{"id":4069,"date":"2009-03-19T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T20:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek.ravenkai.com\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2009-04-07T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:47:06","slug":"the-chilling-season-finale-of-star-wars-the-clone-wars-introduces-a-deadly-new-enemy-%e2%80%93-ruthless-bounty-hunter-cad-bane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=4069","title":{"rendered":"The Chilling Season Finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Introduces a Deadly New Enemy — Ruthless Bounty Hunter Cad Bane"},"content":{"rendered":"

from StarWars.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Republic faces a new threat as lethal mercenary Cad Bane makes his appearance in \u201cHostage Crisis,\u201d the thrilling conclusion to the first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, airing at 9 p.m. ET\/PT Friday, March 20 on Cartoon Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The heroes of the Republic have repeatedly beaten back the assaults orchestrated by the evil Separatist forces, but an entirely new threat — lethal mercenary Cad Bane — will emerge from the shadows in \u201cHostage Crisis,\u201d the thrilling conclusion to the first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em>, airing at 9 p.m. ET\/PT Friday, March 20 on Cartoon Network.<\/p>\n

Count Dooku seeks to spring a Separatist prisoner from Republic captivity, but his profile prevents him from getting close enough to set in motion his malevolent plan.<\/p>\n

Enter Cad Bane, the galaxy\u2019s most fearsome bounty hunter, as ruthless as he is deadly. He is quintessentially cold, cruel and calculating — and when the price is right, he can\u2019t be stopped. Backed by Dooku and the Separatists, he\u2019s bringing his unique skill set and impressive arsenal to bear against the very heart of the Republic. Bane brazenly brings the fight to the Senate\u2019s doorstep, with a rogues gallery of galactic scum as his allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis episode gave us the chance to do something totally different, to go in a new direction with the series,\u201d says supervising director Dave Filoni. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen the good guys and the bad guys, from the top of the food chain to the cannon fodder on the front lines. Now we get to look at some of the opportunists, at the mercenaries operating without a side. It\u2019s a whole new dynamic we haven\u2019t seen yet, and at the same time it\u2019s very Star Wars<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patterned after the laconic gunslingers of spaghetti Westerns, Bane is lethally cool and relishes being a bad guy. He is unflappable in the face of danger, and even welcomes the opportunity to pit his formidable skills against the legendary prowess of the Jedi Knights. Filoni says the inspiration for the red-eyed bounty hunter came directly from George Lucas.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a clear idea for this bad guy who plays by his own set of rules, whose moral code is dictated by his fee,\u201d says Filoni. \u201cAnd he had sketches and concepts dating back to the original films. If Boba Fett was sort of the Man With No Name of the Star Wars<\/em> galaxy, then Cad Bane is his counterpoint — his Lee Van Cleef. So that\u2019s how we built the character, with that in mind. It\u2019s a cool parallel to our world, and a cool balance in theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making his Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> debut in Friday\u2019s season finale, Bane has already established a place as a fan-favorite — among the series\u2019 creators and crew.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crew loves Cad Bane, and I really think the fans will, too,\u201d says episode director Giancarlo Volpe. \u201cHe brings a serious bad-ass sensibility to Star Wars<\/em>. He\u2019s a lethal and ruthless bounty hunter, and you see that right away in the episode. Unlike Boba Fett, Cad doesn\u2019t take prisoners.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Take a closer look at Cad Bane.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from StarWars.com: The heroes of the Republic have repeatedly beaten back the assaults orchestrated by the evil Separatist forces, but an entirely new threat — lethal mercenary Cad Bane — will emerge from the shadows in \u201cHostage Crisis,\u201d the thrilling conclusion to the first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, airing at 9 p.m. … Continue reading “The Chilling Season Finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Introduces a Deadly New Enemy — Ruthless Bounty Hunter Cad Bane”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-films","category-multimedia","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}