18: Senate Murders, Cat and Mouse, and Bounty Hunters (Clone Wars 37-39)

A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

A More Civilized Age

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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

After last episode's cohesive and sumptuous Mandalore Arc, today's follow up was going to have a high bar to clear. And, unfortunately, all three of today's episodes come up short. That's not to say there's nothing of note here: the opening "Senate Murders" gives us some back room politicking and a little extra insight into senatorial processes, but it raises more questions than it answers. The other two episodes of the bunch have their charms too--especially if you're a sucker for tense submarine duels or stylized bounty hunter designs. But all in all, it's just as Rob says in today's intro: They cannot all be winners. Thankfully, that won't stop us from having our own brand of incredibly punchy fun with what they offer us anyway.

NEXT TIME: Episodes 40 & 41 ( "The Zillo Beast" & "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back")

Show Notes

Fallen Clones: None???
Fallen Senators: Onaconda Farr, Mee Deechi
Fallen Bounty Hunters: Rumi Paramita
Fallen Cool As Hell Separatist Officers: No one, because we believe Trench lived somehow.

Tera Sinube vs Tan Divo Epic Rap Battle (Oh my god, I'm just realizing that this is just clips edited over a Bob Ross vs Pablo Picasso battle oh no.)

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.
0:13.1	I'm Rob Zachney, joined by Ali Akampura, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:18.9	And unlike my co-panelists, every episode of the show can't all be winners.
0:25.2	So we come to a grab bag of standalones of varying quality, let's say we'll start with Senate
0:35.3	murders, but then we have a sort of military-focused one, once again returning to Christophe's, yet
0:41.5	another episode that feels wildly out of a sequence.
0:45.4	And then we'll finish it off with bounty hunters, which if you can't guess what it's doing,
0:52.0	it will open with a tribute to Akira Kursawa, and nothing will honor Akira Kursawa, more
0:59.0	than bounty hunters, which has seven, seven feels like less than seven, yeah, it's exactly
1:10.3	seven and one of them barely does anything, so yeah, seven, like freelance defenders of
1:16.9	this farm village, who are trying to guard it from bandits, one of whom we might recognize.
1:25.5	But let's get into what is probably the most substantive episode of this bunch.
1:33.8	Senate murders, we're going to have to say goodbye to Uncle Anno.
1:40.8	This episode covers two things, one, Padme is trying to pass a build that will prevent
1:48.7	the creation of basically a new draft class of clone soldiers, and by doing this she'll
1:58.4	stop the war and she'll get the republic focused on diplomacy again.
2:04.8	And then the other thing that's going to be running through this episode is the fact
2:07.9	that a key member of Padme's coalition, Uncle Anno, is going to be poisoned in the first
2:13.6	five minutes of this and they're going to have to have a very brief who done it as they
2:18.8	try to puzzle out which of the political factions in the Senate killed him.
2:27.1	So I love that at the end of our last episode, the conversation that we had had was specifically
2:37.6	on the need to divest from Padme, and then this is the fucking episode we get immediately
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