'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Recap: Where the Betrayal Is Cold
and the Jedi Are Hot  Feb 24, 2013 | 1:44pm EST Ahsoka Allies
With Asajj Ventress on 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars'  Alfred
Hitchcock famously said, “My movies aren’t a slice of life.
They’re a slice of cake.” And one of his tastiest confections,
To Catch a Thief, provided the inspiration for Star Wars: The
Clone Wars’ latest Ahsoka On the Run episode, “To Catch a Jedi.”
What’s funny, though, is that whereas the Hitchcock film is all
frothy, sun-dappled escapism about an ex-jewel thief (Cary
Grant) suspected of resuming his catburgler ways, its Clone Wars
counterpoint was a decidedly grim affair. Far from frolicking on
the equivalent of that Galaxy Far, Far Away’s Riviera, poor
framed Ahsoka Tano found herself taking refuge in the skuzziest,
dirtiest, ugliest depths of Coruscant. It was a masterpiece of
the “Used Future” aesthetic and a blistering portrait of urban
decay in the heart of the planet that’s considered “The Jewel of
the Republic.” I half