04: Ambush and the Malevolence Arc (Clone Wars 01-04)
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
"My lady, are you sure the information from Chancellor Palpatine is… reliable?" - C-3P0
After weeks of build up, we've finally made it to the Clone Wars series proper. Join us as we take our first dive into questions of Clone individuality, meet the polarizing Separatist commander General Grievous, and return to the eternal question: How does no one find out about Padme and Anakin when they're barely hiding their relationship.
Next Time: Episodes 05 - 07
Show Notes
Fallen Clones: Matchstick and Tag
Hosted by Rob Zacny (@RobZacny)
Featuring Alicia Acampora (@ali_west), Austin Walker (@austin_walker), and Natalie Watson (@nataliewatson)
Produced by Austin Walker
Music by Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal)
Cover art by Xeecee (@xeeceevevo)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Let us return once more to a more civilized age, a clone wars podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Rob Zucny, joined by Ali Akkincora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson. |
| 0:19.2 | And we're in it. |
| 0:20.5 | We have arrived at last at the Clone Wars TV series and we get right into the swing of things with ambush in which we see Yoda conducting some armed diplomacy near the front lines of the war with |
| 0:32.8 | separatists. |
| 0:33.9 | Then we have the three-part malevolence arc |
| 0:36.4 | where the Republic must hunt down and destroy |
| 0:38.4 | a dangerous separatist battleship. |
| 0:40.5 | As you might expect, these episodes are rough in places and very much have the feel of a series still finding its identity, which frankly characterizes a lot of this first season. |
| 0:51.0 | However, some people have asked, so what's your skip list? We don't have a skip list. We're watching it all. |
| 0:58.7 | Because even the mediocre episodes frequently like illuminate something about what's going on with the show or what it's trying to do or what it's failing to do. |
| 1:07.0 | And some of its weakest episodes I think are also kind of turning points in the series, Like for instance, I don't think there's an |
| 1:14.4 | episode coming up called Bomb Bad Jedi. I don't think it's a very good episode in most ways, |
| 1:20.5 | but one, it has some key things and two it feels like the show might also feel like |
| 1:26.8 | that episode is not very good and it's worth looking at like why that version of |
| 1:30.6 | the show kind of disappears as we go along. So we're going to be watching all of it. |
| 1:36.8 | Next time we are going to be watching the very good, sorry I don't mean to bias you. I should be letting you have your own journey with the |
| 1:44.8 | Clone Wars. And yet, we're going to watch rookies, which some people say, is very good. |
| 1:58.5 | Then we're going to watch a two-parter centering on another R2 unit, a different R2 unit, not famous R2D2, but R2D2's less competent cousin. This ain't no |
| 2:06.0 | Naboo R2 unit, but the question is, is it just incompetent and how many chances do we give this thing. So that's what we're going to be checking |
| 2:15.2 | out next time, but for now we're going to check out this first, not quite a pilot episode. I guess the movie was kind of the pilot and |
| 2:24.8 | then we're gonna see this this three-part episode and I think these the show these |
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