Let us return once more to a more civilized age, Clone Wars podcast.

I'm Rob Zachney, joined by Alia Campora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.

In the way the Clone Wars has framed its political conflict between the, let's call it the

Amidala Organa Faction, the hawkish mainstream republic senate, the hawks are always asking

for more troops and more fighting to bring into the war while Amidala calls for diplomacy.

It's been hard to evaluate the merits of Padme's argument given that we've never really

understood what she envisioned by diplomacy, since we know for a fact that the main ringlenders

of the Separatist Faction have no interest in a negotiated settlement.

Tonight we finally get a glimpse at the politics of the Civil War beyond its Jedi and Sith

ringmasters, and we get an idea of who and what Padme has been thinking of when she calls

for diplomacy.

We also finally get an explanation of what heroes on both sides might have meant in the

opening crawl of revenge of the Sith, as the phrase gives us the title of our first episode

in this duo, covering an ultimately doomed attempt to strike a bargain between the republic

and Separatists.

We also learn about the banking clan and learn to our chagrin that as far as depictions go,

they are who we thought they were.

Oh, brother.

I said, I said a picture of that dude to art, to be like, I said a picture, I said I'm

a scene, and I was like, you just tell me why I've sent you this scene.

And art, for people who don't know, art, Martina's Table, who's in front of the table

with me, and Ali, art's response to me sending him that scene was the giant art is Jewish.

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