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Walker Battles
The second movie of each Star Wars trilogy features a major battle involving mechanized walkers.
 • Timothy Lawrence
A Warrior's Test
“The Child,” the second episode of The Mandalorian, resembles the main story arc of the second volume of the Clone Wars micro-series.
 • Robert Brown
High Noon
“One Good Deed” (Tales of the Underworld 1.6) is an homage to the 1952 western High Noon. In both the film and the episode, a marshal who dedicated his…
 • Robert Brown
Throwing the Lightsaber Away
In Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader goads Luke Skywalker into acting aggressively by tempting him to imagine a future where his sister Leia Organa turns…
 • Timothy Lawrence
Luke's Light and Dark Hands
In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader cuts off Luke Skywalker’s right hand and reveals that he is Luke’s father.
 • Timothy Lawrence
The Invisible Player
In Star Wars, events that happen in the galaxy at large often reflect processes that happen in an individual person’s psyche.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Dark Handiwork
In Return of the Jedi, in Emperor Palpatine’s throne room on the second Death Star, Darth Vader tries to lure Luke Skywalker to the dark side by making…
 • Timothy Lawrence
Kamino's Jungian Sea
In Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan Kenobi travels to the hidden ocean planet Kamino, where he finds the titular clones.
 • 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.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Attacking the Throne
In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda teaches Luke Skywalker, "Anger, fear, aggression, the dark side of the Force are they.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Dark on the Outside, Light on the Inside
In Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker wears a costume that is all black on the outside but white on the inside.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Fear to Power
In the first and last films of the Skywalker Saga, Palpatine tempts a young woman to give him power through an act of aggression by making her feel…
 • Robert Brown
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