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| Thursday, January 29, 2009 03:08 PM |
| On the Viewer - Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Episode 13 - "Jedi Crash") |
 by Fëanor |
Not 12 hours after I'd finished talking about giving up this show for good, I'd started watching the next episode. D'oh.
It's just that it's so short and easy to watch!
Anyway, this one opens up in the middle of a battle. Jedi Aayla Secura and her small fleet are getting hammered by the Separatists when Anakin and Ahsoka arrive with backup. Unfortunately, it's too late to really save Secura's ship, so Anakin and Ahsoka get as many people as they can pulled off onto another ship. Just as the last people are boarding, Secura's ship blows up, and Anakin selflessly pushes the last of the evacuees ahead of him with the Force, taking the brunt of the explosion himself (the only decent thing he's done in the last two or three episodes). As Ahsoka drags Anakin's wounded body on board, the rescue ship is hit. As the pilot dies, he turns the hyperspace on by mistake and they jump away from the battle into the middle of nowhere. Then they promptly crash into a planet. (Man, they crash a lot of ships in this show!) They need to find help for Anakin, but where to look? A clone trooper finds a stone tablet with a picture carved into it of a humanoid hunting beneath a giant tree. So Ahsoka guesses they'll find the natives near giant trees. Secura says, "Very perceptive, Padawan." Uh, not particularly. Did you see the picture?
Anyway, Ahsoka has to leave Anakin behind with his man-crush, Rex, so she, Secura, and the other clone troopers can go find help. As Ahsoka and Secura are talking together, the issue of the Jedi ban against personal attachment comes up. Secura cautions Ahsoka, "Don't lose 1,000 lives just to save one." Ahsoka replies, "Maybe, but that doesn't mean that I can't try to save his life." Uh... did they maybe cut out something there? Ahsoka's line doesn't make much sense as a response to Secura's line.
And also, I've always hated the ridiculous ban the Jedi have against personal attachments. The Guardians just added this rule to the book of Oa in Green Lantern, but it's being treated there as a dangerous and heartless move that's clearly going to come back to bite them in the end. I'm disappointed that it isn't treated the same way in Star Wars. The Jedi ask way too much of their members. It's no wonder people are constantly going to the Dark Side.
Anyway, back to the episode. It has a weird soundtrack, featuring flutes and some kind of stringed instrument (a banjo??) being strummed and plucked.
Plot-wise, the next thing that happens is that some giant bird-beasts attack our heroes. One of the trooper's killed in the subsequent battle is named Lucky. Heh. Guess he wasn't so lucky!
Eventually they come upon a village. The natives turn out to be little lemur-people. The Jedi ask for help, saying they're peace-keeprs. But a wise old lemur-man takes issue with that. "Violence breeds violence," he says. "Jedi are no peace-keepers." When Ahsoka protests with a cliche ("We're fighting for freedom!"), he responds, "And freedom and peace require fear and death?" Go, old lemur guy!
Meanwhile, the woman playing Secura has a weird accent. "Those cweatures are still out there!" I think she's French? And actually, the lemur-people sound Scottish. Very weird.
Anyway, old lemur guy finally agrees to help and they get Anakin to the village and get him healing. Now they need to wait for the Republic fleet to show up and get them off this rock.
This episode was definitely better than the last couple, but still not exactly great. One of these days I really am going to stop watching this show... |
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