Padme dropping the card holding the files behind Clovis' back, as Anakin used the force to catch it and pull it towards him, was a very cool little moment. One fun scene though had Anakin walk in on Padme embracing Clovis, his face quickly filling with rage – only for Padme to signal him with the files she was hiding from Clovis. Overall, this episode was perhaps a bit too slow paced – once the characters arrived on Cato Neimoidia, what should have been a tense situation never felt as, well, tense as it could have. It turned out Clovis was working on a new droid factory, and his allies were Poggle the Lesser and Lott Dod – the latter a semi-obscure Neimoidian Senator, whose one scene in The Phantom Menace had him objecting to Padme's claims that the Trade Federation had invaded Naboo.
I like how this show continues to delve deep into Star Wars' huge array of characters. The one very funny example of this was when Anakin, disguised as Padme's pilot, purposely gave their ship a hard turn, when Clovis was making a move on Padme in the back.
But Anakin's jealousy about Padme spending time with Clovis was obvious, I'm guessing to children and adults alike. Oh, they never said the word lover or anything like it - The Clone Wars being a family show, the writing cleverly avoided every directly stating what everyone was clearly talking about, in terms of Padme and Clovis' shared history. This turn of events led to Anakin's possessive, and frankly jerky, side coming out, as he tried to order Padme to not put herself in danger – which was all the incentive Padme needed to accept the job.Ĭheck+out+a+scene+from+ It turned out the person Padme was spying on, Banking Clan member Rush Clovis, was an old "friend" of Padme's – with friend turning out to be code for lover. But they led into some nice bits of tension between the two, as Padme was asked to turn spy by the Jedi council. I'm sure some cringed at the early moments of the episode, which evoked the love scenes between Anakin and Padme that were not exactly stirring cinema (to say the least) in the films. However, this episode did a good job of showing more of the strong will in Padme that her daughter would also possess.
I'm essentially a prequel defender, Phantom Menace aside, but Padme was never the compelling character we all wanted Luke and Leia's mother to be. This episode put the focus on Padme, a character who certainly could use more fleshing out.
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