From the preview of the next episode on StarWars.com, it seems this is an attempt to assassinate Palpatine, rather than capture him.
http://www.starwars.com/explore/the-clone-wars/ep418/
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From the preview of the next episode on StarWars.com, it seems this is an attempt to assassinate Palpatine, rather than capture him.
http://www.starwars.com/explore/the-clone-wars/ep418/
Clarify something for me. Did Dooku not realize that Palpatine and Darth Sidious were the same person? I always figured the abduction at the start of RotS was staged.
The only direct evidence in ROTS isn't even really all that direct: it involves interpreting a facial expression, the one of Dooku's evident surprise when Palps tells Skywalker to kill him.
Going by that, and that alone, I'd put my money on the idea that Dooku knew full well that the ROTS abduction was staged, and that DS and Palps were one and the same. But given the pliability of canon over the years, I'd only risk about one cent on that bet.
ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
yah he knew.
in the book we're given the impression that dooku believed sidious would step in and save him against anakin and not let him die.
ReadyAndWilling
Fleet Captain
yah that's pretty much what i thought.
Read the adult novelisation of Episode III and you will find that Count Dooku was a sith lord who knew who his master really was, and both had plans for the galaxy that relied on converting Anakin. It's just that neither had the same exact plans to go about this as the other did.
Anyone have an exact count of how many known differences there are between the novelizations and the films?
I always took Dooku's facial expression in ROTS as surprise that Palpatine ordered Anakin to kill Dooku. I don't remember what EU book it was but it touched on the plan for Anakin that Dooku had been told. Dooku was supposed to test Anakin I believe, to prove that Skywalker was indeed powerful enough for their purposes. I think Dooku says or has a line of internal dialogue where he wants to use Anakin himself to overthrow Sidious and become Emperor of a New Sith Empire himself. Dooku knew it was staged, but was surprised at the order to kill him.
As mentioned before and I guess I'm probably going to have to try and search for this now since this has come up now, but I'm pretty sure Filoni has stated that the end of the their show is not going to contradict or conflict with the ending that the micro series had. That they would do their own ending.
As mentioned before and I guess I'm probably going to have to try and search for this now since this has come up now, but I'm pretty sure Filoni has stated that the end of the their show is not going to contradict or conflict with the ending that the micro series had. That they would do their own ending.
Another thing, The Clone Wars was three years long-as stated in the tagline for Episode III- and here we are with a fourth season?
Exceot the novelisation for ROTS had Lucas's blessing, regardless of any percieved differences. Matthew Stover worked closely with Lucas in the writing of the novel.
@CaptainMatt the timeline in the Clone Wars was addressed in an interview I posted I think on page 48 or 49 of this post. The Clone Wars takes about 18 months and there are a lot of battles and minor conflicts scattered across it. It's not like each season is a year or whatever in the Star Wars universe. More like weeks or months.
So, you're saying that if Lucas works closely with someone on something, then it will never be contradicted by a future production in the franchise? Does this include anything he himself has worked on? And what's this rite of blessing you refer to? Is it like a ceremony? Did the novelization of the 1977 film, with George Lucas's name on it as author also have Lucas's blessing, at least, at the time? Or is this blessing ceremony something recent?
Here's the Clone Wars wookiepieda article...yeah about three years then. My bad.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_Wars
Here's their article on the ROTS novel which is considered (C Canon in the ranking system for the SW Canon)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith_(novel)#Canonicity
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_Wars
Here's their article on the ROTS novel which is considered (C Canon in the ranking system for the SW Canon)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith_(novel)#Canonicity
When did the notion that a season=year start?
It's a pretty common convention of live action television, as it's an easy way to account for actors aging, although there are exceptions. Breaking Bad, for example, has spent four seasons that dramatize a little over a year in the life of the characters. I don't see any reason why an animated program should be so constricted, though.
Definitely. M*A*S*H was an 11-season series about a 3-year war, although they played fast and loose with chronology (they let the calendar advance as far as 1953, but then kicked it back to '51 and didn't worry much about continuity). The first season of Battlestar Galactica (the revival) spanned only about 46 days of story time. The first four seasons of Lost only spanned about 100 days of time on the island (which is why they wrote Walt out so early, since the child actor was starting to mature too quickly relative to story time).
But as you say, there's certainly no reason why an animated show would need to have its seasons correspond to years, since actor aging isn't relevant. Especially if it's an animated series that isn't set on Earth (although I understand that SW-galaxy standard years are assumed to be roughly equal to Earth years). Even more especially if it's a series consisting largely of multipart storylines and following a whole bunch of different characters separately, so a whole season's worth of episodes could easily take much less than a year. So it's really an odd assumption for anyone to make in this case.
Good points.
Yevetha
Commodore
Filoni talked about possibly prolonging the war.
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