Episode #21 is The Clone Wars doing what it does best.
I’m surprised (again) at how little the story focuses on the established central characters, yet seeing as the first two parts of this arc cover Anakin and Obi-Wan (even if both again rely on supporting characters to tell most of the story) I shouldn’t be surprised that Mace Windu is such a prominent player here.
Right up until double-checking on wookiepedia, I was convinced Samuel L. Jackson was voicing Windu in the episode but it appears I was wrong, and so whoever Terrence “TC” Carson is, he deserves respect for so faithfully recreating the character for the series.
Other points of note for the show are the inclusion of Windu’s use of shatterpoints and the very traditional Phantom Menace/A New Hope ending.
I really do like the fact that the EU often seems to give Windu a certain kind of story and, for all purposes and intents, The Clone Wars recreates that kind of story with this episode.
If I didn’t know there was an episode next week that I suspect will have to end with a cliff-hanger in order to keep audiences psyched, I would have said that this was the natural cut off point for Season One.
