Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
This episode started out a bit wobbly. Just in terms of terminology, there was a lot of people yelling about "The gangsters" and "the crime lords" attacking in a way that sounded silly – those terms are used to describe a certain kind of person, but here, thrown around as tittles, it seemed like they were gangs from The Warriors. Those early scenes, showing the various attacks on Mandalore didn't really play as intense as perhaps intended.
But man, once it got going…
First off, even while Darth Maul takes the spotlight on account of being, you know, Darth Maul, the depiction of Savage Opress continues to be awesome. He's so effortlessly powerful and the animators do such an expert job of showing how casually he can use both his brute strength (such as grabbing and tossing that woman aside) and the Force – which, when he wields it, is more of a battering ram, such as a that very cool moment where he shattered the wall of the cell holding he and Maul open, which juxtaposed the violence of the explosion itself with the rather beautiful imagery of tiny shards of broken glass falling down.
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