Star Wars: The Clone Wars – 6x08-6x09
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tori_reviewsStar Wars: The Clone Wars – 6x08-6x09 (arc 3)
Well that…didn’t suck. It wasn’t good, but the fact that they kept it to two episodes is a real point in its favor. For once, the thing I usually complain about worked in its favor, in that they had to keep the focus on moving the plot forward instead of just doing Jar Jar antics.
Teaming up Jar Jar and Mace is an odd choice that mostly worked out. I didn’t think it was going to since I dislike Jar Jar, am not a big fan of Mace in this show, and didn’t see how their personalities would be interesting to watch (especially since the show always finds a way to validate Jar Jar instead of using Mace to teach him some hard lessons the idiot needs to learn). I’m still not sure I liked it, but like I said, the way they did it didn’t suck.
In fact, if I’m being fair, I found Mace more annoying in the first episode. He’s got way too much of the Jedi arrogance and entitlement going on.
It’s kind of like some of the droid episodes, if I come out not hating it, I feel like they must have been doing something right. It scores a four out of five, but the scale actually goes to fifty or something like that.
I don’t have a lot to say about this one but I do have a couple notes I might as well mention. For one, I already had the Nightsisters on my mind by the end of part 1; because I was pondering whether we always saw the Force as green energy or if we had seen it as something visible anywhere but with the Nightsisters and both those just happened to be green. So when they started referencing some kind of Holy Mother I clued in immediately where it was going. So they were either being quite obvious or it was actual a good use of long established traits in this story to set up how the plot would go.
For two, and this is very subjective and possibly mis-remembered. But I seem to recall noting in the Mace focused episode in season 1 that it seemed the animators had choreographed Mace’s fighting style differently from other characters’, and I didn’t notice that being the case this time. Sure, his character model is built differently but I didn’t get the same character to his style that I picked up on seasons ago.
Also, speaking as such a long term fan of B5 (in case you’re new here); you can’t put purple and green weapons up against each other without making me smile a little. Now they’re just Drazi in my head.
I told you I didn’t have much to say about this one. I don’t feel like nitpicking it, that wasn’t the frame of mind I watched it in. But I also don’t have much in the way of deep comments to make.
Well that…didn’t suck. It wasn’t good, but the fact that they kept it to two episodes is a real point in its favor. For once, the thing I usually complain about worked in its favor, in that they had to keep the focus on moving the plot forward instead of just doing Jar Jar antics.
Teaming up Jar Jar and Mace is an odd choice that mostly worked out. I didn’t think it was going to since I dislike Jar Jar, am not a big fan of Mace in this show, and didn’t see how their personalities would be interesting to watch (especially since the show always finds a way to validate Jar Jar instead of using Mace to teach him some hard lessons the idiot needs to learn). I’m still not sure I liked it, but like I said, the way they did it didn’t suck.
In fact, if I’m being fair, I found Mace more annoying in the first episode. He’s got way too much of the Jedi arrogance and entitlement going on.
It’s kind of like some of the droid episodes, if I come out not hating it, I feel like they must have been doing something right. It scores a four out of five, but the scale actually goes to fifty or something like that.
I don’t have a lot to say about this one but I do have a couple notes I might as well mention. For one, I already had the Nightsisters on my mind by the end of part 1; because I was pondering whether we always saw the Force as green energy or if we had seen it as something visible anywhere but with the Nightsisters and both those just happened to be green. So when they started referencing some kind of Holy Mother I clued in immediately where it was going. So they were either being quite obvious or it was actual a good use of long established traits in this story to set up how the plot would go.
For two, and this is very subjective and possibly mis-remembered. But I seem to recall noting in the Mace focused episode in season 1 that it seemed the animators had choreographed Mace’s fighting style differently from other characters’, and I didn’t notice that being the case this time. Sure, his character model is built differently but I didn’t get the same character to his style that I picked up on seasons ago.
Also, speaking as such a long term fan of B5 (in case you’re new here); you can’t put purple and green weapons up against each other without making me smile a little. Now they’re just Drazi in my head.
I told you I didn’t have much to say about this one. I don’t feel like nitpicking it, that wasn’t the frame of mind I watched it in. But I also don’t have much in the way of deep comments to make.
