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Ahead of Star Wars Celebration Anaheim next week, where it’s possible we’ll see the very first footage from the set of the new show, Dawson sat down to chat with Vanity Fair about the process of bringing the character to live action. Along the way, she recalled her initial reaction to the key prosthetic needed to complete her transformation into Ahsoka Tano: the headpiece that makes up the Togruta character’s montrals (the horn-like sensory organs on top of her head) and lekku (the head tails hanging down to her shoulders)....

The Mandalorian, for example, explores for Disney canon how the Imperial remnant continued to operate in the Outer Rim planets, even after the formation of the New Republic. The Book of Boba Fett gave us our first look at Luke’s new Jedi academy. Books like the Aftermath trilogy and Bloodline have explained how what was left of the Empire was reborn as the First Order, and Ben Solo’s fall to the dark side and the origin of the Knights of Ren are all chronicled in Marvel comics....

The newest Star Wars hero is a bit of a mystery. Omega, a young clone who joins the titular heroes in The Bad Batch, is a mix of audience surrogate and riddle. She’s eager to join the fight, and has some skills of her own, but she’s obviously not cut from the exact same cloth as the other clones. That serves her well as she escapes Order 66 from the clones’ side, with her and the Batch some of the few residents of Kamino who don’t go all-in on the Empire’s slaughter....

Stranger Things season 4 is a notable batch of episodes for Netflix’s epic sci-fi/horror series in just about every respect. It’s the longest season, with nearly each episode running over the 70-minute mark. It’s the biggest season, filled with budget-busting spectacle and awe. Most importantly, however, season 4 is also the wettest season of Stranger Things … that is if the closed captioning is to be believed. That’s right, I’ve become part of the growing number of people who have chosen to be on the right side of history and watch their English-language programming with captions on....

Here is everything we know about Stranger Things season 4. Stranger Things Season 4 Release Date No release date has been set, and it’s hard to say when Stranger Things season 4 could premiere. The first two seasons were October affairs with season 3 taking a bit more time and eventually premiering on July 4, 2019. A TV Line report on the number of Season 4 episodes also confirms that shooting was initially set to commence in January, likely wrapping in August, but this was before production was shut down due to the coronavirus....

Supergirl Season 6 Episode 6 Brainy and Nia’s journey back in time to Midvale saw a marked improvement (and even more time travel!) in its second episode. Part Cat Grant-origin story, part sales pitch for a Dreamer (and Brainy?) spin-off, Olivia Nikkanen (young Alex) and Izabela Vidovic (young Kara) continue to wholly embody Chyler Leigh and Melissa Benoist to an eerily impressive level. For her part, Chyler Leigh herself made her directorial debut in an episode that was so good, Brainy even happy-cried....

Superman & Lois Season 2 Episode 13 In the world of Superman & Lois, heroism can come in many forms. You don’t need superpowers in order to help people or to choose to do the right thing when it counts. You don’t even need to be an adult, as this series has proven time and time again with the deft way it weaves multiple plot threads featuring its teen characters through all the major stories it’s telling....

If you drifted away from Supernatural in its later seasons, or if the last few years of angel-demon-archangel shenanigans all blended together in your mind, here is a reminder of just how scary the show was in its earlier years. Later seasons of Supernatural could still be scary, but the focus of the story became epic struggles for the world and for Sam and Dean’s souls and the souls of those they love....

Supernatural Season 15, Episode 17 Only three episodes left after this, which means this episode had some serious ground to cover. The episodes in this COVID-19-delayed portion of the season had thus far felt a little filler-ish. There was some character building and emotional admissions that made it all worthwhile, but still felt like we were holding back from really digging into the meat of what this season is all about — stopping Chuck....

It’s hard to believe it, but Supernatural has come to an end. We had our theories about what might happen in the 15-season show’s ender, but Supernatural kept us guessing right until its final moments. “Carry On” is essentially a forty-minute epilogue to tie up loose ends after the definitive battle against God. It serves its purpose of bringing the series full circle to its humble beginnings: Sam gets his normal life....

The bevy of spinoffs announced in the wake of the final season of The Walking Dead has been the subject of everything from excitement to exasperation among audiences. For anyone who checked out with the death of Abraham and Glenn at the onset of season 7, it could seem that the franchise is trying to get blood from a turnip. For many fans, however, placing a greater emphasis on the ensemble cast while allowing the structural hierarchy of the early seasons to slip away has created a renewed interest in the show....

Thousands of online resources will help you clarify and explore TCP/IP. So, what’s different here? Here, I focus on providing all the essential bits to get a head start to dive deeper (if you intend to later). TCP/IP Model: What’s The History? TCP/IP model is what you get to read when learning about computer networking, and you must have already come across it as a computer science or IT student....

Admittedly, I was a weird kid. But in my defense, growing up in the 1970s and ’80s meant that you were bombarded with supposedly lovable characters who were in fact nothing but weaponized nightmare fuel. (See the entire creative output of Sid and Marty Krofft for examples of this, especially, shudder, H.R. Pufnstuf). Chief among these marketable terrors were the characters featured Hanna-Barbera’s variety show/hellscape The Banana Splits. Airing for two seasons from 1968-70, then repeated in syndication for perpetuity, this series combined the live-action antics of the animal-costumed characters Fleegle, Drooper, Bingo, and Snorky as they had indescrible adventures filmed at amusement parks that were intercut with other segments....

At this point, you might be wondering who hasn’t seen The Batman. The film opened to critical and commercial success on March 4. Since then, it has earned $735 million as of this writing, making it 2022’s highest-grossing film thus far. Over the past few weeks, The Batman has slipped at the box office, falling first to The Lost City during the week of March 25 and then to Morbius the following week....

Through eight seasons and one limited series, Dexter was the cream of the crop when it came to serial killing storytelling on TV. That’s probably because shows that inhabit the mind of serial killers are quite rare for understandable reasons. It’s dark in there. Dexter “got away” with it because his code required the killing of fellow killers. Still, TV is a big medium and the public’s appetite for bloody crime dramas is just as vast....

He’s also put his preferred team back together too, as The Black Phone reunites Derrickson with Sinister co-writer C. Robert Cargill, as well as that picture’s star, Ethan Hawke. Also coming off the bench for this one is famed author Joe Hill, whose short story of the same name (from his 2005 debut collection, 20th Century Ghosts) is the basis of this sharply focused, frightening, and ultimately moving thriller. Set in 1978 in a Denver suburb, The Black Phone thrusts us right into the climate of paranoia that arose during that era as the result of a string of serial killers and child murders that made headlines, from the Hillside Strangler to the Zodiac Killer, and from the Son of Sam to John Wayne Gacy....

Though the latest Conjuring movie, The Devil Made Me Do It, is named after the Arne Johnson murder case, whereby a young man claimed the crime he committed was caused by demonic possession, there’s an entirely new subplot that carries the body of the new film. After the supposedly possessed Arne Johnson is held in custody awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend’s landlord, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) are on a mission to discover how and why these possessions took place....

The Expanse Season 3 Episode 5 This is one of those episodes of The Expanse that’s hard to judge. On the one hand, the cooler heads prevailing in war was inspirational, but on the other hand, the death and destruction caused by an admiral desperate to hold onto his power threw everything into chaos. Placing more reflective moments for Naomi, Prax, and Alex beside this military drama was disorienting even though the insights themselves were quite welcome....

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 4 The first three episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier were all about world-building. The first episode was about what our titular heroes were up to in a post-Blip world. The second episode focused on the new Captain America John Walker. The third episode was a Captain America: Civil War throwback by revisiting Baron Zemo and Sharon Carter. All the while, we’d check in on the Flag-Smashers and get an increased idea of what they’re about while there’s something in there about a mysterious evil threat in the background, ready to make a play....

The French Dispatch is Anderson’s homage to The New Yorker during the magazine’s heyday under founder/editor Harold Ross, fictionalized in the film as Arthur Howitzer, Jr., portrayed eccentrically by Bill Murray. With writers like James Thurber, A.J. Liebling, James Baldwin, and Rosamond Bernier, it was idiosyncratic and utterly original. In the film, the fictional French Dispatch magazine started in Liberty, Kansas and is now published in the sardonically-named fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France....