star wars clone wars by genndy tartakovsky

i just watched genndy tartakovsky's 'clone wars' animation series for the first time when they finally played it en masse on cartoon network this saturday. genndy's absolutely brilliant at action scenes, and the best one was just at the end.

grievous spends maybe 10 long, action-packed minutes chasing palpatine and four jedi before defeating them. just as they're boarding their ship, windu's transport is shot down and he jumps to the ground to see grievous escorting palpatine in. then, in a dialogue-less 5 seconds, grievous turns from a hunch noticing windu out of the corner of his eye to a 4-lightsaber-pose akin to a scorpion or cobra about to strike. windu reaches out and clenches his fist as squashing a fruit and grievous's metal chest caves in with a ka-shanggg, sending the previously fearsome and victorious beast coughing and choking to the ground in a single move just as the loading doors close him in. the ship jumps to hyperspace before windu can do more. freaking awesome direction.

my favorite scene though has a female jedi cornered and powerless by grievous as the last jedi defending palpatine when grievous stops to gloat the situation in a brief "prepare to die" speech, while she uses the force to tie his cape to a train without him noticing. the best instant is palpatine momentarily losing his innocent act and raising an eyebrow in amusement at this just before the train zips off at mach speed. ^_^