Star Wars Beyond the Films

Greetings! And welcome to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This week your hosts, the Defender of the EU, Mark and the EU Guru, Nathan tackle a topic many EU Fans have been salivating for. Mandalorians.   And who better to help them discuss the Mandalorian culture, than Tom Hutchens; a.k.a. Mandalore the Uniter, founder of the Mandalorian Mercs . Tom brings a unique look into the Mandalorian cultur...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode your hosts Nathan and Mark discuss the latest in Star Wars, particularly the news about 1313. What do we know? And what did we think we know? Pop Block : Is the snapping neck the Mature theme coming into play? And is that something we’ve been gearing towards with SW Games since Episode 3? CT 1313: Boba used this id during the Boba F...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This week hosts Mark and Nathan are joined by special guests Kelly of Big Shiny Robot and Nanci of Tosche Station Radio ! The ladies provide a female point of veiw this week as we focus on gender and sexism in the films and in the EU. They look at the thin line of portrayal of strong and sexy characters. Personality goes a long way. Sometimes it’s...

Nathan once again attended ConCarolinas this year, and, as is tradition, he recorded the year’s Star Wars panel for listeners who were unable to attend. On the panel for this year’s discussion are professional costumer Cheralyn Lambeth (also a member of the 501st and Rebel Legion), Kathy Johnson (501st member, wife of 501st founder Albin Johnson, and mother of Katie Johnson, whose stor...

Hey everyone and welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this special episode, your hosts the Defender of the EU (Mark), and the EU Guru (Nathan) answer your questions and read your feedback! Email :          beyondthefilms@starwarsfanworks.com Facebook :  http://www.facebook.com/swbeyondfilms Twitter :       twitter.com/#!/SWBeyondFilms  

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! Kelly Adams joins Nathan and Mark this week as they focus on parenting in the saga far far away. How did some of our more prominent character handle raising their brood? Nathan ponders back in the day with black and white TV, Nick at Nite and how Star Wars fits into the equation. Did many of the kids raised by the characters focused in this episode grow...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! EDITORS NOTE: Ahead there be spoilers…. consider this your warning! This week Mark and Nathan are joined by Intrepid Bothan Reporter and Lightsaber Rattling Jedi, Peter Morrison , to discuss the Fate of the Jedi series as a whole. Mark ponders the excerpt at the start and end of the series and it’s possible ramifications. The guys hit the plo...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This week the guys explore the final chapter of the Fate of the Jedi series. Was adding Mortis into the plot a good or bad thing? How does one stop the multiple man?  (Abeloth) Did the series get the closure it needed with Apocalypse? Quick show of hands: who freaked out when Mortis was mentioned? And to commemorate Nathan’s 10th anniversary in Sta...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode your hosts continue their discussion about Star Wars gaming and motion control. What would be an ideal game to make good use of pointer controls? Besides lightsaber control, what would be best to you? This week we pick up where Episode #18 Motion Control: Ridiculous or Ridiculously Fun? left off. Nathan and Mark are joined by William Deve...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This week the guys are joined by William Devereux from We Talk Clones to discuss video games, motion control, and story telling through games. Nathan eats his words with a side of Nerf. Mark’s an “old school gamer”? Oh… he means “couch potato”. Nathan breaks down the three main systems and their individual motion contr...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This week’s discussion is about Star Wars publishing. Is it better having a series written by one author, co-authored, or multiple authors? Mark tries out a new recording room this week, and Nathan keeps outing himself this month. What is you stance on the big series? Has Del Rey dropped the ball? Did they go the wrong direction after the New Jedi...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films, your weekly look at the Star Wars expanded universe! On this episode the guys talk about what’s new, including Blue Rebels ?! Baby Jaina is all cuteness with dad’s saber. Both hosts will have to rearrange or purchase new book shelves in order to hold their whole Star Wars media collection! Here’s Mark’s shelf. Images of Nathan&#82...

Greetings and welcome! On Dec. 31, 2011, Nathan Butler was interviewed by James Robert Crews Wylder for the podcast WARS Radio 2. The discussion involved Nathan’s previous writing experiences with Star Wars Tales, WARS, and original works like Greater Good that was just professinally released this month. As a curiosity for those interested in Nathan’s other works, we re-release “...

Hey everyone and welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this special episode, your hosts the Defender of the EU (Mark), and the EU Guru (Nathan) answer your questions and read your feedback! Email :          beyondthefilms@starwarsfanworks.com Facebook :  http://www.facebook.com/swbeyondfilms Twitter :       twitter.com/#!/SWBeyondFilms  

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode, your hosts Nathan and Mark discuss the type of storytelling in Star Wars, specifically in reference to the similar patterns you see in the Star Wars universe. Sith come and go, they rise to power and are defeated, only to rise, once again a threat. Is it a pattern we enjoy, and one that is beneficial to Star Wars, or not?  There are, aft...

Welcome to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This time on Star Wars Beyond the Films, your hosts Mark and Nathan discuss crowding of content in the Star Wars timeline, specifically in certain areas where there seem to be so many (albeit good) stories set in one, short span of time that you wonder how the characters could possibly get from one place to the next so quickly, and when they might have time t...

Welcome once again to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode, your hosts Nathan and Mark debate whether the current approach to Star Wars publishing focuses on the broader overall saga with one through-line, or whether it uses the Star Wars universe as a setting for experimental storytelling in different forms and genres that don’t necessarily tie into the broader storylines (while cert...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode of Star Wars Beyond the Films, Nathan and Mark are joined by special guest host Berent, of Star Wars Action News and Republic Forces Radio Network fame. They discuss racial equality in the Star Wars universe. Are the two, main, African American characters in the Star Wars movies (Lando and Mace) there just to ‘fill the quota’?...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This week Nathan and Mark are joined by our own Aaron Goins to discuss a topic that drives Nathan from Naboo to Coruscant and back again. *drumroll* Personal Canon. What is personal canon? What is canon for that matter? This episode your hosts delve into everything from the films, the comics, the books, and the TV shows. They also discuss the tier’...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This week The Defender and The Guru of our beloved EU (Mark & Nathan) tackle Star Wars in 3D and the viability of 3D in general. Is it a gimmick? Is it the next phase of the evolution of film as we know it? They discuss the Nintendo 3DS, 3D movies, Glasses free 3D, Real D vs Dolby, 3D vs HD vs Blu-Ray; is theater a dying breed in terms of visual pict...

Greetings exalted ones, and welcome to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode of Star Wars Beyond the Films, your hosts Nathan and Mark are joined by Kelly Adams , long time Star Wars (and Yoda) fan, writer and podcaster!  They discuss a number of things about mysteries in Star Wars: do you like knowing everything about everything in Star Wars? Would you prefer for there to be a lot of myster...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode, Mark and Nathan discuss The Tenebrous Way, and how it ties in with Darth Plagueis. Many ideas and topics are discussed, what affects does your approach to the Force have on your usage of it? Tenebrous pushed Plagueis so far into the metaphysical realm of the Force, that Plagueis doesn’t have much use for the scientific side of it....

Greetings all, and welcome to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This is the last of three episodes discussing the Star Wars novel, Darth Plagueis. Joining your hosts, Nathan and Mark, once again is guest host  Peter Morrison ! All three hosts on this episode really enjoyed Part 3 of Darth Plagueis, and the “plots within subplots” that came to a head. The Sith Grand Plan, how does it unravel?...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! This is the second of three episodes discussing the Star Wars novel, Darth Plagueis. Joining your hosts, Nathan and Mark, once again is guest host Peter Morrison ! Darth Plagueis provokes many interesting theories and thoughts about the Force and it’s usage. Is the Force more like a sentient being than we first thought? What are these interesting w...

Welcome back to Star Wars Beyond the Films! On this episode your hosts Nathan and Mark are joined by Peter Morrison , founder of LightSaber Rattling , and they discuss the Star Wars novel Darth Plagueis. This episode is full of spoilers; you have been warned! Right away your hosts start off by talking about the fifth, Bith Sith full of pith, Darth Tenebrous! Also, they disagree a bit on the topic...