Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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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.

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Downfall of a Droid - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: Rex's kama (the black kilt-like thing he wears) is missing twice: first when he, Anakin and Ahsoka are looking at a hologram of an AT-TE on the Resolute's bridge, and second when Anakin's trap for Grievous is revealed, and Rex orders the AT-TEs on the asteroids to fire. (00:01:12 - 00:04:10)

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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.

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Ambush - S1-E1

Question: Why did the king think that Yoda didn't get a fair fight? He agreed to see if Yoda could fight the droids, so why did he think Ventress broke her word after she sent out a bunch of droids?

Answer: I guess that 1) the King assumed that Ventress' droids were meant to capture the Jedi, not kill him outright. When she yells at OOM-224 to shoot Yoda, she evidently failed that expectation. 2) Sending out a bunch of Droidekas after it is plain that Master Yoda has clearly won is not a sign of good sportsmanship, either.

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