How Clone Wars' Series Finale Cemented Its Legacy In Star Wars
Star Wars: The Clone Wars offered a high-stakes finale for a story that had gone through seven seasons, and it did so while honoring the show’s main legacy in Star Wars. After years of fan campaigns, Clone Wars was brought back for one final season on Disney+. With a production value higher than ever and cutting-edge animation technology at their disposal, the producers of Clone Wars had a chance to tell a few more stories before finally closing the Order 66 chapter of the Star Wars timeline.
In a way, Clone Wars has had three different finales. The first was “The Wrong Jedi,” the last Clone Wars episode produced for Cartoon Network before the show was canceled following Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm. The second one was “Sacrifice,” the final episode of The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions – a season that aired on Netflix as a way to release the episodes that had already been finished. Last, after Disney+’s revival of The Clone Wars, the show finally received a proper ending, one that celebrated its importance to Star Wars.
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In the Clone Wars series finale, “Victory and Death,” audiences only follow three characters: Ahsoka, Rex, and Maul, and they all have one thing in common. Each of these characters was a major addition to the Star Wars universe introduced by Clone Wars. Of course, Darth Maul already existed, but his revival and how he broke free of the Sith influence to become a major player of his own were all done in Clone Wars. The show had dozens of characters at its disposal to use in the finale, but it chose to honor its most crucial contributions to the Star Wars canon: the creation of Ahsoka and Captain Rex and the rescue of
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