Shouldn’t Cat and Mouse be before the Clone Wars film?
Yes, it should and in this film’s lore it is. But the film is about Ahsoka and Anakin’s relationship, and Cat and Mouse doesn’t involve Ahsoka. And though the Clone Wars Movie gets real bad once the Hutts show up, the Christopher scenes are done pretty darn well. They open with Anakin and Obi-Wan in peril but still show Anakin doing something reckless yet genius. Then Ahsoka shows up, and the story is clearly focused on Anakin not wanting to train her.
Cat and Mouse, while a good episode, is episodic in nature, with Trench not appearing in the story after. The only purpose I could see is using it as an extended intro for Anakin, but again the TCW movie does a fine job doing it and the story is already a bit disjointed considering the main plot is Bane’s search for the Holocron.
Very interesting. How closely will the timeline of this cinematic universe follow the canon timeline of TCW?
I’m not restricting myself to the canon timeline of TCW, however, I will keep the general trend of the show. Ahsoka or Ventress won’t die, because they have to live on to future media. But if the character or episode is exclusive to the show and doesn’t have many far-reaching consequences, I may choose to change it. But only if it suits the story.
For example: Cad Bane is the main antagonist of the edit, although there are about 40 minutes or so of fighting in Christophisis to introduce Ahsoka and Anakin. So I need to make Bane a strong force once we get thru Christophsis, and I figured the best way to do that is to give him more screentime.
Bane’s most popular episode is the one-off “Hostage Crisis” which sold many on his character. There he raids the Senate Building. Now in “Holocron Heist”, the episode that also features a rift between Ahsoka and Anakin and is, therefore, a perfect episode to draw from, Bane is hired by Sidious to steal a Holocron and to help him gives him a map of the jedi temple.
So I figured let’s have Bane not get the map from the get-go, but instead steal it from the Senate building (in Hostage Crisis). That means his plan is longer and the plot is more “cinematic” The episode and consequences stay (for the most part) the same, but the film becomes more cohesive with background changes. Bane wins and walks away, with some voice lines added on to indicate he now has the map- next scene is “Day Two” of the Heist. You will lose out on Ziro the Hutt, but he was a red herring in the next episode anyway.