Full Series The Arcs that were not

Because I'm sure the people behind the scenes wanted to release them, but since the powers at be wouldn't allow it then, and now most of the arcs are contradicted and probably better than the material that takes their place so they want to hide them. The Mandalorian is certainly the reason why we'll never see the Bounty Hunter arc unless it's leaked, so I guess that's the best we can hope for.

 

I don’t know. I find it hard to believe that The Mandalorian taking elements from that arc would be the reason for them not to release it. Repeating tropes isn’t usually a problem with Star Wars, at least for Lucas. But maybe it is for Filoni since he didn’t release his third Ahsoka story “Return to the Jedi” which had concepts that were used in Rebels.

 

I don’t think so. I think your first conjecture is right. I think it just comes down to only having 12 episode slots to play with.

 

Return to the Jedi also contradicts Rebels, if if I recall correctly she ends up rejoining the Jedi order in that arc.

 

No, she ends up working with them as a one time arrangement of expedience. She doesn't rejoin.

 

The problem with the Return of the Jedi arc is that back in 2014, the Tarkin novel had the story where only Palpatine knew of the sith shrine under the jedi temple and not even Vader knew. So that alone nullifies the arc. I didn't realize that until they said that the Bad Batch was coming out with the other two Ashoka arc's. I do remember from some interview back then, that Filoni if given a chance wanted to release the 12 remaining episodes that involved Ashoka

 

Some ideas from the ROTJ arc were apparently used in Rebels as well. I assume its the whole World between worlds and Palpatine trying to get access to it. But they could still do rewrites to this arc and make it work if they want to.

Anakin meeting Thrawn in one of the new Thrawn novels also makes the Vong arc no longer up to date. They would have to make changes to that as well.

And they probably didn't want to do the Bounty Hunters arc first because of the planned Boba Fett movie and now because of The Mandalorian. Perhaps they used some ideas from it or maybe they're just saving Boba/Cad Bane for something else.

The Dark Disciple and Son of Dathomir were released as novel and comic respectively, though I would still love to see these arcs finished. Its the ones I wanted to see the most. But at this point I don't think it will ever happen.

The Kashyyyk, Mon Cala and Rex/R2 arcs are still possible, but they don't sound like they're adding much to the overall story, which is probably why they were not chosen to be finished and why we haven't seen them in any other media as well. Fun action stories that are more of a filler, nothing more.

And finally there's the Crystal arc which we already saw as story reels. I really liked this one. Good interactions between Anakin and Obi-Wan and little bit of Death Star origin. They could have finished this one as well. Maybe one day...

 

I’ve found something interesting in the concept art gallery for Deal No Deal. This piece of concept art has the production code 5.23, which is the second episode of the Boba/Bane arc (5.22-5.25). Does this mean
that Kessel was gonna be in the Boba/Bane arc?
https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/deal-no-deal-concept-art-04_641ffd15.jpeg?region=0,0,1280,720&width=1136

 

That's fascinating

That concept art comes from the same episode as Bane's new ship, the Justifier, so it seems likely that Bane and Boba went offworld during this episode:


Edit: Other trivia from the concept art gallery:

-The Silver Angel was originally called the Black Ace, and it's cockpit was retrofitted to become the Ghost's in Rebels (like the Anaxes Base and the Stygeon prison)

-There's some new concept art of a Spice crate, originally from Revival:

 

Slowly but surely we are learning the breakdown of the Bane/Boba Fett arc. I still have hope we will see it at some point.

 

Wait... so in Rebels, Kessel appeared in the intro film Spark of Rebellion ep 1-2
In ep 3 they reused Endente´s trading spot from the Utapau arc
In ep 5 the reuse Stygeon Prime which was ment for SoD
In ep 7 we get the Anaxes base

Later in S3E3 we get the Asteroid base from SoD.

Do you think they reused more assets ment for the unfinished eps?

 

Ketsu Onyo's ship was repurposed from Ventress's Banshee ship from Dark Disciple.

A weird reuse in TCW itself is Maul's new double bladed lightsaber being a combination of his old hilt and that of Ventress's new yellow lightsaber. Wonder how they're going to justify that one.

 

Space waffles from the Ahsoka Underworld arc are eaten by Zeb in one ep of Season 1

Edit: Oh, and from some completed episodes, a sewer set from The Jedi Who Knew Too Much is reused in Vision of Hope, while police gunships from To Catch a Jedi also appear in Season 1 and more.

 

I know the family budget is tight in Imperial times but forcing your crew to eat 15 year old rations? Really, Hera...

 

The western standoff duel between Bane and Boba takes place in what seems to be this very Mining Facility and remember these lines from the reel clip
''No more innocent people are going to die, or be locked up or live in fear''
''Looks like your little insurrection has failed''
Was Boba and some of the other hunters attempting to liberate some of the kessel slaves while Bane and the others were trying to help enslave/capture them?

 

I believe that was on Tatooine, there was concept art noting the Mos Eisley area.

 

The duel happens on Tatooine as well? Thought it was only the first episode that took place there


Edit: Someone asked Matt Martin about it on twitter and the duel did apparently not happen on Kessel

 

Nice to have this confirmed now... I think the story reel clip we saw of the duel just looks more like Tatooine to me.

 

@Watto, Tatooine is the safest bet and a location Lucasfilm really loves to use.

 

@Dan_Grievous_Tikkes_Fan now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... a long time.

 

Hopefully not like we got to "see" the Ahsoka walkabout episodes. Those are still lost as far as I'm concerned

 

Honestly I was expecting to be mad at the changes but aside from removing a scene in the third episode none of them have really bothered me. All of my ire is still reserved for the fact that they're refusing to complete the series.

 

I'm confident that we'll eventually get some form of the arc, it just seems too important and too marketable of a story to never be told. It includes several fan favorite characters, the death of one of them, and is probably the biggest moment in Boba Fett's entire character arc.

 

Yeeess... Meesa back!

 

Found this old article from theforce.net main site and while it was wrong about the number of arcs in The Lost Missions it was correct about the Bounty Hunter arc. It states how the arc was gonna show us the fates of Cad Bane and Aurra Sing years before Aurra Sing's death in this arc was made into public knowledge.
http://www.theforce.net/story/television/Report_TCW_Bonus_Content_To_Be_Two_Story_Arcs_151225.asp

''A source in the know tells me that Lucasfilm is only finishing two story arcs from the material that they had planned for The Clone Wars Season Six. Among the story arcs that will not emerge in this post-cancellation era is one that dealt with Boba Fett and the other bounty hunters who have menaced the heroes for several seasons. This story arc, which my source tells me was almost done, would have shown us the fates of Cad Bane and Aurra Sing.''