Star Wars, A Long Time Ago: What Happens Between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Join Children of the Watch for continued discussion of one of the most beloved films of all time: The Empire Strikes Back. After concluding our Acolyte coverage, we've decided to revisit the Star Wars Original Trilogy, breaking down the stories, characters, themes, and more. This week, we're doing our second lore connections episode to bridge the gap between movies! We'll be talking about all the major events that happen in canon Star Wars comics, books, etc. off-screen between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. We're talking War of the Bounty Hunters, Qi'ra and Crimson Dawn, and more.
Plus, we will also spend some time talking about news and developments concerning Skeleton Crew and The Mandalorian & Grogu, plus what the Star Wars landscape looks like in the near future.
Next month, we move on to Return of the Jedi!
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| 0:00.0 | And You were listening to Children of the Watch. I'm Mac Lacey. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm Alex Maxwell. We are returning to the movies that started it all. |
| 0:32.0 | Since August, we've been diving deep into a new hope, |
| 0:35.0 | the Empire Strikes Back, |
| 0:37.0 | and Return of the Jedi exploring the magic, |
| 0:40.0 | the mythology, and the memories. |
| 0:42.0 | And today we are bringing you our final episode |
| 0:46.1 | on the Empire Strikes Back as we dive into what happens |
| 0:49.4 | in between the Empire Strikes Back |
| 0:51.7 | and Return of the Jedi. |
| 0:54.0 | And it's been a little bit since we've been on the podcast, Mack. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, I've been traveling. |
| 0:59.2 | I was on the other side of the world for a little bit. |
| 1:02.0 | Got back from Japan and have been dealing with weird jet lag. |
| 1:07.4 | And you were there for a long time. |
| 1:09.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:11.4 | And then we both had housing stuff happening and moving and shaking in that regard. |
| 1:19.6 | So you know it's been a busy time, but I'm so excited to get back to talking about Star Wars with you and with all the listeners. |
| 1:27.0 | Me too. It was a good break, but I am, I've been missing it and especially as we get to what I sometimes is my favorite |
| 1:35.4 | Star Wars movie with Return of the Jedi like as we get closer to that I get really |
| 1:39.2 | really excited to talk about that but I'm also really excited to talk about like okay we're |
| 1:45.0 | getting closer to the Mandalorian in terms of the timeline here and speaking of |
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