The Clone Wars is an animated series set during the Star Wars Clone Wars, between episodes 2 and 3 of the movies. Early seasons scatter the stories among a variety of characters -- Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold) and sometimes separate, various clone troopers, some other Jedi like Mace Windu (Terrence C Carson), Padmé Amidala (Catherine Taber) sometimes with Jar Jar Binks (Ahmed Best). One episode here, the next episode there, and then an episode that continues from a previous episode.

Later seasons are a bit more coherent with two to four episode stories. This culminates in Season 7, produced for Disney+ six years after season 6. That has three excellent story arcs, the first one with The Bad Batch to establish a spin-off series with that group of Dirty Dozen-like clone troopers. The second arc is what happened to Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) after she left the Jedi order (and before she became involved in Star Wars: Rebels and later her Ahsoka live-action series). The third arc is Ahsoka with Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff) and her Mandalorian forces joining with Anakin, Obi-Wan and their forces to free Mandalore from Darth Maul (Sam Witwer).

I previously tried watching The Clone Wars but was unimpressed and stopped after three seasons. I'm not saying a second viewing is better, though as mentioned I like the last three or so seasons better (there's a neat arc with Yoda (Tom Kane) finding out about Dagobah and explains why he ended up there), but it's watchable for the most part once I know what to expect. Now that I've seen the Ahsoka series it's nice to see her in The Clone Wars going from a young teen Padawan to an accomplished almost-Jedi Master.

Overall I'm glad I gave the series a second chance.