Star Wars: The Clone Wars Revisited – Part 9: Three Easy Steps to Liberating a Planet

Another day, another three parter following three totally different sets of characters. These episodes focus on the assault and liberation of the Twi’lek homeworld of Ryloth. Having just started season two as I’m writing this post, I have some feelings about how season 1 ended up, but I’ll get to them at the end.

Before then let’s get into episodes 19, 20 & 21. But hey, if you wanted to catch up on what I’ve reviewed so far, then this link here will take you to the archive.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars Revisited – Part 8: That’s not how virology works

Now isn’t exactly the best time to be watching these couple of episodes, what with the world still suffering the effects of the pandemic that we’ve been living with for the past few months. Although with all the other terrible things going on these past few weeks on top of that, it kind of every horrible thing that could happen in these episodes has a real life parallel going on somewhere in the world right now.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars Revisited – Part 7: Big Nuts, Fire Bombs & Icy First Contact

In this collection of episodes we get a look at some different perspectives of the Clone War, and violence in general. Despite the Jedi’s stance as peacekeepers and diplomats, they often find themselves using violence to solve their problems. These episodes showcase both the merits and dangers of such an approach in two different stories about species outside of the galactic warfront.

If you want to catch up on the episodes I’ve covered so far in this series, then follow this link to the archive of the parts of this journey I’ve started on.

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