Lucasfilm calls time on Star Wars: The Clone Wars

I hope there's a "A Celebration of:" article once this shows final episodes air as this was a surprisingly great show which deserved a lot more attention than it got. I realised the other day it shares a lot in common with Doctor Who quality wise:

- Sometimes you see an episode and it's one of the best things you've seen on TV all year, other times you wonder how an episode got past the writing stage.
- Sometimes an episode feels rushed and you think that they could have used another episode to tell it, other times you're wondering why they needed more than one episode to tell a simple story.
- Sometimes you think "that's a bit adult for a kids show" and other times you think "this is a bit kiddy for an adult show".
- The effects have been a bit ropey in the past but more recently the show has given us some of the most stunning visuals on TV.

Still, as I said, at its best it was a cracking show and I'd recommend it to anyone, as long as they don't take their Star Wars TOO seriously. Really looking forward to the final batch of episodes, however many we get, and I hope the new stuff they work on is made in the same style as The Clone Wars so they can reuse assets so we don't have to wait 5 seasons for the new show to catch up with The Clone Wars' now stunning visuals.

I had the misfortune of catching a recent episode of this. I would say that it caught the spirit of the prequels quite convincingly - no tension, a misunderstanding of suspense, and generally being the utter drizzling shits.

Anyone surprised by this?

i for one will really miss this show some of the story arcs were in fact much better than the prequal trilogy and did a lot to flesh out the clone wars. yes sometimes it was very kiddy but you know it was a cartoon at the end of the day. but overall it did more to flesh out the expanded universe than anything else star wars has ever done. i hope the last series end everything off nicely as there is a lot of stuff to sort out. the last series ended very well getting quite dark towards the end so if its going to end i hope they allow it to be ended in style.

Really REALLY tried to get into this. Watched all of Season One, half of Season Two.
It's all just so utterly robotic and lifeless. Not a spark of humanity in any of the characters. That was a problem in the prequels...but here even more so.
The action scenes were terrific but it just didn't hold my interest.
The earlier Clone Wars series was infinitely superior. Shame it got overwritten by this.

Yeah, same here. People harp on about how great the show is, and how much better than the prequels it is, but I tried to get into it and just found it was like watching someone else playing a computer game - even down to the Jedis essentially having to use a 'special move' to bring down 'end of level boss' type droids.

Hopefully, Disney calling time on it isn't just ending their relationship with CN, it's them unofficially drawing a line under the prequels and concentrating on pushing the franchise in new directions instead.

Definitely has become (Series 1 not that great) a proper indicator of what Lucas could've done with the prequel universe. A really good cartoon.

I hope they keep Ahsoka on the run, disappears off into exile, then she pops up older in Episode VII. A good way to link the new films with the prequels without actually , you know, having to link them to the prequels. They got all tricksy with Anakin seeing flash-forwards to the Death Star destroying Alderaan, so they could maybe even do that. Ahsoka has visions of things that end up happening in Episode VII. That would be pretty cool.

Definitely has become (Series 1 not that great) a proper indicator of what Lucas could've done with the prequel universe. A really good cartoon.

I hope they keep Ahsoka on the run, disappears off into exile, then she pops up older in Episode VII. A good way to link the new films with the prequels without actually , you know, having to link them to the cack prequels.

They've already got all tricksy with Anakin seeing flash-forwards to the Death Star destroying Alderaan, so they could maybe even do that. Ahsoka has visions of things that end up happening in Episode VII. That would be pretty cool.

This is just weird, first this series was presented as prime canon and now they are not finishing all the plotlines in the series (Darth Maul for instance), did some executive from SyFy or MGM get a job at Lucasfilm? The same one that killed Stargate: Atlantis without proper conclusion? Anyhow, lets hope this bonuscontent is coming in the form of special TV movies and not in comics or something like that.

It really sucks, it had gotten really quite good over the last few year, with some interesting story lines. I loved the fact that they weren't afraid to span a story line over 4 or 5 episodes.

At least they managed to bring the whole series full circle with Ahsoka leaving the order, which makes me think that maybe someone had quietly cancelled this a while ago.

It was basically a kids show, and had to be viewed with that in mind. Yes, logic wasn't always applied to situations and sometimes things didn't always make sense, but it was a really good addition to the Star Wars cannon.

I'm hoping for a Knights of the Old Republic animation now.

This is article is completely misleading, it's got nothing to do with Kathleen Kennedy's shake-up of Lucasfilm - it was ALWAYS only ever planned as a five season series right from the very start.

Not true. The only thing they said was that "at least" 100 episodes WOULD be produced which does equate to five seasons but those behind the program clearly had no plan of stopping as soon as they are. They ended their fifth season (108th episode was the last one aired) with a tonne of stories still half told and the way they've paced the progression of these stories would imply that they were planning to make at LEAST two more seasons. Maul's barely been introduced! Now they're having to wrap up all the loose ends very suddenly and, even though they say they're doing that, I wouldn't be surprised if the remaining episodes we got were just those that were well into production once the show was cancelled. Great episodes maybe, but I doubt we'll get every storyline neatly concluded.

Could this be the Old Republic?! Woo! I'm excited for the show, but not that it is going to be airing on XD.

I agree...I got to the season three mark and just gave up. Its exactly like the prequels, souless and crap.

Last thing I saw doing the rounds, is that they had dug up the half of Darth Maul that had somehow survived falling down a shaft a few thousand feet deep, and he was running around with half a bionic body... Pants!

The Clone Wars = tired recycled ideas and enemies throw at the screen with thousands of clones along with Obi Wan and Anakin shouting at each another. Add Ahsoka mooching about and being clever / a twat / sulky and repeat for a hundred episodes. There you go...the Clone Wars in a paragraph.

Saw this coming when Hasbro cancelled the figure line a few weeks back.

Only on series 3 myself - hit & miss thus far, but great quality. Not convinced about bringing Darth Maul back though.

New direction...put your money on the Old Republic!

This is how the Empire began.

I'm going to really miss the show. The last two seasons were really good overall, though it contains a good amount of filler episodes like seasons 1-4. I can't imagine the new show on Disney XD will be anything special, just check out their latest SpiderMan series, it's unwatchable. I wouldn't expect much.

S5 was a flaming bag of dog s***, don't let that ruin the other seasons for you. They split S5 into 5 four episode arcs, 3 ranged from just okay to terrible and the last 2 arcs were brilliant. Watch the show from the beginning, stick with it and I don't doubt that you would like it a lot.

The Force sustained him, Vader lived after getting all of his limbs burned off and people are ok with that.

What, and the 4 part Onderon, youngling and droid arcs weren't filler in season 5? It had NOTHING about the war or the clones, which are both in the title of the show.