Full Series The Clone Wars: Episode 321: Padawan Lost Discussion Thread

I loved the Felucia scenes. Very nice animation!

 

One other thing, kinda disappointed there were no slugthrowers. Just loads of Star Wars-ized real life assault rifles. Or at least that's the impression I got.

I retract my earlier claim that those lekku were longer, they kept changing length it seemed during the episode so I'm just left confused.

 

...episode was good, but the opening battle seemed a little too rushed. we could've done without one or two episodes from the first half of the season and this could've been a trilogy.

Also, I could've done without the personalities of the Trandoshans. Its like they collided the velociraptors from Jurassic Park with Alex DeLarge and his droogies and the Predators... the raptor sounds were awesome but their droogie personalities just made it awkward.

So yeah, decent episode, not exactly my favorite though.

 

Ah, but she is.

 

I thought those Jurassic Park throwbacks were definitely unnecessary. That's what kept circling my mind when I was watching the Trandoshans, and then Predator, as well as other stories for the "hunting the Padawans." It's been done before countless times, and it's just uncreative when it's reused. TCW does a ton of homages to other sources, but for a quick example, Bounty Hunter's story is Seven Samurai.

 

That's what was meant to be.

 

Star Wars in itself is just a homage... almost nothing from the entire saga is purely original. All fiction and mythology works that way, constantly borrowing from each other. I don't consider anything wrong with any of the homages we've seen in the series so far. Like I said, what I thought personally was unnecessary was the frat boy/A Clockwork Orange hybrid personality of the hunters.

Also, A Bug's Life is just the Seven Samurai with bugs but no one complains about that

 

exactly. That's why it's uncreative.

 

Story wise, maybe. But ANH wasn't creative either, and we are all here because of that movie.

 

ANH wasn't a rip off if you're thinking that way. TCW extracts stories, pretty much from verbatim, then replaces the original story characters with its own/Star Wars-ify it. That's how I see it, and they can put a little more effort when they do use other stories. Otherwise, I can see what they ripped off and it's not fun to watch.

 

Why are you still watching? Oh, I forgot. You like being disappointed and a malcontent.

 

No, it doesn't. It adds elements of many stories, but it doesn't make it a complete "from verbatim" rip-off. Besides, those episodes are a minority in the series.

 

Watch season two and get back to me.

I don't wish to argue, but it gets old when TCW does jump on the homage/reference train. Not only that, but when TCW inserts unneeded dialogue from the saga as well.

 

They're all tropes, some are more obvious than others.

 

On season 2 there are many homages and nods. I wouldn't call a rip-off to that.

Well, homages, references, nods, etc are always unnecessary, but they are not there because of that. They are what they are.

 

Alexrd, you have to rewatch parts of season two.

That is true

 

EDIT: Forgot to say, but I called that one of the padawans will die. What do I win?
And that Selkath shot in the beginning didn't seem to have a cooler backpack like Chata Hyoki did. Good. I was worrying that every Selkath we'd see in this series would have that.
And good work with sounds the Trandoshans made, very alien but animal-like.[/quote]

Hey I called that too and I even said it was going to be the girl

Also really cool to see dialog between Plo and Anakin and how each approach Ahsoka's disappearance. They are really foreshadowing what Ahsoka's fate will be.

 

That's called trolling.

 

My point remains.

Well, that was not that hard to guess, specially for those who saw the Chewie clip.

 

What point? I don't understand this argument to be honest. If this is some random issue, it would be best to let it go.

 

This point:

 

Cool it with the homage debate guys.

 

Is it just me, or do the Trandoshen vehicles resemble the Intruder Dropship from Killzone?

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For reference.

 

Though I had always envisioned the Trandoshans to be more crocodile-like, I did enjoy the raptor invluences, such as their birdlike sounds and the 'feathers' on their heads. So maybe Trandoshans evolved from reptavians into reptiles

 

Jurassic Park throwback? uhh sorry I'm not seeing it. Predator? Maybe The Most Dangerous Game reference in the fortune cookie went unnoticed that seems the main influence on the story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game