Animated Shorts Tales Of The Underworld - May 4th 2025

Oh I can provide a lot more information!

LINK : docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1su_rtseyrMJ-8A2lFNXqHWPSMA-W4JNgWP_lS70JSEo/edit?gid=0#gid=0

A spreadsheet with all the lost stories we never got, and what happened to each one of them.

Obviously the former!
Disney cancelling it was the worst thing that has happened to Star Wars, if we exclude the sequels and the Acolyte. Which I do exclude.

Maybe they wanted people to have something to watch when inevitably they feel sleepy watching Andor.
Like a caffeine boost, it wakes them up, then they can go finish their Andor episode

 

Har dee har!

 

They always do something for May the 4th. Tales is an annual tradition now.

 

Ventress arc - Garbage.
Bane arc - Perfect.

 

Why was the Ventress arc garbage? Aside from requiring supplementary material to explain her relationship with Quinlan, I thought it was solid.

 

Awesome, thanks for the spreadsheet

I agree, TCW is the best Star Wars in 20 years... except for season 7. Why? Many reasons including character design, weaving in and out of RotS, woke, changes to original pre vis ideas, etc. I just don't like it, ok.

 

Bane arc was way too predictable. I liked Marshal Nero, but he was obviously doomed from the get go.

 

On the Star Wars wiki it said Jango fett was his mentor. Could that have happened after his tales of the underworld arc ?

 

Absolutely. He's a bandit, not a bounty hunter yet. They're different professions. He needs someone to teach him the trade.

 

I'm not certain why people like the Bane arc so much, other than they are just Bane fans.

The plots are taken directly from a million Westerns. Literally the only new thing here is that aliens are in the place of human Western figures.

The Ventress arc feels more fresh to me, showing new powers by the Nightsisters, and an interesting pairing where an apprentice Jedi is essentially a kind of moral teacher for the ex-Sith assassin.

 

I legit think those three shorts were written in a weekend

 

The Bane stories don't even need to be written. They are just literally taken from previous Westerns.

 

The heroes journey had already been written too

 

The heroes journey is not a specific plot from a genre like a Western. It's much more of a general story shape that can be taken in various directions. Story shapes are different from plots.

 

We have all sorts of genres in SW... western, samurai, spy thriller, detective drama, monster flick, historical epic, war movie each having their own narratives. What makes it so good

 

Swap the Sith for a bounty hunter, and you've got the most popular Star War that Disney has made yet.

 

It may not be as fun and humorous as the pair you refer to, but it could potentially be interesting.

As for the Bane arc. It was okay. But it was just very predictable and kind of boring as a result.

 

Another fantastic Inquisitor design and he instantly gets chumped

I get they're a joke, but come on

 

I've seen some people pointing out that Cad's arc relies heavily on the unfinished Boba Fett vs Cad Bane TCW arc, with Cad and Jango being friends turned rivals, like Cad and Niro, Cad mentoring Jango's son and trying to claim him as his own, him being jealous that Jango got to have a son and got to raise him, like Niro raised Cad's son while he was in prison. But then Cad would also push Boba to have revenge on Windu again for killing his father, like he himself got revenge on the Lawman for killing the closest thing he had to a father, as we've seen in the new clip at Celebration this year. But then it seems he would push Boba to be more and more ruthless like him, and at some point it would cross the line and Boba would refuse, which would end in a duel between the two, where Boba was originally supposed to kill Bane. So it's kinda neat how the orphan son would kill Bane after all these years, the fate finally catching up to him. It is all very interesting and actually makes a lot of sense, and even kinda makes these Tales episodes good and relevant - if only they had actually finished The Clone Wars, and we got to see the actual arc beyond two short clips, so these Tales episodes could thematically relate to something people had actually seen. Between this and Book of Boba Fett that also referenced that arc that no one had seen, it's getting kinda annoying. Finish The Clone Wars, I guess. It's also kinda interesting how Boba became the Lawman in Book of Boba Fett and tried to fix the crime ridden community like Niro, and then Cad Bane came again, but got killed that time, lol. But then again, it all relies on the unfinished arc no one had seen! It could have been good, even Book of Boba Fett could have been good, if there was context! Maybe instead of retconning Dark Disciple for no reason, they should have done this instead.

 

She was a bounty hunter and did work with other bounty hunters before, it was a big part of Dark Disciple even. Probably just had some off screen jobs together.

Why would they? Those were kind of obscure events, and private ones that might not have made the full report. And even if they did, that report would almost certainly be classified given the whole arc was black ops the jedi were ashamed to be involved it.

Finally even if their info did say she was dead, so what? They would probably assume it was a mistake or deception. After all, the Bad Batch was itself officially dead in the empire's eyes for a while.

I recall him having them at the beginning as well.

Apparently they are a counter to force choking, so it might have been an encounter with a darksider instead.

I definitely got the impression that Bane didn't start his bounty hunter career until the end of his arc, so yeah I think that would happen later.

 

I liked both of these stories. Bane’s was excellent for never spelling out that the kid was his son. Maybe Bane wouldn’t have killed Nero if he’d realized before.

 

It has a weak, unconvincing plot premise and a disappointing ending that makes everything that came before it make no sense. The only good thing about this arc was the action.

 

Agreed, except that I didn't like the action.

 

I agree with you except on one point. Cad Bane was not killed on the Book of Boba Fett. The little light blinking on his chest and the beeping indicated he’s alive.

 

Cad Bane will live to come home to his son and go retire