How I realized I was over Star Wars completely

[anarky]

I make no secret of being the biggest Clone Wars naysayer. And I'll still admit the early animation is weak, it absolutely does not work within Legends continuity no matter how hard they tried ("Barriss is a year older than Anakin and died a Knight during Order 66? Fuck that, she's now younger than Ahsoka."), and both the existence of Ahsoka and the resurrection of Maul were really bad ideas no matter what kind of gold they made out of those turds.

As for the order, no one knows. Apparently a lot of people have pointed out that the callbacks in The Mandalorian and BOBF would make a lot of people check out the cartoons, and Disney+ could easily create a playlist of sorts in order, but it's still the way it is. It's not even like Firefly, where the network fucked up, since there's shit mixed up across multiple seasons. Even when they did Season 7 on Disney+, it's out of order! (Though I think that's because two of the arcs in that season are great, and the one that comes chronologically first may be the worst in the series, and they didn't want to lead off with shit. It's four episodes that could've easily have been two, maybe even one. There's actually an episode, minor spoilers, that starts with Ahsoka in prison, and she escapes, only to get caught and put back in the same cell, with absolutely nothing of importance happening, and you're just sitting there saying, "Why the fuck did they waste thirty minutes on this?")

I'd say it's worth the hassle, if only to set up Rebels, which by Season 2 is frigging amazing.

[Diabolical]

No.
You're initial thoughts at still correct.

[Tom Foolery]

I think I’ve watched the first 3-4 episodes of Rebels a few times…I just couldn’t get into it.

I’ve also tried restarting Clone Wars and lost interest. I think I may just pick a random later season (3 or 4) and start watching. If it seems familiar, I’ll keep watching until it starts being unfamiliar. Then I’ll know where I stopped watching.

[anarky]

I think I’ve watched the first 3-4 episodes of Rebels a few times…I just couldn’t get into it.

You should try again and make yourself get to the end of Season 1. It flounders a little bit at first, then really gets good toward the end of the first season.

By the time you get to Season 3, the introduction of Thrawn is just gravy. (And he's very faithful to the print version.)

[Diabolical]

If you can get past the farting space whales.

[Ran]

There were farting space whales in Rebels? Either I don't remember it, or I missed that part. Ezra was kind of annoying throughout most of it and I just couldn't stop imagining him basically being Aladdin.

I couldn't remember Kanan's story and looked him up on Wookieepedia. I may have missed more episodes that I thought.

And is it my imagination, or was "One Way Out" the most intense 30 minutes in Star Wars?

[Diabolical]

I don't think it was farting space whales exactly, but they were pretty damn stupid. And I think it was somewhere in season 2.

Tales of the Jedi was very meh also. Baby Ahsoka was creepy as hell and that tiger thing looked like it was from a PS1 game.
Young Dooku and Qui-Gon looked like absolute shit and sounded really weird.
The only halfway decent short was the Yaddle one.

[vynsane]

And is it my imagination, or was "One Way Out" the most intense 30 minutes in Star Wars?

absolutely not your imagination, it was great!

Tales of the Jedi was very meh also. Baby Ahsoka was creepy as hell and that tiger thing looked like it was from a PS1 game.
Young Dooku and Qui-Gon looked like absolute shit and sounded really weird.
The only halfway decent short was the Yaddle one.

i didn't like the acting for Dooku - the voice sounded right, but the acting was more like Severus Snape than Count Dooku. the acting didn't have that Christopher Lee air of royalty, it was too flat. young Qui-Gon was a little too young, would've liked a little more bass in the voice.

over-all i liked TofJ, and you would have to know TCW pretty well in order to get the references for the Ahsoka arc (like training against Rex's troops culminating in the lead-in to her Order 66 fight).

[jjreason]

Good ending for Andor. I think one more season is the right amount. I would 100% get on top of Mon Mothma for a full 14 seconds if provided the opportunity.

[Tom Foolery]

I felt like they left every single plot point dangling. It was a good episode, but the series definitely peaked a couple episodes ago.

The post credit stinger gave me chills.

He contributed to building the thing that killed him!! #makesyouthink

[Ran]

I assumed that was what the prisoners were building. If this takes place 5 years before Rogue One, I don't think it should have been as complete as it was.

They really left the whole thing hanging for season 2.

[Ran]

Weird start to Season 3 of the Mandolorian. It made me think about watching Rebels again.

[jjreason]

I didn't like it to be honest. I think I'm going to hate every minute those pirates are on screen. The weequay costumes looked sub par compared to what we're used to - more like Dr. Who quality... if that. The lead pirate looked like something out of a past-its-prime Pirates of the Caribbean... imagine them trying to top Davy Jones & coming up with a baddy comprised of living seaweed or something.

[Diabolical]

At least it wasn't Hondo...

[jjreason]

I suspect he'll show up sooner rather than later.