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Post #1462557

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

(RE)RELEASED - S01E07 - The Death Watch (V2.1)

  • RELEASE VERSION, now brought up to my more polished 2.0 standard.
  • Our seventh episode of the first season (Be aware I’ve shifted the first season around a little.)
  • Comprising the episode originally called Duchess of Mandalore, BUT notably NOT any content from the episode originally called Death Watch. (I’ve essentially flipped the two names for my edit.)
  • Running 24 minutes.
  • DOWNLOAD LINK is in the tracker spreadsheet, PM me for access.
  • Note: It’s recommended that you download this before watching, rather than streaming it directly from Google Drive.

This is the episode originally called Duchess of Mandalore, where the Duchess is attacked on Coruscant by the Death Watch following her escape from them earlier in the season. It features a good amount of politics between the Republic, Separatists, and Mandalore’s two main factions, giving us some good interesting ‘third party’ content early in the series, as well as that valuable Mandalorian focus which I’m keeping present throughout my show.

The content from this episode is largely untouched. It’s split from the prior two episodes in the original ‘Mandalore trilogy’ mainly because they didn’t need to be back-to-back, and this way, we get two bites of the Mandalore apple this season, helping reinforce that Mandalore is going to be a running plot. We also get our first sight in TCW:R of Padmé without it being boring, and our first sight of Coruscant’s underworld. We also get some scenes set in locations originally designed by Ralph McQuarrie during the production of the Original Trilogy, back when Coruscant was known as ‘Had Abaddon’.

I’ve added a couple of scenes originally used during the holocron heist arc, where Ahsoka is disciplined by the Jedi council (originally for insubordination at Felucia, now in context for insubordination in our previous Ryloth episode). The Jedi assign her guard duty of the Jedi archives, which effectively explains to my audience why she’s not present in this or the next episode (Nightsisters arc), until she rejoins the plot during the following episode (Holocron Heist arc).

Noteworthy changes:

  • The episode is titled ‘The Death Watch’, to highlight the return of a key reoccuring threat in TCW. And it sounds cool.
  • Used the opening text to remind the audience of the situation with Mandalore. I also mention here that, after the initial strikes of the war, the Republic has now realised that this could be a longer and more complex war than they intended, so they’ve summoned the Jedi back to Coruscant to scry into the future. I’m doing this partly because it’s an interesting angle but partly to explain why the Jedi wear their season three robes in my next episode (Nightsisters), where I’ll open with mention of their (scrying) meditations being interrupted, which is probably about as well as you could explain that temporary costume change, given that I think it’s the greater good to place that episode as early as I can.
  • Opened the episode on Ahsoka being disciplined for her disobedience at Ryloth, before transitioning into this episode’s original opening.
  • Moved one scene of Dooku telling Sidious that their plan is going fine earlier, to where their plan WAS going fine, as opposed to the original placement where it came after showing their plan starting to fall apart. This placement also helps clarify why Republic overreach on Mandalore would be a bad idea.
  • Removed the idea that Satine has to hand herself in as ‘a distraction’ so Obi-Wan can sneak into the senate to deliver the true recording to Padmé. That was always a slightly odd/risky idea, and I didn’t like the implication that the Republic senate building’s security was so lax, so now Satine suggests Obi-Wan gives it to Padmé (which he should be able to freely do without scrutiny as he’s a senior Jedi) and she implicitly just stays in hiding while he does that.

Onwards now to Nightsisters, which only requires basic polish, then the Holocron arc, where I’ll remove the scene I’ve moved to this episode.