Talkie Tuesday: Ahsoka

 

"May the Force be with you."

 

Hello everyone!

 

This week, we take a look at what wrapped the week before.

 

I'm even on time with this, can you believe it?

 

Usually, I'm absolute RUBBISH trying to keep up with things, but episodic shows releasing weekly are actually my jam.

 

It's what I enjoyed watching all through my university years and what we were always used to seeing on our TV screens, honestly, so this whole binge culture is completely anathema to me.

 

I don't binge. LOL. That's not my style.

 

But I DO often travel to a galaxy far, far away, because their stories tend to always engage me on some level.

 

And while people are calling this the Mandoverse, I prefer calling it Filoniverse.

 

So bring your popcorn and your sarcasm, because we're hitching a ride on the Ghost to see what Ahsoka has in store!

 

Talkie Tuesday: Obi-Wan Kenobi

"The time of the Jedi is over."

Hello everyone!

How excited are you?

Very?

Beyond imagination???

I hope you are at least! Because the past month and a half has been ALL about Star Wars, baby, and I am SO here for it!

If any of you know me at all, you'll know that I've said before I enjoy the Prequel Trilogy quite a bit, and that's mostly because of two characters, Padmé Amidala ... and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

This is helped along immensely by Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman, of course, but in general these are the stories I'm into the most.

So naturally, when Disney+ announced its limited series, I was stoked.

Let's dig those lightsabers out of the sand, everyone, because Obi-Wan Kenobi needs them!

Tome Thursday: Brotherhood

 

Hello there!

 

Yes, we're still knee-deep in the Star Wars universe today.

 

We probably will be for the remainder of the week, actually.

 

I sometimes like taking a theme and running with it throughout the blog posts that I'm doing for a certain period of time, and seeing as I covered the Star Wars Celebration on Tuesday, I figured a Star Wars book wasn't going to go amiss either, right?

 

Right!

 

So I decided to pick a recent release that I'd been looking forward to, given my eternal love for anything Prequel related.

 

And I will say ... I mostly enjoyed it, if I didn't start looking in too deeply.

 

Once I did, it turned a little bit upside down, but you'll see there at the end, so keep reading.

 

Because Mike Chen's Brotherhood is up next.

 

Saturday Snippet: Andor OFFICIAL TEASER

 

HERE WE GOOO!

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Queen's Hope

 

Hello everyone!

 

May the Fourth be with you!

 

Ahem.

 

Haha, it's actually already the fifth on my end BUT, given that the blog post is only a day late from the actual date of it, I figured a Star Wars-themed book wouldn't be completely off-topic, would it?

 

So here we are.

 

When it was announced that there would actually be a third one in this particular lineup, I was very excited.

 

Mostly because it's about pretty much my favourite character of the galaxy.

 

However, of the previous two, I only REALLY enjoyed the first one, while the second was floundering a little, or so I felt.

 

So while I was excited, I was hesitant, and turns out my hesitation proved correct. But let's stop waffling and look at Queen's Hope, shall we?

 

Saturday Snippet: Obi-Wan Kenobi CONCEPT ART

 

Listen.

 

LISTEN.

 

THE HYPE IS REAL.

 

xx

*image not mine

Tome Thursday: Light of the Jedi

 

Hello everyone!

 

We are, once again, travelling to the galaxy far, far away.

 

And man have I missed it.

 

Every once in a while I honestly feel like jumping into an X-wing and taking off, but it's not every single day that I'm in the mood for it. However, I've been pretty excited about the announcement that came from the Star Wars franchise regarding the direction they'd be taking their publishing efforts.

 

When someone mentions ANYTHING connected to the Republic - any version of it - I'm going to get excited.

 

So this entire new premise for the publishing group sounds like something that might go into a REALLY good place after they get over the initial hurdles.

 

And boy ... are there hurdles, let me tell you.

 

This new era for Star Wars books begins with Charles Soule's story, titled Light of the Jedi. Let's see what it's all about!

 

Talkie Tuesday: The Mandalorian

 

"This is the way." 

Hello everyone!

If you're looking at the poster image of tonight's blog post and thinking to yourself 'oh man, this looks cool!' ... I will agree with you.

Because it IS cool.

When the show premiered in 2019 there was a lot of anticipation riding on its shoulders because of all the discourse surrounding Star Wars, Disney, and the Sequel Trilogy. I won't be getting into that in this post, but suffice to say fans were skeptical, thinking that they would once again be let down.

And then Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni delivered.

They delivered BIG TIME.

With 2020 being the way it was, I suppose it would be fair to assume that, well, we needed something as good as this. We really, truly needed to lose ourselves in a galaxy far, far away.

And season two of the critically acclaimed show The Mandalorian came and went with a bang.

Talkie Tuesday: Mulan 1998

 

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

 

Hello everyone!

 

After a fun-filled October where we explored the different books to choose from for fall reads (and didn't even make a dent, let me tell you), it's back to the good old usual blog posts, which consist, but are not limited to, movies and books.

 

And of course, The Mandalorian has just started streaming again!

 

If you haven't yet seen the silver bucket head and his adorable green side-kick, I suggest you do, they're basically the best thing to come out of the Star Wars universe by Disney in a long, long time.

 

But I digress.

 

BEFORE I went on my Booktober binge here, I wrote up a review about the newly released Mulan. This would be the 2020 one, mind, and, yes, it's about as good as reviews make it, which is to say, not so good.

 

Since I needed to cleanse my palate after watching that confusion, I went right back to the very first Disney movie I ever saw in cinemas, and I was about nine or ten years old at the time, let me tell you. Nine going on ten, and you see the big expanse of white with the Huns suddenly rushing down, is SOMETHING.

 

The 1998 version of Mulan is something else.

 

Tome Thursday: Master & Apprentice

Hello everyone!

I am back with my Star Wars reads, something that I haven't done in a while now, but in my defense, I usually don't even have the time when Christmas hits.

I'd been meaning to read this particular book for a while because of the two main characters portrayed within, but then of course life intervened, and other things happened. Now it looks like I'm back on the Star Wars train for just a little bit, as you do occasionally, and I'm really pleased with the choice I made for book material.

It might come as a surprise to some, but I'm actually a really big Prequel fan, and with that a fan of the Old Republic timeline. I enjoy exploring more of the Republic during its heyday, or at least during a time when it was still functional, to a degree.

Obviously the Prequels details the fall of the Republic just as much as the fall of Anakin Skywalker, but I've always been a lot more fascinated with the Republic as such, more than with the building of the New Republic after the Originals.

Some people may call it blasphemy, but I call it everyone has their own taste.

So let's check out Master & Apprentice and see what it's all about, shall we?