Sacrifice

This delves so deep into Yoda's story and illuminates the whole Dagobah thing that is revealed in Empire Strikes Back. It explains Yoda's later appearances after he has passed-on in the most recent full length films.

It shows Yoda's weaknesses and strengths all at once. Wholly newfound respect for his character after many seasons of the same old Yoda's.

P.S. No character has seen more, been to more places and accompanied and helped more characters than R2D2. He IS Star Wars. He holds every story, big and small. Knows planets and secrets and corners of the galaxy like no one else. Crazy to think that Vader was so close with him. As close as Luke or Leia. Trusted by Yoda. Ashoka.

I'll say this again... why all this negativity? Some people just love to hate. First off, this was not made by Disney, it was made by the same cast and crew who did the original series that was being produced by Mr Lucas himself. Second off, just an incredible episode. Love it!

This is a majorly impactful story which adds hugely to the lore and the background of the overall story. It deepens Yoda's character arc and explains some of the decision making including giving some background for why Yoda decides to go into hiding and wait for 'A New Hope'. So much depth and thought provoking, ambitious ideas are in this episode and the arc it brings to a climax.

Tim Curry took over the role of Palpatine/Sidious for this season and did a superb job. His performance here in particular shines and his mellifluous, malevolent tones add huge quality to the scenes.

Yoda as a character is given a real chance to be explored depply and it strengthens what a great character he is. It also gives meaning to some of his apparent failures.

A tremendous episode.

My rating: 10/10.

Before the new season this was seen as the finale for the show and while it has an open ended nature to it, I like it. Remember clone wars is just a piece in the star wars jigsaw and is a great character for the show to end on.