Hello everyone and welcome to another double sized edition of Clone Wars catchup with episodes seven and eight of season three. Kicking things off with episode 7, it was another episode which focussed on Ashoka and her developing as a Jedi. She has already become a much stronger Jedi than when we first met her, and today she reached the illusive “force vision” stage of her Jedi journey. After having seen her utilise Jedi mind tricks last time, it is nice to see her developing her force arsenal. It was nice to see Aalderan used to before the Empire blows its brains out.

The vision was of Aurra Sing who I am very happy to see back after some strong showings last season. They again made sure to show off her intelligence and cunning: not falling for the dummy recording and Ashoka knowing that she could easily outsmart the event’s initial security being just two examples. Sure she was toppled by a single shot from Padme but she was very much distracted with Ashoka at the time. I managed to guess her employer just before the reveal and although it was a fair enough choice to bring back Ziro the Hutt, the accent just really grates on me. I can’t stand it and I don’t know why!

Episode 8 had us continue with the Hutts as not only did we see Jabba this time, we also got a whole set of them with strange props via holograms. It was like the Council of Wells from Flash! We also got the return of Cad Bane who I always enjoy seeing. It wasn’t his best outing but his charisma and swagger can carry a less than interesting plot like we had. In fairness, it did seems to be just the first part in a bigger arc so I guess I have to wait and see where it is going.

The episode dedicated quite a bit of time to the droid duo of R2-D2 and C3PO and of course they were entertaining. They manage to have great banter between them and you can only ever understand one of them! C3PO getting so easily swindled was amusing, as was R2 getting pampered at a droid spa. I fully expected the droid spa to be the trap but it turned out not to be. Their actually was a spa ran by droids and for droids! Who knew?

DD Rating: (7) 7/10 (8) 6.75/10