Plo Koon's Discovery: Another preview of "what's to come" in TCW

After the initial Clone Wars cancellation announcement and the preview of the "bonus content" that we supposedly will be getting, fans were at first crestfallen, and then slightly hopeful, even excited. Since then, there have been rumors on whether or not we will get the "bonus content", and if so, how much.

A month or two later, a second preview of the "bonus content" is released, signaling that Lucasfilm is still very much planning to release some episodes that were planned for Season 6. 

The preview is titled "Plo Koon's Discovery". It takes place in a very snowy and barren landscape. 

It begins with the howling of wind, and then several lights being shown through, along with clone troopers communicating with their superiors and stating that they must be far off from their target. Their commander replies "Negative. It is here. The data specifically states. It has got to be." 

The clones finally approach, along with several AT-TE walkers. The clones are wearing VERY cool armor. Inside the main walker is the commander and Plo Koon, who is wearing some sort of modified breathing mask. 

Finally they find the "it" that they are searching for. As Plo Koon and several clone troopers approach it, Darth Sidious's mysterious song is played (I can't really explain it, you just have to watch the video and then say "Ohhhhhh"). It's now clear that they are exploring a crashed T-6 Shuttle. I looked it up, and the T-6 Shuttle (AKA the Jedi Ambassador Shuttle) is a circular ship with swiveling wings. They made a Lego set of it. 

Plo Koon finds a lightsaber on the ground, and then states that he wants "everything taken back to Coruscant". He turns on the lightsaber and it shows that the lightsaber is blue. Then the clip ends.

Now, I think that we're all thinking "That's it!" The first clip of the bonus content was very intriguing and interesting (for those of you who didn't see it, it showed a lightheaded clone trooper shooting a Jedi in battle). 

There aren't too many questions to be answered. Yes, there's of course the question of who was in the shuttle, or whose lightsaber was that, but there isn't anything particularly momentous. What would have made the clip much more interesting is if the lightsaber had been red, showing that there was a Sith inside the shuttle.

The good thing is that this clip didn't seem to be related to the previous clip, which means that we'll be getting at least 2 arcs. But of course, for all we know they could be. We didn't get enough information from either of the clips to know what the plot of the episode arc is. 

You can watch the clip on starwars.com to see for yourself. The main thing that I would take out of this is that it's been a few months, and the bonus content is still very much being planned, which is good. I will report again with any major updates. May the force be with you all. 

And the champion of the "This Is Madness" character tournament is...

...Yoda! That's right, everyone's favorite tiny, green, Jedi master (Yaddle also fits the description, but I doubt anyone likes her more) has one the tournament. He beat Darth Vader with 60% of the votes. 

I think one of the biggest surprises for me during this tournament was when Boba Fett beat Jango with 78% of the votes. I did predict that if it wasn't going to be a tie, then Boba would probably win, but I didn't expect that he would win by so much. 

If there's one thing this tournament has proven, it's that all in all, most Star Wars fans would choose the Original Trilogy instead of the New Trilogy in less than a second. And they would choose any movie character over a Clone Wars character in less than a millisecond. The only five exclusively Clone Wars characters in the tournament (Asajj Ventress, Cad Bane, Hondo Ohnaka, Ahsoka Tano, and Captain Rex) didn't get very far at all. 

There are three kinds of Star Wars fans: those that started with the Original Trilogy, those that started that with the New Trilogy, and those that started with the Clone Wars. Many of those who started with the Clone Wars or New Trilogy probably think that the Original Trilogy is, well, old and stupid. But they shouldn't, because the Original Trilogy is the roots of all Star Wars. And the fans of the Original Trilogy shouldn't disrespect the New Trilogy or Clone Wars, because truly liking something means accepting all aspects of it. It means both loving what something was, and what something is.

True Star Wars fans love all trilogies and aspects of Star Wars. That's why whenever I see someone dissing the Clone Wars on some online chat-room, I always slam them hard, because I'm just like, "If you're just here to complain about the Clone Wars, then you're not a true Star Wars fan, so what the heck are you doing here."

To answer your questions, yes, I did just turn the Star Wars Character Tournament into a discussion on the endless debate of the Star Wars trilogies. I guess I just had to rant about it. Sorry.

In Darth Vader's closing message, he did mention that we should vote for him again next year, suggesting that there will be another tournament. I don't know if this tournament will be exactly the same, or slightly different. I don't think it would be very exciting if it was exactly the same, because probably there wouldn't be much change.

Below is the final bracket of the tournament, containing the information of all the winners of all the match-ups. Leave any questions or comments in the comments section below, and may the force be with you all!

 

"This Is Madness" Character Tournament: Fight of the Fetts!

Before I begin discussing the epic father versus son match-up today, I'll do a brief overview of the past week in the tournament. 

As I expected, Count Dooku beat Tarkin, Emperor Palpatine beat IG-88, and and Ahsoka beat Captain Rex. The Ahsoka versus Rex round was very close, but Ahsoka beat him. Another close match-up was Princess Leia versus Padme Amidala. Princess Leia won with 52% of the votes, which is the closest to a tie we've gotten so far.

This week the second of the 5 rounds of match-ups began. Obi-Wan beat Han Solo with 55% of the votes, Darth Vader beat Maul easily, Yoda beat Luke with almost exactly two thirds of the votes (Yoda got 67% and Luke got 33%) and Jabba the Hutt beat Cad Bane. 

Today's match-ups are Princess Leia versus R2-D2 and Boba Fett versus Jango Fett. I think that R2-D2 will probably beat Princess Leia, because over the entire Star Wars series and the Clone Wars TV show, we have all grown to love and adore R2. 

I will not be surprised at all if the Boba versus Jango match-up ends with an exact tie. But I do suppose that if one of them is going to beat the other, it'll probably be Boba Fett. Boba has simply had more screen time than Jango, both in the movies, and in the Clone Wars TV show. Anyway, I think it's safe to say that whoever beats the other will go far, maybe even to win the entire tournament. 

Next week's match-ups will be Chewbacca versus Ahsoka and Count Dooku versus Emperor Palpatine. The Chewbacca versus Ahsoka round might be very close. Many Star Wars fans are very fond of Chewie from the original series (and his minor appearance in Episode III), but the Clone Wars fans have all grown to love Ahsoka after the 5 seasons, so it's simply a question of what percentage of the voting fans are Clone Wars fans. 

As I said before, this entire tournament is just a way to give fans a thing to do for a few weeks, and though that does annoy me a little bit, I won't complain (too much) because it's given me something to do and blog about. 

Vote now on the Star Wars "This Is Madness" Character Tournament, and be sure to leave comments if you have any thoughts or opinions. May the force be with you all. 

The Star Wars This Is Madness Character Tournament!

Last week, the "This Is Madness" Character Tournament on starwars.com started. Each day, there are two different match-ups. People vote for them online, and then the results are announced the next day. Once all of the paired match-ups are complete (which won't be until March 29th) the winners of those match-ups will match-up, and then the winners of those match-ups will match-up, and then the winner of THOSE match-ups match up, and so on until a winner is decided.

Some of the match-ups are clever and interesting, like Obi-Wan Kenobi versus Qui-Gon Jinn, or Princess Leia versus Padmé Amidala. But some are just kind of random, like Count Dooku versus Tarkin or Emperor Palpatine versus IG-88. 

For a few of them, I was and am able to predict a decisive winner. In Han Solo versus Lando Calrissian, I predicted that Han Solo would win, and he did. And of course, Darth Vader obviously beat General Grievous, and Darth Maul beat Asajj Ventress. So far, all of the winners have gotten over 70% of the votes (The closest was when Cad Bane beat Hondo Ohnaka with 72% of the votes). 

Today's match-ups were Princess Leia versus Padmé Amidala and Jango Fett versus Bossk. I predict that Jango will easily beat Bossk, because a similar match-up occured yesterday with Boba Fett versus Dengar, where Boba Fett won with 96% of the votes, which is the highest yet. I'm not sure who will win the Padmé versus Princess Leia match-up, because this basically splits the fans between the Original Trilogy and the, um, "New Trilogy", I guess. 

In the next few days, Chewbacca will probably beat Wicket, Count Dooku will probably beat Tarkin, Emperor Palpatine will certainly beat IG-88, and Ahsoka will probably beat Rex. It's true that there are a lot of Captain Rex fans, but it was very clear to me, especially during the last episode arc of Season 5, that Ahsoka has just as many, if not more fans. 

The final winner will be decided on April 9th. I think it will be one of the Fetts. Actually, Jango and Boba, father and son, will be paired up against each other on the 2nd, which may very well be the most hard-to-predict match-up yet. I hope that the people at starwars.com have a plan of what will happen if there's a tie, because that may very well occur.

Some people may wonder why starwars.com is doing something like this, but I think it's pretty obvious. Once the Clone Wars goes on hiatus (which is permanent in this case), starwars.com is usually pretty quiet. They just thought up some fun activity that will keep fans busy for a few weeks. 

If you want to participate, or just look at the This Is Madness character tournament, then go here. I will post again sometime after the winner is announced. If you have an opinion about the tournament, respond in the comments! 

New Episode Thoughts

Since Season 6 isn't happening, I thought that I would talk about what we might see as of bonus content. I'm not sure how many new episodes they will release, but I know that we all want more of Maul and Ahsoka. The Clovis arc was the only arc we knew of for sure in Season 6, but now that we know that our new episodes are limited, I think that anyone would gladly swap out the Clovis arc for a different, more exciting arc.

Below the Lucasfilm announcement there is a short message by Dave Filoni and then a clip of an episode next season. In the clip, Anakin and two other Jedi females are fighting in a battlefield somewhere indoors. The clones are all looking very Episode III-y now. Anyway, one of the clones is feeling a little lightheaded, and then he says something like "A soldier must follow orders," and marches towards a Jedi. He points his gun at her, and fires. 

This isn't the first time we've seen clones killing Jedi, but this wasn't Order 66. Right after the clone killed the Jedi, the commander ran over and tackled him down. Anakin said that he "wanted answers" to why the clone killed the Jedi. Another notable item was that several droidekas/destroyer droids appeared along with several red Super Battle Droids who are sporting jetpacks. 

At the end of the clip, it turns out the whole battle is being surveyed by... Admiral Trench. No, you did not hear wrong, it is the same spider-like Admiral Trench that was killed in "Cat and Mouse", and another time before that, according to Admiral Yularen. However, this time it does look like he hasn't escaped the torpedo that destroyed his ship without a few scratches. One of his eyes is robotic. He strokes his chin and replays a hologram clip of the clone killing the Jedi. Then he tells his tactical droid something like "Call Count Dooku, I found something interesting." 

There are several possibilities for this clip. It may have been some Separatist plot that Trench didn't know about, it might have been the Nightsisters (not very likely) or, an interesting theory that I came up with: the clone was feeling ill, and he somehow thought that Order 66 was happening. Then the clones would be nervous because they wouldn't want to reveal that Order 66 even existed. 

The End of an Era

As many of you might have heard, there was a very special announcement yesterday by Lucasfilm. If you want to officially see it, then go here to see it. But I can sum it up for you.

They are apparently "winding down" on the Clone Wars, so basically it's being canceled. But, they will be releasing bonus episodes from what was going to be Season 6. You won't be able to watch TCW on TV anymore, but hopefully at some point they'll release a DVD with some bonus episodes. The good thing is that since it's not on TV anymore, and they've probably already finished the episodes, there isn't anything stopping us from getting a ton of new episodes on DVD within a month. That probably won't happen, but it's still something to think about. 

QMYT #2

Okay no one has commented on my QMYT #1 so either it's because they just haven't read it yet, nobody's looking at my blog since yesterday, or they don't watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In case it's the last one, I thought I would post a second QMYT. After all, it's called A Good Star Wars Blog, not A Good Clone Wars blog. 

What is your opinion about Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher joining the cast of Star Wars VII? 

Just a reminder: companies don't make more products if no one is buying them, and I'm the same. I won't be posting a ton of QMYT's if no one is commenting on them. It doesn't really make sense why I'm saying this, because if you're not commenting than you probably don't actually want me to make more QMYT's, but I'm still saying it anyway. This rule doesn't apply to regular posts (though the number of views may positively effect the number of posts I make, they will not negatively effect it). May the force be with you all.