In the most recent episode of Star Wars: Clone Wars, Kit Fisto and his former padawan are tricked into entering Grievous's home and are forced to face the evil general if they hope to leave. Count Dooku, tired of General Grievous' continual failure against the Jedi, tests the droid army general by allowing two Jedi to enter Grievous' home under the false pretenses. The episode is well-paced with action, suspense, and character development. I can't say that I was surprised how the episode played out, but it was entertaining to the end.
Dooku is portrayed as devious and manipulative as his master, pitting both sides against each other. If Grievous succeed, then there would be two less Jedi to bother Dooku, and if the Jedi won, Dooku would just find a new pawn to lead his army. Either way, Dooku wins. When Grievous returns home and finds his home invaded by Jedi, he attacks immediately, but the two Jedi cut him down to size. A weakened Grievous then has to rely on his home's array of booby traps and secret passages, while he is being repaired.
Writer Henry Gilroy stated that inspiration for the episode came from old serials where villains lived in elaborate lairs filled with monsters and deathtraps. I applaud the episode for attempting to flesh out the character of General Grievous. Most of the series, and Episode III, Grievous is just played as a two dimensional villain. Here, we see statues of Grievous back before he became a cyborg, and we meet the closest thing to a friend, his doctor droid.
My only complaint about the episode, aside from there could have been more booby traps used, is that Kit Fisto sliced the doctor droid in half. It just seems uncharacteristic of a Jedi to attack someone from behind, much less a noncombative, like the droid doctor. B+
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