06: The Nute Gunray Arc (Clone Wars 08-10)
A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast
A More Civilized Age
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🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 175 minutes
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Summary
"This is a mission of peace. I put my faith in diplomacy. We can't solve all of our problems by throwing troops at them." -Padmé Amidala
Before we get into the episode today, big news: We've launched our Patreon! Just go over to patreon.com/civilized (lol) to support us and gain access to our monthly Q&A podcast. We're keeping it super simple for now. A single tier, a single reward. We don't want to bury ourselves in work. But we also have some ideas for how we'd want to expand this down the road, and we'd love to hear ideas from you too, so let us know!
Given the extra work of launching the Patreon this week, we'd love to say that this week's episode is a light one. And on paper, it should be. These episodes cover three distinct stories, with marginal narrative overlap, each tackling a different genre and theme. Unfortunately for us and our runtime, even the worst of these episodes (the Jar Jar vehicle "Bombad Jedi") has enough to chew on for damn near fort minutes. And if that was the case for the comic relief episode, then what could we have expected from our conversation about the one-two punch of "Cloak of Darkness," perhaps our best episode yet, and "Lair of Grievous," which gives us a small taste for the Separatist Supreme Commander's backstory that we've been so thirsty for?
Next time: Episodes 11-12
Show Notes
Fallen Clones: Green Leader, Bel, Niner, Commander Fil
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. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Rob Zachney, joined by Alia Capora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson. |
| 0:17.6 | So today, the Clone Wars is calling back to Episode 1 as it builds a three-up episode |
| 0:23.4 | arc around the capture of Trade Federation leader, Newt Gunray, and it kicks things off |
| 0:28.4 | with an uneven comedy-caper starring Ahmed Best reprising his role as Jar Jar Banks. |
| 0:34.7 | But a rocky start makes this a uniquely fascinating trilogy of episodes. |
| 0:39.4 | It opens with Bombad Jedi, which is kind of Clone Wars at its worst. |
| 0:44.3 | It is a childish episode on a shoestring budget, reliant on a lot of movie references for |
| 0:49.9 | its narrative hooks. |
| 0:51.9 | Then in the following two episodes, Cloak of Darkness and Layer of Grievous, it executes |
| 0:57.3 | back-to-back stylistic and tonal gear shifts and sidelines most of its familiar cast and |
| 1:03.3 | emerges as a different series than the one we've been watching so far. |
| 1:09.2 | And that's not the only evolution happening this week, because we have launched our Patreon |
| 1:13.6 | at patreon.com slash civilized. |
| 1:17.3 | It's so funny, I'm sorry for interrupting. |
| 1:21.5 | I can't believe we got it gang. |
| 1:23.4 | We got it. |
| 1:24.4 | Slash civilized. |
| 1:26.4 | So I guess one of the things I'd stress here is that at the moment we're keeping this |
| 1:33.4 | Patreon pretty simple. |
| 1:34.9 | I think we've all been part of projects that got very complicated to the detriment of |
| 1:40.5 | the core goal and our relationship to it. |
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