Separatist POV Episode 4.20 - Bounty

This review of the episode is from the Separatist Point of View.

Here is the MasterToons to watch

The Fortune Cookies is here:

Who we are never changes, who we think we are does!

An aimless Asajj Ventress joins a team of bounty hunters under the leadership of young Boba Fett. On an alien world, they undertake a dangerous but profitable mission that tests the limits of their skills, and the strength of Asajj's character.

***SPOILERS***



Asajj Ventress searches how to find her new self never having a choice. She winds up on Tatooine at Chalmun's Cantina. She requests... Ryll... A Spice Drink of recreational of euphoriants.

While she is getting drunk, she gets hit upon by some slimy guy. She tells him to leave, he does not. So she kills him by firing one her blades into him.





His buddies: Bossk and Latts Razzi tell her she needs to pay them for the loss of their dead comrade. Latts wears a green boa kind of thing that mocks as a weapon. Really nice.

They take her to meet the leader of the Bounty Hunter group...a young teenage BOBA FETT!



Asajj Ventress agrees to do the job which takes them to planet Quarzite, which the atmosphere is highly pressurized that it would cause any ship that lands to implode. So they have to use a transport turbolift to get to the surface.



There, they receive secret cargo in a "treasure box" to deliver to the Lord Otua Blank, much like the first "Transporter" movie and ride high speed railway, like the first modern "Mission Impossible" movie.

Of course during the transportation there are the Kage Warriors who fight to get the "treasure box", the leader is Krismo Sodi. These warriors look like ninjas, hidden and used vibroblades to fight. The martial arts they use appears to be Teras Kasi. Very few Force Powers can be used to fight against users who practice this form of martial arts.



Ironically, all the other Bounty Hunters got taken out one by one, except Asajj Ventress and Boba Fett, until they realized what was the bounty. Inevitably a girl named, Pluma Sodi.



And she is to be married to the Belugan Otula Blank. Perverted.



Of course Asajj Ventress double crosses and tricks everyone from both the bounty and the bounty hunters.

In the end it would up Asajj did not completely give up her sorcerous ways.

Let's leave folks in suspense here...

FROM A SEPARATIST POV:

The take home, Separatists have a heart. Of course it is way after they have been expelled and moves on. But it shows the fortitude of Asajj as a woman, who has now she has discovered she is free and independent. That she does not need a Force Using organization to define her and is this important?

Both Jedi and Sith believe there should be training to wield the Force, respectively in the Light and Dark sides. But what is the other side. Not untrained, but more like, getting expelled like Count Dooku did to Asajj Ventress.

What I liked about this episode was Asajj's realization that her entire "world" has been opened up for the opportunities to her after great threats. And it seemed she was not fearful anymore or rather fear no longer drove her to unleash her greatest asset.

Actually, she felt... FREE and apathy...

And she walks away off into the the background of stars on her own for the first time.

Separatist POV Episode 4.19 - Massacre

The Master Toon is located here

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.