This week’s episode of The Mandalorian featured the surprisingly important return of R5-D4 — an astromech droid that Din Djarin ended up taking to Mandalore. What you may not have known is that you’ve ...

If you don’t recognize R5-D4, the astromech droid was one of R2-D2’s fellow droid prisoners in the Jawas’ sandcrawler on Tatooine, during the opening act of Star Wars: A New Hope. In the original ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The following contains spoilers from The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 2 (now streaming on Disney+). When The Mandalorian (aka Din Djarin, ...

Are droids alive? In the Star Wars galaxy, this isn't purely a philosophical question. It's connected to biological questions about midi-chlorians, said to exist in the cells of all living things and ...

A battle droid in 'Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace'; A GH-7 analysis droid in 'Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith'; R5-D4 in 'Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope' If there's one ...

It initially seemed like a happy little accident. In the original Star Wars, Uncle Owen intended to buy C-3PO but not R2-D2, separating the longtime friends. In his poor judgment, he picked R5-D4 to ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Apr 27, 2019 at 5:49 pm April 27, 2019 at 5:56 pm ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 3 Episode 2 of The Mandalorian. It is in the nature of The Mandalorian to decorate its episodes with Easter eggs from the past — droids, ...

In a world in which most movies are available at the touch of a button – or the touch of a button and a rental fee; or, in some rarer cases, the touch of a button and a disc shows up a couple days ...