WARNING!: contains spoilers for the Clone Wars Sabotage/"Ahsoka on the Run" episode arc. You may want to see this before reading on. :) Also please remember that this is my opinion and that I really love the Clone Wars and appreciate being able to watch something new with Star Wars for most of the year. :)
Sorry if I just dive right into the nitty gritty (like I've ever done any differently :p ). I really don't like Ahsoka anymore. I thought she was ok in the beginning because she was learning and could understand why her behavior wasn't spot on, but now I just see how much she didn't change. :L She's still sassy and overly defensive of her beliefs. She should know better by now than to shoot off her mouth. Heck, even Anakin knows better than to back talk other people all the time!! Maybe she wouldn't be in such a bad situation if she held her tongue when Tarkin told them about moving Letta. And a prisoner transfer is the stupidest reason to get upset over. :p I mean, seriously, the Jedi Temple was just attacked! Don't you think the GAR might be doing them a favor by letting them figure out the rest of the case or help figure it out/fix their security system while they hold onto a potentially lethal person/run them through the military justice system. And by no means was their case over.
The Jedi should know better than to believe that the blast was figured out/executed by Letta alone. Even if her husband somehow stole the nanobots (which shouldn't the Jedi be able to trace through their records?) how was Letta able to figure out how to detonate them. There should be controllers or syringes with the nanobots as clues for these things. If they looked, maybe they'd find them, hmmm!? To me, the Jedi were just so worried about making sure it wasn't one of their own that when they found somebody who was a good enough suspect, they really overlooked a TON of clues that could have lead to the discovery of deeper cohorts/executors of the bombing. They are really stupid.
I think it's really sad how the clones were way, WAY better detectives than the Jedi. I mean, compare their objectives/operation to discover Slick and, ultimately, Ventress as the intel-leakers on Christophsis! It not only took them literally less than a day to solve that and execute justice, but also to actually accept the fact that it was possible for one of their brothers to betray them. Are the Jedi really that short-sighted that they can't accept the fact that it is very possible for a Jedi to have done the bombing. It was also really dumb of them to send two Jedi to investigate when clearly they were primed to try to prove that their members didn't do it. They should have sent in a mixed investigation team. If they put Commander Cody with a level headed Jedi like Kit Fisto or something they could have reaped infinitely better results/more evidence. But instead they elected the two jumpiest, passionate Jedi ever!! *facepalm*
Ok and that whole thing with Letta's death....that was just ridiculous. I thought that Ahsoka should have stopped running and realized something was up when she came across those injured clones. She should have talked to them and tried to help them, thus making her not as guilty looking. They know who was strangling them and usually someone who tries to strangle them one moment won't try to save them the next. Duh. :( Because she kept running she looked more and more guilty and I don't know why she didn't just lie low until the trial. She has friends with the clones, like Rex, and I bet if he knew about the trial, he would testify to her innocence. Ahsoka is just way too impatient and in the "I'm right and no one else is" mindset.
Though I did get the feeling of the events of Episode III and the Original Trilogy getting closer, I'm also going to have to disagree with Mr. Filoni on the aspect of Ahsoka being chased by clones 'feeling right'. I never really connected the clones to stormtroopers. In reality, I'm pretty sure that stormtroopers are almost completely different from clones as the clones were aging rapidly and very bitter/disappointed about the Empire (and being killed off because they were too good to be kept alive). I have given this a lot of thought and have come to the conclusion that a people raised with the prospect that they are going to help right the galaxy, that they absolutely have to succeed could only feel disappointment when their hopes of becoming civilians, merging into society and life outside of war, becoming seen as human. Just bitterness. And I reflect that in my books.
I digress. :P I guess after seeing the last episode my views really didn't change on Ahsoka. She still doesn't see the motives behind her removal that I think anyone with half a brain could see that the whole thing was orchestrated to uproot the beliefs of some of the Jedi. And Barriss being the mastermind??!! I didn't believe that for one second, even when she fought Anakin. That's too much of a character change and it kinda disturbs me that they found it necessary and right to make her the 'bad guy'. I really dislike how this show makes one person the sole villain. I've always liked how in the first few seasons we saw the extension of Sidious' power through his manipulation of multiple beings for one criminal act. The whole thing with Slick being a traitor is a good example of this because it began with him and then spread to Ventress and beyond. That's how it is in real life, though I know sometimes we'd like to think there was just one person. :L
All in all, not really pleased with this episode arc. And the fact that Disney cancelled Clone Wars made me more sympathetic to it, but not much. I think the best thing of it was Ventress voicing my thoughts and proving to be the 'grey-zone' character she is (neither 'bad' nor 'good'), as well as that final song with Ahsoka leaving the temple. I don't remember it exactly but I think the music at that part was what made it. ;)
I could go on about the cancellation but I think I'll leave that for my Tron: Uprising review. ;D Sorry I haven't posted anything in so long on here, I've been busy with school and all sorts of other stuff, but it's good to get back to you all and hopefully I'll be able to do a few more posts this week/weekend. :D Rock on guys!
