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

General Hux and Kylo Ren. Rey and Kylo Ren. Rey and Finn. Rey and Poe. Finn and Poe. All sorts of fans are rooting for all sorts of possible relationship combinations. (Except Threepio - no one's suggesting anything for him, the poor droid.) Does The Last Jedi novelization give us any more insight into who might wind up hooking up with whom? Not especially. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go...

General Hux is ready to push him to the sidelines. Rey doesn't believe in their shared future. Leia's kissed him goodbye, and Luke realizes the guilt about his part in this whole catastrophe engine was misplaced. On today's episode of the podcast, we near the end of our coverage of the new and notable from The Last Jedi novelization... Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/...

In The Last Jedi, Luke makes a dramatic entrance on Crait. But how did Leia, Poe, Finn, Rose, Rey, and even General Hux react to the arrival of this legendary Jedi Knight? The Lat Jedi novelization has the answers, some of which may be surprising. Like the "how the First Order's stormtroopers could be the legacy of the Jedi" kind of surprising. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Pat...

What was the actual objective of the Resistance in their frontal assault on the First Order? What famous flying group did Leia and Poe reference in their speeches to the pilots about to fly those rickety ski speeders into battle? And why did Kylo Ren decide to keep General Hux with him during the battle, even though Ren didn't really want Hux to have anything to do with the battle? The answers to...

Leia still has the capacity to surprise. Thanks to The Last Jedi novelization, we find out that she - along with Admiral Ackbar and other leaders of the long-forgotten Rebel Alliance - kept important secrets from the New Republic. Oh sure, the Alliance shared a lot of its military information with the New Republic in the days where it needed to defeat the Imperial remnant once and for all. But she...

Let me set the scene for you. Kylo Ren wakes up in the wreckage of Snoke's throne room. Hux is standing over him, scratching some weird itch on his side. (LOL!) Rey is gone, which means she had a golden opportunity to kill the unconscious Ren. But she didn't. Why? We all thought it was because heroes don't do that. The Last Jedi novelization reveals that Kylo thinks it's almost like she cares abou...

There's no big midnight toy event for the Solo: A Star Wars Story movie release this time around. Instead, the toys have been revealed in a post on StarWars.com. And as we've done for previous movie releases, we're checking the toys out to find out what they might have to tell us about the upcoming movie. One thing off the top: the way we thought things are going to go down on Mimban has been thro...

In the first commercial, we heard young Han Solo boast that he would become the best pilot in the galaxy. Then in the teaser, Qi'ra told us she might be the only person who knows what Han really is. Finally, in the full trailer, we have a more fully formed version of the hero from Solo: A Star Wars Story. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star War...

We got to hear Han and Tobias in the Super Bowl commercial. We got to hear Qi'ra in the teaser that followed. But we didn't get to hear anything Donald Glover said as Lando until the most recent trailer. (Yes, there was indistinct yelling in the teaser, but that doesn't really count, now does it.) But even the non-verbal - and the yelling - moments tell us a few things about the young man in Solo:...

It's all about the inferences right now. Emilia Clarke's dialogue as Qi'ra in the Solo: A Star Wars Story footage we've seen so far - as well as one of her costumes - hints at how she and Han left things from their early days, and how well one of their adventures turned out. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast, and you'll get s...

Drawing from interviews with Ron Howard, Larry Kasdan, and Jon Kasdan, as well as the Super Bowl commercial, teaser, and trailer, here's what we know so far (with no spoilers!) about Tobias Beckett, the mentor character played by Woody Harrelson in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Especially of note: One dialogue exchange that could hint at a love triangle dilemma with Qi-ra, Tobias, and Han... Punch it!...

From Han's early days as a Corellian ne'er-do-well, to his time in service of the Empire; from a potential posting on Mimban where he meets Chewie, to reconnecting with Qi'ra; from high-stakes gambling dens to high-stakes heists; all that, and so much more, in what's likely the final trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Our seven top takeaways are here... Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to...

Thanks to the magic of novel narration, Jason Fry has shed some light on the secret history of the First Order and Snoke's involvement with it. No, of course, not everything has been revealed! But Snoke's ruminations in his throne room, prior to his unceremonious bifurcation, do include some very interesting new information in The Last Jedi novelization. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to...

The author of The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition (you and I know it better as The Last Jedi novelization, perhaps) sat down with me earlier in the week to talk about the process of creating the novel to complement the movie, tells the story of how that surprising prologue came to be, and much more. It's like it's "Star Wars 7x7: Extended Edition" for this interview podcast... Punch it! ***I'm listene...

We know about 327 and 1138 - special numbers that pop up again and again in various Star Wars content. But there's another number that popped up twice in The Last Jedi, and it got me thinking about its other uses in the movies, and what kind of significance it might have. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast, and you'll get some...

How was Snoke manipulating Kylo Ren's weaknesses, up until and during their final time together in The Last Jedi? And what was the straw that broke the camel's back for Kylo Ren, when it came to taking action against Snoke? This and more in today's deep dive into The Last Jedi novelization. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast,...

For this, our latest foray into The Last Jedi novelization, we're looking at another consequential part of the Act II finale - the showdown between Rose, Finn, DJ, Captain Phasma, and General Hux. There are more than a couple moments where things got a bit silly on the Supremacy, and our favorite innocent newcomer continues to burnish her foul-mouthed reputation. Punch it! ***I'm listener supporte...

We're about to dive into the three-part Act II finale for The Last Jedi and its novelization, and on today's episode, I'm talking about the Resistance side of that finale - Leia quelling the mutiny, Poe's final gift to Vice-Admiral Holdo, and a potential prediction about Episode IX. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast, and you'...

In the latest of our series of deep dives into The Last Jedi novelization, we find out just how many more things went wrong or nearly went wrong in the process of Rose, Finn, and DJ trying to disable the hyperspace tracker. This is also where a scene was cut from the movie - the one in which actor Tom Hardy appears as a First Order Stormtrooper, and proceeds to whack John Boyega in the rear. Punch...

"Ending all this, I am!" So says Yoda in The Last Jedi novelization, and rather than spending five minutes by saying (and singing!) the word "porg" over and over again, I'm sharing more about Luke's attempts to burn the tree, his first reaction at seeing Yoda, and a quote from Yoda that's a perfect "from a certain point of view" moment. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com...

Continuing in our series of deep dives into The Last Jedi novelization, the title of this episode (almost) says it all... Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast, and you'll get some fabulous rewards for your pledge.***  Check out SW7x7.com for full Star Wars 7x7 show notes and links, and to comment on any of the content of this ep...

When Luke was meditating during that last fateful night on Ahch-To, when he touched his sister's mind from across the galaxy, he was also acknowledging a contact with both the "living" Force and the "cosmic" Force that he hadn't felt in years. And it led him to a very specific decision - one that went down the drain when Luke saw Rey and Kylo communing together. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported...

Where was Rey in that line of "Rey" reflections inside the dark-side cave on Ahch-To? And what REALLY happened between Rey and Kylo Ren when she emerged from the escape pod on the Supremacy? That and more in our continuing series of deep dives into The Last Jedi novelization. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast, and you'll get...

Getting kicked off the bridge, missing BB-8, evacuating the other ships, and otherwise being kept in the dark slowly drove Poe Dameron a little loopy on the Raddus... Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to http://Patreon.com/sw7x7 to donate to the Star Wars 7x7 podcast, and you'll get some fabulous rewards for your pledge.***  Check out SW7x7.com for full Star Wars 7x7 show notes and links, an...

Rose and Finn argue a lot more, the fathiers create even more destruction, BB-8 puts the improv skills he learned from Poe to the test, and more! Continuing with our series of deep dives into The Last Jedi novelization, I'm digging into the fun stuff about the second half of Rose and Finn's adventures on Canto Bight that we didn't get to see in the movie. Punch it! ***I'm listener supported! Go to...