The Clone Wars is back!

In 2012, Disney bought Star Wars. They confirmed a new trilogy and three exciting spin offs (still not sure what's going on with that last one). They also cancelled The Clone Wars. The Clone Wars was on its fifth season at the time, with 8 in total planned. The Fifth season ended and we thought it was the end. The show producers had already completed 13 episodes of Season 6 so we were lucky enough to be able see them. Then there were 8 uncompleted episodes released in later on. Now to celebrate 10 years, next year we will see Season 7. 12 new episodes.

I am completely overjoyed. Completely and utterly. The Clone Wars is what I grew up with. It is my Star Wars. Therefore to see it back, to see that animation, to hear that music. I am incredibly happy.

However when the excitement calms down and you look into these 12 new episodes in more detail, you begin to see that it might not be quite as great as you first thought. 8 of these 12 new episodes are likely to be the Bad Batch (as we saw in the trailer) and the Utapua arc. The other four will be the Siege of Mandalore. These means there are still approximately 40 episodes that were planned that we are not seeing. My guess is that Disney have done this to please the fans and win them over after the Last Jedi disastrous split in the fandom and give the show a proper send off, through the original series finale, the Siege of Mandalore. However doing this we will not see anymore because the series will be truly finished then. So overall I am very grateful that we are having 4 new episodes and a further 8 more completed episodes but I am now feeling greedy that they should give us everything that they intended.