What are your thoughts on introducing the “scum and villany” on the opening text for A Strike at the Heart? To me that feels like a more natural place to do it, it introduces scummy bounty hunters wrecking havoc on the Republic capital, messing with both the senate and the Jedi. While the episode that follows this duology, Seven Warriors, subverts our expectations by showing honorable bounty hunters while introducing the scummy pirates.
I think this is OK. This represents the beginning of that rise, which continues more heavily in the next season. We’re hinting at the theme, before making it explicit.
As for some other thoughts on the text in ASatH, I don’t feel like you need to say Bane’s been hired by a Sith Lord, since that’s immediately revealed by Bane in a way that has more intrigue, likewise I find the text about Ahsoka being assigned to the library by Yoda odd, as we don’t really need an explanation as to why she’s hanging out in the library, you could simply state that Ahsoka continues her guard duties at the Jedi Temple or something simple like that just to remind the audience.
First point is a good shout - I think that’s legacy from where I initially used a different Bane opening. Explicitly having Ahsoka assigned to the library is because I put her original assignment to ‘the archive’ in another episode, and this episode’s content there continues the introduction, so I wanted to imply she was moving to a new location, and thus warranting a second introduction.
I don’t think there needs to be anything to add to it, Anakin says “I can’t let Bane get away!”, that’s enough to tell the audience “okay, if he doesn’t chase him down, he’ll get away!”
That’s a good point, thanks!