After giving up on Season 1. This episode reminded me of why I still watch this series every week.
The episode was the best of the season. One of only 3 smash hits imo, and the first one in 11 episodes (almost 4 months).
It was damn near perfect and exactly what I wanted this series to be.
If this type of quality becomes baseline, the Filoni series (which right now is nothing more than a mediocre failure imo...given, I'm not a 9 year old boy...) will far outsrip the Gendy one.
First, I died. I watched Episode 14 (Defenders of Peace) from my bed in the ER. The staff was very confused why I wanted a TV to watch Cartoon Network while I was lapsing into a coma lol. I just insisted my favorite TV show was on. Fortunately I'm still here and Defenders of Peace was not my last taste of Star Wars on this earth. God THAT would have sucked.
Then things just got busy as hell. I've been working a lot and trying to rebuild my body/health. The series just got crappy too and I lost interest in/didn't have time to review every episode. I'll go back and do some shorter, less intense ones.
All I can say is I can pumped for Clone Wars tonight (for the first time in months). We even get one of my favorite classes of troopers!
Please god, lets at least end season one realizing that there is hope for the future.
Anywho. My overall reaction was positive. I wasn't AS thrilles as I was with Innocents, but it was still a crack episode. Once I watch it a few more times I'll scrap up a review.
Watched the trilogy... the episodes by themselves weer quite entertaining. Better than average for sure. But they don't really feel like a trilogy at all. They're just three separate epsiodes. Replace the name of the planet per episode and it'd be the same. Why didn't they have any plotlines that stretched the entire trilogy? They did with the two-parters... so my question is: what's so great about this story that it needs three episodes? IMHO there is nothing that justifies calling this a trilogy.