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Back to the Clone Wars: Duel of the Droids
It has been a while since I last watched one of the episodes from the Clone Wars DVD set, and that gap was perhaps pointed out by leaving off on as close as this series, with its quite self-contained episodes, comes to a cliffhanger. Perhaps too, though, my thoughts of going back through the Clone Wars series have become a little blurred by obsessing over the small documentaries that accompany each episode and how the creators always seem a little too intent on playing up resemblances and homages to the old Star Wars movies, and letting connections to the new ones take care of themselves...
As I was watching "Duel of the Droids," though, I found myself thinking I was somehow enjoying it just a bit more than usual, seeing the episode as a pretty good "infiltration-battle-escape" adventure. At first, however, that feeling may also have provoked some uneasy uncertainty about just how I might think the little documentary would emphasise the wrong point for me this time... but once I got to it, at last the creators seemed to have found the right balance in what connections to all the Star Wars movies they pointed out. It was interesting to hear suggestions that there's something "superheroic" about Artoo's white and blue colour scheme and a comment that it was George Lucas who said Ahsoka would be fearless confronting General Grievous (that confrontation then shaping itself as uneven against her was left to the creators to point out). I suppose one thought I had was that I noticed how "Goldie," Artoo's "evil twin," was pointed out to not sound "quite right," but that helped me remember wondering if he didn't seem to move quite right in the animation either, something that would be a very subtle touch if it indeed exists at all. Beyond that, though, I was able to contemplate a little how the action I'd been impressed by did seem to be on a smaller, "TV-sized" scale than in the theatrical feature that started the Clone Wars.
It seems at last that one "full experience" off the Clone Wars DVD set seems to have worked out all right for me, and I was glad that it happened that way. Of course, there are still episodes to come I can indulge myself in wondering about...
As I was watching "Duel of the Droids," though, I found myself thinking I was somehow enjoying it just a bit more than usual, seeing the episode as a pretty good "infiltration-battle-escape" adventure. At first, however, that feeling may also have provoked some uneasy uncertainty about just how I might think the little documentary would emphasise the wrong point for me this time... but once I got to it, at last the creators seemed to have found the right balance in what connections to all the Star Wars movies they pointed out. It was interesting to hear suggestions that there's something "superheroic" about Artoo's white and blue colour scheme and a comment that it was George Lucas who said Ahsoka would be fearless confronting General Grievous (that confrontation then shaping itself as uneven against her was left to the creators to point out). I suppose one thought I had was that I noticed how "Goldie," Artoo's "evil twin," was pointed out to not sound "quite right," but that helped me remember wondering if he didn't seem to move quite right in the animation either, something that would be a very subtle touch if it indeed exists at all. Beyond that, though, I was able to contemplate a little how the action I'd been impressed by did seem to be on a smaller, "TV-sized" scale than in the theatrical feature that started the Clone Wars.
It seems at last that one "full experience" off the Clone Wars DVD set seems to have worked out all right for me, and I was glad that it happened that way. Of course, there are still episodes to come I can indulge myself in wondering about...