TALKING STAR WARS
So the episode starts off pretty great. We find four Jedi in pilot uniforms attacking the Imperial Palace. They go through Imperial squads like a light saber through a pair of balls...literally. Then they are confronted by what seemed to have been Vader himself. The Jedi then mercilessly beat Vader senseless, having planned and thought over how they were going to defeat Vader before the mission and it was more than effective. If only every other Jedi did the same thing, like in the Conflict on Kessel, those eight Jedi could have destroyed Vader had they devised a plan, communicated, and didn't hold back and kill Vader for his crimes. So the Jedi beat Vader, their Cato Nemoidian leader, (Who isn't Zen Utaru.) stabbing Vader in the face, and they believe they are victorious. Well...they were wrong. Turns out the Vader they "killed" was actually a decoy, much like the PROXY droid that aided Starkiller. So the real Vader comes out of nowhere, kills the four Jedi brutally and at the same time, we get to know four new ways to skin a cat... or a Jedi.
"In the original draft for chapter seven," writer and creator Zen Utaru told me, "Vader was going to be killed, and the Emperor would finish off the Jedi and bring Vader back to life." Wondering why he didn't go with that idea, Zen told me, "If Vader was killed at the hands of four Jedi compared to what happened on Kessel, Darth Sidious would look elsewhere for another apprentice." I found that very true.
So after that excursion, Vader is assigned to a mission by the Emperor. He will be sent to Bondo III to find out what caused the epidemic, and to "Take care" of the one responsible. This got me all exited because now we get to find out how the apocalypse happened and who was responsible for it all. It makes me curious. I have my theories of who it is, but I'm not gonna get into that subject. So during the conversation between Vader and Sidious, Vader asks his Master if the epidemic on Bondo III is anything like on Dathomir. I'm not possitive, but if I were to guess that was a small verbal cameo of Star Wars Enloe Trials. If that's the case, could mean that Zen is making photonovels as cannon as the Star Wars Expanded Universe ? Could this mean that we could see characters from other photonovel series'? If you think about it, it's not too car fetched of an idea. After all, in Jedi Trials, we saw Kala-Mly Shundi as part of the main cast.
Sidious, answering to Vader's question, says that their is a dark plot at hand, I'm curious as to what that could mean. Sidious gives Vader an Emergency Response Team, or an E.R.T, which is the name of the chapter.
In the next scene, we see a clone who is obviously a battle-scarred individual who has seen much action. Also, take note of the fact that the sets that Zen puts together gets better with each episode. At first, we don't know who the clone is until we get he I.D number and the name of the clone: Gregor.
For those that watch both Star Wars the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, we all know about Gregor. For those that haven't, Zen writes this chapter giving him a bit of a mysterious aura, so that all audiences are entertained. Also, for those that have seen Gregor, the pictures you see above are in chronological order. In the first two pics, we are reminded of Gregor's serious personality, and for those have seen Star Wars Rebels, we see Gregor as almost insane! Gregor has gone off the deep end, and it's not just because of his old age. I really hope as the series goes on we'll get to see how Zen fills in the gaps.
So in Gregor's personal scene, he is greeted by a fellow clone who gives him a debriefing file on the mission that he will be going on with Dark Vader. Gregor, not very sure of himself and his decisions, asks the clone officer if he missed the Republic. Now, I don't think the way Zen directed the clones was canon, but I L-O-V-E-D it! It gives the story of the Empire a bit of irony. The Chancellor of the Republic tries to perfect the galaxy by evolving from a droid Confederacy (Under the Jedi Order's nose) to an Empire, only to basically get the same thing. The Clones after Order 66 have suddenly turned into emotionless droids whose minds are filled with nothing but protocol and programming. The clone officer replied to Gregor's question as if someone flipped a switch in the clone's mind and activated a protocol, the clone saying, "Out with the old, in with the new, Imperial does what Imperials do." After reading this chapter it made me hate the Empire even more than I already did; that the once glorious Republic was now a mindless, hypnotized group under a cruel sith lord!
So after Gregor, we get to know a new face. He is a Sith Inquisitor by the name of Tes Dorlo. We don't get to know very much about him, only that he is a High Inquisitor during this time, and he has a dark past. He is given the debriefing file to be part of the Emergency Response Team, and Tes is surprised to have been assigned. We know that it has been a while since he has been on a mission, due to Tes saying himself that it has been years. Then we get a flashback of an epic explosion much like Gregor's flashback. The character development and the cliffhangers Zen writes us is yet another reason why I keep this website alive and why everybody should read his work.
At the very end we get to see the whole E.R.T led by Vader himself. I almost peed myself seeing Gregor's suit of Armor.
Oh my lawd that is flawless! I also asked Zen about some behind the scenes work on Gregor and here is a caption of the conversation,
[Me]: So what made you want to have Gregor in your series?
[Zen]: I always fantasied Gregor's revival, and I almost wrote a book about it. It was until I was writing scripts for Star Wars Dead Among the Living that I realized I could involve my favorite Clone Trooper in my series.
[Me]: So which came first: Rebel's Gregor, or your personal Gregor?
[Zen]: Actually I thought of getting Gregor into my story in 2014. Gregor made his Star Wars Rebels debut in 2016.
[Me]: What was making Gregor's action figure like?
[Zen]: It took seven action figures, seventy dollars, three deep cuts into my fingers, half my glue supply, and hours of concept art and creativity before I got what you see on your website. It was a lot of fun, one of my favorite customs.
Well fans that's all I got for you today. We'll see you next time on Talking Star Wars, and as always, may the Force be with you.
In the next scene, we see a clone who is obviously a battle-scarred individual who has seen much action. Also, take note of the fact that the sets that Zen puts together gets better with each episode. At first, we don't know who the clone is until we get he I.D number and the name of the clone: Gregor.
For those that watch both Star Wars the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, we all know about Gregor. For those that haven't, Zen writes this chapter giving him a bit of a mysterious aura, so that all audiences are entertained. Also, for those that have seen Gregor, the pictures you see above are in chronological order. In the first two pics, we are reminded of Gregor's serious personality, and for those have seen Star Wars Rebels, we see Gregor as almost insane! Gregor has gone off the deep end, and it's not just because of his old age. I really hope as the series goes on we'll get to see how Zen fills in the gaps.
So in Gregor's personal scene, he is greeted by a fellow clone who gives him a debriefing file on the mission that he will be going on with Dark Vader. Gregor, not very sure of himself and his decisions, asks the clone officer if he missed the Republic. Now, I don't think the way Zen directed the clones was canon, but I L-O-V-E-D it! It gives the story of the Empire a bit of irony. The Chancellor of the Republic tries to perfect the galaxy by evolving from a droid Confederacy (Under the Jedi Order's nose) to an Empire, only to basically get the same thing. The Clones after Order 66 have suddenly turned into emotionless droids whose minds are filled with nothing but protocol and programming. The clone officer replied to Gregor's question as if someone flipped a switch in the clone's mind and activated a protocol, the clone saying, "Out with the old, in with the new, Imperial does what Imperials do." After reading this chapter it made me hate the Empire even more than I already did; that the once glorious Republic was now a mindless, hypnotized group under a cruel sith lord!
So after Gregor, we get to know a new face. He is a Sith Inquisitor by the name of Tes Dorlo. We don't get to know very much about him, only that he is a High Inquisitor during this time, and he has a dark past. He is given the debriefing file to be part of the Emergency Response Team, and Tes is surprised to have been assigned. We know that it has been a while since he has been on a mission, due to Tes saying himself that it has been years. Then we get a flashback of an epic explosion much like Gregor's flashback. The character development and the cliffhangers Zen writes us is yet another reason why I keep this website alive and why everybody should read his work.
At the very end we get to see the whole E.R.T led by Vader himself. I almost peed myself seeing Gregor's suit of Armor.
Oh my lawd that is flawless! I also asked Zen about some behind the scenes work on Gregor and here is a caption of the conversation,
[Me]: So what made you want to have Gregor in your series?
[Zen]: I always fantasied Gregor's revival, and I almost wrote a book about it. It was until I was writing scripts for Star Wars Dead Among the Living that I realized I could involve my favorite Clone Trooper in my series.
[Me]: So which came first: Rebel's Gregor, or your personal Gregor?
[Zen]: Actually I thought of getting Gregor into my story in 2014. Gregor made his Star Wars Rebels debut in 2016.
[Me]: What was making Gregor's action figure like?
[Zen]: It took seven action figures, seventy dollars, three deep cuts into my fingers, half my glue supply, and hours of concept art and creativity before I got what you see on your website. It was a lot of fun, one of my favorite customs.
Well fans that's all I got for you today. We'll see you next time on Talking Star Wars, and as always, may the Force be with you.
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