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

Two important droids. No way Bane didn't study this. The personal R2 unit of Anakin Skywalker and the Protocol droid of Padme? What Jedi Order secrets or Senate secrets were encased in them? Seriously? If you were in that position would you give that up? I wouldn't. In that R2 lost thing didn't they have video evidence of that Junker? What do they have in this case? Yeah the Droids adventure was cool and all but use 2 other droids! That episode breaks my suspension of disbelief.

 

I do t see why Barriss is so unbelievable as a bomber. Lots of seemingly rational people have done extremely brutal things before, often to their friends and loved ones with a motive that could only make sense to them. Barriss's betrayel is a highlight of this show for me, and I think without her shocking turn I wouldn't have enjoyed this series as much as I do now.

 

Dunno what was going on with the Bardotta eps. Was Jar Jar dating a female Mars Guo? And then there was slomo dancing or something?

 

On Evil Plans, I liked the Anakin and Padmé scene and the politics of flattery. Bane kidnapping the droids was fine, but I wasn't a fan of the droid spa sequence. It was well-done and funny, but it just felt extremely out of place. Essentially, the parts were fine individually, but as a whole it felt extremely unsatisfying. Sort of like a puzzle that was flawed in its production and never completely comes together.

 

They may be important droids, but Bane's mission was to get the plans for the Senate Building and free Ziro, not steal two important droids. If he kept the droids it would've drawn quite a bit of suspicion, and Anakin would no doubt go out looking for them. The last thing Bane needs is to get captured before he even completes his mission. Besides, Bane is a bounty hunter, not a salesman. I doubt he'd go around the galaxy selling information to people, it just doesn't seem like his style.

 

"As long as I live, Chancellor, I will let no harm come to you."
"Well, let's hope for your long and prosperous life, Anakin...One shudders to think where the galaxy will be without the Jedi."
--season 4, "Crisis on Naboo," Palpatine and Anakin

BWHA HA HA HA....heh.

Did Dooku expect the plot to kidnap/execute Palpatine to succeed during that story arc? He knows Palpatine is Sidious (...he does know that, right?) so he can't actually kill Palpatine or probably even Anakin. But if Anakin and Obi-Wan had failed to rescue Palpatine on Naboo, what would he and Dooku have done?

I just wonder if sometimes Sidious and/or Dooku don't think things through all the way. "You had a plan for getting in but not for getting out!?!?", you know?

 

That entire episode was the epitome of stupid writing and wasted opportunities.

 

Anakin Skywalker asking Obi-Wan how many times the Jedi Council has lied to him after they manipulated the crap out of him is a crucial moment for the character in the SW saga.

 

I found it terribly contrived from the start, which invalidated the whole thing for me.

 

I think you are missing the Rex & R2 arc for Season 8: https://twitter.com/BFree63/status/489681413227036672

 

Honesty, Anakin getting electrocuted will never not be awesome. In real life, it's horrible of course, but when it's Anakin? Gold.

 

I can see how not giving something a chance would lead to lack of appreciation for a pivotal moment in the saga.

 

Welp, so I am. That narrows the episode count down even further. We could be looking at 10 or less episodes that we now know nothing about.

I truly hope we'll get a complete list of all the planned arcs one day, if not full adaptations.

 

Exactly. This is one of the very few moments in which the audience can observe Anakin revealing his rightfully growing skepticism of the Jedi. Considering the six films plus TCW to be a saga about Anakin's fall and redemption, I absolutely consider that a pivotal moment.

 

That is a primary reason why I called it a pivotal moment in the saga.

The wording of "how many times...?" implied to me that there were other times when Anakin felt the Jedi Council was lying to and/or manipulating him and this was his boiling point at which he finally put the question to Obi-Wan. Previous, less dramatic examples he could easily have been referring to can be found in The New Padawan and the Citadel arc.

 

I'm just referring to them lying to and manipulating him to get him to take Ahsoka as his Padawan. I'm sure at some point he wondered about exactly how that went down and connected the dots, and probably never said anything about it (unless one counts the implication we're discussing). It was well-intentioned and didn't have any terrible consequences, but it was still the start of them flippantly lying to and manipulating him, and I'd be very surprised if he never figured that out. He's smart enough when he has his reflective moments, they're just very rarely on-screen.

Of course you have a fair point about Anakin's outbursts, but I guess I tend to think of TCW Anakin as the "real" Anakin, and his anger was much more focused when it was shown in the series than the PT, so I guess I take what he says when he's angry a lot more seriously when it's on the show. "Slaver scum!" rather than "he's holding me back!"

 

The original pilot episode, basically the first 20 minutes of the movie.

 

Oh...yeah.

 

Actually, the true pilot episode was the second 20 minutes of the movie. The airing schedule for the first season was wildly different from the original production order.