Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures: Season 1: Story 29: An Adventure with Yoda
What is it ? : The Young Jedi are practicing on Speeder Bikes with Yoda, when Nash arrives to tell them pirates are looting Zephers workshop and are going to steal the Jedi Vectors stored there. The Jedi agree to help, and Yoda accompanies them.
Arriving there, Yoda asks Nash to remain with the ship in case the pirates flee and they need to chase them, and Yoda and the Young Jedi confront the pirates who turn out to be Nihil. Nash feels left out, so sneaks into Zepher's workshop and finds Zepher himself cowering there, so she gets him to hide out in one of the Vector Starfighters.
The Nihil Pirates activate a group of Droids to fight the Jedi, while they jump in the starfighters and land them in their ship, and then flee in that vessel. The droids fire blasters at the group, and Yoda freezes the bolts in the air, before hurling them back to destroy the droids.
They ask why Nash abandoned her post, and she says she didn't want to leave her friends to face danger alone, but Yoda points out that they need the ship now, but Nash remains the best pilot, so they need her.
They board the Firehawk and give chase, with Nubs manning the turret, catching up with the Pirates in an asteroid field. They chase between asteroids and through the tunnels in one particularly large asteroid, before Yoda uses the force to open the hatch on the Pirate vessel and the stolen Vectors float free, allowing the Jedi to retrieve them, although the Pirates escape.
Returning Zepher and the Vector Starfighters to Zepher's workshop, Yoda tells them they have one thing left to do, help Zepher tidy up . . . .
High Points : While I've complemented the series in the past for continually building the support cast, and making the Young Jedi's world seem more expansive with returning characters. This time I don't feel it, as while Zepher returning makes sense, why does he still have Jedi Vector Starfighters, when the Young Jedi collected them and delivered them to Tenoo already?
We also get the addition of the Nihil to the Young Jedi Adventures, but they're so ineffectual to not bear any resemblance to the major villains of the High Republic Era, the people who massacred innocent people at the Republic Fair just to cause terror.
Low Points : In addition to the points I've already raised, this episode just feels so unimportant. Yoda is training 3 younglings, and they stop a couple of Starfighters getting stolen, it really feels as if this is something he should have been more easily capable of on his own.
While he could be trying to teach them a lesson and gain experience, the fact that he lets a kid pilot through an asteroid field which could kill them all easily is putting their lives in danger for little benefit, especially as he just solves the problem himself anyway.
And I must comment on the droids they face off against at Zephers workshop, which bear an incredible resemblance to Droideka's, but why? We're not told, they seem to just be familiar, to be familiar.
So what do you really think ? : While the story isn't up to much, the action remains well done, and the voice acting and characterisation is absolutely fine. Yoda gets to show off his power a bit, but mainly sits back to let the kids endanger themselves. The episode is fine, but ultimately forgettable.
Final Words : The lesson of this one, seems to be either "do what you're told", or "believe in yourself", I personally can't seem to decipher exactly what it's trying to say. As Nash disobeys Yoda because she believes that she is more useful helping out. But it turns out that Yoda was right and she was needed at the ship, but then the episode makes a point of everyone valuing Nash's piloting skills.
So maybe the message is "everyone is good at something, and don't you dare try to be more than that one thing?".
Score : 7/10
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