if you would join us hey guys and welcome to episode 4 of season 7
unfinished business now this episode was really cool and it really rounded things
out not just for the story and chapter of an axis but for EKKO as well and I'm
gonna go in order of events as I explain what went down and talking about some
things that I noticed along the way the next chapter here in season 7 will be I
think all about ahsoka so I know everyone including myself is very
anxious to learn about this so I'm pretty stoked now this episode really
pushes the narrative that EKKO might be unloyal or corrupted by the SEPs it's a
really dark theme and the whole time you're wondering if this is really the
case or not is he really gonna just turn on them at the last second
leading them into a trap EKKO looks quite different from before he was
captured by the SEPs he looks all pale with metal access points stuck on his
head like neo would have from the matrix his arm is now also a complete probe
connector as i call it 4 machines kind of like what r2 uses it's just a bit
bigger so EKKO and Rex are by far the leaders here in this episode and they
really pull on heartstrings just by their general brotherhood everyone
doubts EKKO and Rex is there to make sure that they should trust him I also
really liked how the Jedi have a much bigger role in this episode as well as
leading generals Anakin obi-wan and mace all take the forefront as they command
clones and take out droids and it can shows a massive segue into the dark side
and his disassociation from the Jedi which I'm gonna expand upon when I talk
about that scene in a few minutes so I'm gonna go into hierarchical order of this
episode and everything that happened and then we can break things down a little
bit as we go in there isn't too much to break down because it's quite
self-explanatory but there are some interesting little tidbits
Anakin basically calls them weak and it's really nice step in to seeing more
of his shift away from the Jedi and into the dark side as Vader with even the
Vader theme playing in the background which I thought was a really nice touch
I hope that season 7 goes into order 66 because I feel like we didn't get to see
too much of Anakin's turn in terms of detail as to what he did in the temple
and how he was really feeling with everything except for you know that
scene in run where he's crying and in the book had
actually notes that he was crying not because he was so upset at what he's
done but because of the vast stark contrast between his dream to be a
Jedi's little boy and who he has become today anyways before I digress on
further things let's now summarize this episode and get
on to the events mace windu says if Admiral trench can't anticipate our
moves then maybe we can start to win now that of course echo is not being used by
the separatists echo walks in and says I can improve your chances in taking back
in axis he walks up to the computer sticks in his droid arm thing with where
he says the bad battery will escort him into trenches new comm vault which is
now located on this separatist tread not above an axis he's been convincing the
SEP army to work with the Intel that he has as a clone of the Republic but this
time he's gonna bring about a victory for the Republic rather than a defeat
Tech readies things when he admits that he's worried of how they'll land that
ship or Rex tells him hey don't worry echo will show us how and tech tells him
that he's really not confident echo is in the right headspace he doesn't know
if he can trust him and that the mission might be compromised and this is really
the first instance that we see in this episode where you know the other clones
don't trust echo at all and fair enough I mean he's been abused and brainwashed
for however long now so it's only natural echo sends a signal to the
command ship cloaking themselves to make it look like they're just another one of
the SEP ships landing as the battle droid confirm it's one of their ships
they allow them to land trench tells his droid to contact sketch oh as he wants
to use the algorithm to see the best possible counter-attack trenches droid
tells him that the generator which is really just what echo coded for him to
think is the generator says to mobilize all troops on an access to the assembly
complex the Republic will not send reinforcements they'll put all their
faith in the Jedi the order is given by trench and echo tells the team that this
was his message and his plan they don't trust him but Rex and Anakin push to
have faith in him echo tells them that he's moving all the
droids there even though the Jedi and clones will be vastly outnumbered he'll
then proceed to shut them all down this fight scene is pre awesome it's pure
Clone Wars battle time you know with jet troopers Master Windu
Kenobi and the 212th attack battalion all the droids enter
the assembly complex where echo sends an energy surge through the computer and
Fries the droids trench then plans to blow up the entire complex which will
destroy most of an axis while echo tries to stop it and Anakin runs to get to
trench just in case echo fails now this is where it gets pretty cool and
interesting mace goes to disarm the bomb and Kenobi gets the clones to evacuate
as mace hits the lower level he finds the bomb which is protected by a ray
shield so he can't get to the control box to enter the codes echo feeds him
the numbers and mace uses the Force to actually move the switches to the
according numbers until trench finds out what's going on within the ship where he
orders for a surge to knock echo out so now they're stuck without the final code
to disarm the bomb mace has to figure out the last number for himself when all
is proceeding as trench had hoped for an axis and it can shows up and we
literally get the same shot of him when he was about to execute order 66 on the
younglings and this is another foreshadowing moment telling us that
he's really tapping into the dark side here in this scene now in the scene
Anakin really shows his dissociation from the Jedi and his path to the dark
side entirely as we even get the Vader theme going on and he takes out the
commando droids guarding trench where he threatens for him to tell Anakin the
final code to disarm the bomb trench tells him that Dooku will kill
him if he loses an axis and Anakin warns him that he'll do the same if he doesn't
spill trench calls a bluff and says that Jedi wouldn't do such things because
they're very noble when Anakin right away just slashes his robotic arms off
and tells him I don't have such weaknesses which to me was a really nice
way of portraying that Anakin is really going there he's really going the
distance here he's letting that anger in this moment take over and he's even
going as far as separating himself from the Jedi Code by calling them all week
this is really now giving us insight into Anakin and where his mind is at
he's obviously harboring some things right we saw in the last episode where
obi-wan knows about Anakin and Padme and so does Rex and he kind of you know
taunt Anakin with it and be like you know at least tell Padma and say hi and
Anakin just gives him this really nasty glare like yo dude don't
go there so we're starting to get some insight on Anakin's psyche as we enter
order 66 eventually I'm hoping in the season Anakin gives master Windu the
final number which is seven and the bomb is disarmed the day is saved
trench shocks Anakin which results in him getting impaled through the chest
with a lightsaber which I thought again was another darkside move but I mean at
this point you know he had to protect himself so and it can picks up a
detonator before he leaves and runs out of there as trench dies the crew take
out a bunch of droids which were it was a really sweet scene for me I love
seeing wrecker in action and crosshair in action record just absolutely takes
them out like an NFL linebacker and crosshair just uses these several
deflectors that he sticks to the walls to shoot with a blasters one shot and at
ricochets and precision to kill just it looks like hundreds of droids the final
scene ends with hunter and the clone force 99 leaving back to their ship as
he tells EKKO that his path is different from the rest of the clones we can see
some internal struggle here as EKKO comes to terms with his new life as a
cyborg and Rex encourages him to trust his gut feeling and to go with the bad
batch to become a new member of their crew if he truly feels that's where he
belongs now EKKO actually joins the force and it's now force of five and
they all salute Rex before the credits roll I really liked this episode I feel
like it was a nice conclusion to the chapter of an axis in Admiral trench I
also really enjoyed Anakin's the momentary rage as he told trench that he
doesn't have the same weaknesses of the Jedi when it comes to sparing living
beings it also was nice to get that little foreshadowing moment of Anakin
when he was about to kill the younglings and now killing trench it just kind of
shows that he's really tapping into that darkness I think especially with the
Vader the music that was playing just as he told trench that he doesn't have such
weaknesses as Jenna which is something that always you know Bader always
believes Anakin star destroy the Jedi or weak you know he's always all about
thinking you know power of power power that Jedi didn't have that the Jedi were
holding him back at least that's my interpretation of it
something else I'd like to point out in this episode that I really liked was we
got mace windu actually offering civility to the droid saying that they
could be programmed for something much more worthy which i thought was pretty
cool because mace normally just kind of you know goes in there swinging
sometimes but he really got to show some of his intellectual side as well as his
you know a bit of comedy it's like a give up but of course droids are an
autonomous like that they can't really think for themselves all that much they
have their duty and they have their programming so you know just wipe out
the Republic and the clones and the Jedi so and on a side note if you want to
know more about mace Windu and his powers and its tactics and everything
like that you should check out the book shatter point it's older and it's
legends of course now but it really dives into a lot of the stuff that is
mace windu including his power of shatter point and the pod and so on and
so forth how Palpatine even thought of the pod too so it's a nice book that
really focuses on mace hope you guys enjoyed this episode I really did I
think that Dave Filoni did a really great job and if you enjoyed this little
breakdown and discussion about it leave a like and I'll see you guys in the next
one I can't wait for the next episode it's gonna be episode 5 and we will go
into a sokka's arc and where she's been all right have an awesome day everyone
until the next episode remember the force will be with you