Hello everyone and welcome to another Clone Wars catchup, this time looking at episode 13 of season 3. They continued on with the fallout of Dooku dropping Ventress as his assassin and apprentice. I want to applaud the show for the depth it is now able to add to all of these characters and how they can construct an engaging episode without having to include Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda or Ashoka (the Padme episode writers need to take note of this). You just had Dooku and Ventress for the most part and she is really starting to come into her own.

They do well to keep her villainous enough too as just as you are starting to grow fond of her, she kills some innocents just to remind you of her true nature. There was a reason as to why she was such an effective assassin after all. It is just a shame that you know she isn’t going to succeed and may well die due to her absence from the movies but there is only so much the show can do and it of course has to work around and not contradict the films if it can help it.

What I never realised and found very interesting was that Ventress was the same race as Darth Maul; it was just not really obvious due to the different looks between males and females. I loved the various designs of the males and how the skin tones differed from red to yellow. I very much liked Darth Maul and although this isn’t him, it is great to get more of an insight into the culture that he came from. The whole three trials thing wasn’t really that interesting and the end of the episode did give some reason to the brotherly relationship they had been playing up for much of the episode. Him killing his brother after getting him spared earlier was really just to highlight the change in him due to the control Ventress and the creepy “mother” lady now have over him. I wonder if this story with him and Dooku will resolve quickly or if it will be a long game that will span over this season or even into the next? I guess I’ll just have to keep watching to find out.

DD Rating: 7.75/10