Clone Wars The Season 5 Discussion Thread

James · May 21, 2013

Doc Ock said: ↑

You know Filoni is going to try to get Ashoka and probably Plo Koon in there somewhere!
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I mentioned Plo Koon in the Rebels thread, assuming the character would show up because he's Filoni's favorite. DarthSkywalker then reminded me 'Koon was killed during Episode III as part of Order 66. Bummer! Given the way he died I think it's unlikely we'll be seeing him again, I'm holding out hope for Ahsoka though!

Doc Ock · May 21, 2013

James said: ↑

I mentioned Plo Koon in the Rebels thread, assuming the character would show up because he's Filoni's favorite. DarthSkywalker then reminded me 'Koon was killed during Episode III as part of Order 66. Bummer! Given the way he died I think it's unlikely we'll be seeing him again, I'm holding out hope for Ahsoka though!
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Sure he "died" but hey, Maul came back I'm sure if Filoni wants it enough Plo Koon will be running around too hehe.

Hunter Rider · May 22, 2013

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Yeah, getting them in anyway is my priority. Season 5's ending was spectacular. Really would pain me if I didn't see a resolution to all of this.
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Me too, most importantly I feel finishing up Rex's arc is a must, other characters don't need a resolution as such as they can quite logically pop up in the new show, but how Rex reacts to Order 66 is something only this show can give us resolution on.

Drakepool · May 22, 2013

Rex as a traitorous clone on the run, perhaps?

Asteroid-Man · May 27, 2013

I'm just gonna come out and say I hated Ahsoka. She was insolent, and the way the show wrote it, she was vindicated in every one of her actions. Also, how the hell did she go toe-to-toe with so many baddies that Obi-Wan and Anakin struggle to duel?

James · May 27, 2013

Mad skillz.

Bim · May 28, 2013

Drakepool said: ↑

Rex as a traitorous clone on the run, perhaps?
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I always got a feeling that Rex would be one of the few (if not the only) clone that would question Order 66. I thought in the end he would either walk away (either faking his death or simply telling Anakin he had to leave) or be killed questioning the order. I was really hoping to see Order 66 from the pov of the clones in this show, but i guess that's just gonna continue to be my wish

I didnt hate Ahsoka, but i do agree that at times she mas made to be this little super jedi that could get a bit annoying.

James · May 28, 2013

Bim said: ↑

I always got a feeling that Rex would be one of the few (if not the only) clone that would question Order 66. I thought in the end he would either walk away (either faking his death or simply telling Anakin he had to leave) or be killed questioning the order. I was really hoping to see Order 66 from the pov of the clones in this show, but i guess that's just gonna continue to be my wish

I didnt hate Ahsoka, but i do agree that at times she mas made to be this
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It's funny because I'm not sure they've ever clarified, but I always thought Order 66 was something the Clones couldn't disobey. Like it was one of a long list of special orders implanted in their brains during their creation, just like an automatic robotic response. Perhaps afterward they would be like "What have I done?!" but at the time their eyes glaze over and they just follow the order.

Unless of course the Clone in question was defective in that manner, or part of a batch that was made before the order-implants were installed. In any case I've never felt like they had any real choice in the matter, to the point where the Clones weren't aware those orders even existed inside them until the word is given. This reasoning always made a lot more sense to me than soldiers who've fought side by side with the Jedi for years, in some cases even forming friendships, suddenly and unquestionably opening fire just because Palpatine told them too. One would also imagine, during all that time, at least one Clone would have made mention of Order 66 to a Jedi if the Clones were aware of it.

the dmg · May 29, 2013

James said: ↑

It's funny because I'm not sure they've ever clarified, but I always thought Order 66 was something the Clones couldn't disobey. Like it was one of a long list of special orders implanted in their brains during their creation, just like an automatic robotic response. Perhaps afterward they would be like "What have I done?!" but at the time their eyes glaze over and they just follow the order.

Unless of course the Clone in question was defective in that manner, or part of a batch that was made before the order-implants were installed. In any case I've never felt like they had any real choice in the matter, to the point where the Clones weren't aware those orders even existed inside them until the word is given. This reasoning always made a lot more sense to me than soldiers who've fought side by side with the Jedi for years, in some cases even forming friendships, suddenly and unquestionably opening fire just because Palpatine told them too. One would also imagine, during all that time, at least one Clone would have made mention of Order 66 to a Jedi if the Clones were aware of it.
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The way the film presents the execution of Order 66 made it seem that way initially, but it's part of a longer list of order for the clones to carry out.

This one specifically deals with the Jedi and using lethal force if they attempt to overthrow the Republic, which is how Palpatine played it out when he went in front of the Senate to show what the Jedi "did" to him.

Jedi probably knew of the order, but they wouldn't find reason for it to be initiated because of their alignment.

Bim · May 29, 2013

James said: ↑

It's funny because I'm not sure they've ever clarified, but I always thought Order 66 was something the Clones couldn't disobey. Like it was one of a long list of special orders implanted in their brains during their creation, just like an automatic robotic response. Perhaps afterward they would be like "What have I done?!" but at the time their eyes glaze over and they just follow the order.

Unless of course the Clone in question was defective in that manner, or part of a batch that was made before the order-implants were installed. In any case I've never felt like they had any real choice in the matter, to the point where the Clones weren't aware those orders even existed inside them until the word is given. This reasoning always made a lot more sense to me than soldiers who've fought side by side with the Jedi for years, in some cases even forming friendships, suddenly and unquestionably opening fire just because Palpatine told them too. One would also imagine, during all that time, at least one Clone would have made mention of Order 66 to a Jedi if the Clones were aware of it.
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Well, originally i thought this might be the case, but after watching CW the way i see it clones were made to follow orders (obviously) but we've seen some are prone to not obey when they think something is wrong. I thought the whole Krell storyline was very interesting in that sense, and that other episode where a clone simply left and got married. So the line's a bit more blurred to me now, and i do think there's a possibility that some could disobey it.

Also, i remember someone saying (i think it was Lucas) that the clone kinda takes the traits of the jedi he works with, which is why we see Cody more of a proper clone while Rex can be a bit more of a rebel who thinks outside the box because of his relationship with Anakin.

I havent read anything official about it anywhere so i could be mistaken, but i believe i read somewhere is that the jedi didnt know about Order 66 because it wasnt pre-programmed like the others. That it was something that Palpatine added later, as a last resort kinda thing. I cant remember the source at all though, so again this is not certain.

GoldGoblin · Jul 27, 2013

Are these arcs gonna be in this season 5 that is being released?

Doc Ock · Jul 27, 2013

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Are these arcs gonna be in this season 5 that is being released?
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Nope, just Season Five episodes.

Spider-Gnome · Jul 29, 2013

I believe I have thought up a reason why the Season 6 supplement will not be with the new sets coming out. As pointed out by thedigital bits.com, this was announced by Lucasfilm & Warner Home Video. Disney is probably holding these up so they don't have to share profits with Warner Brothers, I'm guessing. I could be wrong though.

roach · Jul 29, 2013

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I'm just gonna come out and say I hated Ahsoka. She was insolent, and the way the show wrote it, she was vindicated in every one of her actions. Also, how the hell did she go toe-to-toe with so many baddies that Obi-Wan and Anakin struggle to duel?
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Same way Luke Skywalker was able to hold his own with a little bit of training against someone that had a life time of training (Vader).

Asteroid-Man · Jul 29, 2013

That's completely different. Luke is INSANELY powerful. AND he's directly connected to Vader. It effects him.

OnTheAir · Oct 14, 2013

Original version of Ahsoka's final scene:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2013/10/14/star-wars-the-clone-wars-exclusive-clip/2981491/

Bim · Oct 15, 2013

A Filoni interview about season 5, part 1: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/in...-star-wars-the-clone-wars-season-five-part-1/

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season Five, Part 1

Debuting in 2008 and running for five seasons, the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars made the Star Wars universe a far richer place. The show introduced major new characters like Ahsoka Tano, Savage Opress, and Mother Talzin, while further developing the sagas icons and backstory, including the integral friendship of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Perhaps most significantly, it kept Star Wars alive for older fans and introduced the world of Jedi, Sith, and starfighters to a generation of new ones. Thats all largely due to supervising director Dave Filoni, a gifted artist, writer, and director who guided the series, and whose ability to combine visual spectacle with witty dialogue and high-stakes, emotional drama was essential to the shows success. Currently, Filoni is serving as executive producer on the highly anticipated Star Wars Rebels animated series, which explores the time period between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and is also overseeing the completion of select final episodes of The Clone Wars. With the fifth season of The Clone Wars which won Emmys for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program and Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for guest star David Tennant hitting Blu-ray and DVD today, StarWars.com spoke with Filoni about how the many game-changing story beats of the year came to be, why a break from Darth Maul is important, and what it would take to get a New York Rangers reference into the show. (Spoiler warning: This interview digs deep into everything that happened in Season Five.)

StarWars.com: A lot happened during Season Five, maybe more pound-for-pound than any other season of The Clone Wars. Things like the deaths of Duchess Satine and Savage Opress, Darth Maul versus Darth Sidious, and everything with Ahsoka. Was this all planned to lead up to this point, or did it just seem time to raise the stakes?

Dave Filoni: I think its just natural, to be honest. I dont know that there ultimately was a plan to say, This year were going to kill a bunch of main characters. [Laughs] Its just that as the story evolves, it just kind of demands it after awhile. You know, you cant have certain characters around in the future, and you have to deal with them. So, its more the natural progression, and our story needs were as such that things had to change on Mandalore and things had to change for Maul. We had been asking a lot of questions by creating these situations, and it was time to answer those questions.

StarWars.com: I know that George Lucas was heavily involved in the story creation of the show. Is there anything this season that he gave specific instructions on?

Dave Filoni: Not particularly. I mean, I would say that the origin of the idea, Darth Maul will face Darth Sidious, is a George idea. I want them to fight. When it comes down to the directing of where theyre going to fight, the staging of the fight, thats all what I do and bring to the table. So we go over the broad story beats of something, and he just trusts myself and the writers and the rest of the team to really bring it to the screen. I think that freedom and trust from him is what in some ways makes this show. Were challenging more boundaries and not reciting things so much. Were developing more and experimenting more and I think the results are all part of that collaboration.

StarWars.com: Is there anything, conversely, that he might have resisted that you had to push for?

Dave Filoni: I dont know about resisted, because when George doesnt want something to happen, its probably not gonna happen. [Laughs] But there are several things this season Bo-Katan, for instance, wasnt a character that was pitched in a story meeting. She was a character that I created last season; she was just Death Watch lieutenant in the script, and I wanted to make a strong female Mandalorian character, so I just made her that character and then brought her back into this season. There were a lot of things that Ive just learned from George over the years that I thought, This would be a beneficial plot point. Making Bo-Katan and Satine sisters was not in the original pitch, either. So there were a lot of things like that that we put into the stories that I hope made the stories stronger overall. I dont know that they were ever hotly debated as much as they were ideas that came much later in the situation. The idea for Savage to revert back to his natural form, you just come up with that stuff on the fly. Everything that I do creatively is really based on the initial discussions that I have with George, and taking tons of notes and making visual drawing notes. If you look at the original drawings that I do in the room on the day, theyre very close to what ends up onscreen visually.

StarWars.com: One thing I loved about this season was how it jumped tones from arc to arc. They all seem to fit together in the end and I was really impressed at how the show was able to pull it off. You had something like the younglings arc, which to me was like The Goonies-as-Star Wars, and then youd have Darth Maul doing some really terrible things in another arc. How do you approach that, as youre shepherding the series, to make sure that you can tell these different kinds of stories, but they all fit together?

Dave Filoni: Well, the main thing is that I cant really change the stories. They are what they are. Were gonna have a younglings story arc, and were gonna have a droids story arc, and then were gonna behead people with Maul. [Laughs] What I try and do is make it all feel very much like Star Wars. I think that to kind of bring people into the mindset, I try and find a like-minded film that matches the tone of our particular Star Wars episode. For the droids and the younglings, I was like, This has to be more like A New Hope. Because you can take a segment of A New Hope and say, This is a scene where the Jawas capture the droids. Well, if thats all you see of Star Wars, it seems like quite a fun little silly childrens movie, and you dont have the evil Empire. So, I find that our stories kind of naturally divide into that on our series. Were dealing with sequences within the Star Wars films and I relay my crew to those sequences and say, This is the tone and this is the feeling that I want to get. For the Maul stuff, we were very much going Revenge of the Sith. It all kind of naturally flows together. When you subdivide the Star Wars films themselves, you see that they are just as varied in tone and attitude as our episodic series is. I think when its appearing on Saturday mornings and you have these vastly different attitudinal episodes [Laughs]

But there are funny reactions from fans. Theyll see the trailer for the beginning of the year, which really sets the tone for what the whole season is. But everybody within it, in Star Wars fandom, kind of picks the thing that they like most in that trailer and thats what they most want to see. So there are fans that, just to be honest, their interest level in droids or young Jedi is very low. They want to see Maul come on like house-on-fire and destroy things. Oddly, these are probably the same fans that, when we said we were bringing Maul back, were just beside themselves with the logic of that. But our fans evolve and change quite dynamically. [Laughs] And then there will be some kids probably the younger skewing audience theyre all about the Jedi training, theyre all about going to Illum. Because thats something theyve always imagined, and its something I imagined as a kid, to have an opportunity to see that and to go there. So yeah, and then there are people like us that are more like I dont know if were Star Wars generalists, but we just kind of like it all. Everything we get to see in Star Wars is just a trip to the galaxy and you just accept that something that makes Star Wars special is that it has all these tones and attitudes in it. I used to think of it growing up as, Jabbas Palace is practically The Muppet Show. You watch a little bit of that and youre like, Wow, Im watching The Muppet Show. But if you go and watch something with the Empire or the Emperor, its almost a completely different movie. So again, thats kind of what weve captured in our course of making this show.

StarWars.com: Star Wars has always been kind of a mash-up of different genres. I think that the episodic nature of TV allows you to pull elements that go into the mash-up and say, Okay, were going to 22 minutes of this.

Dave Filoni: Yeah. But if we did it all about one thing A lot of fans say, I just want Darth Maul all year long. I dont know how that would do. I wonder. I think in some ways, it would make certain episodes air better than they do. If all you were going to get were droids all year long, and that was your expectation, I think people would be quite happy with that. But the people that want to see something dramatically more intense, when you show them theres Darth Maul coming, they just sit there every week saying, Wheres Darth Maul? Wheres Darth Maul? This is nice, but I dont want to see this. Wheres Darth Maul? And I get that. Thats the thing. When youre a fan and you work in this industry, you can understand the consternation. But you have to constantly be the one when youre creating it saying, No no no, this is good. Just watch this. Itll be okay.

StarWars.com: Trust me on this one! Just hold off on the bloodthirst for one week!

Dave Filoni: [Laughs] Right? Very hard.

StarWars.com: So youre obviously aware of that fan expectation. Does that make it harder when youre planning a season to say, We have to put Maul on the backburner a little bit? Is there a temptation to do a lot of the more intense material with the main characters?

Dave Filoni: I think that we balance it pretty well, because we try not to overkill things. Were all pretty aware, the writing team, of trying to keep things balanced. Because we always feel like characters have a certain shelf-life. You know, you get them into these fantastic situations and they keep getting away. Well, how believable is that? You start to make some of the villains kind of impotent if you do that, or the heroes inept. Thats why I think some characters paid such a heavy price this year. For Satine, how many times was she involved in this story? It just demanded a resolution, and we had such an excellent opportunity to resolve her story.

George really got on a bend of having an episode about the droids, an episode about the Jedi, an episode about politics. And when I say episode, I mean arc. And he kind of liked to hit those different themes every season. Because of the number of stories we tell we actually do 26 a season, we write more than we actually air thats why some ideas, you dont see. You didnt have a very big a clone-centric arc this season, but its one of the next storylines thats up [in our bonus episodes]. We didnt get really into Mother Talzin or Ventress much this season. The role Ventress played was a very important one in the end, but before, we had had two seasons in a row where we had mega Nightsister action happening. So you know, a lot of those threads in the end come together.

StarWars.com: With the younglings arc, one thing that stuck out to me about it was that it had that 80s kids movie vibe. And what I really liked about it was that Hondo and the pirates were genuinely threatening and scary. The villains in The Goonies were scary, ET had scary moments. Kids movies from the 80s all seemed to have threatening villains, but at the end, you get through it and everythings okay. I thought the younglings arc honored that.

Dave Filoni: I think that one of the things when we set out to make the younglings arc was that I was very concerned in the beginning that it could get cheesy so quickly. It could get very hokey. But I tried to focus on movies that I really liked as a kid. One of them wouldve been Goonies, one of them wouldve been Explorers, even stuff like The Lost Boys, where you see young people doing heroic things. Theres a certain easy believability about it, and part of it you definitely credit to the actors in it.

I thought we had a chance in our story to do a kind of Pinocchio thing, which is an escalation of how bad things get for these kids. Hondo comes out, and hes dangerous, but hes also very funny. Thats one type of villain. Hes kind of like the tricky fox. He might eat you, but if theres something in it for him, hell string you along. I think something that really works about that story arc is, you begin with a very magical moment for these kids by themselves, where the threat is only within themselves. And then you move onto the next stage, which is one type of external threat, but its really a selfish threat motivated by trying to make money. And [Hondo and the pirates] are funny but threatening, and I think the kids are able to deal with them to some degree. Its only when theyre really on their own and they go and confront that by themselves and trick Hondo in a very carnival kind of way it reminds you a little bit of Dumbo that then real evil comes knocking on their door in the form of General Grievous. Its kind of interesting to see them grow up over four episodes so quickly, and even to the effect that they make one of the would-be villains, Hondo, not act like a villain later. When Grievous shows up it reminds us all that this guy is just an evil, murdering thing. Theres no negotiating with this guy. I think thats why it really works. The kids and the actors that portrayed them really sold us on their, at times, naiveness and cleverness, without being too far over the top.

I tried to do some rewrites and direct a lot of it through action. The opening of part four, where they have the tank chase, none of that was in the script that way at all. In the original script, the kids are being chased on a tank by a tank, and a stray shot flew over their tank and hit the Crucible, and blew it up. The characters on the ship all died, and while [the younglings] were out there, they then got captured themselves because they had no ship to escape on. They saw Grievous fleet fly overhead and the pirates just abandoned them out there. They meet up with the pirates later. Those were all the original beats of the outline and the original script followed it, but I thought that we hadnt had a big action set-piece in awhile when I looked at it as one 88-minute movement. And I knew that the middle part of that episode was going to be a lot of talking and deliberating about how they were going to get past Grievous. So I took a page out of something George and I had been talking about, which was expressing a lot of character through action. He and I had been talking a lot about Indiana Jones at the time. Two things kept coming to my mind: the truck escape in Raiders and then the fight on top of the tank in Last Crusade. So I just took it and quickly rewrote it, beat for beat as, you know, theyre in this tank and they call for help, and they get this ship up in the air. It just seemed to create a better cascading problem, which is something George was definitely going over with me. You have your heroes in a problem and it continues to get worse. So I really wanted to express that. It gives you such a speed off the bat, and then when something goes wrong, it all goes wrong at once.

StarWars.com: I wanted to go through a few key moments and details from the season with you, and have you just talk about how they came to be, how they evolved, and your overall thoughts on them.

Dave Filoni: Okay, yeah.

StarWars.com: The death of Steela Gerrera.

Dave Filoni: Steela is a character that George created. We wanted a brother/sister duo on Onderon, and the character Saw was a character that George had already created, and he just wanted to involve and tell a little more about that character. So in the course of that we created Steela [to be Saw's sister], who would act as a natural foil to Ahsoka, as far as Lux was concerned.

I will say this about Steela. When I think of her, I think that shes one of the biggest regrets I have this season, which is I wish we hadnt killed her. We all ended up liking that character very much. I thought she was very successful. Dawn-Lyen Gardner played her and played her brilliantly. I just thought that there was an opportunity to bring a character like that back in the future because we liked her so much by the time we were ready to kill her. But in the writers room, we didnt feel like we could tell that story and let everybody get off scot-free. It just couldnt work out that neat and there had to be a price paid for their freedom, and it ended up being Steela for various reasons.

She was just a fantastic character. I thought the design for her turned out great. Yeah, really enjoyable. Big regret.

StarWars.com: I was pretty shocked when she died. I did not see that coming at all.

Dave Filoni: Its one of our best deaths, I have to say. If youre gonna go out, go out well. We worked on that sequence in editorial. I wanted just the right shots to get that moment when you think shes gonna come out of it. If you watch in the background, theres one great shot that starts, I think, on Ahsoka and Lux looking up. And youre looking at their reaction to whats happened. The camera pans all the way up around and then looks down over the cliff at where she is. But the animation on Lux is just fantastic. [Animation supervisor] Keith Kellogg and everyone did a phenomenal job. And thats one of the big places we took a leap this year, I think, was in the emoting of the characters. The subtle expressions really read this year, and we had a very sophisticated amount of information to get across. I think we finally are doing it well now.
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Bim · Oct 15, 2013

Had to split it in 2, here's the rest of it:

StarWars.com: Gregors Gerry Cheevers-style helmet.

Dave Filoni: Boston won the [Stanley] Cup when we were designing it. And I thought, its a great visual. Anyone whos played hockey knows Gerry Cheevers mask. By most accounts, it was one of the first ways that goalies started to paint their masks. I played goalie because you got a mask, and there was always such a strong correlation there to me with Stormtroopers and helmets. So I thought it was kind of just a natural nod to that, and I didnt think Mr. Cheevers would mind, and I think Boston people got a big kick out of it. The thing too is, a lot of people dont even know. They would see it and not even think anything, which is kind of tragic to me. [Laughs] So if putting that out there has some kid look it up and then they find a picture of Gerry Cheevers, I think thats cool. You know, why not? That just goes back I grew up in Pittsburgh and I painted goalie masks as my summer job.

StarWars.com: Is Gerry Cheevers aware of the tribute?

Dave Filoni: I dont think so. I mean, maybe if hes a big Star Wars fan, but I doubt it. I dont think hed watch Clone Wars. But who knows, maybe some Boston fan brought it up and he was like, What are you talking about? [Laughs]

StarWars.com: I know youre a Penguins fan. I should let you know Im a big Rangers fan.

Dave Filoni: Oh, Im sorry to hear that. Thats terrible. I like [Henrik] Lundqvist, though. Lundqvists a great goalie.

StarWars.com: Is there any chance, since you like Henrik Lundqvist, we could get a King Henrik in the show somewhere?

Dave Filoni: [Laughs] Hed have to do something significant like win the Cup, which is just not gonna happen. [Laughs] Its not gonna happen!

StarWars.com: He won the Vezina!

Dave Filoni: Well, thats nice. Someone wins it every year.

StarWars.com: The Gathering, in which young Jedi have to find their lightsaber crystals, and the depiction of lightsaber construction.

Dave Filoni: The Gathering really, I think, was Georges effort to clarify the way he felt Jedi got their lightsabers, and he felt that it was something that happened when they were very young. He definitely threw us all a curve when told us that the crystals dont have a color until the Jedi actually have them. And then I thought that that was really interesting. Thats one of those things that only comes from George, when youre going to the mind of the Star Wars encyclopedia. It makes sense, because if an average person goes in that cave, theres tons of ice and tons of crystals and you cant tell the difference between them. Its almost like a defense mechanism. But when a Jedi is in tune with one, the one that calls to them, they can find it. And then when they have it, it basically will make a blade when its bent a certain color. I thought that was one of the nice revelations there.

I also liked that it was a very spiritual thing. The threat in that cave is basically only what you take with you, which is exactly what Yoda tells Luke. It makes sense for these very young children.

Its come up since then. Ive been asked, So what do Jedi do if they lose their lightsaber later? Well, A) theyre not supposed to lose their lightsaber, but B) there are enough lightsabers that have gone from fallen Jedi over the many, many, many years, that they actually have lightsaber crystals at the Temple. So they dont have to actually go all the way back out to Illum to get one, and because its a fallen Jedi they can actually use that crystal and it will work for them.

The whole attunement and everything is just a special moment for them as a child to get in tune with the Force. Its not so much being in tune with your lightsaber. Thats a big thing that we all make a mistake on, is that we get very attached to our lightsabers. [Laughs] Oh my gosh, I have to have one. But remember, theyre Jedi. A lightsaber is just a thing. Its not Excalibur, its not like an ultimately super-special thing. It is to us, because we make it a symbol when we watch the movie and Luke is given his fathers lightsaber. That lightsaber is a little more meaningful because it was his fathers. But you notice when Luke loses it

StarWars.com: He doesnt freak out.

Dave Filoni: He doesnt go on some journey down in Cloud City to go get his lightsaber, and he doesnt even super-lament the fact that he lost his lightsaber. I mean, we were probably more upset as kids that he lost his lightsaber. [Laughs] All those things kind of came up in our telling of the tale of lightsabers, and George had a lot of thoughts about that. It all comes back to selfish versus selflessness. Thats always a key thing when dealing with Jedi and Sith, and I think thats expressed in The Gathering.

Stay tuned for part two of StarWars.coms interview with Dave Filoni!
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Gianakin_ · Oct 16, 2013

Excellent interview!

Doc Ock · Oct 16, 2013

I was just looking for some thoughts from Dave just moments ago! Thanks Bim!

Bim · Oct 18, 2013

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Let the speculation begin. What do they mean by "Digital Library Launch"? Could this be the release of the bonus CW stuff? http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/56346/star-wars-release-patterns/

michael1975 · Nov 23, 2013

Asteroid-Man said: ↑

I'm just gonna come out and say I hated Ahsoka. She was insolent, and the way the show wrote it, she was vindicated in every one of her actions. Also, how the hell did she go toe-to-toe with so many baddies that Obi-Wan and Anakin struggle to duel?
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Really I love Ahsoka character. Also I loved the last two ep of Season 5 that was hands down my top favorite ep. I only hope when season 6 is release they do two things. The first to show her final fate and end the show where ep 3 starts.

Asteroid-Man · Nov 23, 2013

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Really I love Ahsoka character. Also I loved the last two ep of Season 5 that was hands down my top favorite ep. I only hope when season 6 is release they do two things. The first to show her final fate and end the show where ep 3 starts.
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They already did both of those really. She leaves the Jedi Order, and the last episode of CW (the traditional animated series) ties into episode 3. They won't re-make that stream of episodes from Season 3 of CW in TCW season 6.

Paradox1 · Mar 26, 2014

Has a anyone else seen the netflix release ?

Nathaniell · Apr 22, 2017

Im watching Secret Weapons lol. R2 and a team of droids! The one droid walks into a wall made me lol. and the other droids just move past him. haha. oh man. TCW has a lot of cool, interesting and funny moments

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