Didn't expect this to be a direct continuation of the previous episode. I wonder if the jedi just steal peoples children just because they're force sensitive or give them a choice. And if given a choice are they then completely have to be dedicated to the jedi cause or is it like you have a few months to decide if you want your child back. Nice little bit of jedi-palp politics there, even if it was only a slither it was still nice and the first time in the show theyve done it. It felt a bit like foreshadowing for episode 3.
This has just got exciting!!
I enjoyed this one. Great animation, and plenty of action.
That the three way jedi mind trick thing was definitely in violation of the Geneva Convention. Between that the implication that they generally kidnap kids and the suggestion that anything deemed an internal matters by higher ups isn't reported to the Senate there is a lot of jedi are bad guys fodder in this ep
Good interaction with Cad Bane, sneak peek at Mustafar, good stuff!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2016-01-22T01:14:21Z
7.5/10. One of the things that throws me off about this show is that its episodes are sometimes neither complete stories nor chapter in a larger story, but instead a series of loosely connected vignettes. That gives it some problems in pacing, but sometimes those vignettes are entertaining enough that it's easy to overlook it. That's the case "Children of the Force", where the three part's of the story -- Bane's capture, the search for the holocrystal, and the baby rescue, have only a loose connection in how the stories affect one another, but each segment is interesting enough that it works.
Bane's escape and recapture was an interesting setup, if only to see him infiltrate various locales and try to do his dirty work. There was something creepy about the way Anakin, Obi Wan, and Mace Windu were collectively mind torturing him, though, and I don't know if it was intentional. While brief, Obi Wan and Mace retrieving the holocrystal was a visually exciting segment that made sense, even if it was semi-convenient for Bane to be able to escape once more.
And the last segment featuring the baby rescue had a certain corniness to it, with the Emperor lording over them and scowling and boasting about his evil plan, but Anakin and Ahsoka's rescue attempts, replete with scalpel-wielding nurse droids, gave it some stakes in a well executed sequence. The whole was nothing more than the sum of its parts, but it was still a good episode all-in-all.