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Post #1499596

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EddieDean
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The Clone Wars: Refocused [COMPLETE]
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13-Aug-2022, 4:27 PM

RELEASED - S04E10 - THE COSMIC FORCE (v2.0)

  • RELEASE VERSION.
  • Our tenth and final episode of season four.
  • Comprising the original episodes Voices, Destiny, and Sacrifice (the Yoda’s Quest arc).
  • Running 51 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 an excellent episode and the original (unintended) season finale of the show.

While fairly heavily restructured, I’ve only really made one significant change - turning the visits to the force-planet and Korriban (“Moraband”) into parts of Yoda’s vision in the Dagobah cave. The vast majority of the content is preserved this way, we just retain more mysticism by keeping these ‘locations’ more ambiguous. Korriban I didn’t have too much problem with being real, but (1) the force-planet beings appear there too, (2) Lots of spiritual stuff including another force vision (which takes Yoda to yet another place) happens there, and (3) the scenes back on Dagobah made a better bookend to the arc.

As I say though, all of the key beats are preserved, and any important mystical dialogue from a cut scene has found its way into another natural location.

Noteworthy changes:

  • The episode is titled ‘The Cosmic Force’. I didn’t intend this when I edited Mortis into ‘The Living Force’, but the two do make a natural pairing, and where Mortis’ beings are metaphors for the material world, Yoda’s story is more purely spiritual, so it fits nicely.
  • The episode is placed here as we’re pretty much just locked in to release order now. I’ve split it from the first episode of the original four-part arc because it does stand alone, and to let us pace the Mauldalore content around it.
  • I use the crawl to link us back to the current knowledge of Dooku being behind the clone army (now that we’ve spent an episode away following the Mauldalore plot).
  • From the first episode, I just trimmed the reference to Mortis by name, since it no longer appears in my edit.
  • From the first and second episodes, I trimmed two references to midichlorians, just for those who prefer them not mentioned.
  • I transitioned from the force cave on Dagobah to Yoda waking up on the force-planet, skipping him travelling there materially and his first dialogue with the force-planet beings. I preserved the dark Yoda fight, and improved an existing poor transition (probably for a commercial break).
  • After Yoda has the vision of tranquility, and is struck by Dooku, I instead cut to Dooku instead of Yoda, showing that he may have felt that moment - treating this as the triggering incident which Sidious exploits. This wasn’t strictly necessary, but I think it was a neat addition.
  • I removed the final scene of the force-planet beings congratulating Yoda on the force-planet (though moved their important dialogue elsewhere), and removed the flight to Korriban. I also removed the snake made of snakes and the Sith cultists, mainly because they’re not so important, but also because, as this episode makes clear, life after death is not a Sith thing. It also would have left me with an awkward transition.
  • Yoda then awakens (after being struck by tranquil Dooku) on Korriban. I would have changed the dialogue from calling it ‘Moraband’ into Korriban, though ultimately I took out the references. It’s still Korriban, sure, but it’s also mostly a vision for Yoda, so it’s up to you how you headcanon this.
  • Yoda still encounters Darth Bane, since as he says, Bane is an illusion, not someone alive after death. Plus, it’s cool. I then skip over him encountering the force-planet beings again, though I use some of their dialogue over his meditation on Korriban, implying that they’re more manifest in their own ‘domain’, whatever that means.
  • The plot then continues as before, with Sidious and Dooku setting the spirit-world trap, Sifo-Dyas, and Yoda and Anakin fighting Sidious on Coruscant.
  • Now though, as Yoda sort-of wins the fight, and struggles with the Sidious cloak and falls, do the force-planet beings’ voices tell him about balance, and “there is another skywalker”.
  • Yoda emerges from the Dagobah cave (from the first episode of the arc), which works nicely here too as he’s talking about how powerful Sidious is.
  • As a bonus bit of fun here, I realised I had the force-planet beings saying “Yoda, come back to us Yoda” as a bit of spare dialogue, which is said exactly word-for-word by Qui-Gon as Yoda emerges. So I overlaid the two, just like I overlaid Qui-Gon and The Father saying “He is the chosen one” back in my Mortis episode. Why? Why not! Read into it whatever you like. I kinda like the implication that all of these beings exist within the cosmic force, so there’s overlap of identities.
  • Qui-Gon escorts Yoda back to his ship, and I changed the dialogue there so he tells R2 “we’re going home”, but I kept the line about how their journey’s just begun, because now it takes a new meaning as a spiritual journey.
  • We end on the original final scene of the arc, with Yoda talking to Obi-Wan and Mace in the temple garden.

Onwards to another episode which I should be able to turn around quickly.