Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures: Season 1: Story 6: The Junk Giant
What is it ? : While eating at Haps stall, the kids meet a Chadra Fan named Marlaa Jinara when she drops her lunch. They help her and when talking she mentions she's stressed because someone is stealing from her Junk Yard.
They go to help her, and discover that she makes works of art from the junk, but discover a trail of oil. Following it, with Nubs lifting some of the junk out of the way so they can continue they discover it leads to a warehouse, where inside they find Taborr Val Dorn and his gang having built the stolen scrap into a giant robot, The Junk Giant of the episodes name.
But Taborr gets the robot to block the entrance allowing him to escape while leaving the Young Jedi trapped inside. They use the force together to levitate the massive blockage out of the way, and follow Taborr finding that he is going to use the giant robot to steal a statue of the settlements founder, Kaliah Kublop. But while fighting the Jedi it breaks it's arm.
The Jedi speak to the robot, convincing it that even though it is made from junk and doesn't work properly, it is still special and unique. So it puts the statue back as Taborr flees.
Taking the robot back to Jinara, she thinks it is beautiful and helps repair it's arm, and it begins helping around the Junk Yard, as the Jedi look on and discuss how the junk isn't broken, it's just waiting to become something new. . . .
High Points : The action in this one is pretty good, with the Junk Giant presenting a reasonable threat, especially when it blocks the Young Jedi in the warehouse, and they need to work together to get out.
Low Points : But there's not much story here, Taborr is stealing junk to build a robot to steal a statue, and the Jedi stop him. He's got a starship, why not just lasso the statue with his ship and fly off with it? And to build a functioning and pretty powerful droid out of junk makes Taborr out to be some kind of technical genius.
So what do you really think ? : Not much to like or hate in this one, it's a basic story, which tries to stand out by having a giant robot in it, thinking that makes up for all other deficiencies with it's cool factor for kids.
Final Words : While the series is obviously targeted at kids, it's managed to tell some reasonable stories up until now. But this one just feels weak. It could have done better if the mystery of who was stealing from the Junkyard had gone on longer, with the kids having to work together to put together some clues.
Score : 6.5/10
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