No offense meant, but your sort of attitude just looks to me like desperately scrambling for scraps so you can say "Here, I got a bit that's like the OT."

Well, that's exactely what I intended to do. What I feel is that all those little things put together brings a kind of OT feel to some parts. And don't tell me that I am wrong, cause I don't say that I am right, I just say that's how I FEEL the show. Just my opinion.

And the Rodian not only betrays the Jedi, but Padme is taken as prisonner, just like Han, then the Rodian begins to feel that the Federation is going too far and finaly help the Jedi, if I remember well. Exactely like Lando in ESB.

Again I am not telling that the show success in being as good as the OT (rehashing a character development from the OT is not that smart after all). It's just that when I watch Clone Wars, I can feel that the writers try to please everyone, including the old fans.