Star Wars Visions Reviews – Episode 7: The Elder

Y’know, I have a feeling that part of the reason Trigger got to make two episodes in this series was that they were contractually obliged to make the most “Trigger” thing possible when the made The Twins. The payoff being that they would be able to make this episode as a result. Because this one… this one really did something for me.

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Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 5: Tutorial Over!

Here we are at the end of season 1. It simultaneously feels like its been five minutes and a thousand years since I started this one. Maybe that’s because I spent ages thinking about starting the series in the months between finishing Clone Wars and starting this one.

And now having finished the first season, I can’t get over this feeling that everything I’ve seen so far is just place setting, establishing the pieces before actually jumping into the meat of the story.

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Star Wars Visions Reviews – Episode 6: T0-B1

Well isn’t this just a big old chunk of cute and wholesome. In what is a very clear homage to both the Star Wars and the Astro Boy (Mighty Atom) franchises in a totally different coming together of western and eastern stories, this episode is not what I was expecting at all.

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