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REVIEWS

The Clone Wars Series 1 – Episode 22

reviewed by richard whittaker “Hostage Crisis”

Directed by Giancarlo Volpe

Written by Eoghan Mahony

Starring: Matt Lanter, Dee Bradley Baker, Catherine Taber, Corey Burton

If Anakin Skywalker has spent the entirety of the Clone Wars fighting in the Outer Rim, exactly when is he supposed to have got Padme pregnant?

Well, possibly right around this episode. No, no, don’t worry, it’s not time for some subhentai CGI rumpy-pumpy. For the first time all season, Anakin (Lanter) has made it back to Coruscant, capital of the Republic, and the secretly loving arms of Senator Amidala (Taber.) Well, almost. She’s busy helping fend off the Enhanced Privacy Invasion bill (a small nod, no doubt, to the state-sanctioned snooping clauses of the Patriot Act.)

But date night gets cancelled when the bounty hunter Cad Bane (Burton) arrives. The blueskinned and growling killer has assembled a team of low-life scum. That cadre includes a glacial but brutal appearance by the franchise’s most intriguing set dressing, the kohl-eyed and white-fleshed Aurra Sing (voiced by Jaime King, who is probably best known as Goldie from Sin City.) They have one purpose: Liberate Ziro the Hutt. While some viewers thought they had seen the last of the half-slug, half-Truman Capote, neon-and-glitter gangster when he was arrested at the end of the Clone Wars opening movie, he’s back. But Bane’s plan isn’t to storm the prisons of Coruscant: Instead, he takes a small number of senators hostage, to be used as bargaining chips in exchange for the Hutt. When he gets Ziro, Ziro can pay him. It’s a lot simpler motivation than trying to take over the galaxy.

So why doesn’t Anakin simply carve up the ne’er-do-wells? Because, in a fit of the very same hubris that will be his downfall, he has given his lightsaber to Padme as proof of his love. So when the kidnappers arrive, he’s bereft of his go-to weapon. Even with his mastery of the Force, he still faces a challenge (even Jedi can’t outrun a blaster bolt) and is left to improvise. Admittedly, this does result in the entertaining sight of the Jedi beating an assassin droid to death with its own rifle, but this is the first time in the series that it’s seemed that the Jedi (and maybe even one Sith lord) are both outwitted and out-gunned.

With Lucasfilm making it clear that Bane will be a major recurrent in season two, this is less an ending to season one and more a transition to the next stage in the story. Its success depends on whether viewers will want to come back for Bane. So far, the series hasn’t had a great success with dabbling with the world of pirates and smugglers, as anyone that endured the extremely mediocre and weakly-plotted Dooku Captured will recall (quick hint, script writers: Out-takes from Pirates of the Caribbean plus blasters do not space pirates make.)

But Bane has the makings of something more. Designed with more than a tip of the wide-brimmed hat to Lee

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