The Acolyte Will Incorporate More Star Wars Legends
With three episodes left in the first season of The Acolyte, show creator Leslye Headland admits she isn’t quite done incorporating pieces of old-school Star Wars mythology from the Expanded…
What You Need to Know About The Acolyte’s Lightsaber-Shorting Metal
With a swing of a wrist gauntlet, and the head-butt of a sinister helmet, The Acolyte’s mysterious dark Stranger carved a path into Star Wars history this week with a…
3 Things We Liked, and 4 We Didn’t, About Tales of the Empire
Screenshot: Lucasfilm Ultimately though, all these issues come down to a singular question: is Tales making effective use of the anthology format, four stories in? The answer feels increasingly like…
Star Wars: Tales of the Empire Is a Tale of 2 Very Different Halves
Two years ago, Star Wars stepped into a new animated format with Tales of the Jedi, examining the stories of two characters ostracized by the titular order in Dooku and…
Star Wars’ Diana Lee Inosanto Digs Deep Into Tales of the Empire
Star Wars loves nothing more than understanding a villain. Part of the reason the franchise’s greatest evils are also some of its most compelling characters is because it loves to…
10 Years Ago Today, Star Wars Changed Forever
Arguably the most important, game-changing event in the history of Star Wars storytelling happened 10 years ago today. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars Expanded Universe…
Tales of the Empire’s First Clip Gives General Grievous a Bit of Menace Back
When we first met General Grievous 20 years ago this month in Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars microseries, it gave him an immediate, chilling presence. But then Revenge of the Sith,…
This Christmas, Stare Into the Wide, Wide Eyes of Hallmark’s New Sci-Fi Ornaments
Image: Hallmark Spring may have sprung, the clocks gone forward, and it might be getting warmer again, but when you’re Hallmark, the holiday season is forever—and never too far enough…
Breaking Down the Sithy Secrets of Tales of the Empire’s New Trailer
Screenshot: Lucasfilm We cut to the waiting Inquisitors, which includes Barriss in her Inquisitorius armor—confirming that she is indeed the one we saw running towards the Fourth Sister’s duel earlier.…
Hasbro’s New Star Wars Toys Embrace the Dark Side
Image: Hasbro Star Wars products love a theme moment—Force Friday, Triple Force Friday, whatever the Force Friday equivalent for Rogue One was called. Maybe they just love Fridays, but now…