Newsarama has a short clip up from this week's episode "Cloak of Darkness".

The description of the scene is that Unduli gives Padawad (sic) Ahsoka Tano guidance. I saw no guidance (and certainly no "Padawad").

I enjoyed the fight between Ahsoka and Grievous. I laughed when she cut Grievous' hand off. He's really got to watch that. They did a good job balancing making her seem like she didn't have a chance but still getting away. It was also enjoyable when she dropped into the fight at the end and took out the droid starfighters.

Of course Artoo got to kick a little butt. At first I thought it was going to be cutesy, but as soon as Goldie started to fall and fired his grapple onto Artoo, I knew Artoo was about to cut him loose and send him to the Maker. Loved Anakin's last minute save. Cliche, but welcome.

Well, at least we learn why it is that Obi-Wan wouldn't recognize R2 in Episode IV. He's gone through so many astromechs, that he refuses to believe one survived.

I'm a little late to the discussion, but I had some thoughts about Shadow of Malevolence, the episode where Anakin leads the Y-wing squadron in the run on Malevolence. I had originally posted this on another site, and I'm copying and pasting it here if anyone has any thought about it.

I really liked this episode. There was a lot going on between Koon, Anakin, and Ahsoka. I'm not sure Koon isn't just undermining Anakin's authority with Ahsoka and needs to keep some things to himself. But I liked that Ahsoka pointed out to Anakin that just because he can surivive in crazy odds doesn't mean his men can. It's a lesson that's hard for Anakin to accept, and I think it very nicely showed that learning in a master and apprentice relationship runs both ways.

I've been enjoying the series well enough.

I agree with those who feel the clones are really great in this series. I actually think they need to either do more with Cody and Rex or make more clones series regulars. Or, I suppose if they got really crazy they could make non-clone characters more interesting.

I don't have the problem with Ahsoka some people on the Internet seem to have. As mentioned, are the nicknames annoying? Sure. Can I ignore them? Sure. She's not one-tenth as annoying as Jar-Jar. I'm really interested in finding out what happens to her character. I hope she survives Order 66 and goes one on one with Vader. I think they could really do something great with that.

Individually, I've liked all of the episodes, but I think the Malevolence storyline stuck around an episode too long for me. One of those (don't feel like looking to decide which) was my least favorite so far, and my favorite has been Rookies. I loved the line, "Heavy really did hate that place." Rex and Cody got laughs out of me as Rex tried to impersonate a commando droid to get into the outpost.

I pretty much signed up here at JediDefender because it seems like this is one of the few places I can discuss the show without wading through senseless bashing. I can't even talk to my off-line friends about it, because they're stuck in the "Worst Star Wars Ever," "Killing Star Wars," Never Watching Star Wars Again" mindsets that make it nearly impossible to even discuss what I don't like about the show let alone what I do like about it.

Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention that I will be upset if this show doesn't have some Republic Commandos in it, preferably soon. There is some indication that the two scouts who reported the location of the Teth Monestary were Kom'rk and Jaing, two of the Null ARCs from Traviss's books but I don't know if that was the initial intent or if it was decided retroactively.