EU mentions in the Clone Wars Series (spoilers)

Interesting. So the writers decided to make it a rotating planet, but didn't really make that fact clear in the book...

 

Well, technically, you could have a rotating planet that still has all the characteristics described in EU - just have it rotate around a different axis so that one side always faces the sun. Doesn't one of the gas planets in our solar system do this anyways (either Neptune or Uranus, I forget)?

That doesn't really solve the day/night bit, unless you say maybe it wobbles while spinning, which could create a limited day/night effect... still doesn't work perfectly with the CW appearance, but there are things you can say to help make it closer...

 

I'm glad about that. I don't see why there would be a need to overrule tons of EU material when there are several possible retcons we fans can assume which reconcile the different appearances. I like the idea above of the planet rotating in an axis that still keeps one half always exposed to the sun, just with some minimal wobbling which would create a very subtle change of light through its 30-hours rotational period.

 

I have no problem with explanations that leave room for different fans' interpretations.

 

It's one of the things that makes SW EU great

 

So, I was reading through the Galaxy at War RPG sourcebook released only about a week ago, and I stumble upon the entry for the Gutkurr (those predator creatures from Innocents of Ryloth) and it reads:

"Although the gutkurr's thick shell and internal insulation allow it to survive for short periods on the frigid night side of Ryloth, the gutkurr typically makes its home in the twilight area, preferring to stay out of the intense heat of the day side of the planet. Gutkurrs sometimes travel through the night side of the planet, ambushing unwary travellers."

And thus, good old Ryloth has swiftly been brought back into the picture! What's going on here, did they go back on the planet description or did someone over at WotC didn't get the memo?

 

Thought maybe I'd bump this after several months to see if there was any other EU stuff brought up.

 

I found an Eu mistake. In Landing at Point Rain Cody says he wasn't at the first battle of Geonosis, but I thought several sources said he was.

 

Both Rex and Denal were confirmed to be in the Battle of Geonosis. (S1 Decoded)
It's strange that Cody wasn't at the first battle. Possibly he was dispatched and was sent to Obi-Wan several weeks after the war began.

 

Huh. So what was the "age range" of the batch of clones deployed to Geonosis in AOTC? Cut was there, and he seems well older than Rex. Although of course working the farm without armor on could be responsible for the physical discrepancy.

 

This might have been discussed already, but were Sidious's actions during the Kyber Memory Crystal arc a foreshadowing of the Emperor's Hands in the EU, including Mara Jade? His grand scheme in those episodes was to one day create an army of unquestioningly loyal force sensitive spies, and that is pretty much the Wookieepedia definition of an Emperor's hand.

 

YES! Somebody besides me noticed that!!

 

Oh yes, it was most definitely a foreshadowing of the Emperor's Hands. Perhaps it was through that data that Palpatine eventually found Mara.

 

Boy, it would have been so easy to include a redhead baby girl among those stolen babies, and have a droid sneak out with it while Anakin and Ahsoka are trashing the place...

 

True, although Mara is supposed to be 2 years younger than Luke so I can understand them resisting the urge.

 

Yeah, you're right. It's funny how pretty much any attempt to incorporate the EU into the show automatically brings up an EU contradiction within itself.

 

Kuat Drive Yards is mentioned on a holofeed below Palpatine's address in Lightsaber Lost, making the company and therefore planet go up from C-canon to T-canon.

Glee Anselm is advertised in the same ep, as well as Duchess of Mandalore, including showing a stylized beach on a poster.

The Mandalorian on the Guernica-style painting in The Mandalore Plot seems to be from the Neo-Crusader/KOTOR-era. Possible Davaab-type fighters behind him. Also, lines in the Mando language. And Death Watch. And the entire trilogy as a whole imo.

Duchess had a possible sight of one of the peaks of the Manarai Mountains, in a secluded place with Ralph MacQuarrie-designed restaurants and all.

 

Honestly I'd like to see some EU references to Great Hyperspace War or any of the battles against the Sith that were shown in the Tales of the Jedi comics.

How awesome would it be to see the Valley of the Dark Lords on this show!?

 

Haven't watched any of the second season yet, but haven't they totally messed up the Mandalorians?

 

Not really, the Mandalorian eps have probably the most EU mentions and references in the series so far.

 

Considering that both Ayala Secura and Ventress were born in the EU this really is not the case.

There was some nice EU stuff in The Mandalorian Plot, and the Death Watch is a great inclusion, but when the EU has had entire characters included I'd say thats far more significant than the inclusion of the Death Watch name, a mural and a few line's of a Mando'a inspired language.

Not to mention that while the Mandalorian Arc does include some EU goodness it also redefines a lot of what we knew about Mandalorians and Mandalore from that era. There is a lot of addition by subtraction going on there.

 

Don't forget the isolated peak from the Manarai Mountains saving Satine's life by its sheer presence.