S01E02-04 - Malevolence Arc - Excludable

As an early arc, this one suffers from wooden animation and some quite bland imagery. And it’s yet another Grievous episode where he comes off as quite neutered. Superweapons are generally not very interesting, and the idea that Padme would fall so easily into a trap like this cheapens her (and where’s the advance guard, etc?). Her and C-3PO’s scenes on the ship are also pretty goofy nonsense.

We do get a bit more Ahsoka development here, in particular her relationships with Plo Koon and Anakin, which is good, but we do get more of this in better episodes. And the idea of droids which kill survivors is quite viciously decent. It’s also cool to see the Kaminoan-run medical stations peppered throughout the galaxy. Ultimately though, as is my main metric, it doesn’t add any real value. I think this episode is best trimmed to keep it tight and to the point.