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The Force Awakens

Finn's Lessons
Around the midpoint of both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, Finn travels through hyperspace with a mentor figure who tries to teach him an…
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Timothy Lawrence
Conflicted Sons
At the climaxes of both Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, a son has a violent confrontation with his father.
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Timothy Lawrence
Death Star vs. Starkiller
In The Force Awakens, the Resistance is dismayed to find that the First Order has constructed an enormous superweapon called Starkiller Base.
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Timothy Lawrence
Han's Coffins
In The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo is frozen in carbonite so that Darth Vader can test carbon-freezing as a means to capture Luke Skywalker.
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Robert Brown
Maz of the Lake
In The Force Awakens, Rey meets the wise old Maz Kanata on the lush green planet Takodana.
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Timothy Lawrence
Snoke the Great and Powerful
In The Force Awakens, the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke is introduced through a massive hologram that projects him looking down upon Kylo Ren and…
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Robert Brown
Like Father, Like Son
After his return to the light side in The Rise of Skywalker, Ben Solo makes some comic gestures that recall the mannerisms of his father, Han Solo.
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Robert Brown
Ancient Guides at Ancient Sites
In each episode of the sequel trilogy, Rey encounters a wizened old character at an ancient location aligned with a different aspect of the Force.
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Timothy Lawrence
A Smuggler's Regress
In A New Hope, Leia Organa tells the “mercenary” Han Solo, “If money is all that you love, then that’s what you’ll receive.” She doubts “if he really…
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Robert Brown
The Force Awakens from the Revenge of the Sith
Read from top to bottom, this is the plot of Episode VII: The Force Awakens. But if you read it in reverse, it’s the plot of Episode III: Revenge of the…
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Robert Brown
Pieces of Junk
In the first film of each Skywalker Saga trilogy, the heroes escape from a desert planet thanks to “a piece of junk.”
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Robert Brown
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Conversations about the Force on the Falcon
In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker and Han Solo about the Force while they are traveling to Alderaan on the Millennium Falcon.
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Timothy Lawrence
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