Back to the Clone Wars: Liberty on Ryloth

[krpalmer]

In finishing the "Ryloth trilogy," I've just about finished the first season DVD set of Clone Wars. In managing that much, though, I did find myself thinking back to the original "drawn animation" series and the comments of some that it could tend towards exaggerated Jedi powers; Mace Windu was doing quite a lot in this episode, from shoving a wrecked six-legged walker off a precipitous cliff to leaping out of an abyss using tumbling transports as stepping stones. I suppose I began to reflect on how he had been played by Samuel L. Jackson, and wondered if that might have provided a shorthand for everyone to understand how he was powerful.

This still doesn't seem to be a very serious thought, of course, but by now I seem to be rolling with things. I hardly batted an eye when the creators mentioned in the little documentary on the DVD how the rebel leader's handgun was based on Han Solo's blaster and the droid bombers were based on TIE bombers, but I suppose I was able to realise the second resemblance by myself.