Lit A/V Clone Wars Continuity Discussion (Spoilers Allowed)

The R5 was the best part of the episode. He should have been put in command by Dooku.

 

34 ABY is 53 years after the end of the Clone Wars.

 

What did he do that was so bad that w know came from him?

 

That should have been BBY

 

Todays Episode of the Clone Wars Onderon Arc was one of the best of the entire series I think (much better than boring Krell episodes that only were enjoyable for unique Umbaran tech). For one it showcased not only that no continuity troubles are needed, but also that it used a lot of diverse technology only seen in the EU so far. Several types of grenades (smoke, explosive, anti-droid, etc.) as well as one way shields and more in addition to giving Onderon even more diversity and unique designs than before, even adding many long missed things to the show: Torture droid like Jabba had one, AOTC-esque containment field for prisoners, and more. The episode really felt like a beginning of a proper insurgency and paralelled many Rebel Alliance tales and characteristics of Mon Mothma, Bail Organa and Garm Bel Iblis without replacing them or hurting later continuity at all. If TCW runs like that, it may go on for a long while I think, so long it keeps from hurting continuity. Well done episode I can only recommend!

 

Why were the Krell episodes boring?

 

They're not. Whoever believes this is seriously mistaken. It's the zenith of the show, rather than the nadir.

 

Krell episodes had only 3 good things: Umbaran tech and world, the space battle and new spaceships and Rex.

Krell himself was unbelievable as Jedi and leader and the whole story was set up from the beginning too obvious. also it basically was a 1 episode story dragged into several episodes. so it bored the hell out of me. shooting, fighting, no plot or not much if any. it lacked a lot of depth.

the episodes were good compared to others, but even continuity trouble episodes I liked some way more than Krell episodes. can't help it there. Krell himself sucked, the rest of the episodes had some value.

 

I don't really look at that kind of thing too closely, but the impression I got was that he was a regular general droid that Rash had tricked out with Onderonian ornamentation/armor.

 

Looks different to me. Leaner, and with three eyes instead of two.

Doesn't look that much smarter though...they should have listened to the general and used living soldiers. See how much support the rebels get when they are killing local officers instead of breaking foreign machines.

 

Looks like a more advanced take on the Tactical droid series. It shares a lot of basic design aspects, if not all that many similar parts- head with hooded eyes and semi-beaked nose/mouth. Neck with lateral braces. Torso with upper structure wider than abdomen with curved vertical struts. Upper arms and shoulders are new, but elbows are the same, and the hands are borrowed from Super Battle droids and are more durable.

I wonder if over time the CIS set up various ranks of Droid Officers for independent operations- OOM droids are local battlefield leaders, roughly equivalent to a Major or Captain and serve under organics at all times, Tactical Droids who are more sophisticated and have more initiative and authority, but are still often seconded to organics, but are sometimes put in charge by them, like a Colonel, and these new ones which can operate near independently, and act as Generals, capable of fighting and winning without needing organic oversight.

These are speculation based on not having seen the episode myself yet.

 

Looks like a more advanced take on the Tactical droid series. It shares a lot of basic design aspects, if not all that many similar parts- head with hooded eyes and semi-beaked nose/mouth. Neck with lateral braces. Torso with upper structure wider than abdomen with curved vertical struts. Upper arms and shoulders are new, but elbows are the same, and the hands are borrowed from Super Battle droids and are more durable.

I wonder if over time the CIS set up various ranks of Droid Officers for independent operations- OOM droids are local battlefield leaders, roughly equivalent to a Major or Captain and serve under organics at all times, Tactical Droids who are more sophisticated and have more initiative and authority, but are still often seconded to organics, but are sometimes put in charge by them, like a Colonel, and these new ones which can operate near independently, and act as Generals, capable of fighting and winning without needing organic oversight.

These are speculation based on not having seen the episode myself yet.

 

So you're saying it looks like a more advanced take on the Tactical droid series?

 

Now we just wait to see if it starts appearing in any crippled kids' dreams.

 

Wrong faction my friend, wrong faction

Well it is called a Super Tactical Droid.

 

episode guide is up and where the episode was continuity error free the guide adds errors... d'oh

R9 unit? really? REALLY? come on...

 

Might just be the name

 

So, it's a later model? It's not impossible for a later R9-series to be a relaunch.

 

no more relaunches or I demand X-Wings in TCW!

really, it could be just the name. but why name a later brandnew droid series after droids that had that name for ages already? this is stupid. sure retconnable. but I'd not change all droid releases around just for one error.

 

Guys, I stopped expecting the R-series to make sense years ago.

 

The CWAS (non-Internet) guides already gave the explanation that any "late-numbered" R-units are experimental models.

 

Thought experiment: how many letters are there? And how many R2 units?

Answer: give up.

 

Ha! That's already covered as well - the actual name of a droid is a long boring serial number - it's common shorthand to use one or two alphanumerics from the beginning or end (R-units the last two, 3P0 units the first one). So, technically there's an uncountable number of R2-D2s in the galaxy... which we'll never see, of course.