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

We're running what's turning into a monthly feature here on the podcast - answering a question from Star Wars Conversation Cards and asking what your own answers would be! Today, it's on the topic of bravery... Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super helpful, too. :-)...

Is Maz Kanata being held prisoner in the midst of the war zone on Jedha? Or is it a ruse to allow the Dank Graks to take over Maz's whole enterprise? We're wrapping up our dive into the Phase 2 story from The High Republic Adventures on today's episode. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple...

We're catching up with Phase 2 of High Republic storytelling! Today, on a Spinner Saturday episode, we're talking about The High Republic Adventures, dividing the story neatly into the first of two parts, featuring Maz Kanata and a plot to start mischief on Jedha. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or revie...

Our deep dive episode related to "The Return" from The Bad Batch was going to be about various interpersonal dynamics within the Batch - and it is - but as with the season itself so far, it's very much an Omega/Crosshair show. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super h...

What a week for a Star Wars show to feature a giant tunneling worm! But "The Return" is even more notable for taking Crosshair back to the place that broke him - and breaks him again. Our breakdown of Bad Batch season 3, episode 5 is here... Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify w...

The release of The Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2 on physical media late last year seems to have gone well - now Andor season 1 and Kenobi are coming to discs. But despites seeming like they were all in on streaming and abandoning physical media to build Disney+, this shift in strategy was as much as a year or more in the making... Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your fa...

Lost in the hoopla of last week's news about the ginormous tax credit "The Mandalorian and Grogu" will get for filming in California is the most exciting news for Star Wars fans - that there's a script and a production schedule in place. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would...

"The Force Provides" is a story that takes place in the gap between Phases 1 and 3 of the High Republic initiative, and lets us know what happens with Vernestra Rwoh in the aftermath of the fall of Staarlight Beacon...  Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super helpful,...

Star Wars Insider issue 224 has reached subscriber mailboxes, and it includes the latest installment in the serialized High Republic Phase 3 set of short stories by Lydia Kang. Today, we're taking a spoiler-y look at "Survivors" on the show. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify w...

In our latest Bad Batch deep-dive episode, we're considering who Crosshair is (or will be), now that he doesn't have the Empire and his skill set is compromised. The new answer, he may discover, means that he'll have something significant in common with Din Djarin... Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or re...

It's a pretty light month as far as upcoming Star Wars storytelling goes, but there are also a couple of media categories where we're way overdue for some announcements. Here's what's coming from the galaxy far, far away in March 2024. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would b...

"A Different Approach" could also describe season 3 of The Bad Batch so far, because it's resolved so much in so few episodes. We'll talk about episode 4 today, including the cliffhanger as intense as any other we've had from the show. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would b...

Project Necromancer gets worse and worse every time we hear about it. And it's even more awful than Project Harvester, if you can believe that. We're digging into the implications on our Bad Batch deep dive episode today... Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super help...

"Shadows of Tantiss" is the third Bad Batch episode in the three-episode premiere, and it turns the rest of the season on its head a bit. It also opens up horrific implications about the Emperor's secret experiments, pays off Omega's "lost causes," and more. Punch it!  ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on...

The presence of a "kraken-like" creature in The Batch's "Paths Unknown" episode got me thinking about how this series has featured more dangerous creatures than any other Star Wars show. That's the focus of our deep dive today...  Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be sup...

"Paths Unknown" is the second episode of season 3 of the Bad Batch, and it's got role reversals, backstories to "War-Mantle" and "Metamorphosis," a set-up for major Durand crime syndicate drama, and much more. Our 7-takeaway breakdown is here...   Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spo...

Omega, the moral center of The Bad Batch, is like water - flexible, yet unyielding. Her efforts to keep hope alive in the darkest of places are finally starting to produce results in "Confined" - and that's the subject of our deep dive for this episode. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple...

"Confined" is the first episode of Bad Batch season 3. It focuses excluisvely on Omega and Crosshair, and while hope is in short supply, there are glimmers... We've got our patented 7-takeaway breakdown for you today. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super helpful, t...

The Batch is back! Season 3 debuted with three episodes yesterday, and today is the start of a week-long look at the premiere, starting with a high-level breakdown of some key points of the kickoff for this final season. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super helpful...

Today's the day! Bad Batch's final season debuts, and we have one last spoiler-free episode considering the biggest burning question of them all - how will the series end? Check our answers against yours...  Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super helpful, too. :-) Li...

The Bad Batch creatives have proven not everyone is safe in the series with the death of Tech in season 2. So who's in the most danger for this final season? We'll rank the top 7 characters, and also flag the two who are absolutely going to survive. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or S...

We've already talked about the ways in which Asajj Ventress could appears in The Bad Batch depsite "dying" near the end of the Clone Wars. But how big a role will she play in the final season of the series? Let's discuss...  Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super hel...

We know from current canon storytelling that the cloning experiments on Mount Tantiss won't help the Emperor achieve his immortal dreams. But what can they do - and will Mount Tantiss survive the events of Bad Batch season 3? Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be super he...

This weekend, we're considering clone-related burning questions about Bad Batch season 3. And the Q about whether Omega is Force sensitive seems like it has a simple answer, but there are galaxy-spanning implications to consider. Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify would be supe...

Season 3 of The Bad Batch is just around the corner, and we've got some burning questions that need answering. Like, is it possible that Tech survived his fall at the end of season 2? We'll consider the possibilities, but what do YOU think? Punch it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Be sure to subscribe/follow the show on your favorite podcast app! If you have an extra minute, a rating or review on Apple or Spotify wo...