This was a pretty impressive way to pick up from hiatus with; I watched the episode with my brother (who keeps admitting he's not quite keeping up with the series) and he seemed to like it too.
Now, perhaps one thing about having become "detached from the EU" is that, instead of thinking "ah, Ventress's backstory has been kept from the comics," I thought "yes, there's no blank slate to play with any more, but perhaps having a framework can allow for a different kind of speculation just as good in its own way." As well, it didn't seem rubbed in to me that "Dathomir equals a fifteen-year-old novel, and if you haven't read it you're missing out on something..." (Well, I have read it, but I basically can't remember anything from it any more.)
In any case, I wouldn't say this episode seemed so much a matter of "obscure bits of continuity tied together" to me as a more character-based story, with Sidious reminding the Count of the "Rule of Two" (a good way to bring it up in combination with the assorted acolytes that crop up in the secondary stories) and Ventress taking that badly. I suppose I also thought it a "Battlestar Galactica" reference when the droid general said "By your command"; of course, after all the old accusations that the original Battlestar Galactica was a ripoff of Star Wars, I kind of enjoyed it but could sort of imagine someone, somewhere, finding a reason or another to be offended.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2011-01-09 09:56 pm (UTC)Now, perhaps one thing about having become "detached from the EU" is that, instead of thinking "ah, Ventress's backstory has been kept from the comics," I thought "yes, there's no blank slate to play with any more, but perhaps having a framework can allow for a different kind of speculation just as good in its own way." As well, it didn't seem rubbed in to me that "Dathomir equals a fifteen-year-old novel, and if you haven't read it you're missing out on something..." (Well, I have read it, but I basically can't remember anything from it any more.)
In any case, I wouldn't say this episode seemed so much a matter of "obscure bits of continuity tied together" to me as a more character-based story, with Sidious reminding the Count of the "Rule of Two" (a good way to bring it up in combination with the assorted acolytes that crop up in the secondary stories) and Ventress taking that badly. I suppose I also thought it a "Battlestar Galactica" reference when the droid general said "By your command"; of course, after all the old accusations that the original Battlestar Galactica was a ripoff of Star Wars, I kind of enjoyed it but could sort of imagine someone, somewhere, finding a reason or another to be offended.