33: The Zygerria Arc (Clone Wars 77 - 79)

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🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

We've made it to the heart of Season 4. Well, in the specific figurative sense meaning "the middle," not the other figurative sense meaning "the thematic core, emblematic of the whole." At least we hope not, since this trio of eps walks right up to a bunch of very interesting ideas and whiffs on basically all of them. This is, seriously, an arc about slavery that barely lets Anakin address his feelings on the practice, and spares literally no time for broader conversation around Clones- or Droids-as-slaves, and finds the time to do Ahsoka (whose people are the ones enslaved in these episodes) dirty too! Ah well. At least we'll always have the uncomfortable sexual tension of the Zygerrian Slave Queen's Bedchambers.

NEXT TIME: Episodes 80 - 82 ("Friend in Need," "Deception," "Friends and Enemies")

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Show Notes

Deaths: Some slavers, idk, fuck em

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)

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0:00.0	Let us return once more to a more civilized age, Clone Wars Podcast.
0:12.3	I'm Rob Zachary, joined by Alia Campora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:16.8	Do you like Gladiator movies?
0:19.7	I hope so.
0:21.0	Because this week, the Clone Wars is channeling Sword and Sandals' epics and B-movies with
0:25.4	all that implies.
0:26.7	We have racist archetypes, space Egypt, the evils of slavery, but also sexy foreign
0:32.9	queens who love it when a slave defies them.
0:36.2	But most of all, what we have here is a pretty straightforward three-parter.
0:41.7	The brought-out line is this.
0:43.4	In the first episode, Kidnapped, a plant full of chagrudan colonists is invaded by the
0:47.8	separatists, and much of the population is rounded up by Duku and his droids.
0:52.2	The Republic responds to their distress call, but arrives to find much of the settlement
0:55.4	empty.
0:56.4	The remaining separatist commander, Darts Denar, agrees to negotiate with the Republic, but
1:03.4	it's a trap.
1:04.8	He's from the once and futures of Gary and Empire, a once powerful slaveholding society
1:09.3	that was brought low by the Jedi and nursed a grudge about that ever since.
1:13.6	He has wired the entire city with explosives and will kill all the remaining two grudans,
1:17.8	not pictured here, unless Obi-Wan surrenders.
1:21.2	Instead, Obi-Wan does what Jedi do.
1:24.0	He challenges Darts to a fight and spends the half the episode getting ragdolled around
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