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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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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Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Summit / Plan 99

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  • Title: Star Wars: The Bad Batch – The Summit / Plan 99
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After spending an inordinate amount of time in the safe embrace of Pabu, the two episode arc that ends Star Wars: The Bad Batch‘s Second Season has the squad seek for answers about the missing clones. The mission’s disastrous end is tipped off almost immediately in an awkward conversation at the start of “The Summit” between Phee Genoa (Wanda Sykes) and Tech (Dee Bradley Baker) which is only shoehorned in here because Tech won’t be returning. Sorry, Tech. But, hey, turns out Omega (Michelle Ang) has a sister (but not the blue one).

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