The Skyhoppers Podcast

Don't worry, he's not gone forever. But due to his departure, we end up skipping on our main topic this week and just see where the Star Wars takes us. Lots of Thrawn book chatter, three Legends books are getting reprints (and Shatterpoint is getting a new audiobook!!), and before he leaves, Ben and Dakota chat a bit about Victory's Price. And then everyone else talks about some of the Star Wars V...

Back at it with The Clone Wars this week! We're taking on the wonderful Citadel arc and we're just tickled to be doing so.

This week we're again joined by Oaty (as well as the rest of the hosts for once) to finish up our discussion of old Star Wars video games! We get dummy thicc in the weeds on Dark Forces, Dark Forces II, and the Rebel Assault games! More details than you would ever care to know!

This week, Ben and Eva (sorry Dakota) are joined by longtime fan/friend Oaty to talk about a few of the old Star Wars computer games, primarily the games from the X-Wing series. There's a lot of discussion about these games at a very high level along with talk of what makes them special and unlike high-profile Star Wars games that we see released today. However, the things that Squadrons takes fro...

It's been a minute since we sat down to talk about one thing and ended up talking about many other things instead! This one takes many twists and turns as Ben, Dakota, and Eva discuss Kevin J. Anderson Legends Books, the cancellation of certain Canon books, season 3 of The Mandalorian, and Attack of the Clones. And somehow it's mostly seamless? Weird. Anyway. Enjoy!

Lovely listeners, it's finally here: this week we're talking about Mortis. Episodes 15-17 of Season 3 of The Clone Wars, to be more precise about it. For the first time, the four of us all end up in separate corners on certain issues. But Mortis is nothing if not divisive, so you don't want to miss this one!

It's just Ben and Dakota this week, so of COURSE we're gonna talk about Canon books. Which ones are we looking forward to? Which ones have we enjoyed most recently? How is The High Republic going? (Spoiler: it's going good.) Hopefully Eva and Cole will be able to rejoin us next week, but until then, enjoy this adventure into all things Star Wars literature!

Cole is safe and warm but unfortunately very busy, so he's out this week. Instead of our planned topic, we cover a lot of the little bits and bobs that have come out in the last few weeks. We also spend a lot of time on The High Republic, but since Eva hasn't finished Light of the Jedi yet, that discussion remains mostly spoiler-free.

Cole and Dakota are absent this week, but that void is filled by our longtime buddy Jason! And he's brought his giant page of notes regarding agriculture in Star Wars! This one is a bit different in that it's one of our rare episodes that touch on how Star Wars interweaves with real life, but there's plenty of in-universe discussion too.

This week we're FINALLY getting back to our rewatch of The Clone Wars after taking a giant Mandalorian-shaped hiatus, and boy howdy did we come back on some real doozers! (Doozers are good in this case.) Ventress? Savage?? MAUL??? Episodes 12-14 of Season 3 this week!

Lucasfilm Games is back, and they're bringing a new open world Star Wars game that isn't being developed under EA! Big news! And also maybe there's a new KOTOR game?? Probably not. I wouldn't get excited if I were you.

It's finally here! We finally get around to doing all the setup for the RPG we're going to be playing here once a month for the foreseeable future! But not before we spend some time discussing what the future might hold regarding Andor and Alan Tudyk. It's a little cloudy, as the future tends to be. Fair warning: this episode is a little meandery and wandering once we start creating characters, bu...

Okay, listeners. We finally get around to discussing the best bits of Star Wars that we consumed in 2020, but not before we spend far too much time talking about the new stuff coming in The High Republic as well as some first impressions on what's already released, and theeennnn Star Wars Insider? It's all over the place, but it's all Star Wars so it's fine. Except for the bit about rings near the...

Ummm… I think we care about Bad Batch. And a whole heck of a lot of other new Star Wars things that are coming out! We haven't gotten a chance to touch on the stuff from the investor call in earnest, so we're sending 2020 out by looking forward to the future of Star Wars!

Season 2 of The Mandalorian has drawn to a close in tremendous fashion, and it's left us with a lot of thoughts, questions, and feelings. Some stuff AFTER the episode also left us with some thoughts, questions, and feelings! And as we predicted, we have since learned that The Book of Boba Fett is its own show coming in December 2021! Exciting stuff!!!

Some conflicting feelings on Chapter 15: The Believer! But we all agree that Din Djarin is great, and that's what matters. Also: Is It Edible?, Checking In With Eva, and Return of the Cole!!!

Chapter 14: The Tragedy. This is basically the Boba Fett Stan podcast now. Of course, that's not ALL we talk about. But it's a lot of it. Who heard Grogu? What's the deal with the Empire?

Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian was almost everything we'd hoped it would be and more. Once Ben finally gets the intro right (enough), we talk about how TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS and then go into the episode! It's left us with many many questions, but in a good way.

Mando season 2 keeps on trucking, so we do too. Not that anyone ever thinks any episode of a Star Wars TV show will be BAD, but it's safe to say that we were all blown away by how good this one was.

Don't worry, we don't make you wait long to learn the reason for this absolute wild episode title. But after we get that nonsense cleared up, we're right back into THE MANDALORIAN. BO-KATAN?? AHSOKA?? The hype levels are off the charts right now.

The special project for episode 200 is still in the works, but it's still cooking. So instead, we're just giving you that sweet sweet Mando content that you all crave! Who says Mando isn't special enough for episode 200 anyway??

OKAY. Another weird one. We weren't sure if Cole was gonna be here the whole time, so we didn't commit to episode 200. Instead, we just talked about what's really on everyone's minds: THE MANDALORIAN. Absolutely insane opening to season 2. There was no way we WEREN'T gonna talk about it this week, really.

This episode is a little weird. We were SUPPOSED to do episode 200 this week, but then Cole couldn't make it. So instead we talk about The Rise of Skywalker, the Mandalorian (and its possible home releases), and From a Certain Point of View pt. deux! HOPEFULLY next week we'll hit you with our very fancy episode 200 B)

This week, we're tackling episodes 8-11 of season 3 of Clone Wars, and that proves to be difficult since there is a lot of Ziro to take down over here. Also, ARE Separatists people?? We may never know.

Listen up, you statistics: this episode is something entirely new. We were gonna talk about TCW and couldn't. Then we were gonna make our RPG characters, but then we couldn't. So we decided to spend our time talking about Star Wars Screen Rant articles, and the conversation that comes out of it is more in-depth than you might believe.