This is just the first of three shorts revolving around Force-sensitive kids who need to make some tough choices. Visions: Cartoon Saloon’s house style just really says “young people chasing the truth of a myth and facing some hard truths along the way.” The story itself is bittersweet and the visuals - from the gorgeous starscape to the tight, claustrophobic cave encounter - only augment it.ĭoes it work? This is the type of emotional, poignant storytelling I want more of from Star Wars! And we get a lot of it in this season. But other than that, it’s pretty light on the war end of things. Wars: Daal, the girl who’s been most bent on finding the cave, has a brief faceoff with the mysterious ghost in the cave.

However, the four teens speed across the planet to find a mysterious cave and the starscape above them is expansive and beautiful - a flex from Wolfwalkers studio Cartoon Saloon to show off striking backgrounds. Stars: Once again, most of the action is centered on one planet, so we don’t really get a big space travel montage or anything. I want more eclectic uses of the Force! “Screecher’s Reach” And painting using the Force? Amazing, talented, wonderful, just plain awesome. “Sith” uses every bit of its visuals to push the story forward. The darkness creeps up here - quite literally as Lola can’t quite get rid of the darkness in her paint. At the beginning of the short, it’s unclear where the Sith fit in, since Lola just appears to be a painter determined on finishing a mural. The showdown between Lola and her former master is especially triumphant, when Lola finally wields her lightsaber and embraces both the Dark and Light of her own power.ĭoes it work? The visuals in “Sith” are incredibly evocative from the very beginning, when Lola wakes up in an almost stark white room. The style looks handpainted and renders the Light and Dark sides of the Force with such vivid colors - so damn cool. Lola is a painter and she manipulates her paint (presumably using force powers). Visions: The art style in this one is gorgeous.

It’s not a full-on war exactly, but it is a very heated battle. Wars: Lola’s old Sith master finds her and hunts her down with a group of Sith cronies. However, the final moments involve Lola, the main character, blasting away into space, the full expanse of the galaxy unfolding before her.

Stars: The bulk of this one takes place on a distant planet outpost, so we don’t see too many stars.

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