LEGO Star Wars

Main Story:

It was interesting. It explored ideas that probably would have been better off explored in the actual canon itself rather than a Lego project.

But it's clearly not canon. For one thing, they ignored the red color Sith rules for light-sabers set up in Star Wars Visions. Visions was intended to be canon, even if it was the first thing to set that up, and either this project was created before the writers heard about that (it's possible as that was developed in Japan) or they felt free to ignore it simply because the Lego projects aren't beholden to that kind of thing. Although the Lego stuff's obsession with Kyber Crystals and Holocrons suggest they tend to take that kind of thing seriously anyways.

The Jack Torrance moment doesn't work with zombie Roger Droids simply because they have to rattle off a bunch of different numbers and letters. "Here's Johnny!" only works because it's two syllables. Come to think of it, how does anyone in the Star Warsverse even KNOW that reference? Maybe Johnny Carson is even older than we thought and got around a bit back in the day. That must be it. The Shining reference is MUCH hard to justify however, as silly as I think I'm being there.

Grabbala the Hutt is still alive in the sequel trilogy era, at least for the Lego projects.

This isn't a Halloween special but the hand coming up at the end was a horror movie ending anyways.

It was pretty solid. 4 stars.

Now I'll review the stories the Renee tells.

The Lost Boy:

This origin story of Kylo Ren's name is so underwhelming I very glad it is not canon.

Lego Ben Solo has the same leftover birth duke on his face that Adam Driver does. That will go down as Star Wars' worst casting choice ever. Even Family Guy has made fun of it.

Meh. 2 1/2 stars.

The Dueling Monstrosities:

An origin for General Grievous AND Darth Maul deserved to be told in the canon. Maybe someday it will be. In which case this can be roundly ignored.

Good they got Sam Witwer back though. Frankly at this point I consider him far more crucial to the character than Ray Park, which is weird. Actually Park is weird too (which is probably why he was fired).

Pretty good. 3 1/2 stars.

The Wookiee's Paw:

A cautionary tale I am VERY glad never happened. 4 stars.

Special Overall: 4 stars.

Ugly holiday sweaters are the bane of every Universe. 3 stars.

Pumpkin carving competition with Ashoka and Maul? Things are getting personal.

The pumpkin fight was great too, as was the end shot of Maul with a smashed pumpkin on his head. 4 stars.

Mando has obviously never trick-or-treated before.

The Child eating the Halloween candy was totes adorb.

Cute! 4 stars.