So, kind of what Lucas promised us with his prequel trilogy.Īlthough Disney has no longer deemed the Emmy-award-winning series canon, Clone Wars should actually come first in your watch-through of the saga. What you will see is artfully choreographed fifteen-minute action sequences, depictions of enormously powerful beings tearing through battle droids alongside the Republic army, with entire worlds on the brink of totalitarian domination. You won’t see any gushy monologues about sand here. Gone is the cringey (and borderline racist) slapstick from characters like Jar Jar Binks and Watto. Gone are the long-winded discussions about trade negotiations and symbiotic microorganisms capable of producing Force powers. The Japanese-animation inspired show that aired on Cartoon Network back in 2003 feels a bit like your memory of the prequel films, if you haven’t watched them since those summers in grade school. Each vignette focuses on a different faction or leader of the Clone Wars, which means, those boring fuzzy puppets we see sitting around the Jedi Council in the Phantom Menace with their arms crossed? In Clone Wars, they’re action heroes! As they should be.

The 25-chapter saga, which is presented in two hour-long “volumes,” distills all the self indulgent world-building that people have come to hate (and love) about Lucas’s movies into a very simple setup: the galaxy is at war, and the Jedi are superhero protectors sworn to save the Republic. Every Star Wars Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestĬlone Wars–the Tartakovsky series, not the better-known Dave Filoni 3D animated show, or the even more obscure movie by the same name–is Star Wars at its essence.

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