A mixed final season of the show for me when you look at the entire season together. The first four episodes with the Bad Batch and rescuing Echo I consider to be a good Clone Wars arc. This was my introduction to the Bad Batch characters and they were really cool, and the emotional core of the Echo storyline was nice with a solid ending. But other than this, it was surrounded by another pretty generic war plot. The second arc with Ahsoka and the sisters was below average for me, mostly because it felt distracting and out of place at this point in the show. While getting Ashoka's return was incredibly exciting and I love where her character is at, the sisters never stood out to me and I just didn't care about them. I do like that they had a different perspective on the Jedi and this was in line with the some of the show's best themes, but the story surrounding this plot felt like a waste of time as I waited to get to the good stuff. But those final four episodes.... are some of the best Star Wars I have ever seen. They knocked it out of the park in ways that I didn't expect, and made me feel things about Star Wars and these characters that I have never felt. The way they weaved in events from Revenge of the Sith but held them in the background as we see Ashoka's side of the story was incredible writing. Even the creative decisions like the switch up in title cards and music were prefect. I'll spend some time talking about what I loved from each of those four episodes below.
Episode 9: A great start to the crossover with Revenge of the Sith. Anakin is the most Anakin ever, him and Obi-Wan's dynamic is great. Even better is how much you can tell Anakin cares for Ahsoka, it's so great to see this side of him. Ahsoka's return was emotional with both him and the clones, and the final moments of them together as you know what's about to happen is so, so good. This episode drove home how Anakin and Ahsoka have legit maybe my favorite relationship in all of Star Wars. The animation and direction of the action with Ahsoka was so dynamic and thrilling.
Episode 10: THE BEST FIGHT IN THE CLONE WARS. Ahsoka v Maul was phenomenal on all levels, I was on the edge of my seat and couldn't take my eyes away. Getting this other side of events during the time period of Revenge of the Sith as everything starts to fall apart is great. You really feel an ominous tone with everything and they play into your knowledge of what's about to happen so well. I especially loved Maul's side of the story as he knows something is about to happen but isn't really in the loop, and his desires in the face of all this are interestingly complex.
Episode 11: Again, the sense of impending doom is amazing. What's most heartbreaking here is Ahsoka's undying faith in Anakin, it's incredibly heartbreaking on a level that I never felt in the movies. Ahsoka sensing Anakin's interaction with Palpatine and Mace Windu through the force was, again, heartbreaking and so cool. And the ensuing order 66 is SO much more heartbreaking than in the movies since we've been given all this time with the clones and we care about them. The character work for Rex was phenomenal, and I was so excited when Ahsoka was able to save him from the order. Maul's involvement in order 66 is very entertaining and not what you would expect.
Episode 12: Rex and Ahsoka together are so good, and when he cried I cried. The entire episode was enthralling, thrilling, and inspiring, up until the very end when my heart broke. This episode convinced me that Ahsoka is the main character of the Clone Wars, she is who I will think about the most when I remember this show. The writers just get it and play into the strengths of the show so well in this final episode, keeping the focus on Ahsoka and the clones. They also do some really cool stuff with Ahsoka's force wielding abilities here. Overall, the finale did an amazing job selling the devastation of these events, right up until the final scene that made me the most emotional I've ever been watching Star Wars. Anakin's fall hits on an emotional level I've never felt before. We get so much time with him in this series and we see him at his best as a Jedi, which makes his turn so incredibly heartbreaking and devastating on a whole new level. Even with him not as a primary focus in this season, it hits harder being told from Ahsoka's perspective, and the final scene broke me. He cares about her so much, and in this moment he knew he had destroyed everything he ever loved.
My fandom for Star Wars was reignited by the finale of this series and I've felt obsessed with Anakin and Ahsoka as characters ever since. I couldn't help myself and watched Vader's redemption in Return of the Jedi and bawled my eyes out. The season as a whole can't mach the consistency of Season 5 for me, but the final four episodes are perfect.
Review by Justin NumerickBlockedParent2023-04-16T18:35:54Z
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A mixed final season of the show for me when you look at the entire season together. The first four episodes with the Bad Batch and rescuing Echo I consider to be a good Clone Wars arc. This was my introduction to the Bad Batch characters and they were really cool, and the emotional core of the Echo storyline was nice with a solid ending. But other than this, it was surrounded by another pretty generic war plot. The second arc with Ahsoka and the sisters was below average for me, mostly because it felt distracting and out of place at this point in the show. While getting Ashoka's return was incredibly exciting and I love where her character is at, the sisters never stood out to me and I just didn't care about them. I do like that they had a different perspective on the Jedi and this was in line with the some of the show's best themes, but the story surrounding this plot felt like a waste of time as I waited to get to the good stuff. But those final four episodes.... are some of the best Star Wars I have ever seen. They knocked it out of the park in ways that I didn't expect, and made me feel things about Star Wars and these characters that I have never felt. The way they weaved in events from Revenge of the Sith but held them in the background as we see Ashoka's side of the story was incredible writing. Even the creative decisions like the switch up in title cards and music were prefect. I'll spend some time talking about what I loved from each of those four episodes below.
Episode 9: A great start to the crossover with Revenge of the Sith. Anakin is the most Anakin ever, him and Obi-Wan's dynamic is great. Even better is how much you can tell Anakin cares for Ahsoka, it's so great to see this side of him. Ahsoka's return was emotional with both him and the clones, and the final moments of them together as you know what's about to happen is so, so good. This episode drove home how Anakin and Ahsoka have legit maybe my favorite relationship in all of Star Wars. The animation and direction of the action with Ahsoka was so dynamic and thrilling.
Episode 10: THE BEST FIGHT IN THE CLONE WARS. Ahsoka v Maul was phenomenal on all levels, I was on the edge of my seat and couldn't take my eyes away. Getting this other side of events during the time period of Revenge of the Sith as everything starts to fall apart is great. You really feel an ominous tone with everything and they play into your knowledge of what's about to happen so well. I especially loved Maul's side of the story as he knows something is about to happen but isn't really in the loop, and his desires in the face of all this are interestingly complex.
Episode 11: Again, the sense of impending doom is amazing. What's most heartbreaking here is Ahsoka's undying faith in Anakin, it's incredibly heartbreaking on a level that I never felt in the movies. Ahsoka sensing Anakin's interaction with Palpatine and Mace Windu through the force was, again, heartbreaking and so cool. And the ensuing order 66 is SO much more heartbreaking than in the movies since we've been given all this time with the clones and we care about them. The character work for Rex was phenomenal, and I was so excited when Ahsoka was able to save him from the order. Maul's involvement in order 66 is very entertaining and not what you would expect.
Episode 12: Rex and Ahsoka together are so good, and when he cried I cried. The entire episode was enthralling, thrilling, and inspiring, up until the very end when my heart broke. This episode convinced me that Ahsoka is the main character of the Clone Wars, she is who I will think about the most when I remember this show. The writers just get it and play into the strengths of the show so well in this final episode, keeping the focus on Ahsoka and the clones. They also do some really cool stuff with Ahsoka's force wielding abilities here. Overall, the finale did an amazing job selling the devastation of these events, right up until the final scene that made me the most emotional I've ever been watching Star Wars. Anakin's fall hits on an emotional level I've never felt before. We get so much time with him in this series and we see him at his best as a Jedi, which makes his turn so incredibly heartbreaking and devastating on a whole new level. Even with him not as a primary focus in this season, it hits harder being told from Ahsoka's perspective, and the final scene broke me. He cares about her so much, and in this moment he knew he had destroyed everything he ever loved.
My fandom for Star Wars was reignited by the finale of this series and I've felt obsessed with Anakin and Ahsoka as characters ever since. I couldn't help myself and watched Vader's redemption in Return of the Jedi and bawled my eyes out. The season as a whole can't mach the consistency of Season 5 for me, but the final four episodes are perfect.
7.8/10 -- Good