The new "Star Wars: Clone Wars" episode entitled, "A Friend In Need" premiered today.
Here is the show on Master Toons:
The pre-moral to the story was:
Friendship shows us who we really are.
Without going into too much spoiler detail, Padawan Ahsoka Tano runs to save Lux Bonteri, the son of the late Separatist Senator of Raxus, Mina Bonteri. There is an underlying romance, but it is never fully pursued.
There are negotiations to find diplomatic means to end the war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
The leaders on the Separatist side had really never been seen in any major Episodes. Moreover, they are dressed similarly and gray; whereas the leaders of the Galactic Republic were "colorful" and "vibrant" and well known. Padme Amidala and Bail Organa and Mon Mothma...
The Duchess of Mandalore oversaw the meeting because the "rational" Mandalorians were neutral in the Galaxy!
When Lux Bonteri interrupted and declared Count Dooku as a murder, it was the Separatists that removed him from the negotiations. While be pulled away, Lux Bonteri screams, "Count Dooku is deceiving you!"
Aside from a Star Wars fan wondering, the "does he know about what is going on in the Galaxy" we are left with this let us gloss over it. And sure, would the Separatists want to keep this kind of "does Lux Bonteri know of the Sith plot to takeover the Galaxy and kill all Jedi"?
Obviously, Dooku who met him in holographic image wanted Lux Bonteri dead. But, what was more intriguing that Lux has gotten sly after his mother was assassinated... He intended to sell that information to the notorious Mandalorian Death Watch:
Now aside that the story arc of the Death Watch or the 'Ade Kyr'stad appears awesome during this episode, it seems and it would be nice to learn more about them, glean what scraps that are available, Death Watch were really fighting for survival, rather than the ugly terrorists that they were portrayed as.
Death Watch was brutal because they were angry for what the Separatists and the Jedi did to them. They were getting it from all different ends.
Courtesy of DoDeathWatch.comCount Dooku dicked Death Watch and they wanted revenge. Did Count Dooku or Darth Tyrannus have more Sith control over the Separatist movement than that of Darth Sidious' Republic? How?
And from a Separatist point of view, was Count Dooku as a Sith Leader any worse that Chancellor Palpatine?
The oddest thing was Death Watch "tortured" droids. They used them for target practice. But the "empathy" as displayed for these droids seemed misplaced as they are programmed and can be rebuild. It could be an interesting concept that Death Watch knew a lot more than what has been lead to believe. The amount of resources at their fingertips was impoverished and they acted out brutally with pillaging the nearby towns.
Pre Vizsla exclaimed to Lux Bonteri after uncovering Ahsoka Tano Jedi ties, "The Jedi are no different than Count Dooku and you played a part! It is no different! It’s justice!"
Death Watch wanted justice to how they were ostracized by all sides around them and acted out poorly.
The big question is did Death Watch suspect Sith involvement in this war, and is that why they were ostracized from everyone?
