ForceCast #292: Dissecting Diversity

Justin Bolger joins Eric Geller to discuss Star Wars Rebels character reveals, a super-sized Star Wars Weekends, and the trailer for The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions. Then, as Rebels prepares to take us back to the Original Trilogy, Eric and Justin talk to FANgirl Blog's Tricia Barr about racial and gender diversity in the Empire, the Rebel Alliance, and the galaxy as a whole.

Show Notes:

The HoloNet

• Sabine, Rebel Weapons Expert, Joins Star Wars Rebels
  
• Star Wars Rebels' Final Main Hero Is Hera The Twi'lek
  
• Vanessa Marshall, The Voice Of Hera, Talks Piloting And Family In Star Wars Rebels
  
• Lucasfilm Releases Trailer For The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
  
• Star Wars Weekends 2014 Adds Another Weekend, James Arnold Taylor Returning As Host

Discussion

• Tricia Barr from FANgirl Blog joins Eric and Justin to discuss diversity in Star Wars, especially in the two major factions of the Original Trilogy time period. We used Eleven-ThirtyEight's article "Senseless Sexism in the Galactic Empire" as our starting point, and we highly recommend that you read it.

Fan Focus

• Grant Gould To Illustrate Draw Star Wars Rebels Kids Book For Lucasfilm
  
• Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves Micro-Excerpt #3
  
• Christopher Malcolm Who Played Zev Senesca In The Empire Strikes Back Has Passed Away
  
• Malcolm Tierney Who Portrayed Lt. Childsen In Star Wars: A New Hope Has Passed Away

The Comlink

• We read an email from Jedi Davie.

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