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CLONE WARS: SEASON 7 EPISODE 5 – 8
AHSOKA TANO
Your hosts tonight include:
- Doc Rotten
- The Slattman!, Christopher Slattery
- Award-winning Filmmaker Christopher G. Moore
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POP CULTURE NEWS OF THE WEEK
- Rosario Dawson attached to MANDALORIAN Season 2 as… Ahsoka Tano!
- Disney sets new release dates for Disney and Pixar, Marvel, and more
- https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/disney-mulan-black-widow-release-dates-coronavirus-1203550173/
- June 18, 2020 – SOUL (NOTE: has since moved to November 20, 2020)
- July 24, 2020 – MULAN
- Nov 6, 2020 – BLACK WIDOW
- Dec 11, 2020 – FREE GUY
- Dec 18, 2020 – WEST SIDE STORY
- Dec 25, 2020 – THE LAST DUEL
- Feb 12, 2021 – THE ETERNALS
- May 7, 2021 – SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS
- July 20, 2021 – JUNGLE CRUISE
- Nov 5, 2021 – DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (NOTE: has since moved to March 22, 2022)
- Feb 18, 2022 – THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (NOTE: has since moved to Feb 11, 2022)
- May 6, 2022 – BLACK PANTHER 2
- July 8, 2022 – CAPTAIN MARVEL 2
- July 29, 2022 – INDIANA JONES 5
- WONDER WOMAN 84 lands August 14, 2020
- ARTEMIS FOWL heads to Disney+
- MY SPY going straight to Amazon Prime Video
- Disney+ will debut PROP CULTURE in May
- ROBIN HOOD live-action/CGI remake…? for Disney+
- DRAGON’S LAIR heading to NETFLIX with Ryan Reynolds
FEATURE REVIEW: CLONE WARS SEASON 7 EPISODE 5
After crashing her speeder in the lower levels of Coruscant, Ahsoka befriends Trace Martez, who offers to help work on her speeder. Some thugs come to ask Trace for some money her sister, Rafa, owes them; Trace and Ahsoka fight them off. Ahsoka then helps work on some of Rafa’s droids, which turn out to be violence-prone. By secretly using the Force, Ahsoka helps Trace deactivate them.
IMDb.com
- Release Date: 3/20/2020 (Disney+)
- Title: GONE WITH A TRACE
FEATURE REVIEW: CLONE WARS SEASON 7 EPISODE 6
Rafa accepts an assignment to deliver a load of spice from Kessel to the Pyke crime syndicate on Oba Diah, and uses Trace and her self-built ship, the Silver Angel, for the job. When Ahsoka argues with Rafa that the Pykes might not claim just the spice, but the ship as well, Trace jettisons the shipment into hyperspace. Ahsoka tries to deceive the Pykes into thinking that they have been double-crossed by Kessel’s king Yaruba, but she, Trace, and Rafa get captured instead.
IMDb.com
- Release Date: 3/27/2020 (Disney+)
- Title: DEAL NO DEAL
FEATURE REVIEW: CLONE WARS SEASON 7 EPISODE 7
Ahsoka, Trace, and Rafa attempt to escape their imprisonment by the Pyke syndicate. The Martez sisters reveal that their parents were accidentally killed by the Jedi as they apprehended Ziro the Hutt. Ahsoka secretly uses the Force to aid their escape, but three Mandalorians catch sight of her. Ahsoka and the Martez sisters end up recaptured by the Pykes.
IMDb.com
- Release Date: 4/03/2020 (Disney+)
- Title: DANGEROUS DEBT
FEATURE REVIEW: CLONE WARS SEASON 7 EPISODE 8
Ahsoka manages to make a deal with the Pykes which allows the Martez sisters to temporarily leave Oba Diah to retrieve the spice, while she is held hostage. Ahsoka escapes the prison and places explosives all over the facility, where she overhears the Pykes talking to Darth Maul, who is on Mandalore. Meanwhile, the Martez sisters steal spice from the Pykes and bring it back to Oba Diah, where they learn that Ahsoka was a Jedi. They escape by blowing up the facility and are followed back to Coruscant by the three Mandalorians, who were previously part of Death Watch. One of them, Bo-Katan, manages to convince Ahsoka they have a common enemy in Maul, and Ahsoka decides to leave for Mandalore after reconciling with the sisters.
IMDb.com
- Release Date: 4/10/2020 (Disney+)
- Title: TOGETHER AGAIN
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Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
