Spoilers Ahead. Be warned, I go pretty in depth on this one.
This was one of the seasons best episodes, by far. Really in thinking it over and breaking it down there is a lot of neat stuff to it.
Aurra Sing clearly was the highlight. She exucutes two beings with perfect callousness, while carefully presenting a kind of maternal feeling towards Boba.
There is more to this than we have seen I suspect, like why is Aurra sucking up to Boba? Does Boba have something she wants? Is she scared because she fears that Jango's allies might come for her if she doesn't treat him well? There has to be something in the way she's been preseneted, something more than her just being on a mommy kick.
Also Aurra and Hondo was solid gold. I loved the sexual inuendo and their exchange of verbal teases. I thought it worked great, and felt very real compared to the very forced romance we're so often presented with in the series.
"He's not mine is he?" Great comedic line from Hondo, very befitting of his wit. I think this episode was my favorite presentation of him thus far.
The Lizard Monkey death match was too funny as well, a great little addition. Lots of awesome details like that made it inot the episode.
Switching over to Plo and Ahsoka, I really liked both in this episode. Ahsoka is learning from a different teacher, again playing the the pairs friendship from the start of Season 1.
"We are Justice"
I loved that line, as it was a part of the episode that really portrayed(probably unintentionally) the callousness the Jedi portray far to often. I do beleive that despite Master Plo's broad claim that the Republic does still have courts and judges to deal with offering justice to its citizens, and does not use the unilateral court of Jedi opinion for such matters.
The Coruscant undercity was brilliant, the mood lighting was perfect and there was just so much to see and hear. I loved how Ahsoka used the Force to pick up on conversations in the cantina, loved the mix of aliens and the Dexteresque barkeep.
Mace was written terribly in the episode, thankfully he wasn't in it that much. His cool disreguard for the death of Commander Ponds raises all kinds of questions about him as a character and how he feels about the clones as a whole.
As well I thought that Boba came across a bit too sympathetic for my tastes. Bossk was still all kinds of nothing. They might as well have not even used him.
Slave-1 crashing and blowing up was a bit of a damper on the end fight, which I felt was otherwise quite entertaining. Aurra escapes, as does Bossk while the Jedi still save the day.
A very fun epsiode to close the season with.
Anyways good ending. That's all I'll say until more ppl watch.
