brandon boylan

3 min read 2022-01-19 01:19:39

Boba Fett’s Biggest Threat Has Yet to Dawn

The sands of Tatooine are not to be traversed lightly. Mos Eisley may be the home of “scum and villainy”, but it is the monsters hidden below the

3 min read 2022-01-04 18:21:08

For over forty years, Boba Fett was a character that every fan put into one of two categories. The first was that the armored mystery man was a

1 min read 2021-09-27 12:00:00

Great art is rarely original. It builds off the strengths of its predecessors and pulls in the accepted norms of its form. Joseph Campbell’s

1 min read 2021-08-09 20:44:00

The Bad Batch is the near a perfect culmination of everything both Clone Wars and Rebels did so well. The clones, the military presence, and the

1 min read 2021-08-02 12:00:00

As much as the show is about the defective group of clones that gives it its name, The Bad Batch is about the true birth and evolution of the Empire.

1 min read 2021-07-27 02:30:27

The thirteenth episode of The Bad Batch was a return to form as far as the serialized adventure of the week format is concerned. Titled

1 min read 2021-07-20 01:23:27

For light there is dark. For hope there is pain. For enemy there is ally. Simple concepts to consider, muddied by the reality that the line that

1 min read 2021-07-12 15:00:00

By thinking about the world in binaries such as good and evil, light and dark, up and down, it is easy to loose sight of how fluid these dualities

1 min read 2021-07-06 15:00:00

War makes it easy to look at the enemy as “other.” To dehumanize them and make them an abstract rather than a living being who simply has a

1 min read 2021-06-23 12:00:00

It was a dark and stormy night. A basic introduction to a ghost story, and in the instance of “Reunion” a quite effective one. The storms of

1 min read 2021-06-14 15:01:00

When The Bad Batch began, it was a story of belonging, be it where Omega belonged, where her antithesis, Crosshair, belonged, or where the team as a

1 min read 2021-06-01 15:00:00

Through the first five episodes of The Bad Batch, very traditional and clear Star Wars themes are shining through. Family, hope, rogues, underdogs.

1 min read 2021-05-27 15:27:00

The rise of the Empire came quietly sneaking up on the galaxy through the machinations of Palpatine, but once its flag flew there was no denying it.

1 min read 2021-05-20 15:00:00

Light and dark. Good and evil. Jedi and Sith. Duality and Dyads. The binary nature of life, and the spectrum of that binary, is about as Star Wars as

1 min read 2021-05-11 13:00:00

When Maul, formerly Darth, and Lady Tano finally met on Mandalore, it felt like the moment had been building for years. But Maul didn’t know