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agoddamn · 3 years

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I think TCW suffers from a chronic problem of not understanding war well enough to write it. It's also possible that they just weren't allowed to write more complex battlefields for Children's Television Show reasons, but it ends up being different equations that result in the same product. It makes it hard to take anything in it as seriously as the fandom seems to take it.

"The Jedi are terrible tacticians!" No, the writers are terrible tacticians. The Jedi are so obviously Protagonist Generals that you're expected to judge as at least decent because everyone in-universe judges them as decent, even though they seem to have no idea what cover or mines or literally anything but standing upright in an open field and shooting are. You see them in every damn cartoon with a war in it. Nobody even blinks about the clones who went down with Obi-Wan's ship, and it's not because the Jedi don't care about the clones; it's because the writers don't.

You can also identify this phenomenon when double standards start getting visible; Krell is (rightfully) dragged over the coals for his high unit fatality count, but Anakin's had at least four occurrences of returning with only one survivor and if he ever gets called to task for that, it sure hasn't happened yet. The writers just know that only having one survivor is both narratively convenient and practical (only one dude to bother naming/designing/characterizing) as well as dramatic, and they don't...bother to do the math of how bad it looks in an objective sense to constantly be seeing how often Anakin experiences TPKs.

LMAO what a fucking punk Grievous is; the magnaguards stand back while Grievous has the advantage but step in and electrocute Koth as SOON as Grievous starts to lose. What a little bitch

Grievous looks naked without a cape, but I guess I've mocked TCW's antipathy for cloth already

Obi-Wan is really good at Professional Lastnaming of Anakin. Anakin is good at it too

Wew, wielding both a lightstaff AND a saber at once, good job overachiever Obi-Wan

Hilariously obvious that Grievous has no strategy past "helicopter roleplay"

It's NOT Cody who indulges in the madness of using a grappling hook on Grievous! It's...someone without a visor but with a yellow stripe. Look, I have yet to find a helmet identification resource. At least this madlad seems to survive

I'm v curious about the distinction of clones in greys vs clones in armor. I don't think I've seen Cody out of armor once; he's always kitted out like he's about to go into the field

Once more, medical droid but no live medic

I was vaguely under the impression that TCW was supposed to patch up holes in the narrative but Grievous has a huge personal hateboner for Obi-Wan already? With no explanation?

Oh HELLO, who is this blond dude with actual hair? He's with Obi-Wan and Cody, which doesn't necessarily mean he's command but he might be. Crys, going back and double-checking?

Oh hey, finally Kix. He's also...quite mild, compared to his fanon portrayal? Maybe he grows a temper as time goes on, but here he's almost delicate in telling Rex he has authority

Cut looks visibly older than Rex. Also, yeesh, Jango was really rocking them male pattern baldness genes, huh

I like the snideness of this exchange; Rex demands Cut ID himself by serial number, Cut declines altogether and answers with his name instead, and asks Rex his number back, to which Rex also instead replies to with his name and is annoyed that Cut seems to have assumed he didn't have enough brain to name himself

Rex puts Jesse in command after himself, so he's likely higher-ranked than Kix and Hardcase

Rex, Crys, and Cut all have dark eyebrows in spite of their diverging hair colors

So this is interesting? Rex says that he's never really thought about his name and vaguely conjectures that it's more efficient for leadership to use names. Cut snipes back "I doubt the Kaminoans think that way"...which means the situation was ambiguous enough for him to say "I doubt" instead of "are you fucking hallucinating". Meaning, clones have used names for a long time, and even if using names wasn't explicitly approved of, it wasn't "you use a name and you get decommissioned". Cut is being mildly condescending, but he's not treating Rex like he's totally broken from reality

Cut leaning over Rex and declaring they're the closest that two beings can be is...a little homoerotic for dinner with the kids, fellas

I mean, Cut is right in the most meta ways possible (we literally know that the clones were programmed to be tools), but he's also quite dismissive of the idea that Rex could have faith in an idea that Cut doesn't. While I do think Rex is a bit naive, Cut outright dismissing the idea that he could be making his own decisions also doesn't help lol his "well, to each his own" at the end of the lecture feels quite false

Cut is wearing a wraparound tunic, like Luke & company. Nice standardizing of "wraparound tunics are just totally standard and not Jedi gear" wwwww. The prequels created this awkward situation where all Jedi dressed like old Ben in spite of the fact that Ben was dressed the same as the Lars family

On the subject of "what is ammo in this universe": a guy says that the cannons are overheated. At least a degree of Mass Effect-style heat sinks? I'm almost certain that ammo is mentioned at some other point, but the specific note of overheating is interesting

#boots watches tcw

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