LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures

[Mr Light]

Luke and Leia were in this week's episode! That was awesome! Based on their costumes, this appears to take place shortly after ROTJ.

 

[B.J.]

I'm pretty sure it's meant to be between ESB and ROTJ, since Vader and the Emperor are still around, Luke has already trained with Yoda and mentions tripping an AT-AT, and Luke says he's not a Jedi yet.

 

[JD]

Yeah, before it started the promotional stuff I read said it was set between ESB & ROTJ.

 

[Reverend]

Is it weird that our first glimpse of the Imperial Palace (formerly the Jedi temple) is in a LEGO based comedy show? OK, technically it also showed up in the later versions of RotJ, but you get my meaning.

I continue to be impressed with this show. It's doing a surprisingly good job of balancing the comedy and legitimately fun storytelling.

 

[Mr Light]

Wow, I'm an idiot. Of course it's pre-ROTJ. The Emperor and Vader are alive!

I wasn't thinking straight because Luke and Leia are wearing their ROTJ outfits.

 

[Mr Light]

Yesterday's episode featured Hondo AND Maz Kanata!!! This is actually a really cute show. It's silly without being stupid. It's much better than the old Lego Star Wars specials.

 

[publiusr]

It's the best Lego animation yet.

 

[JD]

I just saw the Kashyyyk episode. It was pretty fun, but having them just stumble across the Kyber Saber piece seemed kind of random and unnecessary. Other than that I really enjoyed it.
I love Wookiees so any time we visit Kashyyk I'm pretty happy.
The two Imerperial officers cracked me up.

 

[JD]

Damn, they showed the Luke and Leia episode yesterday, but I got watching The OIympics and forget to look for it until this morning. That was probably the one I was most curious to see.

 

[Mr Light]

Only one episode left! The show has been a really pleasant surprise for me. I'd say it's about halfway to Rebels in tone. I hope they make a second season. It's been particularly nice to have this to tide me over in between movies and Rebels seasons.

 

[Reverend]

"That's Darth Vader's trick!"
"Oh yeah, well I learned if from Anakin Skywalker!"

That's just adorable and quite nicely sums up this show's ethos. A good even balance of comedy and genuine love and respect for Star Wars. When Filloni eventually gets promoted to live action movie director, someone should put these guys in charge of whatever animated show follows 'Rebels'.

 

[JD]

I love their version of Vader and the Emperor, they crack me up. They've actually done a really good job in the show of giving us a lot of humor, but not making it full on parody of the movies like the Family Guy and Robot Chicken specials.

 

[Mr Light]

Yeah, I think they're doing a perfect balancing act between silly and serious.

 

[JD]

Just saw the Hondo and Luke and Leia episode.
I loved them having Hondo hanging out at Maz's castle, that was a great way to tie the Clone Wars and Force Awakens eras together.
The Luke and Leia episode was a lot of fun too.

 

[velour]

There is definitely a cuteness factor about this show that makes it very appealing. The Lego shaped characters looked very cuddly.

I would love to watch it, but my cable package doesn't include Disney XD.

I don't have Disney XD either. I saw this show for the first time this past Saturday morning. I saw it on the Disney Channel (the one without the XD). I caught two eps that were shown back to back.

 

[Mr Light]

Just watched the finale. That was actually pretty epic! It was pretty cool seeing Narae completely rip apart the Imperial fleet like that and go after the Emperor. I really hope they renew this.

 

[JD]

I just saw The Maker of Zoh, and I was wondering do we get more of an explanation for what about Naare was talking about when she said Jek(14) was a failed experiment?

 

[Reverend]

According to Wookipedia he's a carryover character from the other Star War Lego show. Apparently a force sensitive clone intended to be one of an army of "Sith clones". Sounds like an early run at what later became the Inquisitorius and does sort of tie-in with Palpatine kidnapping infant force sensitives for non-specific medical experiments.

 

[fireproof78]

I just saw The Maker of Zoh, and I was wondering do we get more of an explanation for what about Naare was talking about when she said Jek(14) was a failed experiment?

Jek-14 is a Force sensitive clone, created by Count Dooku. He escaped, and encountered both Dooku's training and Yoda's teaching.

This is from the Star Wars Lego Book "the Yoda Chronicles." His allegiance is kind of a wild card.

 

[JD]

Thanks I've missed a lot of the other LEGO Star Wars specials. It didn't occur to me to look him up on Wookiepedia.