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Post #1449201

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EddieDean
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE] + Subtitles for season one!
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17-Sep-2021, 11:12 AM

Might as well share where I’m at with Malevolence too:

Conflicts erupt in the early days of the Clone Wars.
The Republic faces a dire emergency, as the leader of Dooku’s army, the droid general GRIEVOUS, strikes swiftly from the shadows.
With his new weapon, the battleship MALEVOLENCE, he has been destroying medical stations, killing thousands of wounded clones.
Obi-Wan Kenobi now urgently coordinates the evacuation of medical stations in the Naboo sector, where six have recently been destroyed.
As Anakin Skywalker and his new Padawan Ahsoka Tano lead the search, Jedi Master PLO KOON has picked up Grievous’ signal.
But no fleet that has faced the Malevolence has yet survived…

Notes:

  • We capitalise GRIEVOUS, MALEVOLENCE, and PLO KOON, since they’re this episode’s newly introduced focal points. The episode title ‘MALEVOLENCE’ highlights the theme of bad guys being bad guys, and helps our season start from the footing of its villains being legitimate threats - important since they underpin the war and this entire era of Star Wars.
  • “Emergency” is now mentioned early, heavily implying that this is the emergency mentioned in the Christophsis episode. Now in context, as soon as the war broke out, at Dooku’s command, Grievous started wrecking the Republic’s ability to field clones.
  • Grievous is now “the droid general GRIEVOUS” rather than “GENERAL GRIEVOUS”, since he’s often referred to as the ‘droid general’. In the context of “the leader of Dooku’s army” it leaves more room for the viewer to recognise that he’s a general OF droids, rather than a droid himself.
  • “Strikes swiftly from the shadows” I think most clearly implies that he’s appearing, destroying, then escaping, rather than being involved in any prolonged conflicts. It leans into Grievous’ cowardice without that distracting from his villainy. The idea he’s hit a lot of stations (quickly) gives value when Grievous is annoyed his ship has to slowly navigate the nebula, which is the opportunity the Republic need to defeat him - implying they got lucky, maintaining his implicit threat.
  • We refer to the Malevolence as both a battleship and a weapon, to mask the fact that in the original episodes, they didn’t know that the “mystery weapon” was a battleship.
  • Obi-Wan coordinates “in the Naboo sector” because he has dialogue implying they’re close to Naboo, but specifically “sector” so I can imply the Republic know the rough area where he is, allowing me to pull the scenes with Nala Se earlier since they now don’t know where he’ll strike next, so must evacuate all local stations. This means that there’s more of a race against time now, with Grievous on the hunt while Anakin and Ahsoka fuck about trying to save Plo. It makes their actions reckless (which they’re chided for in the episode) while still being heroic.
  • Our “BUT” sentence connects to Plo’s discovery of Grievous, allowing us to open the episode on his ship’s destruction.