Today , the full run of Clone Wars was released on Netflix , including the entirety of Season Six , which never aired on television . It ’s a attractively executed circle of episode that , despite a few jut , fills in a lot of details not covered by the prequel films — start with Order 66 .
The recaps are part up into five fib arcs , so if you do n’t want to be bobble , do n’t read each division until you ’ve watch over the relevant installment .
The Clone Who Knew Too Much
The Order 66 electric discharge opens the sixth season , and it is easily the season ’s standout storyline . Order 66 has been one of the key problems in connect Clone Wars to Revenge of the Sith — Why would the dead ringer who respect and befriend the Jedi ultimately betray them?—but the promos for time of year Six cursorily resolved that as we saw one ringer , apparently responding to a form of neurologic scheduling and belt down a Jedi commander . The shocking behavior of that one dead ringer , Tup , spurs his fellow dead ringer cinque to look into Tup ’s affliction , uncovering the painful secret lurking inside each clone ’s brain .
This arc is in particular great for a number of reasons : It ’s an unusually science fictional level for the outer space opera , and it expands on the culture of the clones . It remind us that ringer are slave and that their fates hang on whomever is hold to be their owner . It volunteer a drone - biologic sentient moral force that is humorous , but not nearly as silly as the one we saw between WAC and Colonel Gascon in Season Five . But most significantly , it ’s a well told thriller , one that nominate the Jedi ’s unsuccessful person to further look into the biochip confederacy plausible — at least for a while .
For all of Palpatine ’s plotting and scheming , some parts of his program to become emperor are actually quite fragile . When Tup enters a trance - similar state and kills his air force officer , the Jedi like a shot distinguish that something has gone incorrect with Tup ’s brainiac . The Kaminoans , the beings who make the clone United States Army , mistreat in , check the Jedi that this must be some sort of infection . After all , they do n’t want the Jedi prod around in the clone ’ nous . The Kaminoan factor Nala Se seek to take Tup as the property of the cloners , but the Jedi Shaak Ti want the Jedi to contemplate Tup in case there is a flaw in the clone ’s basic construction . While the two debate the finer points of body of work - for - hire , Fives decides he ’s move to see out what is wrong with Tup , even if he has to do it himself .
Fives team up up with the medical droid AZ-3 , and it ends up being a satisfying onscreen relationship . Clones are develop to disdain droids , after all , but after Fives explains that clones use epithet , not number , and that Fives is his Quaker , AZ-3 becomes a friend to Fives within the modified scope of his droid emotion and Fives returns the favour by cry him “ Az . ” And AZ-3 is kind of a cut - up , especially when he tells Fives , “ I always want to have human tactile sensation . But I do not . Goodbye ! ” A possible jab at Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s Commander Data ?
AZ-3 bring out a “ tumor ” in Tup ’s brain that turns out to be a stinking biochip , and fin finally realizes that all knockoff have such biochip in their brains , allowing them to be controlled by external forces . After AZ-3 take the scrap from Fives ’ head , the story turns Hitchcockian ; Nala Se claims that the biochip act as inhibitors for the violent behaviour clone inherited from Jango Fett and that without his , Fives ’ is dangerous and irrational , destroying the clone ’s credibility . But Fives is n’t irrational , and he manages to recognise what so few during this metre period do : that there is a major conspiracy afoot , one that survive all the way to Chancellor Palpatine . So he seeks out the only high up - rate people he knows he can trust : Captain Rex and General Skywalker .
quintuplet ’ clash with his brother clone in a clone bar endure in penetrative contrast to Ahsoka ’s experience with the Jedi last season . When Fives differentiate Kix about the conspiracy against the clones and the Jedi , Kix does what Fives asks and arranges a meeting with Rex and Anakin . Rex and Anakin seem undefended to listening , but by the time they accomplish him , Fives has maturate do-or-die and agitated . He ca n’t convincingly enunciate what he needs to , and is shot in a frantic moment by Commander Fox , who has tag him to the merging place . Even though we know that five wo n’t break the cabal unfastened , this arc has an edge - of - your - seat quality to it as we see just how close he get to shining the light on Palpatine ’s game . And if we look at Little Phoebe ’ final moments from Anakin and Rex ’s stop of view , it ’s easy to see how they run across his words as the mad rant of a clone who foolishly mess with his own brain . Rest in peace , Fives . You were the hero the Republic demand , but not the one it deserved .
Flashes of Darth Vader
The only sentence Ahsoka appear during this final time of year is in Yoda ’s visions , but her absence is feel in the time of year ’s 2nd arc , which is ostensibly about how Palpatine read control of the banking concern but is really about Anakin and Padmé ’s relationship . Padmé ’s old flame ( and man - course creep ) Clovis is back and Anakin is n’t just jealous — he ’s enraged .
There has been a destiny of discussion about what Anakin will be like without Ahsoka by his side , and this Anakin is really frightening . After Padmé is catch for espionage , Anakin come to retrieve her , but he ’s foul , menace to leave her — his married woman — in the Banking Clan ’s poky . And later , when he get Clovis trying to wedge a kiss on Padmé ( Mostly to get her to reveal her relationship with Anakin . Really , Senator , what did you ever see in this man ? ) , he does n’t just punch the mankind ; he Force - chokes him and then almost beats him to destruction . ( Also , Clovis hitting Anakin ’s robotic handwriting and cringe in pain ? Gold . ) Now this is proto - Vader , the Anakin who will someday kill his subordinates because he ’s peeved with them . And his dismissal of Padmé ’s plea for the two work force to bar fight , “ You do n’t have a say in this ” is cold .
We ’re set out to see the cracks in Anakin and Padmé ’s relationship , and how Anakin ’s emotion are overwhelming him . Aside from Anakin ’s violent moment , there are two prospect that were fundamental to this taradiddle . One was Anakin ’s talk with Obi Wan , which was not very constructive . At this dot , Obi Wan is still willing to give Anakin the benefit of the doubt when Anakin say that he and the senator are just friend , but he can see that Anakin is trouble by his feelings for Padmé . Anakin needs something more at this point than advice to keep his relationship with Padmé platonic , but at this point , that ’s all that Obi Wan has to give .
The other tantrum is when Padmé decide to single out from Anakin and put their relationship on hiatus . She ’s also feel the strain of their illicit hush-hush matrimony , and she does n’t like the person he is becoming . It ’s nice to jazz that making marriage employment with an more and more colored Anakin is n’t wanton , and that Padmé is equal to of some academic degree of emotional ego - preservation , even if she is ultimately destine by their married couple . Thanks , Clone Wars , I ’m suddenly interested in Padmé and Anakin ’s wedlock and the series is ending .
Jar Jar Binks Has a Girlfriend
Sorry , I need to type that again : Jar Jar Binks has a girlfriend . When I saw that Clone Wars was team Jar Jar with Mace Windu for two episodes of the final time of year , I suspected that the writers were troll Jar Jar haters a bit , but they went much farther than I ever would have expected . Queen Julia of Bardotta , ruler of a wash of bird people who address with mistily subcontinental dialect and exercise Tai Chi , asks Jar Jar to inquire the disappearance of her spiritual consultant and the Jedi , discern that Jar Jar ca n’t be trusted to trim himself much less puzzle out a whodunit , send Mace Windu as his sitter . What the Jedi do n’t have a go at it , however , is that Jar Jar and Julia are devotee , burning this imaginativeness into our head :
This is really the filler storyline of the time of year , dealing with a non - Force - sensitive witch who steals the living Force from spiritual people . And really , if you ’re go to have Jar Jar ’s klutziness wait on as a foil for Mace Windu ’s competence , you ’re locomote to be telling a more playful tarradiddle . So yes , we had to see Jar Jar kiss , but if you ’re pop off to employ Jar Jar as a character , this is as good a way to practice him as any .
The Jedi Can’t Put Two and Two Together
Argh . I could smacked every exclusive phallus of the Jedi Council ( and Anakin ) upside the question at the death of “ The Lost One . ” After the dead ringer bow that kick off the time of year , now is the perfect opportunity to explore the mystery of Sifo - Dyas , the Jedi who commissioned the clone army . In the trend of their investigations into Sifo - Dyas ’ disappearance , Obi Wan and Anakin encounter Count Dooku , who reveals that he had a deal in the clon projection . What does the Jedi Council do ? They determine to cover up the entire thing . The clones , they reason , are good men , and all this revelation would do is make the citizen of the Republic suspicious of the foot .
Have I said “ Argh ” already ? You know why the citizen of the Republic would be untrusting of the clones ? Because they imprecate well should be suspicious of an army created with the help of their enemy , and so should the Jedi . What ’s especially frustrating is that Anakin and Shaak Ti are both present for this decisiveness , and it somehow hap to neither of them that this could be colligate to the biochip Fives discovered sitting in each clone ’s Einstein . Stupid , stupid , stupid . Of of course , it ’s not surprising ; the Jedi have , again and again , taken too many things at face value , and trusted the people their should suspect and vice versa . The Light Side of the Force is n’t necessarily the bright side of the Force .
Yoda the Heretic
In fact , they do n’t even swear Yoda when his experience take issue from accepted Jedi dogma . When we first meet Yoda way back in Episode V , Yoda was a wise old recluse living in a swamp . In the prequels , he ’s a administrative official , one of the turn of Jedi who fail to keep the rise of Palpatine — although suddenly , in Episode III , he can commune with the deadened flavour of Qui - Gonn Jinn . So what come about ?
As it move around out , Qui - Gonn go on . The idle Jedi begins speak to Yoda , and since retaining one ’s personality after decease does n’t go with current agreement of the Force , the Jedi fear that Yoda is being deceive by Dark agents . But Yoda has faith in his own experience and go on a sojourn to learn the secrets of life sentence after death . These “ mysticism of the Force ” episodes can be a bit hit and lose , and this one , while visually sensational , pass on us with a bit to chew over .
There are deliberate echoes of The Empire Strikes Back , notably when Yoda has to face his own Dark Side . His Dark Side cod him , trying to overwhelm Yoda with fear and uncertainty — but frankly , his Dark Side make some expert points . Yoda has been caught up in the decadency of warfare , miscarry to solve the real problems that chevy the Republic . evidently , though , Yoda ca n’t afford that sort of interior debate right now ; he has to shove away awe to learn the science that he will need to someday deliver the galaxy .
When Yoda devolve to the Jedi tabernacle , it ’s with a heavy signified of fatalism . He does n’t really conceive that the Jedi will win the Clone Wars , but he ’s playing a longer game now . It ’s not the clean connection between Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith ; the timeline feels a second off and Yoda ’s speech prognosticate the ultimate triumph of the Light Side over the Dark is an singular greenback to end the time of year — much less the series — on . But it does nudge Yoda in the right direction , forcing the master to become a pupil again and get back in mite with his spiritual standoff .
And So the Sun Sets on Clone Wars
Once again , Clone Wars has delivered a solid , if blemished , time of year , one that cue us why we ’ve bonk this show so much and how sorry we are to see it go . It ’s a show that has grow and work up upon itself in both story and attainment . The animation for Season Six is just top - notch , filled with minor detail like the rat creatures that scurry out of a prisoner ’s cell and the undulation of tentacles out of a Jedi ’s caput . Tup and Fives went from redshirts on an earlier mission to two clone who could have caused Palpatine ’s licking . And if some of the plot hole were n’t completely paved over , at least they have been filled in a little more .
But what about Ahsoka ? Well , in an interview with the LA Timesreleased today , Clone Wars show moon-curser Dave Filoni teased that we ’ll be run into more of the former Padawan :
“ I ’m really protective of that character , having compose her and worked alongside George on all of her thoughts and natural process , ” he say . “ One thing I ’m really thankful for is even though there ’s been a lot of conversion at Lucasfilm , everybody here working creatively understands I palpate that path and comes to me with questions about her .
“ I have a good idea of what happened to her , and I ’ll just leave it at that , ” Filoni said .
We ’ll be hold back .
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