Unless you're a Star Wars fan living under a rock, you've hopefully seen by now the masterful reimagining of the lightsaber duel between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader from the original Star Wars. If you haven't, we posted it for you yesterday. You can also see it in the embedded video below. The
A young Anakin Skywalker once said that no one could kill a Jedi. Obviously his childhood naiveté was mistaken. Anakin himself would go on to kill dozens of Jedi himself. Likewise, others throughout the galaxy managed to slay Jedi from time to time. Among the notable Jedi-killers is fabled bounty
With news that an Obi-Wan Kenobi series may be in the works for Disney+, fans are now asking the next logical question: Who will play Kenobi? Before we get to that, let's take a step back and examine how we got here. For some time an Obi-Wan Star Wars story film was in the works. There was even a
The Star Wars universe is full of interesting characters. Trying to pick the best, or worst, among them is not as easy a task as one might think. Doing so becomes harder if you draw upon the old Expanded Universe from which to choose. It's still not easy even if you limit your choices to canon
Star Wars is full of tragedy. I suppose that’s to be expected when the entire premise of the saga is galactic conflict. Characters in all eras of Star Wars have suffered greatly. But who among them is the most tragic? (For our purposes, I’m not going to count Anakin Skywalker. Yes, he lost his
The end of the Clone Wars forced the few Jedi that survived Order 66 to scatter across the galaxy. Vader and his Inquisitors hunted them down like prey until only a very few Jedi remained in existence. As Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda did during those times, Luke Skywalker ultimately found himself in
The Apothecary Diaries has the cast finally begin to prepare for the incoming locust plague in Ep. 52 "The Last Volume". Sure, they could've prepared much sooner. However, without the intel gained in this episode, those preparations wouldn't have been nearly as guided as they are here. Now it's
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.
Sasaki and Peeps gives us plots galore being brewed up, as you might expect from Ep. 15 "Concealment and Infiltration" with that title. Complete with both the faking of a death and an undercover operation to investigate the death game faction. It's all great ingredients for some serious political
