Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV Series) Assassin (2010) User Reviews

Assassin

[lassegalsgaard · 7/10 · 24 February 2021]

The problem with an episode like this is that the stakes are not real. We know that Padmé Amidala is not going to be assassinated, so nothing feels urgent or serious. The episode is a lot of fun and I do like to see Ahsoka take a more central part in the show, but the premise should have been better or at least different. The relationship between Ahsoka and Padmé got a lot of good development here, and it seems like their friendship has blossomed to a point where Ahsoka would find her death devastating, adding more tragedy to that. This was also the season that really started to put the chronology of the show out of order, as it seems like more episodes are being placed before episodes we have seen, which is a little confusing, but also inconsequential for the experience.

The Deadly Assassin

[A_Kind_Of_CineMagic · 8/10 · 11 August 2020]

This episode reminds me of a great 1970s Doctor Who story called The Deadly Assassin as a vision of a politician's assassination brings about an attempt to prevent the murder.

In this case it is Ahsoka trying to save Padme.

This is no match for that classic 4 part Doctor Who story but it is an enjoyable episode with some high quality moments.

My rating: 8/10.

Promising at first, but repetitive by the end

[thegreendrinker · 4/10 · 13 March 2024]

The premise of Ahsoka receiving incomplete visions of Padme being assassinated is, on paper, compelling. At first, I thought the episode was going to be about Ahsoka having to use inductive and/or deductive reasoning to put together when and where Padme may be assassinated in order to prevent it. Instead, we get Ahsoka slowly drip fed all of the clues through her visions. By the time we get to the scene where the assassin is about to attempt to kill her, it is easily thwarted since Ahsoka has all of the answers. When the second attempt occurs, it also is pretty easy for Ahsoka to deduce that the assassin realized that she and Padme had set up a decoy robot.

I do like that the episode features extensive use of the Jedi ability to look in to the future since we haven't seen a lot of that in the series. I also liked that the episode spent a little of time establishing Ahsoka and Padme as having a little and big sister relationship respectively. As usual with this show, it often has the seeds of good ideas and then squanders them on predictable cat and mouse or army vs army plotlines.