my god please put Dave Filoni behind more star wars productions he is the
chosen one this episode felt like I was literally watching a prequel to Revenge
of the Sith well I literally was we all literally
were this was literally one hour before Episode three takes place the colors the
action the music the overall emotion and structure felt so akin to Episode three
and the prequels in general that it made me sucked right into the action at the
start of the episode that Lucasfilm limited production screen right at the
beginning we'll have some head scratching and I've already seen some
tweets regarding it but that's just Lucas Films company name Lucasfilm Ltd
or LFL so it was just a romanticized screen to start the episode and I loved
it this is part one of four and we're gonna be getting a lot longer episodes
of the Clone Wars as we finish a season seven this didn't feel like an episode
to me it really felt like a movie the relationship between obi-wan and Anakin
are shown perfectly as always with the level-headed strict Kenobi and the
unorthodox Jedi commander Skywalker this is it guys this is really the last of
the prequel stuff that we'll get before Anakin turns to the dark side so we got
thrown into the action right away and I'm gonna give a breakdown on everything
that happens bit by bit including a lot of the things that you might have missed
because they're very quick but very sweet so as I said this episode takes
place about an hour before Episode three and you can really feel the tension of
the Clone Wars are really at their peak just about right now we start the
episode with the narrator telling us that the Jedi have been dispatched to
opposite parts of the galaxy in the outer rim to help with the Clone Wars
and we get to see some shots of platoon on Cato Neimoidia and Aayla Secura on
Felucia now this is where they died during order 66 and when the clones
turned on them so keep that in mind that they're already on their last mission
meaning will most likely bleed into order 66 which really excites me now
when we see the round table and all the Jedi talking to each other in Hollow we
see Depa billaba and Kay doom aka kanan jarrus from rebels can be
seen for a split second blink you'll miss it the episode starts with Cody and
the 212th battalion on your banner where obi-wan comes to his aid when a missile
is fired his way and in a very romanticized and cool shot of Kenobi we
see him block it and the visuals are beyond stunning the entire team behind
this did an amazing job with the lighting and just everything in general
Anakin shows up and asks Kenobi what he's doing down there
as he stands amidst thousands of blasts flying through the air as he casually
just dodges one sensing it with the force this is Anakin at his peak now at
least you know Revenge of the Sith Anakin just about and it really shows
after faking surrender to bide time until the droid general shows himself
and Anakin pulls him with the force and swipes his head clean off
artoo sends in the five-oh first who are hiding under the bridge after they win
the battle Anakin and obi-wan are hailed by Admiral yularen who says someone is
sending a transmission to contact them using any subspace frequency codenamed
fulcrum they head back to the main ship and sure enough it's ahsoka on the
hollow as she turns to greet a speechless Anakin now their interaction
through this episode is filled with more facial expressions than actual talking
for the most part and I feel this is the best way to convey their emotions
because sometimes talking can just really ruin things it's just too much
you know there's a time to talk and there's a time to just not talk and Dave
Filoni knows what he's doing for sure as they meet with ahsoka and Bo Catan
face-to-face this was one of my favorite scenes because the Skywalker theme just
fills the air as ahsoka walks down from the ship to Anakin you can really get a
sense of the force that's just surrounding her at this moment as Anakin
tries to catch up with her own lost time ahsoka holds her hand up and says it
will have to catch up later this really shows a sokka's character development
here that she's not really just a little girl Padawan anymore she's turning into
a Jedi Knight slowly if not already and even though she's in front of her
brother her master or her former master Anakin she knows that there are people
that need their help and every minute is important so she puts aside her need to
catch up with her master even after all this time to help them bow interjects
and says every minute we waste here gives Maul and opera
too nerdy to slip away she tells them they don't have enough men for the
mission and that she needs their help obi-wan makes a good point that if the
Republic aids in war with Mandalore even on Bo's terms he would break a treaty
between them all that ages 100 years drawing them into another war and Bo
says what's one more now I really like that we're getting so much more
Mandalore and Mandalorian stuff because well the Mandalorian is a cool show and
we want and learn more about it about its history it all ties together really
nicely this is the part where Bo mentioned
Satine her sister and if she meant anything to obi-wan and we see Anakin
and we look at his face that this is really the first time that he gets wind
of obi-wan ever having feelings about another woman a woman in general
romantically something I like in this season of the Clone Wars is that obi-wan
knows about Anakin and Padme and now Anakin has a bit of dirt on obi-wan
knowing about him and Satine more so everyone leaves as Anakin takes ahsoka
to show her a surprise when all the clones salute her as she wonders why
saying that they shouldn't salute her because she's not in the Jedi Temple
anymore and Anakin tells her that it's because of their loyalty to her during
her time as their commander and they never will forget that she was and
always will be their commander this is when we see the five-o first having
painted their helmets with her orange colors and markings it's a sign of their
love and respect for her Rex and ahsoka have a moment and we can really see this
tie into rebels not to mention that part of the trailer where we see Rex and
ahsoka together as he cradles his head that's maybe and this you know this is
just a theory before it actually happens during order 66 which is executed while
ahsoka is on Mandalore so this is the last time ahsoka and Anakin will see
each other and we kind of get in a wind of that Anakin gives her a box to open
as her second surprise and then the sirens and alarms flood the station and
everyone is sent to war this is literally one hour before Revenge of the
Sith so now watching episode 3 it'll never
really be the same because we know exactly what's going on in other parts
of the galaxy on Mandalore with ahsoka and Maul before ahsoka can open the box
obi-wan runs in and tells Anakin that Grievous is attacking above coarsened
and they worry that he has the Chancellor okay so this is really
important so pay 10 here Shakti as obi-wan says was supposed
to be protecting him but Master Windu hasn't heard any
response from her this scene also backs up that Shakti died at the hands of
Grievous because there were these three different deleted scenes where well one
of them wasn't deleted but two deleted scenes where Shakti dies one was being
stabbed in the back by Grievous in front of Anakin and obi-wan another was in
Yoda's vision and the last was being stabbed in the back by Anakin during the
temple raid when he was executing order 66 on the Jedi Temple now those two were
filmed in live action her being killed by grievous and been killed by Anakin
these are found in the deleted scenes of a render the Sith the temple one is very
interesting because it's actually in the novel so Shakti actually tries to talk
sense into Anakin from leaving the council chambers as mace had ordered him
to do but you know he leaves against her wishes anyways and well we all know what
happened after that so this scene I believe proves that Grievous is the one
in Canon to have killed Shakti and also mind you I should mention that deleted
scene of her getting stabbed through the back by Anakin wasn't a completed scene
at all it was just something that was filmed but never added in this can be
found on the bonus footage for Revenge of the Sith
ahsoka gets mad and sets the record straight finally explaining to Obi Wan's
face that this is exactly the type of reason why the Jedi have lost faith in
the eyes of people as he tells her that we must go protect the Chancellor she's
mad because obi-wan is once again choosing politics instead of protecting
the people of Mandalore who need them more this is a tough choice because the
Chancellor is captured and unbeknownst to them he's not the good guy they
actually think he is but that's not really their fault
the Jedi's constant dwindling in politics is what caused qui-gon to lose
trust in them and trust the will of the force more than the council itself in
most cases and why Dooku left the order and how it kept ahsoka from returning it
would have been cool if Anakin and obi-wan went to fight Maul I always
wanted to see maul and Anakin fight just like you know Anakin did in the comics
against a Jedi Temple training droid who he programmed to look and move just like
the zebra based on obi wan's memoirs on fighting the Sith assassin now it was
trace and Rafa who made a souca realize what the
order actually means to the people outside of the Jedi Temple that they're
just far too obsessed with politics and they just kind of do whatever the
Republic tells them this is how that arc ties in together with the whole story so
you can see it's building her character in the background and as ashley eckstein
said on the rule of two podcast that this is all starting to make sense and
it really is anakin suggests that even though ahsoka isn't commander anymore or
part of the GA are or Grand Army of the Republic
ahsoka can go on as an adviser to Rex who they'll promote as commander this
legally wouldn't cross any rules or boundaries for the Jedi or the Republic
and it can says to her if you're gonna face Maul you'll need these as she opens
her lightsabers they're her original ones she always used well maybe a little
bit better says Anakin as they show bright blue blades as Anakin walks away
from ahsoka she calls his name and when he turns we know what's about to happen
we get that beautiful music some across the stars themes were in there as well
if you listen to it closely and it definitely made me well up with emotion
a big tearjerker for a lot of us she wishes her old master good luck he looks
down and back at her and gives a nod as he walks away forever now this is really
poetic because the next time that she sees his eyes they will be through the
eyes of Vader it's really crazy to think this is all happening during Episode
three as he goes to fight Dooku ahsoka goes to Mandalore ahsoka knows something
feels weird too and she looks down and down as if sensing something perhaps
ahsoka boards the ship with the five-o first and bow as they head to Mandalore
where she absolutely wreaks havoc like she's just dicing them all up she's
jumping through the sky slashing and dashing all of those in her path she was
truly a Jedi Knight now or you at least it feels that way she's incredible with
her sabers and the force as she and Bo make their way in bow heads the siege of
Mandalore to deal with almec and ahsoka takes the clones to find Maul in the
Undercity leading them into a trap as Bo finds out as captain Vaughan informs
ahsoka as he was cutting off access to the Undercity they saw gar Saxon running
into the sewage portals ahsoka commands the men to follow her in
now this whole scene near the end here this felt like a horror flick as they
were hunting but ended up being the hunted beau takes out all mech and
relays to his soca that she's just being led into a trap but her comm link is too
far from the surface to get the signal and let me just say beau Catan is a
fighter and I liked seeing her take all my gout defeated he tells beau that mall
wanted the Jedi to be brought here by her but they brought the wrong one
ahsoka gets ambushed all the clones die and Maul finally reveals himself to her
with all his men now take note when we see Maul we get the same set chance we
got an episode one when he got out of the ship on Tatooine which I thought was
cool maul is enraged as to why she's here and not Kenobi end of the episode
and end of part one now this was my favorite episode of the whole season it
was intense action-packed the pace was amazing and it showed the
true relationship of the trio once again only more evolved now as in all their
characters are moving further into their unique arcs now in another video I'm
gonna be explaining where Maul has been between seasons 5 through 7 in Canon for
those wondering if you haven't read the son of Dathomir comic that's it for this
episode I hope you enjoyed it I cannot wait until next week I am extremely
excited for part 2 of the siege of Mandalore this is absolutely amazing
it felt so Star Wars you know it's just it's a dream come true
hit like on this breakdown in the video if you enjoyed it catch you in the next
one until then remember the force will be with you always