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Pop quiz, hotshot: what do you think is the highest-rated Star Wars show ever made? You might think it\u2019s Andor, the Emmy-winning live-action masterpiece, or maybe The Clone Wars, which used the clunky Prequel Trilogy to create years of animated excellence. <\/p>\n
However, the Star Wars TV series currently ranked highest on Rotten Tomatoes is Star Wars: Visions, a show whose immense success is arguably due to its abandonment of canon in favor of creating more original stories.<\/p>\n
The Star Wars Show With An (Almost) Perfect Score<\/p>\n
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On Rotten Tomatoes,\u00a0Star Wars: Visions\u00a0has a score of 98 percent, down slightly from its previous perfect score of 100 percent. By comparison, Andor is hot on its heels with a Rebel-rocking rating of 96 percent. Beyond that, the next highest-rated Star Wars show is The Mandalorian, which found \u201cthe way\u201d to a rating of 90 percent.<\/p>\n
While some would say this is comparing apples to oranges (or maybe that should be lightsabers to blasters), Visions also has a higher rating than any Star Wars movie<\/a> ever made. On Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the highest-scoring films are A New Hope (94 percent), The Empire Strikes Back (93 percent), and The Force Awakens (93 percent). If you\u2019re curious, the lowest-rated Star Wars movies are The Rise of Skywalker (51 percent) and The Clone Wars (18 percent), the absolutely awful animated film that kicked off the otherwise excellent The Clone Wars TV show (sitting pretty at 93 percent).<\/p>\n What Makes Star Wars: Visions So Good?<\/p>\n So, what is it that makes Star Wars: Visions the most popular show to ever come out of a galaxy far, far away? On the most basic level, critics and audiences alike have enjoyed the show\u2019s stellar animation and top-notch voice acting. However, I think this show succeeds because of something the sci-fi<\/a> genre could use much more of: anthology storytelling.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve never watched, Visions is not like other Star Wars shows (including Andor and The Mandalorian), where we follow a singular protagonist through episodic adventures. Instead, it is a series of short films created by different animation teams all around the world. That means that each episode packs a Hutt-load of Star Wars goodness into runtimes even shorter than Han Solo\u2019s Kessel Run, leaving pretty much no downtime for audiences to get bored and disengage from the story.<\/p>\n The anthology format also means that if you don\u2019t like a particular story or set of characters, you can skip ahead and find one more to your liking. The same can\u2019t be said for other Star Wars TV: if you don\u2019t like the titular star of The Mandalorian, for example, you\u2019re not going to stick around for his single-dad adventures with Grogu. Similarly, someone who isn\u2019t already a big fan of the titular star and her Rebels friends is unlikely to keep streaming<\/a> Ahsoka.<\/p>\n Canon Fodder<\/p>\n Star Wars: Visions also has another advantage that other shows in the franchise lack: namely, it is not canonical. The makers of each short film in this series were not bound by any existing plots, which is how we ended up with stories where the Empire is modeled after feudal Japan and where an ambitious droid learns how to use the Force. Just as the creators didn\u2019t have to worry about Star Wars\u2019 increasingly tangled canon, audiences don\u2019t have to worry about where these episodes fit in and can just sit back and enjoy the show.<\/p>\n Hopefully, the success of this show will spur the creation of more Star Wars content that is not slavishly tied to the canon of a franchise that (real talk here) fewer people care about each year. This galaxy far, far away is at its best when creators, like George Lucas before them, have the creative freedom to bring even their wildest ideas to life. Unless executives grant more creators such freedom, this franchise will continue its slow decline, a trend that began the day\u00a0Disney<\/a>\u00a0acquired the rights to the most popular sci-fi franchise on the planet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chris Snellgrove | Published 32 seconds ago Pop quiz, hotshot: what do you think is the highest-rated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[3716,88,12472,206,5295,170401,69608,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-338570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-lucas","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-star-wars-the-mandalorian","14":"tag-star-wars-visions","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-100-900x506.png\")
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