Star Wars: Forces of Destiny Episode 3 – Ewok Escape Released
The third episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny titled Ewok Escape was released on Disney’s YouTube channel. In it we find out what happened to Leia and Wicket on a way to Ewok village on Endor.
The two new friends join forces to save two Ewoks from the Imperial stormtroopers. And the question of Leia’s white dress in The Return of the Jedi is answered.
You have to wonder though what happened to the original owner of that dress. 🙂
Enjoy the episode:
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I like the idea of Forces of Destiny and I don’t usually have a problem with Flash animation. But my god the character designs are just super generic.
The designs look like they belong in some sort of cheap Flash game advertised on any number of sites.
I like to imagine this animation style is similar to the style of the Boba Fett short from the Star Wars Holiday Special. Which was, of course, the coolest (the only cool) thing in that.
That had some charm to it, though.
This just feels like lazy, generic product to sell toys. Buuuut, it’s not intended for me anyway, sooo…
Wasn’t Boba’s animated short in that holiday special meant to sell Kenner’s upcoming Boba Fett figures and doll?
The movies, TV shows, everything, it’s all to sell toys. I’m just saying that this particular ad was lazy, and generic.
Sadly they will never spend time doing wonderfully hand animated piece like that again.
It’s sad to see the SW brand ( inevitably ) cheapened with poor quality things like this. But we’ve seen it also with the recent SW comics, a number of which are just ghastly.
I agree. This is Disney for crying out loud!
This quasi-2d digital animation is sub-par. I would love something done in the traditional style…the true Disney style. Star Wars and true Disney 2D animation were made for each other.
I must admit, I kept getting distracted by the terrible backgrounds. They looked very concept arty/computer generated, you could actually see the mouse/stylus strokes on the Ewok Village roofs, which totally goes against the very natural concept of Ewoks. Very jarring.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying, and thankful for, the free content we are being given, but it looks very much like fan fiction and I wouldn’t like to see the style used beyond these shorts.
In fact, as we well know they are fan fictions and fan animations ( such as the beautifully rendered anime-style X-Wing/TIE Fighter short ) that beat these official and cheap looking SW shorts.
Not as good as the previous couple, but good fun nonetheless, i really like Leia’s voice actor, is it the same woman who voiced young Leia in Rebels?
No, she’s new: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shelby_Young
Oh, ok, thanks for posting that, i just assumed it was the actor from Rebels.
Agreed. I do like this voice actor for Leia. She captures the tough, sass that Carrie brought to the role.
Really? Huh… I didn’t care for it. I felt like her voice alternated between not trying to do an impression and doing this thoaty impression. Neither of which worked for me. Ahh gee I’m negative but I feel the whole thing could be better done.
Ewoks are not fierce at all in this. They should’ve eaten those Troopers alive.
Who says they didn’t later?
But I need to see it in a kids cartoon!
Yeah I am ignoring this from a canon sense.
I’m not going to lie; this was the weakest FOD episode so far. I don’t hate it as I do have a soft spot for the Ewoks. ROTJ is my favorite SWs film and while going on a bit too long, I could never come to hate these guys. They were awesome. Though, I kind of wished GL could have had Wookies. But I digress.
I did enjoying seeing Wicket and Leia. My crtique is that Leia barely did anything. I guess the intent was to showcase how capable the Ewoks were but ROTJ kind of does that. And while I enjoyed seeing how Leia got that dress at the end of ROTJ, I overall found this short a bit vapid and confusing as to where it fits in the canon. At least, Rey’s shorts you could believably put them in during TFA.
Overall, this to me is the weakest episode. And I hope they get better from here.
Score: 60%
Agreed, it is by far the weakest episode so far, although it wasn’t particularly bad per se, it was just quite bland, i’m hoping the next one is as good as the Rey/BB-8 episodes.
I wish they did episodes with all the characters not just the females
But muh girl power.
Reporting you both for manspreading.
Oh yeah? Well I’m reporting you for mansplaining!
I think that’s what he meant.
What’s this? Another mansplainer? BE GONE
Please be quiet, you’re mantalking.
OH, did you just ASSUME my gender???!!!!1!!!
I am a transgender, demigod, queer toothbrush with manly tendencies. Bigot.
No lie, I literally just got banned form the Degrassi wiki for “instigating” when all I did was complain about a character’s casual sexism (it’s a long story) and then defend myself when the PC hordes descended onto me. Why must the world be so frustrating?
Maybe try not having an opinion next time? Kidding.
Similar thing happened to me. I was arguing with an owner of a particular Minecraft server, (fairly popular one as well.) who was trying to say that pedophilia was a sexual preference. Obviously I disagreed, I got IP banned. lol
Some people just can’t agree to disagree. I’m glad that SWNN is more open to controversial points of view when it comes to Star Wars. If every weirdo or pessimist immediately got IP banned, we wouldn’t have nearly as much fun on this site, would we?
Indeed.
This is my favorite fan site because of that.
Anakin’s in one of the Ahsoka shorts. Given that there are dolls of many of the male characters in this line they’ll probably appear at some point.
– Pomojema
Yes, give us another episode about Anakin. He’s so neglected!
No. Did I say anakin?
Vader and Kylo
This one is better than the disastrous Rey episodes. At least we get stormtroopers punking Ewoks. (“Is that a weapon?” lol)
Come on!!! the ewoks ate the previous owner of that dress!!
They find human flesh as delicacy.
Have to wonder why they didn’t cook up a Leia barbecue.
Maybe it’s because of her diminutive size, they thought she was a hairless Ewok.
Brilliant! That was my 1st thought as well!
Never ever thought we would see Ewoks again in animated form and for those of you who doubt IX will be a Jedi remake, It’s been rumored that Endor is in VIII……
Yeah. Rumors about Star Wars on the internet are always rock solid information. Always reliable and never complete BS at all.
To be fair, we were the originators of that particular rumor. And we still stand by it – albeit for either E8 or E9. But Ewoks aren’t a given at all, since we have yet to see a familiar alien race aside from Nien Nunb’s return.
– Pomojema
Only one other exception besides Wookiees being the old guy looking alien Stennes Shifters named Trinto Duaba.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stennes_Shifter?file=Trinto_Duaba-TFA.jpg
https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/d4/Duaba_and_Nadon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160501191907
Also, Ponda Baba.
He was in TFA? I thought we were just referring to the Sequel Trilogy, if we are including Rogue One we have a couple more instances of already established aliens seen on screen again. The skinny Twi’ lek seen in Saw’s partisans comes to mind.
Oh, I wasn’t paying enough attention. lol
Thought you guys meant all the new movies, not just saga. Sorry.
Same actor, BTW!
– Pomojema
Mon Calamari
Admiral Ackbar. Chewbacca.
Oh, duh. My mistake.
But still, my point stands that as far as background aliens in the ST Era, we aren’t seeing anybody familiar. We almost had an Ithorian in Maz’s pub, but it turns out that that guy was a related species.
– Pomojema
True. But that doesn’t bother me. I like new.
You are the worst person here.
Don’t let Kent hear you. He’ll TAKE it AS a CHALLENGE.
B U T T E R
Disney & Lucasfilm are not short of a bob or two, and yet they are using the cheapest looking Flash animation for what could have been quality 2D animated shorts. Why?
It’s a free thing.
Imagine a series of short STAR WARS animations crafted in the style of Ralph McQuarrie’s beautiful art?
I think that’s partially what they wanted to achieve with Rebels.
It’s called Rebels
I have to admit that I like these for one reason only: they fill in gaps in the movies. The Rey episodes included some action from a gap that occurd in VII, This episode included that part we didn’t see for suspense reasons when Leia is brought to the ewoks.
I’m just curious how they are going to even make money off of these.
They don’t have very many views, the first one has a horrible like to dislike ratio.
I mean, somebody had to get paid to make these as well as do all the sound effects and voicework. So, it’s like they are just doing this for fun and not really looking to make money off of them.
They are also going to air on the network, but it’s about creating awareness and doing a fun thing. Not everything makes money. Some stuff you take a hit on.
And like/dislike means not that much because we know it’s likely a bunch of manbabies mad that girls get a star wars thing. They will still watch.
And don’t forget the merch! There will be merch.
LOVE making babies mad
Thought that said “LOVE making babies man”.
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giggity
Well these shorts have a budget of like $2 each. They’ll make a profit off of the dolls, books, stationery, backpacks, school supplies, makeup, and probably toilet paper.
Sounded nothing like Carrie Fisher, more like some L.A. ‘Valley Girl’…
Why didn’t they use the same voice-actress that played Leia in Star Wars – Rebels?
She was perfect.