Thursday, February 2, 2023

Finally watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars

 I'm a big fan of the original trilogy of Star Wars.  I enjoy a fair amount of the Extended Universe novels.  I like what some of the video games bring to the table.  I like The Mandalorian series, and love the season 2 finale.

The Han Solo movie should have been a series.  They crammed way too much of his story into a movie.  It could have easily been a limited series, nicely ending with the story of how Han got in trouble with Jabba.  I guess the movie was okay.  Just disappointing.  And Rogue One... well... it had pretty good characters that made me like them, and I admit I enjoyed seeing Darth Vader cut loose, but the idea that the weakness had to be designed in and that the dad assigned his daughter the task and fate instead of just sending the information to the active rebels is weak.  I also don't like how it bled directly into the beginning of Episode 4.  When you watch Episode 4, the impression they give is that Darth Vader has been hunting the plans for a while... not one day.

I very much dislike the Prequel Trilogy.  I dislike the Sequels too, especially episode 8 which harmed the setting and characters I love.  I dislike the Book of Boba Fett series for having very little to do with Boba Fett and for portraying Luke Skywalker in a stupid way.  I should add too that I don't like how Ahsoka Tano is written in The Mandalorian or Book of Boba Fett.

That's my setting of expectations so you know where I'm coming from in my review of The Clone Wars series.  I don't think I can avoid spoilers, so I'll give the short review quickly here.  There's a lot of illogical junk in the series as well as weird decisions made by the writers in some places, but they do manage to tell some good stories in there.  And they do end it well.  I'm glad I watched the whole thing.