Clone Wars Chapter 21

Chapter 21
Production information
Series	Star Wars: Clone Wars
Season	3
Episode	1
Production No.	201
Air date	March 21, 2005
Director(s)	Genndy Tartakovsky
Guest star(s)	Grey DeLisle, Daran Norris
Episode chronology
Previous episode	"Chapter 20"
Next episode	"Chapter 22"

Warning: This infobox has missing parameters: runtime and unrecognized parameters: imageBG, era "Chapter 21" is the twenty-first episode of the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated television series, and the first episode in Season Three and Volume Two. The episode originally aired on Cartoon Network on March 21, 2005.

Plot summary

A customized Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry speeds across the surface of Hypori. On board the gunship, a squad of Advanced Recon Commandos prepare their weapons for attack. A jamming signal prevents their detection by an army of B2 super battle droids surrounding a crashed Acclamator-class assault ship. The gunship drops a cluster of thermal detonators, armed on standby, among the droids.

Grievous attacking the clones.

The troopers disembark, their commander—Captain Fordo—detecting three life signs. Two of the ARC troopers go after the nearest two, while the rest follow Fordo to the third reading; the transport is flown skywards to open fire on the approaching battle droids. As the troopers exit a tunnel, they encounter General Grievous, who is in the midst of a vicious lightsaber duel with Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi. Just as he disarms Mundi and prepares to finish him off, they both notice the clones, who unleash a barrage of blaster fire at the cyborg. Grievous flees the attack, climbing up the wall and onto the ceiling. As Grievous leaps down and quickly kills four of the troopers using two of his lightsabers, the commander calls for backup. The hovering LAAT/i breaks into the area and opens fire on the General with its blasters and missiles, which he evades.

Grievous claiming K'Kruhk's lightsaber.

"No, we must pursue!"

―Ki-Adi Mundi

Fordo orders his men to retreat, despite Ki-Adi-Mundi's initial insistence that they pursue Grievous. Two Jedi, Aayla Secura and Shaak Ti, have survived the attack by General Grievous and are recovering aboard the LAAT/i. Meanwhile, Grievous takes a lightsaber from the seemingly lifeless body of K'Kruhk and adds it to his collection.

The ARC troopers detonate the explosives, destroying hundreds of droids. General Grievous watches the transport head into space, musing that they have only prolonged their downfall…

"Run, Jedi, run. You have only prolonged the inevitable."

―Grievous

On Coruscant, Yoda has a vision of the nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker and the late Qui-Gon Jinn on Dagobah. Qui-Gon tells Skywalker he must face his fear by entering the Dark Side Cave, and to trust in the Force.

At a meeting of the Jedi High Council, Ki-Adi-Mundi tells his fellow council-members of the defeat on Hypori. Since the Jedi numbers are spread so thinly, the Council decide to promote Anakin Skywalker to full Jedi Knight status at Obi-Wan Kenobi's request, despite protests from Master Oppo Rancisis.

"This is preposterous! We can't set aside our most hallowed traditions."

―Oppo Ranciscis

Skywalker walks through crowds amid the lower levels of Coruscant, surveying the surrounding people, including many non-humans, with suspicion. He thinks a hooded figure is following him, so he races off. At the entrance to an alleyway, he grabs the mysterious figure and ignites his lightsaber before realizing his pursuer is his beloved wife, Padmé Amidala. They share a kiss and, thinking they have been seen by a passerby, Skywalker rants that they should not have to hide their love. Amidala reminds him of his duty to the Jedi Order and that she'll always love him. He jokes that Amidala does look good in the dark and they kiss again, though this time they are interrupted by C-3PO, who is clad in brand-new, gold-colored coverings. Skywalker claims to be impressed; most impressed.

Skywalker is called by Kenobi to the Jedi Temple, but he arrives late, interpreting his being summoned as a prelude to another scolding. Kenobi reminds his Padawan that he is no longer a child but must still follow his Master's orders. Skywalker retorts that Kenobi is "no Qui-Gon Jinn."; this saddens Kenobi visibly and Skywalker immediately regrets his hurtful comment, apologizing. Master Kenobi forgives his student thus confessing that he misses their old friend and mentor Qui-Gon too and then shows him to a dark room, where Kenobi and the other Jedi Masters surround Skywalker and ignite their lightsabers.

"Step forward, Padawan. Anakin Skywalker, by the right of the Council, by the will of the Force, dub thee I do, Jedi... Knight of the Republic."

―Yoda

Yoda knights Skywalker, cutting off his Padawan braid, which C-3PO later presents to Amidala, which she happily stores away with her Japor snippet for safekeeping. In return, Amidala gives R2-D2 to Skywalker, the droid showing the new Knight a hologram recording of Amidala presenting him the gift and accepting his own. Skywalker smiles at the sight and reaches into the hologram with his mechno-arm as if to hold her in his hand. He and R2-D2 then board his Actis-class starfighter and leave once again to serve together in the Clone Wars…

Credits

By type

Cast

Uncredited cast

Crew

Uncredited crew

Special thanks

Cast

Padmé Amidala, Adi Gallia and Shaak Ti – Grey DeLisle ARC Captain and ARC Trooper – André Sogliuzzo C-3PO – Anthony Daniels Kit Fisto and General Grievous – Richard McGonagle Qui-Gon Jinn – Fred Tatasciore Obi-Wan Kenobi and Agen Kolar – James Arnold Taylor Ki-Adi-Mundi and Even Piell – Daran Norris Oppo Rancisis – Fred Tatasciore Anakin Skywalker – Mat Lucas Young Anakin Skywalker – Frankie Ryan Manriquez Yoda – Tom Kane

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Advanced Recon Commando pilot (First appearance) ARC-77 "Fordo" Padmé Amidala C-3PO Dooku (Mentioned only) Kit Fisto Adi Gallia Grievous Qui-Gon Jinn (Vision to Yoda) K'Kruhk Obi-Wan Kenobi Agen Kolar Plo Koon Ki-Adi-Mundi Palpatine (Mentioned only) Even Piell R2-D2 Oppo Rancisis Aayla Secura Anakin Skywalker Sam Snootles (First appearance) Shaak Ti Saesee Tiin Unidentified Advanced Recon Commando (First appearance) Unidentified Advanced Recon Commando heavy gunner 1 (First appearance) Unidentified Advanced Recon Commando heavy gunner 2 (First appearance) Unidentified ARC trooper (First appearance) Unidentified Koorivar (First appearance) Unidentified Koorivar (II) (First appearance) Asajj Ventress (Indirect mention only) Mace Windu Yoda

Droid models

Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid Battle droid B-series battle droid B2 super battle droid OG-9 homing spider droid Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid

Events

Clone Wars First Battle of Geonosis (Indirect mention only) Battle of Hypori Duel on Yavin 4 (Mentioned only) Jedi Trials (Mentioned only) Knighting ceremony

Locations

Coruscant Jedi Temple High Council Chamber Yoda's quarters Hall of Knighthood Dagobah (Vision to Yoda) Dark Side Cave (Vision to Yoda) Hypori Yavin 4 (Mentioned only) Yavin Prime (Mentioned only)

Organizations and titles

Confederacy of Independent Systems Separatist Droid Army Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies Galactic Republic Grand Army of the Republic Clone trooper Advanced Recon Commando Advanced Recon Commando heavy gunner (First appearance) The Muunilinst 10 Senator Jedi Order Jedi High Council Jedi Knight Jedi Master Padawan

Sentient species

Advozse Aqualish Bith Cerean Chadra-Fan Dulok Gamorrean Gotal Gran Human Clone Korun Naboo Iktotchi Ithorian Jawa Kaleesh Cyborg Kel Dor Koorivar Lannik Lepi Nautolan Pa'lowick Quarren Rodian Snivvian Sullustan Thakwaash Thisspiasian Togruta Twi'lek Rutian Whiphid Yoda's species Zabrak

Vehicles and vessels

Acclamator-class assault ship Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor Anakin Skywalker's Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry Muunilinst 10 LAAT (First appearance) Train Hovertrain

Weapons and technology

Armor Phase I clone trooper armor ARC trooper armor Blaster Blaster pistol DC-17 hand blaster Blaster rifle DC-15A blaster rifle WESTAR-M5 blaster rifle Chaingun Z-6 rotary blaster cannon (First appearance) Cybernetics Mechno-arm Headset comlink Kloo horn Lightsaber Anakin Skywalker's second lightsaber Ki-Adi-Mundi's lightsaber Obi-Wan Kenobi's third lightsaber Shaak Ti's lightsaber Yoda's lightsaber Rangefinder Reciprocating quad blaster (First appearance) Under-barrel grenade launcher Wrist link

Miscellanea

Dark cloak The Force Chosen One (Mentioned only) Force vision Gimer stick Gnarltree (Vision to Yoda) Japor ivory wood Japor snippet Jedi Code (Indirect mention only) Kama Marriage (Mentioned only) Montral Padawan braid Pauldron Sun djem Tholoth headdress Whiphid healing trance

Behind the scenes

The Jedi High Council discussing the Knighthood of Anakin Skywalker. Initially placed after the Battle of Hypori, this event was moved to occur after the Mission to Vjun as to not contradict the novel Jedi Trial.

There are several easter eggs during the Coruscant street scene: an animated version of Genndy Tartakovsky, a creature resembling "The Creeper" from the Scooby-Doo cartoons, the Cylon Centurion from the original Battlestar Galactica and a "Woolie" from Tartakovky's series Samurai Jack. When C-3PO reveals his new golden plating to Anakin, a musical cue of "stripper music" can be heard. In the same scene, Anakin's line "Impressive. Most impressive." mimics the same line he, as Darth Vader, says over two decades later, in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, to his son, Luke Skywalker.

When Genndy Tartakovsky and team began working on this episode, George Lucas's first instruction to the crew was to resolve the Hypori storyline which the crew had begun in "Chapter 20". He specified this because his son Jett was eager to find out how that particular story ends, as there were originally no plans to continue the series beyond "Chapter 20". The unique designs on the front of the clones' LAATs were inspired by nose art seen on military aircraft. According to Paul Rudish on the Star Wars: Clone Wars: Volume Two DVD commentary, the front of the LAAT featured at the beginning of this episode was meant to look like the face of a rancor. The clones' customizations of their helmets in this episode and in the rest of Volume Two is based on real-life actions done by soldiers during World War II and the Vietnam War.

According to the commentary for "Chapter 3", the creators had studied how special forces teams acted in real combat situations, to ensure the ARC troopers acted very much like a crack special forces team would. They apparently reapplied their knowledge for this episode (Captain Fordo used hand signals instead of actually speaking, and as they approach Ki-Adi-Mundi and General Grievous he directed members to perform what appear to be flanking maneuvers). According to the episode commentary, Ki-Adi-Mundi's concern for Shaak Ti was intended to hint at a possible relationship between the two. Most of the sentient species in the Mos Eisley Cantina scenes in A New Hope appear in the underlevels of Coruscant.

Continuity

In the series, Anakin is depicted as being knighted very early on (while his hair is still short) as a response to a shortage of Jedi Knights, and believing that Anakin was long overdue for knighthood. This seemingly conflicts with the novel Jedi Trial by David Sherman and Dan Cragg, in which Anakin, only a few months prior to Revenge of the Sith, is sent on a mission to earn his knighthood. However, Leland Chee did confirm that there is in fact a jump in time between the conclusion of the Hypori battle and the Jedi Council scenes leading up to Anakin's knighting, claiming Anakin's hair was in a top-knot that he merely let down after being knighted.

Although K'Kruhk appears to have been killed by Grievous in Chapter 20, and is not rescued with the other Jedi, he is actually known to have survived this battle and is in a state of hibernation when Grievous takes his lightsaber. Although Eeth Koth remained canonically dead after the First Battle of Geonosis, a Zabrak Jedi High Council member that appears in the Council scene, officially credited as Agen Kolar, was animated instead with the likeness of Eeth Koth. It is unknown if the character was originally intended to be Eeth Koth (in ignorance of his canonical death) and then retroactively credited as Agen Kolar to avoid a continuity problem, or if the Zabrak was always intended to be Kolar and the animators accidentally used the wrong reference photographs.

Bibliography

• "Chapter 21" on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
• "Chapter 21" on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)

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