Kind of odd to see this series suddenly turning from a war story into a kaiju story. Doing it for one episode is okay, but doing an arc this close to the season finale? It's an odd tangent to go off on. And I agree, bringing the monster to Coruscant is an insanely bad idea. It's just as bad as
Voyager constantly studying unknown, potentially dangerous alien devices just a few meters away from the warp core. Haven't these people ever heard of quarantine? Surely the Republic has isolated bases for studying dangerous things -- uninhabited moons, space stations, things like that.
The designs here were interesting. The Zillo had an intriguing design with the flat, sinuous limbs and body, plus the third arm on the back, though I have trouble believing those non-rigid limbs could have the strength to support such a great mass, and the back is an oddly impractical place for an extra limb. And the Dugs' design was clever with the inversion of arms and legs -- kind of expanding on the idea of those UFO aliens in the Energizer Bunny commercial -- but I don't really see how a species could evolve that way, adapting its hind limbs for grasping instead of its forelimbs. Although, hmm, given that all four limbs ended in hands, I guess they could be descended from arboreal creatures that used their feet for grabbing fruit, leaves, etc. while hanging from branches, something like that. It's still an awkward design, as seen when they walked.
And "Dugs" is an unfortunate name for the species, seeing as how it's a term for the mammary glands of animals with more than one pair thereof, as well as being an archaic slang term for human breasts.
Audio homages: The Zillo's roars were based on the Godzilla roar sound effect, and the Clone trooper who screamed when the Zillo's foot crushed him must've been named Wilhelm.
But the whole story was a Godzilla homage, right down to the sleeping beast being awakened by a weapon of mass destruction.
And in response to
Spiff: While the folly of bringing the subdued beast to the heart of civilization is a very Carl Denham-ish move, I think that next week's episode has cast Coruscant in the role of Tokyo rather than New York.
