Couldn’t make it to The Clone Wars Season 4 panel featuring The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni and producer Cary Silver, moderated by Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo. Don’t worry! Below are some of the panel highlights.
Dive right in!
Season 4 starts with an underwater story arc on the planet of Mon Calamari. Filoni said they wanted the cameras to have similar movements to underwater scuba camera. They had to create an entire civilization from the buildings to the population of the people — male and female fish, warriors, the Quarren army, etc.
It’s a….!”
Captain Ackbar is indeed in this underwater story arc. There was some debate whether or not they should have Ackbar refer to traps, but they didn’t do that.
Watch out for sharks!:
The shark-like race works with the Separatist. They have sharp teeth and bite the heads off of characters, but Filoni assures that it’s not too violent because “bubbles make it better.”
Kit Fisto is back!
“Everyone likes Kit Fisto because he smiles,” Filoni says.”He doesn’t have his shirt on, so that’s a bit of a Twilight reference.”
Scuba Clone Troopers!
Kit Fisto has scuba clone troopers in Season 4. Filoni challenges the 501st Legion to come up with scuba trooper costumes!
New Clone Trooper Story Arc with Captain Rex:
Umbara is a new planet shrouded in darkness & for the first time you get to see clone troopers killing non-droids, but infact humaniods that live on the planet. All the technoloy the Umbarans fight with weapons you’ve never seen before. Fans have actually seen Umbarans before; Palpatine’s creepy aid is an Umbaran. And a lot of the favorite troopers who have survived so far like Captain Rex and Fives will show up in this episode.
New Faces and Armor:
They changed the look of a lot of the main characters like Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan, so this season they upgraded the facial expressions on the clone faces and changed some of the armor as well. Captain Rex doesn’t like the new armor because he thinks it’s too disposable so he makes a hybrid of his old armor welded together with his new armor. He’s worried that the Republic looks at the clones as more of a disposable army.
New Jedi Character: General Krell
He’s the same species as Dexter Jettster! He’s an uncoventional, powerful Jedi who causes the clones to question things in different ways.
C-3PO & R2-D2 have new adventures!
“Star Wars is like a fairy tale from their point of view,” Filoni says. the classic animated series Droids was an inspiration.
Never Cry Wolffe
Clone trooper Wolffe returns but he’s different than Rex since he lost all his men so he’sa bit of a “curmudgeon” and doesn’t like C-3PO much.
Madame Mandalorian?
Filoni revealed that Battlestar Galactica actress Katee Sackoff will be voicing a female Mandalorian. He really wanted to have an actress voice her that really understood the fan culture. Filoni wanted to put a female Mandalorian on the show to give the woman fans another cool costume option to cosplay. Her helmet design is based on a barn owl because Filoni’s wife likes owls. Director Jon Favreau will be back as Mandalorian Pre Vizsla, as well.
Nightsisters return!
Savage Opress, Asajj Ventress, and Nightsisters will return this season as well. (As Filoni mentions the Nightsisters return for Season 4, the geek girl cosplay collective Team Unicorn — dressed as Dathomir’s Dark Side witches — walk up onstage! And he shows a clip that isn’t completed yet and even George Lucas hasn’t seen yet — of the Nightsisters fighting against battle droids!)
Bring on the Bounty Hunters!
Filoni says Cad Bane, Bossk, and Boba Fett will be back, along with an old favorite coming to the series — Dengar!
To Han or Not to Han?
A fan asks if we’ll see a young Han Solo in the series. Filoni says no, unless Lucas really insisted on it. “I don’t want to be the guy who defines that.”
By Your Commando!
Filoni confirmed clone commandos will be on the show, but not Delta Squad because he doesn’t want to mess with that continuity.
More Mortis on the way
“We’re going to do more about those kinds of mystical things in the future. It won’t be the last you hear of those types of stories. And you’ll learn more about those Force wielders and what they are and how they fit into the bigger spectrum of things,” Filoni says in answer to a fan’s question on whether the Mortis planet was the home of the Force.
New Challenges for Ahsoka:
Lux’s character might challenge Ahsoka’s own feelings about someone that she care for. When a fan asks about her pending fate, Filoni says he’s thought of about eight different possible outcomes for Ahsoka, but nothing has been decided yet.
Be sure to stay tuned here for more Star Wars news, photos and info at San Diego Comic-Con International 2011!
Tags: Clone Wars: Season 4, Comic-Con, Dave Filoni, SDCC 2011
i hope that ashoka deos not go to the dark side because my kids would hate having their fav. character go to the dark side
If Ahsoka dies i will stop watching the Clone Wars!!!
Forever!!!’
Awwwww I want Rex & Ahsoka to be together too! Ahsoka deserves better than lux…uhhhhhgggg
Okay, look. If Ahsoka gets knited, that would completely disagree with episode 3, where Anakin is put on the council but not made a master because he hasn’t trained a padawan. So if Ahsoka does not get fully trained, and we don’t here an iota of evidence to suggest her existence in episode 3, then she must be either
1. Dead
2. Lost forever
3. Turned to the darkside(Darth Snips might be cool)
4. Gone because she ran away/left the order(for numerous possible reasons)
Of course, Dave Baloney won’t kill her in season 4, more likely, if at all, in season 5.
P.S. Rex IS the best clone EVAH!!!
I am disappointed at how graphic the death of Riff Tamsin was shown at the end of episode 4.3. i had hoped that Star Wars would not revert to this type of animation for the sake of the meaning and enjoyment of the Clone Wars. the part where his head floats down in front of the screen after he is blown to bits is a little disturbing. PLEASE, keep it clean so the Whole family can continue to enjoy the show.
It’s obvious. Snips will die. Rex might die, but lets face it…he looks bad-ass as a Arch-Trooper!!!
Rex will not die because he’s the best! Also Ahsoka might end up a sith or possibly a jedi knight or possiby might just leave the jedi order and marrie lux.
Any news on a UK airdate for Season 4 of the Clone Wars yet?
The best Sith ever: MAUL IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This time more visible than his first appearence in Clone Wars
I think at some point in the seares when Ahsoka becomes a Jedi Knight she will leave the order and get togeather with Lux and starte new life.
AND SHAAK TI RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The three most likely outcomes for Ashoka are probably either her dying, falling to the dark side or falling in love with Lux. She can’t be knighted because she is too young. I also don’t think that Han would be in it cause if Obi-wan had met him before a new hope then he probably would have remembered him.
I will love the clone wars if snipss dies she is the padawan and darkside well good idea but not possible knighted no way kicked out of order closest to posslbe
where the heck did the shark people come from? what planet? whats the name of their species?
I freakin’ love the Clone Wars, but living in the UK we haven’t even had Episode 1 of Season 4. No clue when or if we ever will either. Anyone have any idea if we will ever get it in the UK?
i hope at some point darth maul murders ahsoka
by the way rex is not better than cody he isnt even a real trooper in episode 3 it never said or showed anything about cody
i mean in episode three it didnt show rex it did show cody
why do so many of you want Ahsoka to die
Oh, and for the record a Jedi can’t die
So stop thinks snipps dies
Well i think Rex disobays order 66 because ARCs Disobayed order 66 do to there friendship with thier generals but mostly b/c they knew what was right.
Just to let you know, Ahsoka is not to young to be knigted because she is almost twenty i am guessing. Oh and Rex and Wolffe look awsome in there new suits.
Hi.
Did anyone else happen to find out that the first ten episodes of season 4 are on the cartoon network, here in the UK. They are shown at 6pm every week night. Nice advertising!!!!
Season 4 had action, but also seemed darker and depressing.
Here is our take on Season 4 with a lot of pics and a little humor (helpful) if your are interested:
http://fortresstakes.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/star-wars-the-clone-wars-2011-season-4-22-episodes/
I like to read the books of alot of different star wars series such as star wars the old republic and star wars the republic commandos which are great series but I have just figured out that due to the clone wars series on CN and specifically the newer conflicts with the mandaloriaans the republic commando series has been canceled with just one book left to print because the mandalorians in the clone wars series on CN are now pacifists and I loved both series until this because in republic commando books the mandalorians are not pacifists but still relitively the same as shown through Jango Fett in the origonal movie attack of the clones
In my last coment I accidentaly pressed the button but after that I wanted to say that in the movie Jango Fett was part of the WARRIOR CULTURE known as the MANDALORIANS so in CNs series star wars the clone wars the PACIFIST MANDALORIANS that are shown should not exist at all but the rest of the series is great and this is all coming from a very hardcore Star wars fan so feel free to prove me wrong and any comments would be extremly helpful.