothing to do with the TV series, because they existed over a century later and first came into…
Node Star Wars In the sequel trilogy, fans were introduced to the mysterious new villain, Supreme Leader Snoke. Although the answers to Snoke’s origin were presented in the final film of the trilogy, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Snoke is still a very reserved character, with a lot of mystery surrounding his rise to power, past and motives – especially considering the origin that was revealed in the films. Supreme Leader Snoke first appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, played by Andy Serkis in motion capture. The character only appeared as a hologram until the 2017…