A/V Jedi Temple Challenge

Until confirmation, I am placing this sometime after TROS... only because the "padawan" costumes remind me of Finn's TROS clothes.

That said, could end up dovetailed with The High Republic.

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I am taking it as "canon" with a dose of "artistic license" to it. Kind of like Lego Star Wars, sorta canon. So Best's Jedi Master was probably a guy who put youngling Padawans through various training and trails and this would be metaphorically representative of it, if not hard factual canon "truth". Maybe even the Sith voice could be the Sith temple underneath the Jedi temple (but nobody knows about it though)

Well the production design is definitely elaborate (that ship shot is great), Best has enthusiastic delivery (of course we already knew that), seeing a few kids repeatedly faceplant in the first round was kinda funny & hey Frank Oz Yoda voice cameo! Worth checking out the first episode but can't really commit to all of the episodes since it'll basically be the same (nicely designed) sets and challenges over and over. Someone tell me if anyone ever uses the Sam Witwer voiced Dark side shortcut

 

Our boy is everywhere lately!

 

Dammit if Jaxxon is in episode 2 I may have to watch it now. Or just skip to that part.

 

Anyone seen how you apply to be on the show? I have a 9 year old that wants to do it.

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I love my Peltas!

But part of me still wishes they had chosen the Chu'untor... with the shows finale episode taking place on Dathomir

 

Given the target audience, I wouldn't at all be surprised if Best's Jedi character made some from of appearance in the Star Wars Adventures comics.

 

Honestly, these are the two safest periods. Anytime between TPM-TROS is a train wreck.

 

Well, considering Kelleran Beq looks just like Achk Med Beq, we can assume they're twin brothers, meaning the show does take place between TPM-TROS

Or make it more grim and have Kelleran be the sole Jedi Master other than Luke of Luke's order, with an appearance by Mark Hamill saying "Great job training these students, Master Beq!" They high-five and the audience realizes in horror these are the students Kylo wiped out.

Or Kelleran or Achk Med is a clone of the other.

Or Achk Med is a direct descendant (hey the Soong family over on Star Trek get away with all looking alike) and Kelleran has been breaking the Jedi code and having kids.

I didn't know this was out already, so I'll watch these episodes tonight.

 

I'd say after TROS, as well, because of Yoda's spectral communications. It's just like Galaxy's Edge, so it makes sense to me.

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It'd have to be way post TROS considering Master Beq's age. Maybe Rey's Jedi Order was founded on harsh daily trials of endurance training and strength and wits. "I had to grow up on bloody Jakku doing this every day so y'all have to too!" "Yes, Master Skywalker!"

 

The whole vibe shouts prequel era to me; a formal Jedi Order and Jedi Trials, Beq mentioning the Council, Pelta frigates, Ahmed himself essentially being so famously tied to the prequel era... and we know Yoda can communicate with Jedi across the galaxy thanks to Rebels without needing to be dead.

I also think it'd be a bit of a waste for some Future Jedi Order to be in the exact same mould as the old one, especially when the whole point was that the prequel Jedi were flawed and too dogmatic. Going straight back to that formalized, Council-led structure would be a real missed opportunity for a different kind of Order post-TROS, especially with the shades of Arthurian legend in TFA.

 

I highly doubt a kids' game show of all things is going to emphasize the old, rigid, dogmatic prequel Jedi and their fundamentalist strict rules. I have no problem with this being a post-Rise of Skywalker Jedi order that had the cosmetic design (clothes, council, etc.) of the prequel Jedi without the extremist fundamentalism.

 

Well, this is the same franchise where the last continuity showed tech to be stagnant for thousands of years...

And even in Star Trek, which didn't have that tech stagnation complaint, Excelsior class ships etc. were still being used a century later.

 

Sure, but what I'm saying is those trappings all mean it's the same dogmatic, fundamentalist Order, rather than something entirely new. I'd also highly doubt a kids' show is going to introduce the post-TROS world in the first place, either.

 

Ewoks are known to the galaxy by at least the Clone Wars considering the diner they go to in Missing in Action (the episode where Meebur Gascon and the droids find Gregor) serves Ewok jerky.

 

I'll have to fully watch the show before I can comment more, but I think it's safe for me to assume that Kelleran Beq is a lot nicer than, say, Mace Windu despite wearing the same clothes.

And as for a game show introducing the post-ROS world, well stranger things have happened. The Holiday Special gave us Boba Fett after all, and Palpatine's return was on Fortnite of all things.

I'd honestly rather have any post-ROS work just have an already setup Jedi status quo and run with it rather than show us rebuilding the Jedi all over again (the rebuilding of which should have been old news decades ago after ROTJ until the ST destroyed them again). This game show's setup seems as good as any to go with.

If there was any storytelling direction on having the Jedi change their dogmatic beliefs etc., that ship sailed when TLJ claimed to be a movie about needing "the Jedi to end" and then switched out any serious discussion on their flaws or rigid rules with an old story about Luke making a criminal mistake, blaming it on the Jedi, and then coming around at the end (all of which did nothing to address the prequel Jedi's fundamental problems)

 

Again, I'm not saying the game show addresses anything to do with Jedi fundamentalism, just that the props, staging, and references don't seem to diverge at all from the prequel era setup, which makes it much more likely to be set in that era than in a different one.

And the ship hasn't sailed at all. Luke brought up some flaws, but chose to embrace the Jedi way again. That doesn't mean there were no flaws or they're somehow unable to be addressed in the future.