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Star Wars: Rebels Review

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It’s Star Wars time once again! In this post we’ll be going over the tv show Rebels, which ran for four seasons in 2014-2018. 

This was one of the first pieces of media aired after Disney bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise, and I’ll admit I didn’t really care about watching the show when it originally aired. You know how it is; I was 16 at the time and didn’t want to watch any “kid shows”. 

The first time I watched this show was two or three years ago and while the first half of season one was more lighthearted and childish, I quickly ended up loving the series. It did a lot to expand the world of Star Wars. 

The show introduced a lot of new planets and history, and it added a ton of new aliens and animals to the universe that made Star Wars feel more alive. 

There were smaller animals like Loth-cats and the larger Loth-wolves, to the giant space traveling whales called purgill. One of the main characters in the show was also a never before seen alien. 

The Characters

Ghost Crew

The main characters we follow in the show reside on a ship called The Ghost. They’re a small crew of rebels fighting against the Empire. 

Ezra Bridger

A young boy who was born on the planet Lothal the day the Republic became the Empire. He was living alone for a few years in a radio tower because his parents were taken by the Empire. 

Ezra’s introduction reminded me a lot like Aladdin, but he quickly became his own person, growing and learning how to stand up for himself and his friends, and learning how to become a Jedi. 

Kanan Jarrus (Caleb Dume)

The first time we saw this character in the timeline was in the first episode of The Bad Batch. He was running away from the clones after his Jedi master was killed by them. 

Years later Caleb changed his name to Kanan, and joined the Ghost Crew. When they met Ezra he was reluctant to train him, but they eventually became close allies and friends and Kanan sacrificed himself for his Ghost family.

Hera Syndulla

Captain of The Ghost and partner of Kanan. She was previously seen as a child in The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch fighting the separatists and later the growing Empire. She basically has never known a moment of peace since introduced. She did end up taking the role of the mom of the squad, but her most loyal friend is her droid Chopper. 

Chopper (C1-10P)

I don’t believe we ever see it, but it’s explained sometime in the show that Hera found Chopper in the Clone Wars as a child. His Y-Wing ship crashed and she rescued him and fixed him up. To her, he is very loyal because of that. To enemies, he’s a menace, and to allies he’s mischief. 

Garazeb “Zeb” Orrelios

The tall alien in the group. He’s one of the last of a species killed by the Empire. Roommates with Ezra and friend/prankster to Chopper, he’s the muscle of the group.

Sabine Wren

A young Mandalorian who went to the Imperial Academy and invented different equipment, but left once she learned what the equipment was being used for: as a weapon against her own people. She now focuses on art and fighting against the Empire, and lots of her artwork is seen throughout the show. 

Imperial Characters/Antagonists

As this is a kid’s show, there are a lot of recurring characters in it and repeat villains. The following are some of the most memorable. 

Agent Alexsandr Kallus 

Remember the ISB from Andor and Jedi Survivor? Agent Kallus works for them, however we don’t really see any of the bureaucrats like the previous entries. Kallus is probably the main villain of season one and part of season two, before defecting and helping the rebels fight the Empire. 

Grand Inquisitor

We briefly saw him in live action on the Obi-Wan Kenobi show. He’s the one in charge of all the other Inquisitors, and the main villain in season one. He fought Kanan in the finale, and lost. Instead of continuing to fight he decided to fall to his death warning them of what was coming (Darth Vader)

Maul

Back again from the Phantom Menace and The Clone Wars, Maul has pretty much lost everything and is hiding on a Sith planet. He is reintroduced as an old hermit who asks Ezra for help getting into the Sith temple, and quickly changes his demeanor after being discovered by Ahsoka and Kanan. During the battle at the temple, he blinds Kanan. He appears in different episodes afterwards, trying to convince Ezra to join him as his apprentice. 

Grand Admiral Thrawn

After the Grand Inquisitor and Kallus, Thrawn is the main villain in the series. He’s an incredibly smart blue alien, and no other of his species have we seen. He dissects the culture of his enemies like artwork and history to study them and learn their military tactics, which makes him very valuable in the Empire’s intelligence team. He becomes focused on stopping the rebels before they grow too large, and the rebels only end up stopping him when they do something completely unexpected. 

Favorite Episodes of Mine

Season One Episode 10: Path of the Jedi

Struggling with teaching Ezra, Kanan took him to a Jedi Temple hidden on Lothal. There isn’t much direct conflict in this episode, but it’s very character driven by having the Jedi master and apprentice learn how to work better with one another. 

Season Two Episode 17: The Honorable Ones

This one I really love. The Ghost Crew investigates the planet Geonosis, which appears to have no life signs on it. Them investigating alerts the Empire, and after a brief fight Agent Kallus and Zeb get stuck in an escape pod and trapped on a frozen moon overnight. They put aside their differences until help arrives and Zeb goes home with his found family, and Kallus goes home to his empty room. It’s the starting point of Agent Kallus’ defection.

Season Three Episode 15: Trials of the Darksaber

Earlier in the series, Maul escaped the gang and left the Darksaber. It’s a lightsaber made by Mandalorians and used as an icon to symbolize leadership in the society. Sabine found it and this episode tracks her journey learning how to wield it. This is another character driven episode because the conflict is internal. Sabine doesn’t want the authority the blade signifies, because of the issues she has with her family. Eventually she opens up and accepts her past traumas instead of hiding them, and I think this episode has a lot of good character moments. 

Season Four Episode 10: Jedi Night

RIP Kanan. This episode pretty much is the start of the finale of the series. Hera got captured by Thrawn and is being held in the capitol building in Lothal, and the Ghost Crew has to rescue her. Kanan is oddly calm throughout the episode, as if he knows what’s coming. They end up rescuing Hera and running to a fuel refinery and the Empire’s Governor shoots at them blowing up the fuel. Kanan sacrifices himself and force pushes them all away while holding the fuel’s explosion back. Just for one brief moment, he regains his eyesight and sees his family. This is a really good and sad episode. 

Final thoughts

The show Rebels did a lot to expand the world of Star Wars. I have a lot of Star Wars merch on display in my apartment and surprisingly a good amount of it originates from the Rebels show. It is very kid friendly in the first season, but after the starting bumps it really found its place in the lore, and created something special. 

Still wild that this was the show Disney produced after canceling The Clone Wars that originated on Cartoon Network, but they eventually finished that series too. 

The next few posts will be all movies, and I want to try to finish up Return of the Jedi before the end of the year, so keep an eye out for our next topic: Rogue One. 

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Review

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Happy New Year everyone! In case anyone was worried, I have NOT forgotten about the Star Wars timeline marathon. A lot has happened in the last few months; I moved states in October! Right after that, holiday work got INCREDIBLY busy and I had almost no time afterwards with work and unpacking. 

I have been watching a lot of shows though! I’m finally able to get to writing again so keep an eye out for a bunch of different posts while I catch up on writing!

With that little update out of the way, let’s get on to talking about Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Episode Two: Justice

Episode 2 is actually the earliest episode in the timeline, so I watched that first when we got to it. It takes place years before The Phantom Menace and features Qui-Gon Jinn and Dooku, as student and jedi teacher. The two visit a small village where a senator’s son was being held captive, and they were tasked on negotiations to free him. 

While meeting with the farmers, Dooku sees the status of their lives and understands the reason why they kidnapped the senator’s son to be heard and receive help. 

The color tone is fantastic in this episode because it’s all dull browns and greys, making the mood grim throughout. Unfortunately, the political system the Jedi are in made this complicated. The senator’s son is released and promises to help the farmers, and the senator himself is promising “justice”. This signifies the start of Dooku’s disappointment with the current political system. 

Episode Three: Choices

Another Dooku episode taking place a few years later. Qui-Gon is now longer a student, and is now teaching Obi Wan according to some dialogue in this episode. 

This time, Dooku is visiting a planet with fellow Jedi Mace Windu. A Jedi Master was killed on this planet while escorting a senator. Windu wants to take the body and head back because that is what they were told to do, but Dooku wants to investigate how they were killed. It turns out, there’s another corrupt senator on this planet! He’s been selling land to outside parties and the people living on the land are upset. The senator’s guards killed the Jedi and were going to force the senator to go with their demands to take back their planet. 

Dooku sympathies with them and is upset with the system as well, while Windu is someone who follows the rules. They capture the rebels and head back to their temple, where Windu is offered a promotion to a council lead, while Dooku is left thinking about what he wants within the Jedi order

Episode One: Life and Death

Opposite of Dooku’s storyline, here we see the introduction of Ahsoka’s. The colors are all vibrant and the mood is hopeful instead of dire. This episode isn’t as character driven as the other episodes, but it shows the early days of baby Ahsoka before she became a Jedi padawan. She was with her family and a large wild cat had captured her after hunting with her mother. Ahsoka was not harmed, however, because she used the force to calm the cat, and the cat took her home. 

Episode Four: The Sith Lord

This is the last of Dooku’s story, which takes place just after The Phantom Menace. Qui Gon has died, and Dooku is distraught. There’s a female Yoda called Yaddle in The Phantom Menace, and she is never seen after that movie. This episode shows what happens to her. She follows Dooku to a hidden location in the city, where she finds him and a mysterious cloaked figure speaking with him. This is the evil Sith Darth Sidious, and he is convincing Dooku to leave the Jedi and join him because the politics have become corrupt and Dooku is tired of fighting the system within the system. Yaddle tries to plead for him to come back, but Dooku ends up killing her and joining the dark side. 

Episode Five: Practice Makes Perfect

Back with Ahsoka this time and this episode is showing her training and Anakin’s teaching methods. She was displaying her lightsaber skills in a dojo against robots. Anakin was not impressed by it, thinking that it’s too predictable. He took her to a warehouse where some of his clone troopers were waiting, and he set up a test for her to block shots that they fired at her. 

It didn’t last very long. The clones used stun and got her in just a few seconds.

After she recovered, she tried again. 

And again. 

And again. 

She kept trying, getting knocked out, and then back up and eventually she lasted about 5 minutes or so. The episode ends with a scene from the final episode of The Clone Wars, where Order 66 was occurring and she had to actually use the training of avoiding clone fire to survive. It’s a neat callback to the Clone Wars show and helps explain how she survived. 

Episode Six: Resolve

The final episode of this show takes place years after The Clone Wars and Order 66. Ahsoka is in hiding because the Jedi are being hunted. She’s on a planet as a farmhand and at one point, a stack of hay bales get knocked over and almost crush someone. She secretly uses the force to move them out of harm and tries to avoid being seen helping.

One person does notice and contacts the empire, and an Inquisitor arrives. 

Inquisitors are trained by Darth Vader to hunt down Jedi in hiding and kill them. This one is looking for Ahsoka and is not aware of who the Jedi they’re looking for is. The Inquisitor is no match for Ahsoka because she was also trained by Vader before he became a Sith. She easily defeats him and decides that she doesn’t want to hide anymore and joins a growing rebellion against the Empire. 

And that concludes the Tales of the Jedi series! The first post of the year. I have some more series and writing to catch up on, and then we’ll finally be into the original trilogy. Keep an eye on the Star Wars post hub page for the next update where I’ll be talking about The Bad Batch.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Series) Review

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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.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review

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I have completed the first movie in this timeline marathon.

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.

Star Wars Timeline Marathon

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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 Series Runtime: 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.

(READ MY THOUGHTS HERE)

Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (Episode 2)

Total Series Runtime: 1 hour, 21 minutes

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Happy Star Wars Day!