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Clone Wars Fifth Season Closing Thoughts
At the end of the fourth season of Clone Wars, I had the feeling the show had focused down on "action" after an eclectic but sometimes a little controversial mix of ideas in its third season. At the same time, there were still controversies of a different sort bubbling, as if the show was making efforts to target fans for who the Star Wars in their own minds diverged from the Star Wars that is long years ago. As the fifth season got under way, I might have been wondering a bit about that... but as it turned out, a focus on "four-episode plot arcs" didn't mean the end of "whimsy" by any means, and I just might have been making an amused effort to keep up with that. "Four-episode plot arcs" sometimes seemed to mean fewer storylines, but there was still some variety within some of them, even if this could sometimes feel as if things were being artificially extended.
With the final episodes, though, rumours and uneasy speculations of the show not getting a chance to come back (and with episodes made but unshown) were swirling, and I kept guessing at what had long seemed the ultimate question of the show, "what happens to Ahsoka?" Somehow, though, things worked out. I had long worried she would "have" to be removed from the story before the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, and at one point did manage to wonder if she could become "disillusioned" and make her own exit. As much as others might think of "disillusionment" and at once connect it to Anakin, though, that didn't quite appeal to me; Anakin being the one who still believed in her (although it didn't help that much) managed to strike just the right note instead.
Now, of course, we're waiting. In some ways, comments about "what could happen next?" leave me the most ambiguous; I did once almost worry there would be episodes showing Anakin "getting over" whatever happened, and yet now they don't seem so bad. Still, maybe it's a little too easy for me to be philosophical and meditate on "leaving them wanting more."
With the final episodes, though, rumours and uneasy speculations of the show not getting a chance to come back (and with episodes made but unshown) were swirling, and I kept guessing at what had long seemed the ultimate question of the show, "what happens to Ahsoka?" Somehow, though, things worked out. I had long worried she would "have" to be removed from the story before the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, and at one point did manage to wonder if she could become "disillusioned" and make her own exit. As much as others might think of "disillusionment" and at once connect it to Anakin, though, that didn't quite appeal to me; Anakin being the one who still believed in her (although it didn't help that much) managed to strike just the right note instead.
Now, of course, we're waiting. In some ways, comments about "what could happen next?" leave me the most ambiguous; I did once almost worry there would be episodes showing Anakin "getting over" whatever happened, and yet now they don't seem so bad. Still, maybe it's a little too easy for me to be philosophical and meditate on "leaving them wanting more."