Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi ReviewThe young Jedi apprentice Lah Kara (Kimiko Glenn) seeks to restore the defunct Jedi Order and rescue her father and master Lah Zhiwa (Simu Liu), a lightsaber craftsman abducted by the warlord Nawaam (Young Mazino). Streaming on: Disney+Episodes viewed: 8 of 8Kenji Kawayama's 2021 short The Ninth Jedi, from animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions, felt like just a small window into a wider story which was yet to be explored. The comparisons continue to stack up as The Ninth Jedi orbits, but never fully emulates, the familiar hallmarks of Star Wars stories: paternal drama, a masked enemy, rebellion against an authoritarian conqueror, and so on. It can be disappointing when the series hems too closely to what one would expect from a Star Wars story: the soundtrack, from Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi, sadly a forgettable imitation of Williams, is one culprit. The Ninth Jedi is interested in leveraging these familiar hallmarks of Star Wars to ask some new questions of it, particularly around the dichotomy of the Jedi and Sith, with a cast whose actions are continually called into question, in part through lightsabers which "reflect the colour of their heart”.