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Mirrored Mentors
Palpatine's mentorship of Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith closely mirrors Obi-Wan Kenobi's mentorship of Luke Skywalker in A New Hope.
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Timothy Lawrence
Holograms of Parents
In Andor and Rogue One, Maarva Andor and Galen Erso both appear as holograms to deliver messages that lay out the paths of their children's lives.
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Timothy Lawrence
Red and Blue Speakers
In Star Wars, the color red is associated with the passions and the appetites, while the color blue is associated with reason and the intellect.
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Anakin Must Choose
In the third episodes of the prequel and original trilogies, there is a three-way confrontation in the room from which Palpatine rules the galaxy.
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Timothy Lawrence
Touch vs. Sight
In "What a Festive Evening" (Andor 2.6), Kleya secretly removes a listening device from the Tinian Codex, an artifact in Davo Sculdun's collection.
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Timothy Lawrence
Geonosis and Ghorman
Several symbolic, thematic, and narrative parallels link the planets Geonosis and Ghorman.
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Timothy Lawrence
Luke's Lightsaber
In each of the three acts of The Empire Strikes Back, something different happens with Luke Skywalker's lightsaber when he faces an enemy.
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Timothy Lawrence

May 2025

Syril of Ghorman (Who Are You?)
In "Who Are You?" (Andor 2.8), Cassian Andor and Syril Karn confront each other in the middle of the traumatic Ghorman massacre.
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Half-a-Dozen Doubles and a Dyad
In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey and her friends Finn, Poe Dameron, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and BB-8 go on a mission in search of a Sith Wayfinder.
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Robert Brown
Chewbacca
In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker meet Chewbacca, the Wookiee copilot of the Millennium Falcon, in the Mos Eisley Cantina.
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Syril Karn
In "Kassa" (Andor 1.1), the obsessive deputy inspector Syril Karn is introduced investigating Cassian Andor's murder of two Preox-Morlana security…
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Andor Season 2 Mirrors the Prequel Trilogy
The first three arcs of the second season of Andor mirror the three episodes of the prequel trilogy.
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