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In this week's episode, the boys dive into the Star Wars Clone Wars 2D Micro Series
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Do you wanna play Star Wars Hunters after this?
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I told my brother I'd play First Descendants with him after this.
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You have a brother?
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I have two brothers.
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You have two brothers?
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Yeah.
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You've gotta be the youngest.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, okay, you act like it.
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What does that mean?
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You act like the youngest brother.
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I don't know how to describe that, but you just do.
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Okay, I have two brothers and three sisters.
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Holy fuck!
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Damn, your parents was fucking.
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Mm, they're all half siblings.
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Damn, your parents was fucking separately.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's crazy because for all that fucking, you're a virgin.
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No.
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Yep.
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No.
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You let that cat out of the bag a while ago.
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You don't remember telling us?
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I've never told you anything about my sex life.
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Yeah, you told us you were a virgin.
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I remember you were like,
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Hey everyone, and welcome to Exotic Society Media Force Facts.
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All right, Exotic, your episode.
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Go ahead.
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Tell the viewers what they're in for.
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Tell the viewers what they're in for?
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I don't really know what they're in for with us.
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Maybe a bad time.
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I don't, yeah.
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God damn it.
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Just say hi and intro the episode.
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Fucking nerd.
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Hi.
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Intro to episode.
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I hate both of you so much.
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Welcome everyone.
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Welcome to the shit show.
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We enjoy having you guys here.
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Same shit, different toilet.
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Pretty much.
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But welcome to another amazing topic hosted by yours truly.
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This week we will be talking about the OG Clone Wars trilogy,
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the 2003, 2005 animated series that appeared on Cartoon Network.
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Did you just call it a trilogy?
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Series.
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You said trilogy.
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No, I didn't.
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Okay.
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Well, hey, hey, he's going to have to make an apology.
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No, he's going to have to make an apology video too.
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If I did, my bad.
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I meant OG Clone Wars series.
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All right, that better for you.
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Well, do you agree to make an apology video if you're wrong?
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I don't know what the fuck I said to be honest.
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I don't know.
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But the point came across.
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You're correct.
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I'm glad he picked this topic because the 2D Micro series,
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I feel like does not get enough love, in my opinion.
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And I think it's really good.
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One of the things that I love most about this period of Star
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Wars specifically between the prequel trilogy era
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is it shows how militant the Jedi become.
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And I think the Micro series does a better job
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than the Clone Wars series does at showing that.
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Also, ball sacks on the back of corn heads.
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And it showcases my favorite bounty hunter, Dirge.
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Dirge go crazy.
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But also ball sacks on the back of corn heads.
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Please tell me you guys saw that.
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Yeah.
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That little part with Kit Fisto and the scuba troopers.
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That's probably one of the better parts to it.
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I thought it was so funny that they just actually put ball
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sacks on the back of those characters.
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Definitely did them dirty a little bit.
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A little bit?
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So what was your, I mean, you mentioned Dirge,
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but what was your favorite little mini
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episode from that series?
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If you can't narrow it down to just one,
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you can give us multiple.
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It's probably between two.
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It would be the one with Kit Fisto and them going
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underwater with the scuba troopers,
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because the scuba troopers look kind of dope.
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And the one with Dirge, the fucking speeders
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and the lances, that shit was fucking amazing.
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And it had Obi-Wan's best outfit by far.
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I think my favorite is definitely the Mace Windu 1v1000.
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I love that shit.
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Where he was actually just throwing hands left and right
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with the droids.
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I mean, literally he's standing out fucking numbered
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and he's like, yeah, you guys can surrender if you want.
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And they're all confused.
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And he's like, I said what I said.
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And they're like clone troopers jousting.
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Obi-Wan in a clone trooper uniform.
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Yeah, it does look pretty dope.
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How are you going to have, they got blasters
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and they're just full on like cavalry charged with lances
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on speeders at droids.
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The shit was working though.
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Like the droids in the 2D micro series,
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I like them so much better than the droids
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from the clone war series, because they're not,
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like granted, I like the slight comedic relief
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that they provide sometimes, but like in the 2D micro series,
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it's literally like you see droids, you see clones
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and there's just beef.
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There's just, there's no like banter.
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There's just, we're fighting to fucking kill each other.
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I love that about it.
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And like every time like a big droid dies,
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it just explodes randomly.
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Also the 2D micro series shows off the fucking arc troopers
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like no other too.
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Commander Fordo, right?
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What's his name?
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I'm not gonna lie, I don't know any of their names.
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Yeah, or Captain Fordo, Alpha 77, that little squad.
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That's also in like top favorite episodes
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is whenever him and his little arc trooper squad
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go and save Kyary Mundi, Shakti and Aayla Sikara
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from Grievous.
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I like the opening arc trooper, like it was like what?
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Like the second or third episode where like they're flying
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in on Muelist and the fucking droid shoots them down.
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Like the lardy that they're in gets fucking hit
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and none of them react anyway.
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And that fucking pilot lands that shit and they get out
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and they fucking go, like they hit the ground
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fucking running.
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And then I also like part like what I loved as a kid
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and I love now is like, they don't talk.
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They just fucking use those hand signs.
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And I don't know what the fuck them hand signs mean.
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I don't know how they know what the fuck them hand signs mean,
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but they'd be fucking doing it.
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I mean, we've seen in the books plenty that they had
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their whole like their whole playbook,
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like war playbook in hand signs pretty much
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so they could communicate on like, you know,
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stealth ops and stuff, right?
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Yeah, but they don't usually use it in like
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the other series compared to the 2D series.
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No, for sure.
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They try to flush out like the voices of them.
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Yeah, they wanna make the clone seem more like human
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and more relatable versus just, you know,
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guys in helmets, right?
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They didn't want them to be just like another
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stormtrooper-esque kind of thing.
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You know, I know it's a little off topic,
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but since you mentioned stormtrooper,
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one thing that I wish like Disney would focus on
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since they have the series in their hands now
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is that transition from clone stormtroopers
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to conscripted stormtroopers.
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Because everyone knows about the emphasis like,
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stormtroopers suck, you know, like even Exotic says
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I aim like a stormtrooper when I'm playing hunters.
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Like, I wish that they would show and explain
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why that is, cause you go from genetically bred soldiers
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to just anyone and they fucking mama can sign up
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for the fucking empire and be a stormtrooper.
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They don't even have like an in-depth like boot camp
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or anything for the stormtroopers.
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They're just like, here's a blaster, here's the, you know,
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here's the commands, here's how you walk, boom.
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I don't know if that's how it is in canon,
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but in legends, that's not the case.
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Cause they have to go to like,
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to the Imperial Academy on Carida.
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And like even Han Solo like struggled in his like stint
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to become an Imperial soldier.
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Like in the way that they made it seem in legends
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is that like, it was actually like very competitive,
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very hard, like if you didn't make certain scores
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after rigorous testing, like you would get kicked out
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and then you couldn't be, but like the results-
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But that was mainly for the officers, right?
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Well, he was a pilot.
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Yeah, but like a lot,
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most of the Imperial Academy like, yeah,
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but most of the like stuff we hear about
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the Imperial Academy comes from like the officers
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talking about their time there,
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not necessarily we get the like POVs
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of the stormtroopers at the Academy, right?
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Cause like the officers go through, you know,
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more training and that kind of stuff
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than the stormtroopers do.
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Well, what was homie's name that crashed
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on Yavin 4 that the twins find?
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Coral, Coral was just a regular ass stormtrooper.
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And he was talking about like how his training
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was fucking rigorous and all he was was a TIE PYDER
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that was a TIE pilot that was flying around the Death Star
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and crashed on Yavin after it exploded.
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And he made a scene-
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I think we should call him a TIE PYDER from now on.
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TIE PYDER, I'm sorry, look, words are hard, okay bitch?
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And I like TIE PYDER.
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I also kind of like TIE PYDER also, but no,
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he was a TIE PYDER like regular ass TIE PYDER
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who just crashed and he was like describing the training
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and he's trying to train the future stormtroopers
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of the Shadow Academy, he puts them through the shits.
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So I was always under the impression
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that it was actually rigorous, but it just seemed
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like the results did not match the training.
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So yeah, I just always felt like it was
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the rigorous training and so, I mean, it makes sense
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for a pilot to have more than a regular, like, you know,
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cannon fodder kind of trooper, right?
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But like, I always felt it was more like the officers
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that had the more rigorous stuff.
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Because I don't remember from the, you know,
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the those two books, the Marge Aid,
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like what Defiance and the other one,
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I don't remember those guys talking about going through
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a ton of training, even though they were like spec ops guys.
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Oh, you mean Allegiance and Choices of One?
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That one, yeah, sorry, not Defiance, Allegiance.
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Yeah, I guess you're right.
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I'm just going based off of those,
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like that's where we get like the POV the most
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of stormtroopers at all.
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So that's kind of what I was going off of.
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I just still wish, the point that I was trying to make
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was I wish that like Disney would show something
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about the decline of quality,
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or maybe not show the decline of quality,
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but kind of like explain, you know,
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like to give the reason why like Stormtrooper AIM
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is just so fucking bad by the time you get to the
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like OG trilogy after you see like
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all these badass clones, right?
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But I mean, are we seeing that in Bad Batch though?
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Not really.
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I feel like we saw a lot of that in Bad Batch.
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I mean, we see that the clones train
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the incoming stormtroopers,
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but we don't really see the decline.
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The group that, what's his name?
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Crosshair, his name is Crosshair, right?
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Yeah, Crosshair.
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The group that Crosshair takes,
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they're pretty fucking badass.
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Like they think he's obsolete.
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Yeah, and like the initial ones,
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like the early ones, sure.
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But like we see the like Emperor
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who's even talking about like,
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and what's his face?
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Was it Rampart, I guess?
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Hemlock, yeah.
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Hemlock and the other one that are like talking to
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Big Blue Guy, Amada, saying like,
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you know, we need cheap troopers.
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We need loyal cheap troopers
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that we can just throw at problems,
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not, you know, expensive, highly trained,
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you know, people who have autonomy
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or feel bad about doing what they're doing, right?
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They wanted to get rid of the clones so bad.
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They wanted the cheapest freaking military
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they could get,
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cause they wanted to conquer the entire galaxy.
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And they just needed bodies.
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They didn't give a shit about how good the bodies were.
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They just want bodies.
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Let's look at like what the Empire does in the end, right?
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Like all of their focus is on building big laser weapons
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and bigger star destroyers.
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And yeah, okay, they put some, you know, troops on them,
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but most of their firepower is from their big guns.
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They don't, the little guys, they didn't give a shit.
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They built a second death star,
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like just, you know, for fuck it reasons.
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I think that one of the cooler things,
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well, I wouldn't even say it's a cooler thing.
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Like first off, the Empire just definitely alls in
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on that quantity over quality kind of thing
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with their troopers at the end.
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But like, I don't know,
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that's why I like the clones so much,
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cause they had both, they had quantity and quality.
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What was the, I don't see, I still don't see the point.
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And I think we mentioned this in like the Bad Batch
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episode too is like,
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I don't understand the reasoning behind that.
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Like if you want law and order, why not have the,
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why not spend the money to just have the fucking
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genetically bred loyal bad asses keep the peace?
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Well, cause they're all gonna die out.
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Yeah, I think it was mainly cause they were starting to
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question what they were doing.
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Cause I mean, like they were bred to kill droids
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and serve the Republic and how they're seeing
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what the Empire is doing and being like,
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hey, that's kind of fucked up.
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When you could just go hire fucking Joe Schmo
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off the street, be like, here, here's some credits.
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Just fight for us and you'll keep getting credits
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to feed your family.
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Yeah, like making your army out of citizens of the
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Republic versus clone child soldier kind of deals.
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The people were afraid of the clones like rising up
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and stuff, the senators and whatnot.
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I think we saw a little bit of that in Bad Batch too.
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Like they don't, they want them out cause they're
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afraid of them, but making your army out of your citizens,
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then they're like, oh yeah, our citizens want to protect us.
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They're not just gonna, on a moment's notice.
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Cause after the Order 66, people were afraid that
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the next order, whatever Order 67, I forget what they all are.
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Order 65 was killed, the chancellor, but like they were
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afraid that the next order was gonna be them.
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That is true.
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And I guess like, because of how war torn the galaxy is,
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you're more likely to be like, oh yeah, they're gonna
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give me money and I'm good.
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I get to be, you know, like have constant wages
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and protect the galaxy that is now free from this strife.
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Sure. I guess I can see that.
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All right, but back, back to, I know I kind of,
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I kind of derailed us as always.
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It's just, I don't know.
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I, one of my favorite things about Star Wars may not
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necessarily be like the political, you know,
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like landscape of things, but I like to see how the
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political ideological clashes take root in the decisions
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that governing bodies make in the Star Wars universe.
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Even though it was Palpatine all along, like in the
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micro series, you really see how the Jedi,
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and I was mentioning earlier, how the Jedi transformed
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to this peacekeeping group or from this peacekeeping group
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to this more militant group because of, you know,
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like the events of quote unquote, like Sifo-Dyas,
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like asking the Kaminoans to conscript this army,
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having them have to join the fucking clone troopers
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on the battlefield gets spread out so thinly that when
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Palpatine is finally ready to drop the Order 66 bomb,
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that there's just, there's no, there's no way for the Jedi
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to counteract it because they're not centralized anymore.
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They're spread out.
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They're outnumbered by all these clones.
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So they have no chance to fight back.
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I like, that's the part that I like.
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So I really like this series because again,
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it hones in on the, the militant factor that really
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ingratiates itself into how the Jedi govern and,
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and delegate themselves across the galaxy.
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It's fair. Yeah. I mean,
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we definitely see like the transition for,
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especially Anakin and Obi-Wan in that whole,
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that whole bit going from like wide-eyed padawan kind of
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deal to just battle scarred warrior.
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I'm also glad you mentioned Anakin.
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I can't fucking stand his voice actor in the 2D micro series.
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I mean, I like, I like it more than,
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fuck, than the, the other series of the Clone Wars.
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You do?
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Yeah. Because he's a teenager in that area era right there.
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In the other series, it's,
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he sounds a lot older than his age is.
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But it sounds more like Hayden Christensen as opposed to like,
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I don't know, whatever the fuck that dude sounds like,
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like granted he did his shit, like he had some good moments,
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but his voice just sounds,
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it sounds so counter to every other,
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like every other Anakin voice sounds similar to themselves,
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except for that one. That's the outlier.
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I mean, obviously like Anakin from episode one is different too,
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but like, but like every other time you hear Anakin's voice,
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whether it's the Clone Wars movie, the Clone Wars series,
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episode two, episode three,
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like all four of those sound the same.
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And then you have the 2D micro series where, yes, sure.
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He's a teenager, but he doesn't sound like Hayden Christensen.
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Yeah.
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I also just have a very big Hayden Christensen boner.
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So that might be influencing my decision and opinion on this
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matter.
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I guess we can just agree to disagree.
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That's what we always end up doing you bitch.
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Just throw hands for fucking one. Stand on business.
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I'm always on business.
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You just don't know what type of business.
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Okay. What type of business you on? Go tell the fans.
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I don't need to tell you my business.
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Okay. I didn't say me. I said the fans.
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Exactly. But in turn you would hear it.
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Okay. Okay. I can, I can, I can cover my ears.
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La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la.
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Did he say it?
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Yeah. He didn't say it.
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We get to see Count Dooku actually recruiting Ventress,
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which was pretty cool.
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Aside from her just like showing up in the, in the other series.
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I don't think this is necessarily a hot take,
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but the 2D micro series Ventress is the least bangable version
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of Ventress.
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I think they're all least bangable.
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Uh, uh.
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The bad batch version?
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Bad batch exactly.
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I know I've already mentioned my thoughts on that,
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but that bitch can get it upside down on the cross if she wanted to.
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I'll go out like St. Peter. I don't give a fuck.
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That's wild.
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They really made Shaq T like a fucking badass in this.
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She's got so many scenes.
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She got worked by Grievous.
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She was doing pretty good against the Magna guards,
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but she got worked.
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I'm talking about the Magna guards.
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Nobody really did well against Grievous except Obi-Wan.
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And Obi-Wan used what? A blaster.
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I mean, you also got, um.
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Windu, sure.
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Well, I was going to say, uh, everybody's favorite Jedi
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get fucking one tapped by him.
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Shaggy.
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And y'all know that that was that Jedi's name?
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Nope.
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No, actually.
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Yeah.
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His name is Shaggy and he's supposed to look like Shaggy
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from the Scooby-Doo series.
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Wait, for real?
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Aw, dude.
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You didn't see that correlation?
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He looks exactly like Shaggy.
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I never, I never got that.
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Fuck.
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I also, you know what the 2D Micro series also like,
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one, I think it does like,
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I don't know if this is necessarily a better thing either,
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but like it does not hide the fact that Palpatine
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is fucking evil.
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I mean, like they gave him like the fucking long ass claw
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like digits, like he looks fucking evil in that one
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as opposed to like Ian McDermid, like, you know,
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like at least somewhat coming off as kind of like a,
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you know, like a very calm, chill dude,
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like Palpatine in the 2D Micro series looks fucking evil as shit.
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And it's also funny cause like,
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there are so many times where like Yoda and Obi-Wan
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put them eyes at each other whenever Palpatine does some shit
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that like he clearly should not be doing.
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As opposed to like the Micro series where like,
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you can tell that they kind of have their eye on Palpatine
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and especially in like episode three
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where they have their eye on Palpatine,
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but like they're just like,
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we're so tired of this guy's shit in the 2D Micro series.
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And then you guys were mentioning like the Jedi.
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I also think that the 2D Micro series does a better job
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at like actually showing how badass the Jedi masters are.
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The Clone Wars gives them,
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gives each of them, you know, a little showing, right?
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You know, you get to see a little bit of like
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Kit Fisto and Luminara and, and you know,
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a couple here and there.
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But I think the, because of like that militant aspect
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and them having to show like how the Jedi act,
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like in the, in the Clone Wars,
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like I think that it does the better job at showing them,
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showing how badass the Jedi masters of that time still are.
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Like granted, they're not as strong as Palpatine
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and the Sith, in my opinion,
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but like they're still strong in their own right.
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And that was one thing that I liked about the 2D Micro series
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because like, I mean, episode three
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absolutely fucking embarrasses them.
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And like, granted, like you get like, yes,
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they're versus the culmination of a thousand years
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of the rule of two.
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And I understand that, but like,
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I feel like they could have had a little bit of something.
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And I know Hunter's gonna be like,
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well, the deleted scene could have been,
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could have done that.
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But even the deleted scene still only gives them like what?
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Like 25 extra seconds of combat time.
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The 2D Micro series definitely gives the Jedi
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some of their props for that era.
00:19:06
I mean, okay, Kit Fisto in the deleted scene
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does put up a bit more of a fight,
00:19:10
but the other two, they still got bodied.
00:19:13
Like maybe they blocked one lightsaber blow,
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but Palpatine just like,
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he didn't even look at him when he killed him.
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He just hit him from behind.
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Like he swung his lightsaber behind him dead.
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He didn't even look.
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So he hit him from the back is what you're saying?
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The gay man hit him from the back?
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He hit it from the back and two Jedi masters went down
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like a knife through butter.
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No stamina.
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Yeah, cause like you get to see Kit Fisto
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in the, whenever they were on the water planet,
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fucking make force bubbles and just lob them
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through that fucking big ass laser droid.
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You don't see that.
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And then Palpatine just like, you know, two taps him.
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Yeah, that's kinda.
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Or the fucking, what's it called?
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That one Jedi with the horns.
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Fuck, what's his name?
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Irrelevant. He dead.
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No.
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Sacy's 10?
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He was in the Micro series.
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The tusks or the horns?
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The horns that go like down around his face.
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He wore like, yeah.
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I think, yeah, Sacy's 10.
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But yeah, he was, he was dope as fuck in the Micro series.
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Whenever he was just like, this ship is gone.
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Let's get a new one.
00:20:08
And then just proceeds to jump through space
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and just boards and steals an entire fucking
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Confederate cruiser.
00:20:15
It was, uh.
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There's Higin Kolar and then there's Sacy's 10.
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Sacy's 10 is the one with the horns
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that come around his face.
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You're talking about this guy?
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This is the only one I can find from the Micro.
00:20:23
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:24
Yeah, Sacy's 10.
00:20:25
Like that armor looks badass.
00:20:26
And then he just proceeds to be like,
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yeah, this ship's mine now.
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And just takes an entire fucking Confederate ship
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in a matter of minutes.
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And then blows up another one.
00:20:35
Yeah.
00:20:35
It's like, you don't see that in the other series,
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in the actual Clone Wars series.
00:20:39
Oh, in the Clone Wars series,
00:20:40
you see Anakin sacrificing like, you know,
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Venator, whatever class they are, cruisers,
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just to, you know, he's just like, hey, look,
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this is a sneak attack and you'll just launch a cruiser
00:20:50
past somebody so he can sneak by, bro.
00:20:52
They just waste that shit.
00:20:55
Anakin literally like half the fucking military budget
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goes to Anakin's Starships that he keeps fucking breaking.
00:21:02
Bro, but he's best Starship pilot in the galaxy, right?
00:21:05
He's not best cruiser pilot in the galaxy.
00:21:08
Surely not.
00:21:09
I guess the last thing that I have to say
00:21:11
that I really enjoy about the 2D Micro series
00:21:14
is like some of the context that we get.
00:21:16
I know Exotic mentioned in one of his,
00:21:17
I think it was one of his force facts about Grievous,
00:21:20
like how you see Mace Windu give him the fucked up lungs.
00:21:24
But I also like the background that they provide
00:21:26
for Anakin's scar too.
00:21:28
That fight with Ventress, that's like top tier animated fight,
00:21:32
in my opinion.
00:21:33
That's one of my favorite fights of all time.
00:21:35
With the rain and everything.
00:21:36
Yeah.
00:21:37
And you also kind of see Anakin.
00:21:38
That rain sounds so nice.
00:21:39
And like it's sizzling off the sabers and everything.
00:21:41
So sick.
00:21:42
Yeah, you also get to see like Anakin,
00:21:43
like kind of leaning into the dark side to beat her,
00:21:46
feeding into his anger.
00:21:47
That was pretty cool.
00:21:48
I think the best.
00:21:49
He feeds into his anger in every single fight he's ever in.
00:21:51
Yeah, I think the best representation of that
00:21:53
was from the other Clone Wars series though,
00:21:56
cause like they start playing the Vader theme
00:21:58
in the background.
00:21:59
I think it's in the, it's when they go to Mortis, right?
00:22:02
Like when you see like Vader
00:22:04
and like he has that flash of Vader in his head.
00:22:07
I think that that was the best foreshadowing
00:22:09
about the dark side of fall.
00:22:10
But yeah, no, the Micro series does a great job
00:22:12
at showing Anakin.
00:22:13
I also like, I prefer the design
00:22:17
that they have his hand in, in the Micro series
00:22:21
as opposed to how you see it in the regular Clone Wars series.
00:22:27
Like I granted it's a different animation style,
00:22:28
but I just liked, I don't know.
00:22:30
It feels like it fits better in my opinion.
00:22:33
Like I think it looks the coolest in episode three
00:22:35
because of like the, you know,
00:22:36
the shiny like erodium slash chromium look that it has.
00:22:40
But I just really like how it fits Anakin's design
00:22:44
in the Micro series.
00:22:45
Well, the Micro series is before he,
00:22:48
like, cause he loses it in that Micro series
00:22:50
on that cold planet whenever he's fucking saving
00:22:53
the animal people that turned into fucking monsters
00:22:56
by the-
00:22:57
Yeah, and then that's when he gets the black one.
00:22:59
Yeah, that's when he gets the black one.
00:23:01
There's a black one?
00:23:02
Yeah.
00:23:02
Like the normal one that you see.
00:23:04
Yeah, Revenge of the Sith.
00:23:05
Oh, it was still gold though.
00:23:06
He gets it in the Micro series.
00:23:08
No, no, he, I literally just watched it this morning.
00:23:11
He, it had like black, instead of being all gold,
00:23:15
it was black with maybe like goldish joints and stuff.
00:23:18
But the majority of it was black at that point.
00:23:21
Oh, oh yeah, I'm looking at it.
00:23:22
I see what you're saying.
00:23:23
Okay.
00:23:24
I guess I didn't catch that the first time.
00:23:25
I kind of just kind of skimmed through it
00:23:27
while I was rewatching it.
00:23:28
Cause I've watched it all the way through like three times.
00:23:30
Yeah, I thought it was shorter than it was,
00:23:32
but it was actually pretty long from what I was-
00:23:33
Yeah, I was thinking that too.
00:23:35
Cause like the first part was like an hour, 10 minutes.
00:23:37
And then the second one was like 37 or something like that.
00:23:39
So yeah, if you got two hours guys,
00:23:41
definitely consider go watching,
00:23:43
like going to watch the 2D Micro Series.
00:23:46
Very, very well done for the fact that one,
00:23:49
it was a Micro Series, two is done by Cartoon Network,
00:23:51
and three, it gives you another perspective
00:23:54
that the other Clone Wars series kind of hints at,
00:23:58
but really again,
00:23:59
hones in on that like militant aspect of the Jedi
00:24:02
in that era.
00:24:03
And it has the best showings for ARK droopers
00:24:05
and showing how bad ass they are.
00:24:06
Absolutely agree, hard agree.
00:24:08
We can agree to agree on this one.
00:24:10
Yeah, like I definitely want a replica
00:24:12
of that gunship that they had,
00:24:14
that show was dope as hell.
00:24:15
The Lardi?
00:24:16
There's a Lego one.
00:24:17
They released the Lego one from that,
00:24:20
the exact like styling on it.
00:24:21
The Lardi one from the Grievous episode or a different one?
00:24:23
Yeah, the Grievous episode, from the Grievous episode.
00:24:25
The one with the mouth on it and stuff?
00:24:27
Yeah, like the blue paint across the body.
00:24:28
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:29
They just released a Lego one of that.
00:24:31
I saw it at Target the other day.
00:24:33
Yeah, it's a new set.
00:24:33
Damn, I might have to pick it up.
00:24:35
He's definitely gonna pick it up.
00:24:37
Yeah, whenever I was a kid,
00:24:38
I knew I had like the action figure version of it
00:24:41
where it was like actually just one piece
00:24:42
and you had like all the ARC troopers with it,
00:24:44
but it is lost to time.
00:24:46
So I don't know where the fuck that's at.
00:24:47
I thought you said your dad got rid of it.
00:24:48
Probably, but I had no idea where the fuck it went
00:24:51
and just disappeared.
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