![]() The spirit of Star Wars endured, and every week I was reminded of why I loved these stories in the first place: friendship. At the time, my weekly adventure with Skyguy and Snips was more than enough. Two additional animated shows, books and comics galore, a live-action series, and five new films? I had no clue that any of that was coming, and it didn’t matter. I couldn't have known at the time that the series would ultimately prove to not only be a battery that kept the GFFA alive but to be a series that thrives like never before in the Star Wars-laden time we live in now. ![]() It was white-hot with fervor and glorious nerdery once more. The Twilight Escapes The Malevolence Ī colleague of mine at the time whom I convinced to watch the episodes with me summed it up well: "It’s just… it's more Star Wars… it’s like there's more Star Wars now!" That was how I experienced Season 1 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and that was how my insane love of Star Wars went from smoldering ruin to a passionate flame. Just when I thought I was out, Star Wars pulled me back in. I probably watched the episode called “Ambush” eight times in total that day, and then went on to the second episode released, “Rising Malevolence.” I watched that around eight times, too. Then I gave it another watch, followed by four more watches. I hit purchase, I downloaded it onto my video iPod, and I gave it a watch. I wasn’t in a Star Wars mood at all, but what the kriff. The first episode of The Clone Wars, it turned out, had Yoda in it! It wasn't expensive, and I was bored. I didn’t even see the 2008 film in theaters because I was done with Star Wars, right? What was this thing? Star Wars: The Clone Wars looked odd, and who was this Togruta Padawan that Anakin had all of a sudden? Again, I didn’t think I wanted or needed any of it. We already had Tartakovsky’s series, what was left? Initial artwork looked blocky and weird, and then trailers began to appear for the 2008 feature film that Lucas decided would begin the series. I didn’t think I needed it, and I didn’t think I wanted it. Star Wars: The Clone Wars was the reason why.Īfter the prequels were over, George Lucas announced he was working on a new series about the Clone Wars, one that would be done with computer animation, one that would really illuminate the period of GFFA (Galaxy Far, Far Away) history that was first referred to in the original film. But Disney, Rey, Mando, and the rest of the new order were not the reasons why. The Wars had been completed, and there was no story left to tell. My love of it grew in the really dark time between the original trilogy and prequels (a time when nobody understood why I was crazy about those three old space movies), but in 2006, I felt like the journey was truly over. I had grown up with the original Star Wars trilogy - I was born into a world where it was already a thing. At least, that's what I (and so many others) thought. Tales in the galaxy far, far away would end right there, with the Jedi decimated, Yoda and Obi-Wan in exile, and some very well-drawn shorts filling in some gaps between Episodes II and III. Time to love and get angry about some other franchise. Genndy Tartakovsky created a series of shorts called Star Wars: Clone Wars, and for all anyone knew, that was it. And though I loved it (and still do, perhaps even more), fans, by and large, were not thrilled, which was the general response at the time to all of the films in the prequel trilogy. The prequel trilogy had finished the previous year with Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. It was 2006, and it was a dark time for the Rebellion.
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