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- TV Series: Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Episode: The Citadel
- Starring the Voices of: Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Ashley Eckstein, Matthew Wood, Tom Kane, Anthony Daniels and Nika Futterman
- Written by: Matt Michnovetz
- Directed by: Kyle Dunlevy
- Network: Cartoon Network
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The Clone Wars: The Citadel
Wait... he's a good guy now? By
Rob Vaux
February 18, 2011
The Clone Wars: The Citadel
© Lucasfilm/Robert Trate
After three weeks of – how shall we put this? – excessive touchy-feelyness, The Clone Wars delivers exactly what we need: a high-risk prison break from a supposedly inescapable fortress. Our three musketeers – Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka – sneak a squad of clone troopers into the “Citadel” in the heart of Separatist space to spring a captured Jedi master. It echoes beloved tropes of Episodes IV-VI, notably in a Death-Star-like feel for the prison and a scheme that involves freezing the Jedi in carbonite to slip them past the guards. But director Kyle Dunlevy uses it more as inspiration than crutch, leaping into a fun-filled running battle with the sinister prison warden that ends with a hum-dinger of a cliffhanger. The art direction shows its usual brilliance, particularly in the Citadel’s host planet, which had its rightmost third sheared off and now spews molten lava into the atmosphere.
“The Citadel” also introduces us to Grand Moff Tarkin, here a lowly captain and currently working on the Jedis’ side. Though the shtick flirts dangerously with continuity errors, it also opens up a wonderful opportunity to explore the mysterious relationship between Tarkin and Darth Vader. Combine that with some old-school Star Wars swashbuckling (and forgiving some useless twaddle about Ahsoka tagging along without permission) and “The Citadel” gives us copious reasons to look forward to the next episode.
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So much better than the last arch. My main problem with this episode is a high secutity prision being broken in to by an air vent, now thats just lazy writing. Add a crappy name for a prision.