My star wars interest has awakened again with andor, and ive so far tortured myself through jar jar binks in episodes 1 and 2 to refresh the lore on palpatines rise to power and transformation from the republic to the empire.

I am considering jumping into the clone wars before moving into episode 3. Both movie, series and the ps2-era game.

Are they worth it from a lore perspective?

  • cattywampas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    From a lore and world building perspective, absolutely. If you like what Andor has done with those, and I’ve particularly been enjoying the world building, CW will probably hit the spot for you. A couple things to note:

    -There is a lot of Clone Wars. It’s not going to be as tight as Andor or even all relevant, especially since it’s an anthology series.

    -There are some real stinkers and some boring episodes/arcs. The Jar Jar stuff, the droid stuff, a lot of it is a miss for me.

    -But there is some really good stuff. The Umbara arc and season 7 especially.

    -Really makes the Clone Wars as an event seem very important to the universe, whereas going by the movies alone it’s almost a background event that we get at the end of one movie and the beginning of another.

    -Overall, I think it does a really good job of fleshing out the characters, their motivations, and their relationships. Adds a lot more weight to RotS, especially season 7.

  • HSR🏴‍☠️@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’ve personally enjoyed Clone Wars film cuts by NumeralJoker, where episodes are combined into feature-length story arcs. He’s also made the “Siege of Mandalore Cut” of RoTS which weaves in a few Clone Wars episodes that happen concurrently with RoTS. I think this is a better flowing experience if you can stomach longer run times (most are 1-2.5 hours, with a 4.5h finale).

    Probably not recommended for a first time watcher, but if you’re already familiar with the story of episodes II & III it might be worth looking into. Also makes it easier to skip the filler arcs, and generally saves a lot of time on intros/credits.

    Of course the downside is that you have to torrent them, since it’s a fan edit.

    Here’s what the changes look like: https://youtu.be/HLByflZXue8?list=PLEh8pd-FJc5OL6PCLu1B9WKDbrcLudDr7