Trailer and Updates

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Looks like Saxon is in it too

That would be awesome, and it could've even given us a look at Cal.

It's still really disappointing we couldn't get all the episodes we should've, but at least these 12 look fantastic. They appear to be doing their best to connect aspects of the unanimated TCW stories with post-ROTS material.

Kinda annoying there's only one season left... like if you want people to get Disney+ you need to start pumping out some good content.

For real Disney+ is kinda garbage I thought Disney owned so many IPs and was going to have all kinds of shit but not really just marvel and other lame kids stuff. I think you can easily watch every single thing on D+ in a short amount of time. But I'm kinda realizing Disney mostly just purchases other people's creations and don't actually make any creative content themselves... lol. They're gonna need to buy a lot more stuff and/or rebrand a little bit for the platform to be successful. I remember before launch it being called "Netflix killer" lol what a joke

Now, the quality of these 4 part stories can variate immensely. The S5 Maul arc gave us some of the show's greatest moments; conversely, the D-Squad arc was among the show's worst. Arguably, D-Squad wouldn't have been as bad it if was shortened into 1-2 episodes. However, the storytelling model by this point in the series was making every idea they had into 4 episodes. As such, good moments become trampled in mediocre arcs that outstay their welcome. While it was cool to see Gregor in the D-Squad arc, we had to put up with 45+ mins to get to him. The same can be said about the Onderon arc. It's a pretty decent story, but it feels bloated just to fill 88 mins of screen time.

My point for this is that all the ideas Filoni and the crew had for these unfinished episodes were likely good concepts. Yet at 4 episodes long, I think it would've turned many of the arcs into meandering, filler, and mediocre arcs. The Rex and R2 arc? Sounds neat, but I don't think I'd want it for 4 episodes. Hence, while we are losing approx. 52 episodes, a lot of them probably weren't worth seeing anyway.

I'm a huge Star Wars fan and can appreciate all the content they release, but I would've been fine going without stories like the D-Squad or Younglings arcs, especially when they would've been expanded beyond what was necessary. Just think to standalones from S1-S2 and how they would've been worse if they felt the need to fill 3-4 episodes instead. Some stories need them, but many don't.

Based on what we know of these unfinished episodes, these are the arcs I think are the biggest losses:
Son of Dathomir: the missing piece between what we last saw of Maul in S5 and where he'll be in S7. Adds a lot of great content with Mandalore and the Sith.
Dark Disciple: Ventress was one of the bigger characters for this series, and I think this arc would've been great to include so she had a nice farewell. It also ties up more loose ends in regard to her story with Dooku and the Jedi. Seeing Vos also would've been amazing.
Utapau: great arc that develops Anakin and Kenobi's relationship post-Ahsoka. It gives more screen time to push Anakin toward who he is at the start of ROTS. We also get more connections to the Death Star.
Bounty Hunter arc: more out of personal enjoyment, but I think seeing some final development with Boba and Cad Bane would've been really cool.
Jedi Temple: the little we know about this story makes it sound like it'd delve deeper into the mystic side of Star Wars like with the Mortis and Yoda arcs. Also having Sidious directly involved could have been interesting.

This makes 24 episodes we aren't getting that are real losses. However, 3 of these 5 arcs we've already gotten in some kind of medium, which reduces the disappointment in not seeing them as finished products for TV. Thus, it's more like 8 episodes that are true losses.

As for the other arcs we could have gotten, I'm not sure how great they honestly would've been. I imagine they'd all have their enjoyable moments, but they certainly weren't essential for the series, especially at 4 episodes each.

yea considering the budget that was announced for netflix originals there is absolutely no way... most of these other platforms don't really have shit on netflix like you just buy hulu for rick and morty or something 

At least they had the good sense not to make Mace and Jar Jar four parts.

It's kinda dumb how convoluted Maul's story arc is since it was spread out over so many mediums. There's no way a casual fan knows what his deal is hell even I don't. Hopefully these episodes fill in the biggest gaps. But yeah I don't really want to see him in anything again tbh... It would've been nice if his story was completely wrapped up in TCW

Also it kind of bothers me when people say Disney "brought back" TCW... like lol no they didn't if it was truly brought back we would be getting all those episodes and more in a continued run.

Much of Ahsoka other content that was meant to be in TCW is actually in her book as well...

Tbh Son of Dathomir would have been cool to see on screen but I like the graphic novel, most of what was left in TCW I can live without seeing, I don’t really want a Mon Cala continuation or an arc with R2 and Rex...

If I was in charge of a “Finale Season” I would have likely done it like this


1-4: Utapau (have this early cause it introduces Anakins new model and his feeling of post Ahsoka leaving the order)
5-8: Bad Batch (It’s a good story and it’s very war centric, something most of these arcs lack tbh)
9-12: Ahsoka Walkabout/ return
13-16: Boba/ Bane arc
17-20: Kashyyyk arc (likely cause we would see the Bad Batch here again)
21-24: Siege of Mandalore


They could do the Jedi temple arc in place of Kashyyyk but I think I’d like Kashyyyk cause it would relate more to the war again something these arcs lack... Kashyyyk arc could be like 2 episodes as well.

Although make Siege of Mandalore like 6-8 episodes long and give us a couple detailed episodes of the battle of Coruscant in there and that would be cool.


Honestly that would be a fairly complete ending to the show for me. I don’t need to see arcs animated that we got in other formats and I don’t really need to see filler. Vong arc would be totally out of the question with the new canon anyways

I can't wait to see Order 66 and tbh it kinda makes sense to see it in the show I mean the war is still going on during ROTS

A week to go now, I’m looking forward to this

Yeah, I agree. I sort of prefer the weekly idea instead of dumping it all in one go. Means I've got time to catch up just in case

Idk man I feel like those two girl characters will be annoying. But perhaps they won't make Ahsoka lesbian after all since possibly the two chicks are together? I might be upset if they diagnose Ahsoka with gay or something like it doesn't really add anything tbh just pandering to a minority that probably doesn't even care