Revenge of the Sith: Deluxe Edition Novelization Analysis

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Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week on Skytalkers, we’re diving deep into the one of the best Star Wars novelizations and our all time favorite: Revenge of the Sith! Tune in to hear us break down our favorite parts of the Deluxe Edition of Matthew Stover’s beloved novel. This week we talk about: What is our relationship to this novel and why does it mean so much to us? Which of Matthew’s annotations were our favorites to uncover in this edition? How does the novel talk about Palpatine in the Force? Between Anakin and Obi-Wan, who has stronger emotions towards the other? How does Matthew write about Greek tragedy and how it relates to Star Wars? …and much, much more! Listen to our older episode on the Revenge of the Sith novelization. Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more! Our website! Follow us on Twitter/X @skytalkerspod Follow us on TikTok @skytalkers Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @skytalkerspodcast Follow Charlotte on Twitter/X @crerrity Follow Caitlin on Twitter/X @caitlinplesher Email us! hello@skytalkers.com For ad inquiries please email: skytalkers@58ember.com Please note this Episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this Episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a 58 Ember production.
0:16.5	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:22.8	Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte. Hey, everyone. I'm your other
0:27.0	host, Caitlin, and welcome to this week's episode where we are so excited to be back talking about
0:32.5	Revenge of the Sith, the novelization again. This week, we are going to be actually talking
0:37.2	about the book in depth,
0:38.6	picking out some annotations to talk about and discuss and analyze. And I'm so excited to
0:43.6	finally be doing this episode. We've been waiting to do it. If you listen to our interview
0:49.6	last week with Tom Holer, who is the editorial director of Random House World and editor of this book.
0:56.3	We had wanted to have him on and then do our discussion.
0:59.6	And it was like, it just kept getting pushed back because of us.
1:03.5	And anyway, I'm very excited to finally be talking about this book.
1:07.7	Me too, me too.
1:09.0	So how we've done it is we've picked some. So the way that the
1:12.1	deluxe edition of Revenge of the Sith works is that there's, I think, over 100 annotations from
1:18.7	Matthew Stover himself talking about some of the reasons why he made those choices. So we're going to be
1:25.8	talking about some of those annotations.
1:28.5	If you want us to talk about the book, The Revenge of the Sith novelization as a novel,
1:33.2	we've done that already. And I will link that in the show notes. And we also will talk about
1:39.0	the novel throughout this episode as well. But if you're looking for more of a novel discussion that
1:44.9	exists already on our channel. So I will link that. I feel like you should do another one.
1:52.1	Eventually. Yeah. I agree. I mean, in 2018, that was a long time ago. I know. I think it's
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