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Episode 2: Our Top 5 Clone Wars Moments (Part 1) · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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Hello there. It's time for most things
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Kenobi. Shouldn't it be all things
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Kenobi. Hmm.
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Hello there. My space twin.
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Hello there. How are you?
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I'm doing good. My name is Leanne and my name is
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Lauren. And this is most things.
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Kenobi. Episode to hell is happening.
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It's so exciting, it's happening.
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Most things. Kenobi has an episode 2, and
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it's gonna be a good one. Oh my God!
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It's going to be great. I'm so excited about this one.
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I've been really excited. I mean, we've already talked
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about this, but I've been excited to do this episode.
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Who mentioned it. So it's been like, the best
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homework I could ever have asked for watching Clone Wars.
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Again, just instantly puts me in a good mood, can't help it.
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Yes and especially watching your favorite moments and trying to
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whittle them down hardest task ever.
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It's like asking. Who is your favorite child?
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It's like impossible to choose possible possible.
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Although I'm sure people have favorite children, right?
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That's a thing. I guess we're both childless at
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the current. This is true.
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My favorite child is my dog, and my cat, who's lurking somewhere,
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a delightful cat. He's lovely.
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Thank you. All right, guys.
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Let's get started. Here, we want to start out by
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thanking. Once again, the amazing James
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Arnold Taylor, who is the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi on the Clone
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Wars. He recorded our intro for us
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which we still can't believe it's kind of amazing.
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Still amazing to me he's a fantastic person.
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So please go follow him on social media and tell him,
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thanks for doing this. After most things can help.
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Ya. Awesome.
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Mtk sent sent you there to say, thanks.
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No. But for real.
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Thank you. James Arnold Taylor.
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Amazing man, amazing character. All right.
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Yes, fantastic. So, today, on most things cannot
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be, we are discussing, Our top 5 favorite moments in the entire
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every season. Every episode with in the Clone
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Wars. Now this is tough.
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This has been tough. We've done our research, some
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came to mind immediately for me and then I was like, no, no, no,
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there are moments that moved me. The first time I saw Clone Wars,
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or the moment that I'm going to refer to.
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But I also have honorable mentions because I felt terrible
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not including them somewhere. Yes.
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Am so. Oh my God.
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Okay great. Yeah.
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See space Wings. It was like my list was so long
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that I II can eyes over. It was painful which I don't
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know what that says about me but I think it is pretty, pretty
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committed fan. I feel physical pain.
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Picking my favorite moments. I truly think we're in good
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company. I think if we asked everyone
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listening today to write down their top five.
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Favorite moments, we're not talking just episode.
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Some of these might be Entire episode.
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Some of these might be just flickers and time, but if they
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had to whittle down five, I know for a fact, you guys would have
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trouble. I know for a fact, it's
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difficult. It's more difficult than you
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think. I'm, I got it.
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It was, it was for me? Yes, absolutely.
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It was a good, like you said, like favorites.
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Come to mind, of course, right away, but then, as I started
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just revisiting the episode list seems like, oh, and then there's
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that. And yeah.
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And like, little moments that you forget.
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And I'm sure even with this insanely long list that I
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started out with, I'm missing stuff off of it, I'm sure
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there's there's favorite moments that I've forgotten about
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because you know there's that's what makes the show so good.
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There's little buried the loot like gems in like every single
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episode. Yes and everybody views it just
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a little bit different. Just slightly different.
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Yeah. So something I see in a moment
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or an episodes may not be the same thing that you catch.
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Exactly. And I know that U of I you and I
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have had Watch parties together and we've both commented on
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completely different things in the in certain scenes, and it's
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like, oh my gosh. I never noticed that.
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Yeah, until one of us told each other, which is, I think is
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fantastic. I'm telling I still I'm sad that
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next Netflix, party disappeared because that was one of my
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favorite things was. Why is it?
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Well, I guess Clone Wars isn't on Netflix anymore.
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It's on Disney. No, but prior to Disney plus,
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that's what we had. Yeah, back in the olden, times
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children in the olden days. What are they?
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Kids calling it now. Disney plus it's lit.
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I don't know. Lit, to me is literature and it
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is because I'm old. Okay, moving on.
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Okay, onto the top five, my number five, Anakin Force
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choking Poggle. This is season 2 brain Invaders.
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When I first saw that scene and it has that flicker of the Darth
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Vader music that feel of Darkness.
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It was one of the first moments where Anakin truly just had had
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it and said, I'm going in and I'm going to force choke this
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dude and get the information that all these other Jedi aren't
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getting his love and got the job done.
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My God, it's fantastic, the angle.
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The anger in Matt Lanter has voice is perfect.
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It's perfect. Matt Lanter is so Townsend.
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Just throwing that out here. We're gonna, can we just have a
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moment for Matt Lanter? Please?
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Yes. Oh my God.
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Fantastic. Fantastic asleep.
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You brought Anakin to life in a totally Away from it was
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amazing. You gave him layers that I
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always wanted with that character.
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I knew you always had and you brought them to life.
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So thank you. Matt Lanter for a minute for
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being the Anakin that we love. That is such a good moment
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again. Like as soon as you mentioned
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that I was like, I forgot about that singing.
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I just remember the first time I ever ever saw it like and I
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watch the seasons in order, right?
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And the episodes in order and I just I slid to the edge.
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Age of my couch and I was like, no shit.
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They went there. Little did I know that they
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would continue to go there as the seasons progress but like
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that was the first time I was like, wow love it.
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It's such good it because it's dark.
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It is 0 and I love it. I do too.
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I love when The Show Goes dark because it's like a quote
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unquote kids show but it's really not.
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It's for Star Wars fans, Not Just children.
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That's right. How about you?
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My number five? Yes.
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I number five, his I have to include an OB T in moment
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because Moore's people on Tumblr, would kill me if I did.
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Yes. So my favorite or my number
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five, for me is when Obi-Wan says had, you said the word I
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would have left the Jedi Order in season 2, that is in the
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episode called Voyage of Temptation.
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Honestly, a huge gasp moment, seriously.
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And that's Why? I love that moment because it's
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such a surprising confession from that particular character
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you know a man who so restrained.
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Hmm. A man who lives by the code hmm
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admits yeah to loving someone openly it's a huge moment and
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it's delivered perfectly. Oh my God it's so good.
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It's such a goose bumps moment but yeah the thing that I like I
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really get out of that moment is It gives me a lot to speculate
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about as a fan because it's kind of vague, you know, it's like a
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huge confession. But it doesn't explain why he
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said that. And either, that means the
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relationship he had with the teen was so meaningful that he
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was willing to walk away from something that he had, sworn an
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oath to or he didn't used to be, so restricted and stringent in
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his beliefs and that That happened after that.
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Relationship is the T in which means that something bad
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happened there, whether it's a great Point whether it's either
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or both, it gives me a lot to think about and that's kind of
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why I wrote my fanfic about that time period.
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I was just thinking about it, it's just thinking about that
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because it's like now I know where this came from.
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It's like why? What would make that character
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in particular, be willing to walk away from something that
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defined his life? That's yes, interesting to me I
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think that the only person present in that scene that nose
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is Satine and she ain't tellin, so none of us know so.
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Hey, Dave filoni make a miniseries about.
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Oh, please could you please? It would be so cool.
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And like imagine James Arnold Taylor and Anna.
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Graves playing the those characters they would have
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Amazingly fun time. Would they know?
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I would because they're friends in real life and it just shows
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in their performance. It's just, I think it's great.
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That's awesome. Plus you can will make make more
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money for Disney. Yes, right.
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Number four, number four moment. What have you got?
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Okay, so let's take a trip to Cabo, shall we?
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I love the entire Arc Jose. I bet you, you know, exactly
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what I'm about to say. I do I know which one this is
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going to be sorry. Look, there are multiple moments
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for all characters through that entire art that entire Arc is
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brilliant. However, I want to know filoni
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please, please lanter. If you know chime, if anybody
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knows the answer to this question, my top my number for
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moment. When Anakin Whispers in the ear
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of the queen, what the hell does that man?
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Say that makes her and a bird. Blush, the poor little innocent
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bird, overheard, whatever that weren't nearly swooned over
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Anakin Skywalker. Whispering something to this.
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Queen that he's trying to schmooze, right?
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I got to know. I love that moment because you
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don't get a lot of I'll say it sexual moments.
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Yeah, I was gonna say Anakin or Padma.
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Yeah, you don't get from anybody.
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The show is like, very non-sexual and away.
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I mean understandably. So there's little tiny minuscule
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moments and we found them all trust us.
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Yes, we did. But he looks are not a lie.
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But, you know, these are the parents Anakin and padmé are the
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parents of Luke and Leia. Okay, so what did this man
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whisper to this queen? I gotta know when I saw that, I
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have re-watched that only because I just love the
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reactions of Ahsoka, the Queen, the bird.
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And the only one who stone cold is Anakin.
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So he had to have been fairly confident in what he was
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whispering to the queen. Yeah, he's playing it smooth, he
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was very sure of himself from the very beginning of that
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episode even. He knew Anakin His former slave
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but he put that slaver outfit on like he own that shit.
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Now, the reason I love the kadavo arc is a Rex and and
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Kenobi are literally love it paying for this, right?
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Ahsoka is in her own way but Anakin is faced with something
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that he's lived through. Can you imagine being on the
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other side and seeing these slavers these?
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These tyrants, you know, so I love all of it and he gives the
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two finger salute, Which is a nod to Luke.
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I love any mirroring moments of like, Father and Son.
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Father, and daughter. Yeah, I do too.
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There's so many great moments like that in Clone Wars.
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But this yeah, this Arc in particular, nobody has a good
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time. No.
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Like everybody is faced with all kinds of demons in each one is
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like personal to that person. I just saw something recently on
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Tumblr, where people were talking about how Rex is kind of
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a slave to the oh yeah, Republic.
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And they never Have him comment on anything.
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He just kind of like goes through that episode silently,
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trying to help basically Obi-Wan his kind of with Obi-Wan the
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whole time but that's it. Yeah, it's a great Arc.
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I love that one. Okay, well my number 4 is 0, b 1
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fighting off the Mandalorian assassin on Coruscant during The
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Duchess of Mandalore episode in season 2, I re-watched this
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often. It's great.
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Well, and it's so much more than just like Obi-Wan kicking ass
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and taking names which I love always.
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But like, I don't particularly love that episode.
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It's kind of like political and I find the like stuff about the
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Less interesting. Not that it's not interesting.
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I just find this moment in particular, like amazing.
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I love the sound in that. Yeah, part.
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And so, when the, when the explosion goes off, there's this
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high-pitched tone that comes in and like we've reduced this and
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everything gets muffled around us.
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So it's like we're experiencing the disorientation that the
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characters are experiencing and then you hear like a screaming
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in the the background and then everything ramps back up.
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It comes to full speed and full sound as Obi-Wan, like, whips
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out, the lightsaber and goes to protect the teen.
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And I just think it's this is a kids show, man.
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And like this cartoon, Like A Moment.
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Like This is what moves the show into something cinematic.
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Yes. Yes.
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And it's a thousand times. Yes, it's so exciting.
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It's so exceptional. It's so entertaining to yes,
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it's great to watch. It's it were experiencing it.
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It's not just watching it. You're experiencing it as if
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you're basically there with the characters.
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Exactly. It's the attention to detail
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that makes a moment like that more than just you know, another
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scene in the episode. So yeah, that's a used this
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technique that makes the tension very satisfying as a person
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watching it because we know that these characters survive at
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least Obi-Wan does 15. Sorry.
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R.I.P yeah, too soon to set up once, like, we know these
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characters survive because obviously this takes place
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between attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.
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So we know the main character survive, but to effectively add
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tension. Even for characters that we know
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survive, I think that's really good storytelling.
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And the other thing I love about this moment, is that Obi-Wan,
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basically is a bar brawler, You just like yeah does he sure
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Haymaker punches? Like I want to see the day at
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Jedi. School were padawans are taught
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to box and punch people like this because you know there's
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elegant lightsaber training and then there's the day where you
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learn to like break up a bar fight, it's so good.
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Great, great episode, great moment, I love it.
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Number three, my Third. Favorite moment in Clone Wars
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comes in season 5, I'm going to seem so bias every single one of
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these has been Anakin so far, but I swear, I'm not, I'm not
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biased, but it's in the wrong. Jedi, the very last episode
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Ahsoka walks away, right? But prior to that, the fight
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with beerus, oh yeah. And him leading her into
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basically ahsoka's trial, right? And there's a moment in time
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when and I, I love this moment. It's so pointed when Anakin
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looks at Ahsoka and basically says, and this is an animators,
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this is an animation, the eyes of an animation that says I
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always believed it wasn't you and he You know, you get that
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fight with Barris, it's fantastic.
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You really see Anakin's prowess with the two lightsabers than
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just one. Hmm.
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But then you get the the impact of beerus saying stuff that we,
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as a viewer, know, becomes true, right?
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At least, slices of what she says is very true about the
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Jedi, the Republic, the council, the extremism that they didn't
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see, or chose to not see and you Can't help but notice like it's
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a great moment for Anakin, but it's also something that's going
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to cause like it's the seed that has already been planted.
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Well before beerus says, anything of what will change
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him, but the look, he gives Ahsoka is so hopeful and then
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the very next scene she leaves and it's just like, I love
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everything about all of that. So it's one of my favorite
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moments. It's those pain moments that we
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love, you know? And yeah I think that that in
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particular so fast Mating because Anakin already had those
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feelings. They become like really apparent
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in the rako hardeen arc where he started to feel really betrayed
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and it's like he's already got the doubts, but he's still
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fighting beerus and trying to be the Jedi even though he feels a
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lot of the things that she's feeling, you know.
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So that's a lot of great irony and then he has to watch his own
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people forsake Ahsoka. And then Ahsoka turn her back on
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it, something that he he wants to do, but he feels like he
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can't do, he's caught. And so obviously, we know how
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that turns out, but there's so much Strife there and then it
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just turns when Ahsoka walks away and, and the hope the hope
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that is there when he brings beerus and has her confession.
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And it's just, oh, Star Wars, Terran, the heart out of us.
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No, every single time never allowed a fully happy ending or
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just not really, there's always something to poke a hole in your
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delicate heart. Yes.
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And that did it and I love that moment.
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My God, that episode, I we should do an episode of our
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podcast where we talked about moments in the Clone Wars that
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make us cry. Oh well, we'll be here.
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Yeah photos. It's a three-part Arc of our
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own. Yeah, I think that episode with
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Ahsoka is Is on, everybody's crying list.
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Absolutely, good choice. That's a really good choice.
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My number three is landing at Point rain in season 2.
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Yes. Particularly the last bit but
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like pretty much all the parts. Yeah.
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Like you I'm biased all my parts are with Obi-Wan pretty much.
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Well that's how you and I balance each other out.
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That's right. I mean, this is most things
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Kenobi's. Yes, it is.
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It is Yeah, that episode was a real turning point for me as a
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fan. I was watching Clone Wars
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casually, until that particular episode and then after that I
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became like a rabid obsessed like couldn't stop binge
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watching and rightfully so it was so good.
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And like I like Toby one before they like there were things in
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season one that made me like him quite a bit, there was things
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that were funny and endearing but this episode was the First
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time, we like faced real Peril like when his ship goes down and
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the way bad news, it's really bad and he even has responded
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like a reaction that we're not used to when he says brace
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yourselves. Like he knows it's going to be
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bad and there's never been that kind of real danger.
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I don't think in an episode maybe with low Coon in the
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second also, he's like yes abandon in space but Yes,
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whatever. Breezing past that mad love for
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pulao cone here. Oh my God, I love him for real
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though. Yeah, seriously, he's a, he is
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basically Gandalf and Dave filoni favorite, right?
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Exactly. Yeah, it's baloney loves it.
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I love it. Amen.
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Also, just the way that crash scene in particular is filmed,
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It's like it still gives me chills even though I've watched
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it over and over because the pacing and the timing is so
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perfect. And again, that's the thing that
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moves the show the details like that that moved the show from
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being entertaining to cinematic, it is It is done with like
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intention and precision and it is so satisfying for the
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audience. The sounds of the gunships mixed
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with the fire that the laser fire that's coming at them and
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you hear them like the ship swaying and yeah is they're
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coming down and so I think it's great.
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It's great. Yeah, it's so good and then
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obviously the crash but then after that like the scene where
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the troops kind of it's getting really dire and They think
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they're going to get overrun by the geonosians, and the troops
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Circle up, and circle it around Obi-Wan.
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And even though he's like very badly injured, he stands up
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lights, his lightsaber, and he's like ready to fight to the death
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with his men. And that was when I was like,
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okay, new favorite character, that's it destroyed.
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He's my favorite. This, this moment, fantastic, I
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can't say enough good things about that singular scene.
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It's got its like, One of my favorites ever, and I will point
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out. I just have a little note here.
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I'll be one, is one of the only characters you see bleed.
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That's true. That's the he's got these
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scratches on his face. I remember the scratches mmm,
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otherwise there's not many other characters, I don't think
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there's I can't think of any other character that bleeds on
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the show. I'm sure someone will know if
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I'm wrong. If they do.
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They don't look as good as Obi-Wan did doing it and sit
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down handsome, scratches it just perfectly placed across the
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cheek, you know, across the neck and cheek.
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All right, we've got two to left.
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This is good shit, man. I'm loving this.
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I'm telling you, I'm getting excited the more.
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I know I'm like getting warm here.
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So number two for me, the entire Arc, but the sequence.
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Of Anakin at mortis when the flashes of what?
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We know come true happen. Hmm.
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When I first saw that I had immediate tears moved.
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I mean straight moved by that scene because you know, every
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single thing comes true. Mmm, he's seeing it, not
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believing it and you almost feel Agony for this character because
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you know, it's coming. Not often our characters
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confronted. Now, obviously this has to do
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with the sequence in which you watch Star Wars, right?
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You see episode, what is this? Yeah.
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Four five six. Then the prequels Clone Wars
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sequels, right? But you know what happens and
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then you see the all of the Clone Wars moments that lead up
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to it. Basically up to Revenge the Sith
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and then what happened. So I thought that it was a
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moving Scene. It was the again, Matt Lanter
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with the agony and his voice, the pain, the don't, I don't
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want to see it, don't tell me this happens, you know, because
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like If that were me and I were seeing something that was to
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come true. That was that horrific, right?
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Everyone, You Love Gone, everyone.
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You're killing younglings. You're just a whole planet
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long-wave Alderaan but I mean all right P too soon too soon.
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All right baby. Oh seriously it is too soon for
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all their on and for Satine. I still I Cry.
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I cry for both, but that sequence, where he's confronted,
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and he rubs his eyes and he doesn't want to see it.
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It's it's one of the best things I've seen.
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Yeah, I mean come from any animated show that I've ever
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seen. It's great.
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It's fantastic. It was it was treated with the
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respect. It deserved the entire Arc is
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fascinating from all three characters perspectives.
25:18
So intense in sad. It's so so I always forget his
25:23
hell how heartbreaking that Arc is Until I re-watch it and then
25:26
it's like, oh my God, you come away feeling?
25:28
Just crushed? Yeah.
25:29
You're like a t.v. you know that the lanterns voice to when he
25:34
says, I will do so many terrible things.
25:37
It's it's Perfection. It is it gets me every time.
25:43
Yeah, it's great. God.
25:44
Oh, I would love to ask Matt Lanter.
25:47
Like, how did he prepare for that scene?
25:50
You know, are any of those like gut-wrenching scenes, you know
25:54
that require a lot from a voice. Actor.
25:56
I would love to pick his brain and just know, like, what was he
25:59
thinking? How did he do it?
26:00
How many takes did it take, you know, stuff like technical
26:03
stuff, but it's yeah. Well, and like voice actors.
26:07
Cannot rely at all on their physical acting.
26:11
It's all vocal inflection and it's so challenging.
26:15
You have to have such control and know where your levels are,
26:19
you know, like your emotional levels are and how to convey
26:21
that vocally, that's very difficult.
26:25
I I don't know how they do it, but I a million kudos.
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Matt Lanter. We would like to invite you.
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So we have questions. We have multiple.
26:36
I have multiple questions clearly Jeff from this episode.
26:39
I have multiple questions, but anyway.
26:41
Yeah, please message us if you're interested.
26:47
Yeah, that's such a great and I love how they do the outline of
26:50
Vader behind him? Oh yeah.
26:51
Oh, oh. I didn't even touch on that the
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visuals. Mmm.
26:56
I've been focusing on just like the emotional and the auditory,
27:00
but the visuals to, it's just it's so beautiful.
27:04
It's beautiful and so much of Clone Wars.
27:07
The animations are just stunning.
27:10
It's beautiful art. If nothing else and really the
27:13
show is more art. I met some I think so.
27:16
It's just really entertaining art.
27:18
It's good that it's entertaining but it's is visually everything
27:23
about it. Honestly, it's not just visually
27:24
beautiful. The music is Beautiful,
27:26
Everything is yes. Okay.
27:29
My number two is the entire episode revenge for oh, I knew
27:36
this was going to be on your list.
27:38
I knew this was going to be on your list.
27:40
It was a squeaker for number one, but the one thing above it
27:43
price is not number one this. Load is, first of all it's
27:48
dedicated to Kurosawa which is freaking amazing.
27:51
Absolutely. But okay, everything about this
27:55
episode. I just want to start by saying,
27:57
Sam Witwer, say fucking genius. We need to have an entire Sam
28:03
Witwer dedication episode. Yes, because you we can't cover
28:07
all the reasons why we love him, and appreciate him for who he
28:10
is, as a human being, a voice actor, and an like Anon voice
28:14
actor. So, and A Star Wars just like
28:18
encyclopedia my God. He's a geek like us.
28:21
It's great, it's amazing. His so much insight and
28:25
information, especially since he got to pick Dave, filoni is
28:28
brain. I know a font of information
28:32
that would be entertaining as hell to hear.
28:35
He's so fascinating. He did a great interview with
28:38
James Arnold Taylor on his show, Clone Wars conversations where
28:42
they talked for two episodes about all sorts, Awesome.
28:47
Star Wars stuff. It's really fascinating and
28:49
highly recommend. Oh yes, listen to that because
28:51
Sam is super, super into Star Wars lore and philosophy and his
28:58
favorite character is Luke so we have oh my gosh, a bond there,
29:02
which I love. So, anyway, Revenge this episode
29:06
has such a great cast of characters because it's small
29:09
who is freaking brilliant sauvage Ventress.
29:13
Yes, Ventress. And then Obi-Wan All together
29:16
all together and it's a big mess so good but it's so satisfying I
29:22
mustn't mother tells them is in there too.
29:24
First of all no other Jedi gets this stuffing, beat out of him.
29:29
That man takes a beating so often like often really often
29:36
The kadavo Arc. He's a damn punching bag.
29:38
My god. Seriously the entire Arc.
29:42
Yeah, he gets gets his face kicked in a lot.
29:45
It's terrible. He's grabbing it in such an
29:48
angled way. Well, I can't be mad about that.
29:51
It's amazing highlights how wonderful Obi-Wan is.
29:55
But damn. Yeah.
29:57
Damn. It's what like the yeah, his
29:59
poor face give it let the man, rest.
30:02
Seriously, let the man take a nap and stop grabbing his fail.
30:12
So I the lighting in the cinematography of this episode
30:15
is somewhere between like, a horror and a thriller it's so
30:19
fun like the visuals are so great but I also have like There
30:25
are two snarky comments in this episode that I'm just like, what
30:33
why now but also yes. Thank you.
30:36
Give me more when he says you know when I cut you in half I
30:40
should have aimed for your neck. Instead snark never stops and
30:43
it's so inappropriate. It's not Jedi at all but it's so
30:47
good and then when he says I like your new legs, they make
30:52
you look taller who who wrote that line.
30:55
It's up, but it's brilliant. Give them an Academy Award
30:59
because that was freaking brilliant.
31:02
Let me tell you something. He could have his face smashed
31:05
punched ribs kicked in the stomach.
31:07
The man will not stop the snark and it's fantastic.
31:10
Yeah, he's still going like, what we want.
31:12
He's getting line for everything he does and really, those legs
31:16
did make Mall. Look, taller.
31:17
Simon has an Axe effects, kind of like a metal chicken but
31:21
still, it's all for real. And I noticed that when re
31:26
watching the scene mall is very genuinely angry and Obi-Wan
31:32
every time he snarky Mall gets even angrier it's like it's the
31:38
less ob one takes it. Seriously, the more mall is like
31:41
I'm gonna just kill you. You it's you you know deep down
31:45
Obi-Wan is thinking. This is fun for me too.
31:48
It's like the only Power he has in the moment because he's
31:51
physically got no power and that line.
31:54
In that mall, says that he's going to keep Obi-Wan awake to
31:57
feel every single cut. I'm just like, not a kids show.
32:01
Again, show kids show such a great line.
32:05
Like, it's a really great moment because I remember watching the
32:08
episode and literally, like what you said, on the edge of my
32:10
couch, like, what am I watching? This is not a kids show.
32:14
It's so good. But it's so scary.
32:17
There's a lot going on there, but it's fantastic.
32:20
How it all comes together. Yeah.
32:21
And like again, it doesn't matter how many times I watch.
32:24
Watch this episode. It always gets me nervous
32:28
because it's so well made that it brings that emotion up every
32:32
time and Obi-Wan with a red lightsaber Sith.
32:37
Obi-Wan that's right. The only time we're ever going
32:40
to see that pretty much, right? No, but it was.
32:43
Yeah, Red's. Not his color as he said no.
32:45
But it looks good on him but dang and then I love, love.
32:50
Love the line where Mall taunts Obi-Wan about quite guns, death,
32:55
Yeah and you don't go there no and it's it's kind of what we
33:00
all want to know though. It's like what is everyone's
33:04
reaction. What's his emotions about it?
33:05
He won't ever talk about it and apparently I've heard that there
33:10
was a line written where after Mall says how did that make you
33:14
feel over? 101 says, don't you dare even
33:18
speak his name? Like don't even mention
33:20
qui-gon's name but I think what I heard was I think I heard
33:23
filoni say this. They took Took the line out
33:26
because they thought it didn't sound in character for Obi-Wan.
33:30
Well, it's certainly what he was feeling.
33:32
Yeah. I could I could definitely say
33:35
that his character would be thinking that don't you dare
33:38
even? Yeah, because you see the rage
33:42
in his face, which is very not common for OB.
33:45
Right? Never really.
33:46
See anger. Except when he's in front of
33:49
mall, he gets angry several times.
33:51
Well, it's, he's a constant reminder of what happened,
33:54
right? Be even feelings of failure or
33:57
oh yeah. Who knows?
33:59
Yeah. But that's my number two,
34:01
fantastic. I watch it so many times, it's
34:03
pathetic. But if it was a VHS tape it
34:06
would have a crease in it all the time like my old episode 4 5
34:12
& 6, is there all banged up VHS. I have the exact same the
34:18
original VHS before any of the edits are added and yes minor
34:22
definitely creased for the A wind.
34:25
Yes, my God, A New Hope is just worn.
34:28
I would love to know what my parents did with that.
34:30
But that's another topic I would love to see those again,
34:33
wherever they're at, in the Attic somewhere.
34:35
I'm sure. I don't have them good stuff.
34:43
Last week, we asked our listeners.
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Have you made any new friendships, or relationships as
34:48
a result of Star Wars, or have any of your friendships or
34:52
relationships grown deeper as a result of?
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Wars. The lovely pin Master lady over
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on Instagram. Kindly sent me a response to
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this question. They said the past year has been
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the epitome of Star Wars and friends and people I never would
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have met, had it not been for our mutual love of these
35:12
Galactic space Wizards, I was never fond of the idea of
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internet friends and I couldn't comprehend how one could be so
35:19
close to someone they'd never seen with their own, two eyes.
35:23
But the distance from my Friends seems like nothing.
35:26
Now that I discovered, what it's like to connect with people who
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share the same interests as you regardless of where they live.
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That many of my real-life friends were into Star Wars like
35:35
I was but I'm grateful to have found my niche of Kenobi.
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