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skygiantsAs we approached the final episodes of Season 3 of The Clone Wars, innerbrat had a small panic: "Oh no, we're almost done with the show, and we don't know what we'll be watching next!"
"...Debi, I'm pretty sure there's six seasons," I said, "don't worry, there is MUCH MORE CLONE WARS TO COME."
And there is! But nonetheless we are more than halfway through now, which feels like an achievement, since we've been watching Clone Wars for ... a year now? I think it's approximately a year. Anyway, onwards!
11. Pursuit of Peace
A politics episode! Padme's Separatist Friend is dead and peace talks are stalling, so after all the more moderate Senators get taken out of commission, Padme gives a heroic speech and manages to convince the Senate not to deregulate the banks and to consider weighting the budget towards social services. Notable for a.) current events relevance and b.) a scene of Padme's handmaiden helping her to select her most impressive Senate Politics Wig, because Padme's Wigs have become some of my favorite Clone Wars characters.
12. Nightsisters
In this episode, Count Dooku tries to eliminate Ventress, so she goes home to her remote all-female warrior clan to seek help from her mother, the Queen ...
innerbrat: OMG VENTRESS IS WONDER WOMAN???
Then we learned that Mother was an honorific title that all the warrior women used for the leader of the clan and the Nightsisters were kind of evil and it got a bit less Wonder Woman, but we were still very into it, especially the part where for the first time we saw a Force-based religion that wasn't just the Sith and the Jedi!
13. Monster
Ventress goes to recruit one of the males of their clan to be Dooku's new fake apprentice in what seems like it's ... normally the Nightsister/Nightbrother mating ritual when they don't have a Sith lord they're trying to murder? We weren't very clear on this.
Anyway, the process involves some Hunger Games-style elimination and is no fun for anyone except Ventress. Two Males Of The Species who are either brothers or boyfriends touchingly protect each other throughout the whole thing, and one volunteers as tribute!
... and then Ventress & co. brainwash him and make him kill the other one anyway. THIS EPISODE IS VERY DARK.
14. Witches of the Mist
Obi-Wan and Anakin go to try and figure out who Dooku's new fake apprentice is, but honestly that whole side of the plot was less interesting than Dooku's new fake apprentice getting caught between Dooku and Ventress and then deciding that he hates BOTH of them. "NEITHER OF YOU IS MY REAL DAD!"
Also, hints of future Darth Maul appearances? I don't care particularly about Darth Maul, though I know some people care quite a lot about Darth Maul. Perhaps Clone Wars will make me do so!
15. Overlords
Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan crash-land on a planet inhabited by some kind of Force gods with terrible animation design who explain to Anakin that he is the Chosen One of the prophecy and should therefore stay on this planet forever to keep an eye on the quarreling Force gods!
innerbrat: What if the whole problem the Jedi have during the prequel trilogy is that they've mixed up their Chosen Ones? I love the idea that Anakin's the Chosen One of this ENTIRELY DIFFERENT religion's prophecy and everyone's just gotten confused.
skygiants: That would be AMAZING, especially if this episode is a total one-off and they leave this planet and never speak of it again.
16. Attar of Mortis
Alas ... that episode was not a total one-off. Ahsoka gets kidnapped and turned temporarily evil by Dark Force God and we spend the rest of the episode being increasingly annoyed by the animation design of Light Force God, who is weirdly glowy with floating hair and cleavage and overall looks like she wandered out of an early Final Fantasy game:
Anyway, she gets heroically stabbed by the end of the episode to make her father and brother sad, as glowy women with deep cleavage are wont to do.
We're also annoyed because during a fight scene between Anakin and Evil Ahsoka, Evil Ahsoka shouts that she always hated it when Anakin called her Snips and then it's NEVER RESOLVED. Come on, what is it? Is this something Ahsoka really thinks deep down or a Dark Force lie? WE NEED TO KNOW AND WE NEVER WILL.
17. Ghosts of Mortis
Everyone is STILL on Weird Force Religion Planet and by now we're VERY over it. The team will never escape and NEITHER WILL WE.
...they do actually escape by the end of the episode, but first Anakin flip-flops between Light and Dark Side like three times in the course of twenty minutes, which ... as much as I didn't like this whole three-episode plot trilogy, that's hilariously in-character for Anakin, solid character work there, writing team.
18. The Citadel
We've stoppped keeping count of clone buddy death tallies because there were basically no clone buddies in all of s3, but now we've got to start again, because Anakin and Obi-Wan and a bunch of obviously doomed clone buddies are off on a secret mission! Ahsoka is not supposed to come, but she sneaks along for the ride.
Also on this secret mission: R2-D2 and A TRIO OF REPROGRAMMED BATTLE DROIDS WHO FOLLOW HIM AROUND LIKE A DUCKLING. This is the best team ever.
innerbrat: I mean of course there are ethical issues around the reprogramming of droids, but there's always ethical issues around droids in Star Wars ANYWAY, and ...
skygiants: AND THEY'RE SO CUTE!
innerbrat: They're SO cute!
skygiants: Give them their own show!
Animated Peter Cushing is also in this episode, as one of the people Anakin & Co. are supposed to rescue is Baby Grand Moff Tarkin, whom for the purposes of convenience I shall call Moffet Tarkin.
At least three clone buddies died in the making of this episode. :( Pour one out, boys.
19. Counterattack
Continued rescue mission! This is mostly solid escape-the-citadel-filled-with-traps stuff, while Anakin and Moffet Tarkin have some cheerful bonding moments about how the Jedi should be less ethical that are great for them, and great for us [narratively], and very uncomfortable for everyone else.
Two more clone buddies die in the making of this episode, including one of the clone buddies from the trio of episodes about Baby Clone Troopers. :(
innerbrat: Oh, no! We lost a NAMED clone!
...to be honest I did not remember which named clone it was until I went back and read the episode recap on a Star Wars Wiki, but now I see that it's Echo and I'm likewise very sad. He was my favorite, the one with no imagination who read regulations for fun! We'll miss you and your nameless clone buddy friend.
20. Citadel Rescue
The unkindest cut of all: not only have we lost most of our clone buddies, but ALSO R2-D2's squad of adorable reprogrammed battle droids! ;_; TRULY A SAD DAY FOR STAR WARS.
Anyway, everyone else gets rescued in the conclusion of this episode trilogy, and Obi-Wan and Ahsoka are both uncomfortable with how buddy-buddy Anakin and Moffet Tarkin are, which is as it should be. It's nice when future co-workers have a chance to bond and form a solid working relationship!
21. Padawan Lost
Ahsoka gets kidnapped and dumped into the Most Dangerous Game on a jungle planet, where she befriends a bunch of other kidnapped baby Jedi ... and then promptly gets one killed when she encourages them all to fight back.
innerbrat: I knew Rue was gonna die!
In cut scenes back at home, Anakin freaks out, and the other Jedi are like 'slow your attachment roll, Anakin, it'll be fine, Ahsoka can escape by herself!'
22. Wookiee Hunt
...Ahsoka cannot actually escape by herself. But she CAN escape with the help of KIDNAPPED BABY CHEWBACCA, THIS IS THE BEST CLONE WARS CAMEO EVER.
skygiants: I hope they stay pen pals throughout the ENTIRE SERIES, including the original trilogy, and it just never comes up that Chewie's been hanging out with her sort-of younger brother.
innerbrat: Sort-of nephew?
skygiants: I guess probably more like sort-of nephew, Anakin's not really her dad.
Anyway, who's going to write me that epistolary fic?
innerbrat had a small panic: "Oh no, we're almost done with the show, and we don't know what we'll be watching next!""...Debi, I'm pretty sure there's six seasons," I said, "don't worry, there is MUCH MORE CLONE WARS TO COME."
And there is! But nonetheless we are more than halfway through now, which feels like an achievement, since we've been watching Clone Wars for ... a year now? I think it's approximately a year. Anyway, onwards!
11. Pursuit of Peace
A politics episode! Padme's Separatist Friend is dead and peace talks are stalling, so after all the more moderate Senators get taken out of commission, Padme gives a heroic speech and manages to convince the Senate not to deregulate the banks and to consider weighting the budget towards social services. Notable for a.) current events relevance and b.) a scene of Padme's handmaiden helping her to select her most impressive Senate Politics Wig, because Padme's Wigs have become some of my favorite Clone Wars characters.
12. Nightsisters
In this episode, Count Dooku tries to eliminate Ventress, so she goes home to her remote all-female warrior clan to seek help from her mother, the Queen ...
innerbrat: OMG VENTRESS IS WONDER WOMAN???Then we learned that Mother was an honorific title that all the warrior women used for the leader of the clan and the Nightsisters were kind of evil and it got a bit less Wonder Woman, but we were still very into it, especially the part where for the first time we saw a Force-based religion that wasn't just the Sith and the Jedi!
13. Monster
Ventress goes to recruit one of the males of their clan to be Dooku's new fake apprentice in what seems like it's ... normally the Nightsister/Nightbrother mating ritual when they don't have a Sith lord they're trying to murder? We weren't very clear on this.
Anyway, the process involves some Hunger Games-style elimination and is no fun for anyone except Ventress. Two Males Of The Species who are either brothers or boyfriends touchingly protect each other throughout the whole thing, and one volunteers as tribute!
... and then Ventress & co. brainwash him and make him kill the other one anyway. THIS EPISODE IS VERY DARK.
14. Witches of the Mist
Obi-Wan and Anakin go to try and figure out who Dooku's new fake apprentice is, but honestly that whole side of the plot was less interesting than Dooku's new fake apprentice getting caught between Dooku and Ventress and then deciding that he hates BOTH of them. "NEITHER OF YOU IS MY REAL DAD!"
Also, hints of future Darth Maul appearances? I don't care particularly about Darth Maul, though I know some people care quite a lot about Darth Maul. Perhaps Clone Wars will make me do so!
15. Overlords
Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan crash-land on a planet inhabited by some kind of Force gods with terrible animation design who explain to Anakin that he is the Chosen One of the prophecy and should therefore stay on this planet forever to keep an eye on the quarreling Force gods!
innerbrat: What if the whole problem the Jedi have during the prequel trilogy is that they've mixed up their Chosen Ones? I love the idea that Anakin's the Chosen One of this ENTIRELY DIFFERENT religion's prophecy and everyone's just gotten confused.skygiants: That would be AMAZING, especially if this episode is a total one-off and they leave this planet and never speak of it again.16. Attar of Mortis
Alas ... that episode was not a total one-off. Ahsoka gets kidnapped and turned temporarily evil by Dark Force God and we spend the rest of the episode being increasingly annoyed by the animation design of Light Force God, who is weirdly glowy with floating hair and cleavage and overall looks like she wandered out of an early Final Fantasy game:
Anyway, she gets heroically stabbed by the end of the episode to make her father and brother sad, as glowy women with deep cleavage are wont to do.
We're also annoyed because during a fight scene between Anakin and Evil Ahsoka, Evil Ahsoka shouts that she always hated it when Anakin called her Snips and then it's NEVER RESOLVED. Come on, what is it? Is this something Ahsoka really thinks deep down or a Dark Force lie? WE NEED TO KNOW AND WE NEVER WILL.
17. Ghosts of Mortis
Everyone is STILL on Weird Force Religion Planet and by now we're VERY over it. The team will never escape and NEITHER WILL WE.
...they do actually escape by the end of the episode, but first Anakin flip-flops between Light and Dark Side like three times in the course of twenty minutes, which ... as much as I didn't like this whole three-episode plot trilogy, that's hilariously in-character for Anakin, solid character work there, writing team.
18. The Citadel
We've stoppped keeping count of clone buddy death tallies because there were basically no clone buddies in all of s3, but now we've got to start again, because Anakin and Obi-Wan and a bunch of obviously doomed clone buddies are off on a secret mission! Ahsoka is not supposed to come, but she sneaks along for the ride.
Also on this secret mission: R2-D2 and A TRIO OF REPROGRAMMED BATTLE DROIDS WHO FOLLOW HIM AROUND LIKE A DUCKLING. This is the best team ever.
innerbrat: I mean of course there are ethical issues around the reprogramming of droids, but there's always ethical issues around droids in Star Wars ANYWAY, and ...skygiants: AND THEY'RE SO CUTE!innerbrat: They're SO cute!skygiants: Give them their own show!Animated Peter Cushing is also in this episode, as one of the people Anakin & Co. are supposed to rescue is Baby Grand Moff Tarkin, whom for the purposes of convenience I shall call Moffet Tarkin.
At least three clone buddies died in the making of this episode. :( Pour one out, boys.
19. Counterattack
Continued rescue mission! This is mostly solid escape-the-citadel-filled-with-traps stuff, while Anakin and Moffet Tarkin have some cheerful bonding moments about how the Jedi should be less ethical that are great for them, and great for us [narratively], and very uncomfortable for everyone else.
Two more clone buddies die in the making of this episode, including one of the clone buddies from the trio of episodes about Baby Clone Troopers. :(
innerbrat: Oh, no! We lost a NAMED clone!...to be honest I did not remember which named clone it was until I went back and read the episode recap on a Star Wars Wiki, but now I see that it's Echo and I'm likewise very sad. He was my favorite, the one with no imagination who read regulations for fun! We'll miss you and your nameless clone buddy friend.
20. Citadel Rescue
The unkindest cut of all: not only have we lost most of our clone buddies, but ALSO R2-D2's squad of adorable reprogrammed battle droids! ;_; TRULY A SAD DAY FOR STAR WARS.
Anyway, everyone else gets rescued in the conclusion of this episode trilogy, and Obi-Wan and Ahsoka are both uncomfortable with how buddy-buddy Anakin and Moffet Tarkin are, which is as it should be. It's nice when future co-workers have a chance to bond and form a solid working relationship!
21. Padawan Lost
Ahsoka gets kidnapped and dumped into the Most Dangerous Game on a jungle planet, where she befriends a bunch of other kidnapped baby Jedi ... and then promptly gets one killed when she encourages them all to fight back.
innerbrat: I knew Rue was gonna die!In cut scenes back at home, Anakin freaks out, and the other Jedi are like 'slow your attachment roll, Anakin, it'll be fine, Ahsoka can escape by herself!'
22. Wookiee Hunt
...Ahsoka cannot actually escape by herself. But she CAN escape with the help of KIDNAPPED BABY CHEWBACCA, THIS IS THE BEST CLONE WARS CAMEO EVER.
skygiants: I hope they stay pen pals throughout the ENTIRE SERIES, including the original trilogy, and it just never comes up that Chewie's been hanging out with her sort-of younger brother.innerbrat: Sort-of nephew?skygiants: I guess probably more like sort-of nephew, Anakin's not really her dad. Anyway, who's going to write me that epistolary fic?
