Back to the Clone Wars: Defenders of Peace
Apr. 9th, 2011 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerEven with the third season over, I'm still "back to the Clone Wars" as I try to work my way through the DVD set of the third season. Picking up after a "to be continued" situation, I watched "Defenders of Peace." The episode had a different writer than "Jedi Crash," but still seemed to catch up some with the continued pacifism of the lemur people. In some ways, though, I suppose I was thinking again it was just an example of how a work of fiction can define its own terms and it's not that rewarding in the end to worry about how this compares against the "real world." While the lemur leader still gets the last dig in, his immovable object is juxtaposed against an irresistible force in the form of some Separatists very obviously not the moral equivalent of the protagonists.
Beyond the episode, though, I did sort of find myself struck by how the little documentary attached to it, the reason I started posting about the rewatching process and protracting it out in the first place, didn't say anything at all about homages to the old movies. That, though, might have had something to do with most of the designs in this episode carrying over from the previous one; the one new character was the Nemoidian general Lok Durd, created to give our heroes someone other than General Grievous and Asajj Ventress to defeat. Conscious of the intersection between Star Wars and Star Trek in George Takei voicing the character, I was amused to see the documentary did talk about that, and more so when Takei commented that he had been cast to do a "fat voice." That was at least sort of a comment on all the shouting once upon a time about how it was somehow "obvious" the Nemoidians were yet another offensive stereotype. Too, I had the distinct impression Lok Durd did sound "different" from the other Nemoidians.
Beyond the episode, though, I did sort of find myself struck by how the little documentary attached to it, the reason I started posting about the rewatching process and protracting it out in the first place, didn't say anything at all about homages to the old movies. That, though, might have had something to do with most of the designs in this episode carrying over from the previous one; the one new character was the Nemoidian general Lok Durd, created to give our heroes someone other than General Grievous and Asajj Ventress to defeat. Conscious of the intersection between Star Wars and Star Trek in George Takei voicing the character, I was amused to see the documentary did talk about that, and more so when Takei commented that he had been cast to do a "fat voice." That was at least sort of a comment on all the shouting once upon a time about how it was somehow "obvious" the Nemoidians were yet another offensive stereotype. Too, I had the distinct impression Lok Durd did sound "different" from the other Nemoidians.