Geekville Radio #360: 90% Star Wars All The Time!

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It’s a (mostly) all-Star Wars show since we’re coming off May The 4th. But we’ll talk a little Free Comic Book Day swag…

1:15 – New Acolyte Trailer

Here are some screencaps from the trailer. Who could the Sith Lord be? We’ll go over a few things we know from what The Jedi said about The Sith during The Phantom Menace. And yes, this COULD be one of the other characters in disguise.

A Force-user scoops up a dead Jedi’s lightsaber
Jecki Lon in training
Jedi Master Sol searching the allies
Jail cells? Detainment areas?
Climbing one of the stone towers. Acht-To perhaps?
Indara faces Mae, the assassin
The assassin tries to kill a Jedi with THROWING KNIVES
Indara shatters the knifes with her lightsaber
Mae attacking another Jedi
A broken saber in the dirt
Are these the Acolytes in question
A young Sol with his student, Mae
A ship that can split in two
Could this be the villain in disguise?
Another look at the group of acolytes
Approaching a Jedi on Ach-To
A ship flying through the rings of a planet
The Fellowship on their mission to Mordor… OOPS, wrong franchise…
A ship plummeting through the rings of a planet
Mae trying to kill Jecki
The villain with a red lightsaber.
Is this a Sith Lord? Darth Goomba?

14:20 – Tales of the Empire

Tales of the Empire was two separate three-part stories. One was Morgan Elsbeth’s origin while the other was Barriss Offee’s fate

15:10 – Morgan Elsbeth

If you’re familiar with The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, then these episodes filled in some major background. We finally understand the loyalty Morgan had to Thrawn. It was hard to take their allegiance so seriously when we’re only given one verbal exchange between her and Ahsoka.

The animation was excellent, as usual. This also felt much darker than The Clone Wars, and even many episodes of The Bad Batch. Probably because we knew the story had no happy ending. The brutality of the violence is best left implied, and this was the perfect balance for that.

It’s appropriate that the episodes were titles “The Path of Fear”, “The Path of Anger” and “The Path of Hate” since they outline The Path to The Dark Side as Yoda described it. Also, having her story end by bringing about the same destruction done to her as a child was very fitting. Much like Anakin Skywalker, she became that which she hated.

27:15 – Barriss Offee’s story

This show’s format differs from last year’s Tales of the Jedi. That show had several mini-stories culminating in a final episode that brought everything together. This series was simply two three-part stories. And while the first story was about corruption through revenge, the second was about redemption. Morgan embraced evil while Barriss rejected it. This means one story gave us an origin story while the other gave us a story of fate.