"The Caves of Batuu" is the first part of the twenty-third episode of the animated series Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. It was released on Disney Junior on March 1, 2024.[1]
Plot summary[]
The training day[]
Kai Brightstar spars with training remotes under the tutelage of Jedi Master Carver Drow in Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu. Several Jedi and Black Spire residents including Padawan Celesta Kami, fellow initiates Lys Solay and Nubs, and the Mirialan Roka also watch. During the lesson, Master Drow exposes Brightstar to a mist. Though the youngling is disoriented, Drow encourages Brightstar to let the Force guide him. He manages to strike the two remotes, impressing the Jedi and the crowd. Kami thanks the crowd for attending and wishes that the Force will be with them.
Solay and Celesta agree that the training day has helped foster friendly relations with the Black Spire residents. Brightstar is excited about visiting Master Drow and Kami at Black Spire Outpost. He also tells Drow about his ambition of becoming a great Jedi. When Kami suggests that Master Drow teach Brightstar the new lightsaber sequences they have been working on, Drow thinks that it is too hard for the younglings. Brightstar and his fellow younglings plead for a demonstration.
Kai's struggle[]
Master Drow agrees to give a demonstration. He leaps over boxes, roofs and canopies with the Force while carrying his lightsaber. Brightstar tries to imitate Master Drow but struggles and eventually falls from an arch down two canopies onto the ground. Kami asks Brightstar if he is fine. Brightstar is not hurt but is unhappy that he did not complete the sequence perfectly and walks away. Drow asks Kami to spend time practising with Solay and Nubs while he speaks to Brightstar.
When Drow asks Brightstar what is going on, Brightstar tells him that he wants to be a great Jedi but laments that he is not perfect. Drow explains that the Jedi are not perfect and that they are always learning. Brightstar says that Drow did the sequence perfectly and aspires to be like him. Drow takes Brightstar for a walk and leads him to a cave that is strong with the Force. The cave has words and symbols scribbled on its entrance. Drow explains that Jedi experience Force visions and dreams inside these caves. He tells Brightstar to be open to what the Force has to reveal to him.
The Force cave[]
Brightstar walks into the cave but finds that the entrance has disappeared. He realizes that he is experiencing a vision. Brightstar finds himself in a forest on Tenoo and encounters the charhound Ember, who leads him to the Tenoo Jedi Temple's training grounds where he encounters Padawan Bell Zettifar. Zettifar asks Brightstar if he is alright and asks if he is troubled. Brightstar tells Zettifar that he was having trouble with a Jedi sequence.
Zettifar invites him to take part in a Jedi training sequence, which involves using the Force to form stacks of blocks into pillars and running over them. In the vision, Brightstar struggles to keep up with Zettifar and they find themselves high up in the night sky. Brightstar says he messed and kept trying to do the sequence perfectly like him. Zettifar tells Brightstar that neither of them are perfect. Brightstar says that he cannot be a great Jedi without being perfect.
Brightstar then finds himself following fellow Jedi youngling Djovi Resmia through the Tenoo temple training grounds onto a rope bridge in the forests of Tenoo. In the vision, Resmia tells Brightstar that he has been practising with a new lightsaber sequence and demonstrates it by running and jumping from trees while holding his lightsaber. Resmia asks Brightstar to demonstrate the sequence. Brightstar tries to imitate Resmia but ends up falling off the rope bridge down a chasm.
Kai's trials[]
When he reaches the bottom, Brightstar finds himself at the base of Yarrum Tower without his lightsaber. The pirate Taborr Val Dorn soon appears, taunting Brightstar about his failed blackflip sequence. Brightstar tells Val Dorn that he doesn't want to fight because he is looking for his lightsaber. Val Dorn laughs and asks who needs to be perfect. When Brightstar tells Val Dorn about his ambition of becoming a great Jedi, Val Dorn retorts that he is not going to become a great Jedi by doing a lightsaber sequence perfectly and tells him to give up.
Brightstar asks the pirate what he knows about being a great Jedi. Val Dorn tells Brightstar that he also wants to be a great pirate. When Brightstar responds that pirates take things from people, Val Dorn responds that to be great, you have to show people that you are tough. Brightstar expresses disagreement, prompting Val Dorn to question his assumption that greatness is linked with perfection. Val Dorn tells Brightstar that he doesn't have to be perfect and invites him to imagine a world where he does not need to be perfect. He invites Brightstar to embrace the piratical lifestyle.
Brightstar responds that maybe he won't be perfect but rejects Val Dorn's invitation to become a pirate, reiterating that he is a Jedi. This angers Val Dorn, who attacks Brightstar with his electrostaff. Brightstar fights back with a wrench but Val Dorn knocks it out of his hand. Val Dorn tells Brightstar to admit that he is not perfect. The young Jedi admits he is not perfect but refused to let them turn him into something he is not. Angered, Val Dorn lowers his electrostaff to strike Brightstar.
Lesson learnt[]
Before the blow comes, Brightstar finds himself in another vision. While sitting by a dock in Kublop Springs, Master Yoda arrives with Brightstar's lightsaber. Yoda praises Brightstar's skills but cautions that a Jedi's greatness does not come from perfect lightsaber skills. He explains that lightsabers are just a tool. When Brightstar tells Yoda that he just wants to be a great Jedi like Yoda, Yoda explains that a Jedi is always learning. Brightstar expresses agreement.
Yoda observes that Brightstar is quick to encourage others to accept their imperfections and advises him to do the same. Yoda explains that he did not give Brightstar his training lightsaber because he was perfect. Brightstar finds himself back in the cave with his lightsaber. As he exits the cave, he says that the Force is with him. Outside, he tells Master Drow that he learned that he will never be perfect but that he accepts that. Drow agrees and explains that true greatness is not rooted in perfection but from the knowledge that there is always more to learn. Together, the two walk back to rejoin their friends.
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Sources[]
Watch full episodes of Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures LIVE! on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Disney Channel March Premieres — Updated 2/26 on cabletvt.powerrangermail.net (February 2, 2024) (archived from the original on February 4, 2024)
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4.11.23 SW Celeb Tues Wrap Up Press Blast by The Walt Disney Studios on Getty Images (April 11, 2023) (backup link) places Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures 200 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which corresponds to 232 BBY according to Star Wars: Timelines.
