Wanted to give a heads-up that the final season of Clone Wars is dropping sometime today (Feb 21) on Disney+.
I’ve been looking forward to this for a looong time! I’ll be watching it sometime this weekend and hopefully coming here for some discussion. Right now I’m re-watching the Mortis arc from season 3, and I may watch the final arc of season 5 before getting into the new episodes.
Anyone else interested?
I watched it and enjoyed it. Felt exactly like it was a continuation of the series and not some huge debut. Lots of action and some ok comedy relief. Looking forward to next week!
I tried watching the show before and couldn’t finish it. I finally did it with Disney+ and I’m really mad at myself that I didn’t like it before. It’s not perfect and it doesn’t always do a good job in tone. Sometimes it’s too scary for a kid show, too childish for adults. It can be a wild ride. And I hated Ahsoka. But by the end? Oh man she was my favorite and might be my favorite female character after Leia. Obi-Wan and Satine was the best romance in alllll of SW for me. I love Capt Rex and Ventress was a scary badass. At the end it was like I didn’t really love any individual episode or arc, but the whole entire show was just so moving and worthwhile.
The new episode… it was interesting in concept with the bad batch, but I didn’t love it. And I was kind of disappointed but by the end of the day, I was like but that’s how I felt about the other six seasons. It’s the whole thing as one giant puzzle.
(I made it even less far in Rebels so I rewatched/first watched the rest of that soon after and it as part of a diptych of puzzles just made me happy)
I watched the new one and thought it was OK. Felt like a legitimate episode from the original one that I just forgot about. I didn’t dislike it, but it did not stand out.
How many new episodes are there going to be? I can’t do the weekly thing anymore, so I plan on waiting.
I liked it, but wasn’t blown away. But that’s fine. I trust filoni will do this whole thing right.
It does feel good to have it back, and I’m looking forward to seeing, what I presume will be, the final chapter of Ahsoka’s and Anakin’s relationship.
I liked it but, I feel like Disney should have made a special exception with this show and dropped the whole season at once. It’s been years since the last season, and we’re not going to get a season 8. So I’m finding it really difficult to care enough to watch on a weekly basis.
I will binge it after the whole thing drops though.
The stories about the Clone Troopers have never been my favourite, I find most of them to be annoying, especially Dee Bradley Baker’s terrible attempt at a kiwi accent, but I like the show despite that.
Well I waited until it was over to binge it. The first eight episodes were hit and miss and about par for the series. The last four are right up there with The Mandalorian as some of the best Star Wars ever made.
Like the rest of the series (at least the parts that I watched) I liked the Ahsoka episodes, but couldn’t be less interested in the clone episodes.
As a side note, I recently rewatched an early episode of the series in between season 7 episodes, and holy crap has the animation quality improved. It is like Ratatouille vs Ratatoing.
Agreed that the final four episodes make up an excellent Star Wars movie. They clearly seem like Disney wants to edit them together to release as a mini-movie.
I agree the first part of the season was…just ok. The final four were spectacular. And it kinda sucks, because I know far too many Star Wars “fans” who only watch the movies, and I keep telling them the best story-telling and character-development out there is in the TV shows. They can’t get past the fact that two out of the three really good series are cartoons.
I think both were interesting enough for the most part to keep me entertained, it was the comic relief episodes that I couldn’t stand (any jar jar or droid focused one). Luckily this last season had none of those. Apparently when the series got canceled they already had the outlines for forty more episodes. The Ahsoka post Jedi and siege of Mandalore were part of this, but there was also stuff with Boba and Cad Bane, lots more Darth Maul and Quilan Vos and Asajj Ventress teaming up to take down Dooku, that eventually became the novel Dark Disciple.
The show ends like it always was: incredibly uneven. The first arc with the bad batch clones was fine. Nothing spectacular, but a bit of fun. The middle bit with the two sisters was awful, and went for 3 episodes too many. I love Ahsoka, and I get that this was sorta necessary for her to get where she needed to be for the final arc, but it was torture to watch, and not what you want taking up a full third of your much-anticipated final season. The final arc was spectacular. Loved it, and wished the whole season was like that.
Aside: I was slogging through episode 7, “Dangerous Debt” and it occurred to me: this is so very far removed from the original Star Wars, can you imagine someone watching it right after seeing ANH (or even the whole OT)? It’s unrecognizable. There are lightsabers, and spice (mentioned once in ANH), and some droids, and a mention or two of Jedis and the force, and not a single other thing that relates to the original. All different characters, all different species, other than the two humans, all different worlds, all different struggles/conflicts. If you watch the whole OT, at least the Mandalorian armor would look familiar, but that’s about it. Yes, the SW universe has expanded hugely from that springboard, but watching it was like a copy of a copy of a copy. I wouldn’t mind that if it had also been good, as I suppose the same could be said of some episodes of the Mandalorian, but it just struck me here how lost someone would be coming into it at this point with no frame of reference from the prequels and the rest of Clone Wars. That amused me a bit.
A lot of the background aliens were straight up old kenner toy designs that had never been accurate until now: Reddit - Dive into anything
In the original Star Wars in the cantina scene, one “alien” is a guy wearing an off-the-shelf Halloween werewolf mask. In the SE, that was CGI’d out with a new alien, seen (like the werewolf) only momentarily from the upper body. Despite such a tiny amount of screen time, the new alien got an action figure. But somewhere along the line, someone decided that the action figure would be wearing removable pants, which revealed it to be a really short guy standing on stilts. I always found that both gratuitously creative and hilarious. That should be worked in to some of the visual media somewhere.
