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Foolish Personas
In The Empire Strikes Back and The Acolyte, a master adopts a foolish persona to reveal the true character of a prospective pupil.
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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
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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Timothy Lawrence
Sunset and Twilight
In the second acts of The Phantom Menace and Return of the Jedi, Anakin and Luke Skywalker receive similar guidance from older characters who have…
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Timothy Lawrence
Knowledge is Power
In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda tells Luke Skywalker, "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack." The Jedi view knowledge as a…
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Timothy Lawrence
Redeeming Attachments
Across the nine-film Skywalker Saga, there is a movement away from seeing attachment only as a cause for destructive fears and toward seeing attachment…
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Robert Brown
Confronting Fear
The nine-film Skywalker Saga begins, reaches its central turning point, and ends when Jedi masters choose to train new apprentices in spite of fear …
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Robert Brown
Moraband
In "Sacrifice" (The Clone Wars 6.13), as the last stage of his journey to learn how to achieve immortality, Yoda travels to Moraband, "the ancient…
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Timothy Lawrence
Judging by Size
In The Empire Strikes Back, the diminutive Jedi Master Yoda instructs Luke Skywalker to use the Force to lift his crashed X-Wing out of a swamp.
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Timothy Lawrence
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
Jedi Warriors
The second installment of each trilogy of episodes centers on the Jedi's relationship with war.
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Timothy Lawrence
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