income transmission, negative rebellion. Thank you for joining us and welcome to episode 6 of Radio Rebellion, a Star Wars podcast. We have a good show for you today, not a lot of breaking news, although there are some cool news that did break out late during the week, and of course, our review of episode 1 of the Clone Wars season 7. Quick reminder that now Radio Rebellion has its own YouTube channel.
When we have five videos up, our great day I talk, our best and worst term troopers, and we just upload these three Mandalorian review videos because the first one was too long talking about the first for episodes, so I decided to break the second half of the season into two episodes. Also, Radio Rebellion is now available on Google Podcast, Breaker and Pocketcast apart from Spotify and of course, Encore.fm. So if everyone's ready, let's go ahead and talk Star Wars. As always, most of our new stories come from Star Wars NewsNet.com, and our first news from the core is that we have an official Blu-ray release date.
On our first episode here on Radio Rebellion, we talked about rumors that the physical and digital release of episode 9, the rise of Skywalker, would be released the last week in March and early April, but thankfully that report was wrong as we now have confirmation of the actual release dates. The digital version will be available starting March 17th, and the physical version, DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray two weeks later on March 31st. We also got to see some of the bonus features to be included, and these are the Skywalker legacy, which is a feature-length documentary of the making of episode 9. There's also Passana Pursuit, creating that speeder chase on Passana, Dio keys to the past, and he goes over the ship that connects Ray to her past and the newer Star Wars, Roy.
You also have Cats of Creatures, which has poverty or Smaker Heart is prosthetic, and everything that it took to bring all of the creatures to life, and many other bonus features. One that wasn't mentioned on this report were deleted scenes, so we do not know if we're going to get any deleted scenes on the rise of Skywalker, Blu-ray release, or digital. Hopefully they are bonus scenes and deleted scenes, which is what makes a lot of these releases special. Some people are thinking that maybe they're going to save them for when it is released on Disney+, to me that seems kind of contrary, I think they want to get as many sales from Blu-ray and digital versions as possible, and one way to do that is with deleted scenes.
I know in the past, for episode 7 and for the last July, the different releases at Target, Best Buy, Walmart, all those have special bonus features and extra deleted scenes attached to each of those versions, prompting people to buy different or extra copies of the movies, so it's not kind of weird that there won't be any deleted scenes. It can also be that a lot of deleted scenes might contradict what the final version of the movie was, and with all of those leaks of the Colin Travaro's script and all the concept art, maybe some of those were kind of also users or planned to be used and kind of shot and then cut out as deleted scenes and they don't want those out there to kind of stop people from talking. So yeah, but finally, the home versions of the rise of Skywalker are just a little bit more than three weeks away and then we can watch them all over and over again. Probably once we have this year, we'll do our own kind of Star Wars 3-1 and review of episode 9, the rise of Skywalker.
Our second news topic is Dave Filoni teases the end of the Clone Wars. Dave spoke with Entertainment Weekly and talked about the final season of the Clone Wars. The top episode season just premiered on Disney+, this past weekend with episode 1, The Bad Batch, which is now previously teased with the release of Unfinished Animatronic Reels back when the Clone Wars were originally cancelled. Dave Filoni went to explain that he learned from George Lucas that the backbone of Star Wars is the struggle between selflessness and selflessness, basically the light and the dark side.
We see this originally with the journey that Luke Skywalker goes through and then what Rey went through in the sequel trilogy, but Filoni, this journey is seen through Ahsoka and all of her struggles that he will explore with the final two arcs on the short and season of the Clone Wars. Ahsoka's story was originally going to be three arcs, but again with only 12 episodes and season 7 this has been shortened to two arcs which will be the last two of the season after we finish the Batch Batch arc. So what is the Batch Batch arc with the Clone Troopers? Our third news topic is the rise of Skywalker's novelization.
They released an excerpt on starwars.com and this novel is being written by Rey Carson. It goes over the opening scene of Kylo Ren on Mustafar searching for the wayfinder. It expands obviously on what we saw in the movie. We also learned that both General Hux and Allusion General Pride were on Mustafar.
We supreme leader Kylo Ren. Pride is in awe of Kylo. Well Hux as we know hated everything they had to do with him and how Kylo Ren was putting his own obsessions over the first order of plans. We are also introduced to the eye of Webby's blog that if you follow all of the leaks and leaks come set off from the calling we will get to read about it when the novelization of the rise of Skywalker comes out the same day that the rise of Skywalker novel is one that I'm gonna get my hands on.
After reading my quick review of it see what was added from the movie anything that might have changed our expectations or the way that we saw the movie. So a couple of weeks that comes out and we'll have our review a little while after. New story number four Filoni's comment about Ahsoka is Ahsoka dead. We never know with Filoni.
So if you haven't seen the rise of Skywalker which if you're listening to this podcast I doubt they haven't seen it but just a slight spoiler for it. So according to Dave Filoni just because you heard Ahsoka's voice along with the voices of all the fallen Jedi at the end of the rise of Skywalker that doesn't necessarily mean that she's become one with the force. Speaking with I-09 Filoni says I quote I have to wonder we Star Wars fans they seem to watch the movies where they don't take all of the lessons. They deal a lot in absolutes which is very much a sick thing.
He goes on to use examples from nine Paris tracks back when Luke and Vader speak to each other to the force and Luke reaching out to Leia while he's hanging upside down on Cloud City. He also said that what happens in the movie doesn't have a lot of implications to what he's doing with the characters. Sorry with the character of Ahsoka. So we can take this a lot of ways.
The first thing that popped into my head is that Filoni will never let go of Ahsoka. We'll never say that she's past on. She's never gonna die at least in his eyes in terms of storytelling. She will continue to live on.
We've seen kind of thesis of her dying clothes. She's introducing the Clone Wars. We know that she's not on revenge of the Sith so she can make it past Order 66. Of course Filoni gets around this kind of when the Jedi kick Ahsoka out of the Jedi Order so she's basically not a Jedi anymore so she doesn't have the Clone Swither so she's not quite of Order 66.
Then she comes back in Rebel season two and then we know that she's gonna have this battle with Vader and of course she can't survive this because she's not anywhere. She's not mentioning the movies but in that later seasons of Rebels we find out that were about the world between worlds and how Ezra pulls her out from the fight with Vader and she survives that way and then she comes back at the end of Rebels and meets with Sabine to go what we believe is the search for Ezra after the events of Return of the Jedi. So Filoni has found ways to kind of keep her alive through all these big incidents and turning points in Star Wars and with the Rise of Skywalker hearing her voice at the end with the voice of all the other fallen Jedi the audience is led to believe that Soka has finally met her end either killed or just passed on through old age. I don't know the lifespan of Togrula which is her species so she might be alive at the end of the Rise of Skywalker just kind of an older Ahsoka at that point.
I kind of took it that she had that and that's the way that she was communing with Ahsoka but if you take Filoni's comments about how people that haven't passed on can still communicate to the Force then there's a way to get around it. You can say that Luke and Leia knew each other and had met each other same with Vader and Luke as far as we know Rey and Ahsoka never met but you can always I'm sure as a very strong Force user as Ahsoka was that she could feel a ripple or something in the Force that calls her to then kind of communicate with Rey. So we'll see if this is explored in a new animated series, a book or who knows even a movie or whatever. So we'll see.
What do you guys think? Do you think Filoni will eventually decide to say that Ahsoka has passed while he's finding an entire story? He always kind of leave it vague and only he will know. I'm thinking that only he will know what Ahsoka's ultimate fate is gonna be.
So a fifth and final news from the core is merchandise in merchandise in baby Yoda, toys, Clone Wars, toys, Dark Savers, Legos, everything. Lucasfilm revealed the newest line of Star Wars inspired toys that will be prominently displayed on this weekend's New York Toy Fair. There will be an animatronic version of Baby Yoda from Hasbro with over 25 cents and motion combinations along with a Dark Saber made famous during the Clone Wars and Rebels and most and lately on the Mandalorian. There's also a galaxy of Adventure Ahsoka and her Clone Troopers, a deck of the Mandalorian playing cards, a mini portable Bluetooth designed like Baby Yoda, Build a Bear Baby Yoda, Operations Baby Yoda, new Funko Puffs, Jedi Stifighters from Hasbro, Lego, Razor Crest and many many more Baby Yoda inspired a parall and toys.
So for everyone that was complaining that there wasn't enough Baby Yoda merchandising and toys come Christmas season, now they have their fill. So yes I hope everyone is ready for a second and third job getting those over time in place because we're gonna need a lot of cash to get all those Baby Yoda toys. More information on all of these on Star Wars dot com and Star Wars news dot net and also more information will start kind of showing up throughout the weekend as New York Toy Fair rolls on. So what will you be picking up this year and again how many second or third jobs will you need to be able to not fall into crushing depth.
So like I said that's our last news from the core but we have one more news report but we're gonna go to the mid-room report for this as it is not 100% confirmed from Lucasfilm but we do believe this to be true. J.D. Deloitte and Matt Owens are developing a Star Wars movie's last project. Boris Kit and the Hollywood Reporter with that exclusive that director J.D.
Deloitte and writer Matt Owens have been tapped by Lucasfilm to develop a new Star Wars movie. This project appears to be separate from the Ryan Johnson and the Kevin Feige stories also being developed at Lucasfilm. J.D. Deloitte is best known for writing and directing the sci-fi trailer slide and also directing Sweetheart, a horror trailer that can now be seen on Netflix.
Honestly I haven't watched either of these movies. I do remember that trailers were slide and it did look interesting. Matt Owens was one of the writers of the TV series Look Cage and Agents of Shield. I did enjoy the first season of Look Cage although I haven't watched the second season.
Oh excuse me and I kind of fell out of agents of shields after the second or third season although I thought that the past kind of two seasons have been pretty good. J.D. Deloitte will also work as an assistant on the first award games will be the first African American director to help a Star Wars movie although it is not clear if he will direct this movie or not. With Bob Iger recently kind of expressing that Star Wars was going to focus more on television for a while we do not know if this project will be a feature film released or produced for Disney Plus.
The work for these two creators is very different but they've worked on this before and what we've seen in Star Wars in the past so it's going to be very interesting to see what they come up with. I might check Sweetheart on Netflix in the next couple of days to get more familiarized with Deloitte's work and see if a thriller in Star Wars is something that might work. I've always been, I don't want to say against but I never believe that Star Wars needs to go into different genres to kind of play two audiences Star Wars is its own genre it is something. I know a lot of people talk about horror in Star Wars or more mature things and stuff like that.
I kind of always been, we don't need that you can always make your own original sci-fi horror if you want but if J.D. Deloitte's kind of background is more those thriller kind of things sci-fi thriller movies then maybe seeing a thriller in Star Wars might be interesting and Mac Owens worked with Luke Cage is pretty promising that was a pretty character developed season so we'll see maybe it's something interesting something we weren't expecting and it blows, blows our minds so yeah let's hope. So that's it for these weeks news stories like I mentioned at the beginning there weren't really a lot of breaking news or very interesting news to talk about a few comic books were mentioned in a couple of weeks or actually this coming week we have hopefully a big update on Project Luminous so we might have a lot to talk about next week when it comes to books novels and all of that stuff. So yeah let's go ahead and move on to a review of the Clone Wars season 7 episode 1.
The Clone Wars Review. The Clone Wars Return this past weekend with the Bad Batch episode 1 of season 7 the final season in its story history. It felt like the Clone Wars and it didn't miss a step in putting you back in the action and I can Skywalker, Mace Windu and the Clone Zone the planet are in excess fighting the Separatists and quickly losing control over the planet. Commander Cody and Captain Rex told the Jedi that they believe that Joyce have developed an algorithm to anticipate their battle strategies and to combat this they need some unorthodox planning.
We get introduced to Clone Wars 99 named this in honor of Clone 99 in Malformed Clone that served as a janitor on Kamino and died their helping Dominous Squad battle the Separatists. This also leads to Clone Wars 99 being dubbed the Bad Batch as they also were defective clones but with desirable mutations. The Bad Batch are led by Clone Sergeant Hunter and include Crosshairs, the Sniper, Tech, the Tech Guy and Reckor the Muscle. The group being made up of the stereotypical members we get to see every group of outsiders didn't really work for me too much.
The Sniper having a crosshair tattoo on his eye, the Tech specialist wearing glasses and speaking with a higher pitched voice than the other troopers and Reckor lifting a crash-down shuttle. It's kind of a bit much and things we've seen before but we also get the return of Separatists' Amirot Trench that's fighter with mechanical enhancement. So the plan is for Cody, Rex and the Bad Batch to get behind enemy lines, find the droid's cyber center and figure out how they are anticipating the Clone Commander's tactics. For someone like me that loves the Clone Troopers, this was a very good episode and brings you right back to the field of the Clone Wars.
Commander Cody gets knocked out two minutes into the mission and is out of commission for the rest of the episode. We are filming why in my view he is one of the worst Clone Troopers ever. Wink wink, this is a callback to our segment from three weeks ago about the best and worst Clone Troopers. They eventually reached the Cyber Center and gathered the necessary intel and confirms Rex's suspicions from the beginning of the episode that Clone Trooper Echo is alive and being used by the Separatists for their algorithm.
There is a subtle nod to Star Wars Rebels with a shadowy creature in the background during the campfire scene which appears to be a fry knock or a fine knock which we saw in a couple of Star Wars Rebels episodes when they went to Fort Annex Asteroid which was created after Planet Annexes was destroyed by the base or vibe somehow. So all in all this was a very solid episode and a solid return to Clone Wars. It gets you back in the field of what the series is especially focusing mostly on the clones and what they're going through the Bad Batch Arc which will incorporate the next two episodes where the most developed arcs that they've only been working on. These were going to follow Season 6 before you got cancelled so there was a lot of animatronics already made for them so it just made sense to start with this.
And next episode 2, a distant echo will premiere on Friday February 28th on Disney+. So what did you guys think of Episode 1 of the Clone Wars? Did it bring you back to what you felt from the series? Did you like it?
Did you not like it? Did you feel too different? Was it too similar? So go ahead and let us know what you thought.
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