I Watched the Battle of Theed in 0.25x Speed and Here's What I Found
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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Watching the Battle of Theed from The Phantom Menace in slow motion revealed SO many hidden details that everyone missed watching these episodes for the first time. Here's a compilation of all the different things I've found! Let's begin.
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Because of the purity of the Tibana gas, green bolts are more powerful and more expensive. That's why the Droids are being launched like someone shot them with a shotgun point-blank, and it also shows how wealthy Naboo is.
Thanks. I was gonna say this. It also explains why TIE fighters do so much damage, even against larger capital ships.
And Naboo Guards shooting past each other shows that they're a paramilitary organization that is barely professional. They are good shots, I must admit, but their unit cohesion and trigger discipline is just bad. Risking lots of friendly fire.
@@henrykkeszenowicz4664 They kind of strike me as what many call 'parade ground troops' who have training and expensive gear, but no combat experience. They remind me of myself playing football in gym class. I was fast, but never actually played football, so I just ran where everyone else was going. Naboo probably hasn't had to fight in centuries. That really underscores why the clone army was so necessary in the Clone Wars.
@@henrykkeszenowicz4664 They are the Naboo Royal Guard. Naboo is a peaceful world that doesn't see much action.
There's not really a standing military force in the Republic at this point.
Not many people in the universe have military experience, the High Republic period that came before this ushered in a Golden Age and there's literally been over a thousand years of peace.
I heard that the blue lasers from the clone are ionized and designed to incapacitate electronics, which is why they used them against the droid army. Not sure if this is canon, though.
Here's an Easter Egg of all Easter Eggs you missed.....check the fourth guard that runs across from one side of the throne room corridor to the blown out window....It's Ray "Darth Maul" Park. Not only did Park perform as a stunt double but also as an extra, he then got the Maul part too.
That blaster you like so much is almost certainly a modified .22 competition pistol of some sort. It's always neat to see how they'll use real-world stuff for the fictional world
So I did some research and it's actually a Walther LPM-1 Air Gun modified with an optic and under barrel attachment
@@AR_119 Pretty awesome, thanks!
Now there’s California-compliant AKs in Andor. 😂
It reminds me of a Mateba kind of!
For the guys with extra guns, dual-wielding would be cool looking, but not that practical. In a battle like that I think it is more useful to have a spare one. The gun's energy cell can be depleted, the enemy can shoot it out of their hand...
Tell that to my 10 year old self destroying my younger brother with my 2 water guns
I think it’s unlikely to run out to reload since the dc15a clone rifle has 500 standard power shots before needing to change packs
@@bruticus1496 this is the battle of theed, long before the clone wars...
@@spacecatsftw those were just examples of e-pack size that I could remember off hand
@@bruticus1496 given we don't know anything about these weapons i would not assume they have the same charge as a combat rifle.
Naboo Soldiers are underrated, they taked down a entire separatist fortress with few losts, and in the Mandalorian they destroyed coruscant guards and clone troopers.
The key to the lightsaber cutting droids looking good is that there was nothing on set, so they could do whatever sweet spinning execution they want and there WILL be a battle droid there to get rekt. Same with incoming blaster shots and reflections. At that point just let the actors have fun and it looks sweet.
Those 4 guys in the back that you asked if they were duros are actually nemoidians without the big fancy hat, which we don't see very often. We are so used to seeing gunray so much that we forget what a hatless nemoidian looks like.
If I remember correctly, nemoidians and duros have a shared ancestor too. They separated at some point and evolved further separately
5:09 Those are Neimodians. The reason Neimodians look similar to Duros is because Neimodians and Duros are related to each other and it is theoretically possible for them to mate. Lore wise Duro are often mistaken for Neimodians, who have a bad reputation amongst both the oppressed Outer Rim Separatists and the wealthy humanocentric Republic Loyalists thanks to Trade Federation higher ups being Neimodians. As such, Duro and Neimodians are often looked down upon, and Duro try to distance themselves from and also look down upon Neimodians. As for the idea that these are 'Separatists', the Separatist movement is not to be created for another 8 years, and the Battle of Naboo is a major factor in creating the movement because it put on display that the Republic was willing to allow the Trade Federation to occupy even Mid Rim worlds. While Palpatine had created the Naboo crisis, the Separatist position would have been legitimate even without him, he was simply stirring up tensions to manipulate the soon-to-be CIS for his own benefit, and the death of Qui Gon Jinn caused by the Republic's unwillingness to help the Naboo people pushed Dooku firmly to Sidious' side.
Neimoidians and Duros are the same like Romulans and Vulcans being the same.
@@peterkrochmalni673 Is that a Stark Trek thing with the Vulcans? I am not a Trekkie I am afraid. The old series look good but the new stuff looks fake as shit.
@@tk-6967 well, then let me give you some context. In Star Trek, the Vulcans had space travel far earlier than humans and a group of Vulcans settled on a planet they named Romulus and after the centuries they became known as the Romulans; and all that time living on a planet with a different atmosphere and a different climate over the centuries with each new generation of Romulans changed then slightly. Relatively, the Romulans and the Vulcans are the same species.
The same is said about the Neimoidians, the Duros settled on Neimoidia and after a few generations because of atmosphere and the climate they live on their completions changed. Relatively, the Neimoidians and the Duros are the same species.
@@peterkrochmalni673 Cool, thanks
Wait, if those guys in the background are Neimoidians, then what are the Viceroy and his cronies? Do they just have different castes of Neimoidians or something?
The droids falling apart was from shockwave of explosion forcing them to the ground. The physics are legit, but also they are fragile. Their sheer mass produced numbers were their winning strategy. That is why the clones were the next "evolution" of combat in the Star Wars universe and terrifyingly superior. The Emperor was plotting yo.
Great videos. Cheers.
Yeah, OOM and B1s were strong but weren't built to sustain such tremendous forces, those shockwaves would crush our organs, and we are built to be decently durable, OOMs and B1s are designed to be expendanle
The reason people looked "comp'ed in" as you say is because they combined multiple takes. If you watch the documentary "light & magic" I'm pretty sure it's in there. They showed them editing a scene inside the J-type Nubian, the Naboo Royal Ship. It showed them adding and removing Panaka (Pinaka?) I believe.
They talk about this in the commentary for the Prequels. It was new tech, and George really liked the idea of compositing different elements from different takes into one shot in the final film. I can't imagine what it was like having all those tools that were new and trying things that were near impossible to do (practically in an industrial sense) in the past.
There used to be a board game about this called The Queen's Gambit. It was very elaborate and depicted all four fights at the end of the movie.
I looked it up cuz it piqued my interest and holy is it expensive nowadays.
My cousin had that board game when I was younger. Apparently, the game is complicated since he didn't let me play it😅
@@bacondorito dang it is. Someone should make 3d printed versions
Star Wars Risk from a few years ago does a similar job of having multiple arenas of play but not about the same scenario.
Watching clips from these old SW films makes me want to play SWG all over again. Nostalgia overload.
5:05 not Duros. Those are nemoidians without their silly hats
Came here to say this (but you bear me to it), also weird to call them Separatists considering the Separatist movement doesn't show up until AoTC
Although he’s not far off. In legends the nemoidians were a Duros colony that mutated over time.
I remember going to see this movie when it came out in the theater the second time in 3D. It was so awesome and it was technically the first time I got to see the movie in the theater because I was too young when it came out the first time. Either that or I was just too young to remember it. I really wish they had also released episodes 2 and 3 after this one in 3D but they never did.
IKR? 3D Phantom Menace was my first SW movie in theaters. Tragic that the disney buyout took place that same year, canceling the 3D rereleases of the other 5 movies.
@@bacondorito Aw Man! I didn’t even know they were planning on releasing the other 5 films in 3D. Disney is just the worst!
@@Makise3 ikr? They said that they delayed the rest of them to focus on Episode vii. However, we've heard nothing since.
3D hype is over so why bother. I remember much more ESB 40y aniversary screening or even TCW pilot than TPM in 3D. :D
I found another place with green blaster bolts. I believe that the Umbarans had green blaster bolts but I may be wrong. If you count spaceship lasers then Imperial turbo lasers and tie fighters had green lasers,
Another one from 'The Mandalorian' Season 3
Green blaster bolts are from very refined and pure Tibanna gas. Blaster bolt colors are dependent on the quality/purity of the gas.
Yeah, umbaran had green blasters
I believe the “second pistol” in the scenes where some soldiers have are actually grappling guns. When they’re scaling the walls, Panaka shouts “extension guns!” and only a few soldiers follow him.
It must be the one he gave Padme. She's using the snazzy blaster in the hallway, but uses the other when firing the grappling hook.
20:00 “look how far away he is; ten feet, opens fire and completely misses her.”
“How could you miss?”
“She moved.”
Also they need the queen alive to sign a treaty to legalize their occupation. I don't know why the droid fired at her at all, maybe Michael is right and they do have a short circuit in their trigger finger?
13:30 Not only were Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon fighting Darth Maul in the same hangar, but it looks like the whole shootout involving the Naboo resistance and the Droidekas was happening *on the other side of the room.* The two groups could have looked over and seen each other.
Fun fact: the firearm that the Royal Guard blaster is based off of is an Olympic target-shooting pistol. Just add like three crazy tubes to it, you got a star wars gun.
My theory for the "yellow guys" struggling with the cables might be because theyre supposed to be guards or police while the red-brown guys are soldiers whod have more training in that kind of thing.
2:19 the B-1 battle droids might have been designed to fall apart under concussive force, so they could be easily salvaged.
This also explains why they fall apart with just a light push after being shut down during the battle vs the Gungans. I think one of the eyewitness books mentions that the limbs are held together electromagnetically (or something like that).
@@platyhelminthes2877 - That makes sense, because it looks like their limbs are super flimsy too. This is also why the clones were also instructed to aim for the joints.
@platyhelminthes2877 they fall apart with just a push after shut down because their limbs are mostly held on by magnetically attachment, so no power = little force holding then together. This is done to simplify construction, maintenance and salvage. But it makes them flimsy when power is lost which can be a benefit as less parts are damaged when exposed to heavy force improving salvage options.
The b-1 was still a few years off
Those were OOMs, a generation before the B-1s.
Ive always loved how panaka jumps out of hia skin when he sees maul
So that blaster you are looking at is actually a modified Walther LPM-1 Air Gun in case you wanted to recreate it in real life 👍
17:35 Those are backups, they were never meant to be dual shot. Using both, at once, is hard and would cause most people doing these issues. Lucas must have had a weapons expert on the set, to know never to dual shoot.
I think the 2nd pistols may have been like a grappling shot pistol
Yea the captain called them extension guns which padme and her guards have
It’s been so long since I watched The Phantom Menace so I couldn’t remember what they were called
Have you done the order 66 episodes in clone wars at 0.25 speed? It would be cool to see whats happening in the background in those episodes, especially that part in the hangar where there are a ton of clones.
I just finished watching your last breakdown.
They are never ending 😂
Dual wielding would've been really stupid, especially given that those are heavy blaster pistols (like Han Solo's one) and are way too powerful to use effectively as dual wielders (even though any form of dual wielding IRL would be stupid, I am going by SW standards).
There is actually a sound error in this battle. Padme fights with her typical blaster also later shown in Clone Wars. She then gets handed a Naboo S-5 blaster because it has a hook attachment. When they arrive at the window a floor above and shoot it, her usual blaster sound is heard although she doesn't have it at the moment.
The citadel arc.
We need to have it
It just occurred to me - in the scene where Padme and her cadre are rescued after being captured and taken to the Viceroy, where did the droidekas go? They were just there forcing Padme's group to surrender, but in the next fight scene they are nowhere to be found. Something tells me that battle would have gone much different if those droidekas had been there.
You could argue that the unarmed group doesn't pose much of a threat anymore and that the droidekas are put to better use going off fighting in the streets.
Episode will forever have a special place in my heart, it had such a strong esthetic
The falling droid does just have a regular blaster. It would be too easy to explain the multiple shots as "malfunctioning hands) after the droid was shot and "killed". like it got shot as it was processing the command to fire so it just got stuck there until it can out of power
This gives me new appreciation for the game design of Star Wars miniatures, where the otherwise sucky Naboo soldiers' special power is being able to shoot through allies with no penalty, lol
The droid didn’t have a Machine Gun all Blasters in Star Wars are Full-Auto but Stormtroopers, Droids and Clones pull the Trigger in Semi-Auto. In Episode 4 on the Deathstar when the Stormtroopers enter the Detention Block with the Elevator, Han shoots one down and the Gun from the Stormtrooper blasts in Full-Auto
These videos always are amazing I always have to watch them right away.
You know, for fighting against such skinny opponents, the guards have really good aim
5:05 Duros and Nemoidians are related. Sort of cousin species, I think. Duros like to be more adventurous while nemoidians are cowardly.
6:17 The color of the blasters, in cannon, just depends on the kind of ammunition. Naboo is rich in natural plasma, and I think they just use their own plasma for their weapons.
Which is weird because gungans Boomas are condensed plasma balls, but they are blue... hm
@michelecastellotti9172 Naboo has a very unique source of plasma, I hear. There is a lore vid from MetaNerds, StupendousWave, or one of the other reputable lore channels.
The visible light is actually trailing the blaster bolt, hence why there's impacts before you see red/green reaching what they hit.
Ive always wondered, where are all of the R2 units? R2 units were made in Naboo, their ships were designed to have R2 slots, so there should have been hundreds of R2s just on standby in the hanger.
I love you man. I see these videos and get so happy. Your cheery mood and being able to relate to the same childhood memories. Being able to look back at these films and see so many new things. I wish we were friends.
I remember watching the Phantom Menace for the first time and seeing the new sith, a black and red menace with horns square up with two famous Jedis. When he ignited his dual-bladed lightsaber and they fought… man, I’m pretty sure that’s the last time I remember being truly happy
Autofire when droid get's damaged would be good thing. Even if it didn't get first shot, it still can hurt it's enemies if it aims in right direction.
I just love how static all the cameras are
They probably did it so they can easily composite in CG droids
But it also has the unintended effect of making all the shots look like architectural paintings
Disney Star Wars would never do this
the S-5 is the blaster the Naboo guard uses and its in battlefront II. it is indeed a very sniper pistol
When you mention how they reach star fighters that are higher up in the hangar. I wanted to say that I think I read somewhere they are lower down like in some sort of magazine. But one scene later we can see a fighter starting up from second level above still parked one. So it seems there is a way to reach them.
These vids are quality content, a chef’s kiss. Hope you reach 1 mil M Jae!
I don’t know if you ever done one, but it be awesome if you did a slow motion recap of the Lord of the rings film battles
I would love to see there Naboo security team in battlefront 2. Like on the three map, instead of clones it could be the guards, Padme could be a hero, and the assault, heavy, and specialist could have skins. The skins could look like the pilot, the guys with the rebel-like helmets, and the guys in brown and yellow. The skin for the officer could be like captain panaka’s uniform. We have the Naboo assault and officer weapons, so it would be easy to bring in.
3:05 "He was on the ground 'fore we heard the shot!" -Pvt. Jackson
The extra guns were grappling hook launchers, you see them in use during the scene when they go up one level.
2:00 they are being hit by a powerful blast wave from an explosion. Things that kill people and can disable electronics and mechanics irl. It's bot just being knocked over.
2:53 2 guys in yellow fall almost immediately
The details in the background of the Star Wars scenes are S-tier
Heres a suggestion, that I would love to see in 0.25x speed , Ep 56-58 somewhere there we see a battle between the nights sisters and battle droids ( its season 3 episode 56-58)
All the naboo weaponry and vehicles have an elegant space Renaissance aesthetic.
There is a scene that you missed of the Naboo tank firing in fast-fire mode.
2:00 - Combusts has to do with fire. (He just ‘busts!’ 😂)
Bro ngl the Vader force pulling down that X Wing 0:55 into the Subscribe button looks kinda Crisp though 😂
2:00 fun fact. In universe, battle droids are designed to come apart easily so as to reduce actual damage to parts making them cheap and easy to repair😊
Was looking forward for this. Now 2003 Clone Wars!! ❤ Green ammo was used by Naboo Forces, Wookies and Umbarans. Where can I watch these behind the scenes with naboo Guards?
Fthe reason B1 battle droids fall apart so easily is because they are held together magnetically.
Cool thing I noticed this video is in the Hanger, one of the pilots (guys with the big coats) dies. This is why the ship R2 and Anakin wasn’t taken.
This might just be me but when darth maul ignites his lightsaber in the hangar, you can see that the blade actually gets bigger
To answer your question on why some blaster blast happen before the color hits is because blasters originally where laser weapons the lore at the time was the color was the end of the shot but it was a nightmare to edit so eventually when plasma guns became popular blasters became plasma guns and they made the colored part the actual shot which made edits easier.
I just discovered you through this video. Absolutely amazing and so much fun!!! I'm now subscribed!!!
I think the short circuit on the Trigger Finger makes more sense on the Machine gun one too since that seems to be their standard Blaster
Cannot believe you missed out the part where Padmai switches guns to shoot the window in and it still uses the sound queue for her silver side arm
15:20 I think there is only one guard with an extra gun. You can see him starting to get it out as their climbing out the window and it's because Padme needed it to ascend to the next level. You can see she switched to that gun until they are captured moments later and you can see she has her original gun holstered on her belt. I'm guessing the prop dept. only made one version of the cable gun for the stunt and then someone thought that Padme should have her own special gun so they had to find a solution as to why her gun changes. As for Panaka his gun just appeared on his belt while they were using the cables so I can't explain that one.
Never realized how shit the NAboo Guard's tactics are; bunch up, run together in the open into enemy fire, run some more, never take cover
Love your channel dude!
All this detail and you missed the fact that Portman nearly slips and falls on her face in on shot.
I might be seeing things, but I think I just saw Qui-Gon nod his head after saying "Stay in that cockpit!"
It’s finally time you did this battle
I always love to see another one of these videos
I saw this video scrolling on my for you and got so excited
I watch TFM today with a friend who’s never seen Star Wars before (somehow), and the same day there’s a breakdown of it!
At 2:48 there are actually 2 guys falling dead on the ground in the back. Not just the yellow guy alone. The guy on the left side dies too.
Pretty sure the guy at 9:20 fell onto a crash pad, and they probably didn't think to replace the shadow on the blue/green screen.
10.30 all of the figures are 'comped in' because the whole set was just a green/blue screen room. the actors were all computered into the scene which is why it looks a little bit weird.
I always loved the Naboo pilot's uniforms. Those flight jackets... 😍
That’s a very good video!! Would love to see the battle on Darthomir next :0
It’s my favorite CW battle in the series!
The night sisters vs the CIS
Fun fact. At 8:44 you see Padme's decoy bodyguard. That is Keira Knightley.
the four "durros" in the back are just non-ranking nemoidians.
18:49 Great highlight of a well done VFX
As campy as the prequels were (especially episode 1 and 2), this makes me kinda want to watch them again.
Just imagine being a pilot in this movie and about to go fight for your plant just for you to bearly make out of the hanger and die
I like how the Naboo pilots wear big orange bath robe coats
damn youre like the Canadian Lad of star wars and its fucking awesome!
Ayyyy! Love seeing when you upload! You are one of my fav star wars yters
Here’s a new video series idea: watching lightsaber fights in 0.25x speed.
I’m surprised Lego haven’t made a Naboo guard battlepack yet. Or even pilots
20:23 any door shutting at that speed should scare anyone..
5:03 those are Nemodians like Nute Gunray, I believe they are meant to be some of the Trade Federation's representatives.
You missed that the dual pistol guy gives Padme to grappling hook the wall
Wow! that water pistol looks cool! If I had one I would customize it to look like a real prop.
Those droids might be actual real life models.
You cut off right before Padme walks up to Nute Gunray. And it seems like Natalie Portman kinda forgot how to walk for a second.
No one tell him the Naboo hanger doesn’t exist, so all the extras were ‘comped in’ ❤
Those guys with nute gunray are other Neimoidians, not Duros. The two species are related but Duros consider it a grave insult to be mistaken for Neimoidians.
All blaster rifles has an automatic setting. But for the same reason as IRL, they keep it in semi-auto for some reason... they have like 300 charges in the gas cartridges or something.