The Mandalorian: Chapter 1: The Mandalorian Review

Believe it or not we are now officially about five days away from finally getting Star Wars back where it belongs on the big screen. With the lates movie being a film version of The Mandalorian as such there really was no better tie in review to do then then the very first episode of the show as that's the episode that really did introduce these characters to the world and so then join me as I review the episode that gave the world Baby Yoda with the episode in question being called simply just "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when he tasked with finding and killing a mysterious target a long Mandalorian finds his faith shaken when he finds out the target is a baby. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The plot for this episode was one that was kind of refreshing as instead of it hinging on a character deciding to join a war it instead focused on this character who for alot of the episode is portrayed very much as the bad guy choosing to do the right thing. With the plot of the episode using the stranger comes into town and ends up doing something life changing method of telling it's story and to be fair it is something that does work well in this plot as for a large portion of the episodes plot we do have to question if we can trust this unnamed Mandalorian and while yes the plot of this episode could have been better in some respects as the episode does take a good while to really get going with its plot but when it does get its plot moving that's when we get to see just how special that this was in it's early years as this show had to prove that Star Wars could make for a good TV show and what better way to help prove that then by giving us a plot that does make us want to watch not only the next episode but the rest of the first season as well with this episodes plot also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.   

Starring in this episode is Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian , Carl Weathers as Greef Karga and Werner Herzog as The Client. Also starring in this episode is Omid Abtahi as Doctor Pershing , Nick Nolte as the voice of Kuiil , Taika Waititi as the voice of IG-11 , John Beasley as The Bartender , Horatio Sanz as Mythrol , Tait Fletcher as Alpha Trawler , Ryan Watson as Beta Trawler , Dmitrious Bistrevsky as Quarren Trawler , Christopher Bartlett as The Ferryman , Brian Posehn as The Speeder Pilot and Emily Swallow as The Armorer.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. The episodes acting was quite frankly alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this episodes acting should have been really bad due to the fact that we have a main character that not only doesn't speak for a vast majority of the episode but also never shows his face with the episode having to rely on its other actors alot of whom aren't that well known to carry the episode from an acting point of view. Yet even so the best actor in this episode is quite easily Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian as even tho he doesn't say alot of in this episode and he doesn't take his helmet of both of which things that could have been seen as holding an actor back it now means that Pedro has to rely solely on body language alone alot of the time and this is something where he does shine as you can tell from scene to scene if he's feeling angry , sad , happy or confused just by how he is standing with that being something that s hard for any actor to pull off as alot of the time live action actors use there faces to give us those emotions and yet it's when those tools are stripped away from them that we see how good of an actor that they really are with Pedro really getting his character right from the second that he walks on screen as just gives us this mysterious stranger type of vibe that does blend well with the character with it being something that does help to sell you on his performance as the character as well. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's n this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is Important Looking Pirates ,  the legends and the greats that are currently over at Legacy Effects and Virtuos. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Even for a TV show this episodes CGI was of a really high quality with this being something that wasn't totally unexpected as not only do more modern day TV shows have some really good VFX in them but if you look at who was doing the VFX for this episode that it does make alot of sense as to why this episode did have some really good looking VFX in it. The thing that did help the VFX work as well as they do is the fact that this whole show was filmed on a large volume screen with the makers of this episode being to see the effects in real time and won't have to wait months to see them which does mean that the lighting for the effects can now match what was filmed on the day alot more better and while where will always be an argument for filming on location and not on a volume stage when the results are this is good it is something that that does make a strong case for shows being filmed on a volume stage. While the episodes effects do look good they don't look as good as they perhaps could have done with a few of the effects in the episode looking like they came right out of a video game and while it is understandable that not every effect can look good for the first episode especially there should have been more of an effort into making the episodes effects look as good as they possibly could have done.

This episode did of course introduce the world to Baby Yoda with him basically carrying the show for alot of it's run due to the fact that he is so cute. With this being something that the makers of this episode must have realized pretty straight away as in alot of the episodes when things are getting to tense an episode will just cut to him doing something cute just to get the audience to go "Awwwwww" which is fair enough as he is an adorable character but constantly doing that and not letting the tension of the episodes scenes just stay with us does take away from any of the episodes that it's in as while having more comedic moments is still great those moments won't be able to hit as hard when there just undercutting the tension of the scene. Thankfully due to he fact that the character barely appears in this episode we don't get any such scene in this episode and guess what the episode is all the more better because of it as now we the audience are left with an episode where we have to question if this Mandalorian is a good guy or not with us really only finding out that he is somewhat of a good guy at the end of the episode when he sees Grogu and doesn't kill as he was instructed to do so which yes granted is a small moment but its one that works due to the fact that the episode didn't cut away from the more tension filled scenes to a scene where Grogu is acting cute and while yes there is a more comedic scene in the episode that happens when there isn't anything going on in the episode and therefore it has to no scene to undercut the tension from in the first place. To be fair tho the idea of having this supposedly deadly target that this person must kill is a good idea as it makes us wonder what is so powerful about this creature in the first place and it also gives the character of The Mandalorian the chance to reveal the fact that he is somewhat of a good guy by not killing him.

Something that does make this show standout from other pieces of Star Wars media is the fact that this episode is essentially a western. With The Mandalorian acting as the lone character with a dark and shady past as he wonders in to this small town and has his life changed for the better with this being something that is all but confirmed when you take into account that you can here Spurs on the characters boots and the fact that the score for the episode does have more of a Western vibe to it then it does a science fiction action show and yet the episode never really looses the fact that it's set in the world of Star Wars as rather it embraces both the cliches that Westerns and Star Wars media do run into alot of the time. This is something that does make this episode stand out as it would have been very easy for this episode to just be a straight forward science fiction as that is something that you would expect from anything in Star Wars but the fact that the makers went out of there to make this episode feel more like a Western then anything else does show you that they are more then willing to take a chance and show us something that we didn't know we wanted to see in this world with them giving us all of the thigs that one expects to see in a Western but now there given a more Star Wars twist to them which is something that does make those idea and thoughts seem and fresh again. The only thing that does let this episode down quite alot is the fact that for a large portion of the episode it is hard to work out just what the main plot of the episode is meant to be as the episode does spend a large amount of time in showing us The Mandalorian getting ready for this mission and the steps that he takes to even get this mission which is just pointless as they add nothing to the episode as a whole. 

As was mentioned earlier on in this review this episode does have a more comedic scene with The Mandalorian training to use some creatures essentially as a horse. With him falling off every single time this is a cute joke as it does show that this character isn't perfect at everything and given the fact that it is really the only scene like this in the whole entire episode it was also something that was needed as it does give us the audience permission to laugh before things get really serious nearer the end of the episode and with the scene not really undercutting any other scene it also doesn't take away from the episode either. Would the episode have worked just as well if this scene wasn't included yes as it is essentially a nothing scene as nothing about The Mandalorian himself is revealed in that scene but at the same time given the fact that he original trilogy had lots of cute moments where the characters were allowed to be silly and tell a joke and be the but of a joke it is also something that us oddly fitting for this episode. To be frank if this scene was dine differently like maybe we do get to find out something about The Mandalorian then maybe this scene would have worked even more better as then we'd be able to laugh with the character and we'd learn something about him in the process as it is it is a scene that works just as well as this is the calm before the storm in matter of speaking as right after this scene he does go out and finds Grogu after killing several people and droid and while that moment is dark as it can be it works all the more due to the fact that we've just had this moment if light comedy with the character and while the show would go overboard with it's comedy in future seasons here the comedy worked as it was just one scene that didn't undercut the tension of any other scene.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly thirty eight minuets and forty six seconds. This is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show as alot of this shows episodes are around that same time and yet at the same time this episode really could have been longer as it does have alot of plot to set and is just so good that having a longer running time would have made the episode be all the more better as we would get to see more scenes with characters that we really like with this episode having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. However tho the episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely in one regard as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot which is something that is fair enough as this is the first episode but at the same time tho the episode really doesn't add anything to its plot to make it feel fully formed and well though and while yes granted we could get lot more information in regards to this episodes plot in other episodes they are things that should have been added into this episode as you do always want to start with our best foot forward and part of that does include having a fully developed and more well thought out plot. Luckily the episode does take the time to fully develop its main characters as while alot of the shows other main characters either don't appear in this episode or if they do they get very minimal screen time The Mandalorian does go from someone who is the straight up bad guy to going to someone who could be the good guy something which is done rather subtly in the episode by having him kill someone who was about to kill Grogu bug I really will admit that this episode really does gave some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This episode does have some really good action in it with it being made clear as day that the makers of this episode really did put just as much thought and effort into this episodes action then they did everything else in the episode as much like with the films this episodes action was really good and creative with the episode doing a good job of making this character look all the more cool just in it's action scenes alone. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the attack on the homestead that is housing Grogu as we get to see not only just how good of show that The Mandalorian is in the first place something which we do get to see brief glimpses of at the start of the episode but we also get to see alot of cool moments like for example IG-11 taking alot of fire just so The Mandalorian can take out someone with a really big and more powerful gun that's right in front of them with the whole thing just being so cool to watch and while that whole sequence doesn't really last all that long when you think about it it would have been great if that scene had lasted alot more longer just so us the audience could really feel the danger that the characters are as this is basically a life or death situation and while it is a really good action scene just having the characters take there time to to really make the bigger moments be all the more impactful would have made it better with the rest of the episode action scenes being just as well in  my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this was a really good episode only time well tell if The Mandalorian And Grogu will catch on as don't forget alot of the mainstream audiences wouldn't have watched this show in the first place and therefor won't know who these characters are in the first place, with this first episode being a really good debut episode for what was a really good first season of this show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me and RIP Tom Kane.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com  and the official Star Wars fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great the official Star Wars fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

My SPOILER FREE First Impressions Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord

Whilst the whole world right now it rightfully talking about Daredevil: Born Again season 2 what they don't realise is that there is a new Star Wars animated show that's just been released. As while thia show hasn't had the best marketing out there this is a show that really will very easily become a favorite for alot of people as just by going off of these first two episodes alone it does really seem to be a really good show and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE first impressions of the show that will end on May 4th with the show in question being called simply just "Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord" enjoy.

The plot of these first two episodes is when Maul starts planning to take over the underworld now that the jedi are thought to be and he discovers that it might not be as easy as he first thought. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. It's really is safe to say that no one had any idea that the plot for the show let alone these first two episodes was going to be as good as they were as lets be honest here Star Wars plots very recently haven't been the best and yet here we have a couple of episodes that proves that the folks over at Lucasfilm do still know how to make good Star Wars plots as there is alot more thought and effort into the plot of these first two episodes alone then there in the entire sequel trilogy as here you do get to see moments with the characters just talking abut what it is that there going to do next and while yes episode one is the typical set up episode where it's all about setting up the plot of the show that is something that's to expected ad to be fair to this show it is something that does work really well. As foes the fact that the episodes plot really does take it time as even tho this is set not that long after The Clone Wars TV show you do still get to just sit in this world and see how the characters both good and a bad are effected by it with the episodes plot showing us both the goo and bad sides of being both good and evil and it is something that does work for the story that this show is trying to tell with the plot of these episode also being really entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in these episodes is Sam Witwer as Maul , Gideon Adlon as Devon Izara and Chris Diamantopoulos as Looti Vario. Also starring in these episodes is Dave Fennoy as Scorn , David W. Collins as Spybot and Pyke Pilot 1 , Dennis Haysbert as Master Eeko-Dio Daki , Richard Ayoade as Two-Boots , Sam Corlett as Officer Reb , Vanessa Marshall as Rook Kast , Wagner Moura as Brander Lawson , Andrew Kishino as Pyke Captain , Avery Kidd Waddell as Officer Wade , Charlie Bushnell as Rylee Lawson , Keiko Agena as Chief Klyce , Pamela Adlon as Rheena Sul , Sam Corlett as Officer Reb and Steve Blum as Icarus and Pyke Pilot 2.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. To say that these episodes have some really good acting in them would be a huge understatement as both of these first episodes are filled to the brim with good acting with this being something that does make alot of sense as not only do we have actors that are reprising their roles from other animated Star Wars media but we also have actors that are just good actors in there rights with there skills showing through in both of these two episodes alone. With the best actor in both of these episodes being quite easily Sam Witwer as Maul as not only does he have a voice that is creepy in it's own right but it's also just oozing evil with Sam making what is already a really unlikable character now be quite smart and thinking several steps ahead which is something that makes him be more evil with the fact that you get scenes in both of these first two episodes where you get to see the character act and not just the actor as there are scenes where Maul does have to take a minuet and think with Sam's performance really selling you on those more quiet moments with the character. With the acting that's in these episodes really being helped that both of these scripts are just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and as a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these very episodes.

Doing the animation for these episodes is the legends and the great that are currently over at Lucasfilm Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With the animation in both of these episodes being feature film good as that's how breath takingly good that the animation is n both of these episodes and while the animation from The Clone Wars onwards has always been really good no one's going to ever deny them that but here it felt like they were taking what they did in both Rebels and The Clone Wars and took it that extra step as everything in both of these episodes from a character design point of view to background point of view looks like that it could very easily belong in a live action movie or even an animated movie as that's how good that they look. With the thing that helps to sell you on the animation being being the lighting as that is something that never gets talked about when people mention animation and yet here in both of these episodes it is something that is worth talking about as it does help to sell you on this world and it helps to make this world feel more real and lived in and while a large part of episode 1 is set at night and therefor we don't get to see much colors the colors that we get to see in episode 2 look all the more better because of the fact that the lighting for this show seems to be really good. Heck the same thing is also true for the characters movements as they all have movements that look good with it being made clear as day that the makers of these episodes put alot of thought and effort into these episodes animation and it is something that does pay off as this show looks visually stunning to look at. 

Without giving away to much of what happens in these first two episodes it does seem like that they are going to reveal something big about Brander Lawson. Due to the fact that it does feel like that he might know a bit more then what he's letting on about when it comes to Maul as he refuses to get the Empire involved with this which is something that does make him seem like a good guy but at the same time the Empire didn't really let the public know that they were evil therefor it makes no sense for him to be distrusting of them especially as this show is meant to be set not that long after the events of The Clones Wars. However tho there is a good chance that this character does really no nothing about Maul and is basically acting as the audience surrogate character in that he's the one that's going to be asking all of the questions about him which is something that would be fine as he is meant to be a police officer but given the fact that Maul is essentially a war criminal it also wouldn't make sense that no police officer wouldn't know a thing about him all of which does make you wonder if by episode ten of this first season are we going to find something about Lawson as they can't make him a Jedi as that would be to obvious but what they could do is make him someone who once worked with Maul in the past or maybe he met Maul during the events of The Clone Wars which us something that is plausible. However tho there's one thing that makes me think that there's more to him then meets the eye as in episode 2 we find out that he's divorced single father and yet when his son has the opportunity to go and see his mother who he clearly loves Brander says to wait until he can go with him this is despite the fact that the son is more then old enough to see her on his own this could be for nothing and he could just be genuinely caring father however the episode wouldn't have added a scene like that if it wasn't leading to something bigger down the line.

Disney have done this show so dirty with it's marketing as there hasn't been a big push for this show at all as there's only been one teaser and I think one trailer plus a small handful of posters for the entire show. Which is something that does say that they might not have had much faith in the show to begin with however given the fact that they have given the show a season 2 renewal does seem to hint that they have come round to it either way tho there won't be alot of people that know that this show is even out now let alone that's been made in the first place which is a shame as this might be one of the more better things to come out of Disney era Star Wars due to the fact that it does have people working on it behind the scenes that do care for the characters and that do care for this franchise as a whole and want to see it back in the good graces of the fans that got made it as well as it once was in the first place. However tho those fans won't be able to do that if they don't know about the show coming out in the first place and while yes good word of mouth could also get the numbers up on Disney+ for the show weather or not those numbers will stay high for episodes 3 and 4 is not certain and that's something that would have been more certain if this show was marketed alot more better as there's not been one single social media post about the show which is where alot of this shows target fanbase will be this is not to say that they won't watch the trailer on Youtube and want to check it out because they could do but only doing one teaser and one full trailer weeks ago with nothing inbetween does mean that people are going to forget about this show even being a thing in the first place. 

Let's talk about Devon Izara as there is something that is revealed about this character in the shows second episode which is something that if you payed close attention to what was said by Eeko-Dio Daki in episode one it's something that you'll be able to work out right away. As in episode one just as she's about to steal some fruit he says "you can always rely on the kindness of strangers" now this might not seem like nothing but that is something that a Jedi would say with that one little line of dialog also being something that makes Devon not steal the fruit which again shows that she's good at heart which again is something that a Jedi is. This is something that makes the thing that gets revealed about her in episode two not all that surprising when it is something that should been a big shocking moment and yet as it was already pretty much signposted in the previous episode as heck she doesn't give Brander her name when she gets taken to the local police station thus hinting even further that she's on the run this is something is a bit of a negative aspect for me personally as if the makers of these episodes wanted that moment to be this big earth shattering reveal then they really should have had scenes in the first episode that show that she can be a bit a bad character like maybe she takes a minuet before deciding not to steal the fruit or maybe she given Brander a fake name just small things like that would go along way to make her big reveal as a force user in episode two all the more shocking. Yet on the flip of this tho is the face that we don't get to see Devon use her Jedi skills for all of the first episode with her only outing herself in the second episode when she has to stop a freeway from falling on her and even then she needed help to do it which is something that does say that she took the fact that she was essentially on the run very seriously.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty eight minuets and eighteen second whilst episode two of this show has /had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and nine seconds. With episode one being the more better running time this is despite the fact that episode two might have the running time that's more similar to what the other running times will be like for the rest of this show with both of these episodes having the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running times yet tho episode one has the better running time as everything about the show is just so good and therefor with episode one being longer it does give us the audience more time to get to know these new characters and to spend more time in the world of this show. However tho tho both of the episodes really don't use there respective running times all that wisely as none of them take the time to fully develop there plots this is something that does somewhat make sense as these are the first episodes of a new show and therefor of course the episodes aren't going to have plots that are that well developed but they both still could have taken the time to add things to either plot that makes them more well developed then what they are in the first place. This is also the same case for the episodes lack of character character development as of course none of this shows characters are going to be that well developed but it still would have been nice if the ground work was done for the character development to feel more natural since as of right now it does feel like that any character development that the characters cold get will come out of nowhere and be against just who they are as characters but I really will admit that these episodes really do have some really pacing to them tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that' actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I im all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes was in all honesty really good. With both of the shows first two episodes having some really good action scenes in them both of which do tell that Lucasfilm does still know how to give us some really cool looking action scenes as that's what all of the action scenes un both of these episodes are with it being helped by the fact that both the animation and the lighting really do help to make the actin in these episodes come alive as there action scenes that are just lit by Maul's lightsaber which is just such a cool idea. With the best action scene in both of these episodes being quite hard to choose as both episodes really do have some really good action in them however if push did indeed come to shove i'd say that the best action scene in both episodes is the escape scene in episode one as we get to see Maul take on several police officers all at once without even breaking a sweat and while yes that scene is very similar to the one in Rogue One here it's done in such that it does make it feel new again as we've never seen Maul in a situation where he has to take on this many people just to get to this one prisoner and that is something that does make that scene so much fun to watch with it being helped by the fact that we get to see Maul do a lot of really cool moves with his double ended lightsaber with these episodes action scenes being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if you didn't know about this show in the first place now you do and it is a show that does come very highly recommend as while it might not be the show that saves Star Wars it is the show that proves there really is still life to be found in this franchise yet as that's how good that these episodes are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in both of these episodes in this very post and as this is only my first impressions of this show there won't be a rating given but if i'm still watching the show when the final episode airs then I will do a review of the revival as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very episodes with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Star Wars: Visions Volume Three SPOILER FILLED Review

When people think of animated Star Wars shows they always think of shows like Star Wars Rebels or Star Wars: The Clone Wars. They do however never think of the anime show with this show being one of if not the most underrated pieces of modern Star Wars media as not alot of people talk about and well the new season of this show has finally dropped and well you all just knew that I had to check out this new season the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the season that sees us catching up with old friends and making new ones with the show in question being called simply just "Star Wars: Visions" enjoy.

As with both of the previous seasons of this show this show is an anthology show and therefor doesn't have one main plot as all nine of the shows episodes all have different plots to them. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in this very season well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty very mixed. With there being some plots that worked really well like for example the plot for episode two "The Song Of Four Wings" was a really decent plot and one that really did fit well within the short film format of the show but on the flip side of that we have episodes like "BLACK" and "The Lost Ones" with Black not even having a plot as it's just a collection of animated images and that's really it and the plot to "The Lost Ones" just being kind of dull not bad persay but not good either but when we do get an episode with a good plot like episode four "The Bounty Hunters" it really does shine and stand out because it shows us just how good that this show could be when it has some decent plots to it and while we do get glimpses of that all throughout this season this is a case where the bad episodes really do bring the season down due to how bland or just OK that there plots are alot of the time and yet if the season had more good plots in it or just improved upon the episodes with the bad plots then the season as a whole would be a whole more stronger with the plots that are in this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Brian Tee as Ronin , Emma Myers as Chita , Karen Fukuhara as F and Kimiko Glenn as Kara. Also starring in this show is Aki Toyosaki as Woopas , Anna Sawai as Sevn , Kenta Miyake as A Stormtrooper , Liam Karlsson as Yuko , Ronny Chieng as IV-A4 , Sonoya Mizuno as Nakime , Stephanie Hsu as Crane , Tsuyoshi Koyama as A Stormtrooper , Andrew Kishino as Juro , Frank Todaro as Unda , Freddie Highmore as Teto , Gary Littman as CZ-D16 , George Takei as The Toad , Harvey Guillén as BILY and Darth Bear , James Sie as Master , Jodie Turner-Smith as En O , Jonathan Lipow as Oyabun Que Dama , Joseph Lee as Jin-Sim Canbelon , Judith Light as Gleenu , Julian Paz Fedorov as Sola , Kimberly Brooks as Joona , Lincoln Bonilla as Leon , Major Attaway as Anda , Mark Strong as Shad-Rah Varcanella / Zero , Masi Oka as Ethan , Patrick Seitz as Homen and A Yakuza Trooper , Ryan Potter as Ron , Simu Liu as Zhima , Steve Buscemi as Fox Ear , Suzy Nakamura as Anée-san , Tanner Buchanan as Arloo , Trevor Devall as Admiral Kiucee , Victoria Grace as Aman , Will Sharpe as Grand Master and Zoe Rux as Karin.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. Which is something that does make alot of sense as not only are a bunch of actor reprising their respective roles from Volume 1 of this show and there for have somewhat of an idea of how best to portray there respective characters but alot of this shows actors are a bunch of really good actors in their own right as well be from acting in front of the camera or voice acting with that skill really coming though in this season as all of this shows actors really do know how to turn in a good performance with there not really being a single bad actor in this show and while yes some actors are better then others in this season as Liam Karlsson is pretty wooden as Yuko but at the same time with an anthology show that was always going to be the case as your always going to get actors that are better in other episodes and that are better then other actors in this show with perhaps the best actor in this whole entire season being Freddie Highmore as Teto as he turns in a performance that can have you laughing one minuet and then in the very same scene he'll say something that is utterly heartbreaking and it is something that does come through in his performance as the character with it even making Teto one of if not the best character in the whole season with the acting that's in this very show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.

Doing the animation for this show is Kamikaze Douga , ANIMA , Project Studio Q , Production I.G , Wit Studio , Kinema Citrus , Studio Trigger , Polygon Pictures and David Production. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with the animation for the show as a whole being of a really standard but in saying that tho there are some episodes that don't have the best quality animation in them like for example "Yuko's Treasure" where the animation does look a little bit flat almost as if it's trying to copy Toei Animation's style instead of just being it's own unique thing but one things for sure tho and that's he fact all of this episodes animation is of a better quality then the animation seen in One Punch Man season 3 as here there's actual motion with things moving all of the time with all of the episodes having a lot of detail be it in there backgrounds in the character designs with newcomers to the series Polygon Pictures proving why they are the go to studio in Japan for 3D CGI animation as there episode "The Bird Of Paradise" is perhaps the best animated episode in this batch of episodes and while the studios that you expect great work from like Trigger , Wit and Production I.G it's the more lesser known studios really do shock you with how good that there animation is and while the bigger studios do still indeed have high quality animation in their respective episodes you expect it from them and therefor it's not all that surprising when it turns that there episodes have high quality animation but with the lesser known studios that's where you get to some truly wonderful piece of animation.

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If you were expecting a sequel episode to the episode The Twins then prepared to be let down as that's one of the episodes from Volume 1 that actually doesn't get a sequel episode this season with there being sequels to "The Ninth Jedi" , "The Duel" and "The Village Bride" with the rest of this season being new stories. However tho the fact that a good chunk of this season is made up of sequel episodes does say that the makers of those episodes either A couldn't be bothered to come up with original stories and so just went back to what they knew would work or B just didn't have the time to come up with original stories which is something that does seem to be case for "The Duel: Payback" and "The Lost Ones" as they both feel like there original episodes almost to a fault with even The Duel's sequel episode even having kind of a similar plot to it just with a different set up as in this new episode Ronin has to team up with a Sith when a Jedi seeking revenge for something that Ronin did in his past comes hunting him down with the only thing that sets this episode apart from The Duel being the fact that it has an action scene inside of an At-At and that's really it but with the sequel for The Ninth Jedi tho there is somewhat of an excuse as to why that episode is basically a pilot episode as there is going to be a spinoff show airing next yea called Star Wars Visions Presents with The Ninth Jedi being turned into a full length anime series with this seasons sequel episode basically being a pilot episode to that show with the episode even ending on a To Be Continued as well but for the other two episodes there really was no excuse for them to be as similar to the original episodes as they ended up being as all that does is remind people of the original episode.

Whilst the first Volume of this show is so far the best one due to the fact that it has the more engaging stories in it. This season does have some really good episodes as well with the likes of "The Bounty Hunters" for example being a really good example of that due to the fact that episode not only has a really good plot but also has some really good characters in it as well with Sevn being a good example of just how to do a modern strong female character as she does have a past where she was a slave only to be freed by a Jedi but when it turns out that in the eyes of the people that she was a slave for they saw it as her betraying them something which she denies with her even having this attitude where she thinks that she knows everything when in fact she knows nothing being something that does come back to bite her in this season as she and her robot companion get hired to take on what they think are a bunch of rebels causing harm to this one person's business but it turns out that the person that hired them is the true evil one all along and seeing her work that all throughout the episode and have this back and forth with her robot companion is something that does help to make the character seem alot more likable then what she really had any right and while Teto is the best new character for me just due to how entertaining that he was this is the character that could very easily lead a series of her own as there's so much to explore with her character that it really would seem like a waste to just have her in this one episode and then never hear from her again where as if the character was given more episodes in the future or perhaps even a full anime series of her own then she very easily could become one of the best new characters that Disney has ever introduced into the world of Star Wars

Episode was we do have alot of really good episodes this year with there really only being two episodes that aren't that good with those oddly enough being the last two episodes of the season. As those episodes "The Bird Of Paradise" and "BLACK" just aren't that fun to watch with "The Bird Of Paradise" being a confusing episode that is bor9ng at the best of times and confusing , hard to follow and just flat out boring at the worst of times as very little actually happens in that episode that advances what could have been a really good premise with a Padawan learning what it truly means to be a Jedi which is a really good premise it's just one that needed to be handled alot more better then what it actually was and that's it. With "BLACK" on the other hand despite it's really unique premise with it trying to tell the story of a stormtrooper going into battle but how it's done makes it feel like your high as a kite as none of the visuals barely make any sense whatsoever which does make that episode hard to follow with that episode being one that is better of being dropped from the show as a whole as much like with "The Bird Of Paradise" not much actually happens only here you can barely make it what's actually meant to be happening in the first place which is something that really does make that episode alot more hard to follow with "The Bird Of Paradise" being an episode that might have been better served being earlier on in the season as having to bad episodes released back to back does make the season come to an end on a bit of a bad note and while that would still be a case with "BLACK" at least then it would just be the one episode that ends it like that and not the two of them.

Now then these episodes has / had an exact grand total running time on no longer then twenty three minuets. With episode running times ranging from the shorter thirteen minuets with the longest one being twenty two minuets with alot of these episodes having just about the right amount of running time to cover there respective running times however tho in saying that tho alot of these episodes don't really use there running times all that wisely as alot of them don't take the time that they really do need to fully develop there plots and whilst this is understand for "The Ninth Jedi: Child Of Hope" as that episode is of course the pilot episode to The Ninth Jedi anime it's not excusable for an episode like "The Smuggler" where despite it having a really good premise and one that does hold alot of promise it's plot is one that could have benefitted from being alot more fleshed out then what it already was with the same thin being true for alot of this shows characters as well as all of the characters barring Sevn aren't that well developed but they all do have alot of promise to be really good characters they just needed to be alot more well thought out with characters like Yuko and BILLY being very one dimensional characters that were done better in early eighties family sitcoms but given that these episodes don't have alot of time to fully develop either the plots or there characters and still tell a good story it is understandable why alot of them aren't that well developed and it doers mean that we have to really get behind the characters that are really well done like Ronin and Sevn for example as those are good examples of just how to do good characters in a short amount of running time but I really will admit that these episodes really do have some really pacing to them tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I av e to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With this shows action apart from it's animation being the part of the show as its in this shows action that we get to see alot of really cool pieces of animation all of which do look really good with all nine of this shows episodes having some really good looking action in them and while none of them will match the action from the films these episodes are still worth watching just for the action alone with the best action in the whole show going to "The Bounty Hunters" as we not only get to see a really cool chase scene in space with our main heroes trying to out run a bunch of other spaceships while only just getting by herself but we also get to see a really cool fight in the end when she and her robot companion team up with the rebels to take on the evil boss who fights them whilst wrapped in robot armour which is just such a cool fight scene as it shows of not only how much of a bada*s that Sevn really is as we get to see her thinking on her feet alot of time whilst trying to keep her new friends safe but we also get to see that she can really hold her own in a fight something which is important for a bounty hunter to do and with her episode being done by Studio Trigger her action scenes do have that Trigger flair to them that makes them stand out from all of the action scene in this season which are also really good in their own right as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall with The Mandalorian And Grogu coming out next year it is save to say that we still able to get some quality Star Wars content with this season being a good example of that and even tho its not as good as Volume 1 was its still alot more better then what Volume 2 is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that re in this very show in this very review and that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Star Wars Visions: The Ninth Jedi Review

We are less then a week away before not only the return one of the most really underrated Star Wars TV shows be it live action or animated but also the return of seeing Star Wars done in anime form. As Star Wars Visions Volume 3 will see the show be an anime again and with possibly the first three episodes of that new batch episodes all being sequel episodes to episodes from volume 1 it only really made sense that I check out one of those episodes and so then join me as I review the episode that sees alot of Sith really trying to kill this one girl with the episode in question being called simply just "The Ninth Jedi" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when her father is kidnapped his young force sensitive daughter must take six lightsabers to a temple in the hopes of finding six jedi who will help her rescue him the Sith. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as the plot of this episode is one that does work in he short film format with it being epic enough to be apart of the Star Wars universe but also small enough that it doesn't overtake what was done in the movies either with this episodes plot being one of the more underrated plots of the show as it shows how a father and daughter can and was effected by the Sith which was something that the movies never got into at least directly and because of that this episodes plot does come across as being more weird and quite out there as a plot which is something that is great as Star Wars can now be this thing that given the right show and the right plot can go to those weird places with the only thing that doesn't really work about this episodes plot being the fact that nothing is really set up with it just feeling like that these characters are just doing these things for no reason and while that is something that could get fixed in the upcoming spin off series next year for this episode it was something that does make the episodes plot seem more like one of the weaker plots of Volume 1 of this show with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Kimiko Glenn as Lah Kara , Simu Liu as Lah Zhima and Andrew Kishino as Margrave Juro / Steward Droid. Also starring in this episode is Heroes star Masi Oka as Ethan , Greg Chun as Roden , Eva Kaminsky as Niizo , Patrick Seitz as Homen , Michael Sinterniklaas as Hen Jin and A Jedi Hunter , Adam Sietz as Hanbei , Kyle McCarley as Toguro and A Jedi Hunter , JP Karliak as The Boatman Droid and Neil Kaplan as The Narrator.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With all of this episodes actors turning some really good performances which was something that was kind of really surprising as alot of this episodes actors haven't done voice acting before and are most well known for doing live action work and yet they did still manage to turn in some really good vocal performances in this episode and while they won't ever be topping the episodes trained voice actors that's more due to the fact that those actors have had more experience in doing voice roles then what the more experienced live action actors have had and that's really it with the episodes best actor being Kimiko Glenn as she brings a warmth to the character that might have been lost in translation somewhere down the line whilst still managing to make her a bit of a cheeky character that audiences might like and while her character could be seen as being a bit bland her acting as the character was one that really good and was something that does show that when given the right script actors is a Disney Star Wars project can act really well with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Production I.G. Now then interms of what I( personally thought / felt abut the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in thus very episode was in all honesty really good with this being something that's not really all that surprising given that the fact that both the studio and the writer and director that worked on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex worked on this episode with Production I.G. being one of the best animation studios in Japan due to their high quality output something which was proven yet again in this episode as while this episodes animation wasn't as good as the animation in any of their feature films it was still top notch stuff with them blending 3D CGI animation really well with 2D backgrounds and 2D characters with there being a phenomenally well done chase scene through a forest and onto a frozen lake that is a good example of just how well done the 3D and 2D elements are in the episode with all of this episodes characters having some really nice and fluid movements to them with the episodes backgrounds being as highly detailed as they could have been given the fact that this episode mostly takes place in locations where it would have been hard to get the backgrounds to be highly detailed with the only thing that lets the episodes animation down the being the fact that there's nothing really done animation wise that makes the episode stand out from alot of the other episodes in this particular volume as alot of the other episodes have something in them that makes there animation stand out whereas this episode was lacking that despite the fact that the animation itself was of a really high quality.

Like alot of the episodes of this show this one does take place at a new point in the Star Wars timeline with this one being set thousands of years after the events of The Rise Of Skywalker. Which is a really solid idea as it then means that the episode won't be bogged down by either what's to come in the Star Wars timeline and nor would have it follow the continuity or what's come before it in the Star Wars timeline as this is an era that really hasn't been explored at all with it being discovered that in the years after that film the jedi had become basically extinct again with the sith once again raising up to take power and lightsabers basically falling into myth and legends which would be a good idea where it not for the face that the sith themselves are still using lightsabers which does defeat the point of them becoming myths and legends with this being something that could have been fixed if it was stated at the start of the episode that the sith now operate in hiding as to avoid loosing there power to the jedi once again as then it would be understandable why no one has heard of a lightsaber but because they don't do that it now makes you wonder why someone making lightsabers is meant to be a big deal as there still things that people know about in the first place but to give the episode credit the very idea of setting up thousands of years after the events of the last film is a good idea as now it means that the makers of this episode could do anything that they wanted and it could all possibly happen as this is meant to an episode that is potentially canon to the main films which is something that does make it exciting as anything could happen in this part of the timeline and it would all be fresh and new and if done right it would also be good as well.

While Star Wars has lets be honest here had a lot of trouble with making female characters recently one of the ones that it seems to be sleeping on is this episodes main character Lah Kara. As while she's not as strong as how Disney and Lucasfilm wants us to believe that Rey Palpatine is what she is on the other hand is street smart with her having to outwit Jedi Hunters using nothing more then her wits and a lightsaber that her dad built for her to use and that's it as she's had no Jedi training and yet she still comes across as being this really lovable character that you want to see more off and that you want to spend more time with with her even being someone who does deeply love her father so much that she willingly goes on this highly dangerous mission to give these supposed Jedi in this temple some lightsabers even tho she knows deep down tat they might not even help her track and down and rescue her dad anyway but she does it because of the love that she bares for her father with this love being something that was never shown in any of the recent Star Wars movies as Disney and Lucasfilm think that the only way to make a strong female character to make her stronger then every other character there is and make her faultless when all that does is make the character boring as there's no were to go but down when you do that and yet here with Lah Kara she has her faults as she is to trusting of people and she isn't the smartest bulb out there and yet it's seeing her overcome those faults and make them into her strengths that makes her a strong female character and while yes she could have been done alot more better then what she was given the fact that this was only what is basically a short film she turned as well as she was ever going to be.

Whilst there are alot of pluses to be found with this episode there was one thing that doesn't really work with the episode and that's the fact that not only was a bunch of the Jedi that we meet at the start of the episode actually sith posing as Jedi to gain Kara and Ethen's trust but they also couldn't defeat just a small handful of people despite them having a huge numbers advantage. In fact Kara , Ethen and the hidden Jedi Juro end up defeating five of them whilst taking the sixth one with them after it's revealed that they were imposters influence when really FIVE trained sith should be able to take done to jedi and one force sensitive little girl if the makers of this episode were going to have our heroes in that kind of situation in the first place then at least make sure it's a fight with numbers that they could feasibly win against otherwise all that does is not only make you wonder why the sith didn't beat them handily as nothing in the episode is said about any of our heroes being a particularly strong jedi or force sensitive person and it also makes your villains look weak as they just got beat by a little girl who's only just worked out how to handle a lightsaber in the first place but tho the idea of the having the sith hide in the shadows is a good one as it does mean that any character they we meet in any piece of Star Wars media could be a bad guy and we just wouldn't know it yet which is a great way of creating tension as it means that are heroes could get attacked at any moment and it's an idea that could work so well in either the movies or other TV shows but in saying that tho it does run the risk of becoming played out if it's done to often and is really only something that would work if it's done well.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and forty one seconds. Which is a perfectly fine running time for the episode to have as alot of the episodes in this show have very strikingly similar running times to them with this episode have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place but in saying that this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely in the first place as the plot of the episode isn't that well developed which is something that does make sense when you take into account that this episode was originally going to be a two parter with one episode focusing of Kara getting the lightsabers to the Jedi and the other focusing on the Sith with it being decided to put both plots together which is something that does make the episodes plot more epic but at the same time tho it does mean that that the episode can't develop it's plot as it has to squeeze two stories together and can't really focus on just one of them which is something that would have allowed for the episode to develop it's plot alot more instead of just focusing on the one plot with this episodes plot at best feeling like a pilot episode to a TV show. With the episodes characters not really being that well developed either with this also being as a result of the fact that the episode is squeezing two of it's plots together as we know nothing about any of the characters in this episodes coming out of it then we did going on but this is the risk you take when your doing something that's a part of an anthology series but to be fair tho this episodes characters do come across as being alot more better then what they really could have been but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is an action episode that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt tat the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode having some really good looking action scenes in it all of which do take as full advantage of the fact that this is an animated show as is humanly possible but sadly tho this episode only has two action scenes and while both of them are really good it would have been nice if we had at the very least one more with the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the bike chase scene through the forest as even tho it's not something that lasts very long it is something that gives us a chance to see just how inventive that Lah Kara is as she spins her bike round on a frozen lake and runs towards her foe not aiming at her foe but rather his bike as that's something that will slow him down and will stop them from chasing her which whilst it is a small thing is something that does go to show you just how smart that she is a character and while the big fight scene at the end with her , Ethen and Juro being attacked by the five sith is a pretty cool action scene in it's own right it also something that could be seen as a being really generic whereas the bike chase scene is something that does make this episode stand out from all of the other episodes as it's not really something that was done in all of the other episodes of this show despite the fact that it is something that could have worked for any of this shows episodes due to how simple the basic set up of the scene is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it's not hard to see why this episode along with The Duel and The Village Bride are due to be getting sequel as the ending of the episode itself does make it feel like a pilot episode to a TV show with this episode being one of the most underrated episodes of this show despite the fact that this episode really is a good episode in it's own right and is a good example of just how weird that Star Wars can be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all pf the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.