You have but to ask.
What do you want with Anakin Skywalker.
He is the key to everything.
To bring balance to the force? to destroy.
He has long been groomed for
his role as my Master's new apprentice.
Welcome back everyone is Charlie this is going to be my Star Wars Clone Wars season 7
episode 10 video probably one of the best episodes of Star Wars from any
series ever in the history of the franchise if you're new to my channel be
sure to subscribe to get all the videos there was a ton of Easter eggs obviously
this is overlapping with the events of Revenge of the Sith so I will explain
the timeline careful for spoilers if you have not seen the episode yet we'll do
top 10 and Easter eggs as we go along starting with number 10 the title
of the episode in the special title cards and intros that they've been doing
for the last couple of episodes they're doing this for the last four episodes
with those green title cards that they put in front of all the movies the title
of the episode is the Phantom apprentice most of you probably recognize that
that's a reference to the Phantom Menace the title of the episode is referring to
Anakin Skywalker he's the Phantom apprentice of Darth Sidious as he tells
us Sokka later in the episode he's been groomed this whole time to
become my master or my former masters new apprentice ahsoka spends most of the
episode trying to figure out why Darth Maul wants to kill Anakin so badly she
knows exactly why he wants obi-wan Kenobi because he will stop screaming
Kenobi at every turn but ahsoka doesn't know anything about Darth Sidious until
about midway through the episode or the impending order 66 plot there are a lot
of key info dumps during the episode that shake her to her core and because
we're on the eve of order 66 going down I'm really happy that Dave Filoni
doesn't keep her in the dark on everything there's still some important
details she hasn't quite figured out yet but for her and all this in these final
episodes half of this is about what's going on with Anakin Skywalker and the
other half as what's going on with the clone troopers in order 66 her friends
like Rex they're getting ready to experience all this tragedy from a whole
different perspective the reason why they're using those special green tidal
cards and the special intros for these final four episodes in the way
that they're titling them part 1 part 2 part 3 in part 4 is because the story of
these final four episodes is partly based on George Lucas's expanded story
and deleted scenes from Revenge of the Sith ideas that just didn't have time
for or space for in the movies and because these are so interconnected with
Revenge of the Sith crossing over with movie scenes they're treating the final
four episodes as if they were part of the movie itself like this and Revenge
of the Sith edited together correctly for the timeline is meant to be a four
hour movie instead of just being a two hour movie so number nine Darth Maul
reveals Darth Sidious his grand plans for the galaxy too ahsoka the first time
they meet they don't waste any time he talks about it and they don't really get
into specifics till later but he tells her that Darth Sidious is the new world
new galactic order behind all this obi-wan Kenobi confirms this later Count
Dooku once spoke to me of a Darth Sidious but Anakin has just killed him
so we really don't have a whole lot of information about it Maul even laughs at
ahsoka when she talks about bringing him in before the council and asking for his
help in stopping Darth Sidious if it's such a big problem why don't you help us
we can take down this threat together and he's like you don't understand
there's not even going to be a Jedi Council in a couple days the really interesting
thing that sam witwer who's doing the voice of Darth Maul and Dave Filoni do
with Maul in this episode is that when he's talking about Darth Sidious as new
Galactic Empire these creating there's a hint of fear in his voice like he's
still very much afraid of the emperor who actually at this point in the
timeline of Revenge of the Sith hasn't declared himself Emperor yet I'll
explain the timeline in a second but remember the last time we saw him he was
taken by Darth Sidious he was saved by the Mandalorian super commandos that he
references later you saved me from that prison the Darth Sidious had thrown me
in the other crazy thing about Maul during this whole episode is that
despite the fact you can clearly tell he's lost his mind just a little through
all the crap that he's been through he genuinely wants to stop Darth Sidious
and save the galaxy from his threat not out of a desire to be heroic or anything
good purely is an act of self-preservation because he is on the
Emperor's hit list the emperor would just keep sending assassins after him
so he and the Jedi have some common ground don't worry I'll get to the high
ground memes in a second because there were some really
cool high ground references later in the episode he and ahsoka as he says later
share even more in common because they're both fallen apprentices who left
their masters although Darth Maul didn't do it by choice you could tell how
bitter he was being cast aside for Count Dooku but then he's like no wait I
realized it now Dooku was just a pawn too for someone else paving the way for
Anakin Skywalker so number eight The Revenge of the Sith timeline the episode
did a pretty good job of placing itself in the timeline most of you are probably
able to figure out where it was based on a couple key scenes where characters
talked about what just happened during Revenge of the Sith is obi-wan Kenobi
states later this episode picks up right after Anakin and obi-wan had rescued
Palpatine from general Grievous's ship in the opening scene of Revenge of the
Sith Anakin has already killed Count Dooku taking Palpatine's bait got him
now do it now the Jedi Council has just ordered him to spy on Palpatine all part
of Palpatine's grand plan to make anakin hate and distrust the council more and
more making the decision to join him on the dark side that much easier
so as of the end of the episode we have not gotten to the infamous Darth
Plagueis the wise scene at the Opera and Anakin still hasn't learned Palpatine is
Darth Sidious 7 Darth Maul rips all that information on order 66 from the clone
troopers mind so before he used his powers to learn the full truth of what's
going on he knew Palpatine had a plan to take over the galaxy
because during Phantom Menace you hear him talking about how it's time for
their revenge obviously Revenge of the Sith is when
that revenge actually goes down this scene though is more about Maul getting
the exact details in the timing of it all like it's happening right now
literally the next couple of days it is going down that's why right after
this moment he skypes the rest of the crime syndicate telling them to vanish
themselves for a hot minute till everything blows over and the Emperor's
dirty work is done number 6 the Republic and Boca tans forces retake Mandalore
from Darth Maul so this isn't the end of it but the Mandalorians real goal here
is to just get their planet back they're not really involved in the Clone Wars at
the moment but we'll see how that changes because there's also a lot of
this history that they referenced during the Mandalorian
season 1 the live-action series during episode 8 of that series Moff Gideon
references his history in the Imperial Security Bureau in the Mandalorian
sector in the Great Purge that the Mandalorians reference on that series is
not the same thing as order 66 it's a completely different event but one that
had a very similar effect so while most of the attention of the animated series
is building to order 66 which PI happens in the finale I'm hoping that they also
referenced the Mandalorians Great Purge somehow too or somehow foreshadow that so
early prediction on how that goes down the Emperor after purging the Jedi Order
tries to compel the Mandalorians in Bocca tan to join the Empire when they
refused he probably orders them to be purged as well in all their assets and
resources seized that's how the Empire got their hands on all that best car we
saw during the Mandalorian episode 3 they stole it from Mandalore when they
purged the Mandalorians so number 5 Darth Maul in the syndicate the cool
shadows of the Empire Easter Egg a lot of you probably noticed was the fauline
here on the left he looks just like princes is ER and based on the timeline
it is possible that this is Prince sizzurp but I think that he's a little
bit younger at this point in the timeline because he didn't die till 3
years after a new hope that's way later in the timeline from when this moment is
happening and he's not that old during shadows of the Empire so this might just
be another fall lien but the criminal empire that they run is called Black Sun
the one that Darth Maul runs is called crimson dawn there are many different
crime syndicates but at this point in the timeline Darth Maul has managed to
pool all their resources and combine them in a loose alliance sort of
separate from what's going on between the separatists in the Republic and the
Clone Wars so all the crime syndicates are really just trying to play both
sides for profit during this war which is Darth Maul says is getting ready to
end really fast so they're all going to be put on the Emperor's hit list so that's
why they all need to just disappear for a little while for the final battle of
Mandalore Darth Maul gives a really good motivational speech to those super
commandos he gives them a really compelling argument during the episode
basically promising them an honorable death in battle which is all the
Mandalorians really care about freedom and a glorious death worthy opponents
which Bo Catan in her offshoot of the Death
Mandalorians are happy to oblige so I love the way the Dave Filoni edited the
big final battle with ahsoka in Darth Maul's fight scenes jumping back and
forth between the different fight scenes number three
ahsoka versus Darth Maul round one you probably noticed the really big Empire
Strikes Back reference here and their first big fight scene where he says join
me and we can defeat Darth Sidious it's obviously a reference to Darth Vader and
Luke Skywalker during Empire Strikes Back where he says join me and we can
defeat the Emperor he tries to appeal to her by saying that they share a lot in
common we were both cast aside by our masters
even though it's technically not true in her case Anakin didn't want her to go
she left the Jedi Order by choice Darth Maul as he says a couple times during
the episode was cast aside by his master ahsoka also makes a really clever Anakin
Skywalker Revenge of the Sith reference where she tells him your visions are
flawed when he starts talking about how Anakin is going to be responsible for
destroying the Jedi both Darth Maul and Anakin wouldn't want to listen to anyone
telling them their visions aren't 100% accurate and might be potentially
misleading with Anakin his visions become a bit of a self-fulfilling
prophecy the actions that he takes directly lead
to the outcome in his visions that he's trying to avoid Padme winding up dying
on the hospital bed whereas if he had rejected the Emperor
she might have survived even though they imply there is no stopping order 66 like
Darth Maul says several times in the episode there is nothing you can do
Darth Sidious his plan is airtight he is going to win this fight but number two
we have to talk about the actual fight scene just from a purely technical
animation perspective how amazing does this scene look really you could say
that about all the scenes in these final four episodes it feels like they
animated them on a level that's so far beyond even the rest of the season seven
episodes but look at the quality of this animation compared to some of the
earlier seasons of the Clone Wars back what it was on Cartoon Network it's like
night and day it's like a completely different show in the really cool thing
about these episodes is that they actually make Revenge of the Sith a
better movie it's a lot like rogue one making a new hope a better movie by
adding information and context so number one round two on the catwalk you
probably noticed The Return of the Jedi Easter eggs here and the high ground
reference when Darth Maul one last chance it's a reference to
Darth Vader fighting Luke Skywalker on the catwalks in the Death Star saying if
you can't be turned then you'll be killed they even break that support beam
just like Darth Vader destroys the catwalk except it's a big high ground
twist so ahsoka gains the upper hand even though she doesn't say that she
doesn't do the obi-wan meme but it ends very similarly with him yelling at her
let me die I hate you so much and then they suppress and take him into
custody but remember this is all before the Darth Plagueis the wise memes in
Palpatine revealing himself to Anakin so that'll probably be addressed in next
week's episode there's still two more episodes so my assumption is is that the
finale is going to be order 66 in the events immediately after Revenge of the
Sith as a sort of epilogue to explain what happens to a Sokka next and then
obi-wan Kenobi with Luke and Leia but if you spotted any big Easter eggs in the
episode that I didn't mention in the video just write them below in the
comments and what will happen is my episode 11 video will just post next
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