Lit Heeps & Harems: TCW Strikes Again!

So this comic "A Small Scrappy War" is quite the riot.

I'm usually bored to tears with these Clone Wars comics and their drab plots, but this one was all-out weird. My EU sense was sparked from the first page, where you're introduced to Rex and co. pulling some stunt on Biitu. For those of you who don't know, Biitu was featured in the old Droids TV show in a series of episodes titled "The Great Heep."

Why is this at all interesting? Well first, it's old-school 80s tv. Second, The Great Heep is about a giant transformer-esque monstrosity who runs -- get this -- a droid harem.

I kid you not. A droid harem.

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Aw man I love how Jason and Dan tried to make Screed a competent villain.

...back on topic. So the second reason this is hilarious is that Mr. Harem-Bot is actually an Abominor from the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy that may have been responsible for the YV genocide, leading to the YV/NJO invasion.

So you wonder why the YV were so direly droid-phobic? Because I betchya those Abominors filled their galaxy with Droid Harems. The YV just couldn't take it. They embraced pain instead.That droid love is weird man. You see some of it in the Great Heep episodes and it's like... whoh.

Anyway, so Clone Wars took a stab at Biitu. Hilarious comic. Explores the concept of scrapped battledroids in Republic junkyards attempting to reanimate one another. But the thing is, the whole issue of the Abominor isn't mentioned (presumably he hasn't arrived yet), but there's another droid, the Reanimator, who's sort of a compilation of a bunch of droids and has no other background (aside from the fact that the locals seem to be familiar with his identity -- as if he's been around for a while):



But -- HOLD ON NOW!!! What does the Wook have to say about the Abominors again?

OH HO HO HO SOLO! You think you could hide, didn't you, Mr. Harem-bot? Well I see what you did there.

Oh, and Rex?



Mungo Baobab almost died because of your incompetence. Bad Rex. Baaaad.

 

You never watched the glory of Droids?

 

Oh you don't even know. Wait until you get to the space battle with the Not-A-Wings and Not B-Wings

It made my childhood when I watched it on VHS. Or was it Sci-Fi

 

I remember watching Droids for the first time a few years back. It's one of the weirdest things ever. It made me think of what would happen if R2-D2 and C-3PO just happened to have wandered onto a He-Man cartoon or something similar.

 

It had an obscene amount of camp in it

For example R2 Breakdancing

 

Screed is/was awesome.

He should have been promoted to Grand Admiral.

 

Feels like that would be rude if said on the forums without proper context. I will keep it in mind though.

Anyway, I remember these fondly....then I watched them again, and I find the dry dialogue and slow pacing hard to sit through. Still lots of cool ideas, interesting designs that feel really OT, and a general feeling that the galaxy was a big place.

 

Droids is just wonderful. I bought Season 1 of M*A*S*H on DVD partly based on your recommendation in a Medstar thread a couple of years ago, and now I command you to reciprocate!

 

When working on developing the voices for an audio adaptation of Yavin Vassilika, I hunted down the Droids episode with IG-88 in it and watched his scenes over and over and over so that way I could mimic his voice.

That show was a riot, and ol Iggy could have used more cameos.

 

Where did you think he was from?

 

He there is a reason the Warfare guide made rather clear how much he dropped the ball after the first few years Though you still have to love his custom uniform, especially as it actually looks kind of like the concept art for Ep 3 Imps.

 

Stills make it look better

Boba Fett is also in it, back in the days when he was actually cool.

 

I can't believe that TCW produced something bad!

 

Don't be a tiny-minded Imperial twit.

 

Double yay: I only got one notification for that quote!

 

I'm happy to see it fixed, but I will miss logging on to 30+ notifications for, like, three replies.

 

Or getting a notification that I was quoted because someone liked the post. Or notifications every time a quoted post is edited. Or just three or four alerts for one quote.

My alerts will seem so... empty...