To celebrate the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Disney+, we’re undertaking a full chronological rewatch of the five original seasons, The Lost Missions, and the theatrical release. We’d be honored if you would join us for the weekly #CloneWarsRewatch — you can watch this week’s episode on Disney+ now — and share your thoughts on the award-winning series.

98: “A Sunny Day in the Void” (Season Five, Episode 11)

“When all seems hopeless, a true hero gives hope.”

Synopsis:

After a comet damages their shuttle, R2-D2, Colonel Gascon, and the other droids crash on a desolate planet where they must make their way across a bewildering expanse of emptiness to carry out their mission.

Analysis:

The desolate desert of Abafar feels like a vast wasteland, and Colonel Gascon is slowly losing

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Ezra Bridger has had a really tough day. His potential mentor, Kanan Jarrus, wanted to pawn him off on legendary Jedi Master, Luminara Unduli. To say he feels rejected would be an understatement. Ezra lost his parents at a young age, and has had to fend for himself on Lothal for a while. Meeting Kanan and the crew of the Ghost appears to be the closest thing to family Ezra might

Ahmed Best is positively beaming as he stands before six eager young Padawans. The actor best known among Star Wars fans as Jar Jar Binks has traded a duckbilled Gungan mo-cap suit for simple and sleek Jedi robes to transform into Jedi Master Kelleran Beq, the host of Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge. The new Star Wars Kids game show dares competitors to take on the core Jedi principles of strength, knowledge, and bravery through physical and mental challenges on an exotic forest planet, inside a starship, and deep in the bowels of an ancient Jedi Temple.

Ahmed Best as Jedi Master Kelleran Beq.

For Best, the opportunity was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. “I never thought that I would be asked back, to be honest,”

Lucasfilm stands with John Boyega and his message that, “Now is the time. Black lives have always mattered. Black lives have always been important. Black lives have always meant something.”

The evil that is racism must stop. We will commit to being part of the change that is long overdue in the world.

John Boyega, you are our hero.

Watch John’s full speech here.

Update, June 3, 2020: 

Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will now premiere with two full episodes on June 10, 2020, on StarWarsKids.com and the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel.

Original story, published May 27, 2020:

Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, the new game show set in a galaxy far, far away, will soon arrive in our own.

Premiering with two full episodes on June 3, 2020, the weekly series tests young Padawans’ strength, knowledge, and bravery in a series of trials designed to discover who is capable of becoming a Jedi Knight.

The 10-episode series will debut on StarWarsKids.com and the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel, which currently host Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures, Star Wars: The Clone Wars fun facts, craft and drawing tutorials, and several other activities for young fans.

Check out the full series