'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' With Krista from Credits and Canon

This week I’m joined by my friend Krista from Credits and Canon, a brilliant writer, fellow Star Wars fan, and quite possibly the only person who loves A New Hope more than I do. We had a great conversation about the movie, and also dipped into several tangential topics. This is the Way.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Our Star Wars origin stories

• Better movie: A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back?

• The opening crawl

• Why is it so difficult for Hollywood to create good sci-fi and fantasy?

• Why Tatooine is the best Star Wars planet

• The Western elements of Star Wars

• The Special Edition and Han Solo

• Celebrating Princess Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin

• Why the trench run is the greatest ending of any Star Wars movie

• Reconsidering the Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi of A New Hope with everything we learn about them in later films

• Is Star Wars better because it focused completely on the Skywalkers?

• Wondering WTF The Rise of Skywalker was doing

• Our top 5 Star Wars films

• Comparing notes on various Star Wars TV shows: Rebels, Resistance, The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, Ahsoka.

Link City:

• Credits and Canon

• Krista on Medium