56: The Clovis Arc (Clone Wars 113-115)

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Have there been better arcs of Clone Wars? Absolutely. Have there been arcs that more cleverly dissect the hypocrisy of the Jedi or Anakin's fall to the dark side? Undoubtedly. Are there better duels, dogfights, and tests of will? Of course.

But has there ever been a Clone Wars arc as toxic as this one? Oh, no my friends, in that regard we have absolutely peaked.

NEXT TIME: Episodes 116 - 118 ("The Disappeared, Part I," "The Disappeared, Part II," "The Lost One")

Show Notes

Major Deaths (RIP to a real one): Teckla Minnau

Normal, Expected Deaths (Sad imo): Commander Thorn, Bec Lawise

Additional Deaths (It is what it is): Rush Clovis

Hosted by Rob Zacny (@RobZacny)

Featuring Alicia Acampora (@ali_west), Austin Walker (@austin_walker), and Natalie Watson (@nataliewatson)

Produced by Austin Walker

Music by Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal)

Cover art by Xeecee (@xeeceevevo)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Let us return once more to a more civilized age, a Star Wars podcast.
0:12.5	I'm Rob Zachary, joined by Ali Akampura, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.
0:16.2	We are continuing our journey through Season 6 of the Clone Wars, supported as always
0:20.4	by our listeners at patreon.com slash civilized.
0:24.3	So remember way back in Season 2 of the Clone Wars.
0:29.5	The show introduced Rush Clovis as Padme's ex-boyfriend from her early days as a political
0:36.6	trainee at Senator Kamp, because there's a powerful youth movement in galactic governance.
0:43.4	We're all so in charge of like drow in famine, like regulation, it's some details that
0:50.6	make it sound more important than what we maybe thought it was.
0:53.7	This is no model UN, okay?
0:55.9	They were they were legislating.
0:57.8	But they were they were also still children, but they were yeah, yeah, yeah, but she was running
1:02.5	a planet at age like 15, so you know, everything's a little faster in Star Wars, yeah.
1:08.6	So the show toyed around with the idea of him as a source of jealousy for Anakin and the
1:14.1	threat to Padme's and Anakin's marriage.
1:16.4	The episode where he appears Senate spy doesn't do a whole lot with this idea Clovis
1:20.7	is revealed to be a traitor and he is left for dead like clawed reins at the end of notorious,
1:26.4	facing the wrath of his co-conspirators as Padme and Anakin fly off and kick off the entire
1:32.4	arc on Geonosis.
1:34.4	He returns here somewhat inexplicably, we're going to hand wave quite a bit as to what happened
1:39.8	between Senate spy and this.
1:42.4	He returns here across the episode's old friend rise of Clovis and crisis at the heart.
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