MeanJoePhaser
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An okay episode, lotsa of different Jedi in this one. Anakin better hope that protcol droid doesn't rat him out.
Next new episode January 1st, looks like Grievous is back. Oh, and Jedi Agen Kolar's THE CLONE WARS debut?
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - 2X8 "Brain Invaders" (spoilers)
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An okay episode, lotsa of different Jedi in this one. Anakin better hope that protcol droid doesn't rat him out.
Next new episode January 1st, looks like Grievous is back. Oh, and Jedi Agen Kolar's THE CLONE WARS debut?
For some reason I really enjoyed this episode. The dark starring role for Ashoka... seeing Jedi fighting clones and each other... setting the episode on a Tantive IV clone... Anakin going total dark-side on Poggle... the hand-held camera shots that looked so incredibly real... I'm really enjoying the second season so far it's been a real improvement.
Been catching this season off and on, but got to catch this episode and I'm glad. It was a good episode, with some nice foreshadowing for Anakin. I'm glad the TV show is revisiting some of the characters and places in the movies, fleshing them out more. I really enjoyed Ashoka v. Bariss.
Really enjoyed this episode, especially in lieu of last weeks episode, which was quite bad imho. Shocked to see Anakin going dark already. Next new episode looks to be awesome. 
I have never understood why people are 100% against torture. I am for the most part, but I can come up with some scenarios where I think it would be warranted. I beleive it can be a legit last resort.Really enjoyed this episode, especially in lieu of last weeks episode, which was quite bad imho. Shocked to see Anakin going dark already. Next new episode looks to be awesome.
^^ I would think there are very few times when one knows for a fact that someone has information that they are not divulging. Then factor in the probablility that someone wouldn't just lie to them to get them to stop. I would think most people would rather not get tortured on the chance they might have information. I'd rather not get tortured in a crime investigation because I might happen to know something.
It's a question of whether or not it's okay to use the ends to justify the means. In this episode, that choice works ... but given the effective use of the Imperial March, it ominously foreshadows how using the ends to justify the means leads to incredible tragedy (Anakin becoming Vader, killing Younglings, rise of the Empire, etc.).
For the episode, though, it works very, very well and elevated what was, otherwise, a merely average installment (the whole worm-takeover just didn't do anything for me) to something that was pretty good.
For the episode, though, it works very, very well and elevated what was, otherwise, a merely average installment (the whole worm-takeover just didn't do anything for me) to something that was pretty good.
Did anyone else picture James Earl Jones giving Anakin's lines during Poggle's interrogation?
Which was quite ... "effective."
^ I dig the avatar TJ. 
I gave it a Good. Quite the Stargate vibe going on with the nose-snake mind controllers. They reminded me of the Gou'ald and the clones (especially that first one with the tattoo on his forehead) reminded me a bit of the Jaffa. Of course the dynamic was not exactly the same, but I couldn't help but think about it the entire episode.
I really love when Anakin decided to do things a little different during Poggle's interrogation. When yet another arrogant leader tells one of our hero's that their "Jedi mind tricks" will not work on them, and Anakin, in effect, bluntly tells him... he doesn't need them. That was too cool.
I really love when Anakin decided to do things a little different during Poggle's interrogation. When yet another arrogant leader tells one of our hero's that their "Jedi mind tricks" will not work on them, and Anakin, in effect, bluntly tells him... he doesn't need them. That was too cool.
Yeah, I had the same vibe. I kept expecting Bariss's eyes to start glowing and for her to demand the clones to worship her as their god. This was a good episode, Like many others I like the way Anakin's dark side was portrayed. I agree with Mr. Light, that type of fall to the dark side would have been far more tragic.
Well ... not so much "forced" but tempted. Anakin wasn't exactly forced to torture Poggle. He had a choice. Still, the choice seemed desperate enough for him to warrant an indulgence into the Dark Side.
But yeah, I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. This portrayal of Anakin, a guy who wants to do the right thing, but just goes about it the wrong way, is much more compelling than what we see in the PT.
And how appropriate that in this episode where we see Anakin debut the Vader Strangle, Ahsoka and Barriss are aboard a ship of the same class as the one where we first saw Darth Vader back in 1977 (a ship that was known at the time as the Rebel Blockade Runner and has retroactively been named the Tantive IV, I believe). And Kevin Kiner gave us an approximation of the Vader theme/Imperial March in the musical score during the strangulation scene.
On the other hand, nostalgia-wise, I'm getting sick of the overuse of "I've got a bad feeling about this." It was one thing when it was used in each of three movies, because that's just three occurrences (or four; I think one had it twice). But when it shows up every second or third episode in an ongoing weekly TV series, it gets tiresome.
On the other hand, nostalgia-wise, I'm getting sick of the overuse of "I've got a bad feeling about this." It was one thing when it was used in each of three movies, because that's just three occurrences (or four; I think one had it twice). But when it shows up every second or third episode in an ongoing weekly TV series, it gets tiresome.
They are not the same class of ship I'm afraid. The Medical Frigate in the episode is a Pelta Class Frigate, the Tantive IV is a CR90 Corvette. The two ships are, in Star Wars canon, built by different companies.