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Ziro the Hutt wasn't saved by Cad Bane for altruistic reasons.

Jabba the Hutt hired Cad Bane and his crew sometime after the Clone Wars movie to go after Ziro for playing a major role in kiddnapping his son for the Hutts to ally themselves with the Separatists, so when Bane arrives back at Jabba's palace, it's Rancour feeding time!

• Confirmed: Ziro had incriminating evidence against the Hutts, and they wanted him to give them the evidence. He didn't...He wasn't fed to a Rancor, but he did bite it.

The narrator of the SW Battlefront II campaign is Captain Rex.

Anyone who's played Star Wars Battlefront II knows that the 501st legionnaire who provides the narration for the campaign missions sounds exactly like Captain Rex.

• So do all the other clones, since they're all cloned from the same person.
  • Actually, each clone is voiced slightly differently. Play Star Wars: Republic Commando. It throws 'all clones sound the same' right out the window.
    • Funny thing about that: "Boss" (the player character) was voiced by the actor that played Jango Fett, "Scorch" and "Fixer" had different voice actors, and "Sev" was suggested to be a little... off from the standard. All clone character sound different, even the clone NPCs not in your squad don't sound exactly the same.

Cad Bane has, or had, a Morality Pet.

In Children Of The Force, Cad Bane had a minor Freak-Out when he overheard Ahsoka telling the Gungan child's mother, "Your daughter is safe now," prompting him to snap, "You really believe that?" Cad Bane may have a Force-sensitive relative hidden away somewhere, in hopes of hiding them from the deadly conflicts of the Clone Wars, and Bounty Hunts to provide for them, or alternately, that same relative may have been killed in the Wars, which explains Bane's seemingly bitter vendetta against Jedi.

• Let's hope not; the quality of a cold merc character tends to tank when you give them too much artificial sympathy, so let's just say he wants money for its own sake and leave it at that.
  • That doesn't mean you can't use it as a reason for his callous nature. As long as it's done in a way to not give sympathy, and just explain.
    • Perhaps he has/had a relative who was taken for Jedi training.

What's going to happen to Ahsoka Tano?

Option 1: A horrible Noodle Incident, which will end up being the reason why Anakin hasn't been promoted to the Jedi Council as of Revenge of the Sith; to the point where nobody brings her up to Anakin's face for fear of him flipping out and killing people. She may:

• Option 1A: Turn to The Dark Side, resulting in Anakin having to Shoot the Dog,
  • Nearly happened in the Mortis trilogy after the Son ( Dark Side Incarnate) poisoned her with the dark side.
  • It's always a possibility that she could turn. She's not seen or mentioned anywhere in Episode III, and may well die before Order 66. Her death is just yet another building block for Palpatine to eventually turn Anakin to The Dark Side, who will be revealed (to the viewers) to somehow have been responsible for Ahsoka joining Anakin as his Padawan in the first place.
  • Option 1Aa: Ahsoka founds the Emperor's Hands. For those unfamiliar, the Hands were Palpatine's Force-trained spies and assassins. There's plenty of talk about how "alike" Anakin and Ahsoka are, so it may be possible that Palpatine corrupts and turns her as well, only much more covertly, turning her into the first Hand. The Hands were obliquely mentioned early in the series when Palpatine kidnaps the Force-sensitive children, so this isn't entirely implausible.
• Option 1B: Make a critical and fatal mistake in battle, leaving Anakin with Survivor Guilt.
• Option 1C: Frozen In Carbonite or something similar, but in a way where most everyone thinks she's dead, save Anakin, who, by this point, will be widely regarded as highly unstable. She then will get thawed out so as to hang out with Luke, or maybe even Cade Skywalker.
• Option 1D: Lose her connection to the Force, becoming a modern day Jedi Exile.
• Option 1E: Reassigned Anakin is going to screw up, Majorly. The Jedi Council will punish him by reassigning Ahsoka to a different Master. This will fuel Anakin's resentment of the Council, accelerating his fall to the Dark Side.
• Option 1F: Defect or be expelled from the Jedi Order: Disgusted with what she has seen, both physically and psychically, of her Master's descent down the slippery slope, and Obi-Wan and the Council's tacit approval of Anakin's actions, Ahsoka will lodge a complaint and will subsequently leave or be forced to leave the Order. Anakin will not take this well, and will engage her, or those responsible for her expulsion in a very public lightsaber battle. (Or some other, likewise emotionally volatile display of Force) The council, witnessing Anakin's attachment-based actions, will refuse to promote him to the Jedi Council, while Ahsoka will go into hiding, narrowly dodging the mass execution of the Jedi Knights.
• Option 1G: Die particularly senselessly or cruelly, or simply appear to. Filled with memories of his mother's similarly ignominious death at the hands of the Sand People, Anakin will respond to the apparent death of his quasi-surrogate daughter by having another vengeful, rage-filled episode that leaves multiple people dead. The full circumstances and extent of his rampage are obscured by wartime violence, but Obi-Wan, and by extension, the council, are left with deep-seated suspicions of his instability. Thus, they do not promote him to the Jedi council. If Ahsoka recovers, having likewise suspected or outright witnessed his actions, she'll go into hiding as above, only keeping quiet out of vestigial loyalty. The sudden, suspicious circumstances of her departure will only further the council's reluctance to promote him.

Option 2: Order 66 Alternately, if Ahsoka survives or remains active as a Jedi throughout the Clone Wars, she's left with two branching paths to take:

• Option 2A: Die during the execution of Order 66: Self-Explanatory.
  • Alternately, Discover the truth about Palpatine shortly before its enactment, but be killed before she can tell anyone.
• Option 2B: Survive Order 66 and play a role in the upcoming live action series, possibly as a Badass Action Girl.
  • It follows that, in this eventuality, she will die at some point in that series.
    • Heres a thought, in The Force Unleashed series, you (as Starkiller) tie up Vaders loose ends. What if one of those loose ends happens to be another of his former apprentices? They use the same style as of yet, maybe one of them notices etcetera.
  • Alternatively, Anakin gives her a heads up. Bascily, Anakin, still feeling a bit protective of Ahsoka, warns her to get out of there, or invites her to join him. Weither Palpatine agrees or disagrees with ths is depending on if he views Ahsoka as another tool to ensure Anakin's loyalty.
    • Even as Vader, Ahsoka would be the last person still alive that he truly cared about, and he most likely would fake her death and tell her to go far away out of both his and the Empire's reach. This would reveal that there is still good left in him and foreshadow his ultimate sacrifice to come in Return of the Jedi. Bonus points if Ahsoka also had some kind of vision seeing this and tells him that there's still hope for him, right before she leaves.

Option 3: Survive Order 66, but perish later.

• She's out of Republic Space, or on a deep cover mission, or otherwise not available during the events of Episode 3. Maybe Rex and crew either don't get the Order 66 memo or have enough development to disobey it. Still, the Purge manages to do a pretty good job of hunting down survivors. I figured that Vader does have to kill her himself... assuming he can't turn her. It's Personal, and he's the type who would want to be hands-on with this. But, there's a witness. He's too young to understand, and he never will get the necessary information to make sense of it because Vader will never speak of it... but the incident sticks in his head, as does the very unorthodox Shien grip he saw Ahsoka using. Her sacrifice leaves him with just enough doubts about his master to turn against him later...

Option 4: Quit for entirely mundane reasons

• One of the safest ways for the writers to ensure that she doesn't die is to have her quit and take up a more safe job or simply go back to her family for whatever reason. Maybe she could fall in love, but then decide that it's more important then being a Jedi?
  • This is implied in the Mortis trilogy, when she sees force ghost of a grown up version of herself.
  • Perhaps she'll end up like Jolee Bindo and live as a hermit on a Mid or Outer Rim planet.

Ahsoka is a distant cousin of Shaak Ti

Meaning the "family" kind of "distant cousin", not just being the same species.

The Lemurs from the Dreamworks' Madagascar franchise got hold of the Penguins' tech and migrated en mass to the planet featured in "Jedi Crash" and "Defenders of Peace".

The lemurs all gained Irish accents from particles in the air and decided on ways of pacificism and decreed no royal Lemur family.

Jabba's son Rotta will die and that leads him to an extreme amount of guilty eating

It seems in the prequels he and other members of his species are fat but able to move by themselves and since he's never mentioned in the original trilogy and Jabba is massive in "Return of the Jedi" (excluding appearance in the digital remastered "New Hope"). Rotta was probably killed in a rival criminal clan's plot against Jabba and so after getting his revenge he just ate and ate until he was morbidly obese.

In season 3, the show goes Off the Rails

Based solely on a comment from Yoda in the s3 preview: The series isn't a midway between AotC and RotS.Instead it's set in its own alternate timeline. This will be shown by the clear onscreen no doubt about it death of someone who was still alive in Rot S.

• I really hope this happens. Right now (as of Altar of Mortis) the series is in a VERY good spot to break away from canon. The next episode's teaser even questions whether or not we can trust our Foregone Conclusion.
  • Jossed, since the Father seems to think Anakin becoming Vader will bring balance.

The Pilot movie was a Self-insert Fanfic

Ahsoka is the author and in Real Life a fat and shy teenager. Filoni or whoever found the Fic on a small and unknown website and just copied it, when Lucas was awaiting a plot for the pilot. Filoni's only change was removing the sex scene on Tatooine's dessert between Anakin and Ahsoka.

Ahsoka is closly related to Ashla.

Ashla could even be Ahsoka's little sister, their ages match up. The force runs in the family.

The series is the daydream of the real Ahsoka Tano.

Ahsoka Tano is a non-Force-sensitive child living somewhere in the galaxy during the (actually very grim) Clone Wars. She keeps happy and sane by imagining herself fighting alongside General Obi-Wan Kenobi and Commander Anakin Skywalker, both of whom she's seen on Holonet News. This explains:

• The numerous discrepancies between the show and established Star Wars "reality." She's never been to Ryloth, she doesn't know how holocrons really work, and so on.
• The Character Derailment seen in the show. She imagines Anakin as always upstanding and generically heroic based on what she's seen in the media.
• The Lighter and Softer tone of the show. The real war, of course, is terrible and horrific, but it's much more comforting for her to imagine it as an exciting adventure for "her" and her "friends." It helps her feel better about the terrifying faceless unthinking automatons that are the droid army if she thinks of them as the Five Quadrillion Stooges. Also, Ziro the Hutt.
• Why Ahsoka is sometimes a Creator's Pet.
• Why Status Quo Is God. Why would her daydream have an overarching plot?
• Why Anachronic Order. She gets a new idea for an event she already had a daydream about and makes a new daydream that factors in that new idea.

The series will most likely end with Ahsoka staring into a commemorative snow globe of the Battle of Orto Plutonia, which in reality resulted in the deaths of the entire native population.

The cylinder Asajj Ventress tried to steal from Kamino would have been used to create clones loyal to the Separatists.

Clones loyal to the Separatists would essentially make the perfect spies.

Grievous's backstory changed? Nah, he's just an Unreliable Narrator.

• The Geonosians and the Sith are responsible for his creation, who's to say they didn't go so far as making him think his alterations were of his own choosing?
• Or, maybe he's just ashamed of being Dooku's pawn and doesn't want to admit that the alterations were Dooku's idea. He's managed to convince himself that he chose the modifications, and he has expended a lot of money to make a shrine to his "transformation" to keep up the act. Wishful thinking, but Grievous doesn't think of it that way.

There will be massive downer-ending episode where every inmate of the republic prison(s?) will break out.

• Wat Tambor, Poggle the Lesser, Bossk and Boba are under arrest by the republic. Through the appearances of Poggle and Tambor in Revenge of the Sith they somehow have to get out. Why not let the droid army infiltrate the prison and stage a mass-breakout to free their leaders and damage the Coruscant and Republics citizens lives.
  • A corollary to this is that Ahsoka will either die or be crippled to the point of retirement trying to combat the breakout, which is why she was MIA by the time of Revenge Of The Sith.
  • Perhaps as a direct lead into the start of Rot S; free the prisoners, attack Coruscant, kidnap Palpatine.

These are propaganda films made by the Republic.

People say this about Star Wars: Clone Wars, but these are the real ones. Think about it. The Clones are perfect Super Soldiers who can each kill a ton of battle droids without dying. The enemies are portrayed as evil even though they have a valid reason to exist. They shouldn't be held responsible for the war crimes of their generals, but they are. In fact, unlike the Republic citizens you see so much of, no civilian Separatists are ever seen, even though there should be trillions. All you see of them is their gigantic army that is both evil, and stupid. In addition, Anakin is shown as perfect even though every other Star Wars material confirms he is a Jerkass. Ahsoka, meanwhile, is them putting a positive spin on their use of Child Soldiers. The creators of the show try to clue you in on the show being propaganda by opening with a narrator who's a dead ringer for the one from Starship Troopers.

• As of "Heroes on Both Sides", we get a glimpse of the Separatist side.
• Original poster again: That episode aired the day after I wrote that. Damn. The show still treats the Separatists as evil for the most part. And I doubt they'll come back to this much, as Padme's Separatist friend died off screen by "Pursuit of Peace."
  • Not really, it treats it's Leaders as evil, but the civilians actually seem decent. Of course both sides are being played by Darth Sidious anyway.
• In "Senate Spy" the announcer mentions "Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker returns to his wife Padmé Amidala". Even when these movies were made during the civil war/dark times, how would anyone of the ordinary people know that? The scene in "Pursuit of Peace" where Palpatine hints at his power crumbling because of those pesky senators would also probably get censored by Republic and Empire alike. Of course, I would like to subscribe to the idea of most episodes being propaganda films, not all.

In a shocker ending, Grievous kills Ahsoka in her sleep.

In the last episode, Ahsoka ends up saving the galaxy in some way, shape, or form. The screen fades to black with everyone cheering for Ahsoka, leaving the viewers with a grin on their faces... but it's not over. Suddenly, a scene starts showing Ahsoka sleeping in a dark room for a few seconds. Then, a dark figure slowly walks in, and a lightsaber turns on. You know the rest.

This show is an AU of the main Star Wars universe.

Specifically, an alternate timeline. The Clone Wars lasted for three years, and I doubt this series could fit into the timeline with the animated Clone Series and all the EU stories. Plus Grievous has his cough, and he didn't get this until Mace Windu Force Crushed his chest. In this timeline, the Clone Wars went on longer

== Darth Maul...is not really alive. == JOSSED. Mother Talzin's revelation of Savage Opress's surviving brother may very well be just another in a long line of deceptions. After all, she was quite clear about him being a "pawn"; it's entirely possible that when Savage makes his way to the Outer Rim, all he'll find is a Nightsister assassin squad waiting to take him out, his usefulness having long since expired.

• If she wanted him dead, it would have been easy enough to do while he was laying heavily wounded at her feet. Furthermore, Mother Talzin almost seemed to sabotage the Dooku assassination plot on purpose - telling the Jedi where to find Savage and demanding that Ventress strike prematurely. It's hard to say what game she's playing at this point, but she probably has a use for him yet.
• That, and the fans will crucify the writers if they pull a bait and switch like that.
• Or more than likely, what Savage finds is just a force ghost of Maul.
  • Or Maul is active, but not alive.

The series will end with Ahsoka's death.

With all the focus on her character ever since the Pilot Movie, she'll likely go out in a massive Heroic Sacrifice and be posthumously given the rank of Jedi Knight by the entire Council. The last few minutes will also directly lead into the beginning of Episode III, followed by a Flash Forward to the very end of Return of the Jedi in which Ahsoka meets Anakin again for the first time in over twenty years (as Force Ghosts) and says that she always had faith that he'd come back.

The series is an Alternate Universe from the end of Episode II. Anakin will not fall and Palpatine will ultimately end up being defeated.

Ahsoka Tano is nowhere seen or even mentioned by anyone in Revenge of the Sith, meaning that she has either died by this point (see above), or was never assigned to be Anakin's Padawan. She is assigned to someone else, or never becomes a Padawan at all, and most likely perishes in Order 66. Aside from seeing her training in the Temple from time to time, neither Anakin or Obi-Wan knew her.

Ahsoka's presence will end up changing everything, and in fact might have done so already. Battles that were once lost are now won (and vice-versa), but overall she will be the one that will tether Anakin to not fall to The Dark Side and succeed in fulfilling his destiny.

In effect, this series is the result of What if Anakin Skywalker had a Padawan? The final scene may show an aged Luke Skywalker coming out of some sort of trance, having been shown by The Force the results of that question. Whether it was All Just a Dream or if he indeed was shown another universe will not be made clear.

• It probably won't be made clear, since Lucas seems to want this to be the canon Clone Wars, instead of the original. The existence of Ashoka Tano has triggered a For Want of a Nail timeline.

The Father, Obi-Wan and Yoda all faded into the force because...

They were all embodiments of the will of the Force, guiding Anakin to his true destiny. When they "died", the returned to the Force, because they are essentially The Force anyway.

The show isn't Republic/Imperial propaganda, but it is Palpatine's pet project.

Remember, it's canon than he wrote a play called 'The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise', which is essentially autobiographical. These films are things he does to relax, instead of sleeping.

The show takes place in an alternate timeline

Specifically, there's a reason Ahsoka is never mentioned in any of the movies or anything taking place after Revenge of the Sith: She didn't exist in the "main" timeline. The show is a huge What If, and she will end up being the major turning point that prevents Anakin from becoming Darth Vader. The final episodes of the show will be a mirror of the end of Episode III, only with Ahsoka there to act as Anakin's Morality Pet.

The dreams Anakin has in Revenge of the Sith are remnants of the Son-induced flashforwards

The Father may have mostly erased Anakin's experiences with what the Son showed him, but they still remain in his subconsious, though it took a significant amount of time for these remnants to surface, and only then, it's only one particular fragment.

The series is a contiunity reboot.

Of the Clone Wars. It seems impossible that this series could fit with Episode III, and that's just ignoring the other Clone Wars series. What I think is happening is that George Lucas felt the Clone Wars arc needed some improvement. And, by extension, Anakin's ultimate fall. For this reason, he felt the need for a Morality Pet. Or rather, a morality chain. This show will end with an edited, alternate Episode III. In this, the cause of Anakin's turn to the dark side will be due to Ashoka's death. It will make him more vulnerable, and explain his determination to save Padme at any costs. In short, this is Lucas's Xanatos Gambit into making a better Face Heel Turn for Ani. Even if no one buys it, the Clone Wars themselves are fleshed out.

• • That would actually be awesome!

Ahsoka Tano will survive, and will swear vengeance on the Skywalker bloodline after Anakin's betrayal.

I don't know about you, but I just can't see them killing off Ahsoka in a kids' show. Perhaps she'll die in the comics, but my theory for if she survives will be that she sees Anakin's massacre of the Jedi Temple, learns about his relationship with Padme, then goes to her homeworld of Shili to perform the Togrutan blood oath ritual. A Togrutan blood oath is a promise that cannot be broken, and is carried down through the bloodline of the person performing the ritual. This means that any descendants of Ahsoka are condemned to fulfill this promise. Ahsoka will swear a blood oath to wipe the Skywalker bloodline from the face of the galaxy, leading her to try to kill Luke and Leia at certain points in the GCW era.

The series will end with two separate endings

A "Light Side" Ending and a "Dark Side" Ending. The Dark Side would lead into the canon ending, the Light Side would explore what would've happened if Anakin never fell to the Dark Side. All the games have been doing it, and it'd be pretty awesome. Not only that, showing what would've happened had Anakin never fell to the Dark Side would make the real canon even more tragic.

• You know, that would be pretty flipping awesome. I support this theory. The sad thing is that the only people who are likely to get it are the gamers, those familiar with KOTOR or the games that explore what you've said. However... you could establish it in nice context for those unfamiliar if crafted right. A surviving main character later on (Ahsoka? Rex? Fives?) is telling the canon/dark side ending to someone in the future (assuming they survive), then one of the people they're talking to asks, "What could of happened?", leading to this. Even play it like some of the games like Galactic Battlegrounds did for some of the battles (IE, Grassy Plains, Endor, etc.) where it's explored alternative paths the battle could of taken.

I agree this is a great idea! It makes me think of this comic Darth Vader and the Lost Command, set a month or so after Episode III, which contains a few thoughts Vader has of what could have happened if things had gone differently: he saves Mace Windu from Palpatine, becomes the leader of the Jedi, and about 10-ish years later Padmé is Supreme Chancellor and (hopefully) brings peace to the galaxy. An important point is where to make the split between the two endings (it would have to happen near the end in any case). I’m thinking it could happen at Ahsoka’s death (if that happens). Anakin has to make a choice between murdering the killer in cold blood (like he did with the Tusken Raiders in Episode II) or using an alternate approach that uses the light side (such as Luke in Episode VI), which is the branch into the two endings.

The first choice has Anakin kill the killer shortly before the others show up (so they don't know he did it). Anakin tells everyone afterwards to never speak of Ahsoka again, as her loss is too painful for him, and the episode ends immediately before the start of Episode III.

The second choice would have Anakin realize how he’s moving towards the dark side, and makes a decision to not continue to do so. Sometime afterwards the Jedi find out that Palpatine = Sidious, then the events of Episode III happen, some of them similarly (Obi-Wan defeats Grievous, Padmé gives birth, etc.), but others differently, with Anakin defeating Sidious, Order 66 never happening, etc. Finally the episode cuts to about 10 years later, with Anakin leading the Jedi, Supreme Chancellor Amidala, and a closing narration along the lines of "they brought peace to the whole galaxy."

The Clones are going to kill Krell by the end of the Umbara arc.

Come on, Rex isn't going to take Krell's attitude forever. He pulled a lightsaber on Fives for crying out loud. I could actually see a Clone Trooper axing him and everyone just instantly agrees not to talk about it in the future. It also sets up Order 66 nicely, considering this IS the 501st. Alternatively, Anakin shows up to find Krell doing something similar to what he did to Fives and flips out, engaging Krell in a lightsaber duel that either ends with Anakin killing Krell or a Clone Trooper stepping in to save Anakin via blasting Krell, and again everyone just tacitly agrees not to talk about it. Seriously, Krell acts like Traviss' stereotype of a Jedi commander. Only so long before he crosses the Moral Event Horizon.

• Order 66: In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established.

Krell does something way too bloody, which qualifies as acting against the interests of the Republic in Rex's book. Rex requests Chancellor's confirmation to execute the Order, Palpatine gladly gives it. Troopers kill Krell, the Jedi Council is given the explanation about Krell joining Dooku or something.

• As of "The Carnage of Krell", This has been confirmed, done in by a blaster bolt from Dogma.

Palpatine recalling Anakin from Umbara and replacing him with Krell is part of his ongoing strategy to push Anakin towards the Dark Side.

Palpatine is already no doubt aware of Anakin's attachment issues, he's no doubt aware of Krell's record for highest clone mortality rate, and he deliberately pulls Anakin away from an important battle that's already likely to have high casualties and replaced him with what has to be the worst Jedi General the Republic has. There's no way that Palpatine isn't trying to get Anakin's favorite clone commander killed along with countless other clones that Anakin has no doubt grown attached to and give his future apprentice something else to angst about 'not being strong enough' over.

• OR he'll send Anakin back to Umbara at the last moment, so Skywalker could see the Jedi Master's deeds and confront him about it, leading Anakin to another confrontation with the Jedi Order, seeding him with doubt of the Council's wisdom.

Near the end of the series, Sidious will start to lose his faith in Dooku due to his constant failures.

Another reason why he ordered Anakin to execute him at the beginning of Episode III. Another factor is him learning that Ventress is still alive, he'll believe Dooku lied to him or got sloppy in killing her.

• • Or alternatively, Dooku will lose faith in his master. He could be internally disappointed in his Sidious' cruelty, but it could be for the best.

Near the end of the series, Nute Gunray and Rune Haako will become fed up with the war.

They are tired of losing their battles and losing money. They are tired of missed opportunities in capturing Padme. And tired of Sidious' deceiving. In the end, they decided they just want peace and want the war to be done with. This all leads up to their fates at the end of Episode III.

Grievous will have a comeback.

After several episodes of losing, and many Villain Decay moments, he'll start to come by again. Maybe the directors will realize he needs to be more menacng or frightnening, when it suits them. Like, the character himself will be enraged by his own ineptitude and irrelevance to the Separatist cause and face a bunch of Red Shirt jedi and Kill Them All.

• He gets one in "Massacre", which is exactly what it sounds like: Grevous and the droid army actually get to inflict some damage for once.

The episodes "Corrpution" and "Academy" are a lead up to the conclusion of Mandalores story.

The Duchess will continue to be completely incompetent at her job while still being insufferable about it. Burning down that warehouse full of evidence even knowing it better wasn´t for having an acceptable special effects/action scene in the otherwise boring episode, it was intentional. When the headmaster of the school said the budget was too small he was right, only because of the tea deal he got enough money for the school and just in a coincidence something for himself. All of "Corruption"s problems are traceable to the Duchess. She just had to give a parade for Padmé when she casually visited the world, which was the reason why there was only one officer at the docks so he could be bribed without any problem. This will be made public through Death Watch spies. They will bring the people to rebel against this incompetent monarchy and after Satines death/exile Death Watch will be a "temporary" government and reinstates the former Mandalore.

As further evidence: We already saw the people from TCW writing illogical things and explaining them later. That Zabraks were from another planet than Dathomir was explained an episode later, General Krells problem with leading clones likewise. Mandalores retcon problem is far too big to be ignored entirely.

Palpatine is behind the pacifist faction of the Mandalorians being in power.

And likely on several other Proud Warrior Race Guy planets too. After all, we wouldn't want non-Clone soldiers mucking up the scene or replacing the Jedi as generals, now would we?

• Doubtful, given the work Palpatine puts in to depose Satine and her government. Plus, I don't see how they would have 'mucked up' the scene more than any other soldiers coming from other planets.

Mother Talzin is not truly an ally of Ventress or Savage.

She's just a sociopath who is enjoying setting various people and groups against each other. Ventress against Dooku, Dooku against the Jedi, the Jedi against Savage, Savage against everybody; No one benefits from all this, except possibly Talzin herself, for whatever goal she has in mind (if she has a goal at all).

Ventress will come crawling back to Dooku.

Her first attempt at finding a new place for herself clearly didn't work out very well; while she got her money, she still failed to find her niche and ended up on her own again by the end. Eventually, facing the harsh galaxy alone, with no sisters or friends to support her, will prove too difficult, forcing Asajj to swallow her pride and try returning to Dooku. He'll surely punish her for her betrayal, but since his prospects with Savage have long since dried up and there are no other apprentices available for him, he'll grudgingly take her back under his wing...just long enough to send her to fight in the Battle of Boz Pity, where she meets the fate we all knew was coming to her.

Dengar still becomes a cyborg later in life.

His appearance in "Bounty" merely takes place a while before the disastrous swoop race on Corellia that horribly mutilated his head and forced him to become a cyborg. After that, he specifically patterned the bandages he used to conceal his head-circuitry after the mundane headwrap he wore in his younger days, so as to make it look less conspicuous. Taking this to be the truth, it helps make his appearance in The Clone Wars seem like less of a glaring continuity error. Consequently, though, it also means that he's considerably older than Han Solo. Either that, or Han was into swoop racing at the tender age of 8...

"Old Wounds" is now canon.

It was mentioned that Darth Maul would survive into Season Five, right? If that's the case, who's to say that he can't survive the whole Clone Wars, go into hiding after the rise of the Empire, and show up on Tatooine to attack young Luke a few years down the line? For further proof, take note of how Maul's second pair of cyber-legs in "Revenge" is identical to the ones he had in the comic.

Abeloth will appear in Season Five.

As revealed in Apocalypse, the Force-wielders from the Mortis trilogy originally came from Abeloth's planet, where for a time, she lived with them as The Mother. The show's creators stated that some further "answers" about the trilogy would be revealed in Season Five, and this seems like a pretty important topic to cover.

Maul will die at Dooku's hand.

Think about it. Aside from Maul's goal for getting revenge on Obi-Wan, Maul would want to reclaim his place in the Rule of Two. He confronts Dooku, and the two have a duel for Sidious' apprenticeship. As Maul gains the advantage, Dooku reveals the fact that Maul was never a true Sith, as Sidious was apprenticed to Plagueis throughout Maul's Sith career. This causes Maul to lose his composure, and Dooku makes a comeback and kills Maul.

Maul's dying realization that his whole life was a lie is also a great way to create sympathy for the character.

• It can't work. According to End Game, a short story by James Luceno published in the re-edition of The Phantom Menace novel, Maul has already figured out that his master and him weren't the only Sith and that Sidious' master was still around.
  • Then perhaps the two still fight, Dooku tries to pull off that trick, and Maul says he already knew that? But Dooku still manages to win.
  • Also, Maul apparently knows that Sidious is Palpatine. If the Jedi capture him and interrogate him, they will learn that vital fact. Palpatine, as Sidious, does not want the Jedi to learn this, so he has Maul killed.

In line with the previous entry, Dooku wants revenge for Qui-Gon's murder.

I'm thinking a three-way battle between Maul, Dooku and Obi-Wan. The latter two might have an Enemy Mine moment and gang up on Maul. Maybe something as a shout out to the battle in Ep.I. And given Dooku's grandfatherly feelings for Obi-Wan it might work. Dooku and Obi-Wan over-power Maul, and Dooku offers Obi-Wan the killing blow because he wants him to cross over to the Dark side and become his apprentice, so he uses Qui-Gon's death as a trigger. He'll refuse and Dooku will kill Maul before the Jedi can get any information out of him about the identity of Darth Sidious.

Kycina, Maul's mother, was a part of the Marek family.

It explains why both Maul and Galen are voiced by Sam Witwer. They're third cousins!

Grievous is two separate people

Between his pre and post ROTS appearances Grievous underwent a huge shift in competence, voice and personality. In the microseries he was bold to the point of recklessness, taking on platoons of clone troopers and Jedi single handily and even had a strange respect for his opponents. In contrast Grievous in this series sand the film is a coward with a lot of defeats under his belt, and with an apparently altered origin. But this is not a retcon, Grievous A was the real one and the Grievous from the film was simply a body double.

Microseries Grevious (A from here on) was the original war lord, as his desire for an hounrable death fits the ballsier one from the microseries. Less of his body is mechanical, explaining why he can't do as many tricks with his body as, who was created from scratch (B from here downward). The intention behind this was to keep the Jedi of guard, meaning that they could never know what to expect from him and to prolong the war in the event of one of them dying prematurely. Palpatine kept A out of the way of Anakain because, chosen one or not Grevious was more than capable of cutting through swathes of clones, Jedi and even council members, often at the same time, explaiing why Anakin and Obi Wan only ever encountred the cowardly one.

We know Mace crushing his chest didn't give Grievous his cough, but it did take him out of action for the duration of ROTS. Palps would likely have preffred to pit him against Obi Wan to make sure he was out of the way, but with him in no state to fight A was shipped of to Mustafar and B was left to deal with Obi Wan. When Palps sent word that he was sending Anakin to Mustafar, A realized what was going on, doubting that Palps would send his number two to babysit a few rebel leaders, and in no state to defend himself he skipped planet before Anakin arrived to kill of the Sepratist bosses. In fact the real reason he hung around on Mustafar for so long was to find any clue of Grevious's whrereabouts but as we all know his hunt was cut short. A went into hiding, biding his time until he could make a move.

And he's still out there somewhere.