The Clone Wars: Yoda Arc [119-122/134] ✦ Watchalong Reaction & Review

Totally!

kaiielle

It was like Yoda was tripping on psychedelics: Facing a bad trip then pull yourself together and say: No. An illusion, this is. A falsehood!

Veli-Jussi Hirvonen

Skipping this arc because I watched it a few months ago and I'm eager to get on with season 7. Really cool to hear Gui Gon though. Yoda has never been my favorite. I did like him in ESB as a senile old wise man.

Absher

Love that it's your favourite!

kaiielle

Miff

So, so good! Very lore heavy and awesome!

kaiielle

This was great, I haven’t watched these episodes in a while! Even though these episodes aren’t THAT emotional, I was sobbing way way more than I expected to. I LOVE the world building that the Jedi FINALLY put some major pieces together but felt stuck, because THEY ARE. You said that they could have just said that the Clones were an enemy plot, and they definitely could have made that knowledge public. HOWEVER, if they did that what would happen to ALL the clones? They don’t have money, they don’t have family, and there are MILLIONS of them, that’s on top of the Public gluteus tin the war lowering like Mace said. I personally don’t think that it’s forced or anything (not that you said that or anything), it helps show that the Jedi are falling further from what they are supposed to be. I’m bummed that LON PYKE got killed, I liked him a lot! But Dooku doing his own dirty work was AWESOME! We got to see SITH MAGIC, the Sith Homeworld, Darth Bane, we know where Midicorians come from, how someone is selected to become a Force Ghost! SO MUCH LORE! Ashley Eckstein really pulled some tears out of me with the Vision of Ahsoka that Yoda saw. An excellent ARC!

Justin

Oh awesome, good to know! *Adds this other thing to my list.*

kaiielle

This arc is the let's tie some loose ends while going on an acid trip. Very weird on paper, but so well executed i was not mad when the CW ended with it, before it was brought back for a season 7 on Disney + years later. Qui Gon Jinn can't manifest physically at that time because his training was not complete, he says it at the start of episode 3. This will change years later, like we saw in Kenobi. A short story in the Certain Point of View anthology give a decent explanation why. ( not spoiling in case you read it some day.)

Guiguioh

I've watched S7 now in its entirety (just getting the last two arcs scheduled to be posted here on Patreon for next week) and phew, what a ride.

kaiielle

I love all of that. I can't wait to dive into the novels one day for *more* 🥰

kaiielle

My goodness this arc was phenomenal, it’s kind of hard to put into worlds but this arc just feels so natural and right, all those connections to the OT are very welcome. Season 7 here we come!

Sean H

Sifo Diyas was Dooku's best friend growing up in the Jedi order, so it's pretty sad that Dooku did him dirty like that. Don't want to spoil anything from the Dooku: Jedi Lost novel, but their relationship and past is covered in there. Darth Bane (the sith yoda talked to) is a deep cut from a great book trilogy that is now legends, the Darth Bane trilogy. Before his time, there were tons of sith running around but he created the rule of 2 because he felt that was the only way to keep the sith strong. This was sort of a nod from the creators to fans to say "hey we know you loved this character and his story isn't technically canon anymore but he as a character and the rule of two is." Also, he was voiced by Mark Hamill because why not? You're familiar with Korriban from the KOTOR games, but when Disney took over, they changed it to Moraband for some reason. So when you hear Moraband, think Korriban. Same thing.

Andrew Sitek