Visions Season 3’s Greatest Episode Options An Unbelievable Cliffhanger

Spoilers for the “Star Wars: Visions season 3 episode “The Ninth Jedi: Baby of Hope” to comply with.

“Star Wars: Visions” has been an fascinating experiment for Lucasfilm. It has been the one place the place they have been capable of persistently produce materials exterior the unified canon of “Star Wars” and inform tales that individuals have been capable of perceive they’re exterior the realm of what “counts” towards the flicks and tv reveals. Bringing in one of the best creatives at animation studios world wide to simply run wild with the spirit of “Star Wars” has created a number of the most unimaginable artwork over the previous couple of years. The one drawback has been the small doses we have been given. 

The episodes of “Star Wars: Visions” solely common between 15 and 20 minutes. Some episodes stretch a couple of minutes past that, however not many. Just a few even run lower than that. With the third season of “Visions,” many people had been excited to get sequels to 2 of one of the best shorts from the primary season — “The Duel” and “The Ninth Jedi” — however even by doubling the quantity of display screen time we received in these worlds, we did not really feel like we had sufficient. “The Duel” was capable of get a complete ebook, “Star Wars Visions: Ronin” by Emma Mieko Candon, however “The Ninth Jedi” did not get something.

Till now.

Within the third season of “Visions,” we received “The Ninth Jedi: Baby of Hope,” which continues the story of a younger lady whose father, a sabersmith, has been kidnapped. She finds herself within the firm of a gaggle of Jedi who’re searching for him out, on the run from bounty hunters and darkish customers of the Drive. On this installment, she’s separated from them and finds herself pulled aboard a derelict spacecraft that has spent a few years drifting inside an asteroid area, the one residing factor on board seems to be a droid named Teto. When the bounty hunters discover her on the ship and her companions notice she’s lacking, the race is on to rescue her.

In the meantime, there’s actually just one one who can sacrifice themselves to save lots of her: Teto.

The story is an emotional one, and actually would not convey Kara, the younger sabersmith’s daughter, any nearer to the top of her quest to search out her father. In truth, it solely heightens the stakes and makes the state of affairs extra dire, leaving the viewers with an emotional pit of doom of their abdomen. The hunt remains to be on for her father, Teto sacrifices himself in a fiery explosion, tearing aside a number of the bounty hunters, figuring out extra will likely be coming, and figuring out that point is operating out for them, leaves one feeling identical to Kara: crying.

I might be downright upset if the story ended right here without end. Fortunately it would not. Not fairly.

At Star Wars Celebration Japan earlier this yr, it was introduced that Lucasfilm could be launching a spin-off collection referred to as “Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi,”  beneath the supervising course of the author and director of those two shorts, Kenji Kamiyama. There isn’t a indication about when this collection will begin, solely that it is occurring and Lucasfilm is behind this alternate model of “Star Wars” lightsabers change coloration relying on one’s aura within the Drive they usually’re made by individuals referred to as sabersmiths. 

This can proceed Kara’s story and her seek for her father and guarantees to disclose the secrets and techniques of how the lightsabers work and the way the Drive works on this alternate universe. Each time this collection occurs, it could actually’t come quickly sufficient as a result of this cliffhanger definitely left us wanting extra. 

“Star Wars: Visions” season 3 is presently streaming on Disney+.