After working with Rush Clovis to discover that the Banking Clan vaults have no money in them, Padmé Amidala is arrested for espionage. Anakin Skywalker comes to free her, and when the prison door opens, there are two visual references to A New Hope.
First, there's Anakin's silhouette, which resembles Darth Vader's, particularly Vader's helmet. I don't think this has any specific relevancy for this episode, but it is a foreshadowing (almost literally, since it's his silhouette) of what's to come. When he steps into the room, his shadow becomes more rounded and loses this resemblance:
Second, there's Padmé's posture. She's laying on a bench in a prison cell in the same way that Princess Leia is when she's imprisoned on the Death Star:
I've watched the whole Star Wars: The Clone Wars series twice now, and I've noticed a lot of little references to the Star Wars movies. Many of these are pretty obvious, so I didn't feel they were worth writing about, but since this scene has two and because they're a bit more subtle, I thought I'd write about them.
