Closing Crawl

A blue(!) title card leads into our show. The Jedi have intercepted a Separatist transmission that they are unable to decode. They plan an undercover mission to steel an encryption module using troops the Separatists would never expect - droids! (Although the Separatists have used undercover droids before...). The droids will be led by Lilliputian Republic strategist Colonel Meebur Gascon, making...

The younglings are stranded on a swiftly tilting starship. They’re able to get Obi-Wan on the SpaceTime(™), Obi-Wan is pretty sanguine about what happened considering Ahsoka was captured and Hondo can obviously track the ancient sentient database that the Jedi rely on to build lightsabers.  Jocasta Nu senses a disturbance in the Force and starts brushing up on COBOL. Obi-Wan cautions the youngling...

Our JFC is “He who faces himself, finds himself” (so I already don’t feel good about the Bechdel test).  Our RA tells us that WAR is ongoing and spreading across the galaxy, and the number of Jedi is declining, so new Jedi, youglings, are being kidna… found and trained with their new “family”. The younglings must pass many tests, including the eponymous “gathering”. We cut to Ahsoka telling some p...

The rebels have stepped up their attacks, ambushing a droid convoy in the center of the city and definitely causing no collateral damage despite the sobbing children. The rebels declare they seek to overthrow King Rash and restore King Dendup to the throne. Dendup is slated for public execution. The Gerrera siblings want to free Dendup. At the same time, Steela tries to ignore the growing feelings...

The planet Onderon has seceded from the Republic and joined the Separatist Alliance under a new king. Rebel forces have fled into the jungle and appeal to the Jedi for help. Oh wait, this happened at the start of the clone war by the legitimate government under a new king. The rebels claim he’s a traitor though so it’s totally fine. Anakin, completely off the cuff, invents the School of the Americ...

Welcome to Season 5, the season with no name! We begin with the radio announcer telling us that Maul and Opress have teamed up to do bad across the Outer Rim - so bad that they kill two Jedi in new footage during the opening montage! The brothers secure a pile of ill-gotten loot on Cybloc, where Maul also makes formal the fact that the Rule of Two is in effect, and that Savage is the junior member...

The Closing Crawl crew talks Star Wars Games: Video Games, Card Games, Board Games, Mind Games, Hunger Games - you name it and... by GAWD - is that Jon's Music?!?!? We'll discuss our earliest memories of Star Wars video and tabletop games, from the highest highs of the Decipher GGC, to the lowest lows of that one mission in X-Wing where you had to identify freighters. https://twitter.com...

We open on a menacing RED title card and the Radio Announcer reminds us of Savage Opress' creation, rise, and betrayal of Dooku and Asajj Ventress, plus his new mission: to find his brother, Darth Maul.   Dooku and Grievous discuss the rise of something sinister and we cut to Savage terrorizing a Waffle House at a spaceport, where some special dust-laden cargo leads him to a spaceship he comm...

Asajj Ventress has sought sanctuary with the Nightsisters of Dathomir. She meets with Mother Talzin, who tells Ventress to abandon Dooku and the Sith, and become a true nightsister. A baptismal ceremony changes Ventress' eye color, and a celebration signals her rebirth as a Nightsister. Meanwhile, Dooku learns that Ventress has returned, so he orders Grievous to attack Dathomir and wipe out t...

A plot to kidnap the chancellor by Eval Moralo that has been thwarted…?  The Jedi decide to form their own plot.  Obi Wan is shot and falls to his apparent death.  We know falling is a jedi’s greatest skill, but what this episode presupposes is, maybe it isn’t?  Obi Wan has a funeral and Anakin is absolutely losing his shit.  Meanwhile Rako Hardeen starts bragging in a bar that he shot Obi Wan to...

Our JFC is " Friendship shows us who we really are. " The radio announcer lets us know that in hopes of ending the war, the first ever official meeting between the Republic and Separatists is being held on the neutral world of Mandalore. The negotiations seem to be going poorly, with the Separatists having a ridiculous demand that their government be recognized as legitimate. We all know...

On the planet Kiros, artisan colonists created a society with no weapons, only art and beauty. Let's see how that plays out for them! Count Dooku makes an offer the governor can't refuse: 'Safe haven' for the citizens of Kiros as slaves, under the control of Zygerrian Atai Molec!  Anakin, Obi-wan, and Ahsoka arrive. The battle rages! When Obi-wan goes to meet to discuss terms f...

We depart the Adventure genre for the War is Hell genre, as the clones decide whether or not to follow General Krell up river.  With the spotlight on Rex and the Clones - how will they account themselves when faced with treason and fratricide? Plan of Dissent: This episode’s JFC is “The wise man leads, the strong man follows.” Our RA summarizes the last two episodes, which involves Jedi Master Kre...

This week on General Swap: can the 501st adapt to General Krell’s “choke the rivers with our dead” tactics, or will they earn the respect of a tough but fair boss? Legendary editor Water Murch takes a seat in the director’s chair for this story arc, which sees what the Clone Wars are like to the boots. Jony Ive guests as a model designer for the Umbaran vehicles.  One of those things is true. Dark...

Mercy Mission Synopsis: Radio Announcer: Tragedy has struck Aleen. On the way down to the planet the clones see an Aleena riding a giant insect thing and says ‘Great, it’s going to be another one of those planets’ in case you’d forgotten that teenage boys are the absolute worst.  The design of the Aleena suggests that Brian Froud has snuck into Lucasfilm; let’s see if we get a darkly whimsical fai...

Will the Nabooans ever be able to tell Gungans apart? What happens when one writer wants to make an homage to The Three Musketeers, and the other one to Kurosawa's Kagemusha? We answer these and other questions.  (P.S. Anakin is captured by Dooku, and that's like the C story!) Our Jedi Fortune Cookie is "Who a person truly is cannot be seen with the eye." The radio announcer ch...

We buck convention and produce a recap podcast that is shorter than the source material this week!  Closing Crawl produces propaganda for the monarchy this week, in exchange for a boatload of eels as we put another squid on the barbie and heads down under the sea. There is dissension on Mon Cala between the "aggressive squid-like Quarren" and "their peaceful neighbors the Mon Calama...

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The Closing Crawl crew and friends disclose their origin stories re: Star Wars printed media, Trioculus gets a name check, and we tease Dawson's Creek writer Kevin J. Anderson. https://twitter.com/ClosingCrawl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/closing-crawl/id1530133296 https://www.closingcrawl.com/ On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9X-57K6-VV_GkUBaqvyeA Merch: https://bit.ly...

While this episode of Closing Crawl is filmed in black and white, trust me, it's really funny - oooOOOHHHHH CHEWBACCA! We take on View Askew productions Clone Wars, Season 3 Episodes 21-22, Padawan Lost and Wookie Hunt. https://twitter.com/ClosingCrawl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/closing-crawl/id1530133296 https://www.closingcrawl.com/ On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz...

Clone Wars finally pays off the foreshadowing we've all been waiting for since Clone Cadets. Closing Crawl sends Echo to a nice farm in upstate New York in Clone Wars: Season 3 Episodes 18-20: The Citadel, Counterattack, and Citadel Rescue https://twitter.com/ClosingCrawl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/closing-crawl/id1530133296 https://www.closingcrawl.com/ Merch at: https://bit.ly/sp...

Lucas elucidates Anakin's chosen one status, and Closing Crawl is none the wiser. This episode is dedicated to Scott Swanson, hacker, mentor, friend. https://twitter.com/ClosingCrawl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/closing-crawl/id1530133296 https://www.closingcrawl.com/ Merch at: https://bit.ly/spacetimetm

An important arc sees the canon (re)introduction of the Nightsisters and... Darth Maul is alive? Plus an episode called Witches of the Mist about Mother Talzin and Ventress doesn't pass the Bechdel test. Closing Crawl meets The Kurgan's alter ego in Clone Wars, Season 3, Episodes 12-14: Nightsisters, Monster, Witches of the Mist https://twitter.com/ClosingCrawl https://podcasts.apple.com...

Star Wars goes back to its roots: trade disputes, banking regulations, and Draculas. Closing Crawl negotiates Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 10 and 11: Heroes on Both Sides, and Pursuit of Peace https://twitter.com/ClosingCrawl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/closing-crawl/id1530133296 https://www.closingcrawl.com/ Merch at: https://bit.ly/spacetimetm

Rub2-D-Tug falls into a Black Mirror episode, while 3P0 ends up in a Saw movie, and Truman Capote ends up dead. Join Closing Crawl as we nail it in one take, resulting in no post credits sequence, for this week's review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 3 Episodes 8 and 9, Evil Plans and Hunt for Ziro. https://twitter.com/ClosingCrawl https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/closing-crawl/id15...