TV #22 of 2021: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 7 If only this last run of the animated Star Wars prequel could be limited to its final four episodes, I think I would give it my first five-star rating of the series. That sequence represents a powerful prelude to the tragedy of Revenge of …
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TV #9 of 2021: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 6 Production on this penultimate batch of episodes was cut short by Disney’s 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm, with the truncated season eventually being released straight to Netflix in 2014. So it wasn’t created to be an intentional ending for the series, and it doesn’t read …
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TV #53 of 2020: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 5 Although still somewhat bifurcated in tone, this animated prequel show has been getting gradually stronger year over year, both in the quality of its better parts and the ratio of them to the worse. Here, for instance, it’s really only the 4-episode “D-Squad” arc …
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TV #45 of 2020: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 4 I’m glad that this Clone Wars season is presented mostly chronologically, rather than the nonlinear hodgepodge of years before, but the narrative is still more scattered than I think I would prefer, with mini-arcs and standalone episodes that don’t really build on one another …
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TV #39 of 2020: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 3 Another run of this CGI cartoon that strikes me as largely disposable for the wider franchise plot, although I assume the action sequences are exciting for younger audiences. The most interesting things this year are the complications that develop in the Dooku / Ventress …
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TV #36 of 2020: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 2 This cartoon is incrementally improving, but I still don’t love it just yet. I’m most invested when the writing manages to tell me something new about a character or concept from the wider franchise, which is why I perked up around this season’s mini-arc …
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TV #30 of 2020: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 1 This first season of the CGI show is a definite improvement over the 2008 feature film, and I appreciate the travelogue aspect of showing off different Star Wars settings. Still, it seems pretty nonessential to the canon so far, beyond the rare glimpses of …
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Movie #12 of 2019: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) Thanks to Disney+, I’m finally diving into this branch of the Star Wars franchise that spans the gap between the prequel films Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. I’ve heard the ensuing TV series gets better, but this …
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