Their seasoned seargent is killed and they’re all that’s left to protect Kamino from a full-blown assault by General Grievous.
This episode reminded me a lot of the most fun parts of the Republic Commando game, and when Commander Cody and Rex show up for an inspection all hell breaks loose. This was a great action/adventure story and there weren’t any Jedi to get in the clones’ way.
I think this episode had a lot of the bad-ass kinds of moments people wanted in the movie that made them dislike it a little bit… There was one great moment where Rex (maybe it was Cody) shot a droid disguised as a clone in the face at point blank range. It was pretty bad-ass.
Where as episode 1.3 (Shadow of Malevolence, I think) was the World War II bomber-plane movie, this was more like the Dirty Dozen, minus all of the planning stages… In fact, it ends with a cool explosion and sacrifice much the same way The Dirty Dozen did.
I would like to see more clones-only episodes like this in the series, as this one was great.
I want to say bad things about this show, just to prove that I’m not unbiased, but this show is really kicking ass and taking names and I can’t find anything bad to say about it.
Unfortunately, the next new episode isn’t for two weeks (predictably, they’re skipping Halloween), but here’s hoping it’s as good as the first five have been. It looks great. The preview explains that Anakin lost Artoo in a fire-fight and the enemy has captured him. This is really bad news for the Republic since Artoo’s mind hasn’t been wiped. I’m assuming they launch a rescue mission for Artoo.
As a reminder to catch up, the last two weeks of episodes are available for free at www.starwars.com and this episode will be available today on iTunes (though it’s also being re-run on Cartoon Network throughout the week.)