Landing at Point Rain
Episode 27
Season 2 Episode 5
Reaction: NEUTRAL +
I’d love to give it a positive. The action was great, scenes and art direction wonderful...probably best we’ve seen ever. I just felt the episode was short on plot and fuzzy on details. I am hoping the remainder of the series builds upon the good action and gives us a deeper story.
THE GOOD
Pretty shots of the skys above geonosis. Y wings, gunships, Geonosian fighters, cruisers, even the geonosians flying around...all done superbly well.
“That sounds...entertaining” 🙂
Love the shots from the LAAT laser pods. Love ths shots from the back of the AT-TE too.
Waxer and Boyle...too bad they weren’t addressed more. Loved em running though the battle though.
“Next time...just tell me to jump.”
FIRE! Finally we get to see Geonosi’s Republic Commando creepy side. These shots were great. Especially with the wing sounds and clones being plucked out of the sky. It was nice to see some low-light battles, especially in the dramatic, cathedralic environment of Geonisis. The need for flamethrowers was lame, but it was really cool. This is one of the few times the series actually made me cringe. Hearing the Geonosians scream and writhe as they are burned alive is new territory for this show. The shots weren’t short or cropped either. Their carcasses kept burning.
“My total...65...So what do I win?” Really classy way to point out what a dick Skywalker is being.
THE BAD
Why is this called Point Rain? Geonosis strikes me as a planet that wouldn’t have a “Point Rain”
If Anakin is the best pilot int eh Jedi order, the chosen one, and an amazingly skilled Jedi...how can his squadron only manage 10 or so more kills than Ahsoka’s squad...and he gets less kills than her during the battle. Maybe Ahsoka is the chosen one? Also...ALL those droids and only 200 kills between the Jedi. Someone needs to work on their numbers.
Kenobi yelling a lot...and getting injured, unable to do anything useful....just being lamer than his humor. He doesn’t even ignight his saber until 17:45...even then he does not actually try to save all the clones dying around him.
A single shot can take down a Larty, but lartys and AT-TEs make a great perimeter defense?
Is Skywalker so dumb he really did not remember it was a fotress?
Clones cheer like girls.
The CHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGE scene at the end was a bit lame.
That droid factory has a lot of dirt-made satellide dishes lol...Thats off for the Geonosians.
THE UGLY
They start with a plethora of drama about massive numbers of planets rising up against he republic...the Republic is stretched thin...and they invade karking Geonosis? PLEASE. Show us the Republic getting its ass kicked. “The resistance from the native Geonosians was stronger than we anticipated” The Republic did not notice a new Seperatist droid factory being built on its planet? Seriously? This is not even the main factory.
Physics...an explosion on top of a wall, shouldn’t bring down the whole thing.
WHATS NEXT?
I really am uneasy about this being a 4 part series. What are they going to do with it all?
This clearly should have been a 1 hour show and not a 30 min one. I’ve said it before, but a whole MONTH of stories? Please.