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Back to the Clone Wars: Dooku Captured
Nov. 18th, 2010 08:30 pmEven with a Clone Wars season now under way, I decided to take the time to watch another episode from the first season DVD set. My motivation for this was no more complicated than wanting to once more have at least a little variety in this journal in between commenting on Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, which I suppose does leave me wondering what else I might have been able to form and set down thoughts on, but I didn't seem to mind this particular experience.
"Dooku Captured" did seem just a little unusual in terms of episode structure for me; it obviously sets up an episode to follow, but doesn't seem to end on a "cliffhanger," as if it was also trying to be "self-contained" but just in its closing moments. In some ways, this general lack in the series of "to be continued" situations has become sort of distinctive to me, but there just might be a fine line between "distinctive" and "a little unusual." Perhaps, though, a chunk of the episode being "Anakin and Obi-Wan are trapped in a cave" (even if they keep bantering the way they'd been doing before) affects how I think about an episode with an apparent general plot declared in its title.
With the episode over, though, it was on to the little documentary also on the DVD. I got into the habit of commenting on each Clone Wars episode (instead of just watching through them and finishing with the set in a satisfied sort of way) because of some ambiguities over how the creators seemed to be playing up links to the old Star Wars movies. That feeling has faded over time, though, and even if the thought of having got into the habit of "watching the episode and commenting on it" might be slowing me down, I don't begrudge how things have turned out. The creators seem to have reached a good balance in referring to all the Star Wars movies, and there were interesting moments such as mentioning how they had created several designs for the "gundark" only to have George Lucas pick the one closest to the "original" design from a role-playing game book and the space pirates travelling in a "flying saucer" of classic design; they seemed to me to be different from any of the expected occupants of those craft.
"Dooku Captured" did seem just a little unusual in terms of episode structure for me; it obviously sets up an episode to follow, but doesn't seem to end on a "cliffhanger," as if it was also trying to be "self-contained" but just in its closing moments. In some ways, this general lack in the series of "to be continued" situations has become sort of distinctive to me, but there just might be a fine line between "distinctive" and "a little unusual." Perhaps, though, a chunk of the episode being "Anakin and Obi-Wan are trapped in a cave" (even if they keep bantering the way they'd been doing before) affects how I think about an episode with an apparent general plot declared in its title.
With the episode over, though, it was on to the little documentary also on the DVD. I got into the habit of commenting on each Clone Wars episode (instead of just watching through them and finishing with the set in a satisfied sort of way) because of some ambiguities over how the creators seemed to be playing up links to the old Star Wars movies. That feeling has faded over time, though, and even if the thought of having got into the habit of "watching the episode and commenting on it" might be slowing me down, I don't begrudge how things have turned out. The creators seem to have reached a good balance in referring to all the Star Wars movies, and there were interesting moments such as mentioning how they had created several designs for the "gundark" only to have George Lucas pick the one closest to the "original" design from a role-playing game book and the space pirates travelling in a "flying saucer" of classic design; they seemed to me to be different from any of the expected occupants of those craft.