RELEASED - S02E05b - The Hutt Cartel (v2.0)

RELEASE VERSION.
Special GUEST episode by g00b!
This is a BONUS episode that isn’t part of the recommended viewing order (as it’s not vital to the plot of the clone wars) but which will certainly be of interest to fans of Hutt politics and Quinlan Vos, as it’s his only appearance!
It’s placed early in season 2. I’d put it at s02e05b, and g00b recommends s02e00 (first episode of season 2).
Comprising the original episode The Hunt for Ziro, with an added (edited) scene from Assassin.
Running 25 minutes.
DOWNLOAD LINK is in the tracker spreadsheet, PM me (or g00b) for access.
Note: It’s recommended that you download this before watching, rather than streaming it directly from Google Drive.

By popular request, here’s a little treat - g00b’s created a lovely edit of this episode which uses all the TCW:R conventions (intros, outros, etc) and most importantly fixes the biggest issue with this storyline - the horrible voices! With new alien voices for both Ziro the Hutt and Sy Snootles, not only do we have the removal of that annoyance, but g00b’s taken the opportunity to write far better lines via subtitles. The story is now, frankly, completely watchable, and the best it could possibly be.

The huge upshot of this is that we now get to see Quinlan Vos onscreen, who was always the best part of this episode and much missed in my original edit.

Edits in g00b’s own words:

Cut Obi-Wan overexplaining calling Quinlin Vos and calling him crazy
Cut Cody saying the ships coming in from the west
Cut Voss and Obi-Wan talking about Jabba and potential motives for a break out with a hostage negotiation… don’t need it. We just jump right to Voss’s info
Cut from Voss mentioning Nal Hutta to their ship taking off.
Reordered the Hutt council scene with Zero to take place AFTER Obi-Wan and Vos setup that he’s been broken out of prison.
Completely rewrote the Hutt council scene. Used subs to change the dialogue of all the Huttese. The same basic premise of the episode is kept alive. Ziro has information on the hutt council that could damage them and if he’s kill it’ll be released to their allies who will then forsake the hutts.
Complely redid Ziro’s voice. His voice is no longer so insufferable you want to turn the episode off AND he now speaks huttese.
Inserted the footage from the end of s03e07 - with Cad Bane and Jabba. I’m rewriting this scene to have Jabba included to make the twist at the end make more sense.
Cut Cad Bane saying the item he gave was the floor plans for the senate. Now he’s just finishing some odd job.
Cut the protocol droids translations completely. Here, Cad Bane can speak Huttese but needs extra help with ancient huttese.
Cut Bane playing hard to get for some reason…
Made the Twilek dancer speak huttese to give better control over the scene
Made Sy Snootles speak huttese - I understand the episode made her talk basic because she was a main character of this episode… but she CAN speak huttese… so why wouldn’t she on Nal Hutta???
Now that Sy and Ziro both speak Huttese, I used this oppotunity to rewrite the script to better suit the narrative and give more hints towards the contents of the datapad.
cut Cad Bane taking the job because in this edit he’s already gotten it.
replace Ziro’s mothers voice so she speaks huttese. Hutts would not speak basic to one another…
essentially reworked all conversations with Ziro and Sy to make a watchable better narrative.
cut Sy’s final remarks at the end of the episode.

The new episode can be found on line 101 of the spreadsheet (in the ‘Extra Episodes’ section).

I’m really excited to be able to show off g00b’s excellent work here and consider it a true part of TCW:R.