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STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS

The idea that the Jedi Order are as suspenseful and as cinematic of her striking out alone after
doesn’t have all the answers gets as the very best big-screen dramas, five years of Jedi adventures. For

its fullest exploration in another and serve as a satisfying conclusion viewers, it was a stark reminder
of the show’s most important to Ahsoka’s far larger arc, which that the Jedi’s allegiance to the

arcs: the four episodes that see began five years before. light side of the Force did not make
Ahsoka leave the Order at the end Since Season One, audiences them infallible, and that their
of Season Five. With titles that had seen the character grow from inflexibility had its own part to

reference Alfred Hitchcock fi lms a young Padawan in awe of Anakin play in the growing darkness that
(“Sabotage”, “The Jedi Who Knew Skywalker and the Jedi ideals would envelope the galaxy.
Too Much”, “To Catch A Jedi”, and into a battle-hardened young
“The Wrong Jedi”), the episodes adult capable of making her own A Lasting Legacy

decisions about who and what to After five seasons on Cartoon
believe in. Faced with the fact that Network and a sixth, shorter
the Jedi Council had not trusted season (subtitled “The Lost
her when she was falsely accused of Episodes”) on Netfl ix, The Clone
murder—and cannot admit to its Wars on TV came to an end in
shortsightedness—she concludes 2014. But with the show having
that she can no longer stand won a loyal audience (and a
alongside them. number of Emmys and other
Just as the prequel and original awards), there was still an appetite
movie trilogies are coming-of- for new adventures. To meet this
age stories that end with Anakin demand, eight unfi nished episodes,
and Luke Skywalker adopting with only rudimentary story-reel
their adult roles as Sith and Jedi animation, were made available on
respectively, The Clone Wars is starwars.com in 2014 and 2015.
Ahsoka’s story, culminating in her Further story arcs that had
choosing a third, perhaps more been planned but not put into

difficult path. Now, of course, production were loosely developed
we know more of Ahsoka’s story as a multimedia initiative referred
through Star Wars Rebels, but it to as the Star Wars: The Clone Wars
does not detract from the impact Legacy. This included the novel
Dark Disciple by Christie Golden,
based on eight episodes written by
Katie Lucas, and the comic Darth
Maul: Son of Dathomir, written by
Jeremy Barlow and based on four
unproduced episodes.
Away from The Clone Wars’
own storylines, the show’s
characters have also continued to
have an impact in other corners
of the Star Wars galaxy. As well as

“The idea that
the Jedi Order
doesn’t have
all the answers
gets its fullest
exploration in
another of the
show’s most
important arcs.”

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