if you would join us oh man what a beautiful conclusion to the Clone Wars
and a lovely tie in to Revenge of the Sith if you were there during the watch
party of my Episode twelve finale for the Clone Wars then hey it was great to
have you there and it's great to have you here at this break down a few
warrants it's gonna be a new thing we're gonna be doing so lots more watch
parties to come including the prequels original sequels and all the new mando
episodes it was a really fun time and I can't wait to do more with the community
so this episode is a heck of a doozy it's very dark and it really ties in
Revenge of the Sith perfectly with what's going on everywhere else in the
galaxy with the characters that we love I like to think that this arc of the
Clone Wars the last four episodes really shows order 66
not from Anakin's point of view because we've already gotten that as cool as it
would be to you know get him through the temple just owning all the Jedi masters
which is what I wish we would have saw in the films but this really shows what
goes on in the minds and for the story of ahsoka Rex and Maul during order 66
so we start the episode with the title screen and the music is a rendition of
the composition in Revenge of the Sith when Padme funeral is taking place and
Vader is rising from the mechanical table this takes place maybe 20 minutes
or so after order 66 is executed so I'm guessing Anakin most likely is at the
temple during all of this I have a really weird breakdown theory at the end
of this video after I go over that really intense dark ending that needs a
lot of breaking down actually or I take a pretty good guess at what parts in
this episode line up with Revenge of the Sith
alright so this animation needless to say was next level Lucasfilm hit the
ball out of the park with this one everything is accounted for even you'll
pay attention to the pupils of each character they contract and expand
according to the lights and the motion that they're experiencing a major thing
from this episode that I really liked is that we got to see the clones talking to
one another during order 66 showing that they didn't become mindless robots
rather that could be reasoned with I'll bite you know sticking to their orders
they still were themselves they just had it in their heads that the Jedi
committed treason and therefore needed to be
executed just like the separatists the episode was a beautiful conclusion to
the Clone Wars and puts a ribbon on Revenge of the Sith it was everything I
wanted and more especially that ending that part in particular left me
completely speechless and for those of you who attended the watch party were
just as at a loss for words as I was if you were there you know what I'm talking
about ahsoka zark had really curved nicely at
this point and to be honest I have more questions after all of this then I had
going in what happened to Wolfe and Gregor have they taken their chips out
yet if so how if not will Rex find them and
help them what did Vader do with the sokka's
sabers does the appearance of more I reveal anything
does he still care for ahsoka does he feel remorse regret for what has been
done where did Maul go how does he get the dark saber again did Maul feel
regret for what he did to ahsoka anyways as usual let's break things down scene
by scene for the most part then get to the discussion through and after part
for victory and death now the victory isn't for the good guides obviously well
yeah I guess the good guys are a certain point of view that someone would say the
victory is for Sidious and death is for the clones and Jedi
ahsoka orders Rex to set his blasters to stun she doesn't want to kill any of the
clones even though they want to kill her this continues to push the narrative
that is ahsoka which shows that even when they're trying to kill her she sees
the good in them in what's happening to them isn't under their control some
might say it's naive but this is what makes us so close so pure tano uses the
force in conjunction with Rex's stun blasts and we see some pretty cool
powers from her they make their way out of there where we continue with Maul as
he forced chokes clones and makes his way to the hyperdrive room sporting the
clones wrist comm device that he took from the severed clone arm in the
previous episode when he took that arm clean off in that dark cool scene he
listens in on their positions and plans of attack kind of giving him a bit of an
edge he dodges blasters and uses their own weapons against the Maul is an
absolute beast and we get to see his full powers in these episodes he wastes
no time he knows that if he's going to get out of there he needs to move
quicker than tano going full Starkiller on us and there are a few of those star
killer scenes in this episode actually which I'll reveal as we go through this
he brings the generators and whole place down with
bringing the whole Venator out of hyperspace and to a screeching halt
ahsoka takes Rex to the navigation room as they try to figure out what happened
they find out the hyperdrives that were destroyed by Maul and they realize that
they're caught in the moon's gravitational field this is a bit of a
callback or call for words to the Death Star that's no moon as they open the
doors to reveal a massive moon covered in ice caps so you know it's gonna get
frosty somewhat soon there they need to get off that ship or they'll die by
either their clones or crash to the surface of the Moon
as they open the doors in the hangar they see an escape ship and with it all
of Jessie's men as he leads them to ambush ahsoka and Rex believing Rex to
have aided in a sokka's escape they realized the clones have them
outnumbered Rex explains that ahsoka should stop
caring about not hurting them as his brothers those soldiers are ready to die
to kill them to do their duty in executing order 66
ahsoka tells them that they like him are good soldiers they may be ready to die
but she's not going to be the one to kill them this again is ahsoka at her
finest even in the face of death against all odds her morals stand above all it's
a very rare quality to find than a person and that's another reason why
she's such a great character the seok has got a plan and rex brings her out to
Jessie and the clones at gunpoint this scene was revolutionary it shows Rex
trying to convince Jesse who is under the influence of the inhibitor chip to
execute order 66 along with everyone else or as it was somewhat unknown if a
clone could be convinced or even reasoned with her spoken with after
order 66 was executed that they didn't just turn into mindless droids basically
an organic separatist army kind of almost no different than the droids
themselves what this shows is that they can be reasoned with that even jessie
was putting down his blasters and then order 66 was kicking in the inhibitor
chip kicked in again and brought him back to his duty it seems like their
memories are still all there and they remembered that ahsoka even though she's
not a Jedi as Rex tries to remind them of that are set on killing her because
she's marked as an enemy of the Republic it's the same as Maul here if they're
enemies of the Republic they die so it's not that they became mindless drone
but rather they fully believed that Jedi had indeed committed treason against the
Republic and needed to be executed so the clones at this point it seems like
there is no difference between the separatists and the Jedi while Rex buys
time the drawers activate the decks and dropped the troopers as our heroes make
quick work of the clones stunning them Maul runs in making way for the last
ship there as ahsoka tries to cut him off she almost kills him by her blade
when his quick reflexes dodge it and he sends a powerful force push where she
falls to her almost doom as the Droid shoots his tow cable for her to grab
ahold of Jesse shoots her from below Maul gets in blasts off but he's held
and stuck in midair this is where she makes her way to her feet and uses the
force to hold his ship she is immensely powerful
now I thought a star killer once again when I saw this scene of course he did
it with you know a massive Star Destroyer but also Rey who did this in
episode 9 ahsoka has become more powerful than we could have imagined and
it makes me wonder why Yoda didn't try to do this ship hold maneuver technique
as Dooku escaped in attack of the clones I mean he was so powerful he could have
just done it with his mind while he was maybe saving Anakin but perhaps he
didn't have enough time to do that and you know save Skywalker and obi-wan
anyways ahsoka realizes she must choose between letting Maul go or Rex dying and
she lets him go continuing to fight alongside Rex Maul makes his jump to
hyperspace and I know a lot of fans think that he may have shown signs of
regret or remorse for leaving ahsoka there you know having second thoughts
but I think when he looked downwards that's why fans are thinking this it was
merely to see what navigational button he was gonna touch I really don't think
Maul cares it's small after all he doesn't really care about anyone but
himself or his interests you know or at the most his own blood
like savage his dead brother who he yeah he partially cared about she then does
the same move as Anakin in Revenge of the Sith here which is a really nice
callback in touch since it happens all within a similar time period where she
throws her lightsabers to the ground and spins around as they cut a hole dropping
them a level below two more clones the whole fight between ahsoka and clones is
very intense and it doesn't get repetitive or boring at all in fact I
could go for a full hour and just watch her fight clones
maybe even more it shows her mastery over the force and her lightsaber as
they try to kill her she remains confident of her conviction to not kill
them and thwarts the blasts away instead of at them or you know just in any
direction she's really consciously using her efforts to save them they find
another shuttle to get out of there as ahsoka flies outside of it while Rex
pilots it making a cool scene of her getting into the ship as she runs
alongside the crashing Venator on fire now when she's flying out through the
sky here this scene really reminded me of the Force Unleashed and I think
that's what they were trying to not - I also want to take note and show that Rex
really cares for ahsoka he was willing to kill his own brothers in order to
save and protect her and I think this is one of the reasons that I mentioned in
the last breakdown for the last episode why he was able to stave off order 66
you know for a few more seconds buying her some time and allowing her to
survive whereas the other Jedi didn't really get that buffer period rest in
peace ki-adi-mundi alright so the end here is probably what you came for and
this is where things really need to break down as they get very intense very
moving and emotional we see the crashed venator as Rex comes back to the shuttle
with a shovel having just buried his brothers he looks
out to see ahsoka looking at all the troopers helmets some grubs some of her
Legion some of the final first and of course settling on Jesse's helmet all
helmets are above their respective graves
ahsoka looks at her lightsaber as she contemplates what has now happened in
the galaxy dropping her Jedi weapon as she knows she cannot be seen with it
anymore as it would be a direct indicator of her Jedi lineage and
therefore be her undoing and all those around her the path she's about to
travel is now unknown and her past can never be spoken of again
her true identity will have to be a secret until rebels now as for her two
lightsabers we see that she just dropped the one so where's the shoto that's
really unknown to me as she had them both clipped to her belt when she was
jumping off the Venator now in the ahsoka novel vader does give a soak his
lightsaber hilt to one of the inquisitors now how she constructed her
new ones well she got some scrap metal parts from Rada and then took the
crystals from inquisitors lightsabers and
made them purified meaning she took them from their red blood color to white the
scene transitions to an imperial lambda class tea for a shuttle landing on a
snowy surface this shuttle was used only for those of high rank either military
or command this is the same moon that we just saw so gone however time has passed
how long is the time jump wow I'm really not sure but it's long enough for Vader
to have gone in his lightsaber and for the clones to be wearing stormtrooper
armor now if you follow the comics the Canon Vader comics by marvel I've
covered every single one on the channel and have created a full over to our
playlist where I bring them to life and act them out with some voices to the
best of my ability now Vader goes and execute order 66 after Revenge of the
Sith finding Jedi and killing them now this lightsaber that you see was
constructed after he killed a Jedi and made the crystal bleed red the Jedi
Master that he killed was Kira in Fila if you want to know more about this time
period please go watch that playlist I will put it at the end of this video and
you can also find it on my channel it's over two hours long and took me over a
year to make or go and check out the comics for yourselves they're really
cool to see in person so I'm gonna guess this is maybe six months or so after
Revenge of the Sith somewhere a couple months after - six
months or so I'm just gonna guess that now the clones are also wearing
stormtrooper armor and we see probe droids everywhere the Empire switched to
stormtroopers because Sidious wanted a Grand Army he just wanted numbers the
clones wearing stormtrooper armor were still responsible for training a lot of
the new enlistees that came in however due to their advanced accelerating aging
process they eventually died out pretty quickly
Vader walks to the destroyed Penn etre now covered in snow and ice as he grabs
a sokka's lightsaber from the ground and grips it with two hands igniting it the
blue blade makes you think of Luke on Hoth and how he ignited Anakin's
lightsaber as well a bird caused from above this bird is more I this is the
daughter from mortis the embodiment of the light side she is watching him and
she knows now that the chosen one has changed the fate of the whole galaxy as
Vader looks at her we can see Anakin's beneath the red lenses and if you
brighten the image they aren't Sethe yellow showing that perhaps holding a
sokka's lightsaber brought a sliver of Skywalker out from the black clad armor
that is now holding Vader and reduced his SIF eyes to their normal state for a
moment now that's just my theory we get a shot of a sokka's clone trooper helmet
as we see in the reflection Vader walks away fading into the black of the ice
divisor this symbolizes at least to me that
Vader is walking away from ahsoka from the Jedi from Anakin Skywalker and Padme
obi-wan and everyone else walking away from his past and who he was as a young
boy at that tween all fading from who he was like the ice around him so is his
heart as he vanishes to leave only the dead black of the visor like his now
dead soul created by George Lucas this episode was absolutely amazing
it was very poetic and like George would always say it's like poetry
it rhymes it was amazingly dark like it should be for a revenge of the Sith
storyline and the whole episode flew by and while I do wish it was longer I
can't say I'm not happy with how it all ended coming full circle
you know I'm not here for a big timestamp I just want to see a great
episode and I feel like we got that I would have liked to see some sewn in
parts of Revenge of the Sith like we got in the other episodes you know giving us
an idea of what's happening so I did some math and if we're gonna go in
Linnaean see to how Revenge of the Sith went even with the cuts in time then we
can sum it up like this order 66 is executed at exactly one hour 20 minutes
in the movie and in the Clone Wars season 7 episode 11 shattered it's
executed at 10 minutes 33 seconds into the episode I'm assuming Palpatine calls
Rex some time before or after Cody the difference really is negligible here so
that means if order 66 takes place at the same time pretty much give or take a
minute all over the galaxy then from that moment in the Clone Wars to the end
of that episode it's only 13 minutes then if we add up 19 minutes of episode
12 start to when ahsoka drops her lightsaber we get 32 minutes altogether
the 19 and the 13 from episode 11 and 12 so if we go 32 minutes after 1 hour 20
minutes in Revenge of the Sith we arrive to Anakin and obi-wan fighting and
and Yoda fighting I'm guessing it's somewhere around that time but hey again
that's just my weird calculation off of you know we didn't really get anything
in the show to show us where we're at in the film I think it'd have been cool if
we heard some echos and the force of obi-wan saying you know you were the
chosen one or something like that or maybe even I hate you anyways the
episode was beautiful and I really can't wait to see the next animation project
that Lucasfilm comes out with I hope it'll pick up with Vader story between
Revenge of the Sith and rebels that's what we all want to see this will be
where he's really trying to come to terms with his new life as a Sith Lord
as the Darth Vader machine he has become hope you enjoyed this breakdown and
thank you everyone who joined the watch party I had absolute blast and will do
many more like that in the very near future I'll catch you in the next one
until then remember the force will be with you always
destiny
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