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anakinfansince1983 I really liked the line about Jedi not carrying grudges from R2 Come Home as well. Aurra seems to be portrayed as fairly worldly in TCW, and she sounds so certain when she says it, it's great to see that the Jedi that kind of reputation among people who know what they're talking about. Your rating for R2 Come Home and Death Trap are pretty much swapped from mine, though I'd probably go 6 on R2CH instead of 5. I'm very intrigued by "a day in the life of a clone cadet" and very turned off by R2 adventures/antics. You pinpointed on of the worst moments tumbling down the steps and ramming into the other droid.

 

Did you just give Corruption a 9/10? I thought everybody disliked that one.

 

Well, the 'majority' dislikes it, but it's nice to see that some does like the more unpopular episodes.

 

lol "tornado testicle earrings"...

 

Surprised to see you liked Corruption.

In terms of the feels, it covers a really dark issue - that being kids are being poisoned for profit. Does the episode treat this seriously, or does it treat the villains in a goofy manner? Ding ding ding. Goofy makes sense right?

Satine at one point hints at her guards to beat up a suspect to get the information about where all this is coming from, who the leader of this corruption is. Which is funny, because you couldn't write Satine more out of character. Oh, and BURN THE WAREHOUSE. It's not as if she could find evidence in there, just BURN IT. Oh, and if you don't burn it, Captain, I'll arrest you as being part of the conspiracy!

He doesn't want to burn down a crime scene, and that makes him a conspirator?!? Common sense, ye won't find any here.

Play a drinking game and take a shot every time you hear the word, "corruption". You will die before making it half way.

The plot is just terrible. It's not treated seriously, and none of the characters are consistent, least of all Satine.

 

We are supposed to believe that the Trade Federation has not taken sides according to Lucas. The TF are innocent bystanders.

 

I broke my own rule and watched the Mortis trilogy. How bad could it be, right?

It was bad and made me feel bad. It was even worse than it was the first go, when it at least had the advantage of being new.

Back to pretending it never happened.

 

It was a decision by Lucas during the TCW tv run after the movies came out. If he had the choice to go back and do ROTS he would have left the TF out of ROTS. I asked the same question on here or the Temp boards and someone said the TF was supposed to be neutral according to Lucas in TCW. Why the TF still has a seat in the Senate is appalling to me as well. Makes no sense. That's why I loved Lott Dod getting taken down a notch when it was shown they had one one of the kids on his ship.

 

I'm amazed that they've dedicated about 10 or so episodes to the politics of the Galactic Senate, and yet it still makes no sense.

 

A Friend in Need

This episode is way to short and rushed. It feels like it as written by a caffeinated Dalmatian at times. The beginning part with the peace talks is intriguing and somehow Satine always steals the scene for me just sitting in the back looking bored as hell. Its just kinda silly how Ahsoka goes to rescue Lux which was a nice thing to do but she started a firefight on the palace's lawn that ruined the peace talks and got a few of those senate guard guys killed.

I still really like Lux's character and this is my favorite episode for him. He's just so relatively normal compared to many characters in the GFFA and such a lovable idiot thinking he can just march in and threaten Dooku to get the holotracer MacGuffin thing going without a plan. Then the dude can't even hide Ahsoka's lightsabers. You hid them on the ship? The hell is wrong with you dip? You could have atleast buried them in the snow Lux. Its kinda cute when he says Ahsoka is his affianced and it still cracks me up to see Ahsoka's disgust the entire way. Funniest moment if definitely when Vizsla walks in on them kissing. Lux is to good for Ahsoka really. I'm glad the relationship stuff only really sparks at the end.

I appreciate Death Watch's thuggish biker gang of doom portrayal more now after the season 5 Maul arc. Its clear just how much Death Watch needed Maul to organize them and give them a game plan so the lot could actually accomplish their goals. Here they are just wasting time burning down villages and taking their woman. It is still totally creepy when Vizsla puts hit arm around Lux's shoulders almost like a dad when watching the village burn. Once of the few upticks to Onderon is the callback to this incident when Saw and Steela seemed disturbed to hear Death Watch's name. I don't mind Lux didn't seem to pick up many fighting skills until that arc.

Ok, gotta give credit where it goes. Ahsoka's quaddecap was badass. She didn't seem to do much growing in this episode. She pretty much seemed to take the whole thing in her stride intending to use it as an "I told you so" to Lux about Death Watch being bad news. I just don't feel like this is the episode that grew her into the more mature season 5 Ahsoka.

Overall... Its a little better than last time I watched it.

 

Ha ha lol. I've given up trying to understand the politics in SW. Everyone pretty much lies. Same with real life.

 

Ah, so you caught George's political statement. Only a select few notice, it's really subtle.

 

Okay, not everyone lies in SW but why people want to go into politics is beyond me. Ha ha lol. I guess it is.

 

I dunno. Maybe they go into it think they'll do some good and end up selling their souls. o.o;

 

Most likely.

 

YES!