Other mistake: The battle droids - including the commando droids featured here - habitually have two broad fingers and a thumb. So how can a commando droid squeeze itself completely into clone trooper armor without its broad fingers tearing open the gloves, since it can't separate its fingers?
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
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Starring: Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, James Arnold Taylor, Tom Kane
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I own the first 6 seasons on DVD and watched season 7 on Disney +.
This show really has it's ups and downs. It's also a little confusing if this is supposed to be a continuation of the 2003 Clone Wars series, but for the most part it seems to be a retelling or reboot of the idea that show was. But with some major changes, carrying over some of the characters but using them in new ways, and reusing some of those plot lines. Like Anakin was still a padawan in that show while he's a Jedi Knight in this series. So you could almost see the 2003 series as a soft canon prologue to this show. Also the naming convention is a tad confusing. The 2003 series is called Star Wars: Clone Wars while this 2008 is called Star Wars: The Clone Wars... they just added a "The" to it. And then there is the animated movie of the exact same title as this show that serves as a pilot but still separate from the series and was released in theaters. And yeah it just gets confusing.
So this follows the events of the 2008 movie in a continuing series with Anakin now having his annoying padawan Ahsoka and their journey through the Clone Wars era with Obi-wan and other characters. The first season is rough. Kinda hard to watch, but it gets better as it goes and grows more mature. The later seasons are very good.
The show did take a hiatus for a while, after the Disney buy out and it got canceled. Yet they managed to bring it back again and finally give us the conclusion in 2020 with the very late season 7. I was a little disappointed in how season 7 went, but it was still pretty good. And it did lead into an even better series with The Bad Batch.
I didn't watch this show when it was first on air... I believe it was on Cartoon Network at the time, and we didn't have cable at my own house. So my first time watching the show was recently when I bought the box set and watched it with my dad since we're going through all of Star Wars in chronological order. I still liked it a lot, and if not for the weak first season and the disappointment of season 7, I might give this a 5 star rating. But for now, I'm giving it a very solid 4 out of 5 stars.
Mistake Status: I plan on doing this series at some point.
More mistakes in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Mystery of a Thousand Moons - S1-E18
Obi-Wan: Very impressive. You just destroyed seventeen defenseless battle droids without suffering a scratch.
[Another battle droid falls apart.]
Anakin: Eighteen, actually.
Trivia: In S5-E1, Savage kills the Jedi with Obi-Wan. However, in S5-E2, she is sitting as part of the Jedi Council.
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Suggested correction: I know there was talk about whether this is a legitimate mistake or a trivia entry. The episodes were simply aired out of order. "A War on Two Fronts" was supposed to be the season premiere, but they ended up airing "Revival" instead. On the DVD, the episodes are ordered chronologically, and "Revival" is placed later between what's regarded on IMDb as episode 13 and 14.
Question: Did Darth Maul's return in this series cause big controversy among Star Wars fans?
Answer: I would say his death in Phantom Menace was more of a controversy. He was a fan favorite character from the movie, and his fight scene largely regarded as the best part of the movie. It was more he was brought back to please the Star Wars fans and few, if any, had problems with it.