Star Wars: Visions: Season 3: Episode 6: The Lost Ones
What is it ? : In a sequel to The Village Bride.
A figure in a radiation suit examines a piece of rock, while F watches them. The figures return to a village, and notice one of their members is missing. They find him sitting in one of the houses, where his family are frozen in carbonite.
We discover this world was mined heavily by the Empire, and clouds of Carbonite have been released which freeze every living thing, and this group is looking for a way of reversing the process.
A cloud comes in, and they all leave along with F in a shuttle, boarding a large transport in orbit which contains the refugees from the world. F speaks to some children, many of whom believe the Empires propaganda that the Jedi started the war, and that the Force doesn't really exist.
When suddenly A Star Destroyer arrives and fires a single shot at the Transport, before warning them to hand over the Jedi who hides among them or be destroyed.
F is prepared to hand herself over, but the leader of the team from the planet, Ron, and his droid, Lulu, decide to help, by pretending to be handing her over for the bounty on the heads of Jedi, and will then help her.
They fly across to the Destroyer and F is taken to an Albino, who is revealed to have once been F's Jedi Master, now called Zero, who asks F to join him in hunting the Jedi, but F refuses and the two fight.
Meanwhile Ron and Lulu plant capsules of Carbonite throughout the Destroyer, setting them off to cause a distraction. As the carbonite spreads through the engineering section, alarms go off and the vessel begins falling our of orbit towards the planet. F releases a capsule of Carbonite freezing Zero, and Ron rescues F, and the two board the shuttle piloted by Lulu and escape as the Transport goes to Hyperspace and the Star Destroyer explodes on the planet below.
High Points : The very first scene grabbed me in this one, as it's Darth Vader . . . . or rather it's Marty McFly pretending to be Darth Vader in Back to the Future. The radiation suit, the controller which looks like a Walkman, the pose, it's 100% a homage to BttF, and I totally aboard for it.
Beyond that, I really liked the set up, the world mined for Carbonite by the Empire, which has been devastated by it's unregulated operations. Haunting to see the village abandoned, with just the frozen figures remaining.
The kids reciting Imperial Propaganda, that the Jedi were the bad guys, that the Force isn't real, etc. Really worked as well, we've not seen enough of that beyond some mentions in the Resistance series, where one of the main characters parents were supporters of the Empire as it brought peace to them despite what else it did.
And the use of the Carbonite against the Empire, which was a bit Chekov's Gun, but also seemed to be vindication of the Empire's mining of the planet.
Low Points : There seemed to be a lot going on in this one, and while I'm usually happy to see world building, the introduction of not only the people that F is working with, the kids who establish the world, F's former master, but also the Captain of the transport vessel, and a Besalisk scientist named Joona, who is working on the solution to the world being frozen in Carbonite, all seemed a little much for a 20 minute episode.
If this gets it's own spin off series, that will be justified, but it just makes this episode a bit busy.
So what do you really think ? : Another great episode, and I wasn't expecting much, as the Village Bride had been a beautiful story, which I personally found a bit flawed, I wasn't sure the F needed any more stories. But this one was good, although I think it would have worked with any other Jedi character so it being a sequel wasn't really needed.
Final Words : Perhaps it's because I haven't watched the first season for a couple of years now, but these sequel episodes don't seem that connected to the original ones, and all seem that they could have been stand alone stories. But I suppose they saved some set up time, introducing F was a Jedi for example, without needing to call on too much of the character building done in the original episodes.
Score : 9/10
Comments made about this Article!
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04/Nov/2025 14:12:24
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Posted by josejay00@gmail.com
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They may be stand-alone stories, but if they lead to a series, then it's interconnected. We're getting that with The Ninth Jedi. We got that sort of with Ronin - two shows, a novel, and a stand-alone comic. I didn't consider this show at first. Now I'm partial to it.
Didn't expect F to have a prosthetic left leg. And now at the end, she lost her right arm?
Wasn't the plan to "turn" F over to the Empire the same plan used by Cal Kestis at the beginning of the Jedi: Survivor game?
Looks like F gained some supporters at the end.
I would think carbonite would become diffuse and inert when at room temperature. Yes, it's meant for freezing items and, unfortunately, people. But once that's done, doesn't the equipment attached to it help keep it frozen in addition to monitoring the life signs of the victim and thawing the material? Think about liquid nitrogen. Under extremely cold conditions, it's a liquid. Put something in it, and it freezes instantly. Now take a vat of it out of the protected container and put it on a table. The liquid starts to warm up, and we see the gas coming out of it. Take it outside on a hot, summer day, and splash it onto a field of grass. Yes, the liquid would freeze the grass and probably kill it, but it would quickly melt and evaporate in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. Wouldn't carbonite react the same way, making it impossible for clouds of it to exist in a warm environment. And wouldn't any victim frozen by the stuff thaw out in warm temperatures?
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05/Nov/2025 07:44:16
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Posted by Freddy
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Don't know about the other features, but it's been shown elsewhere that people frozen in carbonite remain frozen until a specific device is used to thaw them. I seem to remember seeing in a comic a person in carbonite whose controls were broken couldn't be thawed. Which would lead to the situation on the planet, where they were frozen without thawing devices, so cannot be easily thawed out.
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05/Nov/2025 13:31:55
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Posted by josejay00@gmail.com
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Now that I recall it, the same thing happened to that Black Sun leader who was the main antagonist in the final three books of the Young Jedi Knights series. He fell into a vat of carbonite, and I think Lando did mention that they can thaw him from the carbonite. Though how they can do that without the equipment was never revealed.
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