Review: Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Staffel 3 (Serie)

Clancy Brown (Savage Opress [Stimme])
Matthew Wood (General Grievous and more [Stimme])
Seth Green (Ion Papanoida [Stimme])
Anthony Daniels (C-3PO [Stimme])
Liam Neeson (Qui-Gon Jinn [Stimme])
Pernilla August (Shmi [Stimme])
Ahmed Best (Jar Jar [Stimme])
Jaime King (Aurra Sing [Stimme])-
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Animation | Adventure | Science fiction | Action

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The war between the republic and the separatists is still raging, but while Padmé Amidala is trying to smooth things over with diplomatic skill and is possibly able to initiate peace negotiations, the Jedi are still struggling with Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress, not to mention that the banking clan and the trade federation are always causing new problems. When a high-ranking Jedi is kidnapped and imprisoned, while Obi-Wan, Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka encounter an unexpectedly powerful place in the vastness of space, it looks extremely bad for the republic and its efforts to break up the galaxy to prevent …

Review:

After a whole handful of new ones recently Star-Wars-Series has been announced, it makes double sense that I am now finally also the third season Star Wars: The Clone Wars before next week for the second season review The Mandalorian goes. And actually, after I approached the series with very cautious expectations and these should initially prove to be true, the first leaps in quality can now be noticed, so that there were several three-part series within the season that definitely knew how to pick me up. Until then, however, you have to be patient one more time and the first half of the season in particular seemed unbroken to me once again, which is due to the fact that it is difficult to identify a common thread here. I’ve now learned that the often random sequence of episodes is related to the fact that they were broadcast in the order in which Cartoon Network acquired them and not in how they were produced, but that doesn’t make matters any better.

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The best and most striking example of this is probably Bad intentions (3.08), because while the episode itself is rather moderately convincing, you notice towards the end that it is basically about the prehistory The hostage drama (1.22) acts and thus represents the prequel for the season finale of the first season, while in the following episode the story is continued, which was neglected for a whole season. This is far from consistent, of course, and this guesswork of where exactly you are in the timeline is probably something that I’m into Star Wars: The Clone Wars one of the largest thorns in the eye is. So it’s no wonder that Star Wars: Rebels with its ongoing story at mi did much better from the first moment. Nevertheless, the focus is no longer so much on Anakin and Ahsoka, it feels like Padmé in particular gets a lot more to do here and even if the episodes still seem very action-oriented for the most part, there is at least a little more politics, a little more infiltration and a lot convincing character scene instead of always setting up clone troops and droids.

In the second half, however, swings Star Wars: The Clone Wars then actually rose to unexpected heights and particularly impressed with the “Nightsisters trilogy”, as episodes 12 to 14 are often called. From the conflict between Asajj Ventress and Count Dooku to the introduction of Savage Opress and the final, if not so surprising nowadays, revelation regarding the fate of Darth Maul, an all-round convincing, grim and gloomy affair. The same also applies to the next three-part series, which follows directly afterwards, even if the narrative break could have been solved more elegantly, because suddenly Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan are once again on an unspecified mission, meanwhile by Ventress and company is no longer a question. Here you end up in a remote and secret place that is all about the balance of power and reveals some interesting concepts. An unwanted glimpse into Anakin’s future is one of the staging highlights here, even if this three-part series threatens to run out a little at last.

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No question that you can’t keep this level forever and so things are a bit more generic towards the end of the season, although these are also multi-parts that at least benefit from not having a whole story in just under twenty Minutes is forced to deal with, because this made some of the many random one-shots a bit rushed, which was often underlined by the lashing narrator’s voice, which always quickly outlines the main features of the initial situation in a hectic manner. Finally, I’m skeptical whether you really can Padawan missing (3.21) and A Wookiee strikes back (3.22) should have chosen as the season finale, but both episodes seem routinely staged, combine tension and action, but above all score points with the guest appearance of a young Chewbacca. Speaking of a guest appearance, you get a glimpse of Tarkin, who is still in the service of Jedi master Even Piell as captain. In terms of behavior and skills, it is certainly not entirely consistent with what you find in Lucenos, for example Tarkin learned about the later Grand Moff, but otherwise a thoroughly successful guest appearance, which spoiled me a little more with the mixed first half of the season. In any case, I still see potential and could imagine The Clone Wars could gain in fascination and quality if one is willing to continue on the path chosen.