User Reviews

After two stories on the dark side, we get a proper heroic story for this third edition of the second run of "Star Wars Visions". Chilean studio Punkrobot provide us with a beautiful looking and unique story, that (presumably) draws on local mythology for its themes.

Koten (Valentina Muhr) and her sister Tichina (Julia Oviedo) are the only survivors of the Empirical invasion of their home world. The Empire has been ravaging the planets resources and polluted the air and water, making their base the only source of clean water in the area. Whereas Koten is fearful of losing her sister, Tichina, inspired by their force sensitive mother who was killed, wants to storm the base an destroy it. Tichina follows Koten on a mission to steal some water and is captured.

I've not seen anything from Punkrobot before, and their website seems like they like to go in for a few different styles of animation. This feels like stop motion animation, though I'm prepared to accept that it might be using CGI to complete that effect, either way it looks wonderful and the characters movement, as well as the special effects elements work really well. Performances are OK and I did recognise Kate Dickie's voice before confirming it in the end credits.

It's in service of a pretty good story this time too, there's a "Moana" vibe to the mythology of the painting of the hands and the stories passed on. One that you suspect really knows a thing or two about technologically superior invading forces. The action though is good once Tichina is captured and Koten's rescue mission begins. This is the first one to involve some Imperial vehicles this season and the sound effects alone are glorious, but they work within the story.

Not perhaps quite as strong as the previous episode but ultimately it was good this one.

It's conceptually stunning, and every shot is well lit, colored and set up. The story is pretty simple, but it's a good adventure none the less and fits well into the SW universe. What lets this episode down is the skipped frames in the stop-motion animation. It's just too jerky, and I found it distracting. At first I seriously thought there might be an issue with my hardware or bandwidth that was causing skipped frames. I knew it was stop-motion but I thought there's no way this is so intentionally stuttery. Unfortunately, it is. If they'd at least doubled the frames where there was a lot of action or movement it might have saved it.

Has OK art stile used but why all female again and the sound actor is poor and sounds bad like did for the first one especially for the sisters. And little sister was honestly a bit annoy but understandable and kinda how expected her to act so well done there I suppose. Also the music in this was not great but could if been much much worse.

Want to keep this short but the whole 500 words minimum again being a pain lol, to all who thought this was great good for you.

Probably only review for this season will write hear had and interesting kinda hopeful ending which was nice though.

(Previous one probably best so far for Disney star wars.)

A solid enough episode.

The younger sibling making blatantly wrong choices and outright being annoying... kind of annoyed me! I don't know, this might just be me, but I didn't care much about her. Not until the climax I guess.

Still a decent episode overall. The population storyline has been done turn and time again, as has the fight against brutal colonizers, but I think the animation and Star Wars setting saved it a bit for me. It's a decent episode overall. Not the amazing tear-jerker some are saying, but far from the garbage others are saying it is. I don't really have much more to say about it. Good voice work and animation again!

After the dissappointing second episode of this season, the third is a bit better again and gives me hope for the following episodes!

The art style is great and the story is exciting. A good old fight against the empire. Only thing I kind of find a bit stupid is that in all three episodes we got female leads. This is not bad, it works pretty good but I also want to see some boys fighting against the empire since that is mainly there task.

Nevertheless this epiaode is an improvement! The studio behind it invested a lot, you can see that on the breathtaking visuals! However I am still waiting for the big banger!

The story is not even worth discussing, as it is a lazily assorted pile of cliches - which is in general my main complaint with Visions. Very few of the episodes actually try to have a story. Here, you also get the most lazy exposition mechanism imaginable (character explaining to her sister the plot background, even though said sister already knows, obviously), lazy plot devices like 'child doing silly thing after being told not to', the laziest of villains, and all in all, what you get is an exercise in style, with zero substance.

It's a shame, because the animation is actually very nice and the action scenes good, but the absence of effort, together with the honestly very poor English voice acting for Tichina, make this merely a 'meh'.

The more episodes I watch from this show, the more I realize this show is written for children (duh I guess) and it was a mistake even considering watching it. I guess an anthology anime Star Wars series sounded like a good idea at first. And coming off of Love Death + Robots, I expected something similar, and the downward spiral of this show is also very similar to Love and Robots', but at least that show has better animation and writers.

Not to say this show's animation is bad or anything, the first episode of this season had amazing animation and it was somewhat innovative and made the episode more interesting. But for the whole show, it's just hit-or-miss.

I'm really not a big fan of this type of story where there is a village where evil comes to and kills the parents of the protagonist who is a child, and cast a shadow over the land and curses it and the protagonist has to go to a mountain or something and defeat the evil so light could shine upon the land again and win the day. There is also flute music playing, it's always a flute theme with these types of stories. In fact, I hate it. I cannot give two shts about the protagonist or his/her dead parents. Kena had this premise and Kubo and the Two Strings I think also had this story, but I liked that one. I just think it's the most overdone type of story in children's media and it's a go-to for writers whenever they have zero new ideas for a story. Now add an annoying little child doing stupid things and not listening to the adult and somehow winning the day in the end, and you have yourself a pretty good method of torture for adults.

And not even considering the specific story we've seen a million times before in children's shows and movies, which I might be the only one not liking and everybody else enjoys; the whole goodie good good guy Jedi defeats the evil Sith bad dudes is so overdone and pointless I don't even understand how people keep giving these episodes 10/10s. Like isn't this one of the biggest complaints about superhero movies? That good guys win at the end and it's all the same formula? You can't seriously tell me that you don't know what's gonna happen at the end of every episode of this season without watching them. It's just tired and overdone.

At this point, I'm just rooting for the villains thinking the writers might have the balls to actually do something different and show the good guys defeated, but it's always obvious it's not gonna happen. And why is that exactly? Does the Empire not have just one single W they could make an episode about? Like how am I to take this Empire seriously when they lose their whole water supply because of a Literal Child? A Literal Child! They can shoot them at any time but for some reason decide to wait and see what the children are doing with their gang signs and hand gestures. If the Empire lost to a literal child, how exactly did they kill her parents and conquer their planet in the first place? Why won't they ever make an episode showing how the Empire actually attacked and took over a town or a planet? It's only about the after-the-fact when a chosen toddler decides that the meanie bad guys should be defeated by the power of love and friendship.

There are a lot of children's media that don't make you feel like an adult who is forced to watch Cocomelon so they could bond and spend time with their toddler. It's like they wrote this show for the ages only 2 to 5.

It is just fascinating how big of a pass people give to Star Wars content even when they are this mid. Like I can't believe all the 10/10s I'm seeing on every episode and the reviews unironically explaining what life lessons these million-year-old stories teach us. It is actually baffling and I refuse to believe that those reviews are written by actual adults.

Just because it's animation, it doesn't mean that the target audience should be children under the age of 6, and it doesn't mean that you have to dumb down the plots and use the most cliché stories in the history of mankind. An anthology animated series about Star Wars could have so much potential if they actually hired professional and creative writers, but they decided to make a series where every story is about good vs evil where good obviously wins in the end, and where 99% of them revolve around Lightsabers, and the protagonist is a literal child who defeats the evil bad dude every time. So much wasted potential and creativity over the years, because Disney decides that everything should be for children.

So yeah, if you want your 2-year toddler with an undeveloped brain who's never seen a movie or heard a story in their life to learn the most basic and generic story of loss and love and force push and literal children wasting their last drop of water, get this and watch it with them. If not, and you're an adult who doesn't watch children's media, stay away and only watch the couple of episodes of last season which had good animation and action. And if you're a man-child fanboy who actually cries while watching the new Disney Star Wars movie trailers, you might have the target mental age and could enjoy and even cry with this episode and the show.

I don't know if this episode is actually stop-motion animation or CGI pretending to be stop-motion. In either case, the result is terrible. It is so choppy, it ruins the experience. Throughout the episode it was hard to pay attention to the story, what little story there is, and I began to get a headache.

The main characters were voiced well enough, but I couldn't care less about either of them. The result of being a short film, no doubt. But I've seen other short films that are able to convey emotion and caring for characters with even less time given.

I was actually going to give this a 3/10 before even finishing it. And I debated whether I was going to finish watching the episode, but I decided to finish it and I'm kind of glad I did. In the end, I did enjoy the short. I won't give away any spoilers, but let's just say the ending saves it. However, due to the horrendous animation, I doubt I would ever watch this one again, unless I had a bottle of aspirin beside me.