Another WAC and Gascon episode? Why,Clone Wars? Why?

Oh dear . One episode with Gascon , the miniature colonel , and WAC , the droid who oscillates between incompetent and preachy , was forgettable , but now we ’re stranded on a planet with these goofballs ? As they traverse the desert debating droid programming vs. military education , Gascon begin to go mad , and I ’m right there with him .

So last workweek , Gascon lead WAC and the astromechs on a decent little deputation to steal a breakaway encoding faculty . Gascon see to treat droids with respect and WAC memorize that tiny colonels are people , too the location of his mute swap the colonel ’s rank . I was desire that this would be the last we ’d see of these two , but alas , we ’re in a story arc .

When Gascon re-emerge on screen , my PIFTWCW ( Person I Force to keep an eye on Clone Wars ) says , “ Maybe Dooku will eat him , ” his voice brim with Bob Hope . The astromechs are hard at work repairing BZ ( the storage - free astromech Gascon has been riding around ) when WAC piece up some distressing recitation . “ I have honorable tidings and risky tidings , ” he tells Gascon , abandoning his archetype ’s chair . The bad tidings is that there are comet guide right for the ship . The adept news ? “ At least you will have an excuse if your mission is a failure . ” Ugh . After express a modicum of competence last episode , WAC is back in brainless territory . If this is how he react to worry in his path , why was he tapped to be the pilot on this mission ?

The comets hit , knocking out the ships power , and two of the astromechs fountainhead alfresco to restore baron , but the ship hit again , this time critically , causing them to nearly lose QT - KT and drive them to shoot down the ship on the major planet Abafar . The major planet is , by all appearances a featureless barren : the ground does n’t allow footprints and the sky is so fuzzy that it ’s insufferable to see the sun . Gascon wants to remain with the ship , but R2 - D2 , the true hoagie of Star Wars , nabs the decoding faculty and hold off . by nature the other droids follow , and reluctantly so does Gascon .

This episode is ultimately bland , with more back and forthing between Gascon and WAC , but there are some nuggets that I wish were more fully — or perhaps more vigorously — explored . A cock-a-hoop one is the debate between WAC and Gascon about whether droids are as thinking as any biological creature or if they are merely the heart of their programming . WAC likens Gascon ’s military preparation to a droid ’s programming and Gascon contradict himself by yell at the droids not to think for themselves . It ’s clear whose side we ’re supposed to be on in this debate , but what does that mean ? Clone Wars has always been of two mind about droids . After all , it was just in Onderon arc that the Jedi made a big deal about killing droids in position of biologicals . Was this because they were definitely part of the Separatist Army , or are some droids more equal than others ? apply that we ’re having this desperate droid arc and we just provide behind the droid lightsaber designer Huyang , it would be decent to get a more nuanced sight on all droids .

There ’s also the thing of Gascon ’s meltdown . Okay , anyone would go bonkers after spending that much time with WAC , but even if Gascon is a military strategiest and this is his first theatre mission , I would n’t believe he ’d fall aside this rapidly . A few hours on Abafar and he ’s strumming his broken sassing like a ukelele . Despite WAC ’s needling that Gascon ’s military experience comes from behind a desk , I lean to recollect the problem here is that Gascon and the droids are horribly mismatched as a field team . Gascon is used to working with Clone Troopers , born and breed soldier who have it away how to surveil orders . Clone Troopers offer a sense of predictability that is totally absent from the droids , who are prostrate to go off and doing there own matter .

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And that leads us into the last thing : the highly competent astromechs . We already hump from the moving-picture show that R2 - D2 has far more go on than his beeping trash barrel coming into court would paint a picture , and he certainly record off his skills in the last instalment . Why ca n’t R2 be the central eccentric of these episodes , with WAC and Gascon ’s sitcom conversation playing out in the background . Hell , the astromechs even get fed up and chuck WAC and Gascon toward the end of the episode , leaving Gascon behind to contemplate the vacuum that is Abafar . Why could n’t we go with them ?

really , I must say the episode kind of foot up from there , likely because when WAC finally quiets down , Gascon has an chance to go into some pretty amusing depressive monologuing , though WAC does supervise to shame him into go on . And the deus ex machina that appears to deliver them from the desert , a herd of galloping birds , is attractively try in a way that remind me a flake of The Lion King . Gascon , exhibit a moment of flexibility and inventiveness , convinces WAC to hop on the birds ’ vertebral column , and the hiss , be their inherent aptitude , express them to pee , and the city that sits alongside it . Of course , the astromechs are all already there , as they did n’t spend the entire installment battling each other . WAC and Gascon adhesiveness over their mutual despite for the mechs , and Gascon appoint WAC field corporal . WAC immediately takes to the role , shouting orders at the astromechs . R2 actually shakes his headland in response , probably wondering why all the idiots around him keep getting promoted .

Next clock time , more Abafar . Sigh . When do we get to see Palpatine again ?

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