This is a very good episode, certainly not a failure in any way, but it could have been even better I think.
Following on from the previous two superb episodes this continues with the excellent, dark storyline and great villain Cad Bane. In fact, the storyline gets even darker as Darth Sidious plans to kidnap young force sensitive children and turn them to the dark side which provides some chilling scenes. So the ingredients are here for a top level classic episode.
However, the failure in this episode is the failure of the Jedi and it is slightly jarring just how much they fail: The Jedi fall for the most obvious tricks by Cad Bane which they even say is going to probably be a trap and allow him to escape. Why send only 2 Jedi and have Bane so poorly secured? Why so foolishly walk into a trap? It really is not that unconvincing or impossible as the Jedi are so arrogant at this point they seem to keep making big mistakes during the Clone Wars and prequel era of the story. But I find it slightly off-putting. That does just detract a little bit for me as well as this episode overall just not quite being as great as the previous episode which I rated 9.5/10.
This is still a very good episode though.
My rating: 8/10.
Following on from the previous two superb episodes this continues with the excellent, dark storyline and great villain Cad Bane. In fact, the storyline gets even darker as Darth Sidious plans to kidnap young force sensitive children and turn them to the dark side which provides some chilling scenes. So the ingredients are here for a top level classic episode.
However, the failure in this episode is the failure of the Jedi and it is slightly jarring just how much they fail: The Jedi fall for the most obvious tricks by Cad Bane which they even say is going to probably be a trap and allow him to escape. Why send only 2 Jedi and have Bane so poorly secured? Why so foolishly walk into a trap? It really is not that unconvincing or impossible as the Jedi are so arrogant at this point they seem to keep making big mistakes during the Clone Wars and prequel era of the story. But I find it slightly off-putting. That does just detract a little bit for me as well as this episode overall just not quite being as great as the previous episode which I rated 9.5/10.
This is still a very good episode though.
My rating: 8/10.