The daughter of a lightsaber-smith is pursued by dark forces.

The fifth episode was created by studio Production IG. The story is set some time after the sequel trilogy (I think – every episode is a little vague but this one has a prologue which offers some clues).

The Jedi are a memory, but nor is there an Empire to contend with.

Into this backdrop comes a young masterless Jedi looking for hope, looking for guidance and for a way to discover the tribe to which he knows he belongs.

There’re two neat twists in this and a lovely little story arc that means our initial protagonist isn’t really the person we’re most interested in. I really enjoyed the tension and the thread of the story because it was well executed.

The animation was lovely – the vistas and character work popping and vibrant.

This and episode 4 make good companion pieces and I’d recommend watching them together even if they deliver on quite different stories, thematically they feel like they speak to one another about what it means to be who you are and how other people can remind you how important that is.

Both episodes also speak to hope – something the Star Wars saga is, at its best, all about. Hope has to be the thing not seen, the faith that it will come despite the evidence. I sometimes think people believe hope is about certainty, that hope which isn’t certain is a kind of hopelessness. They’re wrong. Hope is about believing when the odds are against, precisely when the thing is unseen – when you don’t have any reason to believe.

It’s a powerful thing and, as shown in both this and the previous episode, it can move mountains.

Rating? 7 lost lightsabers out of 10

Stewart Hotston