Back to the Clone Wars: Hostage Crisis
Sep. 16th, 2011 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerJust in advance of the start of the fourth Clone Wars season, I've at last managed to finish rewatching the first season on DVD. That slow progress was due to an initial uneasiness about how the little documentaries for each episode seemed at first to play up connections to the old Star Wars movies and leave connections to the new ones unspoken, and in trying to deal with those feelings by putting them into words I wound up rewatching episodes only when I also knew I would have time afterwards to write journal posts. As the season progressed, I didn't feel quite so worried about the documentaries, but I suppose I didn't want to "give up halfway." Perhaps things will be different with the second season DVD set.
In any case, the creators did dwell on the bounty hunters introduced in "Hostage Crisis," which I suppose may be a little predictable but is fair enough. For some reason, I did wonder if a comment comparing Cad Bane with the envisioned competency of Boba Fett was mean to imply Fett was also supposed to work in a team, which left me wondering if I thought of him as more of a "lone operator," but that could just be a byproduct of working with a blank slate.
Along with the bounty hunters, though, I was rewatching the episode interested in the part of its story where, through a small comedy of errors (the creators do actually mention "romance" with Anakin and Padme together), Anakin has to face them without a lightsabre... although I seem to have managed to forget he was actually knocked out by the smallest bounty hunter. I can suppose in that case, though, that "triumphing over adversity" wouldn't have set Cad Bane and company up as genuine threats, and Anakin did manage to keep them from killing their hostages departing.
In any case, the creators did dwell on the bounty hunters introduced in "Hostage Crisis," which I suppose may be a little predictable but is fair enough. For some reason, I did wonder if a comment comparing Cad Bane with the envisioned competency of Boba Fett was mean to imply Fett was also supposed to work in a team, which left me wondering if I thought of him as more of a "lone operator," but that could just be a byproduct of working with a blank slate.
Along with the bounty hunters, though, I was rewatching the episode interested in the part of its story where, through a small comedy of errors (the creators do actually mention "romance" with Anakin and Padme together), Anakin has to face them without a lightsabre... although I seem to have managed to forget he was actually knocked out by the smallest bounty hunter. I can suppose in that case, though, that "triumphing over adversity" wouldn't have set Cad Bane and company up as genuine threats, and Anakin did manage to keep them from killing their hostages departing.