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A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

32: The Umbara Arc (Clone Wars 73 - 76)

A More Civilized Age: A Star Wars Podcast

A More Civilized Age

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4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Finally we have escaped the desert that was the beginning of Season 4, and we arrive at what is one of the best arcs of the show to date. The Republic sees the seceded world of Umbara as a strategic stepping stone to the Mid Rim, but for the clones assigned under the ruthless (and seemingly inept) Jedi General Pong Krell, it's a more like one big gravestone. Join us as we gleefully talk about clone feelings, Jedi indifference, our headcanon bonus episodes, and, admittedly, the arc's small handful of missteps and missed opportunities.

NEXT TIME: Episodes 77 - 79 ("Kidnapped," "Slaves of the Republic," "Escape from Kadavo")

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Show Notes

Deaths: Oz, Ringo, Hardcase, Waxer, Pong Krell, more unnamed clones than we can count

Walter Murch - 'Clone Wars' and learning Maya

Hosted by Rob Zacny (@RobZacny)

Featuring Alicia Acampora (@ali_west), Austin Walker (@austin_walker), and Natalie Watson (@nataliewatson)

Produced by Alicia Acampora

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 Clone Wars podcast.

0:12.2

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

0:17.0

After a run of, well, we probably have to admit we're some of the weakest episodes in

0:22.0

series history.

0:23.9

Season 4 has finally given us maybe one of the strongest arcs, if not the strongest

0:28.6

arc in the series, and probably something it would add up to being one of the better

0:33.0

Star Wars movies if you sort of chain these four episodes together.

0:36.8

We've got a lot to get into here, so let's just get into the broad brush description

0:41.8

of what happens in these four episodes across the Umbara arc.

0:47.8

Darkness on Umbara opens with a Republican salt on a really creepy world that has gone

0:54.7

over to the separatists.

0:56.3

Crucially, this invasion is not another battle against droids, but is in fact a full on

1:00.6

war with sentient biologicals.

1:03.2

The invasion is hardly gotten underway before Anakin is called back to the course on by

1:08.0

Palpatine and is replaced by a menacing, forearmed, toad frog looking Jedi named General

1:15.9

Crowe.

1:16.9

Austin, I was talking before the show that various points will be convinced that General

1:21.7

Crowe has to be played by Clancy Brown.

1:24.2

He is in fact played by Star Voice actor Dave Fenoy.

1:28.3

The rest of the day Fenoy and more things, that's our facial position.

1:33.4

The rest of the roles, so the rest of the arc is seen through the eyes of the clones

1:38.5

as they come to grips with Crel's harsh leadership, cruelty, and a difference to casualties.

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