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Now that Season Four of The Clone Wars is complete, I thought it would be fun to revisit the season as a whole and discuss its strengths and weaknesses, fun moments and moving scenes, with an emphasis on the story design, characterization, and storytelling techniques used throughout the 22 episodes. Lex and Megan will be joining me for the round-robin Season In Review. So let’s get started with Part One.
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The Clone Wars wound to a close last Friday and Megan has her last review of the season.
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I took a little ribbing from a few pals for reading the end of Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse first. So I thought I’d pose the question to blog readers: Did you read the end of Apocalypse first? (See the sidebar to vote.)
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Wow! Is it really just one more episode left of The Clone Wars until we’re left drooling for whatever they’ll give us at Celebration VI this summer?
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FANgirl’s The Clone Wars reviewers Megan is just as excited to see Darth Maul’s return as I am. We even got to chat about it for yesterday’s piece I wrote for Suvudu. But before Maul’s fury returns with a vengeance, Megan shares her thoughts on the second episode of the closing four-part arc.
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Cross-posted from Suvudu. There are moments in a movie that are iconic and unforgettable; they become seared in your memory. If you were a Star Wars fan – either by way of the Original Trilogy or by diving in as a new one with Episode I – one of those moments is probably Darth Maul, bisected, falling down into the seemingly endless depths of a melting pit on Naboo. Obi-Wan’s victory gave reason to cheer, at least a little bit, right before we mourned for Qui-Gon. Three cheers, the wicked Sith Lord was dead. Or so we believed.
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This past week’s episode of The Clone Wars, “Massacre,” truly turned up the fantastical element, reminding fans that Star Wars was envisioned as a space opera and not necessarily a work of pure science fiction.
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Ever since Uncle Owen dismissed Kenobi as a crazy old wizard and Tarkin discounted Darth Vader’s mastery of the ways of the Force as an anachronistic ancient religion, Star Wars has drawn just as heavily on elements of magical fantasy stories as the physical trappings of science fiction. Mind control, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and summoned lightning came to define the Jedi and Sith as much as their lightsabers. With good and evil mages duking it out for the fate of the galaxy, it was only a matter of time before another iconic figure made her way into Star Wars, as well – the witch.
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In the lead-up to the The Phantom Menace’s return to theaters, StarWars.com devoted an Episode I-themed week to Queen Amidala, and Lex and I decided there was no better time to wrap up our discussion of Padmé.
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