Star Wars 7x7: A Daily Bite-Sized Dose of Star Wars Joy

On a new "potpourri" episode, we're following up on a couple of new news items, including a long-awaited VR announcement and a Hollywood trades rumor about a Kenobi cast addition. Punch it!

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Did you know? The Greater Good audiobook is as long as Victory's Price, even though the hardcover book is fifty pages shorter! There's a good reason why, and we'll discuss that and more today... Punch it!

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There's a line from the Batman movie The Dark Knight where Harvey Dent talks about the heroes and villains of stories. And what he says is the exact opposite of what's happened with Thrawn in the new novels. Punch it!

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Thrawn fans will have more to love from Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good, and may find the expansion of the novel's focus beyond the titular Chiss to be, in its way, even more compelling. Punch it!

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In our latest Mando Memo, we talk about the levels of characters (main, recurring, featured, guest) as a way in to talk about some characters we haven't yet discussed... Punch it!

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In today's Spinner Sunday installment, we take a look at the conclusion of the High Republic short story "First Duty" and use it as a jumping-off point for a brief meditation on the types of stories you can tell within Star Wars. Punch it!

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Last week on our "What to Watch Now" segment, we talked about the first season of the "vintage" Clone Wars. Now, let's talk about season 2. Punch it!

(Here's the mantra from Luminara Unduli I thought was noteworthy, which she recites as Barriss Offee assembles her lightsaber on Ilum:)

The crystal is the heart of the blade The heart is the crystal of the Jedi The Jedi are the crystal of the Force The Force is the blade of the heart

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There's a rumor that the long-lost Star Wars Detours series is not only coming to Disney+, but with extra episodes. Today, some background and what else I'm hearing about this... Punch it!

Here's where the current story originated from... https://www.thevulcanreporter.com/exclusives/star-wars-detours-disney-plus-release/

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About 900 episodes ago, I made some predictions about Clone Wars season 7. (Logic? Sound. Results? Mixed.) But the actual results of season 7, and what's happened since, may indicate how Lucasfilm is approaching new stories to come. Punch it!

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NFTs - "non-fungible tokens" - are becoming quite the rage. They basically take a digital item and make it "the" one official version of the item. The NBA is making a mint with it - will it happen with Star Wars? Punch it!

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