Week 17 - The Peace Arc

You know I did watch one of these a few months ago, the one where Grievous sends the droids to attack the power station.


I still want to finish the Bane arc though, might do that tonight since my class was cancelled due to a snow storm.

Also is this actually called the Peace arc or did you create that yourself?

So final episode of season 2 is here and also the final episode that’s out of order from release.

After this everything is both in order of release and chronological, besides moving the Clovis arc into season 5 for the rewatch

I do like that we now have threads for each arc, anyways gonna watch the first of these now.

Pursuit of Peace is less interesting, probably a 5/10 from me... You gotta imagine that for mid age kids episodes like this are extremely boring, it’s just too much like TPM honestly.

I do like the choice of bounty hunters, I wonder if that’s the same selkath hunter from The Box, maybe not but I guess he could have escaped in the Coruscant breakout. I have always disliked Occanda Farr though... and I think it’s weird they put him in the inner circle and not Chuchi who is friends with Anakin and Ahsoka.

Uhh Senate Murders is a pain to watch... this is the 3rd time in the last 6 episodes of the rewatch that designing around previous episodes has proven to be a bad idea. This just doesn’t flow at all with the rest of the arc, the position Padme is in seems so much worse here then it was after Pursuit of Peace and why does this random ass Rodian show up now? I mean I’ll admit I wasn’t sure who was the murderer right away when I first watched it but now it’s so obvious.


Inspector Divo is somewhat of a hilarious character lol, he’s so useless as well. And I have no idea why Satine cameos in this episode, chronologically it makes zero sense but in order of release this takes place right after the first Mandalore arc so there’s a plausible excuse she was still on Coruscant after those events but chronologically like I said it makes no sense.

Anyways I’m gonna day 3/10, another perfect example of why backtracking sucks. Anyways at least we get into the turning point of the show next week.

With Heroes on Both Sides, we get a pretty refreshing political episode. It still drags a little at times, but overall, the story is interesting. The highlight of the episode is probably seeing the Separatist side of the politics, since we are always told not all of its members are evil. Seeing Dooku as presiding was also neat.

The concept of the droids taking out the power on Coruscant is cool, but it's kind of strange how easy it appeared to be. I also wonder if it took out power in the "Senate district" or the whole planet, since its all technically one big city...

Either way, this is one of the stronger episodes centered around Padme and the politics of Star Wars. I'll give it 7/10.

Senate Murders is strange to watch after seeing these previous two episodes. They give more context, which is nice, but it seems to be disjointed as a result. The only thing that's really enjoyable from this episode is Inspector Divo. Even though he comes across ignorant, he's a fun character.

It's a shame Farr died, he was a cool character introduced on the show. Ziro and him are probably the two biggest deaths we've seen so far on the rewatch, since both were featured in several episodes and involved in larger stories.

As with most of the other political episodes, I don't hate this one, since it gives us more of Coruscant. The concepts are also decent, but the execution comes across poorly. I think part of that is because these stories either make the efforts seem futile, since we know the Republic will fall, or Padme loses and thus seems incompetent. Either way, this one is probably the weakest of the three. I'll go with a 4/10 for it.

Pursuit of Peace kinda drops the ball a bit. A lot of it relies on people being dumb or incompetent. If senators had basic security, which real life senators do, this plot couldn’t really happen. That said, I still do like the show’s attempts to address the real life faults of war. And Padme is at her most sympathetic here. I think her speech at the end does work and I really like Palpatine’s contemplation at the end. But an issue is that it doesn’t line up with “Senate Murders.”
Padme seems to have clearly turned the tide and Sheev is upset. Yet in that episode, things seem to going poorly. And also, Onoconda is praised as the leader of their efforts even though we don’t actually see him do Potato Rules. If I didn’t know about the production order, I’d be pretty confused. I understand wanting to have Padme be the hero but it really screws things up. Like others have said, Robinino and the other are pretty Potato Rules at this. You think Dooku could have gotten one of the Bounty Hunters from “The Box” and actually killed Padme. I really do like where this episode was trying to go but it’s bogged down by a somewhat dumbed down story, inconsistencies, and a plot that is overrelaint on character incompetence. 4/10

Okay, I'll admit it, as political episodes go Heroes on both Sides has got to be one of the more interesting offerings. That said this is also one that really advertises how this show constantly flip-flops in its aim towards children and adults Lots of the locales are excellent (the power generators are simply incredible) and on the whole it ends on a much more dour note than usual. Not only do we learn peace was very possible, we also learn that the Republic really isn't worth protecting when there's a Sith Lord in power and a good chunk of the senate's bent Really lets you further realise how intricately Palpatine had to play this chess game with himself.

Also, Anakin has some of the worst political intuition/education ever. The guy's a clueless dolt through and through