Light and the Dark: Recent Episodes
Dan McGillen
In This Episode:
- Project Update
- Musings on the close of the year, as I fail to reach the "all Star Wars canon in one year" goal.
- Two really cool Star Wars finds I was gifted for Christmas (I'm saving the third one for next week - ignore when I say there were two).
- Part 1 of my interview with Paul Pogue: journalist, photographer, and geek culture expert. Sorry about the audio quality - I did the best I could with the recording I ended up with. A great conversation nonetheless, I hope you enjoy.
In this week’s episode:
- Project Update
- Tons of Star Wars Series Announced!
- Progress This Week
- Star Wars Choose Your Destiny is a Confusing Mess
In this week’s episode:
- Project Progress
- Changes to the List of Items Remaining
- Attending Galaxy's Edge from Home?
In this week’s episode:
- Project Progress
- Items Enjoyed This Week
- Remaining Books: Filling in that huge gap between Episodes 6 and 7.
In this week’s episode:
- Project Progress
- Part 2 of my conversation with Rose Bollerman – VR/Video Games/Theme Parks
- Items Enjoyed this Week
- Why the Star Wars films really are a "trilogy of trilogies"
- Why Luke Skywalker Doesn't Matter Anymore (or, less controversially, why he has a smaller role in canon)
- Musings on the Future of the Podcast, and what I'll do next after I finish Star Wars Canon.
In this week's episode:
- Project Progress
- The Yoda Arc in Clone Wars
- Part 1 of my conversation with Rose Bollerman - How Thrawn brought her into the fandom.
- Items Enjoyed this Week
In this week's episode:
- Project Progress
- Audio Content: Aphra audiobook, Choose Your Destiny skill for Alexa, etc.
- What the non-movie content says about Vader's Motivations and why it improves his story.
In this episode:
- Finishing Star Wars Resistance
- Loopin' Chewie
- VR - The Future of Storytelling
- Interview with the family about Rebels
- Progress this week
In this episode:
- Current Project Progress
- Resetting the List and Preparing for the Final Items
- My Weird Target Discoveries This Week
- Finishing Watching Rebels with the Family
- Dan records something and then forgets to edit and release it for two weeks
- Project Progress
- What Did I Enjoy This Week
- Better Ways to Enjoy Star Wars Canon - NOT CHRONOLOGICALLY
- On getting to the end of Rebels with the family...
This week:
- Project (Lack of) Progress
- What Did I Enjoy This Week
- What's up - why has the project stalled?
In this week's episode:
- Project Progress
- What did I enjoy this week?
- Part 2 (of 2) of my interview with Teka England regarding her thoughts on the book: "Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy"
In This Episode:
- Project Progress
- What Did I Enjoy This Week
- Part 1 (of 2) of my interview with Teka England regarding her thoughts on the book: "Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy"
In this episode:
- Project Progress
- What Did I Enjoy This Week
- More thoughts from my rewatch of Rebels
This week:
- Project Update
- Items Enjoyed This Week
- Part 3 of 3 of my interview with Bryan Stonecipher, in which he turns the tables and asks me several pointed questions.
In this episode:
- Progress this week: A Ton of Tiny Items
- Part Two of Three of my Interview with Bryan Stonecipher - we discuss more Rebels, the Disney Purchase, and Star Wars at Disney World
In this episode:
- This week's progress.
- Part 1 of 3 of my interview with Bryan Stonecipher - Star Wars Superfan
- Previous Progress
In this episode:
- Project Update (the best week so far by FAR - I'm caught up!)
- Items Enjoyed This Week - Including and Especially the Doctor Aphra Comics
- Previously Enjoyed Items - Vader Dark Visions is paticularly good
In this Episode:
- A New Record for number of items in one week
- A New Dawn: I discuss a prequel to Rebels that introduces Hera and Kanan in more detail
- Previous Project Progress through the end of Rebels
In this week's episode:
- Current Project Progress (Finished Rebels - Boo!)
- Works Previously Enjoyed (Solo Film Timeframe)
- What's left to finish this year? It's looking good!
In this week's episode:
- This week's project progress
- Previous project progress between Episode 3 and Solo
- The Sad Tale of Joe Books LTD, a publisher of Star Wars Comics that went bankrupt in the middle of releasing a number of comics.
This week, I discuss:
- Current Project Progress
- Previous Project Progress Between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith
- Social Justice and the Roles of the Empire and the Rebellion
In this episode, we cover:
- Project Progress This Week
- The WEIRDEST piece of canon so far!
- An interview of my kids (aged 6) regarding Episode 4: A New Hope.
- Part 2 of my interview with Matthew Burns
In this episode:
- Dan finishes out Clone Wars and starts Rebels
- Other project progress
- Part One of my Interview with good friend Matthew Burns, a more typical Star Wars fan.
This week, Dan covers:
- Progress this week - a pretty good week's worth of stuff.
- More On Clone Wars - Season 6 + The Four Lost Episodes
- Historical Progress from After Episode 1 through the start of the Clone Wars series...
In this Episode, Dan covers:
- Recent progress.
- The Clone Wars (Seasons 1-5): The storylines, the characters, the ways it enhanced and improved Star Wars forever.
- Everything read/watched so far through the end of Episode I and related materials...
In this Episode, Dan talks about:
- How the project utterly derailed in April and May.
- How to begin your own trip through Star Wars Canon (Hint: Start With The Movies!)
- What Dan consumed this week.
- Shared a spreadsheet now for tracking the project - you too can do this
In this episode, Dan explains his history with Star Wars, what it means to him, and his progress on his quest to enjoy the entirety of Star Wars Canon (definition included) within the span of one year.