I’ve gotten a bit behind in my reviews of The Clone Wars. Since I’m pretty jazzed about the most recent episode, I figured I’d get caught up by reviewing all the episodes leading up to it in one giant post. (more…)
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Clone Wars - Reviews - Episodes 2.07-2.11
Monday, February 1st, 2010Clone Wars - Review - “Weapons Factory”
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Weapons Factory
Luminara & Anakin act as decoys to divert new enemy super-tanks - while Padawans Barriss Offee & Ahsoka attempt to destroy a Separatist droid factory.
I wasn’t a big fan of this one. It’s not a bad episode, but it kind of felt like two episodes put into a single episode time frame. As if the entire third act - the search for the Padawans - could have been it’s own thing.
Apart from that rushed ending, the rest of the episode was decent. It was nice to see Luminara again and her padawan, Barriss, is a welcome new character to the show. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind more Barriss and Ahsoka team-up episodes (there’s another in “Brain Invaders”), as they make for a good duo.
There’s some good action scenes throughout and I particularly liked the destruction of the droid factory.
As far as the rushed ending was concerned, there were some decent elements to it. Not knowing Ahsoka’s fate in the Star Wars lore, I did have a bit of a genuine concern for here well-being. I didn’t honestly expect her to die (she doesn’t), but there was a part of me that thought it’d be awfully ballsy of the creative team to just kill her off this early on in the second season.
Despite that one setback, the rest of it’s entertaining enough. There have been very few bad episodes of the show, and this keeps the good episode trend going.
Clone Wars - Landing at Point Rain - Review
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Anakin, Ahsoka and Ki-Adi-Mundi lead a landing party to destroy a droid factory on Geonosis.
When this episode was initially previewed, I thought, “Geez, they’re going back to Geonosis? Lame…” Man was I ever wrong.
This episode is light on story and character development. But wow, if it isn’t one of the best action sequences ever done for Star Wars in any medium.
The whole thing is essentially a D-Day invasion by the Republic forces against the newly rebuilt droid factories of Geonosis. As such, it’s 100 times bigger than the previous invasion episodes in the Ryloth Trilogy. The imagery is striking and the sequences well done and amazing.
And by the time Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi utters, “Bring in the flame throwers!” I was blown away.
Clone Wars: Season Two Promo
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Since I’ve reviewed all of the first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I probably should go ahead and embed the trailer for the second season, which aired on Cartoon Network after the Season One finale.