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Post #1418196

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EddieDean
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + Subtitles for season one!
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17-Mar-2021, 4:40 PM

Well, that’s Citadel reviewed too.

Adi Gallia is in it for one scene and one line - and both could be removed with no problem, so reordering Revival relative to Citadel is easy to resolve.

However, on review, I just don’t think Citadel is worth keeping in the Quality Cut. For QC, it needs to be either important or great.

Is it important? Arguably no.

  • Ahsoka and Plo get a couple of nice moments, but we’ve seen that plenty and in more depth before.
  • Ahsoka disobeys orders because she “learned it from Anakin”, but we’ve seen that plenty and in more depth before.
  • Ahsoka shows maturity in spite of her rashness, but we’ve seen that plenty and in more depth before.
  • Anakin and Tarkin meet, and clash a little before they soften and hint at their future relationship, but importantly, this stuff isn’t really additive, it doesn’t add value or nuance to that, it’s just a natural reverse progression.
  • Echo ‘dies’, but it’s extremely throwaway, it’s barely a plot point. You might as well take the reaction to Echo’s death and play that audio over the death of any clone. It’s not treated as if Echo was as important as the Domino Squad arc or his appearance in the Bad Batch implies - and the Bad Batch episodes fill you in that he ‘died’ on mission somewhere. We don’t need to see that detail.

Is it great? Arguably no.

  • I mean, it’s fine. But there’s no jeopardy whatsoever - we know that all of the main/focal characters survive.
  • And there’s no emotional stakes, since the Ahsoka/Ahsoka-Plo/Anakin-Tarkin beats don’t add any new emotional components. It’s pretty bland and way too drawn out for an hour’s worth of runtime - yellow/grey/purple for the whole time, with escape/capture/escape, and split/regroup plots meaning that even when stuff’s happening, it doesn’t really feel like the plot is progressing.
  • And there’s stuff you could have issues with - it being very battle droid heavy, the R2-D2 battle droid squad, the commando droids with one-way shields which are never used again even though they’re amazing, and of course the carbon freezing without carbon sickness.
  • I reckon you could cut out almost everything and end up with all of the meat but in 20 minutes instead of 60. Which I’ll do for my Continuity Cut (for the sake of Tarkin etc), but not the Quality Cut.