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DarthWilliams I highly recommend watching the micro series!! It is true that it doesn't really work with the films in terms everyone's power levels as Darth Valkyrus said but it also has some great series moments like Anakin being promoted to Jedi Knight, having a pretty crazy Force-vision (though not TCW level crazy Force-vision), and setting up Grievous capturing Palpatine for the beginning of Ep. III. Also if you like battles you will not be disappointed. Most of all, it is simply tons of fun.

 

Thanks for the advice, guys!

 

107 - Duel of the Droids
OK fine, this more than makes up for the previous episode. The animation as Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, et al skydove was breathtaking. I love Ahsoka more and more as she matures with each episode - taking on Grievous alone is nothing to shake a stick at, and her poise when she rejoined Anakin and the Clones was excellent. And come on, what Star Wars fan wouldn't feel a pang of pride seeing Artoo battle the traitor droid while ensuring the mission's success? A+

 

I just finished watching the Deception arc, and the more I see how good Obi-Wan is with a blaster, the less I find his apparent dislike of them convincing.

 

OK this one's bugging me a bit - why do the clones always say "Yes, sir" when responding to Ahsoka instead of "Yes, ma'am?"

 

Military nomenclature is gender neutral and locked to the masculine tense due to tradition. This holds true in some real life militaries also. In the US military it may vary by service.

Females in the US navy are also referred to as crewmen, midshipmen etc.

 

The etymology of certain gender-specific words is fairly well documented:

Crewman and other such terms may be derived from the gender-neutral Old Enlgish mann.

I recall that S6 had the first instance of a clone addressing a Jedi superior by the honorific "ma'am". IIRC, it was Shaak Ti.

 

From the ToR Encyclopedia, it's an old tradition of the Republic armed forces to refer to commanders as "sir" regardless of gender or species, to promote unity.

 

Totally makes sense, thanks!


108 - Bombad Jedi
No comment.

109 - Cloak of Darkness
Luminara! Really liked this one, though I do hope the series starts to tone down on the "traitor among us" stories. I get that the war itself was a really dark time and that there actually were a lot of traitors and it posed a big problem to the Republic, but it loses its value as a plot device if it becomes overused. That aside, though, this episode was great.

110 - Lair of Grievous
I felt pretty meh about this one. I've never really liked Grievous as a character all that much. The whole lair with pet roggwart felt a little too Lord-of-the-Rings-y to me. Nahdar Vebb also came of as kind of obnoxious/annoying. But that might just be me!

111 - Dooku Captured
This one was pretty good. The whole Outer-Rim pirates with no loyalty to either the Republic or the Separatists gives us a bit of sense as to the enormous scope of the galaxy - entire planets of people who are disengaged from the conflict. Although I felt kind of put off by Anakin and Obi-Wan realizing the drinks they had been given were poisoned and just casually watching the two Weequays who got their drinks die. Shouldn't they, like, confront Hondo Ohnaka now? Maybe they will in the next episode, it just seemed strange for them to continue just hanging out at the bar knowing that.

 

Perfect review for that episode.

 

Make me a third member of said minority. You can say what you want but that episode introduced us to Hondo; cut it some slack!

 

Four.

 

Fifth.

 

6th.

 

Well now that I know Hondo comes back into the picture later on, I'm excited.

 

He had to show up again eventually. After all, he still has the Slave 1.

 

Not there yet bro.

 

I might have to go back and watch Bombad Jedi with lame filter one because I can't remember my old reaction to that episode, same for Dooku captured. Dammit, seems in my old age my mind is starting to go. x.x;

 

Dooku Captured is a bizarre episode. The beginning is freaking amazing with Obi-Wan going in a spacesuit in outer space to rescue Anakin and then Anakin fighting Dooku while they fall down his escape shaft. But from there it's pretty steeply downhill in my opinion. The pirates should have had to put much more effort into capturing a Sith Lord. None of the rest of the action is anywhere close to up to par with the excitement of the very beginning.

 

Well I guess I got some TCW to rewatch with you buddy. I bet your sorry now. =b

 

I agree the pirates should've had to fight more to capture Dooku. The rest was good though. And yes, the beginning is awesome; it's one of my favorite Anakin/Obi-Wan interaction episodes.

 

Same. I admittedly had to do some rewinding to re-watch a bit of the episode because all of a sudden Dooku's in custody and I thought I missed something.