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Ryan

The Zillo Beast is always the first thing I point to as to why doing an animated Star Wars series is worthwhile. It's the kind of out-there sci-fi concept that would be very tricky to visualize in live action, especially on the more limited budget of a show like this, but when everything is animated, it fits in perfectly and lets us fully appreciate how awesome the whole design is.

Thomas Corp

The series as a whole delves into grey areas a lot, and here especially, it does a good job at that. I had a good laugh over your saying you wouldn't want to be the clone troopers who Mace called on for backup. In particular, I know Troopers Hawkeye and Trapper were probably wishing that they were back at the Swamp, knocking back a few martinis. According to Filoni, the Zillo Beast is only actually trying to kill Palpatine because it knows exactly who and what he is. The most terrifying moment of these episodes is where Palpatine, of all people says the famous line, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” which when I first heard him say that I went into shock and went, “WHAT did he just say??!!” then when it fully registered in my brain, I screamed bloody murder. I swear, I had to have sounded like a mix of Daniel Stern in Home Alone 2 and yourself whenever you see a big snake. Again, I loved your concern when 3PO was in danger. You know, it just occurred that this is the first time that yours and my favorite character, 3PO for you and Palpatine for me, not only share more screentime than usual, but are also in the same boat of being in mortal peril; it’s weird. These were great reactions to this amazing two parter.

Thomas Corp

I think Smaug's the closest thing to a Zillo Beast type creature in live action that I've seen. But yeah, I agree that with animation, there is a lot more freedom with the type of sci-fi creatures and concepts that you can bring to life that can't be done with live action.

Ryan

The all-time champ of this is probably the Star Trek animated series, where the writers were clearly overjoyed at the opportunity to create all kinds of bizarre aliens and settings without worrying about how to actually create them onscreen. The scripts are often a bit lacking, but seeing this writing crew just go completely nuts with any weird idea that pops into their head is a lot of fun.