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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Republic Commando: True Colors’ (2007) (Book review)

Karen Traviss entered the ranks of “Star Wars” authors despite lacking a deep knowledge of the saga, but by her third book, “Republic Commando: True Colors” (2007),

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Republic Commando: Triple Zero’ (2006) (Book review)

Karen Traviss’ “Republic Commando” series started off with a pulpy war mission novel, “Hard Contact,” which also snuck in the notion of clones as thinking,

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Republic Commando: Hard Contact’ (2004) (Book review)

Watching the clone troopers arrive with Yoda on Geonosis in “Attack of the Clones” in 2002, it was easy to think of them as organic

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First episode impressions: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Season 3 (TV review)

Now in its third season, “Star Wars Rebels” (8:30 p.m. Saturdays on Disney XD) has almost entirely caught up to “The Clone Wars” in production value. Even

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The 5 best and 5 worst Special Edition/DVD/Blu-ray changes to the ‘Star Wars’ films (Movie commentary)

As longtime fans are well aware, the “Star Wars” films as we know them from the 2011 Blu-ray release are different in several small but

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It’s logical that Anakin appears as ghost of younger self

When George Lucas replaced Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen in the Force ghost scene for the 2004 DVD of “Return of the Jedi” (and therefore the 2011

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What John thought about ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ on its 30th anniversary in 2007 (Movie commentary)

To round out the “Star Wars” movie reviews on my blog, here’s a look back at my 30th anniversary essay for “Episode IV: A New Hope,” published

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What John thought about ‘Revenge of the Sith’ in 2005 (Movie review)

To round out the “Star Wars” film reviews on my blog, I thought it would be fun to look back at my review of “Episode III:

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What John thought about ‘Attack of the Clones’ in 2002 (Movie review)

Just for fun — and to round out the “Star Wars” film reviews on my blog – I decided to look back at what I

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Revenge of the Sith’ novelization (2005) (Book review)

Among the films, the original trilogy is clearly better than the prequel trilogy, but among the novelizations, the opposite is true. It’s not because of

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