Star Wars The Clone Wars S03 E07 Assassin. Star Wars The Clone Wars S01 E07 Duel of the Droids. The Young Assassin continues the Fight with Slashing, Shooting and taking cover behind Droids from blaster fire. Soon after the Leader of this attack Assajj Ventress rides off a Vulture Droid and before leaving sees the Human Boy taking down Droids left and right making this Battle end faster by blaster and blade. Mar 21, 2018 - Check out our look at The Academy and Assassins. Five Thoughts on Star Wars: The Clone Wars' “The Academy” and “Assassin”.

1. Star Wars The Clone Wars Season 3 Episode 11
2. Star Wars The Clone Wars Games
3. Star Wars The Clone Wars Season 3 Episode 13

For the first time in 2+ seasons, I’m finally starting to get why people are so in on Ahsoka. This week’s double shot of her adventures was a ton of fun.1. Mandalore as a major playerThus far on the show, we’ve seen the same planets be important as we’ve seen in the films. The visits to Tatooine, Naboo, and Coruscant have been expected, but Mandalore has become one of the key planets in the galaxy, and really just in the last half season or so. Sure, a good deal of that is due to Satine’s emergence as an important character, but they are also the first planet that seems both central to galactic business and also truly neutral. All the other neutral planets we’ve seen have been remote or desolate, so their involvement in the Wars seems critical. Mandalore seems like it would be a boon to either side.In addition, the divergent opinions of the Duchess and the Prime Minister accomplish something this show doesn’t often do well: it presents a political discussion where both sides have clear motivations, even if one is borderline evil.

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So often, the Trade Federation/Separatists (the most common villains on the show) are cartoonishly evil, and therefore you can’t really relate to them. This dispute might be a pretty cut and dry case of right and wrong, but at least the wrong has some internal logic to it.2. Ahsoka, defying expectationsIf “The Academy” was a first season episode, Ahsoka would’ve sulked half the time about her assignment, and treat the kids like a nuisance, and then bitch to Anakin at the end of the episode. Here, Ahsoka shows real growth by sucking it up and taking on her assignment, with full enthusiasm, even though she’s not happy about it. She goes to bat for the kids, and she almost dies because of it. But there’s no deep sighs or eyes rolled here, she’s acting like an adult.That is such a change from how she was early on and, as I said in the opening, I now can see why people (paging Castle, Alice W.) love the character so much.

She’s really proving herself, and I can’t wait to watch her continue to do so again and again.3. Padme and BailI’m currently reading Leia: Princess of Alderaan for our Star Wars book club, and there is a lot of subtext in there about how close Padme and Bail Organa were, something the prequels never really delve into. When Bail agrees to take Leia at the end of Revenge of the Sith, he almost treats it like a chore. He’s so dispassionate and cold about adopting a child, and it has always left a sour taste in my mouth.Both in this episode and in the aforementioned novel, you see the affinity that Bail had for Padme, and what the weight of raising her child would have been for him. Even if they weren’t best friends, they were respected allies, and Bail would likely feel a sense of obligation to Padme to take care of her daughter.

Why the prequels didn’t show a little of that is absolutely beyond me.4. Force visionsForce visions have always existed in Star Wars, going back to The Empire Strikes Back, but I really like the way this episode dealt with them. Much like in Empire, Yoda is there to help the padawan to interpret the vision and understand its malleable nature. Ahsoka is, understandably, rattled by her vision of Padme’s assassination, and does all in her power to stop it.Again, these episodes present totally different Ahsoka.

Even when she overreacts and misinterprets the vision, busting in Padme’s boudoir, she is contrite in her error, yet confident in her vision. She’s not shirking responsibility due to embarrassment, nor is she stubbornly and rudely forcing Padme to do anything. She is using her skills, both Jedi and friend, to try to protect Padme.

It’s a small, but refreshing change.5. The mythology within the showObviously, the show is part of a larger universe, and a lot of what we see is the show being used as filler material between the Saga films’ overarching plots, or to give background to characters that need it (Anakin) or don’t (Greedo). But the best episodes are the ones that don’t really care about the films, and rather build up the mythology of this show first, and the greater Star Wars universe second.

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Star Wars The Clone Wars Games

The fight between Yoda and Count Dooku was envisioned quite differently. Originally, Yoda was to come in and immediately have the fight with Count Dooku, but many of the creative team felt that was too quick a transition for Yoda, and the audience needed to feel the power of good and evil going against each other, so added in the preamble to the fight with the blue lightning and rock falls, because it showed how powerful Yoda was. The light-saber battle was a culmination of all that energy. There was also footage shot of Count Dooku using either Obi-wan's or Anakin's light-saber in addition to his own against Yoda, but these moves did not make the final cut. Several subtle visual clues were incorporated into the design of the shots to help audiences keep track of who's who. The good guys, the Republic Clones Troopers, always move from screen right to screen left, while the Separatist Battle Droids moved from screen left to screen right. The sun is behind the clones, resulting in a gloomier sky behind the Separatists.

Finally, the missile contrails were color-coded to denote allegiance: the Republic rockets leave clean white trails, while the villains launch missiles that leave noxious black/purplish exhaust. After making this film, appeared in (2001), which required him to be clean-shaven and to have an extremely close buzz cut. New scenes with Obi-wan Kenobi were then added to this film in post-production. Since McGregor had not had enough time to regrow his hair or a full beard, he had to be fitted with a hairpiece and prosthetic beard, which is often easily distinguished from his natural hair, as it appears in the rest of the film.

These scenes include the conversation between Obi-wan and Anakin in the elevator, the exchange concerning the 'changeling' in the Outlander club, the Jedi temple talk between Obi-wan, Mace, and Yoda, and his interrogation by Count Dooku. The spin-off video game (2002), which is a prequel to this film, reveals how Jango Fett was chosen as the genetic model for the clone army. Jango Fett was hired, along with other bounty hunters, by Count Dooku, to hunt down and eliminate Komari Vosa, Dooku's former apprentice, which Jango Fett succeeded in doing.

Count Dooku revealed that that the bounty hunt was a test, and that the bounty hunter that succeeded in killing Komari Vosa, would go with Count Dooku to Kamino to be cloned, which Fett agreed, on the condition that he wanted one unaltered clone for himself - Boba Fett. After the mixed critical response to (1999), was hesitant to return to the writing desk. In March 2000, just three months before the start of principal photography, Lucas finally completed his rough draft for this movie. Lucas continued to iterate on his rough draft, producing a proper first and second draft. For help with the third draft, which would later become the shooting script, Lucas brought on, who had written several episodes of (1992) for him, but had limited experience writing theatrical films.

The final script was completed just one week before the start of principal photography. To efficiently communicate the damage sustained by the Trade Federation core ship blasted out of the sky, two versions of the computer-generated vessel were made. One bore its standard paint job. The other was the 'distressed' version, with carbon scoring damage painted across the surface. Both were animated performing the same movement, and the compositors used animated mattes to gradually reveal the damaged ship from 'behind' the intact one, covering the transitions with composited fire and explosion effects. And prepared two tests featuring a CGI Yoda, using audio from (1980). Yoda's appearance in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) also served as the reference point for the creation of the CGI Yoda; repeatedly stated to the animation department, that 'the trick' to the animation of the CGI Yoda was to make him like the puppet from which he was based, in order to maintain a flow of continuity.

Was consulted; his main piece of advice was that Yoda should look extremely old, sore, and frigid. Coleman later explained the process of making the digital Yoda like the puppet version, by saying, 'When Frank (Oz) would move the head, the ears would jiggle. If we hadn't put that in, it wouldn't look like Yoda.'

Though the Republic AT-TE walkers were computer-generated, at least one 1/10th scale miniature was constructed for pyrotechnic purposes. The walker that gets blown apart by an armor-busting Hailfire missile was first shot as a miniature against greenscreen. This provided valuable reference for the animators, though the scale of the resulting miniature explosion proved unusable as a final element. Also, the miniature was shot with a static camera, while the finished shot, had a swooping camera move that followed the rocket: a CGI walker was needed to properly move with the perspective of the shot.

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The Neimoidian seen with Nute Gunray on Geonosis was originally intended to be Rune Haako. However, Rune's mask was lost shortly after the first film completed shooting. The production crew gave uncredited actor David Healey the mask of Daultay Dofine instead. Although the 'new' Neimoidian had no official name during filming (the character was only referred to by the crew as 'Nute's friend'), he was eventually named Gilramos Libkath, after costume supervisor and production controller. Unfortunately, a mix-up in the end credits not only erroneously lists in the part, but also says the Neimoidian is Lott Dod (the Trade Federation Senator seen briefly in Episode I). Much confusion has surrounded whether Nute's companion should be considered Rune Haako, Gilramos Libkath, or Lott Dod. The official Lucasfilm word is that it's Rune Haako 'for all intents and purposes', but many fans are unsatisfied with this decision, based on the fact that the character neither looks nor sounds anything like Rune, who is back to his old Episode I self by Episode III.

In the narrative as to why Owen Lars didnt recognize C-3PO in Episode IV if he'd owned him previously, as in this film, If you look back at Episode IV, we will see that at no point does C-3PO give his number to Owen in the one and only conversation the pair ever have. Owen dies the next day, so this fact has no chance to come to light.

In addition, we see throughout the series that C-3PO follows a standard protocol droid design which seems to be quite common. The metal plating covering C-3PO in Attack of the Clones was a rusty brown color, and not at all the shiny gold he sports in the later episodes, further obscuring his identity when he appears again, 22 years later. By that point, C-3PO had undergone a memory wipe, so he doesn't recognize Owen either (although R2-D2 presumably might). No explanation has yet been given, on the other hand, as to why Anakin simply walks off with the Lars' protocol droid without even asking. However, C-3PO is Anakin's, as he is the droid's maker (3PO even identifies Anakin as such when they meet again).

Anakin gave 3PO to his mother when he left for the Jedi training, so it is no more than fair that Anakin receive the droid again after Shmi's death. Perhaps Owen had given his permission off-screen, before Shmi's funeral. Jedi Council members Eeth Koth and Adi Gallia, though re-cast, were originally supposed to make appearances in this movie.

In the role of Eeth Koth, was replaced by, and was replaced. Shapi and Clarke still appear in this movie, though they were not involved in its production. A scene in the Jedi Council chamber featured a recycled background from (1999). Akindoyeni and Nyamwasa played Koth and Gallia, respectively, during the battle of Geonosis. However, it was decided during post-production that they looked different enough to be designated as different characters. Eeth Koth was therefore changed to Agen Kolar, and Adi Gallia became Stass Allie.

The Episode I characters and cast members are still the only ones credited. The film relied almost solely on digital animatics as opposed to storyboards in order to pre-visualize sequences for editing early on in the film's production. While had used other ways of producing motion-based storyboards in the past, after (1999) the decision was made to take advantage of the growing digital technology. The process began with 's creation of what the department dubbed as 'videomatics', so called because they were shot on a household videocamera. In these videomatics, production assistants and relatives of the department workers acted out scenes in front of a greenscreen.

Using computer graphics imagery (CGI), the Pre-visualization Department later filled in the greenscreen with rough background footage. Burtt then cut together this footage and sent it off to Lucas for changes and approval. The result was a rough example of what the final product was intended to be. The Pre-visualization Department then created a finer version of the videomatic by creating an animatic, in which the videomatic actors, props, and sets were replaced by digital counterparts to give a more precise, but still rough, look at what would eventually be seen.

The animatic was later brought on-set and shown to the actors and actresses, so that they could understand the concept of the scene they were filming in the midst of a large amount of greenscreen. Unlike most of the action sequences, the Battle of Geonosis was not storyboarded nor created through videomatics, but was sent straight to animatics after the department received a small vague page on the sequence.

The intent was to create numerous small events that would be edited together for pacing inside the finished film. The Animatics Department was given a free hand regarding events to be created within the animatic. Lucas only asked for good action shots, from which he could choose, and approve later. Had said as early as 1998 that Boba Fett would play a key role in this, the second episode of the prequel trilogy. At one point, the character would have been one of an army of shock troopers that invade the Republic and ignite the Clone Wars.

At another point, he would have been part of an army of clone troops. As the story developed, however, Lucas decided to revise the story to focus on the character of Jango Fett as the source of the Republic army, and to reduce Boba's role to that of Jango's clone son. While on-location in Tunisia, made one shot intended for (2005) of Obi-wan delivering baby Luke to the Lars homestead. He claimed he would not be returning to Tunisia, and if he needed another shot, he wouldn't get it. Since did not participate in the Tunisia shoot, a wide shot of a double was filmed handing over a doll to Owen Lars. However, during production of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), it was decided that Obi-wan should hand the infant to Beru instead.

All three were filmed separately, in front of a greenscreen, and the original shot was ultimately not used. Jar Jar Binks has a much smaller role than in (1999), probably because his character had quickly become the target of fan anger after Phantom Menace. Jar Jar's main contribution to the film is inadvertently giving Chancellor Palpatine the opportunity to grasp power. This has led to a fan theory that Jar Jar was, in fact, a secret Sith master in league with Palpatine all along; his clumsy behavior and silly demeanor were merely a ruse to hide his true nature from the Jedi (not unlike how Yoda initially tricked Luke in (1980)).

Jar Jar's true intentions were allegedly meant to be revealed over the prequel trilogy, but after the initial backlash, his role was substantially toned down. Ahmed Best partially concurred, saying that there were plans for Jar Jar that were never realized, confirming the existence of a deleted scene where Palpatine and Jar Jar are secretly talking, implying that Jar Jar was willingly helping Palpatine obtaining his domination goals. Best was unsure if his character was to have become 'Darth Jar Jar' in the end, saying that only knows that answer. Lucas has never publicly commented on this theory, though.