In this movie, the prequel trilogy ends and the Sith get revenge.
Revenge for what exactly? We might find out…
Back in 2005, this was the last expected Star Wars media. There was so much marketing for it. From Burger King toys, to Pepsi ads and I even remember a game on the Cheeto website that was about Star Wars.
There were also a few video games that released based on the movie. The curious thing about it is that the games were released at least a week before the movie was, so if anyone started playing the games on day one they’d basically get the plot for the film.
In between watching this movie and writing this post I went ahead and played some of the games that were released around the time this movie came out. Those games were the Revenge of the Sith game based on the movie, and the original Lego Star Wars Game.
I took screenshots of the games as I was playing, so for as much as I can I will be using them in this post.
General Grevious has invaded the capitol planet of Corusant and has captured the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. At the end of the Clone Wars show this was mentioned, and Anakin and Obi-Wan were tasked in infiltrating the main enemy ship and rescuing him.
They made it to the main ship and had to find the Chancellor, exploring multiple levels of the ship until they found where he was being held.
They eventually found him and his captor, Count Dooku. If you remember, Dooku was the leader of the Separatists in Episode II and The Clone Wars.
Obi-Wan gets knocked unconscious and Anakin defeats him, and gets tempted by Palpatine to execute him.
The three get captured by General Grevious, who is on the bridge of the ship but escapes. Anakin has to crash land the ship and not get burned up in the atmosphere in the meantime.
Padmé and Anakin are going to be parents and Anakin is struggling with dreams and refuses to see a therapist.
Obi-Wan is tasked to hunt down Grevious and end the war for good, and Anakin is tasked with spying on the Chancellor, because the jedi are not trusting him. During the Clone Wars show, he amassed a large amount of “emergency” power and in season 6 he gained control of the banks.
Kenobi find Grevious and they duel for the last time. Grevious runs, and Kenobi gives chase, ending on a landing platform for Grevious’ escape ship. Kenobi exposes the cyborg’s organs and shoots him dead.
I do think that with the addition of watching The Clone Wars show, this movie is definitely better than if you were to watch it in 2005. Grevious was not introduced in the series until this film, but with the show he and Kenobi fought multiple times and had a bitter rivalry.
Anakin and his pal Friendpatine are talking more, and he reveals that he knows Sith secrets. Anakin goes to jedi master Mace Windu and reveals that Palpatine is a sith, and Windu goes with a few other jedi to arrest him.
It doesn’t work.
Anakin arrives just as Palpatine killed all but Mace. Mace Windu fights back and has Palpatine cornered, and pleads to Anakin to save him. Anakin stops Windu, and Palpatine, now revealed as Sidious, throws Windu out a window.
Sidious dubs Anakin now as Darth Vader, and orders him to go to the jedi temple and kill them all.
He then makes a recording to all clones, and also orders them to do the same.
All across the galaxy, jedi are being killed, and the only known survivors we see are Obi-Wan and Yoda.
They meet and form a plan to go back to the temple to discover that Anakin and Sidious are the ones who orchestrated this.
Obi-Wan now has to go to a lava planet to fight Anakin/Vader.
Anakin is defeated, and loses all of his limbs. Then most of him gets lit on fire from the lava.
Sidious finds him soon after, and takes him to a remote medical facility.
Around the same time, Padmé is going into labor and gives birth to twins
Padmé dies after childbirth, and the twins Luke and Leia are separated and put into hiding.
Darth Vader is complete, and fully in the dark side.
And that’s basically the movie!
A dark day for all those jedi fans out there. The Empire has taken over, and seemingly no hope to stop them.
I really enjoyed the action sequences in the film, and as I said before, the show was a good addition to watch so people can get extra context to how the war is going and who some of these new characters are.
Coming up next is a few more tv shows, and then a video game!
Remember when I said in my introduction post that I’d hopefully complete this project in August? Clearly that is definitely NOT happening. I am a little further in though! And today let’s talk about the longest series in this franchise marathon: The Clone Wars.
This tv show ran for seven seasons for over 12 years. Seasons 1-5 were shown on Cartoon Network and season 6 was presented on Netflix from 2008 to 2013.
In 2012 Disney bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise, and then in 2020 they aired the final seventh season on Disney+.
The show had multiple episodes and branching storylines, sometimes featuring the jedi, the clones, senators, droids, and a few episodes featuring former villains from the films. In some episodes, the show challenged the meaning of hero and villain, and tried to redefine and show it’s not always black and white.
That’s war for ya!
In this review post I will not be talking about each storyline as a whole, but rather one or two episodes from each season and why I liked them.
So without further ado, let’s get into…
Season 1:
Episode 15 – Trespass
As a whole, Season One was a bit slower compared to other seasons, but that’s to be expected.
I really liked the episode Trespass because although there were clones in it, and a war, this episode actually had nothing to do with the Clone Wars at all. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and clone Captain Rex the moon of planet Pantora who’s local government asked for assistance.
The bases created by the clones and the opposing Separatist army have both been destroyed by an unknown third party, so they need to investigate what happened. It turns out that the ice moon in inhabited by some humanoid spider-people, and the chairman of the planet orders the jedi and clones to start a war with the natives to remove them from the moon they “own”
That doesn’t happen and the chairman tries to start a war, loses and gets killed from injuries, and the more sensible Senator Chuchi takes charge and brokers a peace between the people.
This is probably my favorite of the season because the enemies aren’t good vs evil, but rather it’s a grey area where both peoples want to live.
Season 2:
Episode 8 – Brain Invaders
This episode finishes up a storyline where the Republic destroys a droid factory on Geonosis. Remember that planet from Attack of the Clones? The planet where the Clone War began and Anakin lost a limb?
This episode does not take place on the planet. Instead, they are leaving the planet at the beginning and taking a captured Separatist general Poggle with them. Ahsoka and fellow padawan Barriss are tasked after the battle to escort a medical frigate to a station to provide supplies.
What no one knew at the time, was that there was an alien species on the planet Geonosis that hatches from an egg and worms its way into your brain for mind control, and a clone on that ship got infected and secretly brought aboard more eggs.
The invasion is stopped because they decided to turn off the heat in the ship and super-freeze the worms saving everyone who was infected.
What makes this episode notable is when Anakin hears of his padawan’s distress, he goes to the prison cell they kept Poggle to get information on how to save her. The last interrogation with everyone in the room didn’t work, but we see for the first time in the show a darker side of Anakin, because he uses the force to choke the war prisoner, torturing him to get information.
For an organization dedicated for peace, it seems pretty violent to get to that point.
Season 3:
Episode 4 – Sphere of Influence
Chuchi is back! Our girl is still doing things within the senate, and has asked Ahsoka to help with finding the new chairman’s kidnapped daughters.
Somehow this series so far have every good episode feature Chuchi, and you know what? She deserves it.
The storyline in this episode, similar to S1 Trespass, does not have a plot that is related to the Clone Wars at all, but it is such a good storyline. The new Chairman, Chairman Papanoida, is a badass. While Chuchi and Ahsoka explore a Trade Federation ship to see if one of his daughters is being held there, the Chairman walks right into Jabba’s Palace on Tattoine. Jabba is the gangster leader of maybe a quarter of the galaxy, and this guy just walks in, demands an audience with a bounty hunter he discovers is the one who kidnaps his daughters, then goes out to beat him up until he reveals where they are.
Both daughters get back home safe, and Chuchi can do no wrong. Papanoida is a badass dad too and from what I recall, he doesn’t show in any later episodes.
Season 4:
Episodes 7-10 – The Umbara Arc
Pong Krell is the worst. Fuck Pong Krell.
I can’t pick a specific favorite episode for this season unfortunately. The Umbara Arc is the best storyline in the season going through four episodes, and you kind of need to watch them all to enjoy it best.
In this storyline, Anakin has to return to Corusant while his clone squad led by Captain Rex are trying to capture a planet called Umbara. He leaves his soldiers under jedi general Pong Krell.
Krell is awful. From the start of his leadership, he only talks to the clones using their designation number, not their chosen name. He then changes the entire attack plan and creates one that makes all the clones vulnerable and exposed to an attack themselves. Any attempt to question his orders is met with an intimidating speech, and a threat of arrest for mutinous behavior.
In the final episode of this storyline, it’s revealed that Pong Krell was intentionally sabotaging the clone army, and killing them off with his plans. All so he could hope Sith master Dooku would notice and take him on as an apprentice.
The clones were finally able to capture him and one loyal clone who felt the most betrayed killed him in his cell.
This was a dark series of episodes and great clone-centered story.
Season 5:
Episode 12 – Missing in Action
This was the third episode in a four episode storyline that focused on the droids. In this episode, the lost droids and their tiny leader find a town on an isolated planet, and need to find a ship to go home after a secret mission to invade and capture Separatist data.
The group meets an amnesiac clone named Gregor, who is working as a busboy for a diner. With the help of the droid group, he regains his memories and helps send them home.
Episode 16 – The Lawless
Okay so there’s a few episode in this season tied for my favorite, so I wanted to list them all.
Earlier in the series, it is shown that Maul, the Sith that Obi-Wan sliced in half at the end of the film The Phantom Menace, is actually alive. His brother, Savage, finds him, and helps restore his sanity.
During this episode, Maul attacks and takes over the planet Mandalore, and the planet’s leader (Duchess) requests Obi-Wan to come help. Unfortunately, due to some rules of war, he is unable to officially act in this manner, but he secretly gets Mandalorian armor and goes to the planet to help liberate it.
Maul ends up killing the Duchess and Obi-Wan is heartbroken. He leaves with her, and then secretly Maul’s former Master Sidious arrives at the planet and takes him down because he is a liability to his plans.
Episode 20 – The Wrong Jedi
Ahsoka is accused and put on trial for a bombing that occurred in the Jedi Temple. She is innocent, but no jedi other than Anakin take action to try and find evidence to save her. Anakin finds out that it was Padawan Barriss (Remember Season 2?) who bombed the temple and was willing to let Ahsoka take the blame.
She was found innocent and the jedi offered her place back into the order, but she was left not trusting them anymore, and decided to reject the offer, leaving Anakin alone and beginning to question the Jedi.
Season 6:
Episodes 1-4 – Clone Conspiracy arc
This storyline follows the clone soldier Fives who was investigating why his friend suddenly turned on his jedi commander and killed her. He found out there are microscopic control chips put into every clone, and something happened to his friend where the chip drove him to kill jedi.
Fives became more and more paranoid though the storyline, not knowing who to trust and not knowing who knew about the control chips. Chancellor Palpatine agreed to see him, but wanted to do so privately. It’s unknown what was said, but it caused Fives to attack Palpatine, and made him a fugitive on the run.
The story ends with him being killed, somewhat relieved he doesn’t have to panic or have nightmares of the conspiracy anymore.
What did Palpatine tell him?
Season 7:
Episodes 9-12 – Siege of Mandalore arc
Season 7 released in 2020 on Disney+. It consisted of 3 story arcs: the introduction of the unorthodox clone squad The Bad Batch, the story of what Ahsoka was doing after she left the Jedi Order at the end of season 5, and the final arc of Mandalore, where Ahsoka goes to fight Maul, and Order 66 is activated.
All of the final episodes were fantastic. They take place in parallel to Revenge of the Sith, where Sidious takes control of everything and orders the clones to kill all the jedi. Ahsoka’s clone team receives the order just after they capture Maul, and Rex tries to fight it.
Ahsoka saves Rex by removing the control chip, and the two escape to the ship’s hanger while using Maul as a distraction.
The last 20 minutes of the final episode are so beautifully done because once the ship gets destroyed and starts crashing on whatever planet they’re orbiting, there is no dialogue at all. The show just uses the sound effects from ambient noise and the musical soundtrack for the last 20 minutes.
The final shot was a time jump where Darth Vader was looking over the wreckage, assuming there were no survivors. It fades to black and all you hear is the iconic breathing.
Those are all of my favorite episodes in the series, but it ran for seven seasons and there were a lot of other fun ones I didn’t mention, like the bank arc in season six.
Next up is the third film Revenge of the Sith, and if the final episode here is any indicator, there is going to be some deaths.
The film starts out with the Jedi preparing to stop a droid army from taking over the city. The clones are working with them, and they attempt to do a stealth strike on the droids, but they were ambushed and forced to retreat.
They couldn’t call for reinforcements at the time because the enemy was jamming their signal and they were left with the troops remaining.
One new character, Ahsoka, was snuck in past the blockade to aid the jedi. She was tasked as Anakin’s padawan learner like Anakin was Obi Wan’s. He did not want to train someone, but together they took down a shield the droids were protecting, and saved the city.
The rest of the film is a search and rescue. A crime lord’s son was kidnapped, and the jedi go searching for him to get in good favor and be able to travel in their territory freely.
Jabba’s son was taken by the leader of the droid army, in an attempt to frame the jedi from kidnapping him when they rescue him, and turn them into an enemy of Jabba. The deception fails though, and it is revealed that Jabba’s weird uncle was the one who aided in the kidnapping.
He’s kinda a weird dude, and seems like the only one of his species that speaks English. Padmé find him living in the lower levels of Corusant and gets him arrested and confesses to Jabba the truth about the kidnapping.
The jedi are free to travel in their part of space, and Anakin and Ahsoka share a new bond over this adventure.
Movie Thoughts
I think that this movie was actually kind of slow and boring. It also seems to be two different stories in one because the first 30 or so minutes were about the raid on the city with Ahsoka, and the rest of the plot had nothing to do with that planet, and focused on Jabba’s kid. This was a decent introduction to this era in Star Wars, though. It introduced Ahsoka, the clones, and was an introduction into the war between the jedi and the droids. I think this was a television movie when it was released, and was not in theaters, so it makes sense it feels like multiple television episodes.
The next thing I am watching in this timeline is the Clone Wars tv show which came just after this film, and when I get through that I think it will be a good complete story between the movie and tv show.
Baby Jabba
So far in the movies, we didn’t even know Jabba had a son. We only saw Jabba briefly in Episode I when he was hosting a podrace event. Jabba’s son is just a ball-shaped slug and kind of gross looking.
Jabba having a son could imply a lot of future content with him as the new boss. Baby Jabba could even get his own spinoff show learning how to take charge and become a mobster.
I’m going to finish this Clone Wars movie review with a series of baby characters across multiple franchises. Please let me know in the comments who would win in a fight.
See you all after I finish all seven seasons of the Clone Wars tv!
Back again in Star Wars land with the second feature film: Attack of the Clones.
Ten years after The Phantom Menace, we’re back with the boys Anakin and Obi Wan who are out to find who hired assassins to try and kill the former queen, now senator Padmé.
Blu-Ray time, so unfortunately there’s no online website extras like the older DVDs had.
The movie starts out with the classic text crawl. Padmé leaves her ship for a Senate meeting, and her stand-in gets killed in an explosion. The Jedi are tasked to determine who is trying to kill her, and why.
The first high action sequence is with Obi-Wan and Anakin, now master and apprentice. In the middle of the night they catch an assassin trying to take out Padmé, so it is a high speed space traffic chase.
This scene shows just how big the capitol planet of Corusant is. Layers and layers of cities, and a lot of traffic in between the tall buildings.
It seems that the higher up the planet you are, the better off you live, because when they go further down into the planet, they enter a seedy bar with many sketchy individuals. The assassin is killed off by another unknown assassin, and the Jedi are left to pick up the pieces and discover who the mysterious individual is.
Two different plots play out for the majority of the film after this. Anakin is tasked to protect Padmé, and Obi-Wan is tasked with finding the mysterious assassin.
The action and mystery is with the Obi-Wan plot line, while character development is with Anakin. Both are important to a story, so I am briefly going to talk about the journey of each character:
Obi-Wan
Obi-Wan went out to uncovering where the poison dart that killed the assassin came from. For some reason Corusant has a 50’s diner, and the owner is apparently an old friend.
Just look at this greasy four-armed diner owner. He never actually shows up in any Star Wars media I’ve seen afterwards so this is kind of strange he shows up to exposition and then he’s gone.
The diner owner talks about checking out a planet called Kamino, and Obi-Wan heads to the library to research the planet.
The librarian has no idea what he is talking about. There’s no record of the planet, and she boasts that if there’s no record, then it doesn’t exist. Seems very conceited to me, because it turns out there was a record of the planet, but it was deleted.
Obi-Wan does end up finding the planet, and there he discovers a clone army built for the government, and he meets the template for the army: Jango Fett and his clone son Boba.
He follows them to a nearby planet called Geonosis, where he tries to discover his boss and who hired him to help built the army. He ends up getting captured and meets the leader of the opposing government, Count Dooku, formerly a jedi and Qui Gon’s former master.
This is where Obi-Wan’s separate journey ends.
Anakin
As said earlier, a lot of Anakin’s storyline in the movie is not plot-driven, but rather character-driven.
Anakin was tasked as Padmé’s bodyguard, so they went back to her planet Naboo for safety. It was there that a romance was formed.
Anakin is a jedi and Padmé is a senator, so being in a relationship is forbidden so they do not act on these feelings.
Anakin keeps having dreams of his mother, and they turn out to be force visions of the future. They decide to go to Tatooine where they find out his mother has been freed and married to a Mr Lars. His mom has been captured by some Tuskin Raiders, and he goes out to find her.
She dies in her arms, and in a rage he kills everyone there.
A distraught Anakin is comforted by Padmé and they receive word that Obi-Wan is captured by Dooku. They go off to rescue him.
They get captured too, and all three get placed in an arena for execution.
Jedi come to save the day! Mace Windu with his purple lightsaber kills Jango Fett and leaves Boba an orphan.
It’s not enough to fight the huge army of droids, so Yoda come in last minute with the army of clones to turn the tide. Anakin and Obi-Wan go after Dooku. Dooku wins the battle and cuts of Anakin’s hand, but then runs away when Yoda shows up.
The Clone Wars has begun.
Anakin and Padmé also secretly get married.
There was a lot of slow moments in this movie. The action scenes were good, but even writing this short recap was pretty boring for me. I do think this film helped show a bit of the jedi attitude with the librarian scene, and the peaceful jedi are now turned into a military. A big bounty hunter is killed and we saw the leaders of the opposing side.
Overall, I’d give it 6/10.
Alternate Universe Timeline Review
If you recall during my Phantom Menace review, I place a racing game towards the end of it, and I did not play as Anakin in the race matching the film.
Ody Mandrell finished the tournament in first place!
He won 1200 truguts and I still don’t know what that is, but I’m using it as currency.
Because Anakin never won the first race, he never won his freedom and learned to become a jedi.
In this timeline Anakin never left Tatooine and his mom never died, which is great!
I’m not sure how the war is doing, if the clones ever came into play, but none of that matters in this timeline because racing is life.
Be sure to keep updated on my timeline journey, and I will be posting the next piece of media soon! At the time of writing I’m on the next tv show, so I should have two more things to write soon.
Another lovable character franchise, another restaurant sponsoring a meal featuring that character.
I recently went to watch The Garfield Movie (2024) in theaters and also enjoy a lovely Italian meal at the nearby Olive Garden. This is not the first character meal that I went to explore, but I think the food here tasted better, but also I think Italian food can be tastier than breakfast food. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Recently, a friend and I went to see the new Garfield movie in theaters at AMC. I always like the movie theater experience, with fresh popcorn, and new movies to watch. This time was no different.
Obviously, I had to get the exclusive Garfield popcorn bucket and cup. The bucket is a really nice solid tin bucket with Garfield and Odie on the sides, and the cup had one of four different characters on top of it. My cup had a model of baby Garfield, who I now have sitting on the dash of my car.
The final item in the Garfield special was a plush version on either Garfield or Odie. Obviously I picked Garfield (pictured above). The brown tabby cat Bella was not included in the theater special so don’t ask your AMC concessions worker.
The Movie
The movie itself was… just okay.
The basic plot of the movie is a simple adventure. It starts off with a scene showing us how Garfield and his owner Jon met for the first time, at an Italian restaurant, after Garfield (Chris Pratt) was abandoned in an alley by his father Vic (Samuel L. Jackson).
About 5 years pass afterwards, and Garfield is content as a house cat. One night, he and Odie get kidnapped by a pet mafia as a revenge plot against his father Vic. Vic saves them, but the trio are forced to go and rob a milk farm for the lead cat, Jinx.
The rest of the film is the two cats bickering about their differences and learning to understand one another. I’d guess that probably half the plot is them trying to plan the milk heist, and then actually doing it takes 30ish minutes before the plan fails and they get captured.
I won’t spoil the rest of the ending, but I will say overall I think the characters were done well in the film. I think I liked it better than Scoob!, which to be was very disappointing as a Scooby Doo fan.
In the film Garfield is fat, lazy, and loves to eat, and this movie nailed that. I think the only disappointing thing in the movie is that despite the flashback at the beginning, there’s barely any Garfield and Jon interaction, which is the basis of the comic strip. I left wishing there was more of that.
There is also a huge amount of product placement in the film. Olive Garden is seen twice, and in a scene Garfield goes on the Walmart app on his phone and FedEx delivers a new chair for him to use. I was very surprised how much product placement there was, and despite showing the fridge 3 times in the film, the characters never went to or ate Olive Garden food.
I’m not sure what this product placement was for. Were there special things at Walmart for the Garfield movie? Does FedEx have an ad for the film? Who leaves a whole hot dog with mustard in a bun in the fridge?
Why did Jon leave the whole bag in the fridge instead of taking the containers out and just having those in the fridge? Is the Olive Garden bag in their fridge just propaganda to try and take people there to eat?
I’m not sure we’ll ever know the answers…
After the movie, we went to Olive Garden for lunch.
I did not try the Garfield appetizer: the Lasagna Fritta. The unlimited salad was enough for me, and I only ate half a bowl of it.
The lasagna was the main course. Look at the presentation and size of the plate. Garfield himself probably could’ve eaten three of these.
It was tasty, and no wonder they had a takeout bag in their fridge in the movie.
The other meal option for Garfield was the Tour of Italy meal. It had three different pastas including lasagna, but I thought it best to go all out on the lasagna this time.
Usually when I go to Olive Garden I only get the unlimited soup and salad because it tastes good, and I can eat as much as I want, but the lasagna did taste pretty good.
For dessert: Chocolate Lasagna.
Cats aren’t able to eat chocolate, but legally I’m not a cat so it was okay.
It tasted pretty good! I think it was like cake or brownie layered with chocolate mousse, and while it was a little harder at the bottom, it was a good dessert to finish the Garfield day.
Overall, it was a pretty good orange cat filled day. Chris Pratt wasn’t too bad as Garfield. He wasn’t amazing, but he could play a pretty good Italian. Still need to watch the Mario movie to see how he did there, but I’ve heard good things.
Hopefully there will be another character dinner to explore soon, but in the meantime go get some pasta.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. I won’t be talking much about the history of the movie, because when it was released in 1999 I was two years old. In this review I will briefly talk about the plot of the film, and then go into key parts that can affect the franchise as a whole.
I do want to address that for some of this timeline marathon I have the physical copy of the movie/tv show/game. If there’s something I enjoy I personally want to get the disc of it to keep and watch offline instead of streaming sometime. For Episode 1 I have a DVD of it, and included in it is an extras page that says there’s unique online special features. I can’t use is on an Apple Macintosh or on my regular blu ray player, but someday I might figure out what online special features there are.
The movie starts off talking about taxes. A group called the Trade Federation has created a blockade around a planet to protest (?) paying higher taxes on the galaxy’s government, The Republic.
Two Jedi: Qui Gon Jinn and Obi Wan Kenobi were sent to negotiate ending the blockade. It does not end well, and the Trade Federation invades the planet with a droid army.
To be completely honest, I don’t get how a blockade around the equator works. Couldn’t the people on the planet go around where there isn’t a blockade, then move to their original landing spot once they’re in the atmosphere?
I’m going to quickly type out the plot points for the rest of the movie. There’s going to be some details I miss, but these are the key moments in the film:
Gungan!
The two Jedi sneak aboard an invading ship to get to the planet Naboo and meet a frog-like creature called Jar-Jar. He leads them to his underwater city, where the other frog-like people (Gungans) give them a ship to go to the above-water city and rescue the Queen.
Podracing!
The gang has to emergency land on a sand planet called and find parts to fix the ship. They don’t have the money! However: they meet a young slave boy named Anakin there who tells them about this upcoming race. They enter the race and he won with his homemade pod racer. The group of travelers win the parts to fix their ship, and wins Anakin’s freedom as well.
Citys!
The team goes to the Republic capitol, Coruscant, to tell the government about the invasion on Naboo, and to get Anakin tested for Jedi school. Unfortunately, neither of those tasks work out. The Senate is stuck on procedures, discussions, and voting instead of actually taking action to do anything. As for Anakin, the Jedi Council decided that despite his high test scores, he is too old to start training to be a Jedi. Jedi take young kids before they become attached to family to help limit their emotions, and Anakin grew up with his mother, so they thing that’s a problem.
War!
Queen Padmé goes back to her home planet to help stop the invasion. She meets with her neighbors the Gungans, and together they form an army that will fight the droids on land, in the palace, and in space.
Anakin sneaks aboard a ship and flies to the spaceship that controls the robots, and on land the Jedi meet for the first time a Dark Jedi: A Sith named Maul.
This is pretty significant to the timeline marathon because in the previous Young Jedi Adventures series, there were no Sith in existence. The most those Young Jedi had to face were pirates, not evil Jedi with the same abilities as them.
Qui-Gon and Obi Wan were fighting to survive this battle, and unfortunately Qui-Gon did not survive. He was stabbed by Maul, and Obi Wan immediately avenged him by cutting Maul in half and throwing him down a shaft.
Up in space Anakin was able to successfully destroy the control station, and all of the droids shut down. The battle has been won.
Although they defeated the droids and Maul, the Jedi are left to wonder where he came from. Obi Wan has also been tasked with training Anakin to be a Jedi, so we will see how that plays out in the next few things to watch.
Favorite Scene
Since this isn’t a television show, I can’t just talk about my favorite episode of the series. I can however say that my favorite scene is probably the podracing scene. Going fast takes skill and Anakin really shows how great of a pilot he is in this scene.
The announcers are probably the best background/side character in this movie. The two headed brothers(?) talk about the events in the race, one in regular language, and the other in an alien dialect.
I think this scene also helps create an expansion on the galaxy in Star Wars. What do people do for fun? What sports do they have on planets since stuff like football and baseball are Earth sports.
Racing is universal. Kachow.
When I finished watching the movie I remembered that earlier this year I downloaded a video game for my Nintendo Switch called “STAR WARS EPISODE I: Racer”. It is quite possibly one of the worst names of a video game I’ve seen, but it’s a pretty fun racer so far.
I turned it on for the first time recently just to try it out, and so far it seems pretty easy to win races. I’m not sure why Anakin and the others in the movie were struggling to beat Sebulba.
I didn’t want to play as Anakin Skywalker during the game. Mostly for the same reason that I never play as Mario in a Mario Party game, but we all know from the movie that he won the race. This game starts at Anakin’s winning race, and then travels to other planets for the racing circuit.
Also, just look at his model in the game. Ugh.
All the other characters are aliens, and are some of the goofiest looking creatures with the silliest names. I won 1200 Truguts for first place as well. What are Truguts? Money I think? Hopefully.
I may continue this game as I go just to see how far in racing I can get. I can upgrade my speeder to get faster and control it even better, and maybe since in my game Anakin never won the race, the future movies and shows will all diverge into a fractured branch and it will alter the course of the timeline marathon.
That is all I have for timeline media number two: Episode One. The names and titles in this series will get even more confusing as we go I’m sure.
I finished the first show on my Star Wars timeline marathon! Young Jedi Adventures is a show for toddlers and families that released May 4 2023. Before watching this I didn’t realize this show is only a year old. The last episode released this year in February. I think that means there’s a possibility for season 2?
The show features the main 3 Jedi in the first Episode: Kai Brightstar the human, Lys the purple haired alien, and Nubs the blue teddy bear alien. In the first episode they leave the temple on Coruscant to visit the outer parts of the galaxy. They leave with a young pilot named Nash to live and train on their new temple located on Nash’s home planet: Tenoo.
The Jedi land and immediately have to save a diner from some pirates harassing and stealing supplies. This is Taborr and his crew of a robot and young alien pig. More on them later.
The Young Jedi go on many Adventures during all 25 episodes. They face many different trials and villains: Taborr and pirates, wild animals, eco-terrorists, other pirates, and some self-made conflicts.
My favorite recurring villain has to be the chicken-man alien, Raxlo (Haley Joel Osment). He appears in only three episodes, but his villainy is a joy to watch.
Raxlo first appears in episode six: “Forest Defenders”. He is seen cutting down an entire forest with a machine, becoming the opposite of the Lorax. He wanted to cut down the wood and sell it for money. The Jedi stop his machine, and Raxlo escapes to figure out a new business plan.
He then appears in episode 13: “Tree Troubles” where he blocks off water that is supporting the ecosystem of a tree, to be able to mine the hardened sap that formed underneath the tree. He was again defeated by the three Jedi.
The third and final appearance Raxlo has in the show is in episode 19 “Raxlo Strikes Back”. In this episode, he is now visiting a snow planet the Jedi frequent, to melt the snow to mine the rare gems underneath. The problem with melting the snow is that there are some space walruses who lay their eggs in the snow, and if it gets too warm the eggs will never hatch.
I really enjoy Raxlo because in this final episode he gets redeemed. He’s trying to make a profit to sell the gems in this episode, and his machine is stopped and the snow comes back, but the nice thing is that the people on the planet help him find a new place to dig for the gems. A place without space walrus eggs. After this episode I don’t think he’ll come back as a villain again.
There are redeemable villains in the show, and some who probably will be bad forever.
My least favorite episode has to be episode 11: “The Ganguls”. Nash the pilot has her new speeder stolen by a kid working for a gang of pirates. The pirates operate in a nearby town, and it is revealed that they have taken over the town and scared the residents into submission.
My problem is that the gang consists of three pirates total. I have no idea why the town of 15 or 20 shown people are afraid of three loud pirates, and that they even threw the mayor out of town.
The Jedi kids show up to town and convince the townsfolk to stand up to the pirates. I know this is a show for toddlers and creates life lessons for them, but come on..
There were some really nice episodes that I enjoyed in the series. One of them involved a recurring pirate villain Taborr. Taborr is a kid pirate who often tries to steal things from people to make a name for himself and get respect from the other pirates.
In episode 12: “Off the Rails”, Taborr and his small group of pirates try to rob a train taking logs of wood to a nearby village to build homes for them. Kai and Taborr fight and the train car they’re on disconnects from the rest, and they need to work together to not be stranded on the tracks.
I enjoyed this episode because when Taborr learned that the logs were going to help peoples’ homes, he had a change of heart and decided not to steal from the Jedi. Taborr was the first villain the young Jedi fought in the show, but in this episode it seems like there was more to him than just being a bad guy, and the Jedi learned that not everything had to be solved with fighting.
I think my absolute favorite episode of the show has to be episode 23: “The Caves of Batuu”. Kai had doubts about himself and wanting to be a perfect Jedi after failing to complete a trick with his lightsaber, and the Jedi Master he was training under took him to some nearby caves to clear his head.
This episode was done really well because there were no villains in it, just self-doubt. The Force took Kai through multiple visions in the cave to learn who he is and who he wants to be. For an episode that only runs for 11 minutes, I think this was the best was to show the mystical side of Star Wars for kids.
The show ends with episode 25 “The Prince and the Pirate”. Taborr is focused more on in this episode than the Jedi, and this episode runs the entire 30 minutes. A new space station called Starlight Beacon is officially opening the day they visit, and Taborr wants to steal the dedication plaque to make a name for himself and get respect. The young Jedi confront him, and I won’t spoil how it happens, but in the end it seems like Taborr does have a change of heart and seems to change his ways.
Starlight Beacon does open and the dedication plaque gets placed where it belongs. The group of friends watch the ceremony and are excited for what is to come in the future.
According to the Wookiepedia info on Starlight Beacon, two years after the grand opening of the station, Starlight Beacon is attacked and blown up by some terrorists to the Republic, and the space station is destroyed. Many people die, including some Jedi who help evacuate the station. I don’t actually know if there is a season 2 or 3 planned for this show, but hopefully the kids never come back to this station.
Overall, I thought the show was a good introduction for kids to get into Star Wars and learn some good life lessons along the way. If you have a kid or enjoy watching shows for toddlers, I think this would be a good selection.
I will be continuing my Star Wars timeline marathon, so be sure to check back on the main page for any updated when I finish something and write about it!
I love Star Wars. The movies, tv, and games are really fun. My favorite scene is when the big yellow star goes up against the small but incredibly bright white star. You can’t really see any action like that in other franchises.
At the time of posting this, it is May the 4th. This is usually known as a Star Wars holiday because that was the day in the movie that the main star, Mark Hamill, blew up the Death Star, and now everyone says “May the fourth be with you”.
I’ve watched all the movies and seen maybe over half of the tv shows, but one thing I have never done is watch all of them in chronological order. Today I will start doing that. I will watch every movie, every television show, and play most of the story video games all in timeline order. Once I finish one of them, I will add a post on this site to gather and express my thoughts. We’ll see how long it takes to finish it all.
Some media takes place at the same time as others. I will not be going back and forth besides one occasion. It would be too complicated for me to pause a movie to watch a single episode or play a level of a game. Whenever the first episode of a show takes place, I will watch that series until the end.
The media I will be working with are as follows:
Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures
Total SeriesRuntime: 10 hours, 47 minutes
This was made for Disney Junior audiences, AKA toddlers. However on the timeline I’m using from the Star Wars wikipedia, this takes place about 250 years before the original movie, meaning it is the earliest piece of media I’ll watch.
Each episode of this series is focused on a different character, and takes place at a different time, so the six episodes will bounce around and not be watched in series order. This is the only time I will not watch a series all at once. I won’t put down my thoughts on the series until I finish watching all of them, but I want to show which order of episodes I’ll watch on here.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 3)
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 1)
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Runtime: 2 hours, 17 minutes
The movie that started it all. The first movie of this marathon is celebrating its 25th year this year. It follows the story of two jedi, and the adoption of Anakin Skywalker.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 4)
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutes
In this second movie, Ewan McGregor’s Obi Wan gets a sick beard, and his adopted son Anakin gets a stupid rat tail, and they both get cloned or something and have to determine who the original one is.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star THE CLONE WARS Wars
Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
Anakin and Obi Wan get some plastic surgery it looks like, and many more clones are made and seem to work with them to fight evil. Anakin also gets his rattail cut off and adopts a daughter of his own.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 5)
Star Wars The Clone Wars The Final Season
Total Series Runtime: 54 hours, 21 minutes
This is the piece of media that might take the longest to get through. The title is “The Final Season” but there are seven seasons of episodes about the clones and the wars they fought. 26 minute episodes, and if I watch 2 hours a day then this might take a month and a half? We’ll see.
Additional note: According to the official timeline, some later episodes happen sooner than they aired. Unlike Tales of the Jedi, I will be watching these episodes in release order, because reorganizing six episodes is a lot easier than organizing seven seasons. If you ever decide to do that, let me know how that goes.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes
This one is probably my favorite of the first three movies. Music is great, and the visuals are really impressive. We get to hear the story about Darth Plagueis the Wise as well.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode Six)
The last one! Because the jedi were all killed at the end of Episode III
Star Wars The Bad Batch
Total Series Runtime: 21 hours, 52 minutes
A girl clone named Omega gets adopted by four of her brothers, and try to figure out the world in the new Empire.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order EA
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 22 hours
The first video game on the list. I have played this one before and it’s difficult in some parts, but I really like the story. If I figure out how to stream it when I get to this time period I think that would be a fun thing to do. Either way I’ll still be writing down my thoughts.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
Han didn’t have his last name before this movie, or the famous ship he’s known for flying. See the origins of him in this movie.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi
Total series Runtime: 4 hours, 3 minutes
How Obi-Wan came to live in a desert alone. He watches his adopted grandson Luke from afar, to keep him safe from his dad.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Jedi Survivor
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 40 hours
Another video game! This is the sequel to Fallen Order and it may take a while to play it, but I have gone through it before so hopefully I can remember where to go and what to do. The longest part I think I will go through is getting all the customizable parts to my lightsaber and outfits.
On the list I have made, this is the halfway point! I think it’s fitting since the mood of the franchise begins to change after this point.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Andor
Total Season Runtime: 8 hours, 23 minutes
This is probably one of my favorite shows listed. It’s very grounded, and the drama and suspense is very compelling.
There is another season of this show scheduled to be released at some point. At the time of this writing it is not out yet, so I haven’t taken it into account. If the entire second season is out by the time I get to this show I will edit in the runtime and add it to the list.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Rebels
Total Series Runtime: 28 hours, 26 minutes
I watched this last year for the first time and I actually really enjoyed it. There are 4 total seasons, and the first season I remember to be kind of boring, but after that it gets very intense and I really grew to love the characters. I won’t say anything else until I get to this point in the timeline
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Rogue One A Star Wars Story
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
The first use of the Death Star, the entire idea of why “Star Wars” is the franchise name. Andor is a main character in this film, if you remember from the show with his name as the title.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes
Some people also call this movie “A New Hope“, but I’m going off of the poster titles that I find online. This is the film most people have probably seen, but the poster is misleading because I don’t think Luke ever takes off his shirt and looks that ripped.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Squadrons EA
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 9 hours
Another video game! I have not played this one, and believe the majority is just playing online endlessly, but from what I could find there is a story mode, and that story takes place between all the original trilogy movies. As I said before, I will not be pausing levels and then watching movies and then playing another level. I think the story in this game is short enough to do in a day or two.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Empire Strikes Back Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes
In this movie, they visit an ice planet, a sky planet, and a swamp planet. On the swamp planet Luke Skywalker meets the love child of Kermit and Ms. Piggy: Minch Yoda.
Star Wars Return of the Jedi
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
Slugs! Pigs! Bears! Oh my!
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Battlefront II
Estimated Playtime: Approximately 6 hours
Another mainly online video game with a story mode. From what I could see, Battlefront 1 did not have a story mode. I believe that in this one you play as an Empire soldier, which is kinda weird to me because they lost, but we’ll see how it goes.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars The Mandalorian (Seasons 1 & 2)
Total Series Runtime: 16 hours, 39 minutes
In this show we see what happens a few years after the Rebels won and the Empire fell. The Mandalorian adopts Baby Yoda and gets into wacky adventures.
There is a season 3 to this show, but for this timeline watch I will be viewing it later on. Once I have finished all 3 seasons I will post my writing
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars The Book of Boba Fett
Total Series Runtime: 5 hours, 28 minutes
This show is why I had to split The Mandalorian up. Boba Fett didn’t die in Return of the Jedi, he decided to become an author.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars The Mandalorian (Season 3)
Star Wars Ahsoka
Total Season Runtime: 5 hours, 53 minutes
She debuted in The Clone Wars movie, starred in The Clone Wars show and Rebels. Now she is given her own show to watch
I think I heard that this show is getting another season? I’m not sure, but if that happens I’m only watching the first season for this piece.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Resistance
Total Series Runtime: 15 hours, 39 minutes
I didn’t even know this show existed before I was looking into making this series of posts. No idea who any of the characters in the poster are except BB-8. It probably has multiple seasons, and from what I think I saw this takes place in between a few of the next couple movies, but I’m just going to watch this season in full.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Force Awakens Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes
This is a cool looking poster. In this movie, the force was asleep and then they woke it up. Bunch of new characters are introduced with hints of the old characters.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star Wars Battlefront II: Resurrection
Estimated Playtime: 2 hours
This is DLC to the previous Battlefront II game, which from what I can tell takes place around the same time as these movies. I’ll be playing this short story here.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Last Jedi Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes
Oh boy. This movie, and the next one, are some of the most controversial films in the franchise. Here we go.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
Star The Rise of Skywalker Wars
Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutes
If there’s one thing these movies know how to do, it’s make posters with faces on them. This is the last movie and the newest in the timeline piece of visual media.
(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE) coming soon
And that’s all of them! Going through everything will take a while, but I will be updating this page whenever I finish a project with a link to some writing about my thoughts.
Just to estimate when I finish this, if I were to start on May 4, 2024, and go non-stop through this list, it would take me approximately 11 days, 7 hours, and 49 minutes, or 271 hours and 49 minutes.
That’s obviously impossible.
I think around 3 hours a day is more reasonable. If I am successful into sticking to about 3 hours a day, it’ll take me about 91 days to complete, so roughly 3 months.
If I finish by August 2024 I’d say that’ll be a success, but whenever I do finish, I think I’ll have a good time along the way. I love writing series posts, and this will be a fun one for me.
It is April 2024, and the Sonic the Hedgehog team has partnered with IHOP to provide character meals and some downloadable content for games on the Playstation 5, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
There are six meals included in the Sonic specials. Six characters promote it: Miles “Tails” Prower, Sonic “Maurice” Hedgehog, Knuckles “Knuckles” the Echidna, Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik, Amelia “Amy” Rose, and Shadow “Shadow” the Hedgehog.
Each character on the menu is also partnered with a Chaos Emerald. There are seven of them in the games, so it is interesting that IHOP only made six meals for this partnership.
If it were me, I’d choose Big the Cat as the last meal to wrap up the seven Chaos Emeralds, and the meal would be one of the fish ones. In most iterations, Big is seen fishing or with a fishing pole, so it just makes sense, right? There’s a few fish meals to choose from to add him to.
The Meal
I went one evening with a friend to experience the Sonic the Hedgehog IHOP collaboration, and decided to order the Knuckles (chicken) sandwich with the classic rings Sonic is known for.
Knuckles is the only character with a meal that is not a breakfast item, so that just reinforces the idea to add Big as another non-breakfast fish meal.
I did make one mistake when ordering: I chose a grilled chicken instead of crispy, and since there was sauce and avocado, it slid all around the buns making it a messy meal, and I think if I got grilled it would stay put easier.
Dessert
We got the Amy dessert at the end, and it was pretty good! Strawberries on a waffle with a scoop of ice cream was a good choice for dessert, and if I were to go back I think I’d try the Shadow chocolate pancakes for a dessert.
The Games
One of the larger drawing factors that got me to go in was the items that we could get from the IHOP app after ordering. Most restaurants have some sort of “perks system” that builds up after every purchase, giving you discounts in the future. IHOP is no different. They can give you free pancakes after enough points.
The unique Sonic experience with IHOP allows you to get full games. Just for eating pancakes! Sonic Origins, Sonic Superstars, and Sonic Frontiers for Xbox, Playstation 5, and the Nintendo Switch. Buy pancakes to play games.
I already had all of these games, so this meant nothing to me. I didn’t come for them. I used my pancoins to buy the one thing unique to IHOP; Something that is completely unique to the restaurant and Sonic:
Amy in an IHOP uniform
Sonic Superstars had different skins for the characters you can download. Some are free, like LEGO Sonic and Holiday Sonic. Some are able to be bought, and some are able to be bought with pancakes.
I purchases it for the Nintendo Switch, and IHOP Amy is definitely worth getting if you had the game. This skin makes me want to buy all the pancakes and coffee.
If I didn’t already own the game, I would have gone to IHOP 50 times just to download Sonic Superstars from the restaurant, to make the whole game IHOP Amy Stars.
Skins are just a unique way to play the game and does not change anything but the looks, but the fact that this skin was only available through the restaurant was very funny to me, and that meant that I just had to go visit and purchase it. Thankfully the skin is only worth 5 Pancoins, and my first purchase gave me 12.
If you like Sonic and breakfast food, I’d honestly recommend it. The menu is exactly the same besides the additional images, but it’s a fun experience to go fast and collect (onion) rings.
Dr. Eggman’s Benedict is also the best name of any Sonic related breakfast. I think whenever I go back I’m going to get that just for the name, as well as the Keanu Reeves Shadow the Hedgehog chocolate pancakes.
Plus it was fun to write about in the format I did
There were a few soups that came from a can, but I personally think this was the best one of those because I added a ton of different ingredients to it
Now those were my favorite three soups, let’s get on to my three least favorite soups
Now I do normally like ramen and making ramen, but I didn’t have all the ingredients that I wanted, so that’s why this soup is part of the least favorites list
I wish I added peanut butter to it
Now that’s just my personal list of favorites and least favorites
What are your thoughts? If you made any soups this month I’d love to hear about it!
Kristopher K. Online 