For many people, the “Star Wars” universe begins and ends with the original, prequel and continuation trilogies, and the handful of benefits and live series on Disney +. But the pure and hard know that some of the best stories told in a galaxy far, far take place in fact in the various animated programs that have been published.
It is a lot of episodes to scrink – especially with regard to “The Clone Wars” – so we set up a guide for some of the best episodes of Star Wars that animated programs have to offer. Each of these develops on the tradition, introduce something discussed in a live property, or are just a damn good time and they are all streaming on Disney +.
Star Wars Rebels
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Allows you to gap the cheating at the top. Is this a cop to list an entire series of four seasons on a guide for the episodes of a franchise that cannot be missed? Yes. Do the “rebels” are worth your full time? Absolutely.
“Rebels” was one of the first things made that Disney after acquiring Star Wars rights and it remains their best contribution. Ezra’s constant struggle between tractions on the clear and dark side, Kanan’s guilt on survival to survive 66, the love story of Hera and Kanan, a family trope found – the list of reasons why the rules of the show are growing and again. In addition, he presented to us everyone’s favorite psycho-droid: Chopper.
Also for fans of the Disney +”Ahsoka” series, “Rebels” has almost become required.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The clones
Episodes: “Clone Cadets” (S3E1), “Rookies” (S1E5), “Arc Troopers” (S3E2)
It would not be Star Wars if there was no visualization / unnecessarily complicated complex liberation order. An episode of season 1 which received episodes of prequel and immediately in season 3, this arc showed what made the series “The Clone Wars” so special – humanize the clones.
Where the films focused on the war from the point of view of the Jedi, these episodes show a group of clones – Hevy, Echo, Fives and Cutup – while they follow the training of the troops and set out how to stand out as an individual in a war which considers them largely as cannon fodder.
Nocturnes
Episodes: “Nightsists” (S3E12), “Monster” (S3E13), “Witches of the Mist” (S3E14)
“The Clone Wars” was not afraid to expand history and mythology in new strange corners. If you thought that the strength and the Midichlorians were strange, the nocturnes introduced into this arc exercise complete magic. The arc is also another heavy inspiration for attempts to act later, with nights playing a major role in the rear half of the first season of Ahsoka.
Mortis
Episodes: “Overlords” (S3E15), “Altar of Mortis” (S3E16), “Ghosts of Mortis” (S3E17)
Anakin Skywalker has chosen a prophecy is at the center of the prequel trilogy, but it was mainly summed up with an immaculate conception similar to Christ caused by force. The Arc de Mortis made a valiant and largely successful attempt to remove the puff of the prequel films and give it a Star Wars tour.
Many of “The Clone Wars” often look like Dave Filoni who tries to withdraw and to fill the lowest moments of the prequels of George Lucas and the Arc de Mortis is among the most successful.
General Krell
Episodes: “Darkness on Umbara” (S4E7), “The General” (S4E8), “Dissent plan” (S4E9), “Carnage of Krell” (S4E10)
Not all Jedi are paragones of good, and this arc explores this. Another story that puts clones in the foreground as they deal with the mismanagement of a battle theater by Jedi General Krell. Unlike Jedi, we are used to seeing, Krell does not see clones as something other than a tool to win the war. He starts terrible and widespread throughout the arc, which makes an interesting watch.
The return of Dark Maul
Episodes: “Brothers” (S4E21), “Revenge” (S4E22)
The favorite anecdote to anyone looking at “The Clone Wars” while it was broadcast or shortly after was “did you know that Dark Maul was not dead in the Phantom threatened?” Well, these are the episodes where it is revealed and they are phenomenal whether you know the torsion or not.
Shocker: being cut in half and blocked on a planet that works like a dumping ground for more than a decade, Maul is quite spoiled. The episodes have a feeling of horror film while Maul rushes behind the scenes of the spider legs which he builds from machine parts to replace his lower half. Sam Witwer gives the first of many powerful performances as a Maul, which goes from large parts of the episode whisperingly whispening between the episodes of rage.
Order a close call for 66
Episodes: “The Unknown” (S6E1), “Conspiracy” (s6e2), “Fugitive” (s6e3), “Orders” (s6e4)
One of the great revelations of season 6 – which was a meli -melo of episodes finished published on Netflix after Cartoon Network canceled the program after season 5 – was that order 66 was almost thwarted by a single clone. After a programming error, a clone initiates order 66 by itself, a separate clone is done on itself to investigate. The following is an arc that almost looks like a black crime.
Ahsoka’s decision
Episodes: “Sabotage” (S5E17), “The Jedi who knew too much” (S5E18), “To Catch a Jedi” (S5e19), “The Wrong Jedi” (S5e20)
“The Clone Wars” is largely the story of Ahsoka and this final arc of season 5 wrapped this story – at least the story of Ahsoka Tano, Jedi Knight. The last two seasons have seen Ahsoka – like her master Anakin – realize that the Jedi order really does not have all the answers and in many ways is a largely hypocritical group.
All this happens here when the order accuses him of a crime and the body of his status, only to try to make it with a “bad” when it proves its innocence. She does not accept and leaves the order for good. Seeing Ahsoka move away from Anakin while he pleads for her to stay is one of the most memorable moments in the show.
Additional bonus: The arc answers the question that reproached itself immediately after the start of the show in 2008: “If Anakin had a Padawan, where was she during order 66?”
Mandalore’s seat
Episodes: “Old Friends Not Forgotten” (S7e9), “The Phantom Apprentice” (S7e10), “Shattered” (S7E11), “Victory & Death” (S7E12)
The siege of the Mandalore arc is as good as any of the movies of Star Wars Disney has put and better than at least half of them. He attaches many persistent history sons and finally takes place in tandem with the back half of “Revenge of the Sith”. Ahsoka against Maul is a stellar fight, Rex fighting the effects of order 66 will put tears in your eyes and the moments of closing of the final episode will remain with you long after the end.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
“The lonely clone” (S2E3)
The show can be called “The Bad Batch”, but in many ways, this is the story of Crosshair. He was the villain of the first season – believing that he was a “good clone” and according to the orders while staying with the new empire while the rest of the lot fled – but this episode from the start of season 2 shows the benefits of this choice. He is alone in a world that changes too quickly and the clones are being eliminated for Stormtroopers. He has trouble finding his place and slowly realizes that he already had it with the lot.
“The outpost” (S2E12)
The clones are one thing in the past and in “the outpost”, Crosshair finally goes to what he chose the bad side. He is assigned to an outpost where another clone named Mayday is displayed – and after being reprimanded for losing funds, the two leave.
They are struck by an avalanche shortly after finding the lost boxes (which had just had Stormtrooper equipment for the newly conscripted soldiers) and Mayday is almost killed. Crosshair refuses to leave the clone behind and the two barely go up. Instead of welcoming a hero, an imperial lieutenant says that the use of resources to save Mayday would be a waste and that the clone dies.
Watching Crosshair finally realizes that he is not on the right side of the war and drop his mentality of “good follow -up clones” is satisfactory, but the road to get there is brutal.
“Plan 99” (S2E16)
Star Wars is doing the Found Family Trope and “The Bad Batch” very well is no exception. Thus, when one of the members of this family is lost, he leaves a mark. The second season of the show did a lot to expand each member of the lot, but the technology stood out behind only Crosshair – which makes its sacrifice in the final of season 2 with equal and eviscerated equal parts.
“The Harbinger” (S3E9)
It’s fun to see unexpected faces appear in these shows, and see Asajj Ventress interacting with the lot is a joy in itself. Not only does this episode mark the fan safely after order 66, but its scenes with Omega show that it has softened just enough in all the right places and has remained hardened in others to cement it as one of the best contributions of animated programs.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
The Dooku Tale
Episodes: “Justice” (S1, E2), “Choices” (S1, E3), “The Sith Lord” (S1E4)
To strictly cinema observers, we know little about Count Dooku. He presents himself in a way in “Attack of the Clone” to upset Anakin and Obi-Wan until his beheading in the first moments of “Revenge of the Sith”. Animated fans – mainly through the series “The Clone Wars” – obtained a little more what the former Jedi was up to these films.
It was only during the three episodes centered on Dooku in “Tales of the Jedi” that we learned about the Count of Young people. If you were curious about his beginnings in order, how he died of his apprentice Qu-Gon Jin and, finally, his fall on the verge of Darkside, these new ones are the episodes for you.
