Back to the Clone Wars: Darkness on Umbara
Apr. 8th, 2014 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI may have watched all the sixth series Clone Wars episodes on Netflix, but I do still have two-thirds of the fourth season on Blu-Ray and an unopened fifth season set to watch once more. Pushing myself back to it, I got around to "Darkness on Umbara," the curtain-raiser to the significant "Umbara arc." Just it alone, though, seemed to impress me; it took a little while before I could sort out why. I'd first seen the episode not that long after I'd got my new TV (ahead of the end-of-year sales, and more or less so I could watch the Star Wars movies on Blu-Ray and "get around to it" before the thought that "holding off" was in some strange fashion falling in among those who cling to past impressions), but I was still watching via "basic cable" (as I am to this date). Everything had looked sort of dark and mucky then; now, it looked dark and interesting, lights flashing amid the gloom.
Spotting Tup, the unfortunate clonetrooper who got the "Order 66 arc" under way, was a bit of a surprise for me, but in another way I could detach myself from what I knew was to come by thinking the end of the episode was almost like a "you've earned my respect and I've learned a lesson" conclusion. Then, though, Krell had disappeared (again), and the clones were caught in a firefight. The series didn't often seem to have genuine cliffhangers between the episodes of its story arcs, instead usually managing to get the characters to safe places as the episodes wrapped up.
Spotting Tup, the unfortunate clonetrooper who got the "Order 66 arc" under way, was a bit of a surprise for me, but in another way I could detach myself from what I knew was to come by thinking the end of the episode was almost like a "you've earned my respect and I've learned a lesson" conclusion. Then, though, Krell had disappeared (again), and the clones were caught in a firefight. The series didn't often seem to have genuine cliffhangers between the episodes of its story arcs, instead usually managing to get the characters to safe places as the episodes wrapped up.