Animated Shorts TOTU: "The Good Life" Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Sooo on a chronological rewatch this episode would be the earliest animation in the timeline saga. Baby Cad, then Baby Qui gon and baby Ashoka

 

Yep, I was thinking the same. I think this is the furthest back we've ever gone with a prequel-era character.

 

Well the jedi in the Acolyte are further back

 

...hence why I specified "prequel-era" characters. Cad's childhood might technically be a High Republic story, but it's still gonna be in its last fraction of a percent.

 

Is the planet supposed to be Duro? I guess yes since that's listed as Cad Bane's homeworld still on official page and there were a lot of duros. I think they were supposedly living in space cities even in new canon, but I guess that's mostly for upper classes then with surface being filthy dystopic crime filled area. There are a lot of clichés in Bane's story so it's almost exactly as I expected it would be but it's okay all in all. I think we should see Bane together with Boba Fett though since we had referenced this in BOBF yet never seen them together before their "reunion" which is surely confusing other viewers even more than me since I know about their arc cut from TCW. But ordinary audience is baffled for sure.

 

It looked like space Chicago to me.

 

Now that reference takes me back to the old days.......

 

The street urchin origin for Cad Bane is uninspiring. It's less cool that he models his famous hat/garb and toothpick chewing after someone else. Not a big fan of the name Colby, either. Did the name originate with this story or was it established in canon elsewhere?

 

Not sure, seems this is something Filoni cooked up. I enjoyed this new series with my son, but he's a bigger Cad Bane fans than I. Clearly taken from Indiana Jones circa The Last Crusade. Gave Bane more incentive to his nasty demeanor and cruelness.

 

Colby?

DORK

 

Do we think this is set on Duros?

 

Really liked the bad guys speeder's design, as well as the scene, where boys were watching criminal news. And background Duros have a good variety of faces and body types.