![]() ![]() Repetition be damned, as I also have to point out once more how beautiful this final season looks. In this moment, Anakin gives Ahsoka her own set of Tano-kitted troopers and returns her dual lightsabers and Ahsoka says goodbye to Anakin Skywalker for the last time. There's also the beautifully poignant and complicated reunion of Anakin and Ahsoka, where both are clearly struggling with conflicting emotions but can't help showing their affection for each other. There are some other moments in this episode that truly shine, including a scene in which Anakin shows off by dodging a blaster bolt with the imperceptible movement of his head before deftly demolishing an entire drone battalion. When The Clone Wars gets things right, it can evoke true upset and distress, and this episode opens with all the Jedi in the exact location in which they die in Revenge of the Sith. The scene is precisely why The Clone Wars exists – it shows the heroes blindly heading down a trajectory the audience knows is doomed. We, the viewer, however, know the tragic ripples that emanate from these precise moments. The decisions made in this episode are large in the scope of the Clone Wars, but their reverberations are bigger than the characters involved could ever imagine. The realization that the events of "Old Friends, Not Forgotten" share a stage with Revenge of the Sith comes about 10 minutes into the episode, and a sense of unnerving dread settles as Anakin and Obi-Wan decide against helping Ahsoka and the Mandalorians take back the planet from Darth Maul in favor of saving Chancellor Palpatine. We knew the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars was going to lead right up into the events of Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, but we certainly didn't know the timelines would end up speeding alongside each other like two pod racers destined to perish in a fiery explosion. So starts the best episode of the season – if not the entire series – so far. Instead of the loud, bright placard that normally proceeds each episode, we instead have the lightsaber green "A LucasFilm Production" logo fading in gently as John Williams' original score plays. Star Wars: The Clone Wars has never been more cinematic than in "Old Friends, Not Forgotten" – an episode that feels special from the outset, simply because it is. ![]()
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