Well, at least many of the characters here were aware of how insanely dangerous it was to bring the beast to Coruscant, but that doesn't adequately explain why Dr. Boll's research couldn't have been done in a lab on some uninhabited moon rather than right in the middle of the galaxy's most densely populated planet.
Palpatine's line that the beast was "just an animal" struck me as odd. Given the diversity of body forms in the SW-verse, what standards to they use to differentiate animal from sophont? Is it tool use? Surely there are sophonts that don't use technology or wear clothing, like dolphins. Is it the ability to communicate? How do they determine whether a new alien species has an intelligent language or not? Do they have universal translator technology? Or does the Force give them the ability to sense whether a creature has a conscious mind? In that case, you'd think it would've been easier to determine it here.
I too am very sick of hearing "I have a bad feeling about this".
Me too. Once per film, I could live with, but the ubiquity of its use here is getting ridiculous. So many characters use it that I kind of wonder if it's a mass-media catchphrase in the SW universe, like "I'll buy that for a dollar" in
RoboCop. Like, maybe all these characters are trying to be pithy by quoting a popular show. Except why would it still be popular a generation later?
I digged the whole King Kong vibe...
I wanted the episode to end with Palpatine saying, "I'm sorry it died, but my obligations to the Republic came first. It was duty killed the beast."
Anybody notice who the Beast's impenatrable skin was punchured by some sort of needle...
The
scales were impenetrable. They forcibly peeled back a scale in order to inject the tranquilizer into the softer skin underneath.
Except it was odd to hear him say "Hold your fire!" instead of "Your fire, hold!"
And Tom Kane doesn't even seem to be trying to sound like Frank Oz anymore when he does Yoda.
