I seriously thought it was a callback to that scene, not the exact same one with some retconning. Still having trouble buying it was the same exact moment and not a “here we are, six years later, doing this again” kind of thing. I’d want to see Filoni’s full interview about this instead of what seem to be…

This video recap of Sabine’s life story is both enjoyable and establishes much more clearly why she doesn’t want to be a public figure. Short version she’s got massive war trauma and guilt.

io9 has been part of Gizmodo since it ceased to be an independent site about five years ago.

A militia as opposed to THE NEW REPUBLIC MILITARY.  It didn’t make any sense why the primary power in galaxy wasn’t fighting the First Order.  It wasn’t clear what the political situation in the galaxy was.  It was just, “Oh it’s like A New Hope again, don’t worry about it!”

My guess is that Snoke will turn out to be a failed clone of Darth Plagueis. 

Star Wars Tales (non-canon) had Indiana Jones encounter the wreck of the Millennium Falcon - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Into_the_Great_Unknown

Oh yeah, and the art sucked too. Because everyone associates Star Wars with sickly green hues.

the “canonical” movies and shows have been borrowing since Mando and TRoS (which owes a massive debt to the Dark Empire comics, which also had a cloned Palpatine and “world destroyer” ships)

My head-canon theory is that the “galaxy far, far away” is the milky way. Since “a long time ago” the milky way was “far, far away.” Earth exists in the Unknown Regions.

I don’t have a problem with how they’ve established continuity. The end of Rebels was open-ended enough that we knew that it took place after Endor, and that was all. That it also took place after the first 2 episodes of Ahsoka doesn’t ruin that for me.

re: Ahsoka - I see Ashley in Rosario’s inturputation of our titular hero. Even when considering her growth since her introduction as a woman in her 40s, maturity and stoicism are an expectation. But there are moments where you see the youngster, especially in the conflict between her and Sabine. If anything, Ahsoka’s…

I’ve learned to view fictional stories told by many authors, media, and through the way historians view history. In that historians study events as they may be told and retold by many sources whose details may differ and even contradict. By which they suss out what is the most likely accounting of the event (at least…

The prequels were always good ideas mostly executed poorly, while the sequel trilogy was more inconsistent. The Force Awakens was no ideas executed well. Last Jedi were ideas a lot of people didn’t like executed well, and Rise of Skywalker was bad ideas executed poorly.

Star Wars canon is whatever the most people have seen the most of. You can be sure that if someone comes up with a cool idea for a movie or live action show that contradicts something that was in one novel or comics story years ago, the live action thing is going to take priority. This is why I never really put much…

The prequels are a mixed bag overall, but they are way more interesting than the sequels, which were basically Iger telling Kennedy and Abrams to “make a proper Star War, like back in the old days” and them coming up with a rehash of ANH and the OT in general.

People had this view of the prequels too, before the Clone Wars cartoon retroactively made the movies better by adding context that the movies zipped past.

I really liked the Huyang-Sabine dynamic, and everyone who complained about Abrams throwing aside that stableboy-with-Force-powers moment that ended The Last Jedi ought to as well. We’ve done the whole “the Force is strong with this one”/spontaneously-manifests-Force-powers thing with the films already. Huyang was…

It’s not the first time in the new canon that something Filoni did, retcons something that had already been set in canon to improve the story (see: Ahsoka’s lightsabers at the end of The Clone Wars vs the novel Ahsoka or Kanan’s Order 66 moment in the Bad Batch vs his comic). I know it’s not how the canon works…

I look forward to Huyang serving more epic burns about Sabine’s lack of force powers. Just like, every time Ahsoka tries to make Sabine balance rocks while balancing upside, Huyang is just there like, “you know who could do that? Literally every other padawan over the last 500 years. Nerd."

I think you can handwave that away as the middle of nowhere planet that Morgan was currently searching for the pathway to the other galaxy in.  She was probably using it as a local base while her minions did all the searching.