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The Smuggler and the Chancellor
Han Solo’s role in The Force Awakens is conspicuously similar to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s role in A New Hope. Both old men teach the protagonist about the Force…
 • Robert Brown
Hidden Heroines
In all three trilogies of the Skywalker Saga, the royal heroine’s true identity is hidden at first, and this protects her from the machinations of the…
 • Robert Brown
Growing Out of the Mask
The three protagonists of The Force Awakens – Finn, Rey, and Kylo Ren – are all introduced wearing helmets or masks that hide their true faces.
 • 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
Telling Stories
In the third installment of each trilogy in the Skywalker Saga, there is a scene where characters watch a storytelling performance.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Monsters and Machinery
In The Force Awakens, the monstrous Rathtars break loose from their confinement on Han Solo’s freighter and menace the heroes.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Kef Bir and the Ocean of the Unconscious
In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey and her friends travel to the watery planet Kef Bir to find the Sith Wayfinder that will lead them to Exegol.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Rey and Rei
In The Last Jedi, Rey descends into a cave on Ahch-To, where she has a vision of endless doubles of herself.
 • Timothy Lawrence
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.
 • Robert Brown
Three Planets, Three Caves, Three Relics
In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey and her friends go to three planets during their mission to recover a Sith Wayfinder: the desert planet Pasaana, the…
 • Robert Brown
Final Duels
The final lightsaber duels of the three trilogies of the Skywalker Saga are linked in a poetic pattern.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Lightsabers in the Sand
At the end of “Part I” of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the exiled Ben Kenobi goes into the desert of Tatooine with a shovel to dig up a wooden chest in which he hid…
 • Robert Brown
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