Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Deception"

And so we reach the episode where my #1 Star Wars character of all time, Obi-Wan Kenobi, has to fake his death to go undercover. This sounded like an interesting episode, and it didn't disappoint.

The episode made a swift and awesome start. Besides Anakin being here, what was wrong with this scene? Oh right, a pointless bounty hunter who appears for about 5 minutes and most likely won't be on the show again. No Dengar. That and it's the three main trio again= big surprise. It was so obvious as well that when Rako Hardeen shot Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan had let himself get shot as part of the plan. The chase scene where Anakin chases Hardeen was kind of pointless, but whatever. Where this scene really hit me, was when Anakin returned to find Ahsoka in such grief she couldn't bring herself to tell Anakin Obi-Wan was dead, and Ahsoka also in tears. Anakin was then his typical self screaming "OBI-WAN!!!" repeatedly.

And then this scene was very touching. Yes, I am aware that Obi-Wan couldn't really die as he in two movies set after this show, but for what this scene was, it was extremely touching, especially to the Obi-Wan fanboy that I am. Especially seeing/hearing Satine crying over the "death" of her lover. It didn't surprise me when Ahsoka brought up that Anakin hadn't said a word since it happened. This was also a great scene, because we had so many Jedi in one place. I think they were missing Kit Fisto though. For a "faked" death, this scene did a great job of making the death seem so real.

I did not enjoy this scene much though. It was just weird. That bartender was the main reason. That thing, creature, whatever you want to call it, that as a bartender? Yeah right. I found Rako Hardeen announcing to a whole pub "I killed Obi-Wan Kenobi!" to be pretty dumb and uneccessary. I dunno, I just didn't get the reasoning behind that. Especially as he didn't. What was interesting though, this scene reveals that Rako was paid off by the Republic (Obi-Wan included) to shoot Obi-Wan, as part of a plan to get Obi-Wan undercover in a prison. Obi-Wan's casual question to Yoda "How was my funeral?" was pretty funny from a point of view. I didn't like seeing Obi-Wan's amazing hair being shaved off. As a die-hard Obi-Wan fan, that was the last thing I wanted to see. What's funny though, is with his hair shaved off, Obi-Wan actually looks like Obi-Wan from The Phantom Menace, except now bald. His face looked just as young as it did back in The Phantom Menace. I loved hearing about Moralo Eval's backstory, and how he killed his mother because he was "bored". That was certainly a twist in the show. When Obi-Wan showed himself to Hardeen, with both of them looking the same was interesting. Obi-Wan's line "I need one more thing. Your clothes" came out all wrong, and I know my friend Graham will like that. Obi-Wan swallowing the droid was disgusting. "What an odd sensation." Anakin & Ahsoka throwing Obi-Wan into jail, instead of Hardeen was pretty amusing, that it should be those two of all people, who lock Obi-Wan away. The cameo of Clone Commander Fox was nice. You better be planning a phase II Fox, Hasbro!

The prison scenes were by far and away the best part of this episode, they were amazing! I laughed when Obi-Wan tried eating some prison food and said it tasted horrible, because I was thinking it looked horrible. Obi-Wan stabbing his fork into the annoying Karkarodon was hilarious. At least Filoni didn't lie that we would be seeing Karkarodon's out of water. So was Obi-Wan telling the shark-like Karkarodon "Maybe you'd taste better." Obi-Wan and Moralo Eval's chat was a nice touch to the episode, including when Obi was put in the same cell as Moralo temporarily, where we first see Cad Bane back *fanboy moment*. The fight between Boba Fett and Obi-Wan was a great scene, and it was interesting that Boba was working for Bane, It was also great when Bossk joined in, beating the crap out of the shock troopers. When Boba was fighting Obi-Wan, I was half-cheering for Boba to do in Hardeen's scrawny face, but had to keep reminding myself it was Obi-Wan. It was also awesome when the prisoners rebelled and tried to break out. But no Separatist prisoners sadly, who need out more than the bounty hunters.
After all, the quote goes:
"Bounty hunters. We don't need their scum!"
Except maybe Dengar & Bane!

It was great seeing my favourite bounty hunter on the show being his awesome self in this episode (favourite until Dengar shows up). This was a great little fight scene, with Bane using a Clone DC-15 blaster again. It was interesting as one Clone officer accidentaly shot another Clone, quite like what we saw in "Carnage of Krell". It was no surprise that Obi-Wan couldn't bring himself to kill a Clone, as he is really on the same side as them. By the way, the position Moralo Eval is in beating up that Clone is so wrong. Moralo Eval is a cool new villain, especially as he is voiced by the awesome Stephen Stanton.


My rating: This was another great episode, but it did have it's flaws, one being leaving out the awesome Dengar, who is much better than all the bounty hunter poodoo we did get, and not having any Separatist's break out, and they need it more. Rating: 8.5/10


Next weeks episode hopefully will be as good as this one. Not sure I like the idea of Bane having to have a new hat. As the old one is much cooler.