Back to the Clone Wars: Rising Malevolence

The chance came up to watch another episode out of the first Clone Wars collection, so I started into the "big ship with a gun--blow it up" plot arc with "Rising Malevolence." I might not have been focusing most of all on the episode itself, though. After some certain ambiguities when it came to the little documentary about the first episode in the collection and whether it had the show's creators trying too hard to establish links to the old Star Wars movies at the expense of the new movies, I suppose I was wondering if this would be the point where I would have to let the episodes alone speak for themselves...
( It was perhaps fortunate, then... )