if you would join us hey guys how are y'all doing welcome back to Star Wars
theater today we're gonna go over episode number eight I have season seven
of the Clone Wars so I'm gonna talk about it a bit as usual and then we'll
do the full breakdown pretty much scene by scene and then
we'll go into my thoughts as well so this episode was pretty awesome I mean
it really sets up it goes really fast and it sets up what we're gonna expect
for episode 9 which I really feel like is when this whole arc with the Sokka is
really beginning this is like the fleshed out what we've been waiting for
it's what the build-up has been going on for the last three episodes with these
sisters and I really can't wait to get started on it so now that all the
backstory is done we can finally get on with the sweet action that we've all
wanted in this episode ahsoka finally reveals her powers to Rafa and tres and
they all get mad at her for hiding it for so long
especially after what they said happened to their parents which is that the Jedi
killed them by accident in a mission the beginning starts with them all in jail
as per the ending of the last episode and ahsoka asks them to trust her that
she has a final plan and to just go with it they get taken to the leader of the
Pyke's mark Krim where he is about to order
them to execution if they don't give the spice this is where ahsoka basically
throws her friends under the bus you know part of her plan and tells him to
give the girls one rotation basically you know one day to retrieve the cargo
and if they fail then she'll reveal the location of the family now of course as
we learned in the last few episodes tracing Rafa's parents were killed by
the Jedi in an accident involving zero the hut and CAD Bane so with that offer
the Pyke's let them go and hold ahsoka as collateral should they fail now one
of the pikes tells mark Krim that this is just another diversion and Mark Krim
says you know we know this but we really have no other option because he knows he
always knows and who is he referring to well
Darth Maul and I really like that he showed up in this episode a little bit
because it really ties in a lot of what we wanted to see in the second
installment of Solo so I'm starting to see that there's gonna be maybe a
backstory built here regarding Maul and the crime syndicate and I'm really
excited for that because I really wanted to see solo 2 because it would have
so much of Darth Maul on Dathomir anyways I guess we'll get that material
still but broken up in these other segments such as the Clone Wars or
comics and books and things like that now also this whole scheme that ahsoka
pulled off really reminded me of something anakin would do and you know I
gotta say I liked it it was cool I like where they've taken a sokka's character
and I really can't wait to see how she handles Maul in the next episodes
I think ahsoka is probably one of the most well rounded and interesting
characters that has been written in Star Wars Anakin is my favorite and so is
Luke and I think their character arcs are absolutely amazing but Asoka's
really got an interesting one because hers is almost opposite you know she
starts out kind of at the Jedi Temple you know from a very young age somewhat
and then becomes lost whereas it's the opposite for Luke he was lost and then
he found who he really is he's a Jedi he's a Jedi Knight Rafa and tres pulled
a little heist to steal spice from the Pyke's which backfires when they get
beat up now this part was a little bit too easy
for me it just seemed like okay well I kind of felt like I was watching a Pixar
film which don't get me wrong I love my Pixar movies but it's these these
villains I mean they were just basically workers that were working at a mine
factor a Spice Factory and they just seemed too easy to defeat they were very
very dumb they just include too convenient for me but hey it helped the
story move along so that's fine anyways the force is with the sisters and are
not literally just figuratively here and they end up winning and getting out of
there ahsoka makes her way through the Pyke's
Factory and one of the ways she does is by getting out of the jail is that she
uses the force to deactivate the beams holding her down which is a really cool
ability for a Jedi now as ahsoka makes her way through the
Pyke's factory she plants bombs that she got from one of the Armory's all over
the place and while doing this she comes across a hologram speaking to the pike
leader and his men she hides and notices that the hologram is Maul who tells them
that they are just a small piece in this mechanism that he's designed and when
they fail the whole thing suffers so for me it's really cool to see Maul before I
continue here because we haven't seen him since Sidious completely defeated
him and killed his brother Savage Opress when he's got his hood up and we really
get in those solo vibes this is kind of where it all starts I think mark grim
tells him that one his shipments were just rated on
coarsened small turns in questions if it was a Jedi assuming that it was the
whole scene is just way too cool because seemed all and all of this brings back
so many darkside connections with Sidious Dooku and grievous and this and
that let me not Grievous but it just connects
everything and makes you remember all the bad guys here cuz we've been so
focused on Rafa tres and ahsoka for the last little bit it kind of feels like
you know for the whole season you guys remember the bad batch I miss those guys
now I assure you this character development that we're seeing with
ahsoka while many are saying that it's slow is really going to pay off when we
get to Mandalore trust Dave Loney hang in there it's gonna be worth it anyway
small tells the pipes not to fail him or else the crime syndicate will be happy
to handle them which is also very cool to see now we're you know getting some
lineage into the crime syndicate here we're seeing how Maul is really starting
to progress ahsoka plants a few more bombs tracks down where mauls
transmission came from and is surprised and confused as to why it came from
Mandalore saying what are you doing there
the Pyke's barge in and suspect her of being a Jedi finally now she can just be
herself and he know what she didn't even deny it
she didn't say I'm no Jedi she said that her friends don't know that she's a Jedi
and that they're just regular people mark Krim says the Jedi Council will
regret sending me here now I think she doesn't deny that she's a Jedi because
she doesn't want to go into a long story about the complications of it but while
I was watching and my mind has changed now I was thinking maybe she's hoping
the council will be a fail-safe plan if Mark contacts them about it or you know
sends men to retaliate where Anakin would maybe get wind of ahsoka and since
something was wrong and come to help her then I realized how much trouble she's
gone to just keep herself disassociated from the Jedi
she really wouldn't want their help as trace and Rafa get back to the Pyke's
after their lucky win over the Pixar team I mean over the the criminals from
the mining factory they all get told by Mark Krim that ahsoka is a Jedi to which
they wish that she would have told them earlier and they don't really believe
him now to Asoka's defense how could she really tell them about who
she was when they were saying that their parents were killed because of Jedi the
girls are surprised that a soko was allowed to leave the Jedi Order they
didn't even know that was a thing and this to me is really cool because we're
getting insight into what normal citizens or non Jedi folk of the
galaxy really know about Jedi which is essentially nothing
kind of like Anakin on Tatooine as a boy you know Wizards with laser swords
basically now that the cats out of the bag and the three are about to be
executed ahsoka sets off the detonator and blows
up the whole place where she planted mines the distraction knocks over the
Pyke's and they make a run for it getting in their ship where we get a
little bit of a han Solo original trilogy theme going on and they shoot
down the Pike's chasing them we get some very good character development here for
the sisters you know the play a little chicken as trace flies straight for the
last pike in their way and we see her character arc is a little more developed
now too as she's more daring and confident in her maneuvers whereas
before she was just a little more timid they fly off the planet and back to
Coruscant to safety as they land tres and Rafa leave the ship immediately
ahsoka knows they're mad at her for lying about being a Jedi when they tell
her that they wish more Jedi were actually like her this is a huge moment
in the episode and in Star Wars really it was a big highlight for me this is
really building on how non Jedi folks see the Jedi and kinda really let us see
into why so many turned against them so easily after city has turned to Emperor
and made the Galactic Empire it wasn't really just a quick 180 flip this was a
premeditated thing that had been going on for years whereas the people were
seeing right this war is taken far too long it's taking too many lives and the
Jedi are just really destroying things they're kind of like a bull in a china
shop they didn't really see the Jedi as keepers of the peace they saw them more
like someone who was just you know doing something for a greater cause than the
lives of civilians which didn't really make sense since it was all to preserve
peace anyways kind of just destroyed everything and killed people around them
in the name of choosing the lesser of two evils when on a mission
kind of like tracing rafa's parents I think the Jedi were keepers of the peace
however and I'm not gonna get too into detail on this I think they did get far
too obsessed with politics and became slaves of the Republic rather than
trusting more in the force like they were meant to do instead they became
Ward and war does not make one great as Yoda
would say qui-gon and Count Dooku had the right idea about the Jedi now Count
Dooku obviously went to become a Sith but qui-gon and I believe really strayed
as far away from the Jedi ideals as he could while still being a Jedi and a you
know a good man as they wish more Jedi were like her and that Jedi were not
she's their friend it really makes you realize that if their mindset here is
kind of like the majority of civilians it makes you realize that ahsoka is
really what the Jedi should be here she doesn't follow blindly in the name of
politics or whatever she follows the force and that is what a true Jedi
really is like qui-gon this is when Bo Kattan walks in and proposes an offer
it's a very quick scene it's very short and sweet
she says Death Watch is gone as a Sokka gets super defensive she tells her that
they have a common enemy as a hologram of maul shows up you have five minutes
to decide says Bo and walks away the sisters implore ahsoka to go and help
her just like she helped them but ahsoka of course is very weary of doing this
and not so sure she says she's afraid to go that if she does it'll set her down
the path of becoming a Jedi once again and this is great to hear for me because
it shows that she wants nothing to do with them for what they did and what
they're turning into and it shows you even more so now that she is distance
herself further from the Jedi everyday farther and farther away and more rooted
into who she really is instead of the brainwashing that went on
at the temple Rapha and trace tell her that it's what she was meant to do to go
and to do what must be done do not hesitate show no mo okay sorry I
got carried away there anyway so Sokka gets in Bo's ship and gets out of there
to Mandalore where she's about to take on Maul and probably defeat him I I mean
I hope at least be thrown him you know what I mean
now why haven't we seen much of Anakin in the Jedi well because I bet you this
whole time that a soap has been in trouble with the Pyke's and whatnot here
and you know the Rafah and trace our call that is during Revenge of the Sith
this is where Anakin has already killed Dooku and must probably near the point
of order 66 or you know pretty much before the next
episode is really where things pick up so fast so I hope you're gonna buckle up
because we're only four episodes away from the end of the entire season and
hopefully we'll go further into order 66 and see things that we've never seen
before like Anakin raiding the temple with the clones I mean we could see
really anything at this point did he let the younglings go just imagine that this
whole time actually we see that he actually let them go he couldn't do it
now of course we know this didn't really happen in actuality because in a
conference when Ian McDermott Ian said that George cut the scene which he had
written or wanted to put in there which showed you know little younglings and
Jedi cut up on the floor and he figured that was far too dark for children so he
just you know he abandoned that idea but what I'm saying is to get your wheels
thinking to get your brain thinking that we could really see anything in the next
four episodes it could change the fate of order 66 it could change the fate of
what we know at least of what happened in the temple and so much beyond it as
well I hope you're excited I certainly am and I'll see you guys in the next
episode until then remember the force will be with you always
fulfill your destiny