The Clone Wars: Episode 14 - Defenders of Peace
Date: January 23, 2009 at 05:58 PM ET
Topic: Movie and TV News
The
Clone Wars picks up where it left off last week, with Anakin and the gang ready to
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Keeping the peace sometimes
requires taking up arms
Stranded on a distant planet, the Jedi
must convince its pacifist inhabitants to bend their beliefs and fight for peace
in “Defenders of Peace,” an
all-new episode of the hit animated series STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, premiering
at 9 p.m. ET/PT Friday, Jan. 23, on Cartoon Network.
While the Jedi combat a new Separatist weapon, the pacifist Lurmen must decide
whether they will lay down to the invading forces or take up arms with Anakin, Ahsoka
and Jedi General Aayla Secura to protect their belief system.
Director Steward Lee and story editor Henry
Gilroy embraced the episode’s
departure from the more explosive aspects of the war. Focusing on the Lurmen
and their beliefs provided a unique opportunity to step away from the central conflict
to explore issues facing innocents who are all-too-often caught in the crossfire.
“It’s about making choices,” Lee says. “The
Lurmen chose this pacifist way of life, and the Jedi chose to defend them whether
they want it or not. The Jedi must show the younger generation of Lurmen that you
have to defend what you love.”
“I’ve always been intrigued by pacifists during wartime – people
who will do anything they can to avoid fighting, yet are inexorably drawn into a
battle against their will and without choice,” says Gilroy, who cites Akira
Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai as inspiration for the episode. “It’s
about choosing sides or choosing death. You have the Jedi willing to sacrifice their
lives to defend innocents who don’t really want to defend themselves or to
be defended. I think that’s an interesting premise.”
Even faced with the destruction of their
village, the Lurmen elders stand fast in their pacifist beliefs in “Defenders
of Peace,” an
all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS premiering at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Friday, Jan. 23, on Cartoon Network
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