Rise of the Bounty Hunters

"A lesson learned is a lesson earned"

Last night was the season premiere of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It is a cartoon that takes place after Star Wars Episode II : Attack of the Clones and before Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It follows Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi and there army of clone troopers throughout the Clone Wars and on many different planets. They are always assisted by their right hand clones Captain Rex and Commander Cody. In the show Anakin has a padawan learner that trains with Anakin where ever he goes as his student, her name is Ahsoka Tano. I like this show better than the Star Wars movies because every episode is only half an hour and has a complete story within one episode or sometimes two or three. Another reason why I think that the show is better that the movies is that this shows the gap between the movies and show how Anakin gets angrier and darker on his path to becoming Darth Vader, in Attack of the Clones Anakin was a great Jedi Knight and then all of a sudden in Revenge of the Sith he is a angry person who is easily converted to a Sith Lord. I thought that the change was too quick.

The main idea behind the show is the Clone Wars in the Galactic Republic. The Jedi have been given the task of commanding a army of millions of clones to fight against a army of battle droids lead by Count Dooku, a Sith Lord. Count Dooku is head of the Separatist movement and is trying to destroy the Republic so that the Sith can take over the galaxy. With the Jedi as generals they have started to lose their way because the are acting a generals instead of keepers of the peace and the risk allowing the Sith to exploit this weakness.

The season premiere was good because it showed how Anakin's teachings have made Ahsoka more like him, disobedient and full of herself. The second season is more about how bounty hunters influenced the war for the Separatist Alliance. In this episode Darth Sidious hired a bounty hunter to steal a holocron from the Jedi Temple. With this holocron he would be able to hunt down another Jedi and find the location of all of the children throughout the universe who are to become future Jedi. Darth Sidious wanted to get to them first so that he could find them and train them to become Sith instead of Jedi. Ahsoka was really the hero of this episode because she was the one who found the intruder and fought her off so that the could get information out of her. The only reason that Ahsoka was able to find the intruder was because she was being punished by the Jedi Council for disobeying orders from her Jedi master, Anakin Skywalker.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a good show because of the different types of characters and the different roles that they play in the war. The clone troopers are all identical in physically, but they are all individuals based on who they serve. Anakin's troopers are more reckless and will do whatever they can to get the job done, however Obi-Wan's troopers are more safe and stick to all of the rules and regulations. The clones are all individuals instead of being identical and think the same. This show has all of the action that the movies have but it is easier to film animation and not having to budget special effects into a movie. I would give the season premiere of season two of Star Wars: The Clone Wars a 4 out of 5.

This is the trailer for the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars from YouTube.