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#1561433
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Episode 2.5 - Clone Wars
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Wholeheartedly agree that Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars is the perfect 2.5, it fits with the movies better than Lucas and Filoni’s TCW, too, imo - though I recognize and respect what TCW does in terms of just playing with those characters and putting them in stories that maybe shares something interesting about them, with not that much care for an absolutely linear story to go along neatly with the movies.

But yeah, short answer, Tartakovsky micro-series.

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#1557511
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ROTJ: Connecting Act I with the rest of the movie
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Paul Duncan has this sort of character profile on Boba Fett up on his YouTube channel: The Creation of Boba Fett - A detailed timeline of the character’s creation by Paul Duncan, but it does stop right at TESB. Boba is a weird character that only gets weird/worse the more he shows up, starting with ROTJ, then the prequels, and now in the Mandoverse. Quite odd.

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#1555628
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<strong>Ahsoka</strong> (live action series) - general discussion thread
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NFBisms said:

I actually feel like this show is in a lot of ways trying to be for people who didn’t watch Rebels, though. It pulls this trick where there’s a new status quo as a refresh. The previous backstory becomes incidental exposition in service of a New Story.

For example, Sabine and Ahsoka’s history isn’t something Rebels watchers would be familiar with. New audiences and Rebels fans got that information at the same time. Functionally, the reception of that isn’t going to be that different between the two audiences. It’s a whole new dynamic we’re all on the same page of being introduced to.

This becomes the excuse through which the creative team can adapt and change certain things. Sabine is a slightly different character in these new dynamics. Ahsoka’s balance and zen is re-interpreted as overly detached; a character flaw as opposed to culmination. All of a sudden Thrawn isn’t just a smart Imperial who won battles, he’s Palpatine’s heir apparent. These things aren’t being worked through off of Rebels nor are they just picking up where it was left, they’re retcons in context, entirely new material out of it.

I think this is all a bad thing, btw. The show’s dialogue is overly expositional in service of this storytelling mode, and if the characters don’t feel entirely familiar, they’re play acting long-term relationships that haven’t been fleshed out anywhere, just told to us existed at some point. It’s more unnatural as a continuation of Rebels than it is as its own thing.

Excellent post.

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#1552803
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<strong>Ahsoka</strong> (live action series) - general discussion thread
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Mocata said:

No it wasn’t a thing in the previous animated shows, I think it was just for Jedi Fallen Order since in a game you have to sense places/objects to gain xp and exposition.

Technically retconned so Rey has it as well meaning it debuted with her, to explain her vision as she touched the lightsaber in The Force Awakens.