Metaphors Be With You

Rob finishes his season 3 of deep dives into each Star Wars film with Solo, a movie that read very differently to him in 2020 than it did originally.

Rob continues his season 3 of deep dives into each Star Wars film by looking at Rogue One, the original proof of concept for standalone Star Wars stories.

I feel like this Skywalker exposes too much skin when I bend over. Got one with more rise?

Sorry, you can’t return that Jedi. It was our last one.

…then the Force hit the snooze button and slept for nine more minutes.

Sith. Siththththth. It’s like the most evil-sounding made-up word ever.

Now, the thing about clones is, if you provoke ‘em, you’re in trouble.

Man, those phantoms sure are menacing. I hope they turn out not be a big deal.

This Jedi doesn’t fit. Can I return it?

If the Empire Strikes twice more after this, they’re out.

Trade in your old hope for a shiny New Hope! Season 3 has Rob going one-by-one through the numbered episodes, looking at metaphors and throughlines in each film.

A non-Star Wars episode about Rob’s longstanding theory concerning the nature and purpose of Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Does Star Wars say about about war as a concept?

Space. Why'd it have to be space?

Sex and gender in the Star Wars galaxy.

What is so satisfying about a sword made of laser?

Star Wars canon is incredibly slippery, and has been a shifting landscape since literally the first movie. What does it mean that Disney eradicated most of it when they acquired the franchise?

What would you name a spaceship if you had one, and what does that say about you? Obviously I have no idea, but here’s a discussion of some ship names from Star Wars.

They can talk, translate, and navigate through space, but they’re still second class. What exactly is the place of droids in the Star Wars galaxy?

How did we get to episode eight without talking about the Force? Time to fix that.

Turns out identity issues are a major theme in Star Wars. This whole discussion comes from Rob really liking a particular moment in an episode of Rebels.

Did you ever really *look* at Luke’s hand?

Everyone knows about the struggle of good and evil in Star Wars, but there’s another huge conflict happening alongside it: nature and technology.

In response to the previous episode, this discussion will be about the politics that are likely not intentional but nevertheless are present in Lucas’s Star Wars movie.

Like all art in the history of humanity, Star Wars is political. Here’s a look at some of the intentional politics of Lucas’s original six movies.

Star Wars is pretty colorful, except when it’s totally black and white. We’ll talk about what it means that different original-trilogy characters are associated with different colors.

In a twist, it turns out that Star Wars can be a metaphor for Star Wars (all right, this episode is about intertextuality, but that doesn’t sound as cool).

Star Wars aficionado Rob Heiret introduces himself, and the idea behind Metaphors Be With You.