You Just Gonna Leave Those Bodies There, Star Wars?
“It’s always an honor to get to witness anything or anyone transform into the Force,” young padawan Jecki Lon tells Osha in The Acolyte’s fourth episode, perhaps preparing us all…
House of the Dragon Inches Ever Closer to All-Out War
House of the Dragon has been teasing a terrible civil war in Westeros since the foundations were laid in season one—and now, with House Targaryen bitterly divided, battles are just…
House of the Dragon Puts Tragedy Through the Political Spin Cycle
After that wrenchingly grim end to episode one, episode two, “Rhaenyra the Cruel,” is here to remind us that all actions have consequences—while also extolling the ways tragedy can be…
Marvel’s Star Wars Comics Are Finally Moving on From the Most Unhinged Year in Canon
Since early 2020, many of Marvel’s primary Star Wars comics—the main Star Wars series, Darth Vader, and the already concluded Doctor Aphra and Bounty Hunters—shifted to a new period in…
Why House of the Dragon Changed One of the Most Gruesome Moments From the Book
Last night’s second season premiere of Game of Thrones’ spinoff House of the Dragon tackled one of George R.R. Martin’s most infamous deaths—in a new way that surprised the fandom.…
The 15 House of the Dragon Characters You Need to Remember Ahead of Season 2
Image: Ollie Upton/HBO With her son Aegon on the Iron Throne, Queen Alicent Targaryen (Olivia Cooke) is now the Dowager Queen. She was the second wife of King Viserys, a…
The Acolyte Just Blew Star Wars Wide Open, From a Certain Point of View
Star Wars is filled with half-truths. Even as its fans crave the reliability of a rigorously defined canon, the saga has always played in the realm of mythologizing itself, and…
25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace
Image: Lucasfilm Everything about the visual identity of the Naboo is meant to evoke this idea of a pacifist people, a society that prioritizes trade and cultural exchange over military…
25 of the Best Lego Star Wars Sets From 25 Years of Lego Star Wars
Image: Lego This year is a very important one for Star Wars, as it looks to its future in shows like The Acolyte and its plans to return to the…
One of the Rarest Star Wars Toys Ever Made Could Be Yours
Image: Heritage Auctions / HA.com Tomorrow is May the Fourth, but you have a few more weeks to save up ahead of Heritage Auctions’ next Star Wars–themed sale, which happens…