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

Following on the heels of the previous episode of Star Wars Resistance, the pirates volunteer to kill one of the giant space manta rays (a "jakoosk") to get food for the Colossus residents and to undermine Captain Doza's authority. Naturally, nothing goes as planned. Today, it's the Resistance Briefing for "Hunt on Celsor 3," the fourth episode from season 2 of the series. Punch it!

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News outlets are being sort of clickbait-y about an unnamed source with an alleged detail about what would have been the subject of the Benioff and Weiss Star Wars movies, had they happened. It's really only one thing, but it's presented as a much bigger deal. So I'll be exploring that one thing today, including what we know about the topic in the current canon and in Legends as well. Also, Vader Immortal Episode III. You heard me. Punch it!

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The Mandalorian, debuting this month, is incredibly important to the future of Star Wars. I'll be talking about why, as well as all the other debuts of note from the galaxy far, far away for the month of November. Punch it!

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Patrons of Star Wars 7x7 at the "Vader's Fist" level and above can submit questions for me to answer on the show every month! In this installment, we'll be talking about an aspect of the Millennium Falcon as it appears in The Rise of Skywalker; why Ben Solo may or may not have talked to his Force-ghost grandfather; and favorite Star Wars Halloween costumes. Punch it!

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Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have walked away from their deal to develop a new Star Wars trilogy, blaming the time commitments required by their new nine-figure contract with Netflix. What does this mean for the future of the franchise? And why, if you're standing in the metaphorical glass house that is Marvel, should you refrain from throwing stones at Lucasfilm? Punch it!

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Surprise! The folks behind Disney+ decided to drop a final trailer for The Mandalorian last night! And while a good chunk of the scenes were ones that had been shown before - both in the August trailer and to the audience at Celebration Chicago - there were also a few new tidbits as well. Punch it!

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On the one hand, this question kind of answers itself. They just are! And yet, the Star Destroyer appears to be flying, which adds a level of complication and danger to the process. On today's episode, I'm wrapping up my conversation with Georgetown University physics professor Patrick Johnson (author of The Physics of Star Wars) by exploring that scene, which also leads us to discussing Leia's "Mary Poppins" scene from The Last Jedi, the electrocution scene from Jurassic Park, and how the human brain acts as a limiter on what our bodies can do in real life. Punch it!

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In all honesty, I didn't even think to ask physics professor Patrick Johnson about that crazy floating space iceberg we see in The Rise of Skywalker's final trailer, but when he brought it up during our conversation, I realized I had to pursue the subject. So as we talk about that iceberg, we also wind up talking about the composition of asteroids, how the tails of comets behave, the temperature of the universe, rogue planets, and more. Punch it!

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It's the age-old query - which would win, Star Destroyer or mountain? Okay, maybe not so age-old, but brought to mind by a quick scene in the final trailer for The Rise of Skywalker. In a continuation of my conversation with physics professor Patrick Johnson, we talk about how that scene could be happening in a way that *wouldn't* wreck or fatally damage the Star Destroyer. Punch it!

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It's a question we've been wondering about since April, when the first Rise of Skywalker teaser debuted - how could that Death Star wreckage have landed on that moon without utterly destroying it! Well, if you want answers to questions like that right now, the only way you're getting them is by talking to a physics professor. Which is what I did!

Patrick Johnson is the author of The Physics of Star Wars. He's also an assistant teaching professor at Georgetown University, and previously taught at Marquette University and William Jewell College after receiving his PhD in physics from Washington University in St. Louis. He's been on the show before, and after the final trailer debuted, I reached out to him to see if he'd want to talk about this and a couple of other topics where his unique perspective might come into play.

So today, we're talking about the ocean moon of Kef Bir and how it could have survived the arrival of that Death Star wreckage. We'll also get into the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, uniformity in Imperial design, and much more. Punch it!

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