Some Disney Attractionslike Peter Pan’s Flight, simply present the story of an existing film in a new format. But for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, the highly anticipated revamp of Splash Mountain, Disney’s Imagineers has decided to take a different route and expand the story beyond the film to bridge the gap between the film and the ...
[Ed. note: This post discusses events through episode 4 of The Acolyte.] Men only want to hear one thing, and it’s disgusting: Wookie Jedi. According to my research, women and nonbinary people want it too. In fact, “Wookie Jedi” is one of the most exciting Star Wars-related phrases you can utter, a character idea so ...
In the fourth episode of The AcolyteOsha (Amandla Stenberg) meets some new Jedi and Jedi friends. One of them is a small, otter-like creature named Bazil. Bazil and Pip, Osha’s fussy robot companion, keep sniffing and beeping at each other, interrupting the mission briefing that Osha is trying to follow. Afterward, Osha approaches Jecki Lon ...
Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars series The Acolyte has deserved praise for its mere existence outside of the Skywalker Saga – after 47 years of stories set in the same timeline, a jump back “100 years before the rise of the Empire” to the shinier era of the High Republic is all it takes for aching ...
The Acolyte keeps the identity of the mysterious Sith Master secret, but in our humble opinion, it couldn’t be clearer. [Ed. note: This post is going to discuss the end of episode 4 of The Acolyte; spoilers are below.] For a moment, things look really bad for the Master: Mae (Amandla Stenberg) and her loyalties ...
House of the Dragon has always been about how the smallest decisions can have unforeseen consequences, but rarely has that theme been as clear as in the season two premiere. In the show’s first episode back from hiatus, Daemon Targaryen decides to take matters into his own hands, with a plot twist that probably could ...
Update (June 13): With all Bridgerton Season 3 has now been released, it has been officially confirmed that it will not only one queer Bridgerton sibling, but two! Here’s our original speculation, with spoiler updates below. While BridgertonAlthough the alternate history means the series is already much more ethnically diverse than other Regency-era love stories, ...
The AcolyteThe third episode of raised a lot more questions than it answered. Like: what’s going on with this cult of power, how were Mae and Osha born, why are the Jedi even here, why is the dialogue so bad, and what actually happened in that fire? But the most important question of all is: ...
The AcolyteDisney Plus’ latest addition to the Star Wars universe is a crime thriller. At least that’s what the marketing told us. But now that we’re two episodes into the season, a completely different mystery has become the show’s bright spot for me. It’s a compelling Star Wars question, but more importantly, it provides the ...
I watch a fair amount of horror films. While I’m not as passionate about it as some of my peers, I consider myself relatively well-versed in the genre and am used to the depths of depravity it occasionally plumbs. I’m also known for liking gory movies, even if they’re not horror movies. I’m well-documented on ...
