Star Wars Visions 2x2: Screecher's Reach | Reaction
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Kyle and Bendu react to Episode 2 of Star Wars Visions: Screecher's Reach
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Looking back, this was SO amazing! The kid asks the medallion for “strength”...... but JEDI don’t ask for strength, they ask for balance. The SITH code demands strength. You go back and and there are so many clues that you just didn’t realize. IT’S SO GOOD. Best one of the whole season I think!
They draw attention to it multiple times, it's really hard to miss on a first watch.
What is most interesting is that Anakin left with a Jedi and didn't look back. She left with a Sith and she did look back as she was leaving.
I loved how the Sith Mother's eyes changed when she said "No". They turn from a gentle grey to dark yellow and her tone shifts. She becomes more cold, losing any of the earlier sense of warmth and loving nature. You can feel the threat behind her shift in tone. She's done with pretense, and had Daal rejected her I've no doubt she would've killed all those kids on the spot.
You honestly don't know though, and I think that's what makes it fascinating. She is clearly Sith but there are levels to the depths of evil in Sith as well. Some aren't as evil as Sidious. But at the same time the girl is aware she is force sensitive and could pose a threat in the future so she could very well kill her as well. Damn good episode
I love how Screecher's Reach and the Ninth Jedi from last season use color to set up expectations in the audience and then turn around and subvert those expectations with clever twists. These two are truly a case study in how to manipulate expectations in stories.
I love how the ending recontextualizes the whole story. From the beginning Daal is unfocused at the factory, then her demeanor is deathly serious when she says "We're going to Screecher's Reach" like it's not just a fun field trip to a spooky hotspot with friends. Then on the way she asks her friend if she got the opportunity to leave, should she, really pushing for him to give her aspiration approval. Then later on she says "Some bad places exist to test you" which is clever foreshadowing in hindsight. You can really tell on a second watch that the whole time the weight of the test was on her mind.
I'll also throw it out there that the screecher was the Sith master's former apprentice who went mad in the caves, and it was the master's intention for Daal to replace her by killing her and taking her lightsaber.
I read it slightly differently. I think it was her old master, and this was what she became after the Sith Mother betrayed her.
What I like the most about visions is that it shows that Star Wars isn’t just one singular genre: it’s multiple. There’s grittiness, adventure, lightheartedness, family, western, light vs dark. Just as George intended. These styles, while not canon are able to shed layers.
Exactly. It opens up the wonders that is the Star Wars GALAXY, which god is such a fantastic playground for stories when its allowed to be.
The name of the studio that made Episode 2 is Cartoon Saloon. It is from Ireland and has made great animations like The Breadweiner and Wolfwalkers.
Skreecher's Reach is the closest Star Wars has come to straight up Cosmic Horror. Living a horrible existence, entranced by voices from a corrupted item, dragging your mates along on a doomed quest, killing what you think is the threat only to be "rewarded" by your cosmic host, everyone pretending it's a good ending when everyone can feel the truth and we as the watchers know the true horrors ahead. Absoloutley great stuff
I just love how much of Irish mythology is present in the episode, the Banshee as an evil Sith lady, followed by a Dark Fae showing up to whisk a child away to who knows what dark path.
The studio who did this episode, Cartoon Saloon (who have done Wolfwalkers) have a penchant to incorporate a lot of Gaelic/Catholic mythology, and it shows. The Screecher is a clear analog to the Banshee of Irish mythology and the Sith at the end is tall and beautiful but also threateningly inhuman much like the Unseelie. Daal's use of the pendant and whispered prayer is very reminiscent of a practitioner of the Catholic faith.
Couldn't have said it better
I definitely caught the religious imagery and the reference to banshees. I think the similarity to prayer and the cross with Daal chanting to the pendant was particularly chilling.
Ah I caught the banshee reference but I didn't make the Unseelie connection until you mentioned it. Great catch
In old Irish a Banshee is a Ban Sidhe, Sidhe denotes people of the mound or some fae. However, Sidhe in old Scottish is Sith, often referring to Unseelie Fae.
Other highlights of theirs include Song of the Sea and The Secret of Kells.
The light "turning" to darkness as she looks back and the doors close as gets "consumed" by darkness is so cool
Also i found all the kids in this one to be endearing, you know with kids in media sometimes it's like "i can't stand you" or "eh I'm neutral on this kid) but this one is more like "all of you are now my children" from the first time you see them talk to eachother
This was such a hauntingly beautiful episode and easily one of my favorite bits of Star Wars content. That last shot of Daal being consumed by darkness, drowning out the light as she looks back. The loss of this innocence. I really hope they follow up on this in some way. After all they did give the Ronin from visions S1E1 his own novel.
Made by Cartoon Saloon, An Amazing Irish Animation Studio, Superb, made me a proud Irish Star Wars Fan 🇮🇪
Glad they copped the banshee scream
@@Fhiach Yeh class, The give the ghost a " Kick up the Arse " line was pure Irishism.
This is my second favorite episode of the season, I love how it just seems so lighthearted and fun at the beginning with the kids laughing and playing, but still had the undertone of a child who hates their life and existence and wants something better, so a Sith comes along and senses the Force in them and uses that hatred of their life to corrupt them and make them evil, promising them a better future if they just listen to them. Crazy good. Spy Dancer is my #1 though for Season 2, it's so. fucking. good.
Same!! Spy dancer is my fav and screachers reach my 2nd
Those two are probably my favorite thing from Star Wars in the last 20 years. I hope Disney gives some studios the license to develop limited series for some of these.
The name of the studio that made Episode 2 is Cartoon Saloon. It is from Ireland and has made great animations like The Breadweiner and Wolfwalkers.
Haunting and heartbreaking. It’s more potent because it’s a child making a deal with the devil. Our protagonist will only know rage, pain, and suffering for the rest of her days; simply because the life she had with her friends wasn’t enough. This and “In The Stars” (some Chilean bias on my part there) have been my favorite stories. Which is saying a lot because this entire season is gorgeous and brilliant.
It’s really sad cause we’re as the audience knows her path will be dark. God I wish we got follow ups to some of these episodes
This is from the Irish Studio Cartoon Saloon (The Breadweinner, Wolf Walkers)!
Daal: Give me strength…
Sith code: Peace is a lie there is only passion and through passion I gain strength through strength power through power victory and through victory my chains are broken the force shall set me free
Daal was freed by the force
True.
The Sith Code was based on Mein Kampf.
@@Mourtzouphlos240 it literally isn’t
@@Mourtzouphlos240 Not really. It's moreso a reversal of the Jedi Code.
@@Sangth123 She isn't free. She is simply serving a new master.
She could easily end up like the old lady (the Sith Mother's previous apprentice) and be killed when the Sith Mother loses interest in her or deems her a failure.
The Dark side is seductive, beautiful and sometimes the only way out. Stunning episode.
Saddest part was her saying the advice she got from her friend then proceeds to accept and walk hand and hand with her new master possibly not knowing what path she’s really taking, only the new life that was promised, this was by far one of the best things I’ve seen in Star Wars
Drawing from Irish folklore and tradition is a hallmark of Cartoon Saloon's most-known work (Wolfwalkers, The Secret of Kells, and Song of the Sea) so as a longtime fan it was awesome to see them incorporate that into the Star Wars universe. The screeching "ghost" definitely seemed like it was based off banshees from Irish legend and Daal "praying" to the medallion also felt like a nod to the Catholic tradition of carrying/wearing saint and angel medals for protection and guidance. I love that the story twisted that particular element so that the angelic entity was actually a Sith at the end, though. There's an interview with the studio head Tomm Moore where he talks a little bit about how the director of the short pulled from Irish influence and it's pretty interesting. Anyway I absolutely loved this short and it left me wanting to see more. CS always knocks it out of the park and this was no exception
Wlell, Lucifer was an angel, after all... It's very in this vibe. What a Sith, if a fallen force user in a way.
I like how every Sith is different. Some Siths genuinely care for their apprentices, some are always calm, and some are very evil and abusive like Sidious. Take Darth Marr as an example. The Sith ruled the Galaxy through various rival empires. Not all of them are "insane" like Sidious. Despite this, the Dark Side is dark and evil to harness. I like how this Sith master gives her future apprentice a choice: stay with her friends or become her Sith apprentice. The Sith Master's voice feels like the Sith Master once was initiated into the Sith the same way Daal did but lost all her innocence in the process.
Sidious isn't "insane", just an asshole.
Cartoon Saloon characters are so easy to recognize... Love their work, especially Song of the Sea. :)
According to the behind the scenes video for this episode, the shots of the Banshee before the rockfall were done in ink on paper, and it took the artist about 40 minutes per frame. The gal who provided such a bone-chilling scream is Niamh Moyles, and the Sith who takes Daal away is voiced by Anjelica Huston. Cartoon Saloon gave S-tier work from top to bottom.
Episodes 1 2 and 5 are my favorite ones in this season. 1 for the art, the 5th for the story, but this episode is the most memorable of them all. We think this is a jedi trial, but in fact it turns out to be a Sith trial. Daal was recruited In a very simmilar way Zannah was by Bane. The angel Sith gave her an escape from her bleak reality into a different better life. I was actually worried for Daal's friends when the sith showed since I was certain she would kill them. The last shoot of Daal being consumed by darkness is really haunting to me. And that is a message of this story: even though we are given opportunities for a different life it does not mean it'll be a good life. It also means that just like anyone can be a jedi, anyone can be a sith.
An Irish studio mixing Irish folklore into Star Wars. The Banshee in older Irish is the Ban Sidhe. Sidhe was the word used for many of the fae who in some stories kidnap people. However, in another Celtic language, Scottish, the Sidhe are call Sith.
I just realized that the mantra she keeps repeating “give me strength” reminds me of the Sith code.
Ahh you're right! That's a great catch
She goes through all the steps of the sith code in the trial too, peace was a lie for her, she has passion to be free, the passion gave her strength...
Best one. It demands a sequel. My daughter and I are writing one for fun.
heartbreaking episode. probably my favorite of both seasons.
I believe there is a prophecy at play in this short. Pause on the image of "The Ghost's" cave after the rock falls on her at 6:12. On the right hand side of the screen there are etchings in the rock wall that echo imagery of this world. The logo of Daal's necklace with a long-haired woman (the Ghost) reaching out to it. The Ghost holding her lightsaber in battle with someone (The Sith Mother?). The Ghost holding a child's (Daal?) hand, both of them with a floating object over their right hand. Then something that might be the Sith Mother's ship landing on the planet. I think they'll do a behind the scenes featurette for each episode. I'd be interested to hear what the filmmakers have to say about this one.
This is one of the best written shots. That twist is fantastic!
Poor Dahl, everything in this episode points to the darkness. She goes deeper into darkness, asking for strength. As the Sith Code says, through passion, I gain strength, and through strength I gain power. She didn't reach for the light in end, she reached out to the darkness, and pulled it down on her enemy. When she stands with her master, the light is behind them, but Dahl stands in the Sith's shadow. The last shot sums her fate up so well, she steps into the light, but the darkness closes in around her, until there is nothing left.
What's your bet that old Sith with the old master of the "Sith mother" also the Irish really know how to do trauma!
The witch may have been the original master in hiding to avoid getting killed by her apprentice
i like how dark the music played when she killed the sith banshee
This speaks to desperation playing a role in choosing the dark path. She’s a good person who wanted to escape the horrible life of working in that factory. She is taken by the demon like figure as that way out because it appealed to her sense of strength as a way out. And even then, she says to not look back, but does at the last second anyway because she might realize everything isn’t quite right.
The thing with the ghost is, the sith lady might not have beef with her. The ghost could have been a former apprentice, abandoned after failing.
Like with a couple of the shorts from S1, I really want a follow up to this story. I'd like to see Daal meet her friends again when she's older. Keena seems to be somewhat force sensitive too, but she's definitely a pure soul. It would be great to see her redeem Daal.
This was the most haunting episode out of the 9 this season. It got me with the dark turn it took when that voice came out of the glowing medallion. Creepy!!
This one was the best episode it’s just so Heavy very emotional for no reason
As an Irish person, I was really looking forward to this one! I looked up before hand which studio was the Irish one but when I watched it, I knew immediately that it was Irish people behind it so I wouldn't have had to lol. The red hair, the accents, the use of certain phrases, it was *all* very Irish to me!🤣.
I was just like "Yeah this is definitely done by Irish people" the whole time. I also liked that the Sith figure or whatever it was, was very clearly inspired by the banshee creature in our folklore. It's so weird how much I laughed hearing that guy call someone else an "eeigit" which is basically a slang word we have for "fool" or something. Such an odd inclusion to perk up at but I did
This one also reminded me of a comic. When we just saw the claw/hand, my mind immediately went to the Nameless from the High Republic because it reminded me of a particular image of one of their claws in the Trail of Shadows comics but seeing the full thing, I immediately thought of banshees. And the saber ignition was absolutely sick. I loved this one and the twist at the end was such a stab in the heart, knowing she was manipulated into it by a Sith grooming an apprentice from afar
"The Screech Around"? No, you didn't!! 🤣🤣
First one was great. This one was extraordinary. Aaaaaaaaaaand, Anjelica Huston voiced the Sith lady. Let that sink in.
I liked all of season 2, but in my opinion, this one is head and shoulders above the rest. Makes me wish there was more. 10/10 in animation, directing, voice acting, and sound track.
This one is the one that I need a follow up. Is so freaking cool mannnn ahhhhhh I need a full as* series about now
That Sith at the end is pretty much Lucifer/Satan - a regal and angelic visage shrouded by a dark and ominous aura.
I just learned that this studio made Wolfrunners, which is an amazing animated movie. And explains why the style looked so familiar! Also, first Star Wars story that scared the shit out of me
That movie was so good
@@neofulcrum5013 Ikr? So well animated and written.
Small correction
The title is
Wolfwalkers
@@benoitcecyre7081 Oh oops, you are right
The "Ghost" was a fallen Sith apprentice that had gone insane and the Sith master had contacted this force sensitive girl and promised her a better future to kill the old apprentice as a test. She's knowingly joining the Sith. That's why the friends are so sad for her.
Wanna go deeper in the rabbit hole Kyle? In credits the woman that took daal is called “Sith Mother” which is interesting.
Lowkey, with how angelic this sith was represented, I thought she was Aboleth.
That music man..........stays with you...............
This one ended so so so sad. Cause you know that girl is gonna be messed up. Nobody there knows except the Sith.
The best part of that episode ? How it subverts the "Light" to trick us :
Daal is trapped in a dark cavern, with a dark sith creature and yay, the light appears and reveal a way to go out and enlighten the solution of the rock.
We're tricked to think it's the light side of Force who help her. But no. And when the sith ship appears, his design is soft, comfy, and it irradiates light.
For Daal, the life on the planet-factory is so hard that the dark side is way more luminous than her gritty reality
Let's face it: Daal was never going to be a light-side force user because she's a soulless ginger, lol.
BTW, I think the Sith Lady in the starship might be a Gen'Dai. The way her neck was drawn reminds me of how Durge looked in the original Clone Wars animated series.
Hope so. I can imagine a fight if a Jedi face her, slice her face and distorts into something disturbing for one moment then shift back to the face she have now.
Aside from the first episode of the first season THIS episode is my favorite. We always think of young children as apprentices to Jedi but never Sith. I like how we saw a quiet choice into the Sith Way. She was living in a workhouse and made the choice to go to the Sith. She wasn't a Jedi who got corrupted or an adult who was seduced by the Dark Side. It was refreshing.
Probably my favourite of this season of Visions
I think this is my favourite episode of season 2!! It had me wanting so much more
Banshee mythoi Sith spirits FTW.
😱TEMPTATION😱
Nastiest thing I did to one of my SWRPG parties was let them find a double lightsaber... Exar Kun's.... It was whispering to them.... 💀
Remember the Sith have been way more into finding ways to not be (mostly) dead than the jedi ever were.
All the Volume 2 episodes have been bangers
That creature they encounter reminded me of Abeloth
If Abeloth ever showed up in live action, i want her to be scary as shit like the Witch in the cave.
Absolutely loved the imagery of a Sith draped in white pulling Daal into the warm light. All that beauty but it's all a cover for we know from the voice and eyes she's a Sith. And the old Sith in the mountain? Straight out of Irish folklore about banshee's, who I must disagree with you about. That was a red lightsaber. Even though she was in hiding, there's no way she was innocent.
On the Light side; episodes 4, 7, and 9 are more heartwarming that this and a few others.
Amazing episode. And it could easily be put somewhere and sometime in the Star Wars Universe.
Biblically accurate Sith ship is creepy
“I was strong” is such a positive thing, but definitely not a Jedi teaching she’s learning
I love how nuanced this short is - I loved the other visions shorts but a lot of them follow the route of 'empire = bad oppressor'. Which is not a bad trope at all, but I loved how Cartoon Saloon has a refreshing take and decided to make a story about how manipulative the Sith really are. We can see in the beginning how Daal and the other children are essentially child labour in a factory - of course Daal wants to escape that life, and she takes the opportunity the Sith offers to her. Even at the ship we can see how the Sith deals in absolutes - the Sith Lady tells her to make her choice when in reality Daal has none. Her only options are to leave for a hopeful, better life - or stay in her miserable factory home which has quite literally, scarred her (the red flush and marks on her face imply that her face has been burnt after continuous exposure to steam). Daal was given the illusion of agency, when she in fact has none.
A very beautiful, haunting short that shows how much Cartoon Saloon has researched and appreciated Star Wars.
The worst part is that Daal exchanged what was basically slavery for another kind of slavery in this case being a slave to the Dark Side. Wouldn't be surprised if Daal came back in a few years to murder her friends as a final test from her Sith Master in order to formally join the ranks of the Sith Order.
Thanks, Kyle! Thanks, Bendu! Thanks, Nerd Chronic! 😱 I think this one is top tier for me. #KyleKatarn #StarWars #StarWarsVisions #ScreechersReach
Officer:"Okay, so tell me again what happened."
Screacher Ghost:"Alright, i was just sitting in my cave house like any other day. Then out of nowhere a bunch of kids tresspassed onto my property. I tried scaring them away, but one of them wouldnt leave, so i had to defend myself with my lightsber(i have a permit). Then she drops a freaking rock on me, picks up my lightsaber, and freaking kills me."
Officer:"Okay seems like an open and shut case. Kid you're going to jail."
Peace ✌🏻
I love this story. It's my favorite because it feels real , all the others are more or less typical happy endings with good-willed people.
Here, Daal is a miserable and desperate child who wants nothing but to escape her prison, a life as a corporate slave. But look at what she did and signed up for to do so. She chose a path of darkness Because it was literally her only option. She killed, abdoned her friends behind, and will certainly become evil, but it will be " a better life".
Her story is sooo similiar to Darth Bane, who grew up in simuliar circumstances.
Poor and desperate people Choose evil because it is actually better, in the real world too: theft, drugs, prostitutes, deception.
For me, it calls into question the type of society we have that LEADs people towards evil. A person ultimatetly chooses, but society is the one presenting the limited options. A great story usually has a morale
The sith lady reminds me of one of those ancient warhammer titans from aot her entire design is literally similar or the same
I cry every time, it's so tragic.
5:36 Aaaand that’s the closest we’re going to get to canon Abeloth
Well, Disney plus does have some Extra's on the making of each short for both seasons if you want a little bit more.
Another amazing video
That is such a sad ending for fans. We know what she is getting into.
By far my favorite episode honestly. Not that the others aren’t fun, but there was something about old ass crazy sith that I didn’t know I still needed after all the old republic shenanigans.
Guys.. I loved EVERY episode of Visions 2! F'in AMAZING!!! Especially "I am your Mother!" and "The Sith"! Hahahaha Btw, we met up at Celebration here in LA just when you two were about to walk out to the side of the convention center to the food trucks, and we were talking about the Armada Super Star Destroyers on display nearby..
The Sith Mother is Fae for sure
7:31 Where have i seen that lightsaber style before?
I wish I could find a Sith mother mentor like her, and be her apprentice haha, what surprised me was that she didn't ask her to kill her friends.
The old woman must been a sith lost and forgotten of the past and becoming a demon of evil to the dark side.
Best episode of both seasons!
"This Poor Old lady" WHAT?!? She tried to Kill the little Kid NOPE NO Sympathy for Child killers....
That was disturbing, if i was young I’d have nightmares
And todays lesson learned
Screecher. Zero similarities with Mynocks
@Kyle Katarn,
12:24 I don't know about you, but I thought the Sith in the cave was the master of the Sith on the ship--did the original apprentice trap her master in a cave and drive her crazy? I don't feel like the old woman in the cave was really after Daal, but was trying to get to the exit.
............................ "The Screech Around"?
XD
Kyle I haven't heard anyone mention Salvador Dali since I was in college in 93. Your knowledge is vast Master!
Let’s not call the Sith old lady a ‘poor old lady lol’
should watch wolfwalker from the studio that made this
2x2 by far more disturbing episodes. Notion that a Sith lord can offer you a better life. The Sith wears a beautiful but color sterile outfit, her ship is ornate. It is as close to Cosmic horror as can get. Season 2 of Visions emphasis on Dark side is very few if any have positive endings. I loved how the Sith Mother's eyes changed when she said "No". They turn from a gentle grey to dark yellow and her tone shifts. She becomes more cold, losing any of the earlier sense of warmth and loving nature. You can feel the threat behind her shift in tone. She's done with pretense, and had Daal rejected her I've no doubt she would've killed all those kids on the spot. Sith demand strength thru passion and force, Jedi accumulate strength by distance and discipline.
More important it's focus on music/themes of Celtic and Irish folklore. Homage JRR Tolkien where he wrote much of the LOTR about industrialization of english countryside, the planet is environmentally ruined yet patches of it's pristine green exist.
Great
Has he started Jedi Survivor yet?
Isn't the Sith tradition is to replace the old Sith with the young by killing them off.
I dont think it takes a big star wars fan to put 2 and 2 together and figure out that the lady was a sith.
10:09
And she thinks her life is about to get better.......so sad
Are you going to record a plaything of Jedi: Survivor? Would love to see that?
Noting red is good in star wars.
Europeans are all over the first two episodes lol.... first Spaniards and now Irish
I made the mistake of watching this at 2 am😟
Jedi don't speak to you out of red glowing objects..they kidnap you and indoctrinate you into a cult instead 😂🤣🤣😂😂
But that's no different to how Spartans were raised to be warriors or how other warriors were raised essentially from birth like the Samurai
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i would like to see a western episode
The Ghost was the Sith's master.
That was my thought as well.
I don't think so. She was too feral, too lost in her hatred. She was definitely a failed apprentice.
@@OblivionZer0 She was way too old to be an apprentice. My guess would be the Sith Mother's former Master. Likely disgraced and banished after her defeat, and her former apprentice using her as a trial to choose a new apprentice is poetic.
@@zalla00 I suppose Count Dooku was too old to be an apprentice by that measure, then. It's just that there was no way the Ghost could've been a Sith Master with how little control she had over her rage. Her abilities were amateur at best.
But yeah, the parallel with Count Dooku is literally right there: a Sith Master pitting her would-be apprentice against her former apprentice as a test.
Imo: s1 best episode is ninth Jedi, s2 it’s screechers reach.
Great episode, it felt like a dark fairy tale. Kinda wish the ghost was a night sister, not sith. 😅
Just finished episode 5 ooof. Episodes 1-4 really good, enjoyed them all then came 5 Journey to the dark Head. Typical anime. Beautiful animation, terrible story, boring predictable characters, stale story and like all far east studio anime, god awful dialog. Typical of far east anime studios. Pretty terrible. Episode 5 encompasses everything that made ALL of Volume 1really not good. What I loved about this one was the voice acting was top notch and the ambiguity of the ending. Are we really sure the master was sith? Because I'm not so sure. The light shining down, the light and dark robes of the masters robes?