5.7/10. Not my favorite episode. There were some nice details at the margins. Anakin and Tarkin finding that despite their differences, they have some common ideas about the Jedi's methods being too conservative to really make a difference is some nice foreshadowing, as is the way Tarkin admires The Citadel's construction and design in a way that presages his interest in the Death Star.
The rest of the episode is mostly empty calories though. The folks behind the show shoehorn more disobedience and spunkiness from Ahsoka; there's some amusing interplay between R2-D2 and his battledroid infiltrators; and some cool, semi-tragic clone trooper deaths. (Though they'd be more tragic if I could tell most or even many of the clones apart -- I assume Echo was one of the ones we met in episode 301 which, given that I'm proceeding in chronological rather than episode order, was quite a while ago.)
But for the most part, this just continued the video game storytelling, with our heroes progressing through different levels and different assortments of bad guys without much to distinguish one sequence from another beyond providing a different flavor of flash and whiz-bang action. There's nothing wrong with it exactly, it just gets kind of dull and indistinguishable over time. Hopefully the finale of this little arc can end on a higher note.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-04-29T05:03:07Z
5.7/10. Not my favorite episode. There were some nice details at the margins. Anakin and Tarkin finding that despite their differences, they have some common ideas about the Jedi's methods being too conservative to really make a difference is some nice foreshadowing, as is the way Tarkin admires The Citadel's construction and design in a way that presages his interest in the Death Star.
The rest of the episode is mostly empty calories though. The folks behind the show shoehorn more disobedience and spunkiness from Ahsoka; there's some amusing interplay between R2-D2 and his battledroid infiltrators; and some cool, semi-tragic clone trooper deaths. (Though they'd be more tragic if I could tell most or even many of the clones apart -- I assume Echo was one of the ones we met in episode 301 which, given that I'm proceeding in chronological rather than episode order, was quite a while ago.)
But for the most part, this just continued the video game storytelling, with our heroes progressing through different levels and different assortments of bad guys without much to distinguish one sequence from another beyond providing a different flavor of flash and whiz-bang action. There's nothing wrong with it exactly, it just gets kind of dull and indistinguishable over time. Hopefully the finale of this little arc can end on a higher note.