Death is one of the few things that unites everyone. Whether we fear it for ourselves or for our loved ones, odds are you think about death every day. That’s why it’s such a powerful tool in storytelling. The death, or potential death, of a character can instantly put everyone…
Someone in the galaxy far, far away, looked at a man named Sheev Palpatine”Chancellor of the Republic, walking prune, fascist ruler of the Galactic Empire, evil space wizard”and, in their best Lando Calrissian impression, went “Hello, what have we here?”
When a little boy force-pulled a broom to him at the end of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he looked to the sky and, we thought, the future. And while its sequel, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will deal with the implications of that scene and what it means for…