They've been talking about this for years. Longer than the live action series. You'll have to forgive me if I yawn instead of being excited.

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Thanks for the announcement!

Huzzah! Being only 17, I have only seen Ep 3 in theatres, and can thus now see them all!

Was it a surprise when they decided to Inclued Quinlan Vos into the Clone Wars?

then why do's he say ok Greedo can you go get that for me? or something like that..... it was so fast most may not of seen it... no it was the other ailion who say oh Greedo your so funny that it!

Edited by: Raz D. on Sep 28, 2010 12:31 PM

I don't know why every one is thinking about Gedo ok all, go get ep one put it in your DvD player go too just befor the pod races, who is that lil green alien "anni" is talking too I give you a hint! he be in clone wars soon!

I see. Even though that's unfortunate, let me just say that I really appreciate the direct answer, especially since you said earlier you weren't going to give any more information before the episodes.

I just hope that whatever retcon ends up happening, ends up making sense. If the show has her murdered parents not being her birth parents, and has her aware of that, that's a lot to change. The existence of a (sub?)species known as Rattataki (playable in TOR) also needs to be dealt with.

I know at this point it shouldn't, but it still seems very strange to me to have a character from the EU have an alternate character interpretation like this. The movies, which intentionally eschew explicit backstory as part of their style, are one thing: everyone can see, say, Greedo and think of various backstories for him; Lucas decided he used to be a young ruffian on Tatooine who got beat up by Darth Vader as a kid (and whatever he does in the next episode); the EU decided he was from a planet of bounty hunters; maybe some fans thought he was an aspiring crime lord himself, etc. etc. The weirdness comes into play when the comic series the character first appeared in (her first appearance there predating her microseries appearance by nearly a year) has a backstory for her already there. It's like if you saw Citizen Kane, didn't like the ending, and wrote a story where the titular character reminisced about Rosebud, who was his sister, and then they went and solved wacky mysteries or something. Why write this story about Citizen Kane, and not any other character similar in the ways you liked? If the things you like about Asajj Ventress are that she's evil, and female, I guess (which is about as far as the characterization seems to go in the show) but you don't like her backstory, why have her be Asajj Ventress at all, and not a new character? If the reason is to please fans of the character, that generally only works if it's not the character in name only, as seems to be the case for any TCW integration of EU concepts.

Anyway, that's just the rant of someone whose first remembered experience with the EU was a comic about Asajj Ventress, and Durge, and Alpha. Keep on doin' what you can.

The migrant species-retcon. Should work, I guess.

That takes care of the larger species problems, if we suddenly have Dathomirian Zabraks, Dathomirian Rattataki and Dathomirian Humans. All whom practice variants of the witch culture.

The specific Maul and Ventress questions still remain, then. Heh. Maybe there is some insane Force ritual where the witches figure they need to exile a member of the species in question to the original home planet in order to stay in the good graces of the Force. XD

...or maybe it's just Gethzerion sending Palpatine love tokens in the form of future tools. That'd be kinda awesome, actually.

It was "unknown" because we weren't at liberty at the time to say she comes from Dathomir. Rattatak still figures into her backstory, but not as her birth world.

Edited by: Leland Y Chee on Sep 25, 2010 11:10 AM

Maybe I'm just hearing it wrong, but when I read the interviews (that is to say, the more moderate interviews by people who weren't so crazy about TCW errors), I never got the sense that Ventress is FROM Dathomir. Maybe she briefly trained there? And "mother" is a title (in a matriarchal society, Mother is as good a title as any). And Leland Chee explicitly said that he hadn't forgotten about Ventress's original homeworld (despite its lack of inclusion in The Clone Wars Character Guide).

Seriously though, every season this board (all the boards really) have exploded with "oh no they've destroyed canon forever!!!" and it hasn't been nearly as bad as we feared.

The only continuity problem I really, truly have with the entire TCW series is Anakin's Knighting date. I have no quarrel with condensing-everything-before-Dreadnaughts of Rendili-to-a-reasonable-6-or-7-months, but the 4-weeks proposed by Ms. Miller was too short. I hope that's the one TCW continuity they drop. But the rest I'm content with.

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