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Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2x17 Bounty Hunters

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2x17 Bounty Hunters

Morale: "Courage makes heroes, but trust builds friendship."

Synopsis: Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahoska form an uneasy partnership with four deadly bounty hunters to help protect a local farmer from Hondo Ohnaka and his band of pirates.

This episode airs April 02, 2010 on Cartoon Network at 9:00PM EST.
 
This plot has been used many times, most recently (that I remember) on Enterprise with the Marauders episode. That being said, I enjoyed it a great deal. More people died here than died in Marauders I might add as well.

Some tremendous detail in the early space flight scenes, some fun banter between Anakin and Obi-Wan, three neck snappings and good guy bounty hunters. I like, I like.

Not to mention Hondo's Ricardo Mountalban voice.
 
It acknowledged its inspiration in the "In Memory of Akira Kurosawa" text that aired at the beginning.

I liked it well enough.

For some reason I knew the metal guy had a little guy inside him.

Nice reuse of Hondo Ohnaka.

The one sniper bounty hunter seemed under used.

Felucia's natives are fungus looking. At least that's in The Force Unleashed. So who are these wee turtle people? Another sentient native species? Colonists?

Also, IIRC, in the opening of this season, Ahsoka and friends lost the battle for Felucia and the Republic retreated.

So when does this episode take place?
 
captcalhoun said:
i liked it even if it was a Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven rip-off.
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At least it admits it, as I said in another thread; the Notorious ripoff episode this year didn't even bother.

It was an okay episode. That the villagers were short yellow-skinned people wearing goggles that look like the stereotypical Japanese glasses with slightly funny sounding accents are things I will not comment on.
 
captcalhoun said:
i liked it even if it was a Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven rip-off.
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I assume you didn't see the caption at the start of the episode, then ? The episode was a tribute to Akira Kurosawa. The entire Star Wars saga is heavily influenced by Kurosawa.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
Felucia's natives are fungus looking. At least that's in The Force Unleashed. So who are these wee turtle people? Another sentient native species? Colonists?
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They certainly looked like mushroom-people to me.

I loved the ejection seats with the bouncy-ball landing system. Borrowing an idea from some of the Mars landers there.
 
It was a decent but not spactacular episode IMHO. I really loved the banter between Obi-Wan and Anakin in the beginning, especially the line about Anakin crashing the ship "his own way".:lol:
The rest of the episode. meh. It was neat seeing Felucia again and finding out about the natives but the rest of the story just seemed uninspiring/unexciting. The fight between Anakin and Hondo was pretty good, however (I wonder how he came to be in possession of one of Grevious' guard's electrostaff?), especially with the Kowakian Monkey Lizard going crazy on Anakin and running the tank. I wondered momentarily if Anakin was going to let Hondo fall off the cliff and if Hondo was going to keep his word about leaving (No, Yes). One thing I seem to have observed about Anakin's "dark deeds" is that he only seems to do them whenever nobody really's looking/paying attention (with the possible exception of what happened on "Voyage of Temptation" although Anakin's action had more justification). I suspected that it would've been too much had Anakin simply let Hondo fall/die in full view of Obi-Wan and Ashoka.

On another note, I saw the young Boba Fett teaser during the episode and can't wait to see what they do with that! :techman:
 
One of the earliest Expanded Universe stories was a Marvel comic story arc where Han and Chewie team up with some new characters (included Jaxxon, the tall green rabbit) in what amounts to a Magnificent Seven story.
 
Eight Against A World! Yeah, I remember reading that one. Jaxxon, the meat-eating, green robot. Don-Wan Kihotay, who claimed he was a Jedi. The Starkiller Kid...good stuff. I loved those Marvel SW comics, especially the pre-ESB ones.

The first one I ever read was number 27, the return of Valance the Hunter.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
Christopher said:
They certainly looked like mushroom-people to me.
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They sure didn't look like these strange creatures
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Felucian_warrior
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Material from Star Wars tie-ins such as video games is not automatically binding on new screen productions, though it's often drawn on by them. Perhaps they simply chose to take the Felucians in a different direction, decanonizing the game's version. It wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened in SW, not by a long shot.
 
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