Our primary focus with this site shall be the nine film cycle now referred to as The Skywalker Saga. We will be seeking to understand the cohesive story and themes that run through this film cycle. Or I might say…this single film.
We’re NOT out to extrapolate or ruminate on what story these movies didn’t tell, what could have been done better, and what we don’t like. With that in mind, if you want to vent about how George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Rian Johnson, JJ Abrams, Bob Iger or any number of people ruined your childhood, I can tell you this ain’t the place for that friend.
These films are in dialogue with each other. Just as a line of poetry can’t rhyme without the line which proceeds it, where we’ve been and where we’re going utterly define where we are.
We’re NOT here to do anything so banal as “rank” the episodes of the Skywalker Saga (ok so you will hear A LOT about Last Jedi from my colleague). Rather, we will hope to show that ranking these films is about as fruitful as ranking the chapters of a book, or the notes of a melody. We’re interested in the cohesive whole.
We want to explore The Skywalker Saga as a perfect fusion of Message and Medium. What does that mean? It means that the STORY BEING TOLD can’t be separated from HOW THAT STORY IS BEING TOLD. The Medium IS the Message. With Star Wars, at times it’s hard to see where one ends and the other begins! To do that, we’re going to be spending some time exploring Cinematic Formalism and Chiastic Structures, both of which are ESSENTIAL in understanding how Star Wars works.
Needless to say if you want to find a place to hang out where you can talk about “Machete Order” or anything that breaks up the harmony of this story being told in three, three act plays, let’s just say this isn’t the Star Wars blog you’re looking for.
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