While Star Wars fans will endlessly debate the value of The Rise of Skywalker and pick it apart for the next several decades, there is much good to discuss about […]
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Disclaimer: I am a Star Wars curmudgeon. I like to pretend the prequels don’t exist, that Star Wars is the title of Episode IV: A New Hope, and that Han
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