Star Wars: Visions - Anime Anthology Series

[JD]

Watched The Bounty Hunters today and I liked it. It was pretty clear from the moment the girl walked into the room what Jim-Sim was up to, but at least Seven was intelligent enough to figure it out. I had a feeling to moment she was agreed to destroy IV that something was up, but I what she did didn't occurred to me until it happened. I kind of hope we get a sequel to this at some point so we can see if Seven does run into her Jedi again. At first I had assumed after the first flashback she wanted to kill her, but then the second one added a bit of ambiguity to that.

 

[Set Harth]

Spoiler

It was pretty clear from the moment the girl walked into the room what Jim-Sim was up to, but at least Seven was intelligent enough to figure it out.

It was the guy from Alien: Earth all over again!

 

[Reverend]

Watched The Bounty Hunters today and I liked it. It was pretty clear from the moment the girl walked into the room what Jim-Sim was up to, but at least Seven was intelligent enough to figure it out. I had a feeling to moment she was agreed to destroy IV that something was up, but I what she did didn't occurred to me until it happened. I kind of hope we get a sequel to this at some point so we can see if Seven does run into her Jedi again. At first I had assumed after the first flashback she wanted to kill her, but then the second one added a bit of ambiguity to that.

Yeah, this short definitely played a little with context and audience expectations.
I think there's still some half-hearted animosity there for the Jedi that freed her, because freedom comes with complications like having a whole mercenary band chasing you all over the galaxy.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I found some of the most recent episodes interesting.

"The Bird of Paradise" is, I think, the first time we saw the inner torment of a Jedi (or, at least, a Padawan), trying to come to terms with their place in the Force and the final decision to embrace one side or the other, as well as an amazingly effective representation of how the Force provides visual information of the person's surroundings without biological sight. I think that was my favorite episode of the entire series - really stands out from all the others.

The rest is kind of meh to me and the final one (with the red/green stormtroopers) was a little too abstract for my taste. Overall, though, a mixed bag.

 

[Set Harth]

I found the whole thing underwhelming overall. The first ones I watched were the "sequels" to season 1 chapters, and of those I guess I liked the Duel one best. I didn't think the sequels were as good as the things they were sequels to ( which were among my favorites of season 1 ). The Ninth Jedi in particular felt like a filler episode.

The Bird of Paradise was the best looking animation of the bunch, and I agree with the Force sight thing, but thematically speaking it didn't give us anything we hadn't already gotten from, say, the Yoda vision quest arc of TCW.

And I note that of 9 chapters only 2 had male protagonists, so Disney is clearly still going full throttle with the female-centric thing.