This week was slightly better. It was more of an adventure episode than a clone wars episode, there I dont mind the Jedi as much as in regular war themed episodes.

Nice homage to ROTJ at one point, you know when you see it.

Overall the episode was alright, nothing too fancy but not the worst one either.

A long wait for the final episode in this trilogy, though it was well worth that wait with some great action, the final battle in particular was pretty spectacular, and there were some other interesting moments in there too such as the slave empire's attempts to break Obi-Wan's spirit in the slaver mines.

*Spoiler Alert*

Though I'm not sure what moral the episode is trying to convey with the final moments where Obi-Wan has the opportunity to kill or spare the Slaver Lord of the mine who has put him through so much, and when the lord says he wouldn't kill an unarmed man because he's a Jedi, Kenobi just gives the nod to Rex who summarily kills him for him instead. So what exactly is that trying to say? I'll keep the moral high ground by not killing you, but get someone else to do it for me instead?

Hmmmmm....

Other than that nigglingly questionable moral issue, cracking episode, and after a weak start this trilogy thankfully just got better and better with each episode. Looking forward to the next brace of episodes with the return of the Death Watch, and of course we have the appearance of Darth Maul to look forward to as well. How are they going to fit it all in?

Oh, and here is the promo for the next episode:

http://www.starwars.com/watch/friend_in … eview.html

The industrial facility was just a mine used to break the spirits of the slaves, as they tried to do with Obi-Wan, reminded me a bit of the slave mines from The Temple of Doom, most likely intentionally.

Was also amused by that turret sequence, like it would make any sense at all to have your own weapons capable of breaching your own shields. Perhaps the turrets were just powerfull enough to get through the shields? But if that were the case I'm sure the Star Destroyer's heavy turbolasers could have done the job just as well.

My other minor niggle was the fluctuation in the number of citizens taken from the colony as slaves. At one point it is stated that tens of thousands of Togruta colonists have been taken, and yet at the end of this episode it seems to be just the contents of one large cell that are rescued. Not very efficient slavers if they end up killing so much of their stock during a breaking in process that they go from having tens of thousands of souls to a few dozen by the end.

Also still hating what they've done to the Headhunter, looks like they've put that model together using ice lolly sticks, looks crap.