I recognize some of the side characters, but I don't know what a Thrawn gambit is... Is it anything like the Picard Maneuver?
I'm diggin' this "Clone Wars" series
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I recognize some of the side characters, but I don't know what a Thrawn gambit is... Is it anything like the Picard Maneuver?
That's not the formal name, it's just that it was a strategy used by Admiral Thrawn (the first episode of the Ryloth arc; Ashoka has the star destroyer manouevre to protect its bridge.)
Thrawn was the principal villain in the Thrawn trilogy, one of the founding sagas of the Star Wars EU which I read way back when. He was a cool guy; him and his using the art of a culture to determine its weaknesses.
Thrawn was the principal villain in the Thrawn trilogy, one of the founding sagas of the Star Wars EU which I read way back when. He was a cool guy; him and his using the art of a culture to determine its weaknesses.
I've given it a few tries, but have always ended up meh. Not only does it perpetuate the fundamentally flawed droids vs. clones PT dynamic, it doesn't seem to have much interest in any other facet of the SW universe than blowing stuff up on random sparsely-populated battlefields. Not that that doesn't have its place, but when you've got a tv series, and an animated one at that, you'd think they'd be able to drum up some variety.
^Oh, there are definitely episodes of The Clone Wars that vary the formula and focus on other things than combat. "Senate Spy," in particular, was a dramatic episode with virtually no action whatsoever. But it does have "wars" in the title, twice, so an emphasis on war stories is to be expected.
I think that's about it, though (unless the New Year episodes had such examples, haven't seen those), and a half-hearted 'homage' to Notorious isn't a particularly stellar example of an alternative. Clone Wars is at its best when just executing a good action/adventure setpiece, with hopefully some decent characterisation.
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Yeah, but even though the emphasis is usually on action and combat, there's still some good variety to the storytelling. It's not a very formulaic show.
I find the variety mainly lies in the type of war stories it tells. Sometime they're gigantic battles, such as the invasion of Geonosis, and sometimes they're about a small detatchment of soldiers, like Rookies. Sometimes an episode is a Jedi's story, sometimes it's more focused on the clones. They also play with genre, with zombie horror, spy thriller, heist and slapstick comedy appearing alongside the big battle episodes.
And they usually do this in each arc, I've noticed. The Geonosis arc had a big battle episode, then a Jedi-focused character episode with Ahsoka and the other apprentice, then the zombie episode. The last two Grevious episodes started with a big battle episode, then the next focused in on a more intimate story of a deserter clone and the solder who found him and his adopted family.
It's definitely not the same thing over and over again.
Only after it was pointed out by the guys in the "making of ..." featurettes. To be fair, it's waaaaaay in the background. I did spot the Eye of Ra though.
Wookieepedia on the Ark of the Covenant cameo: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant
starwars.com on the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/01/12/staff-of-ra-on-the-clone-wars/
Picture of the dude with the Staff: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kharrus
starwars.com on the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/01/12/staff-of-ra-on-the-clone-wars/
Picture of the dude with the Staff: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kharrus
