Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a favorite show by most Star Wars Fans, but there are some things in the animated series that have not aged. The Clone Wars was developed by George Lucas in the 2000s as a way to tell more stories about Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and other prequel-era characters after the release of Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. The show premiered in 2008 and had an animated film release, which started the show.
The Clone Wars Initially ran for 5 seasons on Cartoon Network before being canceled. The ending left fans on a huge cliffhanger with Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan, Ahsoka Tano leaving the Jedi Order. luckily, The Clone Wars Season 6 was released by Netflix in 2014 and was marketed as The Lost Missions. However, fans would have to wait until 2020 when The Clone Wars came back for its seventh and final season, which was released on Disney+. Over the 12 years The Clone Wars Premiere, it’s easy to see how things changed and evolved, ultimately making the show better.
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Ahsoka’s outfit from early seasons is still controversial
Thankfully it wasn’t brought to live-action
One of the bigger issues fans have about the earlier seasons of The Clone Wars Is Ahsoka Tano’s costume. The Padawan to Anakin Skywalker was 14 when she was introduced, but she was dressed in a tube top and leggings for most of the first few seasons. Today it is generally accepted that this was a supervisor of the employers because Ahsoka was a child soldier who goes into battle with little protection. All other Jedi seen in The Clone Wars Often wears some kind of Jedi robe, but Ahsoka does not.
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While this decision is likely to make Ahsoka more personable, it doesn’t age, especially when so many fans grew up with the show as adults. When Dave Filoni developed the live-action Ahsoka series and including Clone Wars-era flashbacks, the decision was made to change Ahsoka’s outfit to be more appropriate And be a combination of her tube top outfit from early episodes of The Clone WarsAnd the tank top she wore in later seasons.
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Zero the Hat played on multiple problematic stereotypes
An unpopular villain is worse in retrospect
There is no question that The Clone Wars Was trying to find his footing in his first two seasons. It was a sweet spot that the creators had to find between a children’s animated show and a story that focused on the themes and stories of the prequel era. One of the stories that didn’t work in the long run was the villainous Zero the Hutt arc. The hats were always villains in Star Wars Back to Jabba in the original trilogy; Zero was no different.
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Zero was the only Hutt who spoke in Basic and not just Huttese, instantly making him different from other Hutts, which inadvertently made him less intimidating. George Lucas wanted Zero to sound like Truman Capote, who was an openly gay actor and writer. However, with this depiction, to many viewers, Zero is interpreted as queer-coded, and whether intentional or not has many attributes that closely align with negative gay stereotypes. Overall, Zero the Hutt isn’t a great villain and the only thing memorable about him is nothing good.
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The slavery arc is insanely dark
The Clone Wars led the way with this arc
Star Wars never shied away from difficult and complex topics; However, it is still a bit shocking to see a complete arc in The Clone Wars Dedicated to slavery. While Anakin Skywalker was initially introduced as a slave in Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom MenaceThe image of the film compared to what was seen in The Clone Wars is radically different. The slavery comes in The Clone Wars Season 4 featured major heroes like Anakin, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan and Captain Rex getting captured and brought into the Zygerian slave trade.
There are also different depictions of slavery shown in these episodes. Anakin was the official slave and bodyguard of the Zigerian queen; Meanwhile, Ahsoka Tano was literally in a cage, while Obi-Wan Kenobi and Captain Rex were put to work in a labor camp where they and other slaves were tortured. While the heroes eventually make it to the other side, their journey is filled with dark themes. Not only that, but this experience also brings out a darkness in Anakin, because he remembers his time as a slave on Tatooine.
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The banking deregulation arc is still one of the worst
Something to do with the intergalactic banking clan fell flat
The intergalactic banking clan was one of the most structurally important aspects of the Clone Wars and the success of the Republic; However, it is safe to say that kids did not want to learn about banking deregulation and its pitfalls in their animated space wizard show. The IBC is important in two different ways The Clone Wars. The first is in season 3 where Padmé Amidala works to stop a bill from passing in the Senate that would allow the Republic to open new lines of credit with the IBC, essentially prolonging the war instead of ending it.
The other circle takes place in The Clone Wars Season 6 when Rush Clovis took over as an adjudicator of the IBC as they faced financial collapse due to split money between the Republic and Separatists. Clovis worked alongside Padmé Amidala to expose the banking clan’s deceit and exposure to the Republic. The politics of both arcs fell flat, especially when there were likely other ways to show the struggles without discussing banking and bank deregulation.
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Obi-Wan left his enemies to die horrible deaths
The Season 4 finale was Obi-Wan’s darkest moment
When Obi-Wan Kenobi went to Darth Maul, he did not expect to also face Savage Opress. With the help of Asajj Ventress, Kenobi is able to escape the brothers, but how Ventress and Kenobi left their enemies is by far one of Obi-Wan’s darkest moments. After dueling with Maul and Savage, Obi-Wan and Ventress were able to get into the ship’s cockpit and separate it from the rest of the ship, leaving Maul and Savage stranded in the vacuum of space. They seem likely to die a slow, cold death.
This character moment might be expected from someone like Ventress who looked out for herself first and foremost, but not from a Jedi like Obi-Wan.
This character moment might be expected from someone like Ventress who looked out for herself first and foremost, but not from a Jedi like Obi-Wan. Ventress has a vendetta against Savage, whereas Obi-Wan is only trying to stop Maul from killing anyone else. Given how much the audience knows about Obi-Wan’s dedication to the teachings of the Jedi, this moment goes against all that.
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The Martez sisters added so little to the show’s final season
The characters are distracted from the main story
The Clone Wars Season 7 is widely regarded as the best, and for good reason. However, the low point of the season comes when the audience sees Ahsoka Tano for the first time since she left the Jedi Order. She meets the sisters Trace and Rafa Martez, who have dreams of being self-sufficient with their ship. However, the characters failed to connect with the audience. In many cases, Rafa was unnecessarily rude, and Trace was too naive to the point where it became annoying.
The characters have the opportunity to be really interesting, grounded characters, but end up being just a means to an end. Their goal as characters was to get Ahsoka to meet Bo-Katan Crisis and then lead the Siege of Mandalore. From the appearance of the sister Mortez in Star Wars: The Bad BatchIt is possible that they continued working with Ahsoka, but since they have not been seen since then, it is possible that Lucasfilm simply gave up on having them appear in different Star Wars Titles.
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Clone Wars animation wasn’t great for the first few seasons
And is a strong contrast to later seasons
There is no doubt that the development in technology greatly benefited as The Clone Wars People remember; However, going back and rewatching the first two seasons can be a bit rough. Character design like the clones and in particular Captain Rex, changed to make them look more proportional and human. The difference between the earlier animation and the later animation allowed for more use of facial expressions and more details to be featured.
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One of the reasons The Clone Wars Season 7 is so highly regarded because the animation got even better for the final season. For things like Ahsoka Tano’s lightsaber duel against Darth Maul was choreographed with motion capture, with original Maul actor Ray Park returning. Certain subtleties make the later seasons of The Clone Wars So much more enjoyable to watch, especially since sometimes the animation in the first seasons can take the audience away from the show.
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Bio-weapons are created and accidentally used
But never mentioned again
In A Clone Wars Season 1 arc, the heroes discover that the Separatists have established a secret laboratory on Naboo, where they are producing a biological weapon in the form of the Blue Shadow virus. In an age where a global pandemic sits firmly on the periphery of the audience, seeing a scientist purposefully create a virus designed to wipe out innocent people hits a little too close to home. The two-episode arc sees multiple people get infected with the virus including Padmé Amidala, Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex.
Although the subject of the two episodes did not age, the incident was never mentioned again. Count Dooku arranged for a dangerous virus to be brought back from extinction and was never held responsible for it. Of all the things Dooku did, this is one of the most nefarious, and it’s crazy that it’s never mentioned again, Especially since a Republican senator was infected and nearly died from it.
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The Jedi committed multiple war crimes despite being the good guys
Multiple Jedi committed horrific war crimes
There are several cases in The Clone Wars Where the Jedi fake surrendering to the Separatists, only to launch a surprise attack. Both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker did it, despite it being considered a war crime. While these nefarious acts are to be expected from the Separatists considering they are supposed to be the bad guys, the Jedi also commit many war crimes.
Other war crimes seen in The Clone Wars Include Ki-Adi-Mundi using a flamethrower, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Mace Windu torturing prisoners to get intel from them, and Jedi attacking escaped combatants. While this isn’t a complete list, it’s certainly enough to raise some eyebrows. When looking at The Clone Wars From an adult point of view, These war crimes are often meant to be played as funny, but in reality are kind of horrifying.
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The Republic trained domestic terrorists
They helped create Guerrera’s radical group
In a four-episode arc in The Clone Wars Season 5 The Republic sends Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi to the planet Underon to train rebel fighters. Obviously, the Jedi can’t fight alongside the Rebels since Underon is a separatist world, but the Jedi still train the Rebels to take down the droid army. They even help plan a rebellion to dethrone their new king.
While the Jedi did not know that So Guerrera would be the leader of a radical militant group, it is still the Republic’s fault. While sending aid and people to train the rebels to help liberate their world was the right thing to do, it is questionable if they went about it the right way. The decisions made by the Jedi are unsettling, which – to be fair – was the whole point. The problem is that later stories have shown these Clone Wars Character as a more heroic figure, which confuses the messaging somewhat.