10. T0-B1’s Lightsaber, T0-B1
Equal partsAstroboy and My Life as a Teenage Robot, Science SARU’s T0-B1 tells the story of a young android boy who calls himself “Tobi” and dreams of one day becoming the sort of real boy on his way to being a Jedi who could make his creator, Professor Mitaka, proud. Despite T0-B1 being an episode of Visions that skews a bit younger, it’s a story that explores some of the more philosophical ideas about droids that the Star Wars franchise has always kind of skirted around.
Instead of ruminating on whether droids like T0-B1 have souls that might give them a way of connecting to the Force even though they aren’t “living” beings, T0-B1 pivots by revealing that a kyber crystal (that may also act as a kind of power source for him) has been hidden within his body for his entire existence. By releasing the crystal in a magical transformation-like sequence, T0-B1’s able to fulfill at least part of his dream, which then becomes the heart of his new modest yet chic lightsaber.
