Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Friends and Enemies"

I'll start by saying this, I had high hopes for this episode, it nowhere near reached my expectations. Keep reading to find out why.

One thing that officially sucked about this episode was the plot. Kyle Winner, watch this space. It started off okay, even if the plot started pretty bland, but then it got worse and worse. We followed the same plot the WHOLE episode. That may not sound so bad, but everything done was so repetitive it got stupid. One ship blown up, two ship, and so on, so forth. It was like that ALL episode. There was no change of pace in this episode, it was always the same thing. At least the lame political episodes had a change of pace, this episode was stupid. The plot this season has actually been awful this season, the main problem with the show now, and this episode gave us a clear example why.

 For me, this was one of the very few good scenes in this episode. If you're an Indiana Jones fan (unlike me), then you may have enjoyed the little nod with the Indy hat. Watching the three guys, Cad Bane, Moralo Eval, and Obi-Wan Kenobi pick their new gear was pretty interesting. But now also Cad Bane has become a hypocrite, saying Pablo's place was the best for what they need, then hates on the lousy choice of weaponry. The scene with Bane choking Pablo was pretty uneccessary, and the female's reaction to Obi-Wan trying to give her a credit was pretty stupid.

This scene here was cool but at the same time rather pointless. The scene with Obi-Wan's vision blurred and the Nikto knocking him out was epic though. Obi-Wan using the Nikto's own staff to kill the Nikto was awesome and dark as well. 

I dislike the partnership of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano usually, seen as they are so alike and that kind of ruins a story. But this time, I have an exception. In my opinion, this episode was bad anyway, so there partnership turned out to be one of the better parts of this episode. Anakin having more personal issues in the scene with Palpatine was annoying though, and so was this scene above, the cameo of Sy Snootles for one thing, and Anakin force-choking the Ithorian was nothing not seen before. We also got another crazy Anakin expression as pictured above...

Now this scene was epic, but it had been taken up by so much crap that it was rushed and everything we were looking forward to was hardly there at all. The fight on the ship's between Cad Bane and Anakin was done well, but Anakin attacking Obi-Wan was not. If they had added in epic music or carried on the scene where Anakin says "This is for Obi-Wan!" for a few more seconds, it would have been a awesome touch to the episode, but it was not. Another thing I was looking forward to was Ahsoka vs Bane, and that wasn't a duel at all really. And Ahsoka letting Obi-Wan, Bane and Moralo Eval get away was stupid. Anakin feeling the connection that Obi-Wan was still alive was a nice touch to end the episode.


My rating: This episode really was poor. I'm all for having an arc about Bounty Hunter's, but they've a lot to do to improve this garbage episode over the last two episodes of the arc. The plot was bland, repetitive and predictable. The end scenes we thought were going to be good turned out rushed and nothing exciting happened. This is why this episode gets and deserves it's low rating. Rating: 5/10.


And here is the preview for the next episode. Honestly, this clip is 10 times better than the episode I just reviewed already. I look forward to the next episode, and there is a lot of potential here for bounty hunter action figures. Hopefully Dengar will come soon.