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... )