More Clone Wars
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schneefinkI watched a few more episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and I really want the AU where the droids rebel and take over the galaxy. Ahem.
- So in "Mystery of a Thousand Moons" Anakin threatens a prisoner with torture (or tortures him, fine line really) to get him to talk, and Obi-Wan just stands there like it's normal. Granted it was a difficult situation, but still. It should at least be a difficult decision!
…on the other hand it was completely in character.
- In "Cargo of Doom": Apart from the fact that I don't see any reason why Anakin couldn't have made his move to save Ahsoka before unlocking the holocron: isn't this exactly what the "no attachments" rule is for, so that Jedi learn to put the good of the many above personal attachments? Anakin may have saved Ahsoka, but if the Sith get this info it'd be catastrophic.
(and I have no idea how the Jedi even assembled a list of all – or the most? - Force-sensitive children in the galaxy/Republic, maybe those they already discovered but were only planning to get to the temple later?)
- In "Children of the Force" Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Mace Windu try to compel Bane via the Force, and they don't seem to care that it's painful. Ethics classes…
Also, Anakin, "as long as the Jedi are acting as a military, we should report to the Chancellor, even in internal matters." And the reaction of Obi-Wan and Windu, "Well then, you do it." Whether or not the Jedi report to the Chancellor seems like an important detail that should be clarified.
"No evidence that the list has been copied", ts. Probably just means Sidious did the equivalent of using a camera to take a picture of the screen.
- I liked the crew from "Bounty Hunters." I hope we see them again.
- I love the Zilloh beast. It's huge, it's powerful, it has a cool design, it's the last of its kind, and it's only defending itself. It also figures out that Palpatine is the one who wants to kill it and then finds him in the Senate, which either implies extremely high intelligence or some degree of force-sensitivity. Neither of which the Jedi could apparently sense even though they claim to be able to sense individuals in the Force, but we already know they're not infallible. It's a tragedy that Palpatine manages to kill the Zilloh before it kills him, but at least it got a properly dramatic death.
Of course Palpatine wants to clone the Zilloh, that won't go wrong at all…
In my head there's an AU where the Zilloh survives, kills Palpatine, figures out how to communicate with others, and becomes an intergalactic big scale bounty hunter.
- Next I skipped a few episodes ahead to "Deserter." It wasn't a bad ep, but it clarified for me that there are just too many annoying things in this show for me to want to watch every episode. We've seen more than enough proof by now that droids can suffer, so the way they're treated by everyone is infuriating. And when Rex sees a brother of his who's not in the army he immediately calls him a deserter, strongly implying that there is no way to leave the army except by desertion. Rex says all clones swore an oath, but somehow I doubt they had much of a choice… and even if they did, they're basically brainwashed on Kamino. Ugh, the whole situation is really messed up.
I've looked through the episode summaries on Wikipedia and I'll probably just watch the episodes that sound particularly interesting. There are a couple that I'm looking forward to.
- So in "Mystery of a Thousand Moons" Anakin threatens a prisoner with torture (or tortures him, fine line really) to get him to talk, and Obi-Wan just stands there like it's normal. Granted it was a difficult situation, but still. It should at least be a difficult decision!
…on the other hand it was completely in character.
- In "Cargo of Doom": Apart from the fact that I don't see any reason why Anakin couldn't have made his move to save Ahsoka before unlocking the holocron: isn't this exactly what the "no attachments" rule is for, so that Jedi learn to put the good of the many above personal attachments? Anakin may have saved Ahsoka, but if the Sith get this info it'd be catastrophic.
(and I have no idea how the Jedi even assembled a list of all – or the most? - Force-sensitive children in the galaxy/Republic, maybe those they already discovered but were only planning to get to the temple later?)
- In "Children of the Force" Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Mace Windu try to compel Bane via the Force, and they don't seem to care that it's painful. Ethics classes…
Also, Anakin, "as long as the Jedi are acting as a military, we should report to the Chancellor, even in internal matters." And the reaction of Obi-Wan and Windu, "Well then, you do it." Whether or not the Jedi report to the Chancellor seems like an important detail that should be clarified.
"No evidence that the list has been copied", ts. Probably just means Sidious did the equivalent of using a camera to take a picture of the screen.
- I liked the crew from "Bounty Hunters." I hope we see them again.
- I love the Zilloh beast. It's huge, it's powerful, it has a cool design, it's the last of its kind, and it's only defending itself. It also figures out that Palpatine is the one who wants to kill it and then finds him in the Senate, which either implies extremely high intelligence or some degree of force-sensitivity. Neither of which the Jedi could apparently sense even though they claim to be able to sense individuals in the Force, but we already know they're not infallible. It's a tragedy that Palpatine manages to kill the Zilloh before it kills him, but at least it got a properly dramatic death.
Of course Palpatine wants to clone the Zilloh, that won't go wrong at all…
In my head there's an AU where the Zilloh survives, kills Palpatine, figures out how to communicate with others, and becomes an intergalactic big scale bounty hunter.
- Next I skipped a few episodes ahead to "Deserter." It wasn't a bad ep, but it clarified for me that there are just too many annoying things in this show for me to want to watch every episode. We've seen more than enough proof by now that droids can suffer, so the way they're treated by everyone is infuriating. And when Rex sees a brother of his who's not in the army he immediately calls him a deserter, strongly implying that there is no way to leave the army except by desertion. Rex says all clones swore an oath, but somehow I doubt they had much of a choice… and even if they did, they're basically brainwashed on Kamino. Ugh, the whole situation is really messed up.
I've looked through the episode summaries on Wikipedia and I'll probably just watch the episodes that sound particularly interesting. There are a couple that I'm looking forward to.
