The preface moral is:
One must let go of the past to hold on to the future
***SPOILERS***
Asajj Ventress returns to Dathomir and The Nightsisters and Mother Talzin. An old guardian Nightsister named "Dahka" protects the tombs of the Nightsisters. She is allowed to resurrect the Nightsister undead army - Nightsister Zombies like banshees.
The Droid Army used the Defoiliator. The Nightsister Undead Army defeats the the droids rapidly and allows them to commandeer the tanks to General Grievous.
Asajj Ventress fights General Grievous. How did he get a purple lightsaber? Either way, Asajj Ventress winds up wounded and runs away after several of her Nightsisters die protecting her.
With a single lock of Count Dooku's hair, Mother Talzin adds it to the "witches brew" that creates and a "voodoo doll". She uses it to mess with his mind torturing him.
Count Dooku says to kill the source of the "green mist" that was protecting the coven of Nightsisters. The "green mist" lead to Mother Talzin that General Grievous immediately dispatched and killed.
While Asajj Ventress ambles on, Mother Talzin who is killed speaks in the mist whispering to her that it is over and the Nightsisters are no longer her destiny. Asajj cries out as it dissipates that her life is her own and felt lost...
From a Separatist Point Of View:
The Seppies eat their own. Count Dooku is raging to remove Asajj and takes it out on Talzin's coven of Nightsisters. He was successful at eradicating the Nightsisters.
What it looked like is a DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS!
Count Dooku was the cheating his spouse Mother Talzin. Talzin fought back. And that spat fought back and forth.
Dooku won but not with a lot of his assets intact in a divorce.
Interesting that Sidious was not involved, directly since he wanted Asajj Ventress dead. However, Sidious never had a "DIVORCE" due to infidelity, which this episode reminded me of.
This episode was aptly named "Massacre" because the Nightsisters were decimated. Nightsisters are NOT Sith. So who are female Sith? They existed, XoXaan was one of them.
But why I think this was more of the scorned woman episode than others was because when everything was said and done, Asajj survived and cried out feeling like she lost everything. I.e. What am I going to do with my life now? Where will I go? -- The same wail that some women say that put their heart and soul into, like a marriage, a graduate education, or a career only to discover like they have lost everything by doing it. What is the point for female success outside of making babies, when it will all be taken from you?
Something tells me Asajj never wanted to be a mother and would not like being one.
In the preview episode, I think Asajj takes up bounty hunting as a secondary career. Which shows that women in the Star Wars Universe also have a problem with power and control.
Or the point of this episode is to show that if one chooses evil, they are isolated.
When Asajj returned, she underwent a ritual to return to the Night Sisterhood. Reminded me of a sorority initiation and the Nightsisters were also her sorority sisters in the sorority house. Their bonds run very deep. These women fought for one another. But sadly the sisterhood was killed, Asajj still wound up isolated for rejoining the sorority. What does that say?
I liked this episode, and it was done well, I also think it brought a lot of personal issues. Unsure if young people comprehended it.
