TCW - "Mystery of a Thousand Moons"

This episode was split between two different viewpoints: Padmé and Ahsoka's struggle to survive after they are infected with the Blue Shadow virus (*eye-roll*), and Anakin and Obi-Wan's quest to retrieve the cure for them.
While finding the cure for the virus is a good plot idea, it seemed strange to have Anakin and Obi-Wan's journey be so completely different from everything else that was going on. I'd rather have had this episode be completely dedicated to one plot or the other rather than have the two running concurrently.

Also, what was up with that kid?

Now, I by no means hate children, but I wanted to stab that little sad-excuse-for-a-person. He was nothing more than unnecessary and annoying.

On the plus side of things, we got to actually see something only vaguely mentioned in The Phantom Menace.

Anakin: "Are you an angel?"
Padme: "What?"
Anakin: "An angel. I hear the deep space pilots talk about them. They're the most beautiful creatures in the universe. They live on the moons of... Iego, I think."

And hey, as it turns out, this episode is partly set on Iego, planet of a thousand moons, where we see none other than...

An Angel.

Awesome. I'd always assumed that it was a throwaway line from TPM, but apparently Angels actually exist in the Star Wars galaxy. Very, very cool.

Another cool nod to the films was the moon's Death Star-like laser.

That's no space station... it's a moon. Wait, what?

However, aside from the Angels and Death Star guns, this episode has almost nothing going for it. The plot is all over the place and seemingly random, and Jar-Jar is still there, screwing up everything else on Naboo that actually had a chance of being good.

Side effects of Jar-Jar include paleness, cold sweats, and death.