October 6 2012

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"Fear is a malleable weapon."

Episode Guide: A War On Two Fronts

Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Chris Collins

Synopsis: Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka & Rex travel to Onderon - a world under Separatist control. There, they will train a group of insurgent rebels - including Lux Bonteri to help take back the capital city of Iziz from the rule of a duplicitous king.

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A good episode. Loved the "Impressive... most impressive." line from Anakin.

The detail in this season seems amazing. Looking back at the first season, this show has improved with age so much.

My eldest son passed an interesting comment after watching this. He thinks that it would be a good idea if the creators made the Thrawn Trilogy (as he has just finished reading the books) into the style of the Clone Wars. That is once this show is over & finished. Not a bad idea, would be very interesting to see I think.

A so-so episode. Obviously more of a set-up for the rest of this arc. Nothing spectacularly stand-alone.

I liked the dialogue at the beginning, touching upon the definition of terrorism and having Anakin ironically defend the rebel faction. Also, Ahsoka's feelings for Lux were very apparent and it was interesting to see her break with Jedi form and appear to get jealous over Lux's interactions with Steela. Can't wait to see where this goes.

And man, what a wasted opportunity for a training montage ("We're gonna need a montage!").

This episode looks beautiful, but what's going on with Anakin clenching his fist during every other sentence?

(Thank you for the up DP)

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The Onderon profile on SW.com references how these rebels and other rebel groups throughout the galaxy will eventually become the Rebel Alliance after the CW. The concept gallery shows how they used old ROTJ Rebel commando concepts for their clothes and armor, too.

He has said that in "Trespass" aswell.

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Almost all TV series have a set-up episodes. This was an okay one with some good art design. The market at the end reminded me of the Moebius image below:

Speaking of Moebius, I read somewhere that there's going to be a Moebius-inspired episode called, [s]"The Voice"[/s] "The Void," later on in the season.

EDIT: Thanks from above.

You can watch a short BBC documentary about Moebius here. It's broken into three parts. His work in film is discussed in the second part.

"The Void", apparently. A stand-alone episode tribute.

From the 2nd half of Season 3 onwards, everything is pretty much in order. Revival's move to the season premiere was a last minute change. And they are airing the series in syndication in order.

See here:

Chronicling The Clone Wars

Chronicling The Clone Wars #2

Chronicling The Clone Wars #3

True, but nothing's going to guarantee that they won't fall out of order again.

They've been much better as of late, just hope it stays that way. We only have, what, 1 more season?

I believe so, yes. "Revival"'s change was more of a marketing decision than anything else.