For those who don't care to listen, here's a wall of text summary of interesting
TCW things he [Dave] touched on:
TCW influence:
- He and George often discussed that for some kids,
TCW was their gateway into Star Wars, this is "their" Star Wars, and it is very important to them. He is fascinated by things in the show that were wholly unique to the show, i.e. specific Clone Troopers and groups like the Wolf pack.
MORTIS:
- There isn't a great depth to the Mortis Daughter giving Ahsoka life, no superpowers imbued, it's more of a symbolic, selfless act by the daughter showing the highest form of good like Hevy from Rookies.
AHSOKA/BO KATAN arc:
- Dave really likes Bo Katan and he saw a logic in having her cross paths with Ahsoka. By the end of Season 5, they both ended up as two women who lost their orders, lost their structure, lost their way, they felt immensely betrayed. This drew them together. There was also a potential in bringing Ahsoka and Ventress together after Season 5 as Ahsoka owed Ventress a debt for helping her in Season 5.
Future of
TCW:
- There are lots of ideas left in
TCW that Filoni worked on with George Lucas. Those stories are still VERY special [his emphasis] to everyone at Lucasfilm, and Disney respects that. Especially the George Lucas concepts are significant and landmarks to understand where certain stories are going to go. They don't intend on giving up those landmarks and they keep them in mind as they develop more star wars stories.
- So much more room to develop stories for Ahsoka, Ventress, Rex, and even Hondo. He mused about what if Hondo ran across Han Solo further down the line and both loved and hated this cocky young pilot. [He didn't say this was an episode they wrote, it was just something that could've happened.] The prequel and
TCW era eventually collides with the classic films and allows all this room and potential.
Ahsoka's future stories:
- Filoni is very connected to the character of Ahsoka, having such a large part of every aspect of her creation and character. He has a very watchful eye for any and everything that attempts to go on with the character. Although, he does know he doesn't have full dominion over aspects of Star wars as it belongs to "whatever creatives are attempting to make it", and they need room and respect to do what they need to do. But if someone is doing something with
Ahsoka, or attempting to, he'll always be knocking on their door saying "let me tell you... this is what I think." He went on to say "we'll see, who knows what the future holds, but [sheepishly] probably I know... I can't really say."
- Yoda arc: Petro was changed to Ahsoka in the temple corridor death scene because it had to be someone we cared about, since people are wondering about Ahsoka's fate.
- A lot of people including people at Lucasfilm ask him about what happens to Ahsoka, where is she going and where will we see her next. He likes that people wonder about it, there is a phase for fans who are invested in this character where they can imagine what's going on with her, whether she will show
up again, he likens it to the original trilogy era where we had to wait so long between movies to see what happened to Han Solo. "In today's media age we get our answers really quickly, but right now it's a nice "breather" moment, and we can say 'it could be this or it could be that.'"
- Fans have a right to argue and debate, and come up with answers. It's part of the fun of liking this stuff in not knowing.
ECHO:
- People were upset when Echo died, so he wanted to let folks know that they wrote a story for him and he wasn't actually dead. In the urgency to escape the Citadel, he actually survived the blast, not in a "great" way and he wasn't in any way "comfortable", but he survived, on some level... "I don't want to go too far into the story..."
BARRISS OFFEE:
- In the original script, she did die as she had the nano-droids in her bloodstream that she had used before. They hadn't scanned for that yet, and she blew up in her cell after she was detained (!) They didn't go with this idea in the end.
- He thought that was too big of a lost opportunity, he liked the character and the actress, and there was potential possibilities for Ashoka after she left the order, there was something left there that was not finished. It was too narrow of a conflict to just lead to Barriss' death. Barriss' reasoning was true about the Jedi, but her actions were obviously wrong. There was an opportunity for Ahsoka to confront Barriss on "what went down" further down the road on the show, but now that happens not to be the case. (they didn't get to explore this)
- A big driving factor in Ahsoka's leaving was she couldn't deny a lot of what Barriss said was true. She experienced firsthand the Jedi Council misreading things. Outside of Anakin supporting her and Obi-Wan to a lesser degree, she had to step back away from this and figure out what it all meant.
Obi-wan & Plo Koon's support:
- Obi-Wans choice to not support her as much was similar to his role in Episode 3 where he asks Anakin to spy on the Chancellor despite not being comfortable with it, but he did it for the Council. Obi-wan is too aware of how these things go down having been a part of the council in the war, if he raises
a strong objection, it will come across as loyalty and attachment to Ahsoka/Anakin. Anakin was the most attached to Ahsoka, Obi-Wan is warm for it, wants to, but diplomatically cannot.
- Plo Koon feels a great attachment to Ahsoka, but is the most "of the line" Jedi about it, he can't give into his attachment, so it seems that he doesn't care. Kind of like when he told Anakin "there's nothing you can do" when she was lost on the Trandoshan moon, "you have to trust that you trained her well."
Rebels:
- They "have it down" better now, and are generally better at what they do. He and Killian have been working on
TCW and Rebels for 9 years now, and have a better knowledge of how these CG shows work.
- Disney has been a big support in getting the show to fans in a "fast" way. This way as many of the fans can see it as possible. [Wasn't exactly sure what to make of this. I think he means they are getting the show to the fan's quicker because of Disney's animation pipeline. This way when they start on something, they can actually finish it, unlike
TCW which had a much longer window.
- Getting a lot of support from Disney to tell the stories they want to tell, between himself, Kingerg and Weisman.
Lien vidéo :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZXsF1qa6q4#t=1740