It’s Friday, and ‘Trespass’ debuts tonight. The episode introduces Chairman Chi Cho, voiced by Brian George, and also features quite a bit of Threepio. Get a preview with the latest webcomic, ‘Cold Snap’
- Last week: Watch ‘Defenders of Peace.’
- Reviews: CJ reader Ben Rollman (Xadrian) is doing them for Television Zombies. Here’s ‘Jedi Crash.’
- Podcast: The Force-Cast’s Clone Wars Roundtable talk ‘Defenders of Peace’ with Fanboy’s Kyle Newman.
- Merchandise: eFX is producing an Ahsoka Tano Lightsaber; Some new kid’s books from Penguin.
Trespass was quite good from a story perspective, and the action was good. Does it squish the EU? perhaps – the Talz in this episode don’t sound much like Muftak in the cantina (or relate to his Tale). and the issues of iceball ecology persist.
I’m no Talz expert, so I won’t comment on that except to say that someone’ll come up with a retcon I’m satisfied with. :) Now, three things.
1. I was going to comment on the episode guide, but… well… wow. 56 comments and counting. jawajames, a quick skim suggests your spelling, grammar, coherence, and thoughtfulness might’ve put you in the minority.
2. The last two episodes received some criticism for what some saw as a “boo pacifism, yay war” approach. But I took it as more of a suggestion that sometimes there *are* evils you *must* confront. This one served as a nice counterpart. It’s not that war automatically trumps peace. You have to be rational about it. So Trespass gives up what would’ve been a pretty cool final battle to promote a message of peace. See, it’s not shallow! Nice. :)
3. I haven’t seen as much politics in Star Wars since Episode I. And I kind of like it.