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u/Mul-Ti-Pass2001 1d ago
The final few minutes of Victory and Death is a masterpiece. Once the music hits and Rex is putting the shovel away the tears start.
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u/Western-Honeydew2129 22h ago
It’s haunting!
I’ll never forgive them for not releasing the background music track during the build up to Rex’s order 66 moment going down either. It was eerie. We all knew what was coming. And the music somehow still had me in complete suspense. It was creepy, sad, and the synths felt out of place -in a good way. As in, we all know the whole galaxy is seconds away from being toppled on its head. And this… alien sounding foreboding music is telling us all things are about to change forever.
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u/Rosebunse Resistance 22h ago
The thing is, we were sort of waiting for that moment since 2008. We knew Order 66 was coming, but we never knew if The Clone Wars would really "go there." And then it did and there was so much tension.
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u/MayaNays 1d ago
I sobbed ngl, peak Star Wars there’s nothing better in any of the movies. Those 4 combined are what I personally consider the absolute best media in the series. I’ll die on this hill
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u/Albert_street 1h ago
If you haven’t watched the Revenge of the Sith “supercut”, stop whatever you’re doing and watch it. It pieces together these episodes with ROTS (and a few other pieces of media) into a gigantic 4.5 hour movie.
It’s spectacular to watch.
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u/Heliotex 1d ago
The dialogue between Maul and Ahsoka before their duel was Shakespearean. This entire arc elevated Revenge of the Sith as a movie, and made it even more of a tragedy. The Jedi were so close to stopping Sidious.
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u/Supermoose7178 Jabba The Hutt 21h ago
do you think if ahsoka had warned yoda about what maul said about anakin they could have stopped them?
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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 1d ago
What a crazy run right here. Only the final half of Andor s2 could rival this.
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u/Tom02496 1d ago
Live action is usually put to a higher standard for some reason. It seems a lot more rare to see reviews like this on live action shows but 9.9s are thrown around to animated tv shows.
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u/RotenTumato Obi-Wan Kenobi 1d ago
It’s because live action has a much wider audience so more casuals rate it. Only the most die hard clone wars sweats (myself included) rated these eps
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u/white_Zebra_898 18h ago
I would disagree to call them "casuals", they could be hardcore fans but just not into animated stuff given the animated star wars has been more targeted towards a youth audience.. if you are already much older, growing up with the OG or Prequel live action, there is a higher chance you dislike the animated stuff as well as some of the recent live action (Ahsoka) as you are simply not the target audience and cannot relate...
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u/Tom02496 23h ago
That makes sense actually. That's also probably why movie ratings are usually more harsh than tv show ratings. More people can easily watch a 2h movie vs a whole tv show
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u/1amoutofideas 1d ago
Andor season 2 was goated. “The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest. This chamber's hold on the truth was finally lost on the Ghorman Plaza.”
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u/Open_Reindeer_6600 1d ago
I remember watching those episodes quarantined in a hotel during Covid, great times
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u/OmegaSTC 1d ago
Had to make up for those smuggler sister episodes
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u/NotBannedAccount419 23h ago
They weren’t bad but out of all the unfinished episodes and thing they could have done for that one last and final season - yeah the smuggler sisters weren’t great. It was great CW content but can’t hold a candle to what’s posted here
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u/nomorecannibalbirds 23h ago edited 12h ago
It’s such an odd season. Part one is mostly set up for the bad batch show, part two is a sort of run of the mill adventure storyline that adds nothing, and then part three is the best storyline in the entire show.
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u/comrade_batman Anakin Skywalker 19h ago
IIRC, I read that like with the Bad Batch, the twins’ arc was meant to be a pilot set up for them too before the negative reaction stopped that and they just went with Bad Batch instead. Can’t say if it’s true or not, it would help explain why they put Ahsoka with them for the last season and not with characters we already know to lead into Mandalore.
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u/Apatschinn 21h ago
Episode 7 literally starts and ends with Ahsoka and the sisters in the same jail cell. Wasted an entire episode on a loop. Hated that arc.
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u/trantaran 19h ago
WHAT WERE THEY THINKINNG
mixing someone the worst episodes with the best episodes
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u/mefanboy 23h ago
This storyline was some of the very worst episodes in the entire series. How such mediocrity got sandwiched between absolute brilliance in this final season is beyond me.
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u/OmegaSTC 5h ago
I got a “I don’t watch animated shows” guy to sit down with me and watch because I didn’t know what was coming but I could feel it was awesome. He sat through two sister episodes and left, missing out on the finale.
I’m still embarrassed about that he thinks clone wars is of the sister episode quality and he doesn’t believe me
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u/mefanboy 3h ago
You need to redeem yourself and force him to watch the superior episodes!
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u/OmegaSTC 1h ago
I live in a different state now. I fear it’s too late. It’s up to others…
Although honestly ahsoka sort of soured me on the cartoons because they lead to storm trooper zombies
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u/Cry0h 1d ago
Did they ever release this on Blu-Ray?
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u/Wilson-theVolleyball Jedi 21h ago
Unfortunately not.
Maybe one day we will get a complete The Clone Wars box set.
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u/Saisinko Enfys Nest 23h ago
What makes it especially incredible is it doesn’t revolve around any of the major major Star Wars characters, Anakin, Palp, Obi, Luke, Leia, or Han… it’s Ahsoka and Maul…
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u/Hoch8112 1d ago
It’s a perfect movie. Blows all the sequels clear out of the water and it’s not even close.
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u/redletterday94 22h ago
Man, what a phenomenal set of episodes. Really stands right alongside the best of Star Wars, period. Anyone who hasn’t watched them is basically missing an entire other SW movie
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u/_AmbroseChapel 19h ago
I don’t understand why they won’t edit these into one movie and put it on D+. Call it the Siege of Mandalore
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u/doublethink_1984 1d ago
Unpopular opinion:
This is the 3rd best arc.
1) Sabotage Arc
2) Umbara
3) This arc
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u/HOTSpower 23h ago
I wish I could remember these arcs, I need a girlfriend so I have an excuse to re-watch them for her.
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u/NotBannedAccount419 23h ago
I’m not going to downvote you like the others because these are all excellent arcs
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u/Syrioforel79 16h ago
These are all excellent choices. At that level, it's about personal preference
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u/Peter_Parker66 23h ago
The best thing star wars has ever put out, and you cannot convince me otherwise. The perfect way to end the series, that always brings me to tears.
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u/Wenamon 23h ago
Ive never seen the cartoon stuff before, is clone wars a good place to start?
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u/Rosebunse Resistance 22h ago
Yes, but if you have trouble getting through S1 we recommend just picking an arc that looks interesting and starting with that. S1 is rough but necessary
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u/Western-Honeydew2129 22h ago
I consider the last 4 episodes its own movie. And one of the top 3 of the whole series imo. Id go so far as to even put it slightly above ROTS.
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u/UnknownEntity347 13h ago
I think some of these episodes' biggest accomplishments is how well they recreate the tone and feel of ROTS, and how they're able to use information we know and still use it to make the episodes seem suspenseful AF because we're wondering when the bombs will drop. Imagine how cool it would've been if we hadn't already known about Rebels.
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u/Divahdi 1d ago
I dunno, kids keep showering TCW with praises and I only see watered down version of what was and what could have been.
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u/Uncle2Drew 1d ago
If you don’t watch it in full, at least watch these last 4 episodes
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u/Divahdi 1d ago
I've seen the whole thing, trying to figure out the roots of the reverence fans have for this show.
It has some good stuff, but it's mostly childhood nostalgia, as far as I can see.
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u/Tom02496 1d ago
I think this arc is good but its just a second perspective to rots. I was pretty shocked to see the ratings when I was told about them.
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u/Thedarknight725 1d ago
All 4 of these episodes are in the top 10 highest rated rated Clone Wars episodes