This is our third episode in the Geonosis and I think, so far, is the weakest of the arc, but still worth watching.

This episode finds Master Luminara Unduli in hot pursuit of the Geonosian leader Poggle the Lesser. She tracks him to an underground lair where there may or may not be a rumoured egglaying, Geonosian Queen. Unfortunately, Luminara is captured and Anakin and Obi-wan must rescue her.

This episode incorporates a lot of cool things, but the first third seemed to move really slowly to me. I enjoyed it and it set things up wonderfully, but there was something off about the pacing and it seemed to just crawl along. Having said that, I really loved the Aliens and Zombie motif. When Master Luminara is captured, she’s taken deep down into the catacombs of Geonosis and is the hostage of the rumoured Queen (who looks very much inspired by the Alien Queen in the James Cameron film.) Obi-wan and Anakin take up her distress call and have to find their way into the catacombs to rescue her. The problem is that the Queen controls all of the bugs in her colony with a hive mind (giving them a zombie-like look and demeanor) and they can’t be killed.

This sequence of the episode is a very cool, thrilling suspense piece as good as anything in an Aliens film but for kids. I really enjoyed it, but it wasn’t the best episode of the season.

I loved the interplay between Obi-wan and Anakin, the remnants of their master-padawan relationship in their new roles as colleagues is one that I always love seeing and this episode had some of the best use of it I’ve seen in the series, so, even though the storytelling was a little off, I really enjoyed this episode.

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