"Aware he was a Jedi just from the fact he wasn't destroyed by a barrage of turbo lasers" so Trench is able to perceive plot armor

Admiral Trench: the only major Separatist General to not get tricked or beat by Gungans

Other than the fact he was a giant intelligent spider man, the good Admiral made normal individuals within the Galaxy be able to outthink or outsmart the Jedi in battles. He was facing the Chosen One, you know an individual so close to the Force that he was destined for greatness, and made him sweat when they were on the same battlefield.

Trench: *dies* Also Trench: Guess who's back, back again.

when admiral Trench isnt actually involved in ground or infantry warfare: *Ironic*. Also good job anakin didnt commit a war crime to win against trench the first time

Imagine Trench, Grievous, and Dooku all being in an episode together if Clone Wars Season 7 wasn’t only 12 episodes

Trench is one of the most underrated villains in Star Wars he is practically a "Thrawn Separatist".

I def remember the cat&mouse episodes more than his bad batch appearance, but his gilded cybernetics probably make his later episodes more memorable to most for sure

Tactical Droid: He is coming right toward us. Trench: He can’t! Raise the stakes! Tactical Droid: We cannot. The climax has begun and the stakes cannot be raised any further. Trench: *Gasp*

I always loved Admiral Trench because of his cold and tactical demeanor, and I would love to watch Trench's and Thrawn's fleets fight.

I really wish we had more naval-focused episodes, because Cat and Mouse is easily one of my favorites. It takes away a Jedi’s main power; their ability and agility in combat. It’s all about the ships and the tactics.

It warms my cold and calculating heart to see such love for a schemer.🙂

Even the way he takes the missle. He sees it, folds his hands, and closes his eyes. No grand "you outmatched me" no screams, no fear. Just quiet honorable Acceptance. Amazing

I feel like if Admiral Trench would've survived to the end of the clone wars, he and Thrawn would've butted heads. While they would be enemies on the battlefield, they would likely have a mutual respect for each other's tactical genius.

I feel like the whole nightsisters arc is very underrated

The stealth ship scene really feels like a classic submarine movie scene.

Grievous and Trench would probably carry the separatists to victory if not for sith meddling.

This episode was always one of my favorites. It truly sets up Anakin's rise as the Republic's "Hero with no fear," as he was called.

I have always lover Trench, and his arc in the first seasons. Tell me if I am wrong, but I feel like “A Friend in Need” from season 4 is also underrated.

A perfect first episode to watch if one watches the show in chronological order

admiral trench is like Darth maul who can never be killed

I loved the submarine vs battleship kinda vibe in the episode

0:00: Gotta miss those introductory quotes... and Tom Kane's wartime reporter narrations. Also, stealth tech is highly underrated in Star Wars. 6:24: Crimson Tide and The Hunt for Red October vibes, I know. Air and space combat are my fictional cup of tea, but sub warfare, if not similar types of warfare, have a soft spot in my mind. I also admit, I stopped moving and heavily breathing while watching that scene again. Your examination is on point there.

Like with the Separatists in General, we should have got more onscreen victories from Trench. Instead of loosing to plot armour.

Trench is hands down my favorite separatist villain! I'm so glad you made a video about him :)

When it comes to Trench, it ALWAYS increases the odds. I mean, it starts with Christhophsis, then it goes to finding hints of Order 66, and in his final appearance he's close to do the impossible and conquer Anaxes...

And does anyone else really like that when they show a shot of the stealth ship before cutting to dialogue, they show it as seen from the outside: just a empty area of space

Trench, the man, the myth, the legend himself. He made such a strong showing in his first appearances, they had to bring him back for more, just like Darth Maul, even gave him cybernetics too. His only true weakness was he had no way to counter the Chosen One.

Well of course he’s intimidating. He’s a goddamn space-spider!

The cis had quite a few good commanders in tcw. Martuk and Riff Tamson I thought were also shown as being competent commanders. Sucks martuk never came back though. While Tamson got a while arc and trench made a few comebacks before dying.

Bad batch season 2: Trench returns with a guided life support system on his chest Hunter: "somehow... Trench has returned..."

The “hello ugly…😬” gets me every time

This show is possibly the best written cartoon ever along with the DCAU as a whole!

one of my favourite early episodes. the clear reference to submarine centric WW2 drama films felt genuine.

I always liked this episode I saw it about 7 times, in English and Portuguese

This was one of my favorite episodes from the early Clone wars, It was such an awesome one

Trench was a Brilliant strategist. He was one tough Spider alien. Great episode.!

Imagine if Admiral Trench survived and became one of the Rebel Alliance's admirals and give Grand Admiral Thrawn a run for his money. Of course he would be the Token Evil Teammate of the Rebel Alliance.

Trench is just an amazing character

Would love to see more of him. And maybe he survied and becomes a rebel? That would be soo cool. Well for me at least. I love that spider.

being a human-sized spider sure helped Trench get the upper leg. kill that bug with fire. *Turbolaser fire.* or a lightsaber blade to the gut, that works too.

"I smell *FEAR,* and it smells GoOd."

Yeah this is one of my favorite episodes in the first season. And you mentioned that it is basically submarine combat but in space. When you showed us the scenes, I immidiately thought of a submarine movie that I have scene, when the beeping started, and he shut down the whole ship, and the bombers were getting closer. That exact sequence is also part of a submarine movie where a submarine was potentially spotted, by a battle ship, and the battleship also send bombers, and just like this episode, the bombers ended up not going after the submarine. Even the cat and mouse game they were playing was the same as with that movie.

Literally brings me joy that you did a video about this episode. Plenty of moments where I didn’t know which episode I wanted to Watch. This was a reliable one. Besides this rant thank you for all the hours and videos and all the hard work you guys do!

One of my favorite episodes thats close to my heart as my grandfather served in the navy on a submarine

Cat and mouse also builds tension from the very idea of the episode, that being essentially a Submarine vs surface warship battle I felt some Das Boot feels in this episode

Cat and Mouse is an awesome episode, it's neat to think that this episode is the earliest episode in the TCW timeline

Gotta love him as a villain, he was cunning and smart and gave more meaning and world building to the sepratist and his way he distinguished the ship had a Jedi pilot instead of it being clones by firing 1000 shots made us realise he wasn’t a normal commander such as gun ray who fought for hollow goals He was also scary as when I was smaller I hated spiders so I guess that helped make him more imposing and terrifying. Honestly gotta love him + happy he came back in the new season of the cw

Another memorable Seperatist vilian to me was the Neimoidian commander who lead the blockade over Ryloth. He studied Anakin Skywalker. He didn't underestimate him, and even would've won if Anakin didn't straight up comit a war crime to favor the battle to his side. There's a reason why Lucas specifically requested a scene added where he escaped the ship before it blew up. Shame they didn't do anything with him after that tho

I like Trench. Seems like a genuinely nice guy would would have a beer with you after the war was over as in he wouldn't hold a grudge over the fact that you were on the other side. Nicer guy then Windu for sure.

He probably gave a few kids nightmares, especially if they are afraid of spiders.

Something I have observed. A hated villain is one the audience want to dispose of and be done with. A villain you fear is one you'll remember well.

The submarine warfare feel wasn't lost on me, so I was glad when you mentioned it. The lack of windows during the shots in the bomber pass scene was very much intentional

My 10 year old daughter started her clone wars binging after admiral trench episode. She hates the movies but loves the clone wars. She even watched Obi wan with me but want impressed with character difference to his come wars avatar who is elegant, high sense of humour and unbeatable trolling. From time to time she does a 'hello there'

When General Grievous one shot Shaggy at only 0.000000000000000001% of his power.

das boot is my favorite war movie, so the Admiral’s first appearance was very memorable to me

Spider's are not only terrifying, but they're also master tacticians

Trench was so underutilized. When he returned I have to say I was slightly disappointed he wasn't even the one winning the battles, but the algorithm.

I always liked Admiral Trench never knew why but I just did

It's basically a U-Boat attack but in space

I really love this series. Going over clone wars episodes reminding us why we fell in love with this show and making us think and see new things in episodes we love so much

If thrawn and trench were playing chess the whole chess board will be on fire

The resolution of this reminds me of The Hunt For The Red October where the one Russian tells his sub captain "You arrogant ass, you've killed us".

This wasn’t just a submarine warfare-themed episode. This was an homage to The Hunt for Red October.

the scene stealing admiral we all love! :)

If he survived the Battle of Anaxes and later appeared among those who appeared in charge of the Battle of Coruscant, it might ended in the Separatists' victory.

Part of the reason this is the best arc is how much inspiration they took from “Run Silent, Run Deep”, “Das Boot”, and “Hunt for Red October” (and a little from Wrath of Khan).

Admiral trench: Admiral Thrawn before Thrawn showed up

this episode is one of my favorites and reminds me a lot of "balance of terror" from star trek tos

Great video! You picked an excellent episode. I'd love to see more videos like this one.

Admiral trench deserved to appear in more episodes. Also he should have rethought the names of his flagships the invincible and the invulnerable considering how it worked out.

And the Malevolence arc is basically a remake of “Sink the Bismarck”, a 1960s film that was a bit like a propaganda piece.

He was really unlucky that anakin was the Jedi that was asking him the codes for the bomb

Canon really does Grievous dirty

Because he was a smart tactical leader.

I always thought this was Star Wars version of Star Treks episode "Balance of Terror"

Yo, since in one of your latest videos you mentioned that Granta Omega played a part in the death of Yaddle, I haven't been able to find one single video dedicated to Granta Omega, and I haven't been able to find a way to read the other books in the Jedi Quest series without buying any books as I've only read maybe 3 books in the series. Do you think you can make a video covering Granta? I would love that.

He is a giant spider that's bad enough to be a villain within its self

Excellent analysis 👏👏 Though I don't like how the command bridge was destroyed. How are space missiles so inaccurate they can't trace a ship going over an obstacle, when they have Well enough literal space to maneuver around an obstacle???

He is a giant spider. Thank you.

“Hello Ugly” Anakin’s version of “Hello There”

Underrated indeed. Comes off as Thrawn-like in how he acts as a commander.

His clicking though.

I've actually always enjoyed Cat and Mouse. One of my favorite episodes of S2, just behind Weapons Factory and Landing at Point Rain.

bonus points for use of the word "thence"

Trench was a background character in episode 2 attack of the clones.

George teaching the boys cinema

I'm learning storywriting from this series!

cat and mouse is my favorite episode in the clone wars

One more reason I liked Trench is he didn't feel like a sore loser and didn't die screaming about it being unfair

The Senate was made as such an intimidating HERO.

that episode was the boat but in space kind

I'd love to see a theoretical scenario of Trench vs. Thrawn.

DBZ for Trench's homeworld, you may fire when ready (or get the big shoe)

im guessing people with arachnophobia weren't too keen on trenches arc

He's a spider!!!

The episode is heavy influenced by U-Boot movies. Right down to the sonar sound.

If we got tofen Vane animated, I guarantee fans would remember him as much as they remember trench. That guy was the Red Baron of the clone wars.

Hey Geetsly, how could Padme have used an E5 blaster in The Season 1 episode (whose name I can't exactly remember, though I think it's called "Bombad Jedi", but i'm not sure) safely, without burning her hands? I thought those blasters (which were made for B1 Battle Droids to use) would overheat to the point of causing 3rd-degree burns if used by organics, something The B1s didn't have a problem with? Plot-hole detected! (For those who don't understand what episode she did this in, it was the episode where she, and Jar Jar Binks went to Rodia to convince them not to join The CIS, gets betrayed/captured for it, and they try to escape, ending in The CIS forces on the planet being defeated, and Nute Gunray being captured. Can someone tell me what the name of the episode is, or if I got it right?)

Ah, yes, “Das Boot,” the episode.