23: Corruption & The Academy (Clone Wars 49 - 50)

A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

A More Civilized Age

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🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

I will not lie to you, friends. On paper, this is a hell of an arc. A return to Mandalore, now starving because of Separatist pressure and Republic failure? Duchess Satine and Senator Amidala as confidants and heroines? Ahsoka, sent to ferret out a secretive black market? How could anyone possibly be left unsatisfied? Well...

NEXT TIME: Episodes 51 - 53 ("Assassin," "Evil Plans," and "Hunt for Ziro")

Show Notes

Clone Deaths: None, for once?
Tummy Aches: Many.

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, I'm Rob Zachny,
0:13.5	joined by Alia Campora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:18.0	Even when the good guys win in the Clone Wars, their people often lose, that's the case
0:21.8	on Mandalore as we check back in on Duchess Satine's policy of vigilate neutrality in
0:26.8	a time of galactic civil war, and find a planet in the throes of economic depression, chronic
0:32.0	shortages, and deepening corruption that's rotting at the foundation of Mandalorian government.
0:38.6	We open the season's fifth episode, Corruption, as Padme visits her new best friend to try
0:44.5	and help her come to grips with the strife, racking her own government, but the cabinet
0:48.8	politics swiftly fade into the background as a profiteering racket, selling tainted, adulterated
0:54.3	food to schools, causes a case of mass poisonings.
0:58.3	Satine Padme roll up their sleeves and get to detecting as they ferret out the chain
1:02.9	of corrupt and complacent officials that leads back to a smuggling operation, and they bloody
1:07.8	shoot out Royale on the warves of Mandalore.
1:10.7	Gang, what do we think of Corruption?
1:12.3	Well, no, what do we think of Corruption as a concept, but this episode.
1:17.1	I think Corruption is bad.
1:20.0	Damn.
1:21.0	Both of them.
1:22.2	Oh, no.
1:24.7	The real life thing and this episode.
1:28.8	I mean, let me, I just, it's, it's fun.
1:36.0	Like, it's fine.
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