Tatooine Sons: A Star Wars Podcast

It’s a new year with a new era beginning for Star Wars! The High Republic is officially here with the release tomorrow of Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule. We’re very excited to explore some of the questions for this new beginning with the amazing Dan Zehr of Coffee With Kenobi. It’s also a new era for Tatooine Sons, as we shift to a year long conversation about the Star Wars saga. January, we’r...

It’s that weird time between Christmas and New Year’s Day, where there usually isn’t any good Star Wars news to talk about. But this year is a little bit different... Samuel the Hutt will be excited to finally explore the details Jon Favreau shared on GMA about the Book of Boba Fett. A cryptic Instagram post by the official Star Wars account is teasing a future for Mace Windu. And the director of...

It’s almost impossible to put into words what we all experienced last Friday while watching Chapter 16 of The Mandalorian. (Insert one liners about Luke Skywalker - Rogue One Vader) The Rescue answered some questions, but created many more. We’ll do our best to try to answer these questions, and then Sam will be given 60 seconds to scream about The Book of Boba Fett. It's TIME for Tatooine Sons! T...

The Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian is coming TOMORROW! After a wild ride across the galaxy, there are many questions still lingering: will Mando reject the Creed? How’s he going to get on Moff Gideon’s ship? Is there a Jedi coming to the rescue? Will we see Thrawn? And of course, what’s going to happen to Baby Yoda (Grogu)? We’re going to do our best to answer these questions and more, right a...

Star Wars fans woke up on Thursday morning with both excitement and reservation. The Disney Investor Day was coming, but no one really knew if it was going to be a “MERRY CHRISTMAS” or a “BAH HUMBUG.” Well... Santa came early, and he looked a LOT like Kathleen Kennedy! SEVEN new Star Wars productions were announced, including the name of the Christmas 2023 release being directed by Patty Jenkins o...

Chapter 14 of The Mandalorian WAS NOT a “filler episode!” In fact, there’s too much that happened for us to limit it to 3 Hot Takes. So we’re altering the deal, this week... After that, we’ll look at the incomparable AP-5, and why his age and experience helped save the Rebellion! It’s TIME for Tatooine Sons! Get your BOBA FETT, AHSOKA, and PORG shirts, stickers, and other merch! https://cutt.ly/ts...

It’s a Mandalorian galaxy, and we’re all just living in it! After months of speculation and rumors, Ahsoka Tano made her live-action debut in Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian. But that’s the part that WASN’T a surprise! We’ve dedicated our ENTIRE Hot Takes segment to geeking out about everything that happened in this groundbreaking episode. If we have any time or energy left after that, we’ll spend a...

This show was ORIGINALLY slated to be recorded last Thursday, and released on Friday morning. That didn’t happen. Why, you ask? That’s because of an incident that will forever be known within the family as “The Alternator Story.” Dad will BREAK (hint hint) it down for you at the top of the show. After all of that, we’re diving into the last two episodes of The Mandalorian, Sam and I will give our...

After a bit of a travel / medical hiatus, we’re back to talk about the real star of Solo - L3-37. Before that, we’ve got some updates on a new Disney+ Star Wars series, some speculation on Ahsoka’s return in The Mandalorian, and Sam will probably want to talk a lot about Boba Fett. It's TIME for Tatooine Sons! HOT TAKES A Reddit theory has Ahsoka as the prisoner of Moff Gideon. Leslye Headland is...

When we think of Star Wars, it’s hard to find another image than the moment that R2D2 plays Princess Leia’s message to Obi Wan Kenobi. In fact, most of the best moments in Star Wars include R2D2. How can it be that a droid has such a critical influence on the story? Could it be that R2D2 is the actual hero of Star Wars? What do Snoke, Rey, and maybe even The Child have in common? Did Palpatine get...

Over the 3 years we've been recording this podcasts, we've talked about Sheev Palpatine A LOT. There's a good reason for that: he's the villain of the ENTIRE Skywalker Saga! But beyond that, he's fascinating as he moves from "humble senator from Naboo" to "reluctant" Chancellor of the Republic, and then finally to the Emperor of the Galactic Empire. But did #StarWars actually HURT the character by...

Count Dooku was a menacing Sith Lord and central figure in the Clone Wars. Once a Jedi -- trained by Yoda -- he became disillusioned with the Jedi Order and thirsted for greater power. But was it really the corruption of the Jedi Order, itself, that led to the creation of Darth Tyrranus? PLUS... A discussion of the new CG Short for #StarWarsSquadrons - "Hunter!" https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/14/2...

Dryden Vos isn’t usually on most Star Wars fan’s lists of greatest villains. However, Solo: A Star Wars Story hinges on this character and Han and Beckett’s insane plot to pay off their debt to him. But the Dryden Vos we got on screen was originally going to be a very different character played by a very different actor. And what’s even cooler, is that the real Dryden Vos wasn’t the real bad guy,...

It’s kind of hard to believe that a character who has been around for nearly 3 decades and is widely known and recognized by nearly all Star Wars fans, has never appeared in live action. But that’s the brilliance of Timothy Zahn’s character building when it comes to Thrawn. And dare we say, that he’s not only a great villain, he could be a better villain than Vader or Palpatine? https://www.polygo...

Regardless of how they may feel about the Sequel Trilogy, most Star Wars fans agree that Kylo Ren was the best character in the 3 films. He’s at the same time, overly confident and terribly fragile. Kylo Ren is a great example of the truth that the villain is the hero of his own story. But first, there’s exciting news about the Kenobi and Cassian series, along with more rumors about not one, but T...

Not everyone has the chance to jump on a transport and visit Batuu whenver they want. But that's going to change VERY SOON! ILMxLAB and Disney have released details about the soon to be released VR experience that will allow travelers from all over the galaxy to visit Galaxy's Edge! We talk about what we think this will be like in this BONUS EPISODE from this week's show! Prefer video? Check out o...

This is the way! And the critics agree with the fans. But why is The Mandalorian such a hit both with fans and with critics? We talk about that on this BONUS CLIP from this week's show! Prefer video? Check out our YouTube channel !

Alirght, maybe not. 😂 But the designer of the look of Snoke has recently confirmed that he WAS patterned after an infamous bad guy from the original trilogy. We break it down a bit on this week's show, and in this BONUS CLIP we discuss a bit about who Snoke is - and isn't - now that the Sequel Trilogy is complete! Prefer video? Check out our YouTube channel !

Grand Moff Tarkin is only briefly seen in the Star Wars films. But animation, books, and comics reveal a complicated, layered character who is at the same time both sophisticated, and horrific. Grand Moff Tarkin’s impact on Star Wars is hard to truly describe - both in-universe and outside of it. But FIRST... HOT TAKES! We’re going back to Batuu, and you can go along with us this time. Critics hav...

Director Orson Krennic was a surprising, but welcomed, addition to the stable of Star Wars villains. He’s brash. Overconfident. Witty. A bit annoying. But more than anything, his ambition is both his greatest strength... and his greatest weakness. But FIRST - HOT TAKES! Hello, what have we here? Is Lando Calrissian landing on Disney+? Finn is “finished” with Star Wars. And the early reviews of Sta...

What do YOU think are Anakin Skywalker's BEST MOMENTS? There's a HUGE rumor our there saying that Anakin Skywalker is going to have a BIG role in the Kenobi series coming to Disney+ in the future. We share our favorites in this BONUS episode from this week's show! #AnakinSkywalker #Kenobi #DisneyPlus ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out ALL our BONUS CO...

We think that Maul is one of the coolest villains in all of Star Wars. We asked "Which Maul is your FAVORITE?" Here's your answers and some thoughts of our own! #Maul #TheCloneWars #StarWarsRebels #SoloAStarWarsStory #MakeSolo2Happen Check out ALL our BONUS CONTENT here: https://go.tatooinesons.com/BONUS Check out our EXCLUSIVE shows here: https://go.tatooinesons.com/WATCH Subscribe & ring the bel...

"I think he could have been one of the most powerful Sith ever." - Samuel the Hutt "Everything is about trying to get to Kenobi." - The Bow Tie Jedi Guy "Darth Maul was created all around reveng." - BB-N8 If we say the words “The Phantom Menace,” your mind probably goes straight to the scene on Naboo when a set of blast doors part and a horned, red and black faced figure ignites a double-bladed re...

After the Season 1 finale, #StarWars fans were asking the question: Will #TheMandalorian get the #Darksaber? We explain the theory and speculate responsibly! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out ALL our BONUS CONTENT here: https://go.tatooinesons.com/BONUS Check out our EXCLUSIVE shows here: https://go.tatooinesons.com/WATCH Subscribe & ring the bell...

The MOST EVIL Star Wars villain (obviously) is Darth Vader. But some of our Twitter followers made a good case for a few others. We take a closer look at these villains in this BONUS episode from this week's show! Check out the FULL episode and others here: https://go.tatooinesons.com/WATCH Check out ALL our BONUS CONTENT here: https://go.tatooinesons.com/BONUS Check out our EXCLUSIVE shows here:...