[7.8/10] Another fun outing for the show. My favorite element of it is the way that Palpatine is annoyed at having to play the hapless Chancellor when he really just wants to blast off and help the Sith ambush the Jedi. That dovetails nicely with Grievous once again being the bumbling henchman, causing Palpy to have to comically fumfer and do anything he can to dissuade the still-mostly-oblivious Jedi from thinking he’s evil. Plus, both him and C-3P0 being annoyed by the Ewoks’ famed “Yub-Nub” song (which apparently translates to “it’s hot and smelly in these suits”) is a good laugh.
I also enjoy Jek-14 getting to be useful and save the day. (Yoda’s line about why everyone waits until the last minute to show up and save the day is a good laugh.) It’s another “Big Damn Heroes” moment, and while him reconstructing all the clone trooper ships into a big battle cruiser is, as is inevitable for this franchise, pretty toyetic, I like him being persuaded by the younglings to join the Fray.
There’s a lot of other nice touches here too. Dooku presiding over a group of mischievous and unruly “badawans” is corny but still enjoyable. Palpatine lamenting that the Sith keep getting defeated by “four kids, two droids and an eight hundred-year-old green guy” is chuckle-worthy. The action on Mustafar and in the asteroid field is quality. And Anakin drifting toward Palpatine because he’s jealous of the attention Jek-14 is getting is a nice note to play.
Overall, another fun outing from this mini-series.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2019-10-29T03:13:38Z
[7.8/10] Another fun outing for the show. My favorite element of it is the way that Palpatine is annoyed at having to play the hapless Chancellor when he really just wants to blast off and help the Sith ambush the Jedi. That dovetails nicely with Grievous once again being the bumbling henchman, causing Palpy to have to comically fumfer and do anything he can to dissuade the still-mostly-oblivious Jedi from thinking he’s evil. Plus, both him and C-3P0 being annoyed by the Ewoks’ famed “Yub-Nub” song (which apparently translates to “it’s hot and smelly in these suits”) is a good laugh.
I also enjoy Jek-14 getting to be useful and save the day. (Yoda’s line about why everyone waits until the last minute to show up and save the day is a good laugh.) It’s another “Big Damn Heroes” moment, and while him reconstructing all the clone trooper ships into a big battle cruiser is, as is inevitable for this franchise, pretty toyetic, I like him being persuaded by the younglings to join the Fray.
There’s a lot of other nice touches here too. Dooku presiding over a group of mischievous and unruly “badawans” is corny but still enjoyable. Palpatine lamenting that the Sith keep getting defeated by “four kids, two droids and an eight hundred-year-old green guy” is chuckle-worthy. The action on Mustafar and in the asteroid field is quality. And Anakin drifting toward Palpatine because he’s jealous of the attention Jek-14 is getting is a nice note to play.
Overall, another fun outing from this mini-series.