Star Wars Television

Young Jedi Adventures – The Lost Jedi Ship

  • Title: Young Jedi Adventures – The Lost Jedi Ship
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While searching the Jedi Temple’s library, Kai Brightstar (Jamaal Avery Jr.), Lys Solay (Juliet Donenfeld), and Nubs (Dee Bradley Baker) stumble upon a hidden room behind some rubble and a star map to the Star Seeker, a ship lost centuries ago. With the permission of Master Zia (Nasim Pedrad), and calling on Nash Durango (Emma Berman) for a ride, the group go in search of the lost ship leading to an asteroid field and a deserted planet where they find the ship and run into a new friend 0G-LC (Michael Sinterniklaas) who lost his courage after crashlanding years before and just needs a little encouragement to get back into space.

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Young Jedi Adventures – Nash’s Race Day

  • Title: Young Jedi Adventures – Nash’s Race Day
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In an episode about good sportsmanship and not cheating, Kai Brightstar (Jamaal Avery Jr.), Lys Solay (Juliet Donenfeld), and Nubs (Dee Bradley Baker) join Nash Durango (Emma Berman) onboard her skiff the Crimson Bolt in an attempt to win the Kublop Classic race. Nash’s rival, the rich and super-competitive Raena Zess (Danielle Guilbot), is the group’s only real competition. Presented as a mean girl, who cheats to win, the episode softens on her when she learns the Jedi weren’t using the Force to help Nash leading to a final stretch of honest racing and good sportsmanship all around. While the shift in Raena might give you whiplash, there’s a nice message here for kids.

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Young Jedi Adventures – The Young Jedi / Yoda’s Mission

  • Title: Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures – The Young Jedi / Yoda’s Mission
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As much Disney as Star Wars, with a focus on programming for a younger audience, the opening episode of Young Jedi Adventures introduces us to the three most rambunctious students of the Jedi Temple 200 years before The Phantom Menace through a pair of loosely connected adventures. Almost too cute, the show certainly fits into the preschool demographic with lessons for the kids to learn at every turn and no real danger to the various action sequences involving the trio’s training or battling the young pirate Taborr Val Dorn (Trey Murphy).

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The Mandalorians – The Return

  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 24: The Return
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The Third Season of The Mandalorian comes to a close with the battle over Mandalore, and, as I correctly called, not a single hero met their deaths in the action-packed but pretty predictable final episode. Even the most minor of the Mandalorian clan make it out of the battle without a scratch. There’s plenty of action here involving the Mandalorians fighting the Imperial Commandos of Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) and destroying the Imperial Remnant facility which I’m assuming must have had a greater purpose than just feed Gideon’s ego and secret experiments.

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The Mandalorians – Guns for Hire / The Spies

  • Title: The Mandalorian – Chapter 22: Guns for Hire / Chapter 23: The Spies
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The two episode building to the season finale focus on bringing the Mandalorian tribes back together and the return to their homeworld. Well, that is except for another side quest that takes up 90% of “Guns for Hire,” but at least this one involves our main character. Feeling like a mix of world building and rehash of previously defeated villains, with some odd Asimov-ish droid plot thrown in, neither episode is bad but neither really focuses on either the characters or the plot offering something new. That’s not to say there aren’t enjoyable moments, such as Grogu thoroughly enjoying his new murderous mode of transportation (which also allows him to more easily communicate to the other characters).

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