[Traveller]

Slow Ben, on 11 January 2017 - 12:27 AM, said:

Maul and Savage teamed up with Mandalorians?

Yes please!

Oh you just wait...

(Have you seen the Obi wan/Satine story arc prior to this though?)

This post has been edited by Traveller: 11 January 2017 - 06:18 AM

[Slow Ben]

Yeah, I caught that one too. Made that one even better.

Just finished the arc where fives is investigating on kamino. 🙁

[Traveller]

I've only just watched that one.

Good arc, but the following eps are a bit bank heavy, and I just hit another 'Representative Binks' one. I can't believe after such a run of good stuff they still include him in the show.

In the banking arc, I really wanted to see Anakin

Spoiler

kill Clovis, without Padme knowing about it.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

I love this short exchange between Tarkin and Annie in S3:

https://dl.dropboxus...12_17-22-26.mp4

Annie finds Tarkin's lack of faith in the Jedi...disturbing.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 12 January 2017 - 10:24 PM

[Traveller]

Yeah I just recommended it to a friend and he said it's no longer on netflix, in UK anyway.

[Abyss]

Traveller, on 12 January 2017 - 08:14 AM, said:

I've only just watched that one.

Good arc, but the following eps are a bit bank heavy, and I just hit another 'Representative Binks' one. I can't believe after such a run of good stuff they still include him in the show.

In the banking arc, I really wanted to see Anakin

Spoiler

kill Clovis, without Padme knowing about it.

The kids love them some Jar Jar. Also, droid episodes.

I was so bored during that banking arc, i ff'd most of it.
Sadly, this was indemic of most Padme-centric episodes. She really got stuck with some meaningless fluff filler in CW.

[QuickTidal]

I THINK it's still on CDN Netflix....as of last night when I was on at least.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 13 February 2017 - 03:52 PM, said:

I THINK it's still on CDN Netflix....as of last night when I was on at least.

Yep. With the deal Netflix.ca cut for the new SW flics, i'd be surprised if it fell off anytime soon.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 13 February 2017 - 04:07 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 February 2017 - 03:52 PM, said:

I THINK it's still on CDN Netflix....as of last night when I was on at least.

Yep. With the deal Netflix.ca cut for the new SW flics, i'd be surprised if it fell off anytime soon.

Truth.


Plus, they like to keep lots of the stuff we have on ours because our library is so much lesser than the US one.

[Slow Ben]

Its still on in the US.

I'm slogging through the Jar Jar, Droid, and banking arcs now to finish up.

Then on to Rebels!

[Vengeance]

I actually enjoyed some of the Jar Jar episodes. Like the one where he pretends to be a Jedi. That was some funny shit. I also loved the droids arch. By the end it was very enjoyable. I hated Padame and avoided her like the plague.

[Abyss]

Vengeance, on 13 February 2017 - 05:09 PM, said:

I actually enjoyed some of the Jar Jar episodes.....

No, you did not enjoy those episodes.
*waves hand*

[QuickTidal]

The cooler Droid eps on TCW pale in comparison to anything Chopper-focused on REBELS!

[Vengeance]

Abyss, on 13 February 2017 - 05:22 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 13 February 2017 - 05:09 PM, said:

I actually enjoyed some of the Jar Jar episodes.....

No, you did not enjoy those episodes.
*waves hand*

Take the righteous hatred of Jar Jar from the movies out. Then look at the pure slapstick comedy of the impersonation of a Jedi. Plus I so much wanted Jar Jar to be Snoke. Just to fuck shit up.

[Abyss]

Vengeance, on 13 February 2017 - 06:45 PM, said:

Abyss, on 13 February 2017 - 05:22 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 13 February 2017 - 05:09 PM, said:

I actually enjoyed some of the Jar Jar episodes.....

No, you did not enjoy those episodes.
*waves hand*

Take the righteous hatred of Jar Jar from the movies out. Then look at the pure slapstick comedy of the impersonation of a Jedi. Plus I so much wanted Jar Jar to be Snoke. Just to fuck shit up.

Dammit he already put Palpatine in power and set bad racial stereotypes in sf films back a decade... what more do you want?

[Vengeance]

Abyss, on 13 February 2017 - 07:33 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 13 February 2017 - 06:45 PM, said:

Abyss, on 13 February 2017 - 05:22 PM, said:

Vengeance, on 13 February 2017 - 05:09 PM, said:

I actually enjoyed some of the Jar Jar episodes.....

No, you did not enjoy those episodes.
*waves hand*

Take the righteous hatred of Jar Jar from the movies out. Then look at the pure slapstick comedy of the impersonation of a Jedi. Plus I so much wanted Jar Jar to be Snoke. Just to fuck shit up.

Dammit he already put Palpatine in power and set bad racial stereotypes in sf films back a decade... what more do you want?

For him to be the ultimate evil. Obviously Darth Plagueis in a new body.

[QuickTidal]

There is an early episode of TCW with Jar Jar and Threepio on...Rhodia, I think? (It may even be the one Vengy is talking about....Bombad Jedi perhaps it was called?) And it made me laugh MANY times. So yeah, removed form their usual movie-based nonsense, and inserted like a couple of Charlie Chaplin's into a Clone Wars ep. They CAN be funny.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 February 2017 - 07:45 PM

[Vengeance]

QuickTidal, on 13 February 2017 - 07:45 PM, said:

There is an early episode of TCW with Jar Jar and Threepio on...Rhodia, I think? (It may even be the one Vengy is talking about....Bombad Jedi perhaps it was called?) And it made me laugh MANY times. So yeah, removed form their usual movie-based nonsense, and inserted like a couple of Charlie Chaplin's into a Clone Wars ep. They CAN be funny.

I want to say that it was in season 3. But it has been so long that I can't remember which episode exactly.

[Traveller]

I've just rewatched The Ghosts of Mortis ep from season 3, and it seems to have some massive implications regarding Anakins eventual turn to the dark side - beyond what features in RotS.

The whole Mortis arc is pretty interesting, but several things in the GoM episode not only foreshadow Vaders rise, but actually seem partly responsible for it. For a start, this unknown, uncharted place is about as strong with the force as anywhere featured in the series. And Anakin flies to the centre of it, to the very 'Well' of the dark side. Where he becomes poisoned by it, as the Son shows him his future.

Now at this point in CWs, apart from his hatred for what happened to his mother (and sand) he has proven to be a heroic Jedi on an epic scale. His turn from Jedi to Jedi killer has always been jarring, and his reason for suddenly killing children in order to save his wife has always seemed flimsy at best, even with Palpatines manipulations (and I guess I'll never give up hope for a better explanation, heh.)

So on Mortis, he goes to the Well. Which looks just like Mustafar, as far as volcano interiors go. The Son poisons him with the dark; and then shows him the atrocities in his future, telling him that the only way to prevent them is to join with him; he also shows him that the Jedi are responsible for the imbalance in the Force. This CWs Anakin is horrified, he's totally against what he sees, and can't believe he'd do such things. But now he's poisoned, like Ahsoka was for a time - he sees that he has to stop this future of himself at all costs. But interestingly at this point, Anakin becomes just like he later appears in RotS. Yellow eyes, dark rings under his eyes, and a mad, unreasonable sense that he needs to bring balance, even if he now has to kill Jedi to do it.

That is, until the Father touches him, and makes him forget the vision, and removes the poisoning effect.

What struck me watching it this time was... what if the close proximity to the Well, the poisoning by the Son, and the Mustafar-like surroundings were never fully eradicated by the Father? That his later growing distrust of the Jedi, plus Palpatines offer, triggered him back into the state he had already previously been in? Seriously, in RotS, he goes from flying away from Padme in a reasonable state of mind, to his meeting with her on Mustafar, where he starts talking about ruling the galaxy, and how from his point of view the Jedi are all evil. It would be really nice if this episode was actually intended to give a better or deeper reason for the sudden change in the movie. I might just choose to believe it anyway!

There's a lot to absorb in that episode, I love it. Another thing, it looks like the way that the three embodiments of the force fall foretells the future, or even causes it. When the Daughter dies, the Father says that out in the galaxy, the Sith will become more powerful - predicting/causing the death of so many Jedi, and the Emperor's rise. Then the Father betrays the Son, using Anakin to kill him - Anakin defeats the dark and returns the balance, as the Father says he will do in the future.

I wonder how intentional the links with RotS are. Most of the commentaries about this ep focus on the Darth Bane/Darth Revan deleted scene.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 16 February 2017 - 09:14 PM

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Tweet your theory at Hidalgo and see what he says. I'm curious.