Star Wars (Legends) | Reviews from My Couch

John Hansen
January 4, 2015

‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Millennium Falcon’ (2008) (Book review)

When the “Episode VII — The Force Awakens” teaser trailer came out a couple months ago, it wasn’t Rey or Finn or Poe or the Sith lord

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John Hansen
December 29, 2014

‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Force Unleashed II’ (2010) (Book and comic review)

Out of all the Legends stories that went unfinished due to Disney’s rebooting of the timeline, none is more of a cliffhanger than the “Force

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John Hansen
December 26, 2014

‘Droids’ (1985-86) continues adventures of C-3PO, R2-D2

There are two categories of old “Star Wars” stuff: That which you consume as entertainment, and that which you consume purely for nostalgia. “Droids,” the 1985-86 animated

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John Hansen
December 25, 2014

Boba Fett makes ‘Star Wars’ debut in ‘Story of the Faithful Wookiee’ (1978)

Ah, Christmas Day. For a “Star Wars” fan, that means listening to Chewbacca croon “Silent Night”and watching the “Star Wars Holiday Special” on YouTube, right? On

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John Hansen
December 24, 2014

‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Force Unleashed’ (2008) (Book and comic reviews)

“The Force Unleashed” (2008) – the multimedia project highlighted by a video game, novel and comic — despite being a fairly recent endeavor, is among the first Legends material

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John Hansen
December 23, 2014

John’s top 10 TV shows of 2014

These were my 10 favorite shows of 2014: 1. “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (Season 6, Netflix) – “The Clone Wars” saves the best for last with

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John Hansen
December 16, 2014

‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Yoda: Dark Rendezvous’ (2004) (Book review)

Throughout the entire George Lucas “Star Wars” reign, we never got Yoda’s backstory, partly because it was declared off limits and partly because few authors