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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Star Wars Visions Reviews – Episode 5: The Ninth Jedi

I keep getting surprised by the different takes these animation studios have on the Star Wars Legend. While up till now, there have been a direct line of inspiration from the original trilogy era, like the Duel, this episode works to make something pretty new in its setting and not allow itself to be a slave to the familiar.

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Star Wars: Rebels Revisited – Part 4: A Cavalcade of Cameos

For a series called “Rebels”, I’d kind of thought that the show would be much more focused on, well, y’know… The Rebellion. What we’ve ended up getting has been much more Jedi focused than I’d expected.

If anything, the “Rebellion” we’re seeing here feels like this tiny little pocket of troublemakers pretty much contained in and around the planet of Lothal

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