Title: Away from Home
Era/Series: Star Wars: Droids
Pairing/Characters: Thall Joben, Ahsoka Tano, C-3PO, R2-D2, CC-7567 (‘Rex’)
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Length: 1277 words
Disclaimer: All characters created and owned by LucasArts
Summary: Future speeder racer, Thall Joben receives a curious visitor with an interest in the two droids he has recently acquired.
Read it here.
Categories: Clone Wars · Droids · fanfic
Tagged: Clone Wars, Droids, Star Wars
Not much to say on this brief episode aside from the fact that I’m really pleased to have had a chance to watch it again. The last time I saw this series must have been sometime around 1987/1988 when it first aired on television in Britain. Whilst the campness, and somewhat boring nature of the story remained lodged in my memory, I must confess that I had completely forgotten the awesomeness of the incidental music and the theme tune (apparently performed by the drummer of The Police).
Second impressions (if you can call them that) were tinged by nostalgia and the fact that I quite liked the three principle characters – Thall Joben, Jord Dusat and Kea Moll – probably more than I did first time around. I wasn’t really convinced by Thall suddenly pulling out a lightsabre but I understand that the weapon was used more to remind the viewer that this was indeed Star Wars and I’ll excuse it on those grounds. I also have a bit of a problem with the fact that everything in the episode seems to point towards it being set on Tatooine yet wookieepedia apparently suggests that the story took place on a planet called Ingo. I sense a retcon, alas.
I think this episode, more by merit of having a story-book adaptation as a child, has been preserved in my mind more clearly than later episodes (though I do have vague recollections of The Big Heep). I also remember thinking that the glimpse of Bobba Fet in the opening credits was the most exciting part of many of the episodes. We’ll see how the rest turn out, I guess!
