He was fairly promenant in Jabba's palace in ROTJ, and had a cameo in TPM, and a very minor appearance in Mandalorian.
Spoilers The Bad Batch - Season 1 Discussion [cue A-Team theme music]
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It's a fine episode. Moves the story along but beyond that it didn't do much for me.
Right? They save a baby Rancor that tried to kill Luke over 20 years later and Luke killed a Rancor that they saved as a baby. I'm confused how to feel.Yeah. They didn’t do that Rancor any favours.
Recognizing him? Luke met him first in ROTJ. Even if a person doesn't know his name its not like he didn't have a presence.
"The Republic doesn't exist out here."
--Shmi Skywalker, The Phantom Menace
Whether it was part of the Empire... is an issue confused by the versions of ANH.
In the original, all Imperial presence on Tatooine could be from Vader's own star destroyer or the two apparently sent to relieve it easily enough, with a search for the all-important droids ongoing. That is, the troops down at Mos Eisley could be but an expeditionary force stomping around. Yet in the augmented version, there are troops on dewbacks from the get-go: it's a bit unlikely Vader's star destroyer deployed those beasts on assault shuttles, rather suggesting the existence of a local garrison.
(Whether the garrison could have responded to the landing of the escape pod so fast, with such lumbering beasts, is debatable. Including 'em in that particular scene was a really poor choice drama-wise.)
Slavery was going strong before and during the Clone Wars in various parts of the realm. Yet wherever it was witnessed, our heroes took a dim view, so it probably was outlawed through and through. Although with the usual caveats: the Clones occasionally thought of themselves as slaves, say, but their bosses apparently disagreed. Out of this Batch, I guess Tech could be pondering on the technicalities, but the rest... Probably not. Unless Echo, as a Reg, used to harbor these thoughts back when he didn't have the luxury of being special.
Timo Saloniemi
In the original, all Imperial presence on Tatooine could be from Vader's own star destroyer or the two apparently sent to relieve it easily enough, with a search for the all-important droids ongoing. That is, the troops down at Mos Eisley could be but an expeditionary force stomping around. Yet in the augmented version, there are troops on dewbacks from the get-go: it's a bit unlikely Vader's star destroyer deployed those beasts on assault shuttles, rather suggesting the existence of a local garrison.
(Whether the garrison could have responded to the landing of the escape pod so fast, with such lumbering beasts, is debatable. Including 'em in that particular scene was a really poor choice drama-wise.)
Slavery was going strong before and during the Clone Wars in various parts of the realm. Yet wherever it was witnessed, our heroes took a dim view, so it probably was outlawed through and through. Although with the usual caveats: the Clones occasionally thought of themselves as slaves, say, but their bosses apparently disagreed. Out of this Batch, I guess Tech could be pondering on the technicalities, but the rest... Probably not. Unless Echo, as a Reg, used to harbor these thoughts back when he didn't have the luxury of being special.
Timo Saloniemi
Which scene? The earliest I remember is the detachment at the escape pod. Even in the original version there was a dewback in that scene.
But, the other side of that is that when there is trouble in the cantina stormtroopers are sent to investigate it.
Wuher seemed to be expecting them and asking for help.
I guess Mandela got me: I have no recollection of big lizards in the original version. (Might be a pan-and-scan issue?)
Vader's own shock troops really should have been the first to that scene no matter what. A random desert patrol would have low odds of happening onto the pod (and why would the local garrison even patrol the random sands?), but Vader's men would have both a God's eye view to the scene and some initial data on that single "misfired" pod and its trajectory. Plus they'd be moving via fast aircraft by default, so they'd still get there faster than any local patrol they vectored in. Assuming they even wanted to involve the locals.
Of course, a local garrison could react with time, and the movie provides no strict timeline at that stage yet. But why would Vader's troops not reach the scene first (in addition to descending on every settlement of note and establishing street patrols and door-by-door, invade-and-search squads)?
As for the Mod Squad here, it's basically Clone Wars storytelling but with the focus constantly on the same small group, so it can't help being a bit to the monotonous side in comparison.
Timo Saloniemi
IIRC it was about a day later when they found the pod, so plenty of time for a local dewback unit to get out there and link up with Vader's detachment.
I took the scene as they were from the Star Destroyer, even the Dewback(s).
IIRC, Dewbacks are native to Tatooine, so they wouldn't have been from the Star Destroyer. Either those were Stormtroopers from the local garrison with their own Dewbacks, or the troopers from the Star Destroyer acquired Dewbacks when they landed.
In any case, it's cute that the Rebels cooperate with cuddly tauntauns and whatnot - but the Empire is techno-fascist to the core and won't tolerate as much as a funny hairdo in its ranks, let alone an animal... (Given the way the Imperials talk, it's unclear which category Thrawn defies with his success!)
The timing of the "Look, Sir! Droids!" scene is ambiguous, but it's a bit difficult to find excuses for Vader's own troops being late - or failing to spot the droid evidence right off the bat, long before any local reinforcements arrive.
Timo Saloniemi
The timing of the "Look, Sir! Droids!" scene is ambiguous, but it's a bit difficult to find excuses for Vader's own troops being late - or failing to spot the droid evidence right off the bat, long before any local reinforcements arrive.
Timo Saloniemi
Well, I wasn’t expecting
to show up.
the Martez sisters
^I kinda was. Once it became clear that at least two thirds of TCW season 7 was also a backdoor pilot for this show, it stood to reason that the other third would play a role too, especially considering they weren't from the original versions of those episodes but a new invention.
Main takeaway: R7 lives! Also; R7 magically changes paintjobs between shots? I wonder if that was just an error nobody caught, which begs the question: what's the error? The old red and green or the imperial style black & yellow?
One would assume that their contact is Ahsoka (because how else did they get her droid?) which seems a little at odds with the novel since she's not supposed to be actively working for Bail until about a year post Order 66, indeed she's mostly just keeping her head down. But they've already proven they're not massively concerned about being beholden to the tie-in media, so maybe there's other plans afoot.
Main takeaway: R7 lives! Also; R7 magically changes paintjobs between shots? I wonder if that was just an error nobody caught, which begs the question: what's the error? The old red and green or the imperial style black & yellow?
One would assume that their contact is Ahsoka (because how else did they get her droid?) which seems a little at odds with the novel since she's not supposed to be actively working for Bail until about a year post Order 66, indeed she's mostly just keeping her head down. But they've already proven they're not massively concerned about being beholden to the tie-in media, so maybe there's other plans afoot.
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