Star Wars Escape Pod

We welcome back our friend AJ for another book review for Sam Maggs Star Wars novel set between the events of "Fallen Order" and "Survivor" called "Jedi: Battle Scars". Planning on reading this book? Tune into the first few min to hear initial thoughts! Don't want to read it? Listen to the full episode for spoilers after the "spoiler bell" effect. Cal and the crew of the Mantis are in a very diffe...

It's been interesting to see how Japanese cinema and cultural influences inspired George Lucas when he made Star Wars, and with Volume 1 of Visions the effect was reversed. Star Wars ip was given to Japanese anime studios with free creative control to do what they wished, to make thier star wars story and push the boundaries in new and unreal ways that dont need to make sense in the saga we're ena...

Enter the Inquisitors! Voiced by the LEGENDARY Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter's Lucius Malfoy). Ezra begins his Jedi training with Kanan, and yet another Star Wars holiday to celebrate - Empire Day! Join Josh and Blake each week on "Rebels Talk" as we go back, way back nearly nine years - and journey forward through the summer re-watching "Star Wars: Rebels" in preparation for "Ahsoka"! Join us at hom...

Season 1 of Rebels Talk begins with a Spark! Join Josh and Blake on this Star Wars Rebels rewatch journey and tune into the episodes listed below on Disney plus BEFORE you listen! We of course go way back to our original feelings on Rebels after Clone Wars was initially cancelled, thoughts on how Inquisitors were first introduced to Star Wars canon. And of course the style of the show, and the sto...

Welcome to a new aftershow!!! Rebels Talk!!! This long awaited day has finally come. Ever since the end of Clone Wars Talk (featuring Diego as our co-host) this podcast has always wanted to put out a Star Wars Rebels aftershow in the same territory and depth as The Clone Wars. Our co-host Blake expressed interest in doing this a while back and only now have we finally come to release our first epi...

We wish you all the best May the Fourth to each and all of you Star Wars fans! Today is a BONUS episode with some short Star Wars day announcements and our annual game of Ultimate Star Wars Trivia! Join Josh, Blake, Bryce, Tyler, Nick and Shawna for this fun filled Star Wars day adventure. And below is a love letter to star wars and Mr. Lucas on this special day written by your host, Josh. May the...

Better late than never! The finale book in phase 1 of the high republic era was published Janurary 2022 and here we are finally getting around to reviewing it after all the Disney plus content and craze of last year. Sorry to all those who have waited so long to hear us talk about it!  This is also a great episode for those who wish to get a bit more insight on this era which is growing and expand...

The final episode has come! This season finale.. or series finale was a great one to talk about, but it wasn't perfect. But that's what makes it interesting to converse with friends right here in the escape pod about. Our friends Kirk, Nick and Shawna. Hosted as usual, by your hosts Josh and Blake. We so appreciate you all for tuning in and sticking with us for aftershows of season 3 of The Mandal...

The return to Mandalore did not go so well for the Mandalorians but it went pretty well this week for fans when we saw this episode!! Dang that was a good one! Props to all those who saw it early at Celebration for keeping lips sealed on all those great reveals. Joining us this week is our good friends Dan, and Darian! Hosting this week is Josh and Blake. Join us diving into the aftershow for this...

With Celebration behind us we take a look back at some highlight moments and then talk about the latest Mandalorian episode! With only 2 left in the season we can only wonder what the road holds for Bo Katan who now possesses the darksaber and Mando and Grogu. Join Josh, Bryce and Blake in the escape pod for a fun filled our of Star Wars conversation! Go find our YouTube channel and subscribe ther...

That's it folks! Our final day of Celebration came and went just like that. But we still had some great panels to watch and some news still got revealed to us despite most of the weekend behind us. Volume 2 of Visions is looking stacked! And the Bad Batch will hit it's final season as it's third. Celebration will return in 2025 over 3 days in April over in Japan! Stay tuned to the end for that ann...

Day 3 of Celebration gave us 3 big panels like the Villains of the Sequels, A Lookback at Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Disney Parks Star Wars related panel as well. Although not too much new information was revealed today we do chat some High Republic info that we didn't get a chance to talk about yesterday and of course those updates to Disney parks, new gameplay information on Jedi Survivor and more. Let...

Another exciting day with news on the Celebration LIVE stage and lots of panels! Return of the Jedi celebrated 40 years in a panel, Clone Wars celebrated 15 years and Celebration LIVE stage had many interesting guests including the cast of "Ahsoka" and "The Acolyte" among other tid bids and details they revealed today at Celebration to us fans to buzz about. Dave Filoni drops news that Tales of th...

Not only did we finally get a trailer for Ahsoka, but we got a new one for Indy 5 as well! And oh.. by the way, Dave Filoni is directing a Star Wars movie. THAT'S FRICKEN RIGHT! Lucasfilm announced 2 entire new eras to the canon book ending the saga and also slipped in a hidden era we all are very familiar with but possibly put it there for the sake of a future announcement? Fans will see movies i...

Stranded on yet another dustball repairing our escape pod, join Kirk and Josh for a break as they chat 40 years of Return of the Jedi, Solo after 5, and all the amazing story threads those movies offered fans over the years. Zeb returns to Star Wars in this latest Mando installment! And it seems Bo Katan could lead the tribe now that she has a new position granted by the armourer.. Tech sacrafices...

"The Sabered Hand" would have been an appropriate name for this episode rather than the foundling, as it's exactly what this episode will be remembered for, however it may have spoiled the surprise.. Kelleran Beq.. ahem Ahmed Best returns to Star Wars with his character first featured in Jedi Temple Challenge! We absolutely love Ahmed and remember him fondly as Jar Jar Binks. The Bad Batch returns...

Doctor Pershing returns to The Mandalorian, and we get a Star Tours style episode of Coursucant showing viewers almost more than we've ever seen before! The Bad Batch may have cut ties with Cid for good but we're not sure it did this weeks episode any favors. Will Bo Katan stick with Mando's creed, the children of the watch? Will Moff Gideon return? Was that Thrawns tie fighter squad that blew up...

Mando and Grogu journey to Mandalore where we see Sundari city once again and the things that have survived somehow among the ruins... Join Josh, Blake and Ben in this weeks Mandalorian and Bad Batch episode aftershow chat. Why is the darksaber so heavy? The Mythosaur.. let's talk about that. And Crosshair returns to the spotlight in "The Outpost" and some heavy character narrative going on there!...

The Mandalorian is back! Journey with us diving deep into Mandalorian Chapter 17 "The Apostate" as Mando seeks to redeem himself in the eyes of his peers. Babu Frik and the whole Friken family makes their way back to Star Wars, as seen once before in The Rise of Skywalker. And later on The Bad Batch chat, we discuss the Zillo Beast striking back, again!! The next failed mission of clone force 99 a...

It's been a while since we caught up on some star wars news so let's do a small catch up on all things we may have missed in the recent weeks as we've been focused on The Bad Batch and now The Mandalorian. With Celebration around the corner please stay tuned into our Discord server or the podcast to catch any updates on how we'll make it as easy as possible to stay on top of the news that weekend....

This week we chat about episode 9 and 10 of The Bad Batch which put us in the middle of another miner uprising story, this time on a desert world where a valuable and highly explosion mineral is found called Ipsium. Fan Expo 2023 in Vancouver passed us by! We said hello to the lovely Ashely Eckstein and caught some on stage audio snips of Star Wars fan and Harry Potter actor Matthew Lewis as well...

Joining us this week is Jason Eaton! Jason creates unique and licensed work, films miniature replication, restorations of original pieces, and unique models that previously only existed as a design concept. He provides paint masters for toy companies as well. You may recognize him from the Star Wars show on YouTube as the one who made the Starlight beacon miniature based on the concepts drawn up f...

We dive deep into Palpatines NEW era for clones and stormtroopers in his galactic empire with this past weeks double special Bad Batch story arc that saw the return of Senator Chuchi, Rex, Bail Organa and Palpatine himself! Could there be a clone vs TK battle down the road?  We chat "Mandoverse" - is it a term worth using? Does it exist in the greater context of Star Wars? New Celebration guests a...

Star Wars Podcast Day is here! Come celebrate with us in this weeks episode!!! One of our topics today is what happened to all the Star Wars video games? In fact, what happened to all the Star Wars board games?! Now it's just mainly miniature wargames, expansion packs, DLC's and pay to win across the board... for the most part. Let's talk about everything wrong with exclusive star wars licenses in...

The Zeffo, also known as the Zeffonians, were an ancient sentient species native to the planet Zeffo. They were also introduced to us in Jedi: Fallen Order, a game which has a sequel coming at us in a few weeks time from now. SO, what was that giant mech-beast? Or more accuratly, who's was it? Who designed it, and to DO what? Did this have something to do with the Zeffo's extinction? Originally ac...