Update: The new “megatrailer” for Season 3 (as Dave Filoni called it) has been placed online by Starwars.com Watch it here.
The following is a report of The Clone Wars season 3 revealed panel from Star Wars Celebration V. Information was reported by EUCantina staff from the panel, via Twitter or email. Possible spoilers were included in this report.
- New battle droids shown for Season 3 of TCW. They were attacking Kamino with Ventress and Grevious.
- The TCW team is so far ahead, that we’re essentially playing Atari while they’re on Xbox 360! They’re already writing Season 5!
- George Lucas wants to develop Ventress more. She has a pretty important story thread in Season 3.
- Dathomir and the Nightsisters in Season 3!
- Witches of Dathomir begin to attack Ventress, but are stopped by their “mother” in the clip.
- According to George Lucas, the Dathomir Nightsisters (Witches) are not necessarily Force users
- The electric bow is nicknamed the “awesome bow.
- TCW really gets into the balance of the Force and The Chosen One in Season 3.
- Dave says Ventress backstory will be explored. Dathomir clip heavily implied that Ventress is from there or has a past there.
- Clip shown of Dooku being attacked by three Jedi assassins who are Force Cloaking (or so it appeared).
- The characters, who had lightsabers, are not confirmed as Jedi, but they sure look like it. Dave doesn’t clarify how they are invisible.
- The characters attempt to blind Dooku with a dart while he sleeps, but he gets up and fights all three, even though he is disoriented.
- Count Dooku has monogrammed PJs in Season 3. :P
- “Grevious is a pretty big pawn, and he’s a terrible character because you feel kind of sympathetic for him.” – Dave Filoni
- Reshowing Maul’s brother clip. We now understand that the woman in the clip is a witch of Dathomir.
- This character is gold and black, to not be confused with Maul.
- Maul’s brother doesn’t talk very much, so when he does speak, you pay very close attention. He has great facial expressions.
- Aurra Sing can not use the Force. She is a bounty hunter only. Dave basically said her previous backstory didn’t happen.
- Comedy is a huge part of Star Wars. You have to have it.
- TCW will run for as long as there is an audience.
- Dave says there will be connections to the classic trilogy in season 3!
- Catherine Winder has moved on from TCW. Cary Silver is the current producer.
- Season 3 mega-trailer shown! Amazing trailer!!! Can’t describe everything shown. Hopefully will be online soon
Source: @eucantina.net
September 13th, 2010 - 12:59 am
Just to let you know, Filoni said they wouldn’t be touching on Aurra Sing’s Force abilities because they don’t want people to confuse Sing with Ventress, not that they were retconning her entire Force ability related backstory.