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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: Andor (SEASON ONE) Review

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Welcome back to another Star Wars television show. Today we’re talking about one of my personal favorite shows, Andor. It ran on Disney+ for two seasons in 2022 and 2025. 

At the time of making my original timeline, season two had not been released yet, so in this post I’m only going to talk about season one. I do highly recommend watching the whole series though because it is very good television. 

So without further ado, let’s get started fellow Andorians and Starwarsians.

Cassian Andor is a rebel, but he didn’t start out fighting for the rebellion against the Empire. As a young child, he was living on an isolated planet called Kenari. 

At some point, the Empire invaded the planet to mine the resources out of it. A mining accident happened later, leaving all the children of the planet orphans when the Empire abandoned them. 

Scrappers discovered the mining wreckage and Andor, and ended up adopting him and secretly removing any evidence he lived on the planet Kenari. 

Cassian becomes anti-Imperial after his adopted father is killed, and at one point tries to find his lost sister. Two local cops confront him and try to get him to pay the “toll” for coming by, and things get heated and one of the cops is killed. In a panic, Cassian kills the other one and runs, and this is the initial plot point of the show. 

Cassian Andor’s rebel path was pretty much set after that moment. Before we get into that, I want to talk about most of the characters we see in the show. Many of them have their own stories whether it’s for or against the Empire. 

They can be categorized in a few different boxes related to Andor: Friends and Family, Rebels, and Opposition. 

Friends and Family 

Maarva Andor

The adoptive mother of Cassian. Probably the reason for Cassian’s rebellious nature. Lives with Cassian on a mining planet called Ferrix and is very outspoken against the Empire. 

Clem Andor

Killed before the plot of the show. Was trying to stop violence at a protest but was blamed by the Empire for starting it and hanged in town square. 

B2EMO

The Andors’ friendly robot. A loyal droid to friends who speaks with a stutter, and often is nervous, but always follows through with helping his friends. 

Bix Caleen

Cassian’s close friend and ex. Lives on Ferrix as a mechanic and is secretly in touch with a rebel radio contact who sometimes offers jobs against the Empire. 

Brasso 

Another close friend of Cassian. Scraps old ships on Ferrix and often volunteers to take care of Maarva when Cassian is away. 

Rebels

Luthen Rael

Luthen secretly runs a communication service to supply funding and puts various rebel cells in many jobs against the Empire. He has the mindset that the goal is what matters and that there will be casualties in the war. His public persona is that of an antiques collector living in Corusant. This helps him with the cover of traveling a lot for antiquities when in reality he is traveling for a mission of some kind. 

Kleya Marki 

Luthen’s right hand. She runs the antique shop when Luthen is away, and also runs communication and coordination on different rebel jobs. 

Mon Mothma

Probably the secondary protagonist in the show. Mon Mothma is a senator for the Empire who is very outspoken against corruption and secretly funds Luthen and other rebels. She is a mother and a wife to another senator who she married in an arranged marriage. 

Her husband lives the fancy life as a partner to a rich Imperial senator while Mon stays with him just to keep up appearances. 

Throughout the first season, she is struggling to come up with more money for the rebels because her current source of funds is running dry. She reached out to an old childhood friend who was a banker to help her find some money, and his solution was to introduce her and her daughter to a rich mob boss and his son who was thinking about bringing back the tradition of arranged marriage. 

Opposition 

Syril Karn 

Syril is a hardcore Empire supporter and believes in the sanctity of the system. He initially was a local cop investigating the death of two fellow officers. His commander told him to ignore the murders. Saying they were corrupt and they probably were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Syril didn’t listen, however, and discovered it was Cassian Andor who killed them. 

Syril set up a raid on Ferrix to try and capture Andor, while lying to the Empire that he has his superior’s support in order for them to send Stormtroopers. The raid was a failure, however, and Andor escaped while the Empire decided to remove all the local authorities and put themselves in charge. Syril was fired and forced to go live with his mother in Corusant. 

Dedra Meero

Dedra is one of the Empire’s brightest rising stars in the ISB. As mentioned in a previous Star Wars post, the ISB is a government agency within the Empire who secretly monitors and assesses threats to the Empire. If a rebel group is forming they will step in and stop it. 

Dedra is still somewhat new to the ISB but she is loyal to the Empire and seems to be willing to cut corners to find what she wants. Some of her coworkers aren’t happy with that because she is investigating planets the others are in charge of and has no interest in protocol. 

She questions Syril over what happened on Ferrix and they eventually become a couple after Syril seeks her out. 

Andor Season One Storylines

The show spent a few episodes each following a certain storyline for Andor’s rebellion awakening. Starting out as just a guy looking for himself to make extra money, to someone who would risk it all to stop the Empire and save who he cares about 

Heist Storyline 

The first job Andor took under Luthen was a heist on the planet Aldhani. Andor gave the group he joined for the heist a fake name under Luthen’s advice: Clem, the name of his adopted father. 

The plan: Steal the quarterly payroll of the sector, which is over 80 million credits. Including Andor it was a team of 6 with another inside man at the Imperial base. 

Soon on Aldhani is a giant meteor shower that occurs every three years. The locals go on a trek through the mountains to their sacred site to see the event, which happens to be where the Empire built their headquarters. This was easy for the heist team because the locals were escorted by troopers, so half the squad dressed as troopers while the rest went out to eliminate the communications to prevent backup being called in. 

The heist went through after a few months of planning, but not without problems. Some Imperial troopers did fight back once they discovered what was happening, and while they did escape, their man inside was killed, and one of the rebel squad members was crushed by the money in the escape. He had an impact on Andor because he gave him a manifesto he wrote, and it eventually got through to Andor to fight for others instead of himself. 

Before that, however, another man in the rebel squad suggested to Andor that they could both leave with the money and make their own way. Andor shoots him immediately and leaves with the money he was promised for doing the heist. If he could just go and lie to anyone, there’s no way Andor could trust him. 

He goes back home and tries to convince his mom to go away together with his money, but she decides to stay on Ferrix. 

Prison storyline 

This one is probably my favorite arc of season one. 

After leaving Ferrix, Andor went to live the private life on a vacation planet using the alias Keef Girgo. He was walking around the beach when some people getting chased by stormtroopers ran past him. After looking around him another trooper stopped him and arrested him for looking suspicious. Andor claimed he was just a tourist but he was arrested and sentenced to six years in jail on a planet called Narkina 5. 

The jail was one of many built into the ocean going down multiple levels. When Andor first arrived, he was introduced to the rioting deterrent: an electric floor. If it was set up to the highest setting it could fry everyone standing on it unprotected. 

His cellmates were already working, as it was a labor prison. As he learned what to do, each table was responsible for hitting a quota, and the lowest performing table is fried. The lowest performing floor as a whole is also fried so the floor lead, fellow prisoner Kino Loy, is responsible for making sure all the other prisoners fall in line. 

Andor was almost immediately checking his surroundings and trying to find a way to escape, and Kino was discouraging it because he was close to the end of his sentence. During all this they were trying to finish all the work their sentence required. 

One day they found out that the Empire killed an entire floor of prisoners. The reason? A prisoner who just finished his sentence was relocated and sent to another floor to do more work, meaning they were never planning on releasing anyone. The Empire is planning on working them until they die. And one person on Andor’s floor did, which empowered Kino and the floor decided that they were going to attempt to escape or die and no longer work. 

During the introduction of the next prisoner onto the floor, they grabbed the guard and Andor flooded the bathroom. The guards in the other room activated the electric floor and it shorted out the power, allowing the prisoners to escape the work room and head to the warden’s office. They freed all the prisoners and opened the doors to let everyone out, but Kino froze because he couldn’t swim and the prison was in the middle of the ocean. Andor was pushed out by all the running prisoners and that’s the end of the prison arc. 

Sidenote: it’s later revealed that the prisoners were building pieces of a large space station. 

Revolution on Ferrix storyline 

The final plot point in season one is where the citizens of Ferrix fight back against the Empire. 

While Cassian Andor was in prison under the name Keef Girgo, the ISB was in search of him to question him about the recent rebel activity. Andor’s mother, Maarva was also dying. 

The Empire has removed all the local authorities and taken over, and captured Bix while she was attempting to reach her rebel contacts. 

Bix was held under interrogation and tortured for information. Not physically, but an Imperial scientist found audio from dying alien children who they found could work as torture to break their minds. 

Luthen also spoke to his team about eliminating Andor due to being a liability and for what he knows, so everyone was coming to Ferrix, Andor included for his mother’s funeral ceremony which was a parade to the town center. 

The people of Ferrix had enough of the Empire at this point and fought through the barricades. Andor used this as a distraction to get Bix back, and they all escaped to the shipyards where Andor met Luthen again, and decided to finally join the rebel cause and work for Luthen.

This concludes season one of Andor.

Final thoughts 

I think this is currently one of the best Star Wars shows. To talk about the rise and fight of fascism is absolutely important these days. As I said previously, I will not be talking about season two during this marathon, but I highly encourage everyone to watch the whole show.

Tune in next time to see a group of rebels instead of focusing on one, in Star Wars: Rebels. 

“A Minecraft Movie” A Brief Discussion

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“A Minecraft Movie” (2025) released in theaters roughly over a month ago, and as the title suggests, it was certainly a movie about Minecraft. 

It stars Jack Black as the main Minecraft character “Steve” (no last name), as well as multiple other colorful characters who later find themselves in the Minecraft world aka The Overworld. 

The original game was released in 2009 and has had constant updates since. The first time I played it was on the Xbox360 and I stopped playing after a few years. I got back into it after the movie was announced and it still is fun!

I’m not going to be talking about the movie that much as a single entity, but rather how it stands in the game and the marketing of the film. 

“CHICKEN JOCKEY”

The movie is full of references to the game, and most of the time Steve Minecraft shouts out the references by loudly declaring it. 

The following are some of the many references in the movie that are actually in the game:

“Flint and Steel“

“Ender pearl“

“The Nether“

“Crafting Table“

The majority of references is Jack Black loudly declaring the item and then sometimes describing it afterwards to the other characters. 

Movie references in the game:

There are none in the base game, however you can download additional content to add characters and items that are created from the movie into the game. 

There are two bosses that you can fight in the Nether from the add on: Maligula and the Great Hog. 

You can also craft additional weapons such as a tot-launcher and buck-chuckets. 

I guess it makes sense to add craftable items to the game from the movie. Otherwise why would the movie characters be able to craft them? 

The Marketing 

Similar to other movies that I’ve discussed here, McDonald’s made a Minecraft meal to sponsor the game. There was a kid’s happy meal and an adult happy meal for the movie’s release. 

The adult meal sold out quickly but I was able to try both types of food it offered beforehand: The Big Mac and Chicken Nuggets. 

They pixelated the meal containers and they look pretty neat. They even included a “fry recipe” like in the game. Potato and coal equals fry apparently. The other new thing is the “Nether flame sauce” for dipping the nuggets. It tastes a lot like sriracha. Probably won’t recommend it but it’s good to try once. 

Both happy meals included toys of some kind. The kid’s toy is meh, because the toy is mostly blank with a LOT of tiny stickers, but the adult toy does include a fun addition to the actual game. 

There was a random one of six options of Minecraft versions of McDonald’s characters. They came with codes you could enter in the game for new skins, and getting the meal gave you bonus content for the game like having Grimace himself in the game and eating Big Macs!

It’s a silly addition to the game that makes it more interesting to play instead of just the base game, so I think the marketing worked.

I’ve been getting back into the game a lot lately since all the updates and movie, and it’s very fun to play and build things. 

I think I’ll give the movie itself a 6.5/10. It was fun, but a lot of unnecessary exposition and characters explaining everything. 

This made the next video game movie after Pokémon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario, and Five Nights at Freddy’s, so what video game movie should be next?

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Review

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Hello there and welcome to another installment of the Star Wars timeline marathon. This time we’re talking about the three season television show “The Bad Batch”, which ran from 2021 to 2024. 

Originally introduced in the final season of The Clone Wars, they are a crew of “defective” clones, hence the name. They aren’t built like the standard clones but they each have unique enhancements and skills that make them differ from others. The crew is Hunter as the leader, who has enhanced tracking, Tech as the tech guy, Wrecker as the muscle, Crosshair as the sniper, and Echo who was added at the end of Clone Wars as he was turned into a cyborg by the Separatists. 

The show takes place soon after Revenge of the Sith and the extermination of Jedi from Order 66. In fact, the beginning scene is the crew of the Bad Batch and their perspective when it went down. 

They didn’t receive the orders to kill all Jedi like the other clones, and were very surprised and confused when the clones turned after working together with the Jedi seconds before. 

They didn’t participate. The Jedi master was killed, but Hunter chased after her padawan and secretly let him go. Crosshair was frustrated that they weren’t following orders. 

After Order 66, the clones were ordered to return to their home planet Kamino. There they learned more about the start of the Empire, and started to see what the end of the war meant. 

Enter Omega

Omega is a unique clone that takes an interest in the Bad Batch. She is also a direct unedited female clone of the original Jango Fett just like Boba Fett. She has also noticed that the place has changed since the Empire took over. 

She tries to let the Bad Batch know, and when they were tasked with hunting insurgents against the Empire, they discovered that it was just civilians they were ordered to kill. Hunter refused to do it, and when they returned Crosshair reported them. This eventually makes the crew minus Crosshair to run to escape the Empire with Omega. 

Most of the rest of the season has the crew trying to find their place in a post-Clone Wars world, and not get caught by the Empire since they now basically adopted Omega. The Empire is wanting to capture her for some secret cloning project the Emperor wants. I won’t spoil the rest of the series, but a majority of the episodes are its own story of them trying to survive, with a long arcing plot centered on Omega.

Favorite episodes – 

Season 1

Kamino Lost: S1 E16

This is the season finale of the first episode, where the clones start to learn what the Empire has in mind for them in a post-Clone Wars universe. 

This is part 2 of a 2 part storyline, in which the Empire’s Vice Admiral Rampart has just ordered his ships to fire on and destroy the cloning facilities and entire city of Kamino. 

The Bad Batch and Crosshair were still in the city when the Empire opened fire, so they had to find their way out and back to their ship before they drown. 

I really like this episode because it focuses a lot on what the season was building up towards. Since Crosshair and the gang split, there was a build up of confrontation between them that culminated in this episode. Crosshair admits in this episode that he stayed with the Empire because he thinks following orders, no matter what they are, will help him earn a place in the Empire and feel important. Wrecker tells him that they’d always welcome him if he decided to leave the Empire and join them. 

By the end of the episode, The Bad Batch escapes on their ship, and Crosshair is left in the wreckage waiting for the Empire to find him. 

Season 2

The Outpost: S2 E12

A Crosshair-focused episode. He is assigned to join a Lieutenant Nolan who hates clones to visit an icy planet to find and stop insurgents from stealing cargo their base is holding. 

A clone named Mayday is holding the fort with just a couple other clones who survived the recent ambushes. Nolan reprimands him and takes charge of the base, ordering them to guard the mysterious cargo. 

Crosshair and Mayday work together to repair parts of the equipment they have with the gear they can salvage. The Empire has not delivered any equipment Mayday requested. 

The base got attacked and cargo was stolen. Crosshair and Mayday were ordered to go recover it. They find the base of the insurgents and discover that the cargo is new equipment and armor that Mayday could have used if the Empire cared. They get caught in an avalanche and Mayday is injured. Crosshair drags him back to base and begs for a medic to save Mayday. Nolan refuses because “clones are expendable” and they didn’t come back with the cargo. 

Nolan enrages Crosshair, and he shoots Nolan before passing out due to his injuries. He wakes up in a cell in an unknown location. 

I really like this episode because it humanizes a really serious character and shows the start of growth he will have in the series. 

Season 3

Juggernaut: S3 E12

The final episode I will talk about in depth as a favorite of the series is Juggernaut.  

A bit of background for this episode: in season two, Vice Admiral Rampart was condemned to prison because the public found out about the destruction of Kamino after saying it was a freak storm. At the end of season two, Omega was captured by the Empire and held in a secret location where a scientist was running tests on clones for the Emperor. A lot of season 3 is about The Bad Batch trying to find that secret location. 

Juggernaut is a fun episode because The Bad Batch has to reluctantly break out Rampart from prison because they think he knows how to get to where Omega is being held. It’s a very action packed episode where they steal a tank and drive it into the prison as they’re escaping. 

Meanwhile, Omega finally discovers what they have been testing: they have been trying to recreate clones with high midi-chlorians which are essential to using the force. Omega is a clone with the highest M-count they’ve seen. She also discovers that the lead scientist has force sensitive children being tested on in a secured vault. 

I do encourage people to watch this show. The characters are very fun and the episodes are a mix of fun action and drama in a changing political landscape that is approaching fascism in the Empire. It was hard coming up with a single episode to list with each season because there were a lot of great ones. 

That’s all for this Star Wars post, but tune in next time when I talk about the first video game on the list. 

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: Attack of the Clones Review

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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.

The Garfield Movie Dinner Adventure

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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: 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: Young Jedi Adventures Review

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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!

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.

(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.

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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!