Full Series Official "The Clone Wars" Series Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

By some time around the midpoint of the war, Tarkin is shown to have taken an officer commission in the Republic military, acting first as a shipboard Captain on a Venator-class cruiser under Jedi Master Even Piell. By 20 BBY, Tarkin had been promoted to Admiral, and later, when the Sector Governance Decree was passed in 19 BBY, Tarkin was elevated yet again, this time to the position of Moff.

 

Thank you. Sorry about the double post the board was lagging when I tried to post originally.

 

I dunno, can you?

 

Is Tano ever explained? I never got how Anakin could have an apprentice.

 

I don't even remember if Lucas or Filoni explained that at all.

 

Not very well... mostly in the sense of "Yoda thought it would be good for him."

Another thing that's gone long unexplained (correct me if I'm wrong) is whatever became of Obi-Wan's request to the Council for a new apprentice.

 

May I have Dooku and Tarkin's arcs/episodes please? I want to see if the show actually adds anything of merit to Lee and Cushing's characters. It's kind of funny that they seem to suggest Lee is older too. But, alas, the younger was cast as older and that's not new. I will find it hard to adjust to different voices as the characters I know though. I usually prefer the originals.

 

I blinked when it happened. And I missed it.

 

Didn't it already with his Mum and wife? Thanks, it's been awhile since the movie and I never got much into the series the first time. Tano rubs me the wrong way but I am curious about my elder characters as mentioned above. I am considering renting their eps if I can get a bit of help identifying them.

Also what is the deal with Mortis? Did they actually create Force Gods or something? If so, I have a hunch I'll think they approached it wrong. I have no problem with a god being in SW, I prefer it but the whole Mortis thing has me utterly confounded.

 

And he was worthy

 

You can't fault Yoda for trying. Anakin did need to settle down. It didn't hurt him to have a project to keep him occupied. Fortunately for us, we had a few episodes throughout the series without Ahsoka (my favorite being Mandalore S2), including the bonus content(!), so Anakin can be a maverick for a while. That's my favorite Anakin. Hopefully Ahsoka isn't anywhere near the Clovis arc. Perhaps that's why they saved it for the bonus content? So exciting!

The M-word. I sense opinions forming...

 

Maybe Ahsoka was a part of the Clovis Arc and that's why they removed it from S5?

 

Well, I don't understand the arc and am trying to decide if I bother rewatching and completing it. Yes, he certainly did need to settle but I rather thought the point was he never did. He always rather operated like he was above everyone and knew better which he clearly didn't. And it's precisely his maverickness that makes me shake my head that they entrusted an apprentice to him. He's a brash one. At least Dooku and Qui-Gon used reason and experience as a base to oppose the Order. To me, Anakin was always selfish and far too possessive.

 

It might have been smarter if they hadn't given Anakin an apprentice that was so like him.

Anakin was a hawkish hothead who was quick to try solving any problem by sticking a lightsaber in it, applying a heavy dose of violent telekinesis, or just breaking out some high explosives and blowing **** up.

They gave him for a padawan, Ahsoka - a hawkish young hothead who was quick to try solving any problem by sticking a lightsaber in it, applying a heavy dose of violent telekinesis, or just breaking out some high explosives and blowing **** up.

The result was that they sort of fed into eachother. Instead of forming a proper Master-Apprentice relationship that would result in both of them learning restraint or patience etc, they quickly became more like brother and sister and went around winging it together like a couple of cowboys with laser swords. Which was fun to watch and all, but it probably wasn't how an ideal Jedi "should" develop.

If a really reserved, prim and proper padawan like, oh... Barriss Offee had been given to the laconic, gung ho Anakin, while Ahsoka had been delivered to the serene, patient and meditative Luminara, it might have worked out better for everyone.

Then again, "worked out better for everyone" is relative. Anakin still might have gone to the dark side, and Palps was still trolling the galaxy towards the creation of his Empire no matter what, Order 66 was still going to be coming down the pike at some point.

 

Well she wasn't like him when she was introduced but his influence basically made her like him

 

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Well part of that may be the result of how they tried separating them more in later seasons to show the supposed growth or rising ability for independent functioning of Ahsoka. She was off doing stuff with Padme, running after Boba and Aurra Sing, with Padme again, with Lux, kidnapped by the Trandoshans, Padme and Lux again and the Death Watch, off to do the Green Beret thing on Onderon, babysitting the younglings... it meant there was a major lack of old style Butch Skywalker and the Shili Kid eps.

Some of the old brother-and-sister, peas in a pod, back-to-back-badasses complimentary dynamic was showcased again right at the end, at the start of Sabotage during the running space-to-atmosphere starfighter battle at Cato Neimoidia. Of course then whatshisface back on Coruscant went kablooey in the temple, and everything went to hell.

It appeared a few other times in the later seasons. When Anakin was on his blood fueled revenge hunt for Rako Hardeen he barged into a bar on Nal Hutta like Dirty Harry, with Ahsoka at his side, smashed stuff all over the place with the Force and then walked up and the two of them interrogated the barman. Ahsoka said something to the barman and he gave her a snide remark, at which point Anakin just raised his hand and started Force-choking him. And Ahsoka stood there with an expression on her face kinda like John Connor in T2 when the Terminator grabs the guy in the parking lot. "Now who's the dip**** you jock douche bag?" Yup. They were rollin hard the two of them and Force help anyone who got in their way. I liked that. The best Anakin&Ahsoka moment actually of that whole arc IMHO was when Anakin was down and Cad Bane was about to execute him, and out of nowhere Ahsoka drops in from above and stands over his body and looks at the two bounty hunters murderously, double dog daring them to try something. It reminded me strongly of Eowyn protecting Theoden from the Witch King in RoTK. "I will kill you if you touch him!" Tvtropes.org would call it a "Crowning moment of awesome".

 

Giving Anakin an apprentice was a horrible idea. And to completely honest, I feel Ahsoka was the real adult/master in that relationship. Seeing as how Anakin is mostly an immature putz, or at least my preferred version of Anakin is.

Star Wars already has gods, those what were they? Architects? Builders? God I think is a character at one point, I'll check wookieepedia after I submit this.

But uh, yes I think they were going for a Holy Trinity thing with the Force there.

 

I get the impression that the partial reason for the Mortis Trilogy was to clarify for people that Anakin is infact the Chosen One. You may think that wasn't necessary, but you'd be surprised at how many people still insist that the Jedi were wrong and that Luke was the true Chosen One.