Hello everyone and welcome to another double dose of Clone Wars catchup, this time with 3×9 and 3×10. Starting with episode 9, we had another slightly confusing time jump which was really irritating as I don’t see the point to them. All it does is just make me waste time second-guessing whether I’ve put the right episode on.

Anyway, the episode itself was decent enough as we ventured to the planet of the Hutt’s. It was cool to see the swampy wastelands, and the “on the water” were an interesting choice. You still never really saw them out and about as such, but it was interesting to get more of an insight into their lifestyle all the same. I was shocked that Ziro ended up dead: it happened so suddenly! I found him annoying so I didn’t mind but it did catch you off guard as it came very much out of nowhere.

Did I enjoy Quinlan Vos? Yes. Was he a bit of a random inclusion? Yes he was. I don’t know if his appearance or a one off but he filled the “free spirit”position opposite Obi Wan’s general moaning about basically everything like he usually does. It is always interesting to see the different Jedi team ups the show throws out there and how there different views and styles effect one another.

Episode 10 was another episode focussed heavily on Padme. She gets a lot of episodes doesn’t she? I’m just not all that fond of her but the episode itself was very message heavy as well as kicking off a seemingly multi-episode arc. It was the whole “not all of those under the enemy banner are actually evil” plot-line where Ashoka was rather rude to Seperatists until she realised that they were actually just regular people too who were stuck in the middle of a war they didn’t want to be a part of. The story about the husband desperately trying to defend himself from attacking clones did manage to strike an emotional chord for both Ashoka and me as a viewer.

Of course things went to pot regarding the peace offering and I was ready to moan at how rushed it was until I realised it was going to be a multi-episode story. There was nothing new revealed about Grevious but he did have some cool new transforming droids and quite honestly, I’ll take that. I like how they manage to give the droids personality and they were actually quite amusing in how sneaky they were asking.

DD Rating: 9- 7.2/10 10- 6/10