Look Before You Leap

"Over confidence is the most dangerous form of carelessness"

Friday night the second episode of season two of Star Wars: The Clone Wars was on. This episode started with Anakin and Ahsoka setting out with their fleet to find the bounty hunter Cad Bane. Cad Bane had just left the Devron planetary system where the Jedi Master Bolla Ropal, the keeper of the Kyber crystal, had been in exile. Bane was sent to kidnap Master Ropal so that Bane get the Kyber crystal into the holocron that he stole from the Jedi Temple. A holocron can only be opened by a Jedi so Bane needed Master Ropal alive. During the interrogation of Master Ropal the battle droids accidentally killed him. Bane decided that he would use the three Separatist cruisers at his disposal to lure the two Jedi off of their cruiser and onto his.

Anakin and Ahsoka took Rex and his squad of clone troopers onto the Separatists cruiser and took over the entire ship. Their mission was to safely recover Master Ropal and to recover the Kyber crystal and the stolen holocron. Bane had all of the ships controls sent to his wrist controls so that he could trap the Jedi. During a battle in the cargo hold Bane took advantage of Ahsoka's recklessness and separated her from Anakin. Bane took Ahsoka prisoner so that he could convince Anakin to open the holocron for him. once Anakin found Bane and Ahsoka he was informed that if he did not open the holocron right then Ahsoka would be sent through and airlock and die from being in space. Anakin opened the holocron for Bane to save Ahsoka's life and Bane opened the airlock anyways and Anakin saved Aksoka instead of stopping Bane from escaping. Bane escaped and killed a clone trooper and took his armor so that he could escape from the Separatist ship without the Jedi knowing. The Jedi and clone all left the Separatist ship thinking that Bane and the holocron were destroyed on the ship, but Bane was now on the Republic cruiser with the holocron and the Kyber crystal disguised as a clone trooper.

I thought that this episode was good because it showed how Anakin's teachings have made Ahsoka more reckless. Since Ahsoka did not listen to orders Bane got away and took the holocron with him. Ahsoka was over confident and because of it she was careless. Admiral Yularen was the Admiral who was second in command under Anakin and was against the plan of going onto the Separatist ship. When Anakin got back Yularen asked how the mission went and Anakin informed him that Master Ropal was dead, the kyber crsytal and the holocron were destroyed, and that Cad Bane was dead. Yularen asked Anakin "So the mission was your usual form of success?" and Anakin replied "If you mean that I won, then yes.". This episode was about patience and that sometimes you must look before you leap, it was shown through Ahsoka's carelessness. I thought that this episode was really good and would be rated 3 out of 5.