With new “The Clone Wars” around the corner, I think it’ll be good to remind everyone that apparently there was going to be a General Grievous-centric act in the series.



The info we have is very sparse and frankly I don’t even know whether the work was underway, or maybe it was just an idea, similar to the “Vong/X-Files” arc or recently revealed Talzin arc. Nevertheless, it would be very cool to see more General in the future episodes.

As always, sorry for my awful English.



First bit of info comes from Filoni’s Q&A from March 2011, before Season 4 of the show:



I’m certain the “big win” Filoni is talking about is the salughter of the Nightsisters in Season 4 and finishing off Mother Talzin in “Son of Dathomir” comic (that was suppoused to happen on-screen). Because other that that… yeah, he was, consistently, portrayed as a loser.

Let’s move to November 2011 and our most important piece of info. Filoni did another Q&A on Facebook.



Particulary this part is interesting:

“Do not worry, we have plans for Grievous, and in those plans for the future we will show why he was chosen as the Droid General”.



From what I understand, this arc would have told us more detailed version of Grievous’s backstory - more detailed than the one in “Lair of Grievous”.



Season Four first aired on September 2011, which means that Season Five was well under development at that time and they were probably already thinking about season six. That means General’s arc was probably going to be included in original season six, seven, or even eight. But we all know that year later the show was cancelled.



Before cancellation though, someone asked Filoni to update General’s look in the future episodes. Sadly, this Q&A isn’t avaiable anymore, however, I’ve translated it back in the day. I’ll try to… reverse-translate it:

“It’s a great idea. We’ve never updated his model and it’s a bit outdated by now. Let me talk to Killian and see what he says, but it’s a great idea. The series have changed, so the General should”.



We’ll get to that later.



Before “The Lost Missions” aired in 2014, people had been wondering what’s going to be included in those episodes. Now we know that they consist of three story arcs - Clones/Inhibitor chips arc, Jar-Jar and Windu arc and Yoda/mysteries of the Force arc. But some fans were wondering whether Grievous’ story would be included. Sadly, Brent Friedman, one of the screenwriters, told one fan on Twitter not to get his hopes up.



Several months later, in September 2014 we got two unfinished “The Clone Wars Legacy” arcs, the “Bad Batch” and “Crystal Crisis” (I still upset they’ve decided to animate the first one instead of second). And yes, we got Grievous. He’s still weak, but at least his look got updated, just as Filoni promised - note how his gutsack is visible; he also has six fingers instead of four.

But still, this arc doesn’t answer what Filoni hinted - Why he was chosen as a Confederacy’s General? So that means this was going to be yet another story.

And now, the most important question… Will we see this arc in season seven?

Well…

I highly doubt it. I know Filoni gets a lots of love from fans, but - as a main editor responisble for animated TV series on my website - I’ve noticed over the years, that he has certain… attraction for particular characters. First and foremost, Ahsoka. Then clones and Mandos. Also Hondo. Note how those characters ended up in “Rebels”.



For other heroes? Not so much. And sadly, it’s obvious to me that he doesn’t like Grievous, although he’s polite in his answers. That’s fine with me - it’s not like you have to love ALL Star Wars. And I LOVE Hondo and like Ahsoka. But, as a Star Wars creator, you should appeal to different parts of the fandom. And sometimes give us Ahsoka, sometime Grievous. Grievous who wins from time to time.

Well, now that we know TCW Season Seven is going to be paralell with “Revenge of the Sith”, I hope - and I can’t stress this enough - that we’ll see our favourite cyborg General. And maybe in upcoming “TCW Battle Tales” comic. Or in “TCW Anthology” book.

And beyond that.

Sources:



https://www.facebook.com/notes/dave-filoni/qa/10150219391017571

https://www.facebook.com/notes/dave-filoni/greetings-from-big-rock-ranch-and-happy-holiday-season-to-all/10150559352097571

https://star-wars.pl/News/14247

https://twitter.com/VictorBarnab/status/394959265758060544

