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I’m Eric Geller, a cybersecurity journalist living in the Washington, D.C., area. This is my personal blog. All opinions here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.

  • Lucasfilm Every group of heroes needs a group of villains to keep them on their toes. The relatively simple first season of Star Wars Rebels pitted the Ghost crew against one Grand Inquisitor, but with their allies multiplying in Season Two, the rebels needed more enemies, too—and in “Always Two There Are,” we met two…

  • Lucasfilm “Relics of the Old Republic” was everything I could have wanted from an episode of its name. It advanced the story of Kanan’s tense relationship with the clones, as well as Ezra’s more easygoing friendship with them. It brought back memories of The Clone Wars animated series by giving Rex a few bouts of…

  • Lucasfilm Star Wars Rebels returned to television with an episode that felt almost as plodding as an AT-TE on a big-game hunt. If the relationships that developed on that aging walker had involved anyone other than fan-favorite clone troopers, I probably would have been sorely disappointed by “The Lost Commanders.” As it was, I enjoyed…

  • Moving On

    Today is my last day with TheForce.Net, Rebelscum.com, and The ForceCast. I joined the team on May 2, 2009, having been recruited to help with social media. In the six years and six days since then, I’ve had some incredible opportunities, met some fantastic people, and gone to exciting places. I’ve interviewed talented Star Wars…

  • I’ll be at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim (April 16-19) covering the convention for TheForce.Net, Rebelscum.com, and The ForceCast. I’ll be splitting my time between public panels, press events, and activities at the ForceCast booth. I’ve posted my schedule below, in case you’re interested in meeting up with me. You can also follow me on Twitter to see…

  • Recalibrating

    The ForceCast, the podcast that I’ve co-hosted for the past two years, unveiled a new format in this week’s show. At the end of the episode, I made an announcement: Beginning next week, I will no longer be one of the voices welcoming you to the ForceCast. I’m not leaving the network, and you’ll still…

  • I appeared on the TouchVision network to discuss George Lucas’ recent comments about having nothing to do with The Force Awakens and whether the movie is in good hands at Lucasfilm. Post by TouchVision. I had a great time talking to Ken, the producer of the segment, and hope we can connect again in the…

  • “We don’t reboot. We don’t start from scratch,” Leland Chee, Lucasfilm’s continuity database administrator, told Wired’s Chris Baker in a 2008 profile. “When Chewbacca died, he died.” What a difference six years –– and $4.05 billion –– makes. On Friday, April 25, Lucasfilm announced that it was restarting its tie-in literature program. The Expanded Universe of books, comics, short stories,…

  • I’ve been on a few BBC stations talking about the news that Star Wars Episode VII will hold open auditions in the United Kingdom and Ireland. If you want to listen to the interviews, I’ve embedded them below. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118830494″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/118893035″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119042369″ params=”auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700″…

  • Last Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter published an article describing an internal dispute between Disney CEO Bob Iger and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy regarding the appropriate time to release the most eagerly anticipated movie of this decade, Star Wars Episode VII. In lieu of repeating myself, here’s how I summarized it for Suvudu: Kennedy and “most…