Star 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...
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All six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are now out in the world and we still have questions. Which is to be expected, of course. The very nature of Star Wars these days is to answer some questions while creating even more and, in most cases, those answers then come in subsiquent stories. If that will...
Given everything Rey, Finn, Rose, and Poe went through in the sequel trilogy, I’d say they were overdue for a break. Thankfully, the quartet will get their chance to kick back and relax in Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation, the newest Lego special coming to Disney+, which will come with an all-new...
Given everything Rey, Finn, Rose, and Poe went through in the sequel trilogy, I’d say they were overdue for a break. Thankfully, the quartet will get their chance to kick back and relax in Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation, the newest Lego special coming to Disney+, which will come with an all-new...
Obi-Wan Kenobi: former Jedi Master, defender of the Skywalker family’s greatest secret, Knight of the Republic... fashion icon? No matter what the Jedi say about dress codes, Ben Kenobi has never been one to shy away from accessorizing himself as one of the Jedi Order’s most stylish knights....
From the very first scene, there was a sense that something about the fifth episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to be different—that it was going to take things to a whole new level. Several storylines paid off in an Empire Strike Back-inspired siege that was filled with intense action, but...
Part of the fun of Star Wars can be seeing well-known actors suddenly show up in one of its many movies or shows. Maybe they’re there as important characters, like we got with Sam Jackson or Ming-Na Wen, maybe they’re there as “wait, they’re in this?” cameos, like Zach Braff or Forest...
Darth Vader is Star Wars’ ultimate villain. We’ve always known that, but the revived era of the franchise has dug deep into Vader as a character beyond his iconography to re-establish why we’re fascinated with him, why we’re so scared of him, and why we ultimately invest in him. Obi-Wan...
Few Star Wars characters have had quite the evolution like Ahsoka Tano. Famously debuting as Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the character slowly came into her own over the course of the show’s eventual seven-season run, serving as its ostensible protagonist. After...
For much of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s pre-release buildup, the focus was rightly on how time has changed Ewan McGregor’s titular Jedi, and the eventual round two he’d have with Anakin Skywalker. But this being Star Wars in the Disney era, the trailers hid what the show would actually be about, so as...
For 45 years, many Star Wars fans have had a rather simple understanding of Obi-Wan Kenobi. An assumption that the former Jedi Master just hung out on Tatooine watching over Luke Skywalker for a few decades. Well, you can now officially throw that idea out of the window. The first two episodes of...
Ask about seeing Hayden Christensen in the Darth Vader suit on Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Deborah Chow can’t answer. “Unfortunately I can’t talk about [that] at this point,” she said. “I wish I could, but, you know, we’d get into spoilers with that.” But Chow, the showrunner and...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California next week, and io9 will be there in person to bring you...
We know the end of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. We know the beginning of Star Wars: A New Hope. But in between there’s a crucial, never-before-seen moment that’s both so obvious and yet so overlooked, it was ripe to be at the center of Disney+’s new Star Wars show, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Read...
We know the end of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. We know the beginning of Star Wars: A New Hope. But in between there’s a crucial, never-before-seen moment that’s both so obvious and yet so overlooked, it was ripe to be at the center of Disney+’s new Star Wars show, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Read...
Ben Kenobi may not have heard the name “Obi-Wan” in a while, but odds are you have. The latest Star Wars show, Obi-Wan Kenobi, debuts on Disney+ next week—meaning fans will finally, at long last, see the return of Ewan McGregor as the pivotal Jedi Master. When last we saw Kenobi, he was...
A Ton of Star Wars Celebration 2022 Exclusives, Including Apparel, Collectibles, and Much More
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If you managed to score tickets to this year’s Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, next week, I sincerely hope you also managed to save up some galactic credits. Besides actual Star Wars news, the amount of exclusive merchandise that will be available to you there, and there alone, is...
Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi tells a new story of how Darth Vader tried to hunt down and kill Obi-Wan Kenobi, his old master, who has gone missing. Read...
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, which turned 20 this week, forever changed what we’d seen of the Jedi Order on film with the climactic battle in the Geonosian arena. As Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Padmé averted execution, they found themselves among friends as hundreds of Jedi ignited lightsabers...
Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi tells a new story of how Darth Vader tried to hunt down and kill Obi-Wan Kenobi, his old master, who has gone missing. Read...
Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi tells a new story of how Darth Vader tried to hunt down and kill Obi-Wan Kenobi, his old master, who has gone missing. Read...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because, thank the maker, after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California in little over a month! As details and...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because, thank the maker, after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California in little over a month! As details and...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because, thank the maker, after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California in little over a month! As details and...
Hey, did you know Hasbro makes Star Wars toys for children, too? Of course you did, but if you’re an adult collector it can sometimes be hard to remember that not every kid has the ability to pay $300 for the newest Hot Toys figure. Enter the cool and affordable “Mission Fleet” series, whose...
The most important day in the Star Wars franchise—other than Life Day, of course—is May 4, a.k.a. May the Fourth, when Lucasfilm and its various affiliates celebrate a galaxy far, far away (and the billions of dollars it makes them). This year, Disney’s streaming service seems to be where...
The next chapter of Lucasfilm’s plans for Disney+ is about to begin—taking us back to a broken friendship that changed the Star Wars galaxy forever. Now, as Obi-Wan Kenobi prepares to enter production, we officially know who’s joining prequel stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in the...
There’s a paradoxical relationship between the legacy of one of Star Wars’ best games and the animated show that became one of the most beloved pillars of the franchise at large. Arguably, Star Wars: The Clone Wars killed Republic Commando at its apex—but without the groundwork it laid, the...