Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy Has a Good Time Questioning the Morality of Creation

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Everyone’s favourite toy/film marque crossover, Lego Star Wars, has returned for different peculiar astatine Disney+. In a subversion of the presently fashionable multiverse narrative, Rebuild the Galaxy alternatively subjects its Lego-rendered Star Wars beingness to an apocalyptic crisis, 1 successful which the precise gathering blocks of world are dramatically reshaped. Not simply acceptable dressing this clip around, the thought of a postulation made of rearrangeable Lego blocks becomes integral to the communicative successful a mode the film franchise lone alluded.

The four-part miniseries concerns Sig and Dev Greebling, a brace of nerf-herding brothers with varying opinions of their agrarian location world, Finesa (pronounced similar the sanction “Vanessa,” but with a “F”). The Force-sensitive Sig (Gaten Matarazzo) seems contented with his humble existence, portion the contemptuous Dev (Tony Revolori) longs to permission the satellite behind. Complicating matters, they’re some successful emotion with the aforesaid young woman, a “cool” farmhand named Yesi Scala. Further complicating matters, the 2 brothers and their Gonk droid, Servo (Smiling Friends‘ Michael Cusack, pursuing a vocal upgrade successful occurrence two), observe a mysterious Jedi temple lodging a transparent, single-stud Lego ceramic called “The Cornerstone” with the quality to reshape the beingness brick-by-brick. Entranced, the brothers region the piece, overmuch to the chagrin of Bob (Bobby Moynihan), a Jedi temple defender from a erstwhile incarnation of the Star Wars beingness who’s taken it upon himself to guarantee nary 1 other repeats the aforesaid mistake helium did years before.

Dev and Sig’s transgression causes the full of the Lego Star Wars beingness to reshape itself, resulting successful changes some large and minor: the salty aboveground of Crait is present made of pepper, portion the godforsaken satellite of Tatooine becomes a formation and fashionable abrogation spot (this caller beingness reinterprets Luke Skywalker arsenic a surfer bro who spends his days racing Max Rebo connected alien ski-doos.) Though the thought isn’t strictly adhered to, formerly bully characters are present presented arsenic being evil, and vice versa. Admiral Ackbar has go the template for the Empire’s Clone Troopers, portion Salacious B. Crumb holds Yoda’s spot connected the Jedi High Council. The rebel absorption is comprised of “good” versions of Sheev Palpatine, Darth Vader, Jabba the Hutt, Count Dooku and IG-88- but besides Jannah (once again played by Naomi Ackie) and Lobot. There’s adjacent a gag astir Greedo “shooting first” that fundamentally alters the character’s narration with Han Solo.

While Darth Jar Jar is heavy featured successful the miniseries’ promotional materials, the champion remixed characters person to beryllium Darth Rey (Helen Sadler) and Darth Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), cementing either character’s teased-but-vetoed bottommost turns successful The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker arsenic missed storytelling opportunities, indeed. Anthony Daniels’ instrumentality arsenic a psychopathic mentation of C-3PO additionally confirms the comic book-exclusive 0-0-0 can’t marque his leap to live-action soon enough.

Still, for each the amusive the bid has exploring these alternate takes connected beloved characters, Rebuild the Galaxy besides ponders the karmic ramifications of playing deity successful a beingness comprised of sentient Lego minifigures. Yesi’s begetter nary longer exists successful this caller universe, for one, and though its been rearranged with a handwave, the melodramatic thrust comes from preventing either Sig oregon Dev from utilizing the Cornerstone to enactment it backmost to however it erstwhile was. It ponders the aforesaid “what’s done is done” thought experimentation presented successful Star Trek: Voyager‘s divisive “Tuvix episode,” and adjacent becomes thing akin to a children’s tv mentation of Dark City astatine 1 point. However, arsenic Surfer Luke opines, this caller beingness is “in immoderate ways worse,” than the 1 preceding it, “but successful immoderate ways better,” also, and “maybe that’s worthy warring for.”

In the specials’ last moments, our caller formed of characters acceptable retired to research this brave caller satellite they created together, teeing up a imaginable sequel series. A pre-credits teaser besides reveals the Empire has hired a caller bounty hunter, erstwhile again remixing 2 acquainted characters into a caller (pun-based) 1 I wouldn’t caput seeing much of. Much similar Rebuild the Galaxy‘s overarching taxable of questioning however liable it is to make thing caller from pre-existing materials, though, the reply to whether immoderate of this was worthy it will beryllium entirely connected idiosyncratic taste, but for the astir part, Rebuild the Galaxy has a batch of amusive asking immoderate unexpected questions of itself.

Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is present streaming connected Disney+.

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