Back to the Clone Wars: Blue Shadow Virus
Getting a bit closer to finishing off the DVD set for the first season of Clone Wars, I've rewatched "Blue Shadow Virus." Returning to Naboo, in what might even be called a wholesale embrace of the "Phantom Menace aesthetic" (even if Jar Jar Binks is still stuck with his ersatz voice, although this episode does demonstrate he's not a typical member of his species) caught my attention about this episode, but did make me start wondering about what the little documentary might say. However, the creators seemed enthusiastic enough about their work, perhaps even just as interested about returning to the Naboo palace hangar (even if they connect it first of all with the "duel of the fates") as they are about drawing on the "old movies."
I suppose I did wonder a bit if the "mad scientist" villain was somehow connected to a feeling that this episode could be "more comedic" than others, but he did happen to make an interesting comment about bringing a deadly virus back to a galaxy indulging in its own virus of war. Aware from the set's packaging that this episode had a follow-up, I was actually sort of surprised to be reminded that it had a very self-contained quality to it, with all of the virus rounded up by the end credits; I knew the series didn't have much in the way of "cliffhangers," but it was perhaps even a little odd. Perhaps, too, going to lengths to wrap everything up left me focusing on that and not on the character development. Of course, there is the followup still to be watched.
I suppose I did wonder a bit if the "mad scientist" villain was somehow connected to a feeling that this episode could be "more comedic" than others, but he did happen to make an interesting comment about bringing a deadly virus back to a galaxy indulging in its own virus of war. Aware from the set's packaging that this episode had a follow-up, I was actually sort of surprised to be reminded that it had a very self-contained quality to it, with all of the virus rounded up by the end credits; I knew the series didn't have much in the way of "cliffhangers," but it was perhaps even a little odd. Perhaps, too, going to lengths to wrap everything up left me focusing on that and not on the character development. Of course, there is the followup still to be watched.