Today is a good day as this review is actually being written on Star Wars Day aka May 4th and as a way to celebrate this day Disney+ have dropped all six episodes of there new Star Wars animated series. With this series literally being a sequel series to Star Wars: Tales Of The Jedi with this show giving us alot more focus on a side of the force that doesn't really get alot of focus in terms of Star Wars media and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review of the TV series that gives us a look at a different side of the force with the TV series in in question being called simply just "Star Wars: Tales Of The Empire" enjoy.
This show doesn't really have a plot at least not in the obvious sense as while there is no story being told. What the show does do to tell a story is pretty much split the series right down the middle with the first half of the series focusing on someone falling to the dark side but becoming consumed by it where as the second half of the series sees someone fall to the dark side but get saved from being consumed by it which is an interesting story to tell as it's one that really hasn't been told all that much in Star Wars media let alone an interesting way to tell it as the two half formular does allow the story to be told at a more organic pace and the story itself is one that's really interesting and is really rewarding if you've seen alot of Star Wars media but at the same time if your only exposure to Star Wars is really the movies then your going to be lost alot of the time with the plot of this season being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this show is Matthew Wood as General Grievous Lydia Look as Matron and Cathy Ang as Morgan Elsbeth. Also starring in this show is Daisy Lightfoot as Nali , Diana Lee Inosanto as Selena , Lars Mikkelsen as Admiral Thrawn , Xander Berkeley as Gilad Pellaeon , Tom Konkle as Moff Isdain and Villager 1 , Diana Lee Inosanto as Morgan Elsbeth , Warwick Davis as Rukh , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze , Shelby Young as Nadura , Wing T. Chao as Wing , Zeno Robinson as Ahmar , Meredith Salenger as Barriss Offee , Dee Bradley Baker as A Clone Trooper , Nicolas Cantu as Dante , Rya Kihlstedt as Lyn Rakish , Keith Ferguson as Governor , Ry Chase as The Jedi , Jordyn Curet as Young Girl , Steve Blum as Attendant 1, New Republic Guard and Reggi , Anna Graves as Attendant 2 , Keston John as Father , Suzie McGrath as Mother and Witch 1 and Jason Isaacs as The Grand Inquisitor.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. However that's sadly also the problem as alot of the acting in this show isn't that good as while the acting in some episodes is OK the acting in alot more of the episodes is just bad with the actors turning in what can only be described as wooden at best as while the actors that you do expect a good performance from like for example Jason Isaacs really do deliver performance wise it's the actors from the likes of Rya Kihlstedt is at best wooden and that is something that really does bring down the overall quality of the acting in this show with the acting that's in this show not really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this show just aren't that good as they give none of the cast absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to he in the first place with that also being what really brings down the overall quality of the acting that's in this show.
Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Lucasfilm Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then n all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with the animation in this show being on par with the animation in alot of the other Star Wars 3D animated shows in terms of quality which really isn't all that surprising given who is working on this show as Lucasfilm Animation have always produced some really good animation and this show is no different as the animation in this show is so close to being movie quality as it's just that good and it goes to show you that if you give somebody some decent amount of money then they'll produce some really high quality animation with this show being a prime and a really good example of that.
To this shows credit it does try to do something new by showing us what life is like for people who choose to become a sith. However the show doesn't go all the way with that idea as the show only has six episodes and is an anthology series and as a result the show can't really delve into what it truly means to be a sith lord this is despite the fact that the first three episodes of the show are all named after what leads to someone becoming a sith and as a result this good idea gets wasted and lost as it can't really be fully developed and instead comes across as being window dressing when it really should have been the main focus of the series as it really is the most interesting part of the show and yet because of the fact that the show wastes that idea it just can't be as fully realised as it really should have been this is despite the fact that the previous series Tales Of The Jedi went into great detail showing us what it truly means to be a jedi and yet this series despite sharing the exact same creative team really doesn't do that for the dark side of the force.
This show does come across as being the weaker of the two shows just because of the fact that alot of the stories in this batch of episodes and alot of the characters in this batch of episodes aren't as strong nor as memorable as those in the first batch of episodes. This is of course no fault of the makers of this show as the previous show mainly used characters that were created in other shows and movies and just had them appear in there in there show where in this show there mostly using original characters and as a result of that they don't have the time to make them as memorable as the characters that showed up in Tales Of The Jedi and while the makers of the show could really help with the weaker characters what they could have done is given them stronger plots as alot of the plots in this show just aren't as good as the plots from the previous show with the plots of this show coming across as being very weak at best which is fine if the show was being for very little kids but it's not it's being made with a more mature audience in mind and as a result of that change in target audience the makers of the show should have given this batch of episodes some more stronger plots.
To give Disney and Lucasfilm some credit releasing this show on May the 4th was the best thing that they could have done. As alot of people are going to be talking about and thinking and watching Star Wars and giving them new content to watch on a day when there going to be thinking about Star Wars does make alot of sense as does releasing this show on the weekend but at the same time this does also work against the show as well as not alot of people are going to want to watch something new from Star Wars when they could be watching something that they know that there going to love from a franchise that they already love and while releasing this show on a weekend does make sense as it means that people can have the entire weekend to binge watch the entire show that again also works against the show as well as there's going to be so much content released about Star Wars that this show is going to get lost in the shuffle at best and at worst due to the shows lackluster marketing people just won't know that this show is even a thing in the first place.
Now then this show really has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets. With each episode not really being longer then fifteen minuets which is something that both works for an against this show it works for this show as it means that all of the episodes plots have to be laser focused and every scene of every episode has to be about pushing the plot forward but at the same time it works against the show because it means that at times the plot does feel rushed because it has to get to the next plot point when it would have been better if the plot took it's time and arrived there at a more natural pace and alot of the time the characters cant' be as fully developed either because of that shorter running time and while having a shorter running time would work for this show as the first season already proved that doesn't mean that it works well enough for this season of the show either but I will admit that this show does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk a bout the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. As the show does have some really good action in alot of it's episodes but again due to the episodes having this really short running time alot of the action does feel rushed and more often then not comes out of nowhere and as a result of that is the fact that while we do yes get some really moments in this show various action scenes we the audience we the audience just don't really care about them as the show hasn't given us a reason to care about this shows characters this is despite the fact that the action that we got in this show was really good and was filled to the brim with some really cool moments in all of this shows various action scenes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while the Tales series is a really good series this particular series is by far the weaker of the two seasons with Tales Of The Jedi being the better of the two series this is despite the fact that this series is a really good series in it's own right and has some really good animation in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Star Wars: The Clone Wars fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Star Wars fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.