And? What's wrong with that?
News Tales of the Jedi, new animated shorts anthology series.
- Thread starter Reverend
- Start date
Yes...exactly how I imagined it. Dooku was overlooked by the Council because they couldn't imagine a former Jedi going so bad. "Blind we were..." as Yoda describes about the clone army. Yes, indeed, the Jedi were blind, including the thought that Dooku would come back and delete the record.
What's wrong with it is that is was the most memorable thing to happen in ~40 minutes of screen time. Everything that happened in the Dooku segments was dull, but I hadn't seen a scene of the Jedi Archives being effed with in Star Wars before, so that scene, while still dull, was the most interesting by default. Again: those three Dooku segments were very bad.
In a story about Yaddle short seems appropriate.
That was literally just the opening scene, not the point of the whole short. It did however play into the overall theme of the piece regarding thresholds crossed. Points of no return. The die being cast.
That he was the one that deleted Kamino is something most everyone has assumed ever since AotC, this just confirms it *in passing* while everything else is going on.
And the Dooku stories were anything but dull. Contemplative. Introspective. Showing more than telling. Very solid storytelling . . . unless of course one has the attention span of a goldfish and can't read between the lines without the cliffnotes.
Sorry I didn't read the whole thing. Could I get a summary of your post?
The release of the first two episodes of Ahsoka tomorrow finally inspired me to start watching this too. I only watched the first episode so far, but I enjoyed it. It wasn't anything amazing, but it was cool to get a little origin story for Ahsoka. I liked getting to see her homeworld and her parents, and the I loved the Raxshir.
As a vegan I'm not a fan of her mother going out hunting kybuck, but that's not a dealbreaker for me, there's a lot of stuff that I love that the vegan in me has issues with.
EDIT: Oops, I was off a day, Ahsoka isn't for another two days.
As a vegan I'm not a fan of her mother going out hunting kybuck, but that's not a dealbreaker for me, there's a lot of stuff that I love that the vegan in me has issues with.
EDIT: Oops, I was off a day, Ahsoka isn't for another two days.
If you're in a rush to get just the Ahsoka relevant ones before the new show drops; the only other two episodes that are relevant are the last two of the season (but do circle back and watch the others at some point; honestly the non-Ahsoka stuff has way more meat on it's bones.)
Speaking of which: hunting has been a part of Shilli Togruta lore since I think the AotC Visual Dictionary established that Shaak Ti's headdress was made of teeth. Also it's clearly an isolated agrarian village. Veganism is mostly a luxury of more developed settlements for obvious practical reasons. Anyway, their diet wasn't really the point of all that, but that death is a part of life, and the importance of respecting one's natural ecosystem. The clear inspiration from Buddism, Taoism and certain Native American philosophies is pretty much in keeping with how Lucas always framed Jedi philosophy.
Not that I'm a massive fan of hunting or anything; quite the opposite as I have a particular distaste for things like fox hunting, organized hunts in general, and hunting as a sport at all (fishing included.) But there's a literal world of difference between that and people that need to hunt to not starve is all.
Last edited:
Oh, I get all that with the hunting, and I understand what they were going for with all of that, it's just one of those things that bugs me.
I decided to just watch them all, and I've watched the first two Dooku episodes. It was cool getting to see him and a young Qui-Gon in the first one, and even after just the first two episodes his growing resentment towards The Republic is pretty clear. I'm very curious to see what happens in the third episode that will drive him over the edge.
I decided to just watch them all, and I've watched the first two Dooku episodes. It was cool getting to see him and a young Qui-Gon in the first one, and even after just the first two episodes his growing resentment towards The Republic is pretty clear. I'm very curious to see what happens in the third episode that will drive him over the edge.
