Notes - Star Wars: The Clone Wars, S1, E2: Rising Malevolence

[acequeenking]

This episode was a lot better, thanks to its larger focus and actual (gasp!) conflict.

Gotta love how this opens with a lot of Empire-esque Star Destroyers. Heh. Slow-but-subtle change from the Republic to the Empire, but it's there. The Empire's medical droids are also blatantly the same as the Republics, which means they've probably been using the same droids for 20+ years. Dooku's ship being called the Menace is somewhat ironic, and, like Vader's ship, I wonder if Sideous named it. 

Anakin's character in this is interest. Anakin is criticized as being always ready for a fight by Plo Kloon, and the Jedi Council bashing Anakin for his padawan's mistakes is awkwardly shitty. For being their chosen one you get the sense that they don't like him, and I can't blame him for being shitty at them in return. Ahsoka being told to shut up and not challenge her elders is equally shitty. What is the Jedi Order's viewpoint on creative thinking? I'm guessing not very high. I'm not a fan of the Jedi, and this isn't doing much to change my feeling.

 

Plo Kloon, however, I like. He is a bad ass, if an odd choice of character to base an episode on. Still, he's pretty amazing in this, and the "we're just clones, sir, meant to be expendable"/"Not to me," really helps prove not all Jedi are jerks. It's also interesting how his tenderness with Anakin and Ahsoka is a lot better than the Jedi Council's rather "don't do anything stupid you guys" thinking. 

 

I like the relationship between Ahsoka and Anakin. However, Anakin's choice of teaching his padawan how to get around the Council's reach is...vaguely troubling. Or perhaps it should be, if the Council weren't consistently shown to be pretty shitty. 
 

I loVE Anakin and Palpatine's relationship, and Palpatine manipulating him by  exagerating the Council's anger. A+ Palpin, never change.