11: The Blue Shadow Virus Arc (Clone Wars 17 & 18)

A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

A More Civilized Age

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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

After the highs and lows of Revenge of the Sith, it felt like we were due to even back out with some mid-tier content. And hey, good news, the Blue Shadow Virus is nothing if not mid. One one hand, it spends some solid time characterizing nearly every one of our leads. On the other, its combination of mad scientist stock villain, half-developed Bermuda Triangle planet, and bio-terror plot just don't mesh together into anything especially elevated or memorable. But with just one more arc to go in the season, and with some clear signs that the production team is perfecting their technical processes, it does feel like maybe we're nearing the light at the end of the tunnel of mediocrity...

Next Time: The Ryloth Arc (The Clone Wars: Episodes 19-21)

Show Notes

Not a clone, but still: RIP to Taquito.

Padme Holding Knives:

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.
0:12.8	I'm Rob Zachney, join me at Ali Akampura, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:18.1	Austin, start us off because you said you had some old business you wanted to clear
0:23.5	up in the start of the show here.
0:25.4	This is another one of those things where I'm going to reference our Patreon episode,
0:29.3	a Q&A episode for April that dropped the day that we're recording this.
0:34.2	In that episode, I made a pickup.
0:38.2	I added a little two-minute section, and none of y'all have heard.
0:43.0	Because during one of our questions, we were hypothesis.
0:46.4	In all of our questions, we hypothesized this last episode of the Patreon Q&A was a lot
0:50.4	of spitballing the way things could have gone differently.
0:54.5	And in one of those questions, I suggested something, and then unrelatedly, someone showed
1:00.8	me that a thing I suggested was almost true, or in another world it would have been true.
1:06.8	And so I had to ask our audience not to hear me say that, and then rush to tell us that
1:14.0	it was true, because when I read this thing that this thing was true, I immediately said
1:18.6	to all of y'all, I have to at the top of this next podcast, share something with you.
1:23.2	So in 2017, Ian McKegg, I believe I tell you to pronounce it, I've seen it written
1:28.2	McCregg a bunch, because people didn't know how to read McKegg and let it lie as that.
1:33.2	And maybe I'm mispronouncing it, but it's MCCIG, who's an artist and a concept artist on
1:39.1	the prequels, had an interview with the Academy of Art University, which is gone there.
1:45.5	I guess it was October 2016.
1:48.4	And I'm just going to read this on now, reading from comicbook.com, because one of the questions
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