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Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode three recap: Anakin Skywalker and his clone buddies make an incredible escape – CNET
Anakin and the clones make their escape On the Wings of Keeradaks.
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The third episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘ seventh and ultimate season, which hit Disney Plus on Friday, is mainly a giant escape sequence adopted by a standoff with the Techno Union’s droid forces. After discovering captive clone Echo (Dee Bradley Baker) in final week’s episode, there is not a lot time for speaking and character growth. However there’s loads of motion.
Jedi Normal Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) and his clone allies (all performed by Dee Bradley Baker) discover themselves trapped at a Techno Union base on the core world Skako Minor within the months main as much as Revenge of the Sith. This episode (together with the opposite 4 on this arc) was launched as an unfinished story reel in 2015, however the Disney Plus revival is giving us accomplished variations. Spoilers incoming.
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“Survival is one step on the trail to residing.” The phrase that kicks off this episode refers to Echo having to flee the Techno Union base so he can return to his outdated life. It additionally hints that it will be a wrestle for Echo to readjust after the change he is gone by way of.
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Echo’s new look
Throughout Echo’s captivity, the Techno Union turned the clone right into a cyborg with Darth Maul-style robotic legs and an arm that lets him interface with pc consoles (a activity usually carried out by an R2 unit). That is fairly cool. He is additionally a lot paler than Rex and his different brothers, since he was caught in a tube for an prolonged time period. That is fairly grim.
Techno Union boss Wat Tambor (Matthew Wooden) is not happy about Echo’s escape, and offers us a touch at how lengthy his Separatist-aligned group has been engaged on this warped human-computer hybrid undertaking.
The Techno Union turned Echo right into a human-machine hybrid.
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“They took it — Techno Union property! They’ve ruined years of analysis,” he says.
Echo additionally has entry to the Union’s database, which should embrace a wealth of data. He is additionally conscious of a fairly harmful escape route that forces Anakin and the clones to cross a precarious hole between buildings, and finally escape on the backs of native flying keeradaks.
Droids entice Anakin and the clones.
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Nasty new droids
We have seen numerous lethal droid fashions by way of the prequels and Clone Wars, however this arc has launched a brand new selection. The spindly D-wing droids have built-in blasters and use fold-out wings to fly. They’re fairly cellular, however they’re in any other case much like the usual B-1 Battle Droids.
Tambor additionally orders them to deploy the Decimator, which cuts by way of strong metal doorways and fires off arcs of electrical energy to kill any natural lifeforms. Luckily, Anakin and the clones escape earlier than it arrives.
Village protection
When our heroes return to the Poletec village, they inadvertently draw an enormous Techno Union pressure down on it. The motion right here is fairly superb, and everybody will get an opportunity to shine. Anakin is especially cool, as he makes use of his agility, his lightsaber and the Power to easily take down an enormous droid.
“It is exhausting to compete with a Jedi,” says Hunter.
Rex, Hunter and Wrecker tackle the droid forces.
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After the battle is over and Tambor hears that his droids have failed, he says the Techno Union should discover a solution to “recoup” on its funding. As Anakin and the clones put together to go away, Captain Rex assures Echo that’ll be “identical to outdated instances.”
The episode ends with the rescued clone echoing (ha) his brother’s sentiment and staring dreamily. May Echo be a sleeper agent for the Techno Union, like The Manchurian Candidate or Winter Soldier?
We’ll discover out the place Echo’s true allegiance lies when episode four lands on Disney Plus subsequent Friday, March 13 — verify again for my recap that day.
