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Screecher's Reach -- Make your choice

[yunamiudon]

⚠️ Star Wars Visions S2E2 "Screecher’s Reach" spoiler (?)

"Don't look back. Right?"

I had to draw this to save my heart

[carolinetano7567]

They deserved better.

[tolllthedead]

oh and also all of the things that you think are positive in the beginning being twisted later into something horrifying and i am talking specifically about “don’t look back” and how that was mirrored, among other things

[kaycassians]

Still thinking about Screecher’s Reach, actually. How the red never left Daal’s cheeks from likely years of being exposed to the steam. How Baython’s eyes were heavy and tired, how he kept up a smile for Quinn and Keena. How the ghost’s scream sounded like a TIE fighter when they were sitting around the campfire. How the actual ghost was a blind sith woman using the force to sense intruders in the dark. How Daal’s first use of the force was to reach for the light, only to then crush and kill what she didn’t understand moments later. How the Sith’s ship looked like an angel’s wings descending. How the Sith guided her into the light of the ship like a lure, and we watched in horror as it swallowed Daal whole. Just, man. I love it when star wars is good.

[jasmarie2600]

Quick questions I have after rewatching Screecher’s Reach again

Are these kids coming to this (basically) orphanage/factory as babies?? If so, who’s taking care of the babies, cause all I remember seeing from the short is robots. Are the older children just expected to take care of the babies?? (This would kinda make sense from how Daal and Baython take care of both Keena and Quinn) Or is there actual people running the orphanage part that we don’t see??

Were these kids just taken from their parents/planets/homes as babies? (I’m BIG guessing that this is a Sith run orphanage/factory, cause WHY wouldn’t it be?!) cause there’s multiple species of different children we see, like how Keena is…something

(BIG HUGE THEORY that I would like to be true and would make sense if this orphanage/factory is INDEED Sith run) Do they know which kids will or have shown to be Force Sensitive? Cause I’m guessing that’s how Daal got her Sith necklace in the first place, I mean if they know this place is just running with kids with Force sensitivity, what a goldmine that would be. It wouldn’t be that hard for the Sith to just place these necklaces everywhere and see which kids actually pick one up and then they’re just set to take them and make them into a future Sith.

(Not that big a question) Do these kids come to this orphanage with their given names already or are they just given random names or make up names for themselves???

[bo-katan]

VISIONS 2 - Screecher's Reach

I follow your path with strength and courage.

I nearly cried at the end of this short. These children are just so innocent and you really cannot fault Daal for wanting a better life.

At first, I thought this was going to be a story about this group of kids who go through The Gathering, aka the test that Jedi younglings go through to get their kyber crystals. The twist of the amulet being a Sith artifact really caught me off guard. I was so shocked and saddened. And the devastation but acceptance in Baython's facial expression as he affirms Daal that he understands her decision to follow the Sith, that really broke my heart.

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Screecher's Reach -- You passed

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Screecher's Reach -- Entering the cave

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Screecher's Reach -- Stealing speeders

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Screecher's Reach -- She was real

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Screecher's Reach -- Better lives, and worse ones

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Screecher's Reach -- The Ghost

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What I liked about the factory setting is that it didn't feel oppressive, but rather inescapable. As in... There are droids on watch, and the speeders are locked, but Quinn clearly has experience snatching them, and they zip away without a care. They weren't doing so with fear of consequences.

It didn't feel like a forced labor camp of a style the empire might set up in its time... It felt more like a dreary factory town on the edge of nothing, where they aren't oppressed into that life, but they rather have no other choice.

And so when Baython encourages Daal to grab opportunities and not look back, I'm sure he means like... Some crofter offering marriage and taking her out a few valleys over... Or maybe getting a job on a cargo ship and getting to visit off planet here and there?

All he knows is the workhouse, and his soothing platitudes are shared to keep his friend from being too miserable, knowing there's very little hope for her of that future she dreams of.

The way his own words are twisted against him just hours later... And even then she doesn't follow them and looks back.

And then when she reaches for the light, the thing that answers her is the black block.. A chunk of darkness.

That old sith had murals she carved in the walls. And you're left to wonder if she was in hiding, or kept there under threat. Used as a test for any of the miserable young force sensitives in the factories that the sith mother can convince to wander off.

I love how Daal wanted strength to survive a test in her mind, and was instead pushed to show the "strength" to kill a real person.

She says the sith pendant/mother gave her strength, but in that cave she seemed alone. It's a thing she's done. She killed that woman with their own weapon and then it's bestowed on her as a trophy. It's so twisted. The sith mother dirties her hands as a test. Debases her morally and then appears in full glory...

It's all shining metal, red, gold and bursting warm light... But you already know what the end looks like : pale and colourless in a dark cave.

I can't shake the idea the ghost is the Sith Mother's old master.

I love how it's a cautionary tale that doesn't say dreaming is bad. Wanting a better life isn't wrong. But everything is twisted and poisoned by the sith. Every decision Daal makes is already oriented towards the dark.

It's a fairy tale that doesn't even warn you against the sith, it seems. But it shows how they corrupts even the simplest tale of heroism and fearlessness, of wanting new horizons and better things.

Still thinking about Screecher’s Reach, actually. How the red never left Daal’s cheeks from likely years of being exposed to the steam. How Baython’s eyes were heavy and tired, how he kept up a smile for Quinn and Keena. How the ghost’s scream sounded like a TIE fighter when they were sitting around the campfire. How the actual ghost was a blind sith woman using the force to sense intruders in the dark. How Daal’s fist use of the force was to reach for the light, only to then crush and kill what she didn’t understand moments later. How the Sith’s ship looked like an angel’s wings descending. How the Sith guided her into the light of the ship like a lure, and we watched in horror as it swallowed Daal whole. Just, man. I love it when star wars is good.