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Younglings' Animal Instincts
In “Bound for Rescue” (The Clone Wars 5.8), a group of Jedi younglings must work on their own to rescue Ahsoka Tano from pirates.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Symbiont Circles
In The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are taken to an underwater Gungan city, where they try to convince the Gungans to help them warn…
 • Timothy Lawrence
Victory Through Sacrifice
In A New Hope and "Redemption" (The Mandalorian 1.8), Obi-Wan Kenobi and IG-11 are trapped in situations where they are overmatched by an enemy military…
 • 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.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Neel
“This Could Be A Real Adventure” (Skeleton Crew 1.1) introduces Neel, Wim’s blue, elephant-like best friend and fellow student at At Attin’s school.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Mustafar and Exegol
The third film of the prequel trilogy and the third film of the sequel trilogy feature the two most hellish planets in the Skywalker Saga.
 • Robert Brown
Coruscant
In The Phantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker travels from Tatooine to Coruscant, the capital planet of the Republic.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Now This is Speeder Chasing!
In The Phantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker competes in the Boonta Eve Classic podrace, driving a yellow podracer.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Chewie Wails While Han Freezes
In both the first and third acts of The Empire Strikes Back, Chewbacca wails because Han Solo is going to be frozen.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Doing Their Jobs
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates and his friends conclude that justice in the city and justice in the soul both require that each part of the city or soul…
 • Robert Brown
Peace Between Reason and the Passions
In the Pensées, the French mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and physicist Blaise Pascal writes about how human beings continually experience an…
 • Timothy Lawrence
The Ship of State
In Republic, Plato uses the analogy of a disorderly ship, on which the sailors vie to be captain without knowing anything about sailing, to illustrate…
 • Robert Brown
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