io9 No, That Acolyte Planet Is Not Where You Think It Is Leslye Headland has seen your speculation about the unknown world Star Wars' latest villain calls home. By James Whitbrook Published July 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9 A Brief History of Star Wars’ Lightwhip Vernestra Rwoh's lightsaber of choice is unlike anything we've seen on screen in Star Wars–but it has a long history in the old Expanded Universe. By James Whitbrook Published July 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9 Leslye Headland Talks Baring The Acolyte‘s New Sith Villain The Star Wars showrunner discuss Manny Jacinto's mysterious villain baring it all in episode 6. By James Whitbrook Published July 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9Toys and Collectibles Lego’s New Jaws Set Will Not Let You Build a Bigger Boat The 1,497-piece tribute to the Steven Spielberg icon will release this August. By James Whitbrook Updated July 4, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9 Rings of Power‘s Massive Season 2 Battle Will Span Multiple Episodes, For Good Reason A major Second Age conflict is brewing in Amazon's Lord of the Rings prequel, and it's going to take a lot of season 2 to show it. By James Whitbrook Published July 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionStar Wars The Acolyte‘s Real Lessons Can Finally Begin "Teach/Corrupt" sees the aftermath of last week's carnage providing learning moments for Osha, Mae, and the Jedi all alike. By James Whitbrook Published July 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9Games Get to Know the Green Dragons of Dungeons & Dragons‘ New Era Dungeons & Dragons is preparing for its next major iteration, but along with the new, there's plenty of familiar coming for the adventure too. By James Whitbrook Updated July 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9MoviesMarvel One of Ryan Reynolds’ Many Rejected Deadpool 3 Ideas Was an Indie Road Trip The road to Deadpool & Wolverine was littered with many off-kilter ideas that perhaps few Marvel fans would be interested in seeing as *the* third Deadpool . By James Whitbrook Published July 2, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionStar Trek Star Trek: Prodigy Almost Made Janeway Captain of the Enterprise, Until Kate Mulgrew Said No And of course, she's 100% right to say so. Rude to even ask! By James Whitbrook Published July 2, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionStar Wars You Just Gonna Leave Those Bodies There, Star Wars? Amid the carnage of The Acolyte 's latest episode, there's one grim part of the aftermath I can't stop thinking about. By James Whitbrook Published July 1, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9Toys and Collectibles July’s Lego Releases Are All Abuzz It's a quiet summer month for Lego's new releases, but that doesn't stop its latest Transformers set from rolling out into the spotlight. By James Whitbrook Published July 1, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9Games Magic: The Gathering Wants to Make Itself Easy to Pick Up Again Magic: Foundations , releasing later this year, is something of a reset point for the venerable card game. By James Whitbrook Published June 30, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionSci-Fi Ncuti Gatwa’s First ‘Doctor-Lite’ Episode of Doctor Who Happened Because of Sex Education "73 Yards" only came about in Gatwa's debut season of Doctor Who because he hadn't quite wrapped his time on Netflix's Sex Education . By James Whitbrook Published June 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionStar Wars All the Ways Jedi Got Got on The Acolyte This Week, Ranked The fifth episode of the latest Star Wars show gave us a lightsaber battle for the ages... and a lot of ways for Jedi to get absolutely bodied. By James Whitbrook Published June 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionStar Wars The Acolyte‘s Dark Side Fighting Style Has Some Old, Expanded Universe Connections The Stranger's unconventional fighting style is just The Acolyte 's latest re-canonization of an old EU concept. By James Whitbrook Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionStar Wars What You Need to Know About The Acolyte‘s Lightsaber-Shorting Metal The Acolyte 's latest episode gave us our first live-action look at one of the most fascinating Star Wars materials from the Expanded Universe: cortosis. By James Whitbrook Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9TelevisionFantasy Lord of the Rings‘ Barrow-Wights Are Following Tom Bombadil to Rings of Power Too Just like Tom Bombadil, another rarely adapted part of Lord of the Rings is making it into Rings of Power 's sophomore season. By James Whitbrook Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9Games Bounty Hunter Is Star Wars‘ Latest Classic Gaming Remaster The 2002 Attack of the Clones prequel game is getting the updated re-release treatment this Summer. By James Whitbrook Published June 27, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9Toys and Collectibles You’ll Have to Wait for The Acolyte‘s Sick-Ass Villain Helmet to Become a Sick-Ass Toy Good news! Hasbro knows the Stranger's saber-shorting mask looks cool. Bad news! It also knows you're going to have to wait to wear one of your own. By James Whitbrook Published June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
io9ComicsDC Comics Meet the Would-Be Survivors of the Apocalypse in a Look Inside The Nice House by the Sea io9 has your first full look inside James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno's sequel to the 2021 horror smash hit The Nice House on the Lake . By James Whitbrook Published June 26, 2024 | Comments (0)