Star Wars Escape Pod

Join us today for a captivating deep dive into "The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: The Mandalorian," an illuminating exploration of the hit Star Wars series. We're honored to have the editor Jessica E. Tompkins and special guest Molly Brizzell (of Galactic Starcruiser fame) join us to discuss this thought-provoking book. From its evocative cover featuring a Mandalorian action figure to its final chapt...

Barriss Offee is a story we've all had so questions about ever since The Clone Wars ended. Her character made her debut in Attack of the Clones and has remained to be part of the larger Clone Wars lore ever since the 2D Micro series featured her in a short form animation, that plus the expanded universe novels featuring Barriss on the cover.. Her shocking twist as the responsible culprit for bombi...

Morgan Elsbeth's Origin Story is one that we've all had questions about ever since her character made her debut in The Mandalorian Season 2 "The Jedi". The same episode which Ahsoka makes her live action debut for the first time on screen. Naturally this story had it's bright moments, and also left us with questions left to be answered. Let's dive into this tale of Morgan Elsbeth, the "last" night...

Star Wars Day 2024 Escape Pod Celebration is packed! We got the finale aftershow for The Bad Batch, The Phantom Menace Re-Release in theaters, star wars headlines,  more fan questions from ALKY in Newfoundland, discussions on TLJ behind the scenes content about Luke's story direction and sooo much more! Grab a drink and join us in the Escape Pod for a celebration chat of Star Wars Day in this supe...

Darian joins us again for another Bad Batch aftershow as we dive into the Zillo Beast returning, Echo getting a hand and... whatever else happened that episode! | Kyle from ALKY Solutions joins us later for star wars questions we ask fellow fans from our special list of 20 Q's with Star Wars Escape Pod. Hello to all those in Newfoundland who took the time to answer questions! Thank you to all of y...

This week we debate Mace Windu's current status on if he died or survived. Join Josh, Blake, Bryce, Kyle and Francis this week on the Bad Batch aftershow for episode 13 of the final season. Also, no Mandalorian season 4 on the slate, what's going on there? Let's get into it! Don't forget to watch Tales of the Empire on May 4th on Disney plus Let us know your thoughts on this bad batch episode! Che...

This week we got another (once again) re-capture of Omega.. sigh. And much more with chat about re-editing Attack of the Clones, deleted scenes which deserve a place in the movie, where are the 3D prequel releases? And The Bad Batch is coming to an end.. Tales of the Empire is coming soon, let's talk again about that show and May 4th, and we go through an article about continuity on Jedi cloaks go...

This past week saw the announcement of the new animated short series "Tales of the Empire" which sees the return of Morgan Elsebeth as a young nightsister, and Barriss Offee, misunderstood twisted Jedi of the fallen order. Today we break down the trailer with Josh and Kirk, and proceed to dive into The Bad Batch episodes 11 and 12. Let's get into it! Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SIST9...

We got star wars news for you this week! Stay tuned for another Bad Batch aftershow soon!! The Phantom Menace comes back into theaters with a special look at The Acolyte! We got Bryce and Tyler and Blake on for a quick ride, lets dive into some headlines! Vote for Star Wars Webby Awards! https://www.starwars.com/news/webby-awards-vote#:~:text=We're%20also%20proud%20to,Use%20of%20Filters%2FLenses%2...

She's back! Ventress has been resurrected somehow, we dive deep into this episode of the bad batch. There's a lot to get into here, debating ressurecting characters, some deserve it and some don't. Those who have completed the Clone Wars journey and read Dark Disciple will know exactly how her fate wound up.. or do we?  Asajj Ventress was a whirlwind of rage and sorrow. Betrayal carved a cavern in...

This week we saw Hunter and Wrecker take on a job with Fennec for information onwhat M-Count is, Crosshair struggles to overcome his issues and we chat long about the ongoing chronological vs release order in a growing environment of star wars movies, shows and more. Oh, the trailer for The Acolyte dropped this past week and Kirk spills his opinon on that. We're looking forward to the re-release o...

The trailer has finally been released for The Acolyte! Dive deep into the characters, the era and some scenes from the trailer with Josh, Bryce and Blake. You know we always do the best we can so any 5 stars on spotify or apple really does help us out, subscribing on youtube or joining our discord helps as well! Thanks so much for listening and share this episode with a star wars friend who's stok...

RETURN TO TETH! Where it all began in The Clone Wars (2008) droids no longer congregate at the top of the mountain, it's clones. Not just any clones.. Rex and his band of rebel clones fighting to free thier brothers from the Empire's enslavement! Treadstone style operatives are hunting Omega and these episodes certainly had a lot to enjoy. This week we chat about The Bad Batch Season 3 Episodes 6...

Crosshair has been on quite the journey, this week he returns, not to his "old self" but to something more, a more scarred and redeemed life. This episode was a fast one but it was nice to dive deeper into the headspace of Crosshair and break down this episode of The Bad Batch. Join Josh, Kirk and Darian as we do this together! Let us know your thoughts! Check out the new in progress website of ou...

Blake went to Galaxies Edge! An EA Star Wars game was just cancelled and apprarently it was a Mandalorian FPS? Of course the latest episode of The Bad Batch finishes the story that left us hanging last week with so let's break down what we saw. Let us know your thoughts! ———————————————————————— Star Wars Escape Pod 🖥️ Website:  https://swescapepodcast.wixsite.com/star-wars-escape-pod 🐦 Twitter: ...

The Final Season (first three episodes) of The Bad Batch has hit Disney plus! This week is our first after-show of a sub-series of aftershows hitting our podcast for the coming week until the season ends. We encourage all our listeners to watch the episodes on Disney beforehand and then tune into the after-show to hear our connections, breakdowns thoughts and more. Oh, and most importantly, the Pa...

Special guest Raph the director of "Star Wars: Brightstar", the star wars fan film, has entered the Escape Pod this week! Raph breaks down the short film for us from conceptual creation phase to the finished product and what it took to bring that dream to the screens. From film festivals to youtube at home and the changes made in between. It was such a pleasure to speak to Raph about his creation...

Happy Star Wars Podcast Day! Feb 7th 2024 celebrates the 25th anniversary of star wars podcasting, beginning with Jedi Talk. About 4 years podcasting and not once have we taken the time to run a chat focused on Star Wars Escape Pod, meta style. This is behind the blast doors, a small look behind the curtain of our very own podcast! Some of the challenges starting a podcast, subject matter, startin...

Molly Brizzell joins us this week for a chat about her job working aboard the legendary Walt Disney World - Galactic Starcruiser Star Wars experience. This experience was unlike any other, and Molly brings her stories along to share with us about her Star Wars fandom, her time aboard the Halcyon and what it was all like, how it worked, and finally the terrible sudden news on it's closure.  We want...

Between The Bad Batch S03 trailer, ventress possibly surviving her death scene, a fourth star wars movie announced, 3 more shows coming this year and Disney's holofloor tech revolutionizing VR, theme parks, and film production altogether this lightspeed is PACKED. Let's get into it! Also stay tuned for 2024 podcast updates towards the end! https://www.starwars.com/news/the-bad-batch-season-3-trail...

Lego Star Wars has been the most prominent merchandise for the Star Wars trademark in our lives. Today Eli, Shawna join us in the escape pod to reminice over vintage sets, guessing price incline, reviewing the history of Lego Star Wars and it's video games too. If you're a LEGO fan this one is for you! ———————————————————————— Star Wars Escape Pod 🖥️ Website:  https://swescapepodcast.wixsite.com/s...

Star Wars has had many impacts on the world including fan culture. This has led to fan groups, costume goups, mokumentaries, impact on aeronautics, parodies from Robot Chicken, Simpsons, Family Guy and more. Today we're gonna glaze over some of those things with our next special guest, Darian. Thanks again to Darian and be sure to check out the links below! Article ReadThrought - https://www.501st...

There was once a time fans referred to as "the dark times" just as Obi Wan Kenobi did to Luke when he spoke of the Empire. In this case, it was a large space of time where hardly to no Star Wars content was coming out. Long behold our saviour, Dark Horse Comics and Timothy Zahn. Special guest Adam joins us once again from our "Bucketheads" podcast episode to chat all about the 90's Star Wars conte...

Star Wars Books... Where To Begin?! There's SOO MANY. How does that all work and where are the good ones?! Today we got you covered! Join Josh, Blake, and Francis for a chat about the good, the meh, and the ugly. For those of you who want to skip to the bullet points, here's our summary list. The Good Darth Plagueis (Legends) Dark Disciple Brotherhood Darth Bane (Trilogy) (Legends) The Thrawn Tril...

Merry Christmas ya filthy Nerf herder's! The last time we released a Holiday Special Commentary it was December 29th 2021 - two years ago! It's not that we want to bore you, and this episode of our podcast should be skipped entirely if you don't want to watch along with us. But we realize perhaps some of you want to crack jokes or watch the worst piece of television history with company.. cause le...