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Rey and Kylo Ren’s Force Connection Explained

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker sheds new light on the unique bond between Rey and Kylo Ren. Here’s what Episode IX reveals about their Force connection.

Pokemon Sword and Shield: Complete Mystery Gift Code List

See a list of mystery gift codes to get rare Poke Balls for a limited time.

Breaking Down Kylo Ren’s Rise of Skywalker Story

SPOILER ALERT! The entire Skywalker Saga has led to this moment! We’re talking all about what happens to Kylo Ren at the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We have a lot on our minds. How about you?

The Best Anime Of 2019

2. Promare

Studio Trigger’s theatrical debut, Promare, is a wild ride, opening with a scene where random people around the world suddenly develop pyrokinetic abilities and cause most of the Earth to be burned to a crisp. Fast-forward 30 years and the mutants have been labeled “the Burnish” and persecuted as monsters, when most are just trying to live normal lives. The story picks up here, with protagonist Galo Thymos embarking on his first mission as a special firefighter that physically combats Burnish-created disasters, where he meets the terrorist Lio Fotia.

Promare never stops to catch its breath after that and, honestly, that format works to the film’s benefit–quickly replacing its implied hetero romance for a much better gay one, dropping its early implications that this is a mech action anime to delve into an intriguing conspiracy plot, and meshing together both traditional 2D and not-so-traditional 3D CG to create wonderfully extravagant movements with its characters. — Jordan Ramée

The Witcher Books: Reading Order And Which Stories Inspired The Netflix Show

What order should you read the Witcher books in?

As many fans know, The Witcher isn’t just a series of hit video games. Those games are actually sequels to a series of short stories and novels that were written decades ago by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. And it’s those original books on which the Netflix show The Witcher is based.

Specifically, the show is mainly based on the books that are considered number one and two in the series: The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny, respectively. However, these books are actually collections of loosely related short stories that, together, serve to introduce readers to the world and characters of the Witcher, while gradually bringing the main players together and setting up the story that would be told in the later novels.

That’s largely the same purpose served by the first season of Netflix’s version, which, despite its complex multiple timelines structure, many fans seem to be enjoying. With Season 2 already announced, now is the perfect time to experience the original stories. If you simply want to know what order to read the books in–something that can be slightly confusing, thanks to the fact that the second short stories collection hadn’t actually been translated into English until recently–here’s the ideal reading order:

The Last Wish (short stories 1)
Sword of Destiny (short stories 2)
Blood of Elves (novel 1)
Time of Contempt (novel 2)
Baptism of Fire (novel 3)
The Tower of the Swallow (novel 4)
The Lady of the Lake (novel 5)
Season of Storms (novel 6)

However, we wanted to dig a little bit deeper. For those who watched the Netflix show and enjoyed it, we thought it might be fun to break down exactly which original stories and books each episode draws from. Keep scrolling down for the breakdown, and let us know what you thought of Netflix’s Witcher in the comments below.

LEGO Deals: Save Up To 20% on LEGO Star Wars Sets

If you (like me) have been getting into the Star Wars spirit, and you love getting great deals on the things you buy, you can get yourself some great LEGO Star Wars sets on Amazon right now and take advantage of solid savings while you’re doing it.

Best Deal: LEGO Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker Resistant Y-Wing Starfighter for $55.99

Get it on Amazon for $55.99

Celebrate The Rise of Skywalker with this Y-Wing fighter, complete with Poe Dameron, Zorii Bliss, D-0, as well as a First Order Snowtrooper and a astromech droid. This set is normally $69, but you can save $14 and grab it for $55.99 with free delivery from Amazon.

Beat Saber: A Cut Above the Rest

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Legacy in the Age of Disney’s Star Wars

When Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012 and announced that they would produce new Star Wars films, it was a moment of both anticipation and apprehension for fans. Although the Star Wars universe had lived on in novels, comics, cartoons and video games, the Star Wars films, under the purview of George Lucas, had fairly definitively wrapped up. New storytellers taking on his mythology would raise the question of what direction the series would go and what the new movies would even be about.

While all five films produced by Disney since the acquisition approach this question differently, they’re all unified by the core thematic idea of Disney having to introduce the property to a new generation, and how they would carry on the legacy of one of the most widely known franchises in pop culture history. In essence, they made the new Star Wars movies “about” making new Star Wars movies, and with their initial wave of films now concluded with The Rise of Skywalker, it’s time to look at all the Disney Star Wars films, and how the studio’s approach to this problem changed with each film they made.

Cats Has One of the 20 Worst Box Office Opening Weekends Ever

Forget the box office Force not being as strong with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, it was a horrible weekend for Universal’s big holiday outing, Cats.

It appears the hilariously bizarre word of mouth wasn’t enough to garner enough audience interest (especially after truly dismal Cats reviews came out) to make the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical adaptation anything better than a box office disaster. In fact, Cats now ranks as one of the 20 worst opening weekends of a movie in wide-release at the United States domestic box office of all time.

The Witcher Season 2: Mark Hamill Is Game to Play Vesemir

With the first season of Netflix’s The Witcher now available to stream, it’s time to start looking forward to Season 2. There are tons of different characters in the series that Netflix can pull from — and it looks like Mark Hamill might interested in playing Vesemir, an old, wise man.

As pointed out by Redditor Grayjaw on r/TheWitcher, Hamill responded to a Twitter thread in 2018 where someone suggested that he’d be the perfect fit to play Vesemir. While Hamill’s comments are over a year old, the Tweet has recently resurfaced among fans after Season 1 received fairly positive reviews.