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Dude, wait... hold up -

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So you know how I said awhile back that I was picking up The Clone Wars again?

Clone Wars was my childhood. Like, it was my childhood. And also Ninjago but that's a story for another day. I have no memory of this, but my mom tells the story of me constantly insisting my name was Anakin, such that I even carved it into my door at one point - which was weird, considering I had a crush on Ahsoka.

In retrospect, that's actually... quite problematic.

But anyways, back to the story. I didn't actually have access to most of the series. We just had the first couple seasons on DVD, and I never really even watched those front to back - I'd just pick out episodes at random to watch epic lightsaber duels and clone troopers blasting out battle droids.

Then comes Covid. I get sick at one point, and due to a decided lack of rapid testing (y'know... the dark ages), I was confined to my room. Upon request I got the Disney+ account and password, and decided to sink my teeth back into the series to see if it was any good.

I got a few seasons in. Just past all that boring yawnfest Padme politics stuff. Then I got my negative results back and returned to the real world. I wasn't enjoying it by then, so I didn't really miss it much.

Fast forward to now. Two... two years later? Three? Blimey. Anyways, I'm getting these videos in my youtube recommend about Star Wars this and that (probably because I'd just come off Andor and had been binging video essays about how god flipping incredible that show was) - one of which in particular being about the politics of star wars. It had a whole section dedicated to the Clone Wars, but I wound up skipping it because a part of me didn't want to be spoiled.

Then it occured to me.

Me? Spoiled? A show that came out in 2008?

I have Disney+! I have time!

So I start hitting the episodes.

And

holy

h e c k

This show is bloody incredible.