Hello everyone and welcome to another double sized edition of Clone Wars catchup, this time looking at season 4 episodes 13 and 14, Escape from Kadavo and A Friend in Need. Starting with episode 13 we picked up with the story from last time and Obi Wan continued to draw the short straw in this story. The man has had no good luck whatsoever! He is now enslaved with an electric collar on with anyone he speaks to getting attacked, therefore making the other slaves very wary of his presence. It just made you feel bad for him. I don’t want him having to call some slave trader master!

I liked how they managed to draw out some sympathy for the queen as she realised that she was herself a slave to Dooku. I don’t think they could have redeamed her so killing her off was probably the right call. You felt bad for her and that was about has sympathetic as she was going to get so they knew where to draw the line. Speaking of drawing the line, I am glad that they crossed it with Rex killing Agruss. I thought that they were going to avoid killing him as he pleaded with Obi Wan. As Rex said though, he’s no Jedi and gave the slave master the ending he deserved. I don’t know if his chair crashing was supposed to be as funny as I found it but it left me chuckling nonetheless.

Episode 14 returned us to Mandalor with a story focussed around Ashoka and Lux. The betrayals that happened were very easy to see coming but they still managed to pull together a decent enough episode. We saw the return of the Mandalorian extremist group Death Watch which is as untrustworthy a name as there ever was. I understand that Lux came to them as he felt hopeless with nowhere else to turn but he can’t have been that shocked at being turned on.

There was a rather peculiar sub-plot with R2 and some repair droids which I didn’t really see the point of. It wasn’t all that imaginative or interesting. It just felt like they had to R2 in the episode in some way and this was the best they could come up with.

Overall episode 13 hit a lot of the right story beats and episode 14 felt like filler. A mixed bag we shall say.

DD Rating: (13) 8/10 (14) 5/10