Clone Wars: The Citadel Review (3/5)

As seems to be the trend now Star Wars: The Clone Wars is bucking up its ideas before the third season ends, this week's episode The Citadel was rich in the mythology and science fiction of a galaxy far, far away, setting a good precedent for further stories in the spin-off universe. Grand Moff Tarkin made a brief but exciting cameo here (for those of you who don't know, he turns out to be a key Imperial commander in Episode IV: A New Hope) when Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka ventured inside a near inpenetrable fortress planet where a fellow Jedi  was trapped. Another classic reference to the original trilogy was the way they used to get in, becoming chunks of carbonite akin to Han Solo's transformation in The Empire Strikes Back. However, the story often became lost in the numerous fan pleasing moments to the point that the ending seemed rather anti-climatic for a show with a set-in-stone episodic structure. It's nice to have more two or three part stories like the 'Mortis' trilogy and presumably this and next week's show, but bigger cliff-hangers and more actual plot would be appreciated if that's the route The Clone Wars intends to take for the remainder of Series Three.