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In this segment of a special Q&A on Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Lost Missions, supervising director Dave Filoni, Tom Kane (Yoda), and Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker) discuss Yoda's trip to Dagobah in "Voices."
First seen in The Empire Strikes Back, Dagobah is a swamp planet that became Yoda's home after the decimation of the Jedi. It was on Dagobah that he hid from the Empire, waiting to train Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Force. But it was not until the Lost Missions episode, "Voices," that audiences would finally learn more about the bog world, and Yoda's association with it.
In "Voices," Yoda journeys to Dagobah on the guidance of Qui-Gon Jinn's disembodied voice. He goes, however, with R2-D2 -- a connection with the original trilogy not lost on the show's creators. "When Luke says, 'There's something familiar about this place' [in The Empire Strikes Back], Artoo's like, 'Yeah, absolutely,'" Filoni jokes. Kane notes the significance for viewers: "There were secrets being kept," he says. "It just added a whole other layer."
In recreating Dagobah for animation, the Clone Wars team tried to stay true to the films. They referenced the original blueprint documents of the set, and maintained accuracy right down to the angle of tree roots. But what of Yoda's visions and experience on Dagobah? What's real and what isn't? In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke seems to walk into a man-made structure, but it could've been part of his own vision.
"I tried to keep everything as vague in this arc to maintain that mystery," Filoni remarks. Kane points out that Yoda walks down steps during his Dagobah trial, signifying that something had to have been built there. "Unless he's seeing that in his mind, Tom," Filoni says. "I really can't say."
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