Star Wars Fan: The old man eyes means he’s a Sith. Doctor: The old man’s eyes looks like he has Wilson’s Disease. Both: Some may even consider this, “unnatural”.
The Village Bride is when it really got me hooked in. I thought the first one was good, the second one neat, but really disliked the third, but episode 4 was beautiful. The next two were awesome too and I think it all culminated in The Elder. Have we seen a better depiction of what Jedi are supposed to be than in that episode? The master and apprentice are so endearing and the simplicity of the story allows for us to breathe in the atmosphere. The master talking about the force and old age was cathartic and beautiful. Best Jedi moments since Luke’s training in my opinion.
It still sort of does. Clone Wars heavily implies that the saber color of the kyber crystal is determined by the wielder and Sith can "bleed" a crystal to make it red. So it still happens it's just not as fluid.
@@davidheitzenrater9027 Yes, sort of. Crystals that have been bled can also be healed and they turn white, like Ahsoka's sabers. Still wish the idea would be more widely implemented though.
It make sense for generations of sabersmiths to develop a way to temper kyber crystals to better connect to the Force user's personalities and alignment... since Sith tradition is to bleed kyber crystals into red, and Ahsoka purified the crystals she took from an Imperial Sith Inquisitor, generating white blades. Old Jedi tradition is apparently each Jedi creates their own Saber.. but with Rey (I know I know I know.... bear with it); its possible after her, there started a new tradition of sabersmiths creating for Force users... could even connect to the Mandalorian somehow, especially with the Darksaber and the Armorer. If there exists someone who would be able to reforge and create new lightsabers, the Armorer would be a good place to start.
In the Duel, the specific Kurosawa film it's heavily inspired by is Yojimbo, both featuring a mysterious ronin. The female bandit's umbrella weapon is inspired by the weapon in the manga/film: Lady Snowblood- that film was a major influence on Kill Bill which featured Lucy Liu who ironically also voiced the female bandit.
Was gonna say, it reminded me of the Ebon Hawk from KOTOR. Granted the swtor smuggler snip and the Ebon Hawk are pretty much the same except for some design differences.
I absolutely loved The Duel, The Elder, and The Ninth Jedi. I'm excited to read Ronin whenever it comes out, and I'd love for The Elder and The Ninth Jedi to get a similar treatment. The Elder in particular feels like it could fit in perfectly with content from The High Republic.
The elder could be canon tbh. If the sith were in hiding doing rule of 2 stuff the whole time during the high republic era, he could be a wayward sith apprentice who decided to leave.
@@thitran1362 seems to be, from the short itself. Lightsabers were lost to the Galaxy as a whole, and only a select few knew how to make them.. some comments seems to say that there must be Master Jedis to legally make sabers for; one of the Hunters said "illicitly made sabers for masterless Jedi"? Also "many generations have passed" so it does look like its set far in the future. This would make that era ripe for a whole season or movie series from Production I.G.
I would probably consider this a more “loose” reference since it could mean something else or nothing at all but in The Duel when Ronin shows his collection of kyber crystals, it kinda made me think of General Grievous with his collection of lightsabers in his robes
I also dont think he was force sensitive and his droid is what made up for that. The reason his lightsaber is red is because he got it off the first sith he killed. Also, a little more cold to take the crystal itself and not the blade as a whole.
Fun Fact about B-2ON's name! If you take each letter and number and move it forward once, you'll get the name of another, more familiar protocol droid :)
I was absolutely blown away. What a masterpiece! Sure, some stories are better than others, but all were fun to watch and visually stuning. And The Duel, The Elder and The Ninth Jedi are among the best stories in Star Wars. Ever.
I really loved the village bride. The music, the artstyle, the character design, the sentimental tone, the world building. It really hit the spot for me.
The Ninth Jedi was my favorite too! Also tbh I really hope that color reflecting the personality some how comes back into canon but I’m not holding my breath. If any of these get a sequel, I really hope it’s that one. Also the space palace becoming a giant lightsaber visually was awesome at the end.
A few of these I wish were full series or maybe could become one. Ninth jedi, the duel and Lop and Ocho especially. But I'd even enjoy more of Tattooine Rhapsody
This could be my mind playing tricks on me, but in the scroll the explains where Lop's lightsaber comes from, it looks like the jedi symbol evolves over time, from a version similkar to the old republic to the more modern one. Also, question for the Q&A: Which of the Visions shorts would you like to see made into a full series? For me, either The Ninth Jedi or The Elder.
I really want to see the ninth jedi become a full series, it's get a really interesting premise and I would like to see what happens to the characters, plus I liked the animation.
@@chewy99. From what I've heard, The Ninth Jedi takes place in the distant future. Though that being said, until Word of God says otherwise it's in its own continuity.
@@theladyofwhims I mean yeah of course all of these are legends, would be cool if they could get some parts or stories or characters to fit into the canon.
Not mentioned for the Village Bride, the raiders ship is an XS stock light freighter that was the Smuggler character class's ship in Star Wars the Old Republic.
Could “The Elder” take place shortly after the Jedi-Sith War/New Sith Wars? I interpreted it as the Elder being a former Sith Lord who left the Sith before their destruction and restructure under Darth Bane. It also makes sense in Legends because there had to be minor Sith factions around that were not present on Ruusan when the thought bomb detonated. It is a story I would like to see developed further, with Jedi hunting down the last remnants of the Sith while the Rule of Two remain hidden in the shadows.
Perhaps he’s a guy like Darth Venomous. Tenebrous actually mentored two Sith. But Plageus rose higher and faster. He defeated and captured Venomous and then used him for every Unholy experiment he could for decades. The Elder is a failed successor or perhaps he was surpassed by his Apprentice so much that he was left in the dust. Too irrelevant to kill.
I’m pretty sure the master says the Sith haven’t been around for 300 years. That puts it 300 years after the Jedi-Sith wars and 700 years before The Phantom Menace.
@@WhackyBC true some darksiders can live can have a life time thats insanely long. The prievously mentioned tenebrous and plagueis lived a few hundred years past their species natural life span and were in good health despite looking like rotten fruit zombies.
I love how this show gives us just enough details to where we could consider it in our head canons. They took the breath of the wild approach and set a lot of them so far in the future that inconsistencies can just be explained by “well it’s been thousands of years so who knows what could’ve happened”
though alot stuck out I think 9th jedi was perfect star wars, the twist of most of them being sith, the droid being the margrave all in all perfect star wars!
I just watched the series yesterday and it's episodes and wow was I blown away with each one. From all of the different shorts, my favorites were definitely the first five episodes and among those first Five: The Twins, The Village Bride, The Duel and especially The Ninth Jedi have the potential to become full-fledged anime series on Disney+ since their endings were open-ended. In addition I also love the nods and Easter eggs to other Japanese anime & Media, in particular T0-B1, being a reference to Astro Boy. I do hope we get another season of Star Wars Visions, along with more anime series on Disney+ based on Disney's IP (e.g. Marvel, Star Wars), and anime adaptations of projects that Disney previously collaborated with Japan such as Twisted Wonderland, Kilala Princess, Technologia School of Magic, Stitch and the Samurai, Magical Dance, Disney Star Smash and obviously Kingdom Hearts.
I see others have already noted the T0-B1/Tobio connection (the Astro Boy references are all over, like his master resembling Dr. Ochanomizu and the general vibe of the whole thing), so I'd like to note that in the Japanese version he's played by Masako Nozawa, the original Japanese voice of Goku in all Dragon Ball series. On the note of DB, I see you caught the Scouter Lop wears! For other voice actor bits I caught, in The Ninth Jedi Kazuya Nakai, One Piece's Zoro, played one of the Sith and Shinichiro Miki, Kojiro (James) in Pokémon, Roy Mustang in FMA Brotherhood, Zamasu in Dragon Ball Super, and other roles, plays the lightsaber smith. Also in The Ninth Jedi, the droid Four Nine is possibly a reference to the legendary Leiji Matsumoto series Galaxy Express 999. The name of the titular space train in that series is actually pronounced "Three Nine," so that's why I think it's a reference. There very well may be more stuff I missed, so I'll keep my eye out on rewatches!
I would like an entire series in the world of The Ninth Jedi. I thought it was the best one out of the whole batch. The Duel was was my second favorite and I’m beyond excited to read Ronin when it comes out
2-B0N is also a pun on C-3PO. Go one letter/number back and you get B-2ON. Stylize the O as a 0 and there you go. The Village Bride also had an XS Light Freighter, the same ship used by the smuggler Nico Okarr during the Old Republic.
I was expecting this to be absolutely riddled with anime tropes and I’m pleasantly surprised it wasn’t (at least not too much). The “worst offender” was probably the twins episode, but it’s not unwatchable.
The Twins for me is one of the most beautiful episodes in the series. The _twin_ suns of Tatooine were never this much at home. The crashed X-wing, nose down in a cross shape, reminds me that scene from Hellsing OVA for some reason, with the fighter jet crashed in a similar manner onto the deck of a warship.
The way the X wing from the twins is stuck nose forward in the sand reminds me of some scene in another movie or episode, but I cannot say which it was right now.
Also a little fun fact, T0-B1 is voiced by Masako Nozawa (the Japanese voice of Goku) in the Japanese dub. Not really an ester egg as she is just a prolific voice actress, but thought it was worth pointing out for any dragon ball fans
When it comes to similarities between plot beats, character archetypes, and themes, I like to believe a reason for 9 episodes of Visions is that they can correlate with the Skywalker Saga (even though it’s just coincidence and the same Visions short can share solidarity with more than one movie - but hear me out!) I believe I cracked the code on which Visions episode is a soul partner with their Star Wars Episode: The Duel => The Empire Strikes Back Tatooine Rhapsody => Return of the Jedi The Twins => The Last Jedi The Village Bride => Attack of the Clones The Ninth Jedi => The Force Awakens T0-B1 => A New Hope The Elder => The Phantom Menace Lop and Ochō => The Rise of Skywalker Akakiri => Revenge of the Sith
Would like to add that the T0-B1 episode most likely takes inspiration from the very old school anime Astro Boy, an anime about a robot boy recreated in the image of a scientist' late son who fights against evil. T0-B1 was designed like an energetic boy and has a father-son like relationship with his creator, and if I remember correctly his name could be pronounced like Tobi, which is close to Toby or Tobio, the name of the kid Astro Boy was modelled after
For the carvings on the wall in the T0-B1 episode, there's a sketch above Grevious and Kenobi of Ahsoka fighting two inquisitors from the rebels episode "Children of the Force"
In the Twins when they're both pulling the kyber crystal in the air then shoot out lightning from the effort, reminded me of when Rey did that in Rise of Skywalker
I liked most of the shorts, but my favorites were The Elder and The Duel. The Ninth Jedi was no slouch either. And I can't help but love Tatooine Rhapsody.
And in regards to the force sensitive droids u forgot about the iron knights that survived the purge in old canon and eventually joins Luke Skywalker in the new jedi order old canon wise
I got a lot of High Republic vibes from The Elder. The crumbling of the Sith like Loden. The apprentice reminded me of Bell and the master reminded me of Stellan.
An elitist friend of mine had no idea about that lightsaber changing color fact. Hated on that episode super hard and now he is beside himself because I presented him that panel that you put up
In the Village Bride during the short flashbacks the female Jedi has you can hear a very iconic scream which probably belongs to Palpatine. It is the same Scream he made when he dashed forward on Mace Windu in Episode 3. It might be that she is the only survivor of the group of Jedi(?) in her Flashback that tried to defend themselves against Sidious.
Visions was really great. My favourite episodes are The ninth Jedi, The duel, The village bride and T0-B1 it doesn't seem to get as much love as the rest 😃😃😃😃
The storm trooper armor is probably another reference to Kurosawa as a whole. In the film Seven Samurai the bandits who attack the village being defended by said samurai are depicted as wearing old samurai armor
Idk if you saw, but wookieepedia has all of visions listed as canon content. Is this accurate, at least partially? It feels weird as they haven't done the same for the lego content, for instance
The *Gemini-class* Star Destroyer is a notable reference to superlaser Star Destroyers from the 20th Century Fox/Legends timeline, such as the *Conqueror-class* Star Destroyer and the *Eclipse I-class* and *Eclipse II-class* Star Destroyers.
There were a few familiar voices to Star Wars animations of the past. Bobby Moynihan voices Geezer in the English Dub of Tatooine Rhapsody. He's most known in Star Wars for providing the voice of Orka from Star Wars Resistance, but has made cameos in Clone Wars and Bad Batch. Christopher Sean voices Asu in the English Dub of The Village Bride. He provided the voice of Kazuda Xiono in Star Wars Resistance. James Hong voices the old man in the English Dub of the The Elder. He also provided the voices for Azmorigan in Star Wars Rebels and Endente from the Crystal Crisis on Utapau Story Reels of Clone Wars. George Takei voices Senshuu in the English Dub of Akakiri. He provided the voice for the great General Lok Durd of the Separatist Alliance in Clone Wars, we congratulate him on his good fortune.
In the village bride, the Jedi in hiding has a flashback vision of what appears to be order 66 and/or operation knightfall, she is seen looking at the body of her fallen master, and voices of what could be interpreted of other Jedi are heard. And flashes of a red blade are seen. This could be a reference to the fall of the Jedi temple, even tho anakin’s lightsaber wasn’t red at the time.
I purposely refused to read any reviews or get any info at all before watching Visions. I also had an edible before as well. It’s been two days and I’m still not over how much I enjoyed these stories. Some were definitely better than others, but it felt good to be completely captivated by Star Wars again in that way.
Alex, you missed a small one: B-2ON is just C-3PO displaced letter by letter, each to the previous one. So I don't think it's "Bee Twenty En", but rather "Bee Two Oh En" or "Bee Two On". (Edit: it makes sense since R-DUO is a play on R2's name; naturally "Two On" would play on Threepio's name.)
T0-B1 is a full on homage to Astro Boy, and the scientist that created Astro Boy created him to replace his dead son "Toby/Tobio."
Is it just me or does the scientist look a lot like dr white from the mega man universe?
I wondered why it looked so familiar
@@ImaginaryPerson1138 cause Mega Man is inspired by Astro Boy
T0B1KEN0B1
@@mudman619 its both
Star Wars Fan: The old man eyes means he’s a Sith.
Doctor: The old man’s eyes looks like he has Wilson’s Disease.
Both: Some may even consider this, “unnatural”.
I'm dying XD
Ocho wears an imperial outfit identical to Krennic raincoat appearance at the beginning of Rogue One :)
It's Director Krennic.
@@goodputin4324 the fact that you knew who I was referring to is the exact reason why I DON’T have to put his full name.
The Village Bride is when it really got me hooked in. I thought the first one was good, the second one neat, but really disliked the third, but episode 4 was beautiful. The next two were awesome too and I think it all culminated in The Elder. Have we seen a better depiction of what Jedi are supposed to be than in that episode? The master and apprentice are so endearing and the simplicity of the story allows for us to breathe in the atmosphere. The master talking about the force and old age was cathartic and beautiful. Best Jedi moments since Luke’s training in my opinion.
I can completely see Qui Gon and Obi Wan starring in The Elder.
I felt pretty similar - loved the music in that one and had a much more positive view on each short after that.
Lightsaber colors changing according to their wielders' Force alignment is such a cool idea. I kind of wish that's how Kyber Crystals worked in Canon.
It still sort of does. Clone Wars heavily implies that the saber color of the kyber crystal is determined by the wielder and Sith can "bleed" a crystal to make it red. So it still happens it's just not as fluid.
@@davidheitzenrater9027 Yes, sort of. Crystals that have been bled can also be healed and they turn white, like Ahsoka's sabers. Still wish the idea would be more widely implemented though.
It make sense for generations of sabersmiths to develop a way to temper kyber crystals to better connect to the Force user's personalities and alignment... since Sith tradition is to bleed kyber crystals into red, and Ahsoka purified the crystals she took from an Imperial Sith Inquisitor, generating white blades. Old Jedi tradition is apparently each Jedi creates their own Saber.. but with Rey (I know I know I know.... bear with it); its possible after her, there started a new tradition of sabersmiths creating for Force users... could even connect to the Mandalorian somehow, especially with the Darksaber and the Armorer. If there exists someone who would be able to reforge and create new lightsabers, the Armorer would be a good place to start.
@@stevenblankenheim4016 Man, that'd be so awesome. Hope they go with something like this.
In the Duel, the specific Kurosawa film it's heavily inspired by is Yojimbo, both featuring a mysterious ronin. The female bandit's umbrella weapon is inspired by the weapon in the manga/film: Lady Snowblood- that film was a major influence on Kill Bill which featured Lucy Liu who ironically also voiced the female bandit.
Both are incredible films.
I'm so happy yojimbo is on hbo max for me to do a side by side
The Village Bride, the bandits ship looks like the smugglers ship from swtor as well.
And I enjoyed the series as well.
It looked like a modified YT Freighter like the Millennium Falcon.
@@Soundwave190 In SWTOR the ship was a XS light freighter
Was gonna say, it reminded me of the Ebon Hawk from KOTOR. Granted the swtor smuggler snip and the Ebon Hawk are pretty much the same except for some design differences.
I caught this aswell, it's the ship the smuggler gets in the old Republic mmo, just painted in grey instead of brown/yellow.
The transporter that the bandits use in The Dual is a repurposed AT-AT body.
It also had elements of an Imperial Transport (the doors notably) integrated in it
@@kathyhavelka7612 yeah! At first I thought it was a troop transport, but quickly realized it would be too big to be one.
I absolutely loved The Duel, The Elder, and The Ninth Jedi. I'm excited to read Ronin whenever it comes out, and I'd love for The Elder and The Ninth Jedi to get a similar treatment. The Elder in particular feels like it could fit in perfectly with content from The High Republic.
The elder could be canon tbh. If the sith were in hiding doing rule of 2 stuff the whole time during the high republic era, he could be a wayward sith apprentice who decided to leave.
The ninth jedi takes place after the rise of Skywalker.
@@brotherjim3051 is it confirmed?
@@thitran1362 Idk. I was reading Wookiepedia or Disney wiki or something, can't remember lol
@@thitran1362 seems to be, from the short itself. Lightsabers were lost to the Galaxy as a whole, and only a select few knew how to make them.. some comments seems to say that there must be Master Jedis to legally make sabers for; one of the Hunters said "illicitly made sabers for masterless Jedi"? Also "many generations have passed" so it does look like its set far in the future. This would make that era ripe for a whole season or movie series from Production I.G.
I would probably consider this a more “loose” reference since it could mean something else or nothing at all but in The Duel when Ronin shows his collection of kyber crystals, it kinda made me think of General Grievous with his collection of lightsabers in his robes
That's the first thing I thought of as well.
I also dont think he was force sensitive and his droid is what made up for that. The reason his lightsaber is red is because he got it off the first sith he killed. Also, a little more cold to take the crystal itself and not the blade as a whole.
@@WhatsTheWordHipHop If I'm recalling correctly, didn't he catch the blade using the force?
@@Retr0Whiskey ya he did he litt stop a light saber strike with the force.
Fun Fact about B-2ON's name! If you take each letter and number and move it forward once, you'll get the name of another, more familiar protocol droid :)
What
@@notJEllis If I did a poor job of explaining it, here's the breakdown:
B --> C
2 --> 3
O --> P
N --> O
OOOOOOOHHHHH that’s a good one!
@@kingwookiee796 thats......... very smart i didn’t even notice that
I was absolutely blown away. What a masterpiece! Sure, some stories are better than others, but all were fun to watch and visually stuning. And The Duel, The Elder and The Ninth Jedi are among the best stories in Star Wars. Ever.
T0-BI/Tobi's Japanese voice actress Masako Nozawa is most notable for voicing Son Goku, Gohan and Goten (and many more) in the Dragon Ball Franchise
I knew I recognized that voice, after the second episode I changed the audio to Japanese. It just felt more appropriate.
Also, the Japanese voice actor for Boba Fett has voiced Kamen Raider.
I really loved the village bride. The music, the artstyle, the character design, the sentimental tone, the world building. It really hit the spot for me.
might be the only one LMAO
@@reheatedpizza7292 No, there is another... Lol
The Ninth Jedi was my favorite too! Also tbh I really hope that color reflecting the personality some how comes back into canon but I’m not holding my breath. If any of these get a sequel, I really hope it’s that one. Also the space palace becoming a giant lightsaber visually was awesome at the end.
The color change of the sabers worked so well, and were such an awesome way to suprise us with that twist of them being sith
A few of these I wish were full series or maybe could become one. Ninth jedi, the duel and Lop and Ocho especially. But I'd even enjoy more of Tattooine Rhapsody
Yeah, The Ninth Jedi has so much potential. Felt fresh in a lot of ways
The transport Ocho's father used to confront his daughter looked very similar to one of the ships in the early demo reel of the cancelled game 1313
Glad i wasn't the only one that noticed it
In Lop and Ocho there’s a “fisherman” mon calamari that looks exactly the same as in the Mandalorian s2.
This could be my mind playing tricks on me, but in the scroll the explains where Lop's lightsaber comes from, it looks like the jedi symbol evolves over time, from a version similkar to the old republic to the more modern one.
Also, question for the Q&A: Which of the Visions shorts would you like to see made into a full series? For me, either The Ninth Jedi or The Elder.
I really want to see the ninth jedi become a full series, it's get a really interesting premise and I would like to see what happens to the characters, plus I liked the animation.
The elder
I wonder when the 9th Jedi takes place… hmm. For me I’d either want the 9th Jedi to have a series or the duel. Or maybe also the Elder lol
@@chewy99. From what I've heard, The Ninth Jedi takes place in the distant future. Though that being said, until Word of God says otherwise it's in its own continuity.
@@theladyofwhims I mean yeah of course all of these are legends, would be cool if they could get some parts or stories or characters to fit into the canon.
In "The Duel", the statue in the temple towards the end looks like Mark Hamill!
Not mentioned for the Village Bride, the raiders ship is an XS stock light freighter that was the Smuggler character class's ship in Star Wars the Old Republic.
Could “The Elder” take place shortly after the Jedi-Sith War/New Sith Wars? I interpreted it as the Elder being a former Sith Lord who left the Sith before their destruction and restructure under Darth Bane. It also makes sense in Legends because there had to be minor Sith factions around that were not present on Ruusan when the thought bomb detonated.
It is a story I would like to see developed further, with Jedi hunting down the last remnants of the Sith while the Rule of Two remain hidden in the shadows.
Perhaps he’s a guy like Darth Venomous. Tenebrous actually mentored two Sith. But Plageus rose higher and faster. He defeated and captured Venomous and then used him for every Unholy experiment he could for decades. The Elder is a failed successor or perhaps he was surpassed by his Apprentice so much that he was left in the dust. Too irrelevant to kill.
It is said that the sith disappeared a millenia ago so it is circa 32BBY
And the elder said that he is not a sith (indirectly)
I’m pretty sure the master says the Sith haven’t been around for 300 years. That puts it 300 years after the Jedi-Sith wars and 700 years before The Phantom Menace.
@@WhackyBC his exact words are “the sith have been gone for hundreds of years”. so at least 200 years after bane but sometime before phantom menace.
@@WhackyBC true some darksiders can live can have a life time thats insanely long. The prievously mentioned tenebrous and plagueis lived a few hundred years past their species natural life span and were in good health despite looking like rotten fruit zombies.
I love how this show gives us just enough details to where we could consider it in our head canons. They took the breath of the wild approach and set a lot of them so far in the future that inconsistencies can just be explained by “well it’s been thousands of years so who knows what could’ve happened”
PSA for Visions: there are ten behind the scenes shorts in the Extras section for the show on Disney+.
though alot stuck out I think 9th jedi was perfect star wars, the twist of most of them being sith, the droid being the margrave all in all perfect star wars!
I thought The Duel did an incredible job of "show, don't tell."
T0-B1 shares a lot of similarities to Astro-Boy, who is named Toby.
i don't know if this is intentional but i think the nine-episode first season might be a nod to the skywalker saga
I just watched the series yesterday and it's episodes and wow was I blown away with each one. From all of the different shorts, my favorites were definitely the first five episodes and among those first Five: The Twins, The Village Bride, The Duel and especially The Ninth Jedi have the potential to become full-fledged anime series on Disney+ since their endings were open-ended. In addition I also love the nods and Easter eggs to other Japanese anime & Media, in particular T0-B1, being a reference to Astro Boy.
I do hope we get another season of Star Wars Visions, along with more anime series on Disney+ based on Disney's IP (e.g. Marvel, Star Wars), and anime adaptations of projects that Disney previously collaborated with Japan such as Twisted Wonderland, Kilala Princess, Technologia School of Magic, Stitch and the Samurai, Magical Dance, Disney Star Smash and obviously Kingdom Hearts.
I see others have already noted the T0-B1/Tobio connection (the Astro Boy references are all over, like his master resembling Dr. Ochanomizu and the general vibe of the whole thing), so I'd like to note that in the Japanese version he's played by Masako Nozawa, the original Japanese voice of Goku in all Dragon Ball series. On the note of DB, I see you caught the Scouter Lop wears!
For other voice actor bits I caught, in The Ninth Jedi Kazuya Nakai, One Piece's Zoro, played one of the Sith and Shinichiro Miki, Kojiro (James) in Pokémon, Roy Mustang in FMA Brotherhood, Zamasu in Dragon Ball Super, and other roles, plays the lightsaber smith.
Also in The Ninth Jedi, the droid Four Nine is possibly a reference to the legendary Leiji Matsumoto series Galaxy Express 999. The name of the titular space train in that series is actually pronounced "Three Nine," so that's why I think it's a reference.
There very well may be more stuff I missed, so I'll keep my eye out on rewatches!
Boss tells Lop to turn off her scanner when he's giving her the lightsaber. Reference to the end of ANH when Kenobi tells Luke to turn his off
The Elder, the Nineth Jedi and The Village Bride were definitely my Fav.
I would like an entire series in the world of The Ninth Jedi. I thought it was the best one out of the whole batch. The Duel was was my second favorite and I’m beyond excited to read Ronin when it comes out
The Duel, the Ninth Jedi, and the Elder were the episodes that I liked.
I remember watching the extras and they said Lop was indeed a member of Jaxxons species
I think they said she was based on Jaxxon, but it’d make sense if she’s Lepi
My favorite episode is Village bride
It would be great with the Yuuzhan Vong! 👽
2-B0N is also a pun on C-3PO. Go one letter/number back and you get B-2ON. Stylize the O as a 0 and there you go.
The Village Bride also had an XS Light Freighter, the same ship used by the smuggler Nico Okarr during the Old Republic.
The Twins was definitely not my favorite, but I do like how much it was clearly inspired by TLJ with the Crystal splitting and the Holdo Maneuver.
I was expecting this to be absolutely riddled with anime tropes and I’m pleasantly surprised it wasn’t (at least not too much). The “worst offender” was probably the twins episode, but it’s not unwatchable.
The Twins for me is one of the most beautiful episodes in the series.
The _twin_ suns of Tatooine were never this much at home.
The crashed X-wing, nose down in a cross shape, reminds me that scene from Hellsing OVA for some reason, with the fighter jet crashed in a similar manner onto the deck of a warship.
Thanks for bringing back the pain of that certain characters death at the end of the Rising Storm 😭
The way the X wing from the twins is stuck nose forward in the sand reminds me of some scene in another movie or episode, but I cannot say which it was right now.
Loved visions. I truly can pick a favorite they all are different and unique in their own way.
Also a little fun fact, T0-B1 is voiced by Masako Nozawa (the Japanese voice of Goku) in the Japanese dub. Not really an ester egg as she is just a prolific voice actress, but thought it was worth pointing out for any dragon ball fans
When he said "a galaxy far far away" I literally said aloud "he said the thing"
Jabba: oh, do it again.
Joh yowza: ONE TWO THREE!
When it comes to similarities between plot beats, character archetypes, and themes, I like to believe a reason for 9 episodes of Visions is that they can correlate with the Skywalker Saga (even though it’s just coincidence and the same Visions short can share solidarity with more than one movie - but hear me out!) I believe I cracked the code on which Visions episode is a soul partner with their Star Wars Episode:
The Duel => The Empire Strikes Back
Tatooine Rhapsody => Return of the Jedi
The Twins => The Last Jedi
The Village Bride => Attack of the Clones
The Ninth Jedi => The Force Awakens
T0-B1 => A New Hope
The Elder => The Phantom Menace
Lop and Ochō => The Rise of Skywalker
Akakiri => Revenge of the Sith
As a huge Dune fan the little comparison was really fun.
In Akakiri, the dynamic between Tsubaki and Misa reminded me of that between Obi-Wan and Satine in the Clone Wars.
Please make a video about the timeline placement for all the shorts and with ones fit in to canon
T0-B1 was my favorite. He’s Grogu-level adorable
I've enjoyed all episodes throughout.💯
Pretty much all of the wall art in T0-B1's room is an homage to something Star Wars or Sci-Fi related. My personal favorite was "The Village Bride".
the old man never outright says that he is a sith
I noticed Boba Fett tapped his foot the same scene Jabba does, great series I hope they do more!
Would like to add that the T0-B1 episode most likely takes inspiration from the very old school anime Astro Boy, an anime about a robot boy recreated in the image of a scientist' late son who fights against evil. T0-B1 was designed like an energetic boy and has a father-son like relationship with his creator, and if I remember correctly his name could be pronounced like Tobi, which is close to Toby or Tobio, the name of the kid Astro Boy was modelled after
The Ninth Jedi was my favorite too!
The sweeping X-Wing Fighter carvings (at 6:18 in your video) are the same as the X-Wings on the "Style A" movie poster for the original Star Wars.
For the carvings on the wall in the T0-B1 episode, there's a sketch above Grevious and Kenobi of Ahsoka fighting two inquisitors from the rebels episode "Children of the Force"
In the episode 6 when T0-B1 fights the inquisitor at the end, you can see (if only for a few frames) a flash of light in the shape of the Jedi crest
In the Twins when they're both pulling the kyber crystal in the air then shoot out lightning from the effort, reminded me of when Rey did that in Rise of Skywalker
So Awesome
In T0-B1’s house the carvings also are referencing the original episode IV poster, with the x-wings flying up and with luke holding up his lightsaber
Thanks, Alex! 侘寂
Her lightsaber-spoked umbrella is a reference to the bladed umbrella weapon from Shadow (a a 2018 Chinese Wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou).
I liked most of the shorts, but my favorites were The Elder and The Duel. The Ninth Jedi was no slouch either. And I can't help but love Tatooine Rhapsody.
Same. I enjoyed those too
Imagine these episodes made into full blown movies by studio ghibli.
Did anyone else notice how the Margrave’s symbol in The Ninth Jedi kind of resembles the Fulcrum symbol 👀👀👀
Alex mentioned that in the video. So...yes.
@@bucketofparts 😅 sometimes I comment before watching and just leave the comments up as a memorial of my own dumbness
@@rachelmeier9444 not dumb! just...eager to discuss!
At 9:20 I think there's also a reference to korriban's sith academy with the rocks making a path to the entrance of the palace.
In the background of The Duel is Count Dooku and Savage Oppress's lightsabers in the area behind the waterfall on a stand
And in regards to the force sensitive droids u forgot about the iron knights that survived the purge in old canon and eventually joins Luke Skywalker in the new jedi order old canon wise
I got a lot of High Republic vibes from The Elder. The crumbling of the Sith like Loden. The apprentice reminded me of Bell and the master reminded me of Stellan.
An elitist friend of mine had no idea about that lightsaber changing color fact. Hated on that episode super hard and now he is beside himself because I presented him that panel that you put up
Those villiagr guards in The Duel were pretty badass, was bummed to see almost all go down
In the Village Bride during the short flashbacks the female Jedi has you can hear a very iconic scream which probably belongs to Palpatine. It is the same Scream he made when he dashed forward on Mace Windu in Episode 3. It might be that she is the only survivor of the group of Jedi(?) in her Flashback that tried to defend themselves against Sidious.
The Stormtroopers from The Duel also have some Clone equipment on them
Visions was really great. My favourite episodes are The ninth Jedi, The duel, The village bride and T0-B1 it doesn't seem to get as much love as the rest 😃😃😃😃
The storm trooper armor is probably another reference to Kurosawa as a whole. In the film Seven Samurai the bandits who attack the village being defended by said samurai are depicted as wearing old samurai armor
Jay's right hand glove in Tatooine Rhapsody is reminiscent of Luke Skywalker's right hand glove covering his cybernetic hand.
I loved the elder so much
I really wanna see them expand on the story of Am and Karre.
In the Ninth Jedi the chase scene reminded me of Luke in the Speeder in Return of the Jedi
Idk if you saw, but wookieepedia has all of visions listed as canon content. Is this accurate, at least partially? It feels weird as they haven't done the same for the lego content, for instance
Disney has stated that Star Wars Visions wouldn't be cannon.
Disney has said visions isn’t canon, parts of it could be canon? But we’ll have to see
In “The Village Bride” the ship that the warlord uses is a Dynamic-Class freighter, the same kind of ship that the Ebon Hawk was.
In The Village Bride, the raider's ship is a Corellian Light Freighter (same ship as the Millennium Falcon)
The *Gemini-class* Star Destroyer is a notable reference to superlaser Star Destroyers from the 20th Century Fox/Legends timeline, such as the *Conqueror-class* Star Destroyer and the *Eclipse I-class* and *Eclipse II-class* Star Destroyers.
There were a few familiar voices to Star Wars animations of the past.
Bobby Moynihan voices Geezer in the English Dub of Tatooine Rhapsody. He's most known in Star Wars for providing the voice of Orka from Star Wars Resistance, but has made cameos in Clone Wars and Bad Batch.
Christopher Sean voices Asu in the English Dub of The Village Bride. He provided the voice of Kazuda Xiono in Star Wars Resistance.
James Hong voices the old man in the English Dub of the The Elder. He also provided the voices for Azmorigan in Star Wars Rebels and Endente from the Crystal Crisis on Utapau Story Reels of Clone Wars.
George Takei voices Senshuu in the English Dub of Akakiri. He provided the voice for the great General Lok Durd of the Separatist Alliance in Clone Wars, we congratulate him on his good fortune.
The Gran are apparently a popular species in Japan. I noticed them in the background of a few episodes.
Also, T0-B1's Japanese voice actor is the voice of Goku.
In the village bride, the Jedi in hiding has a flashback vision of what appears to be order 66 and/or operation knightfall, she is seen looking at the body of her fallen master, and voices of what could be interpreted of other Jedi are heard. And flashes of a red blade are seen. This could be a reference to the fall of the Jedi temple, even tho anakin’s lightsaber wasn’t red at the time.
I think in Episode 2 (Tatooine Rhapsody) we also see Uncle Lars and Aunt Beeru watching the band playing.
2:50 You remembered Lyn Me this time :P
I really hope that the ninth jedi gets a series I would watch it for sure
I purposely refused to read any reviews or get any info at all before watching Visions. I also had an edible before as well. It’s been two days and I’m still not over how much I enjoyed these stories. Some were definitely better than others, but it felt good to be completely captivated by Star Wars again in that way.
In the episode the elder the Master takes the Qui-Gon stance
the village bride, has the smuggler ship from SWTOR as the bandits base.
it's the thing the helmet blows up
TO-B1, To be 1, he wants to be a jedi
Speaking of Dragonball, the Japanese voice actor for T0-B1 is Masako Nozawa who is the voice of Son Goku
Alex, you missed a small one: B-2ON is just C-3PO displaced letter by letter, each to the previous one. So I don't think it's "Bee Twenty En", but rather "Bee Two Oh En" or "Bee Two On". (Edit: it makes sense since R-DUO is a play on R2's name; naturally "Two On" would play on Threepio's name.)