8.5/10 - nice to see a lot of badass Jedis fighting and sneaking around, and even a little betrayal from Captain Argyus! (Seemed like a lot of build up for a guy who was offed at the end of the episode.)
Ahsoka Tano is an interesting character to gage what people really want in Star Wars. On the one hand, it's episodes like this where some people give up with her, and think her overconfidence, her brash and impulsive attitude, and her overall disregard for protocol makes her unlikable and impossible to relate to. And then there is people like me, who see this and go "oh, so THAT'S what they are doing with the character" and love her all the more for it. Ahsoka fails in this episode and it comes back to bite her in the ass as Ventress infiltrates the ship. The Clone Wars has flirted with darkness before like in the Malevolence arc and Rookies and here it's in full force once again.
Killer lightsaber fights here too. The show has mostly gotten by without them or has had small skirmishes here and there but this is the first one to really be a full on setpiece and it's fantastic! The nature of animation gives it a creativity not seen in the movies and Ventress is a great opponent here. The ending is also wonderfully, and beautifully, twisted. I wish the twist with Argyus wasn't as telegraphed, but James Marsters is clearly having a ball here so it picks up the slack. Great stuff.
Well this episode is where the show really started to pick up steam...
great battle between Ventress, Luminara, and Ashoka!
Ventress brings a lot to this episode!
Between ventress and Luminara this episode did a lot for hot women in light sabre battles
An obvious bad guy and an overconfident Jedi. I never liked Jedi as a whole that much. If I like one it's because of their actions not what they represent. This episode reminded me of that again.
I really do not understand why people like Ashoka.
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Let's be honest, the second that Captain Argyus appeared on screen we knew he was going to be a secret bad guy. His casual death by Ventress was less expected, though. I really like Luminara's depiction in this show, she's maybe my favourite "side" Jedi. There were some fantastic lightsaber fights here.