Back to the Clone Wars: Ambush, again
Dec. 30th, 2009 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAs I'd asked for, I received the first season DVD set of the Clone Wars series as a Christmas present. I got around to opening it and started at the beginning with "Ambush," somehow struck that there were moments in it I didn't quite seem to remember from before, but also thinking in an idle sort of way that Yoda laughing seemed a perfect soundalike callback to The Empire Strikes Back...
Then, I decided to watch that episode's little documentary to follow up, and all of a sudden I was feeling ambiguous that the creators were bringing up the point I had been thinking before, but pointing out that they were getting back to Yoda having a "whimsical" edge just like in TESB, and he looked different from than in the new movies... All I can really say is that had I had the impression as the series got under way that the creators were thinking in terms of the "prequels" being a series of inexplicable omissions to be addressed, I would have been a lot more concerned about it. Then, I started thinking that Yoda would seem "whimsical" to people because of the way he was introduced in TESB, and that could easily be interpreted as him trying to test Luke, after which he becomes more serious... and then, somewhat later, I remembered him teaching the "younglings" in Attack of the Clones. I suppose it's just possible someone was worried bringing that up would dredge up accusations that the scene involved coming to a "too-obvious" conclusion, but at times that almost seems the point.
Then, I decided to watch that episode's little documentary to follow up, and all of a sudden I was feeling ambiguous that the creators were bringing up the point I had been thinking before, but pointing out that they were getting back to Yoda having a "whimsical" edge just like in TESB, and he looked different from than in the new movies... All I can really say is that had I had the impression as the series got under way that the creators were thinking in terms of the "prequels" being a series of inexplicable omissions to be addressed, I would have been a lot more concerned about it. Then, I started thinking that Yoda would seem "whimsical" to people because of the way he was introduced in TESB, and that could easily be interpreted as him trying to test Luke, after which he becomes more serious... and then, somewhat later, I remembered him teaching the "younglings" in Attack of the Clones. I suppose it's just possible someone was worried bringing that up would dredge up accusations that the scene involved coming to a "too-obvious" conclusion, but at times that almost seems the point.