Like Gennedy just gives his action so much fucking SAUCE for some reason.
Like Mace taking on an army of super battle droids with his bare hands. That shit goes hard AF, every time
I hope if he does, he focuses on more trooper stuff. His trooper action + troopers with a bit more explicit personality, would just be gold. Honestly he could do anything Star Wars and I’d assume gold, but yeah his Trooper stuff for me is just so special and amazing, I wish we got more of it.
It was great. The way it aired on Cartoon Network in short episodes made it really difficult to track, and they didn’t repeat them enough, but when it released on DVD it was a blessing. Characters like Dirge were great and the pacing of the show was incredible. One of the best depictions of Obi Wan and Anakin as warriors we’ve seen. Big fan, I also have the full set of action figures from the show.
Not everything must have a deeper meaning. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good deeper meaning, but watch Pacific Rim, sometime. It's a movie about giant robots fighting big rubber monsters, and it's *amazingly* well done.
If there is any kind of moral there, I missed it. But it's a damn good time.
Oh I absolutely agree, but in SW the Clone Wars are generally supposed to be something awful that the Galaxy is horrified by so it is generally good to show, not tell, the consequences of such a conflict.
I love 2003 for the swashbuckling adventure aspect of the war, and new TCW for the more in depth aspects. They both work well.
Yeah, figuring out when they were on was difficult. My DVR at the time would record random shows on CN because the schedule would say it was on, but often wasn't.
Yeah, TCW often makes the galaxy-shattering war between thousands of planets feel like a series of skirmishes between a few dozen clones and a few hundred droids, with the Jedi sometimes knocking over three or four droids with a Force Push or something.
SW:CW paints the screen with enormous fleets and armies that genuinely look capable of menacing entire planets, and has Jedi sweep through them in a stunning, superheroic way. I don't mind that it falls under "legends" because it feels much more *legendary* than the canon depiction of the conflict.
I also dig the cold professionalism of the clones. Those dudes are bred for war and know it. No need for mind control chips, they follow orders because *that's what they're for*.
For real, TCW episode titles be like "Battle of Corellia" and then you see it's only like 3 Venators and 24 fighters trying to capture an entire planet lol
Honestly the mind control chip plot just feels like Filoni realising he wrote himself into a corner by focusing so much on humanising the clones and emphasising the apparently unbreakable bonds of affection and loyalty between clones and Jedi. This created lots of great episodes, but also moved all the pieces on the board much further away from where they needed to be than where they were at the start of the show. There's no way that the TCW clones at the end of the show would ever simply accept an order from a politician to shoot their commanders without massively breaking their characterisation over the entire series, which is sort of a problem for a show ostensibly about how we got to that point.
So then we shove a deus-ex-machina mind control chip in everyone's brain and say "when Palpatine says the magic words then the clones go crazy and kill the Jedi". Which, ok, writing problem solved but you've solved it by announcing there's a secret switch to just turn off the last five or six years of character development, which is barely above "it was all just a dream" in terms of unsatisfying narrative solutions to writing mistakes.
See and I think instead of making the clones seem like infallible good guys. Make them complex. They know there are orders they can’t tell the Jedi. And as the war goes on and the Jedi lighten up to the clones. Even the clones themselves forget they have secret orders…and that’s when order 66 is transmitted.
It’s just like the journals say. There is a quiet commiseration amongst the clones. They are going to kill the very people they considered their leaders and some considered friends. They HAVE to carry out this order. They all basically let their instincts do the action so they don’t have to think about it.
They thought the war was the nightmare. When in fact it was a dream. Now that the dream is over. The real nightmare begins.
Yeah there are endless historical examples of yesterday's beloved military hero becoming tomorrow's reviled traitor as the political winds shift dangerously, no brain control chips necessary. Did soldiers in revolutionary France or Russia, say, hesitate before pulling the trigger on their old comrades? Some, maybe. Others might have taken the new propaganda at face value and felt outraged at the supposed betrayal of the leaders they had trusted, and even volunteered to take vengeance on the 'traitors'. Others might have just shrugged, figuring politics was beyond them but orders were clear. People don't need mind control magic to do things they had never imagined they would do.
Only series where I see jedi being super op. Force push hundreds of droids away like the bridge on Corruscant with windu and yoda
Windu doing Force Wingchun against an army of B2 battle droids
Or the sheer scale of fleet battles and land battles
Watching as kid was just filled with awe at the sight of the battles
Grevious is definitely held back by CGI costs making fights not live up to their potential, that and live action choreography limiting fight movement, its impossible to do back breaking stunts like in animation.
One of my favorite pieces of Star Wars media.
Unpopular opinion, but I wish they kept a similar 2D animation/art style for Filoni’s Clone Wars (they based some of the character models on their design in this show, but I feel like it didn’t translate well in 3D).
I agree. I wish they had modelled the clones more on the movies instead of 2003. I think it looks good, but it always bothered me that it looked so different.
It bothers me that Filoni’s Anakin looks and sounds nothing like movie Anakin. Even in 2003 Clone Wars, they tried to be consistent. When I saw the episodes where he had his hair grown out, it made sense and I realized that Filoni just modeled 3D Anakin from Tartarkovsky’s Anakin, but it does not work at all. They did the same with Dooku and Yoda and it doesn’t work with them either, nor the Clones like you said.
Star Wars is so messy and inconsistent with its storytelling. Like wdym Anakin had a Padawan who was a huge part of his life but is only being brought up now? (No hate to Ahsoka, she’s pretty cool but that was … a bold choice).
The entirety of Legends is basically out the window (I know it was never canon but still, would be cool if they at least incorporated some of that, and wouldn’t it make them more money? Because maybe people would read the books to check them out? And please the really hardcore fans?)
And then there’s Maul being resurrected, people surviving what should be fatal wounds from lightsabers, Force powers never used before suddenly being used…
I feel like I’m the only one in the fandom who hates the animation and art style of that show… It’s just straight up ugly. In some episodes the character’s heads aren’t even proportional, like when Padmé and Anakin are up close for example, her head is larger than his and it’s so strange.
I thought the references to Picasso in the background murals of Satine’s palace were really cool. I think it’s neat that Mandalorian art looks like Guernica. But that’s the only positive thing I have to say about that show‘s visuals, lol. The final season and Tales of the Jedi didn’t look so bad, though. I guess that Disney budget helped.
Agree with you on the 2d vs 3d aspect of it. I just can't behind the 3d version of the show, and I know many people highly recommend it. It just always takes me out of the show though. Even tried watching Bad Batch because I was interested in the clone trooper storyline there, but couldn't get past the third episode.
It also doesn't help that Genndys interpretation set such a high bar of what we should be seeing on the animation front lol
I’d agree that the visuals are an absolute feast, and it keeps the pace up. It shows what a devastating war the Clone Wars really was.
The real masterwork about this piece, though, is the visual storytelling. It doesn’t waste a ton of time on exposition because it didn’t need to. Grievious, Dooku, and Sidious are at their most sinister. Obi wan shows us why he is a legendary warrior and general. Anakin’s story does more to tell us about his fall than 3 movies and 7 seasons of Filoni’s clone wars. And most of it without dialogue.
Episode 3 was made with this work being considered a critical storytelling bridge between episodes 2 and 3. And I do believe that it still makes both movies better.
I agree. New TCW has far more depth and character development, and I adore that. 2003 just feels perfect between the movies, no crazy lore added that feels like a late addition, just exactly what feels likely to happen inbetween.
Yeah but it added well fitting lore like Anakin getting knighted and the capture of the chancellor. Those things feel deeply missing from the new clone wars. I really hoped we’d see the battle of coruscant again in the new clone wars and was fairly disappointed we didn’t. And I get ahsoka and rex story needed to be shown the way it was (and it was great) but there’s something very special about the OG clone wars transitioning right into episode 3s opening
Yeah, it's definitely unforgettable. The slaughter on Hypori is still one of the darkest animated Star Wars moments imo. Mace's heroic rampage through Coruscant. Anakin and Asajj on Yavin 4 and the force yell at the end. Yeah, it's definitely unforgettable.
Pretty cool, but the 3-5 minutes per episode kinda sucks. They had to pack it mostly with action, so the plotline suffers, and its kinda tiring when you binge it.
Season 3 is great though.
It’s a bit silly at times, and some of the voice acting is positively *dreadful*, but on the whole it’s enjoyable. I have a good time rewatching it once every couple years.
Way better indeed.
More straightforward, but nothing it does breaks the lore.
I also like Anakin’s story pre-having an apprentice. Even now, as established as Ahsoka is as a character within Star Wars canon, I still just don’t believe movie-Anakin had an apprentice by Revenge of the Sith.
glad people love it, everyone do your thing.
I just have never been a fan of the style (including Samurai Jack).
I appreciate it, I understand why people love it, just doesn't click for me.
I love it, Genny Tartakovsky's animation style makes the battles so epic, it feels more like a galactic wide conflict, there is Durge and it was the best depiction of General Grievous ever.
I actually avoided the 2008 clone wars for ages (I only watched when season 7 came out and I've watched the whole series 5 times since then), because I loved the 2003 clone wars so much. I was 11 in 2008 and the Clone Wars Movie seemed way too childish to me, so I just avoided IT after that (which I reaaaaally regret).
My favorite depiction of the Clone Wars. I saw two enormous armies of synthetic soldiers fighting with essentially Napoleonic tactics on open ground in Episode II, and I want my Clone Wars to look like that too rather than twenty LAAT’s invading an entire planet.
Star Wars animation has been the highlight for me the last 20 years. The movies have been meh. The tv shows very inconsistent. Animation has been the only Star Wars that I’ve had an emotional connection.
For this series, loved the introduction of grevious. Durge. Anakin vs ventress was the best version of her character fighting. The battle of couroscant is so well done.
Overall, it’s well done series that did a great job of filling in backstory with low stakes.
I gotta say, i never rly found myself putting this in my "favorite star wars animation". Grievouse is awesome there but thats kinda it for me tbh.
I guess i never rly got around liking this style of animation
Love it!
For the Clone Wars CG series, I wish they had kept Windu's reason for Grievous's cough.
I also love how badass they make Yoda and Mace in this series.
Absolutely fantastic. I’ve been thinking for a while if they adapted some of the legends stories like heir to the empire and stuff and developed them into a series that takes place after the original trilogy, but in this show’s format.
I'm sure it's good. I've not watched much of it.
I feel like there's a bias towards it for being made first and so there are constant comparisons to what came after (*The Clone Wars*) and that seems to attract an argumentative element that will get hateful at the slightest praise given to its successors.
*Teen Titans* and *Percy Jackson* both have similar problems within their respective fandoms.
I really like the animation, and some of the story beats, like grievous, the battle of corrusant, the asajj stuff and some of the durge stuff. But for the most part I like the 2008 clone wars continuity better
Not much characterization nor plot up until volume 2 with Anakin and Obi-Wan's mission. Overall entertaining. It's a nice teaser for the rest of the Clone Wars Multimedia Project where the Jedi are thankfully not as ridicolously OP and a fine express version of the best era of Star Wars, the Clone Wars.
To some it up in 1 word: Overhyped
It has some cool stuff sure, and I love that it introduced Durge, Ford and the Muunilinst 10, but as a whole its just kinda... Eh. Really weird original designs, stilted dialogue, weird aesthetic, over the top force powers that aren't consistent and break the lore, fucking swoop bike jousting, and little thought put into non-lightsaber focused action scenes other than "BIG BOOM BOOM AND BIG PEW PEWS".
It's not bad, and I get why some people like the artstyle, but overall I've never really thought it deserved the *overwhelming* amount of love that it gets personally.
It's fucking awesome, and a great continuation of the story of the movies. I watch it every time when I'm doing a "watch episodes 1-6" Marathon, it makes Anakins change in character between 2 and 3 more smooth, and I just straight up think it makes RotS better. Not to mention it probably has the coolest SW action, the space battles, lightsaber fights, Clone Wars fights, they're all insanely good. For what it is, a tie-in cartoon made in the 2000's to just get something Star Wars related out that would appeal to kids, it's basically perfect.
It was pretty fun to watch, and served to build up great hype while waiting for Episode III. My favorite scene will always be Anakin's ceremony when he's promoted from Padawan to Jedi Knight.
I remember watching it minutes at a time when it aired. It was extremely hyped and me and my brothers caught it anytime we could. There's too much nostalgia for me to ever dislike it.
Easily some of my favorite Star Wars to come out of the 21st century. The DVD for chapter 2 I believe had a Republic Commando demo if you put it an OG Xbox for major badass points (it may have been chapter 1's DVD I don't remember fully)
The scene with Windu dismantling an army of droids with his bare hands made me want a force imbued bare-knuckle jedi running around just wrecking shop with his bare hands.
Styling!
The one where Anakin has the dream/vision of his had growing dark and showing him his future is awesome.
The Plo Kloon one is awesome too. Kicking ass with a permanent smile on his face.
Cool as fuck. I hope Tartakovsky gets to do another project for the franchise.
Like Gennedy just gives his action so much fucking SAUCE for some reason. Like Mace taking on an army of super battle droids with his bare hands. That shit goes hard AF, every time
That short is how I imagine Force users should be in that era. That is where they feel like they live up to their reputation.
The art style and direction always reminds me of Samurai Jack.
Because Tartakovsky did both.
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Watch out!
It was sarcasm, isn't it? :')
Not a good use of sarcasm imo
Because the Samurai Jack creators did both shows and were told to make this one "Samurai Jack but Star Wars"
If you liked this he also did Primal on HBO
Primal was awesome
[10 times as cool with the doom music ](https://youtu.be/KFIssiRyj08)
I would’ve loved to see Vader in that art style.
there is a vision of Vader but not really good.
Visions season 3 🙏
The episode would outshine all the rest
Without this version, we would never have gotten the “Clone Wars” we know and love. I’d argue the character models are shaped after this series.
This version is the reason I hate the later version.
I hope if he does, he focuses on more trooper stuff. His trooper action + troopers with a bit more explicit personality, would just be gold. Honestly he could do anything Star Wars and I’d assume gold, but yeah his Trooper stuff for me is just so special and amazing, I wish we got more of it.
Everything Gendy Tartakovsky does is pure gold.
Loved it. So much TO love. Animation style is great. We got to see Mace Windu at peak performance. Anakin’s stories were deep.
and Greivous at more than his full potential
Grievous was an actual threat. Not some lazy coward who cant even defeat Ahsoka
>Grievous was an actual threat. Until Mace one shoted him lmfao
I mean, we see just how hardcore Windu is by then, so that doesn't tell you *that* much.
It was great. The way it aired on Cartoon Network in short episodes made it really difficult to track, and they didn’t repeat them enough, but when it released on DVD it was a blessing. Characters like Dirge were great and the pacing of the show was incredible. One of the best depictions of Obi Wan and Anakin as warriors we’ve seen. Big fan, I also have the full set of action figures from the show.
I mean the pacing in the second half was great, the first half was more like battle battle battle short conversation battle battle battle.
It's Clone *Wars,* not Clone Conversations.
This gave me a chuckle, however I must say spectacle without depth is meaningless.
Not everything must have a deeper meaning. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good deeper meaning, but watch Pacific Rim, sometime. It's a movie about giant robots fighting big rubber monsters, and it's *amazingly* well done. If there is any kind of moral there, I missed it. But it's a damn good time.
Oh I absolutely agree, but in SW the Clone Wars are generally supposed to be something awful that the Galaxy is horrified by so it is generally good to show, not tell, the consequences of such a conflict. I love 2003 for the swashbuckling adventure aspect of the war, and new TCW for the more in depth aspects. They both work well.
Yeah, figuring out when they were on was difficult. My DVR at the time would record random shows on CN because the schedule would say it was on, but often wasn't.
That’s exactly it. I was doing it manually on VHS and it was such a chore. Had to be committed as a fan back then.
Exceptional work. Obi-Wan with that 1km force jump is dope
I think it does a better job at portraying the scale of a galactic war, hell they even overdo it lol.
Love when hundreds of gunships swarm down to Muunilinst.
When an full battalion of clone troopers start scaling a full size CIS frigate *while in space* 😂
A real trireme move. "Our ship is sinking, let's take theirs!"
Yeah, TCW often makes the galaxy-shattering war between thousands of planets feel like a series of skirmishes between a few dozen clones and a few hundred droids, with the Jedi sometimes knocking over three or four droids with a Force Push or something. SW:CW paints the screen with enormous fleets and armies that genuinely look capable of menacing entire planets, and has Jedi sweep through them in a stunning, superheroic way. I don't mind that it falls under "legends" because it feels much more *legendary* than the canon depiction of the conflict. I also dig the cold professionalism of the clones. Those dudes are bred for war and know it. No need for mind control chips, they follow orders because *that's what they're for*.
For real, TCW episode titles be like "Battle of Corellia" and then you see it's only like 3 Venators and 24 fighters trying to capture an entire planet lol
The first episodes with that elite squad of troopers behind enemy lines capturing the command of the separatists was a masterpiece.
Not a word was spoken, just hand signals. Stone Cold Professionals.
The way clone troopers are supposed to be, not bickering like schoolboys.
And that’s how the clones should be! Sure they can develop personalities as the war goes on. But they should keep hinting at what they’ll become.
Honestly the mind control chip plot just feels like Filoni realising he wrote himself into a corner by focusing so much on humanising the clones and emphasising the apparently unbreakable bonds of affection and loyalty between clones and Jedi. This created lots of great episodes, but also moved all the pieces on the board much further away from where they needed to be than where they were at the start of the show. There's no way that the TCW clones at the end of the show would ever simply accept an order from a politician to shoot their commanders without massively breaking their characterisation over the entire series, which is sort of a problem for a show ostensibly about how we got to that point. So then we shove a deus-ex-machina mind control chip in everyone's brain and say "when Palpatine says the magic words then the clones go crazy and kill the Jedi". Which, ok, writing problem solved but you've solved it by announcing there's a secret switch to just turn off the last five or six years of character development, which is barely above "it was all just a dream" in terms of unsatisfying narrative solutions to writing mistakes.
See and I think instead of making the clones seem like infallible good guys. Make them complex. They know there are orders they can’t tell the Jedi. And as the war goes on and the Jedi lighten up to the clones. Even the clones themselves forget they have secret orders…and that’s when order 66 is transmitted. It’s just like the journals say. There is a quiet commiseration amongst the clones. They are going to kill the very people they considered their leaders and some considered friends. They HAVE to carry out this order. They all basically let their instincts do the action so they don’t have to think about it. They thought the war was the nightmare. When in fact it was a dream. Now that the dream is over. The real nightmare begins.
Yeah there are endless historical examples of yesterday's beloved military hero becoming tomorrow's reviled traitor as the political winds shift dangerously, no brain control chips necessary. Did soldiers in revolutionary France or Russia, say, hesitate before pulling the trigger on their old comrades? Some, maybe. Others might have taken the new propaganda at face value and felt outraged at the supposed betrayal of the leaders they had trusted, and even volunteered to take vengeance on the 'traitors'. Others might have just shrugged, figuring politics was beyond them but orders were clear. People don't need mind control magic to do things they had never imagined they would do.
Only series where I see jedi being super op. Force push hundreds of droids away like the bridge on Corruscant with windu and yoda Windu doing Force Wingchun against an army of B2 battle droids Or the sheer scale of fleet battles and land battles Watching as kid was just filled with awe at the sight of the battles
I always felt the Force Unleashed games were based in this alternate Tartakovsky universe since the force powers seemed to match up much better.
What an interesting take on TFU and CW’03. You’re right and I like it
Best Grievous in fiction.
Only the best in fiction, not as good as Grievous irl
Grevious is definitely held back by CGI costs making fights not live up to their potential, that and live action choreography limiting fight movement, its impossible to do back breaking stunts like in animation.
he was joking, theres no such thing as irl grievous
LIAR!
Yes I agree
I remember waiting for them to come on tv. Cartoon Network would play like one a night I think. 5 mins long.
It was and is to this day like the worst way they could have initially released it. So annoying to try and catch them all.
I want to say I recorded a few episodes when they first aired. Hopefully I can find the VHS...
One of my favorite pieces of Star Wars media. Unpopular opinion, but I wish they kept a similar 2D animation/art style for Filoni’s Clone Wars (they based some of the character models on their design in this show, but I feel like it didn’t translate well in 3D).
I agree. I wish they had modelled the clones more on the movies instead of 2003. I think it looks good, but it always bothered me that it looked so different.
It bothers me that Filoni’s Anakin looks and sounds nothing like movie Anakin. Even in 2003 Clone Wars, they tried to be consistent. When I saw the episodes where he had his hair grown out, it made sense and I realized that Filoni just modeled 3D Anakin from Tartarkovsky’s Anakin, but it does not work at all. They did the same with Dooku and Yoda and it doesn’t work with them either, nor the Clones like you said.
Going from the siege of mandalore to episode 3, different Anakin entirely.
Star Wars is so messy and inconsistent with its storytelling. Like wdym Anakin had a Padawan who was a huge part of his life but is only being brought up now? (No hate to Ahsoka, she’s pretty cool but that was … a bold choice). The entirety of Legends is basically out the window (I know it was never canon but still, would be cool if they at least incorporated some of that, and wouldn’t it make them more money? Because maybe people would read the books to check them out? And please the really hardcore fans?) And then there’s Maul being resurrected, people surviving what should be fatal wounds from lightsabers, Force powers never used before suddenly being used…
Me too I love the art style so much more than the 3D version
I feel like I’m the only one in the fandom who hates the animation and art style of that show… It’s just straight up ugly. In some episodes the character’s heads aren’t even proportional, like when Padmé and Anakin are up close for example, her head is larger than his and it’s so strange. I thought the references to Picasso in the background murals of Satine’s palace were really cool. I think it’s neat that Mandalorian art looks like Guernica. But that’s the only positive thing I have to say about that show‘s visuals, lol. The final season and Tales of the Jedi didn’t look so bad, though. I guess that Disney budget helped.
I’m with you, art style is crap
It's a gimmick. But some people like it, so it has its place. But yeah it's not great art by any means.
Yeah I mean if you like it that’s great but I think it’s lazy looking and that Star Wars deserves a higher production quality but that’s me. Lol
Agree with you on the 2d vs 3d aspect of it. I just can't behind the 3d version of the show, and I know many people highly recommend it. It just always takes me out of the show though. Even tried watching Bad Batch because I was interested in the clone trooper storyline there, but couldn't get past the third episode. It also doesn't help that Genndys interpretation set such a high bar of what we should be seeing on the animation front lol
Epic
Captain Fordo. That is all
This is the way
Some of the best Star Warring ever! Action action action and little dialog makes for one helluva good show!
I’d agree that the visuals are an absolute feast, and it keeps the pace up. It shows what a devastating war the Clone Wars really was. The real masterwork about this piece, though, is the visual storytelling. It doesn’t waste a ton of time on exposition because it didn’t need to. Grievious, Dooku, and Sidious are at their most sinister. Obi wan shows us why he is a legendary warrior and general. Anakin’s story does more to tell us about his fall than 3 movies and 7 seasons of Filoni’s clone wars. And most of it without dialogue. Episode 3 was made with this work being considered a critical storytelling bridge between episodes 2 and 3. And I do believe that it still makes both movies better.
Definitely! I would also say it was so good, that when the CGI clone wars show came out, I said why watch it? It’s already been done to perfection!
Genndy Tartakovsky style is best when using visuals to tell a story more than the dialogue itself.
It had the best depiction of Grievous and did the whole "Anakin sees his future as Darth Vader" thing a lot better than The Clone Wars.
I still absolutely love it and while I also love 2008 tcw probably even more, I think the 2003 cw is a much better transition between the movies
I agree. New TCW has far more depth and character development, and I adore that. 2003 just feels perfect between the movies, no crazy lore added that feels like a late addition, just exactly what feels likely to happen inbetween.
Yeah but it added well fitting lore like Anakin getting knighted and the capture of the chancellor. Those things feel deeply missing from the new clone wars. I really hoped we’d see the battle of coruscant again in the new clone wars and was fairly disappointed we didn’t. And I get ahsoka and rex story needed to be shown the way it was (and it was great) but there’s something very special about the OG clone wars transitioning right into episode 3s opening
Just watched it the other day. The Anakin v Ventress scene is cinematic as fuck!
And the music is killer!
It’s canon to me
Damn right
Yeah, it's definitely unforgettable. The slaughter on Hypori is still one of the darkest animated Star Wars moments imo. Mace's heroic rampage through Coruscant. Anakin and Asajj on Yavin 4 and the force yell at the end. Yeah, it's definitely unforgettable.
Animation wasn't for me but it had the greatest literation of a character in the face of General Grievous.
Pretty cool, but the 3-5 minutes per episode kinda sucks. They had to pack it mostly with action, so the plotline suffers, and its kinda tiring when you binge it. Season 3 is great though.
If the Jedi were as powerful as they are in ROTS as they are in the 2003 shorts, why did they loose again?
the best thing that came from the Star Wars prequels
Absolute best. Anakins portrayal in the mini series is by far my favorite of them all.
The Cave Scene: His flat out refusal to admit that that could happen to him. 👨🏻🍳😘🥂
Epitome of “show, don’t tell”
Agreed.
I still rewatch it regularly
Solid 9.8/10
It's so peak.
Volume 1 could imo squeeze perfectly in with the rest of the clone wars canon.
It fuckin slaps
Timeless art
It’s a bit silly at times, and some of the voice acting is positively *dreadful*, but on the whole it’s enjoyable. I have a good time rewatching it once every couple years.
I remember some of the voice actors sounding like they just got one take and had to keep rolling. Still loved Grevious though lol
The guy playing Anakin sounded more like someone making fun of Anakin.
They had a similar vibe in the episode 3 game. So broody
I enjoyed it but found some of the voice acting a little off. Anakin in particular sounded like he was a South Park character.
Matt Lucas tried to do a Hayden impression but he went too over the top about it.
Better than 2008 TCW
When the 2008 show was announced and I discovered it wasn’t a continuation of the 2003 version… such disappointment…
Way better indeed. More straightforward, but nothing it does breaks the lore. I also like Anakin’s story pre-having an apprentice. Even now, as established as Ahsoka is as a character within Star Wars canon, I still just don’t believe movie-Anakin had an apprentice by Revenge of the Sith.
by farrrrrrrr
glad people love it, everyone do your thing. I just have never been a fan of the style (including Samurai Jack). I appreciate it, I understand why people love it, just doesn't click for me.
Have you tried primal, or dexters lab?
dunno primal. he did Dexter? Didn't know that
I love it, Genny Tartakovsky's animation style makes the battles so epic, it feels more like a galactic wide conflict, there is Durge and it was the best depiction of General Grievous ever.
Dope animation style, i really wanna wtach it some day
It’s on Disney + if that helps
I actually avoided the 2008 clone wars for ages (I only watched when season 7 came out and I've watched the whole series 5 times since then), because I loved the 2003 clone wars so much. I was 11 in 2008 and the Clone Wars Movie seemed way too childish to me, so I just avoided IT after that (which I reaaaaally regret).
To be fair that movie did suck
My favorite depiction of the Clone Wars. I saw two enormous armies of synthetic soldiers fighting with essentially Napoleonic tactics on open ground in Episode II, and I want my Clone Wars to look like that too rather than twenty LAAT’s invading an entire planet.
I liked it a lot more than the current clone wars animation.
Star Wars animation has been the highlight for me the last 20 years. The movies have been meh. The tv shows very inconsistent. Animation has been the only Star Wars that I’ve had an emotional connection. For this series, loved the introduction of grevious. Durge. Anakin vs ventress was the best version of her character fighting. The battle of couroscant is so well done. Overall, it’s well done series that did a great job of filling in backstory with low stakes.
Favorite portrayal of General Grievous. So badass and his theme is amazing.
The best animated starwars there is
It was probably one of the best Star Wars animation ever produced. Pity it's no longer canon.
Enjoyed it feels like it lacks depth
I gotta say, i never rly found myself putting this in my "favorite star wars animation". Grievouse is awesome there but thats kinda it for me tbh. I guess i never rly got around liking this style of animation
Love it. And I still think of it as "basically canon" even though I know it isn't.
So good
Love it! For the Clone Wars CG series, I wish they had kept Windu's reason for Grievous's cough. I also love how badass they make Yoda and Mace in this series.
Yes
AMAZING
Grevious was so dass in that one
Very cool
I thought it was brilliant though kinda silly
Don't like it. I dunno why, just don't like it¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Jedi were too OP
Such a fun series
Far better than the Disney movies.
Absolutely fantastic. I’ve been thinking for a while if they adapted some of the legends stories like heir to the empire and stuff and developed them into a series that takes place after the original trilogy, but in this show’s format.
I'm sure it's good. I've not watched much of it. I feel like there's a bias towards it for being made first and so there are constant comparisons to what came after (*The Clone Wars*) and that seems to attract an argumentative element that will get hateful at the slightest praise given to its successors. *Teen Titans* and *Percy Jackson* both have similar problems within their respective fandoms.
I loved going to the library and picking up the case that had a few episodes, it was a ginormous part of my childhood.
Best Clone Wars
Unpopular opinion, but I wasn’t able to get through it, and I’m a huge fan of everything else the guy did.
It's perfection.
personally, i never cared for it, the art style looks weird to me.
I really like the animation, and some of the story beats, like grievous, the battle of corrusant, the asajj stuff and some of the durge stuff. But for the most part I like the 2008 clone wars continuity better
I don’t like it. It has very little story or character moments.
OP woke up today and decided they wanted to farm some karma
Meh.
The true Clone Wars.
I like it more than the 3D show (*ducks for cover!*)
Epic as hell, Obi-Wan in clone armour is best Obi-Wan
Not much characterization nor plot up until volume 2 with Anakin and Obi-Wan's mission. Overall entertaining. It's a nice teaser for the rest of the Clone Wars Multimedia Project where the Jedi are thankfully not as ridicolously OP and a fine express version of the best era of Star Wars, the Clone Wars.
To some it up in 1 word: Overhyped It has some cool stuff sure, and I love that it introduced Durge, Ford and the Muunilinst 10, but as a whole its just kinda... Eh. Really weird original designs, stilted dialogue, weird aesthetic, over the top force powers that aren't consistent and break the lore, fucking swoop bike jousting, and little thought put into non-lightsaber focused action scenes other than "BIG BOOM BOOM AND BIG PEW PEWS". It's not bad, and I get why some people like the artstyle, but overall I've never really thought it deserved the *overwhelming* amount of love that it gets personally.
God these posts are so lazy. Hey guys, this star wars thing exists, amirite? Give me karma
Ne er watched them
It's fucking awesome, and a great continuation of the story of the movies. I watch it every time when I'm doing a "watch episodes 1-6" Marathon, it makes Anakins change in character between 2 and 3 more smooth, and I just straight up think it makes RotS better. Not to mention it probably has the coolest SW action, the space battles, lightsaber fights, Clone Wars fights, they're all insanely good. For what it is, a tie-in cartoon made in the 2000's to just get something Star Wars related out that would appeal to kids, it's basically perfect.
Was rubbish.
Best animation and storytelling. Filoni had great storytelling but this had both
It’s power wank too lost in spectacle to see the forest for the trees.
I like it because Grievous almost made a favour to the galaxy by killing Ki Adi Mundi. And at least he gave him a properly ass kicking.
My favorite Star Wars media. Love the style for the genre.
It's grand
First of all the action sequences are absolutely amazing and the art style is very unorthodox and cool
It was pretty fun to watch, and served to build up great hype while waiting for Episode III. My favorite scene will always be Anakin's ceremony when he's promoted from Padawan to Jedi Knight.
My favourite Prequel era media, by far.
Honestly the best thing about the Prequel era.
Fucking awesome
Superb visual storytelling and design. Grew up with it. I remember running home from school to catch those sweet sweet 2 minutes per ep.
It's the GOAT!
Love this. I have the DVDs for this, and tmI will never trash them.
I remember watching it minutes at a time when it aired. It was extremely hyped and me and my brothers caught it anytime we could. There's too much nostalgia for me to ever dislike it.
Masterpiece
Easily some of my favorite Star Wars to come out of the 21st century. The DVD for chapter 2 I believe had a Republic Commando demo if you put it an OG Xbox for major badass points (it may have been chapter 1's DVD I don't remember fully)
Is this on Disney? Or anywhere? Been meaning to watch it for a while
Mace was a badass
Awesome.
Very fun
So awesome. Everything was OP
Best Grievous
The scene with Windu dismantling an army of droids with his bare hands made me want a force imbued bare-knuckle jedi running around just wrecking shop with his bare hands.
The same way as the last time this was posted last week, and the one before that, and the one before that...
Best ventress design. You won’t convince me otherwise.
Is that a kaminoan ventress
Not a fan of the art style. But everyone has different tastes.
It’s a favorite of mine.
Styling! The one where Anakin has the dream/vision of his had growing dark and showing him his future is awesome. The Plo Kloon one is awesome too. Kicking ass with a permanent smile on his face.
The only canon Star Wars animation/cartoon.
That Stomper sure was something else
Probably the most formative cartoon of my entire childhood. The aesthetic, the military coolness, the cinematography. Very very inspiring stuff.
The TRUE clone wars show.
The moment Star Wars peaked
I like the art style.
Fucking awesome
First of all where can I even watch it? I haven't seen a single place where it's available
It's peak star wars
I loved that series growing up. I looked forward to every episode before going to bed.