I’m sure there’s context that explains it, just like there’s context explaining why Luke, Han, and Valence dressed up in clone trooper armor to fight battle droids. It doesn’t mean it can’t also be shallow nostalgia bait at the same time.

The Acolyte is more in conversation with the OT/ PT than anything else published since the merger, and it does so by challenging and expanding on the core moral ideas of the universe and the original critiques of the Jedi in a way that nothing else has besides the High Republic novels.

This is fantastic!!!

i didn't think i'd be sayingt his before today but he loves Zohran - or at least he loved having an opportunity to embrace another political outsider winner from New York and upset the Democrat establishment in the process.