a5c7b9f00b Chronicling the events that took place between <a href=">Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and <a href=">Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), The Clone Wars follows the wartime days of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. The Clone Wars bridges the gap between The Original and Prequel Trilogies of The Star Wars Saga and brings new characters to the forefront of Star Wars canon, including Anakin's apprentice Ahsoka Tano, and Captain Rex. Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists. 3 episodes in and wow! What a series. Hasn't premiered in the uk yet so I have been watching the episodes on the net (yes naughty naughty I know) and I have been mesmerised. Yes some of the voice acting is pretty bad (obi wan in the third episode stands out) and the animation takes a lot of getting used to, but it is absolutely amazing.<br/><br/>Each episode so far has blown me away and this is at the start. I can't wait to see what they do with the battle scenes. If there is one thing Lucas can do right, that's a fight/battle and I'm sure it wont peter out in later episodes like a lot of US progammes do to lead up to a finale.<br/><br/>10/10. Finally something worth watching on TV when I think of Star Wars, I don't think of the original trilogy, I don't think of the prequel movies, I don't even think of episode 7 or rogue one, no, I think of The clone wars TV series and Battlefront 2. <br/><br/>As a child I loved the clone wars TV series, I have so many great memories of watching season 1 and 2 when I was 9 years old and then playing the Lego game with my friends, so many fun times, and as I look back on the show, I realize it's even better to me now than it was before. The stories are very compelling and the action is kind of intense for a kids show but that I love. When I thought the show couldn't get better they introduced Pre Viszla and the remnants of Death watch. that's another big plus, the characters are amazing! The Pre Viszla and Darth Maul episodes were awesome, watching them duel to the death was really fun to watch, and by the way this show looks amazing. But my favorite episodes are definitely the Umbara battle episodes with the 501st. they completely humanized the clones and made you feel for every single soldier on the battlefield. I even went as far to try and recreate it on my Star Wars battlefront 2 game I was so in love with those episodes. But just because those episodes were amazing doesn't mean the rest weren't amazing, because they were. Pretty much all of the episodes are a 10/10 in my opinion and the looks, the acting, the story, the characters, all brilliant. If you want to get a taste of it, then don't watch the clone wars movie, behind he scenes stuff turned that movie into a mess, watch the Umbara episodes instead, and by the way there are a ton of different clones with tons of cool designs so for those of you wondering, it focuses a lot on the clones themselves. <br/><br/>All in all I have so many good memories from this show and I'm hoping Rebels is going to be just as good. 10/10 all the way. No. This series neither is a reboot of the original <a href="/title/tt0361243/">Clone Wars</a> (without a "The" in the title) cartoon nor contradicts or erases it from the canon. However, The Clone Wars was considered "television canon" while Clone Wars was considered "continuity canon", which meant the material from the latter (the older series) would be written off as erroneous in the event of contradiction between the two. Furthermore, since the reformation of Star Wars canon announced by the Lucasfilm Story Group, only select works outside of the ordinal Star Wars movies have a confirmed place in the continuity of the movies, and while The Clone Wars has been included, Clone Wars (along with other several <a href="/company/co0071326/">Lucasfilm</a>-made spin-offs of Star Wars, as well as all Expanded Universe works, published before mid-April 2014) has not, thus as far as the two "Clone Wars" series are concerned, the implications are the same as before, except the newer series is supposedly immune to being retconned in the future.<br/><br/>Prior to the change, series creators claimed that continuity with the other Expanded Universe works was being taken very seriously by them, with <a href="/name/nm1396048/">Dave Filoni</a> being well-versed in the Expanded Universe. However, <a href="/name/nm0000184/">George Lucas</a> had the right to make slight adjustments for the sake of the story. Additionally, he was consulted directly when dealing with the major characters. According to a November 2006 internet post by <a href="/name/nm3088428/">Randy Stradley</a>, editor and author of Dark Horse Comics, he had met with <a href="/company/co0196838/">Lucasfilm Animation</a> to discuss integrating the show with the Clone Wars comics. However, the feature film and television series introduced a number of continuity inconsistencies, some of which directly contradict previously published sources and require retconning or major shifts in the previously established Clone Wars timeline, which are yet to be determined by <a href="/name/nm0154863/">Leland Chee</a>, the keeper of the Holocron continuity database. Chee had indicated that they will wait until the series is largely completed before issuing "a revamped timeline" (as shown here).<br/><br/>Lucasfilm confirmed with <a href="/company/co0086701/">TV Guide</a> that "The Clone Wars does not supersede the original Clone Wars series in continuity, but instead expands upon what the original series established. However, Filoni had defended any differences in continuity: "But there is never an implicit connection between the micro-series that Cartoon Network did previously and the series that were doing now. I personally as a fan never think of it as discrediting any of the other material. It's just that other material is from a different point of view, a different look at the war and take on the war. It's an ever-Expanding Universe in a lot of ways."<br/><br/>This entire series takes place in Clone Wars' third season episode <a href="/title/tt0859544/">Chapter 22</a>, in the space of time during the montage that covers an unknown amount of time. <a href="/title/tt0859543/">Chapter 21</a> ends just after the introduction of General Grievous, as Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight, while <a href="/title/tt0859545/">Chapter 23</a> begins the Invasion of Coruscant leading directly into the events of <a href="/title/tt0121766/">Revenge of the Sith</a>.<br/><br/>With the Lucasfilm Story Group's declaration to uncanonize the former Expanded Universe (now rebranded "Legends"), this series remains canon while the older 2D-animated one does not. In the box set for the first season of the series, the producers included special "Director's Cut" versions for seven of the episodes. These versions are probably just the original unedited versions which had to be shortened in order to fit in the correct time limit for airing on a television channel.