The Skyhoppers Podcast

Dakota is back!! And to celebrate, Lucasfilm finally dropped the OBI-WAN KENOBI trailer!!! Can you even believe it???

It's a speculation grab bag this week! Ben and Cole dive into what we know about all of the upcoming Star Wars projects this week, some very minor Rogue Squadron "news," as well as myriad other topics. And they only talk about Blu-rays for like five minutes. That's gotta be some kind of record.

We had a topic, but we never made it there. We ended up maybe putting the last nail in the coffin of our discussions of Ronin, talking about a potential rebirth of the Legends continuity, and yes, briefly positing the theory that maybe Dubya was responsible for the Yuuzhan Vong's invasion of the Star Wars galaxy.

Well, we couldn't make it happen this week, folks. Too many forces working against us and too many cohosts unable to pod any casts. But enjoy this episode from back in time until we get back next week!

Well folks, it's finally here: The Book of Boba Fett has drawn to a close, albeit a very satisfying one. I'm very sad to see it go, but we got some badass fights, a badass rancor, and some badass character moments, so what's not to love?

This episode of The Book of Boba Fett was… challenging for a few of us. Some interesting (and seemingly out of place) cameos and plotlines threw us for a loop, but after one of our patented Skyhoppers Therapy Sessions, we're all at peace.

I was worried because this episode of the podcast was all about The Mandalorian, but then I remembered that Episode 5 of THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT is literally called THE RETURN OF THE MANDALORIAN and then I figured that that was probably okay. Anyway, prepare yourselves for our discussion of the best episode of THE MANDALORIAN to date!

The title says a lot, listeners. In a rare Ben-less episode of Skyhoppers, Cole, Dakota, and half an Eva discuss the fourth episode of THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT: THE GATHERING STORM! (Editor's note: I loved this episode and I'm sorry if these buffoons said anything truly abhorrent. But I trust them.)

Aside from an obvious bantha in the room, Episode 3: THE STREETS OF MOS ESPA was good!! Rancors! Danny Trejo! Hutts! Pykes! X-Men?? Okay, not really. But still!

Jesus CHRIST this show is so so so good. But you didn't need me to tell you that. This week we're talking about Episode 2 of The Book of Boba Fett: TRIBES OF TATOOINE!!! This week also features the best laughing fit that we've had on the show in a long time. Maybe ever.

From the depths of the Great Pit of Carkoon, Boba Fett lives! We finally have the first episode of THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT. And it was great. So so so great. It goes without saying, but spoilers ahead!

Since Eva and Dakota are out this week, Ben and Cole decided to just record Obroa-Skai Walkers and pass it off as a Skyhoppers episode! They go through 2021 and rank each of the books they read this year against the others. But even if you don't follow that podcast, they spend some time talking about Book of Boba Fett (ONE WEEK) and ranking Legends books too!

Listeners, I'm sorry, but we watched the Star Wars Holiday Special again. Maybe put this commentary track on while you enjoy the 1978 Holiday Special with your loved ones this year.

If I tell you that another potential title for this episode was "Merry Chissmas," you'll probably be able to guess what it's about: LESSER EVIL by Timothy Zahn! But since it's just Ben and Cole this week, it's basically an abridged episode of Obroa-skai Walkers focusing on a Canon novel. Spoilers ahead!

In this special edition of The Skyhoppers Podcast (maybe), Ben is joined by longtime friend of the show Austin from The Ossus Project to talk a little bit about the shakeups that are happening in the world of Star Wars comics! IDW is losing the Star Wars license and DARK HORSE COMICS is making their triumphant return! What does this mean? Why is it happening? What do we want to see out of our old...

In this special edition of The Skyhoppers Podcast (maybe), Ben is joined by longtime friend of the show Austin from The Ossus Project to talk a little bit about the shakeups that are happening in the world of Star Wars comics! IDW is losing the Star Wars license and DARK HORSE COMICS is making their triumphant return! What does this mean? Why is it happening? What do we want to see out of our old...

In this special edition of The Skyhoppers Podcast (maybe), Ben is joined by longtime friend of the show Austin from The Ossus Project to talk a little bit about the shakeups that are happening in the world of Star Wars comics! IDW is losing the Star Wars license and DARK HORSE COMICS is making their triumphant return! What does this mean? Why is it happening? What do we want to see out of our old...

The gang's all here! And we're all ready to discuss THE UMBARA ARC of The Clone Wars! This is by far the most positive Clone Wars episode we've ever had, and for good reason: these episodes are GREAT. But we first we do a book check in! Eva finished Revan and is reading Life Debt, and Cole finished Lesser Evil!! No spoilers, though.

Ben and Eva talk about Disney+ Day while being more confused than negative, a check-in on feelings about THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, and then get to the main(?) topic of getting deep on some PLANETS! We've been out of the in-universe game for too long and it's time to make a return.

A lot of Star Wars news happened this week, and although much of it might be fake, we cover it anyway before jumping into three episodes of THE CLONE WARS that kind of surprised us! Well, two of them did, anyway. Also, Cole makes a good sound.

This episode is a bit of a grab bag (and that's funny I guess?). Dakota and Ben are alone, so they talk about Maul rumors and news, Ronin, a few mini topics and the BOOK OF BOBA FETT TRAILER.

We're coming in hot with the first three episodes of season 4 of The Clone Wars! Many old Skyhoppers inside jokes make their reappearance, but all in all, we weren't as high on these episodes as we remember. Find out why!

Since all of us WANTED to podcast this week but only Dakota was able to, he decided to get drunk and cry about Ahsoka. And by that I mean that he is doing a commentary on the first two episodes of The Siege of Mandalore! Full disclosure: this is REALLY meant to be listened to while watching these episodes.

75% of the Skyhoppers are here to give you their takes (of varying degrees) not only on the last three episodes of Star Wars Visions, but also the MOUNTAIN of Star Wars book news that came out last week! (Of course, it dropped the day after we recorded. Whatever.)

Even at half strength, we bring 100% of the love for Star Wars Visions. Ben and Eva take some time this week to talk about "The Village Bride", "The Ninth Jedi", and "T0-B1". And at one point we say "NFT" out loud for SEO purposes.