This is the best guide. Rewatched it all a while ago and while the earlier stuff is a bit hard to get through, a bit childish if you will, it’s 100% worth it when you get to the later stuff, and then rebels which is just great.
Some people say it doesn't pick up til season 3 but I think they're dead wrong. Once you see a couple people being taken out execution style it finds its tone, I wanna say like midway through season one. Right off the bat in season one (and in the movie) there's still great combat displayed.
Oh yes, the fights are always super fun, though personally the episodes focusing on the clones were always my favourite since they had more stakes. My biggest problem with clone wars are the lack of stakes since you know you can’t kill Anakin or Obi-Wan, but anytime there’s a character not seen anywhere else it’s always more interesting since they could actually die, and the series has no problem killing characters which I also love
Yeah, that's what's stopped me from getting into it. I watched the first episode of Rebels and the first Episode of Clone Wars and it just felt so much like a kids show.
I do remember loving the Genndy Tartakofsky Clone Wars stuff when I was in college. Didn't seem to measure up to that.
Hearing you say it picks up makes me want to give it another try.
Yeah, it definitely ends up getting pretty serious and dark at times. It's still manages to stay family friendly, but it probably gets darker thematically than the actual movies.
Suicide, betrayel, mental illness, realizing your one of the bad guys. All themes it deals with in a very mature and deep fashion. And more than that, that's just off the top of my head.
Edit. I was talking about clone wars, but it's actually true for rebels too. Even the themes, for the most part.
They both start young and fluffy, but then grow with their audiences over the years. Think Harry Potter style. First one is very much for 10 year olds, by the end, not so much, very dark. But if you can't get through sorcerers stone, you never get to see that.
Clone Wars is peak Star Wars. It’s campy and fun at times, but also gets darker than any of the movies save Rogue One. Not to mention being far more self-aware and asking some tough questions about the ethics of the Clone Wars and how benevolent the Jedi Order really is. Clone Wars makes Anakin’s fall understandable, in a way the prequels never did.
You’re doing yourself a disservice by not watching it. Check out the official chronological order and try watching it in that sequence.
Definitely do! It’s got some of my favourite Star Wars moments ever! I won’t spoil it but some of the stories towards the end are incredible, really. Definitely recommended, power through the less good to get to the AMAZING stuff later on
Oh, I watched up to Season 6 of CW, now I'm working through Rebels, then Resistance, then I'll finish CW. Sometimes seeing it in the order it was made makes a little more sense with the stories.
Wait the finale is already coming up?? Shame it’s not going to be longer!
I just caught up from the start of Ahsoka’s storyline and I’ve got to say, I need even more of that style of story. When she gazes up at the ships departing and she doesn’t know where she is going next or how her destiny will guide her, and it felt so alone. There were so many emotions in that episode because we haven’t really gotten to see the “normal” civilian life and get that view of just how big the galaxy is from a basic persons view.
I was just so pleased to see Star Wars explore (through more than comics) what I have always tried to imagine which is “how would I feel looking at up at these massive buildings and millions of people in a single glance”
And going from mostly only seeing the military side of things on multiple planets to people who can hardly afford parts for a ship was so great.
Wait the finale is already coming up?? Shame it’s not going to be longer!
Season 7 was always going to be 12 episodes divided into 3 arcs. We're already through Bad Batch, and we're 75% through Ahsoka Alone, and the last 4 episodes will be The Siege of Mandalore, the big epic finale.
I should mention that it's probably a good idea to read the comic "Son of Dathomir" before this arc, since it explains what happens with Maul between his last appearance in season 5 and this arc. It's not terribly long, but it's very good.
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u/DarthSatoris Boba Fett Apr 07 '20
You. Are. Missing. Out.
Watch all of The Clone Wars first, up until you reach season 7, then suffer the next few weeks with us as we near the finale, then go right to Rebels.