This season of
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been far more daring, taking risks with the continuity of the movie saga and treading on dark themes not usually covered in a show aimed at children.
Wookie Hunt continues that bold trend for the most part, coming across as an edgy, well-paced adventure that should entice all fans of the show and the franchise as a whole. Still set on a mysterious unnamed planet, the episode showed Ahsoka's first meeting with the titular race of hairy aliens as Chewbacca was released from a prison ship accidentally, leaving the pair and the other Jedi younglings to attack the base of the evil Trandoshans and make their escape from the Outer Rim. All of that is typical
Clone Wars fanfare, but what the story did do to deviate was use its status as a season finale to give the impression that everyone was in danger and that not everyone would necessarily survive, making for a half hour where viewers are really kept on their toes, wondering if Ms. Tano and her fellow comrades will be able to overcome the staggering odds. I won't spoil the epic conclusion, but sufficed to say that sadly the episode reverts to the typical, predictable reset button analogy in its dénouement, sacrificing a possible 4.5 or even a 5 in the process. This shouldn't detract too much from fans' enjoyment of
Wookie Hunt, yet will definitely give the impression that as always this finale was a wasted opportunity by a programme that can't ever hope to raise the stakes properly at this rate.
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