Coruscant Pulse: A Star Wars Podcast

We chat about Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano being the first 2 cast members of The Mandalorian revealed before we dive into discussion around Diego Luna's return to Cassian Andor!

In this episode of the Coruscant Pulse we cover the latest news about the Mandalorian, discuss the cancellation of the unannounced Boba Fett movie and and David waxes on about how Mandalore is becoming far more fleshed out compared to Corellia.

We're back! After a longer than expected hiatus, we talk about a lot of the news that we've missed out on! We start off talking about the latest casting additions to Episode IX before diving deep into the latest Star Wars animation news. Thank you for listening!

We're back with another episode! This time we go over the impact of a decade of the Clone Wars with their panel at SDCC before talking about where we think different pieces of the universe might go! Also as a quick note, for at least the summer the Coruscant Pulse Podcast is going to be shifting over to a monthly format. Apologies for the delay in getting this out to you all!

*So what happens when David isn't paying attention? He forgets to upload the file!* Listen here for David's specific qualms about Enfys Nest and some of the discussion around what kind of future tie ins James and David expect in the aftermath of the Red and Black in Solo.

Chck out our absolutely spoiler filled review of Solo: A Star Wars Story here! At first blush we both really enjoyed it!

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! This time we go through our Solo predictions! We went into this episode mostly cold, and have not read any reviews or synopsis of the movie yet so any appearance of foreknowledge is simply coincidence! Thanks for listening!

With Solo's media beginning to push into the final weeks before the film, we take a look at the Solo Featurette and discuss what has us excited about the upcoming film!

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! This time David and James dive deep into talking about droid in Star Wars, are they people on the equivalent of other aliens? Are they just tools? What makes something alive? All of these questions and more are tackled during our discussion on Droids in Star Wars.

Apologies for the delay! Please check out our thoughts on the Solo Trailer released on April 9th!

This week we try recording and editing in a slightly different way for our Rebel Technology episode! We just like last week cover some of the more interesting pieces of Rebellion tech and talk about some of the differences between what we see in the Empire and the Rebellion. Thank you for listening!

In this episode, James and David go over their thoughts on the most interesting elements of Imperial Technology! We cover what we think the most effective, most intimidating, strangest, least effective and dumbest ideas examples of Imperial technology are in both the Legends and Canon. We hope that you enjoy!

In this episode David and James cover the news from 2 weeks ago about Jon Favreau writing and producing a Star Wars TV series for Disney's new streaming platform before diving into The Last Jedi deleted scenes and how both it and the novelization further fleshout the new EU.

This week features Dave going solo! He discusses his thoughts on the series finale of Star Wars Rebels as well as thoughts on the series as a whole.

This week James and David start off by going over the news as usual, before delivering their pitches for what they'd like to see out of a Star Wars: Resistance TV Show. We then dive into the last bits of The Last Jedi media coming out, the novelization and the deleted scenes from the film min the upcoming home release. We hope that you enjoy!

Apologies for the late upload! We are trying something different again with our audio editing that we think helps with some of the peaking that has happened with our audio in the past. This time we cover the latest news about the tie in novels to Solo and talk about what books have us excited and some thoughts on how the synopsis informs what little we have seen in the trailers. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! We start off this week by talking about the release of Splinter of a Mind's Eye 40 years ago and the launch of the Star Wars EU. We then cover the news that the Game of Thrones showrunners will be writing and directing a new Star Wars movie series.  We then move onto tackling our major topic this week which was pulled from reddit user roninjedi, which boiled down to, if you could warn and save the Jedi before the fall of the Republic, would you do so? We end the episode by going over some of the comments that redleader antilles has made on our soundcloud page and revisit some of our earlier discussions with his input...and also point out where he absolutely crushes a very wrong thing that David said on an earlier episode.

*Fixed an issue with the audio file* Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! This time we breakdown the trailer of Solo and give some of our impressions based off of the story teaser. We hope that you enjoy!

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! This week we talk about Luke Skywalker, and realize that we run into an incredible problem as we try to talk about both canon and legends Luke towards the end of the episode! We hope that you enjoy!

In this episode we talk about our dearly departed Mon Calamari friend, Fleet Admiral Gial Ackbar. We cover his history in the canon, legends before talking about what our favorite appearances of Ackbar were in the novels that we've read. If you have a favorite memory of Gial Ackbar let us know! Thank you for listening!

This week David and James go through some of the biggest holes that we've heard about in The Last Jedi and talk about their implications and thoughts about some of the complaints. We hope that you enjoy hearing us talk about First Order tactics, hyperspace ramming, hand to hand dueling, rank in the Resistance and more. Thank you for listening!

This show begins on a very down note as Tom announces his departure from the podcast. James and David then continue on to talk specifically about Luke's character in The Last Jedi and on some of the other criticisms of the film and where we think they're coming from. Thank you for listening as always!

SPOILER ALERT - In this episode of the Coruscant Pulse, James, Tom and David review The Last Jedi. We go through our thoughts after seeing the film and also our take on some of the greatest moments and what we thought fell flat. Thank you as always for listening!

*SPOILER ALERT* This episode contains spoilers for the Canto Bight novel and The Last Jedi. Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! This time, David goes through some thoughts on the Canto Bight novel before disappearing so James and Tom can talk about the latest spoilers that came out for The Last Jedi. Our next episode will be The Last Jedi review!

We recorded this episode about 2 weeks before The Last Jedi. As we did with The Last Jedi, we found some betting odds and asked some of our own questions and talked about why we think things will go a specific way! Listen to us before The Last Jedi and see what we got right and what we got laughably wrong.

Welcome to a new episode, be forewarned this episode contains major spoilers for the story of Battlefront 2! This time the whole group has reassembled to talk about the Snoke EW article before diving deep into Battlefront 2. We cover the most interesting pieces of Andy Serkis and Rian Johnson's comments on Snoke, from his potential background to our expectation on his use in The Last Jedi. We do a full review of Battlefront 2, what we enjoyed and what we really struggled with. Thank you for listening!

Entertainment Weekly did another major spread about The Last Jedi including 4 separate cover versions. Tom and David talk about what we at first thought was all of the articles but it turns out we only touched on 1/2 of them when we recorded! We cover the first bits of information about Admiral Holdo, the relationship and dynamic between Rey and Kylo, and some of the fantastic stills that came out of the articles. Thanks for listening!

In this episode David and Tom talk about the sudden and exciting development that Rian Johnson is getting his own Trilogy of Star Wars movies! We talk about what we think this means for the franchise and engage in some speculation based off of the announcement and we expect Disney's priorities to be. Then we finally get around to talking a little bit about Battlefront 2 (note that this episode was recorded before some of the changes that DICE/EA have made to their model), and our thoughts both on the beta and the general ideas behind Battlefront 2. Thank you for listening!

This week we discuss how far down the rabbit hole do we want to see Star Wars explore the callousness and evil of the Empire. How much is too much to show or suggest on screen? We also talk about Mark Hamill's comments to Disney Insider Rewards, and touch on the recent Forbes article on the terms of the deals that movie theaters must agree to in order to show the Last Jedi

Welcome to the Coruscant Pulse! This week we talked about Adam Driver's snippet from GQ (before the rest of the context was known) and speculate about the nature of Rey's potential royal lineage and what it might mean! We then talk about what we believe will happpen to Thrawn's character if his story is concluded in Rebels or if he could potentially be a villain for future generations of heroes. Thank you very much for listening!

In this episode of the Coruscant Pulse we brought in RedLeader Antilles, our most prolific commenter to talk about The Last Jedi trailer and the latest Star Wars news. We specifically cover The Hollywood Reporter report of Rian Johnson not being involved in any discussions about Episode IX, and the BBC Radio interview of JJ Abrams and capturing the joy of Star Wars.

The Coruscant Pulse is pleased to present a very special DVD Commentary of The Force Awakens. If you wanted to watch the movie alongside Tom, David and James, this is your opportunity! Inside the recording you'll hear when to hit play, just have your movie loaded and ready to go!

We start the episode off by talking about the newly revealed title of Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story and some thoughts on our mixed excitement to see the film. We cover the inclusion of Tag and Bink from the old Legends comics and what we're expecting them to be used as.  We then dive deep into our expectations for Battlefront 2 now that we've played the Beta, what we liked, what we didn't like and the value of multiplayer games to the companies and the value of single player games to consumers. Thank you for listening!

*Spoiler Warning* In this rapid reaction and release episode of the Coruscant Pulse, we dive into the latest trailer, break it down piece by piece and connect it to the larger news and leaks to give us a better picture of what we can expect from The Last Jedi. We hope that you enjoy!

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! This time we talk about the Collider interview of Domhnall Gleeson and discover his incredible natural accent. We also discuss his thoughts on The Last Jedi and working with Rian Johnson. We also discuss the news of the runtime of The Last Jedi being 150 minutes, two and a half hours of Star Wars will be incoming this December!

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! David and James only this episode as we dive into the news that The Last Jedi has completed it's post production (and we're still without a trailer). We also discuss the Greatest Moments for a variety of characters in The Force Awakens and Rogue One, based off of a few recent Star Wars polls.

Thank you for your patience! We have another episode of the Coruscant Pulse here! In this episode we go over the news that JJ Abrams was selected as the director to close out the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy replacing Colin Trevorrow. Thanks for listening and we hope that you enjoy!

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! In this episode we talk about the dismissal of Colin Trevorrow as the director for Episode IX and discuss what we want to happen with the director position for Episode IX. We go into some super dark horse candidates before zooming in on our preferred route. Please note that this episode was recorded a day before the JJ Abrams announcement regarding Episode IX. Thank you for listening!

This week, in David's absence Tom and James go over the Mega Class Star Destroyer and First Order Tactics. Listen for Tom and James' take on Snoke and the First Order's roving command center!

This week we thank the Star Wars Show for revealing 2 new First Order vehicles, the AT-M6 and the First Order Dreadnought. We cover their appearance, how we expect them to be used and what we think about these vehicles in general.

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! This week we cover the latest news from Battlefront 2's new Squadron Mode before diving over into some of the comments from our recent Reylo discussion (Episode 81). We also briefly touch on some of the rumors surrounding Stephen Daldry's possible selection as the director for a rumored Obi-Wan movie.

Apologies for the delay in this episode! The Last Jedi is discussed very heavily in this episode! We're back covering the latest news from The Last Jedi and the deep dive into the film done by Entertainment Weekly!

This week we welcome a special guest from Dump Stat Radio, Bill! He joins the regular Coruscant Pulse Team as we cover the Reylo debate that's been happening throughout the fandom. We cover some of the key points for and against the theory and hope that you enjoy this episode as a change of pace! Special thank you to Star Wars Connection whose Reylo videos really helped us understand the pro side of the debate.

*SPOILER WARNING* Apologies for the delay in uploading! In this episode James and David go over the events of the Inferno Squad novel before digging into their likes and dislikes for the book and the characters involved. We hope that you enjoy!

This time we go through to bevy of books that were announced at San Diego Comic Con 2017 and what parts of the canon are going to be filled in. We go over what books we're most looking forward to and why we think they'll be good additions to the new canon. We also cover some of the latest leaks and information about The Last Jedi regarding a new resistance vehicle and the First Order's Praetorian Guards.

Welcome to our new episode and apologies for the delay! This time we dive into the news (or lack thereof) out of D23. We cover the Behind the Scenes trailer for The Last Jedi, the Behind the Story trailer for Battlefront 2 and all of the news surrounding Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.

In this episode we start off by giving a brief preview on what we think we can expect from D23 and the various panels where we hope to get more Star Wars news. We also explore what we hope to hear about, and what we think will make the most sense for the franchise. The next part of the show focuses in on further planning for future anthology films, wherein all three hosts describe very different films that they hope we will see announced at D23. The show wraps up with the latest of the Han Solo news from last weekend! We hope that you enjoy the episode!

In this episode we start off by wrapping up some of our discussion on the Han Solo movie based off of some listener feedback. We also talk about some of the preliminary artwork and leaks that have been coming out regarding The Last Jedi. We then dive over into the Saturn Awards that Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels won this past week. The episode closes on some of the latest rumors about Visceral's Star Wars action/adventure game.

Welcome to another episode of the Coruscant Pulse! We dive deeper into the discussion about Ron Howard's appointment as the new director for the Han Solo movie, and go over some of the articles detailing the situation in the Hollywood Reporter. We hope that you enjoy! Let us know what you think the future for the film and the change in director means for the other anthology films!

Welcome to a special episode of the Coruscant Pulse! We wound up recording the episode over the course of 2 days. First we start off by talking about the latest Last Jedi news that Snoke may have an even smaller role than in The Force Awakens, before talking about the Dads of Star Wars. We try to identify the best father figures in Star Wars before listing all of the terrible fathers that we see. We recorded a special addendum to this episode to have a discussion about Lord and Miller being pushed out from the Han Solo project 3 weeks before principal filming was supposed to wrap.

In this episode we talk about the origins of Star Wars. After that we launch into a discussion about the Battlefront 2 footage that we saw from E3.