Strong Female Heroines as Hitmakers
Following up on last month’s recap of the impressive performance by stories featuring strong female heroines, here’s more evidence that creating powerful women is good for the bottom line.
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The Clone Wars
Missing The Clone Wars Yet?
Right now it feels like Season Five of The Clone Wars is a long way off. Some of its VIPs have been popping up in the news recently, though.
Read moreThe Clone Wars: Season Four: Season In Review – Part One
Now that Season Four of The Clone Wars is complete, I thought it would be fun to revisit the season as a whole and discuss its strengths and weaknesses, fun moments and moving scenes, with an emphasis on the story design, characterization, and storytelling techniques used throughout the 22 episodes. Lex and Megan will be joining me for the round-robin Season In Review. So let’s get started with Part One.
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REVIEW: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Revenge
The Clone Wars wound to a close last Friday and Megan has her last review of the season.
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POLL: Reading the Ending – Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse
I took a little ribbing from a few pals for reading the end of Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse first. So I thought I’d pose the question to blog readers: Did you read the end of Apocalypse first? (See the sidebar to vote.)
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REVIEW: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Brothers
Wow! Is it really just one more episode left of The Clone Wars until we’re left drooling for whatever they’ll give us at Celebration VI this summer?
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REVIEW: Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Bounty
FANgirl’s The Clone Wars reviewers Megan is just as excited to see Darth Maul’s return as I am. We even got to chat about it for yesterday’s piece I wrote for Suvudu. But before Maul’s fury returns with a vengeance, Megan shares her thoughts on the second episode of the closing four-part arc.
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Darth Maul Lives
Cross-posted from Suvudu. There are moments in a movie that are iconic and unforgettable; they become seared in your memory. If you were a Star Wars fan – either by way of the Original Trilogy or by diving in as a new one with Episode I – one of those moments is probably Darth Maul, bisected, falling down into the seemingly endless depths of a melting pit on Naboo. Obi-Wan’s victory gave reason to cheer, at least a little bit, right before we mourned for Qui-Gon. Three cheers, the wicked Sith Lord was dead. Or so we believed.
Read moreTrust in the Force
Two Star Wars news items sparked fandom controversy today.
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Zombies Take Over The Clone Wars
This past week’s episode of The Clone Wars, “Massacre,” truly turned up the fantastical element, reminding fans that Star Wars was envisioned as a space opera and not necessarily a work of pure science fiction.
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