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“Rebel Resolve” features the crew of the Ghost searching for their leader, Kanan Jarrus, who was captured by the Galactic Empire. Meanwhile, Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, Agent Kallus, and the Grand Inquisitor attempt to extract information from Jarrus in the hopes of learning about more rebel cells. "Rebel Resolve" is the fourteenth episode of the first season of the animated television series Star...

The episode centers around the rebels attempting to hack an Imperial transmissions tower in order to send an inspirational message of hope to the people of Lothal. In doing so, they must contend with Imperial forces newly energized to destroy the rebels by the arrival of an important government figure: Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, Governor of the Outer Rim Territories. "Call to Action" is the thirte...

“Vision of Hope” revolves around the rebels attempting to rescue exiled Senator Gall Trayvis, a rebel sympathizer, from the Galactic Empire after Ezra Bridger has a vision showing that the senator is in danger. In reality, Trayvis is an agent of the Empire—and he is leading the rebels into a trap. Check out more of the BizzleCast at: 
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"Idiot's Array" is the eleventh episode of the first season of the animated television series Star Wars Rebels. It is the eleventh episode of the series overall. The episode centers around the crew of the Ghost working for Lando Calrissian, after Garazeb Orrelios loses a sabacc bet to the smuggler and gambler. Calrissian uses the crew to his own ends in order to begin a mining operation on Lothal,...

In “Path of the Jedi”, Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan, Ezra Bridger, travel to a Jedi Temple on Lothal, where Ezra can test his readiness to be trained as a Jedi. Ezra makes his way through the temple alone and confronts his fear of abandonment, manifested through visions of the Grand Inquisitor killing his friends. Along the way, both Ezra and Kanan — who must also confront his own fears of inadequ...

It’s hard to believe, but in the early 90s, the Sega Genesis dominated Nintendo’s NES and even the SNES for a number of years based on pure guts, bravado, great salesmanship, and unbridled enthusiasm in marketing and branding. However, Nintendo’s slower but steadier old-school and even conservative approach ultimately won out in spectacular fashion, which was nevertheless accelerated by the meddli...

LucasFilm with Kathleen Kennedy and Dave Filoni at the helm was back months or years before we knew it. We talk Episode IX, The Clone Wars, Rebels, comics, books, and so much more on this special Star Wars episode of the BizzleCast featuring the great Tim Geraci of The Saga Continues! You can find Tim on Twitter at: @TimG311 The Saga Continues podcast: @StarWarsTSC / starwarstsc.com BatFans Podcas...

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Sort of an accident that I saved the best for last. After doing great commentaries on every single Star Wars film — from the Prequels to the new Saga films to Rogue One to A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back with JediGeekGirl, Simi, and my own self — the movie that got me through childhood and one I’ve probably seen hundreds of times gets both me and Simi appropriately giddy, while also setting up...

What makes a great video game RPG, and which are the best ever? What the hell was IGN thinking hiring a plagiarist? Why are Jason Schreier and Alanah Pearce so freaking cool? We answer these questions and so much more on Episode 2 of The Awkward Controllers with Ethan Berlenbach & Austin Heng. Also, Final Fantasy. Oh, Final Fantasy…. Check out Ethan’s stream at: Twitch: twitch.tv/el_fedorable Chec...

Like all the X-Men movies, except for a couple true stinkers (looking at you, Last Stand and Origins), APOCALYPSE gets better with each watching, and I actually liked it a lot when I first saw it, which wasn’t a popular opinion. The final battle puts the CIVIL WAR airport battle to shame in terms of both effects and true emotional stakes, and while it’s slow to get going, once Quicksilver shows up...

This one has been a LONG TIME COMING and I’m thrilled to have my old buddy Reinhardt on to go super nerdy deep dive into the X-Men and everything related to the X-Universe both on the page and on the screen. More from The Bizzle: Podcast: www.bizzlecast.com Twitter: @thebizzle81 Facebook: facebook.com/bizzlecast Check out my BRAND new series, the Star Wars LoreCast featuring JediGeekGirl: Podcasts...

BizzleCast 177: My LOGAN (2017) full-length Adamantium-strength film commentary by The Bizzle “I hurt myself today, To see if I still feel, I focus on the pain, The only thing that's real…” More from The Bizzle: Podcast: www.bizzlecast.com Twitter: @thebizzle81 Facebook: facebook.com/bizzlecast Check out my BRAND new series, the Star Wars LoreCast featuring JediGeekGirl: Podcasts: www.swlorecast.c...

In “Out of Gas,” after Serenity suffers a catastrophe while on its way to Greenleaf on a mission that leaves her crew with only hours of oxygen, flashbacks show how Mal and Zoë acquired Serenity and assembled their motley band. This episode differs stylistically from the rest of the series in that it tells its story alternately in three timeframes: events in the present, events in the near-past th...

Still one of my favorite movies of all time, for this commentary of THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN I finally have a Harry Potter expert (Simi Climo) to revisit this classic with. While I tackle some of the important film revelations - namely the brilliance of now-Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron and then-teen actors Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson - Simi brings in lore, mythology, relationships, an...

After we start with about 15 minutes of giddy excitement about cast announcements for EPISODE IX and J.J. Abrams’s brilliant forethought to shoot extra Leia for THE FORCE AWAKENS that we will now see repurposed for the final chapter, we immediately dive head first into Star Wars comics in the Disney “canon” era. We of course spend most of our time on Vader series one and two and especially the mag...

Jayne as an accidental local folk hero? We are so in on this. Returning to a planet where he ran into some serious trouble years ago, Jayne discovers that he's become a local folk legend. Mal decides to use this entertaining distraction to complete a job, but some unfinished business may derail his plans. "Jaynestown" was the seventh episode of the Firefly TV series and was first aired on Fox on O...

With the extremely exciting announcement that The Clone Wars is returning, there's no better time to go back to REVENGE OF THE SITH, the movie that TCW leads directly up to and informs it to a magnificent degree. Check out the BRAND new Star Wars LoreCast sites and social media: Podcasts: www.swlorecast.com Twitter: @swlorecast Facebook: facebook.com/swlorecast You can check out Jedi Geek Girl at:...

One of the most hilarious episodes of television ever, and of course…. Christina Hendricks. It's Joss's turn in the writer’s chair again as he tackles the first out-and-out comedy episode of Firefly, featuring the witty dialogue he's famous for, along with the most famous curves on television, those of the delightful Hendricks. This was before she was famous, of course, but no less talented, as sh...

For a movie that was both praised and criticized at it’s time of release in 2006 for being what seemed (on the surface) and anti-Bush retelling of Alan Moore’s classic Reagan-era graphic novel, V FOR VENDETTA actually comes off today prophetically anti-Trump instead. Add in Natalie Portman’s spectacular post-Prequel rebirth and the much more human and less pretentious reading of philosophical them...

Take a drive with us on the memory highway of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. While the discussion is framed around JediGeekGirl’s own topsy turvy experience of loving them but for a long time being shamed for that love, we also delve into the bigger picture issue of the true division(s) among “fans”: Inclusive vs exclusionary, dialogical vs argumentative, and of course love vs hate. This a deep an...

After dealing with Inara's outsider status in the previous episode, it's now the turn of the three new passengers, Simon, River and Book. Joss Whedon himself has mused on the idea that all his shows centre on the creation of family, and this comes into full effect in Safe. The episode starts with a dirty deal gone wrong, resulting in Shepherd Book fighting for his life and River and Simon snatched...

The first three episodes of Firefly centered on the underbelly of the show’s universe, and Shindig moves us away from that world and into the glamorous lifestyle of the Alliance-run planets. The class distinction the show has been hinting at from the start is shown here in action, with the basic brutality of Mal's world clashing with the pretense and privilege of Inara's. And it's Inara's show fro...

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Matt and I tend to disagree on this episode — I love the humor and the way it sets up the film, “Serenity” — but I actually saw the film first and so it hits me in a way it doesn’t Matt. The series is clearly still finding its footing, but there is excellent world building and one of the most expertly and hilariously edited interrogation scenes of all time, despite the weirdness and out-of-placene...