Lol, glad you appreciate my notes and my suggestions. As I said, I really love Clone Wars, and this project of making it shine is really just phenomenal.
I was looking briefly at the aired S7, and it’s relationship to your S5, and while I don’t know what plans you have for messing with the “Ahsoka’s Walkabout” arc, I was thinking a few things.
Based on some visuals, story beats, and official website info, the Walkabout takes place before Bad Batch, for a few reasons:
- The opening doesn’t show anything happening to Ahsoka between the S5 finale and this ep. It can be assumed she went, bought a jumper and a speeder and headed to 1313. (The only visual in this episode that requires there be a lot of time between this and herbladt episode, is her and Anakin’s character designs. She looks older.)
- Anakin is on Coruscant in “Gone With a Trace”, which according to the SW website places it before Bad Batch, because once Anakin is out on that mission he doesn’t return until RotS
There’s a few ways TCW:R will help with this:
By not having the opening narration, you lose the visual implication of the original that she left the temple and then “Gone with a Trace” started. You can make this what it needs to be.
Second, by having control over what goes into an episode and how long they are, you can add passing time.
Particularly, I think “Gone with a Trace” should remain it’s own episode. And it could happen right in the middle of S5, right before Son of Dathomir.
Then you can do a few episodes on something else, and then come back to an aggregated version of the last 3 episodes of the arc. I always felt like there needed to be time between episodes 1 and the rest, and we can fix that now. Otherwise all of Ahsoka’s stuff is just crammed in at the end and it sucks.
This would help Ahsoka feel more present in the season, imo. Which, even if she’s not with the Jedi, is necessary for the viewer. Let Anakin miss her, let me see what she’s realizing while she’s away from the Jedi and don’t cram it in, literally right before the end.