I really thought this was going to be awful, mostly because of the ties to the previous episode but, actually, I have to admit that this was quite a good episode.
As mentioned previously, I wasn’t really a fan of the fake-alien-Nazi-scientist in space angle – which is surprising as this is usually the kind of thing I tend to go for – however, once the angle changed (and I dearly love the amount of genres this show can cross) and the story transformed itself into an 80s low-tech/low-budget sci-fi flick, I found myself instantly warming to the episode – especially as I decided fairly early on that Jaybo Hood would be played, in a live action film, by Corey Feldman.
There’s a couple of almost Miyazaki moments as we see the city of Cliffhold from above where it almost seems like Nausicaä. It makes you realise how much love and/or money goes into making these worlds environments in their own right. I can’t help but feel a sense of admiration for the ’set designers’ here. Bonus points also go to the writers for fleshing out an Episode I reference.
As a final note, it would be remiss of me not to mention that, if I were Anakin Skywalker, I might find it slightly suspicious if I suddenly got a breathless call from my wife as she draped her arm across the shoulders of an underage girl. Just saying.
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