Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Siege Of Mandalore" Arc Review

 

Star Wars believe it or not outside of the movie and a few episodes of the TV show I in all honesty haven't seen that much of Star Wars: The Clones and well I thought that i'd one arc to the list of Star Wars: The Clone Wars that I have actually seen. With the arc in question being the final ever arc of / for the entire show and so join me as I review the final ever arc of / for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV series / TV Show with the arc in question being called simply just "The Siege of Mandalore" enjoy.

Now then the plot of this arc is Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan lead a siege on Mandalore when they receive information that Darth Maul is somewhere in the city of Mandalore but Darth Maul has his one plans for the young jedi night one which might spell the end of / for the jedi order as a whole. Now then as for what I personally thought about the plot of this arc in all honesty I all honesty thought / felt that the plot of this arc was really good and even tho the plot of this arc does change by the arcs third episode you can still very much see the story threads from the previous two episodes being carried over into it's third and fourth episodes respectively but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least. 

Starring in this arc is Tom Kane as Admiral Yularen , This Shows Narrator and as Yoda and Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano. Also starring in this arc is Julian Holloway as Almec , Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker , Matthew Wood as Battle Droids , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan , Dee Bradley Baker as Clone Troopers and as Commander Rex , Ray Stevenson as Gar Saxon , Sam Witwer as Darth Maul and as A Mandalorian Guard, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi , Gwendoline Yeo as Nala Se , Ian McDiarmid as Darth Sidious , this arcs writer Dave Filoni as CH-33P a.k.a. "Cheep" , Silas Carson as Ki-Adi-Mundi , TC Carson as Mace Windu , Vanessa Marshall as Rook Kast and as a Gauntlet Pilot , Donald Faison as The / A Tactical Droid and Sharmila Devar as Ursa Wren.

Now then as for what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / actual arc in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / actual arc was in all honesty rather freaking good. This is something however that shouldn't / should not have come to a surprise from anybody from what i've seen at least the acting that's in anything that's to do with Star Wars: The Clone Wars has always been really freaking good and so to gave some really good acting from these actors and actresses in this final arc is in my opinion anyways / at least a very good thing indeed in my opinion anyways / at least.

Doing the animation for this arc as far as I can tell is Lucasfilm Animation since there the only animation company that's listed in each of the episodes IMDB pages. Now then as for what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc in all honesty I in all honesty thought that the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc was really freaking good heck the animation that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc is movie quality good.

Now then it was while I was watching this arc for this review that I noticed that this arc takes place almost entirely at the same time as the second and third and final act of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith. With this arc making quite alot of references to what is meant to be going on at that point in time during / in Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith and in all honesty that really does go to show how big of a Star Wars fan Dave Filoni is because he makes these fairly deep cut references that only die hard Star Wars fans would pick up on and it's those exact same deep cut Star Wars references that make this arc very rewatchable in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then if you all want to truly see what Star Wars is and more importantly what Star Wars could be when it's at it's best / firing on all cylinders. Then you really should check out this arc because this one arc gives you a much better representation of what Star Wars and more importantly what Star Wars could be then any of the Disney era Star Wars sequel trilogy because Star Wars is alot more then being about lightsaber fights / battles and it's also more then being about fights / battles in space it's about working together to over come impossible odds and it's about doing what's right even tho doing the right thing nine times out of ten isn't always the easiest thing in the world to do and this is something that Disney and alot of people who are currently working at Lucasfilm fail to understand in my opinion anyways / at least. 

Now I will say that how this arc ends is pretty much the perfect way for this arc to end and it's really the only way that this show could possibly end in my opinion anyways / at least. Since this arc ends with Ahsoka lying down her lightsaber to honor her fallen clone comrades and then they top that by having a now fully turned sith lord Lord Darth Vader arrive on the exact same planet that Ahsoka was just on and Darth Vader then picks up her / Ahsokas dropped / fallen lightsaber. This is in all honesty the perfect way for to end this arc and as well being the perfect way for this show to end because it goes to show you how strong the bond was that existed between Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano because it also goes on to show you that perhaps deep deep deep deep down inside of Lord Darth Vader that there is perhaps still some resemblance of Anakin Skywalker in my opinion anyways / at least.

Now then there are exactly four episodes running in this arc with each episode being around twenty three minuets to twenty seven minuets in length which means that all in all this arc has a grand total running of roughly two hours to one hour and thirty minuets in grand total running time and well if i'm being well and truly very freaking honest here people. This arc didn't really need to be four episodes long since you very easily could have done this arcs storyline / plotline in about three episodes but at the same time if you were to do this arcs storyline / plotline in three episodes it would unfortunately mean that alot of good stuff that's from this arc would have to get cut out tho just to meet the three episode deadline for the arc tho but that's just what I think and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very freaking honest opinion anyways / at least

Now then since Star Wars is an action franchise and that this show is indeed an action show that means that there is action in this very / particular / actual arc and that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc and well if i'm being well and truly very freaking honest here people the action that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular / actual arc is really freaking good in my opinion anyways / at least. This is because we get to see alot of really cool moves being preformed in those action scenes but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least. 

Overall this arc was honestly a really perfect arc for the most part with any issues that I found with the arc in question to be very minor issues in the long run and so yeah this really was everything that alot of Star Wars ad built it up to be and perhaps even then some in my opinion anyways / at least. Now i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very / particular / actual arc in this very / particular / actual review and so that means that this arc gets a gets a grand old score of a perfect 10 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I 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 fandom wiki page , the official Star Wars resistance fandom wiki page and from the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this arc being the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page this is simply because the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being fairly high definition. 

My First Impressions Of Star Wars: The Bad Batch

 

Ladies and gentlemen the world of Star Wars is a world that is always expanding through various forms if media and well the world of Star Wars is expanding again. Since there is a new Star Wars animated TV series currently airing on Disney+ and even tho i'm a few days late to making this post you just know that I had to cover this show and so here are my first impressions of the latest animated TV show to be set in the Star Wars universe with the TV show that is in question being called simply "Star Wars: The Bad Batch" enjoy.

Now then boys and girls the plot of the first episode of this show is a rouge squadron of Clone troopers find themselves on the run from the empire and the plot of the second episode of this show is the clones and their new alley Omega have to help an old friend and his family escape from a planet that is now officially under empyreal control.  In terms of what  thought about the plots of both the first and of the second episode I honestly / really did enjoy the plot of the first episode alot more since it was a really well written story where as the plot of the second episode to me at least felt more lighthearted but episode two was still a really well written episode tho.

Starring in these first two episodes are Dee Bradley Baker as The Bad Batch / Captain Grey / Clone Troopers and Cut and Archie Panjabi as Depa Billaba. Also starring in these first two episodes are Michelle Ang as Omega , Ben Diskin as AZI-3 , Matthew Wood as Battle Droids , Bob Bergen as Lama Su , Gwendoline Yeo as Nala Se , Tom Kane as The Narrator , Stephen Stanton as Admiral Tarkin / Armed Fighter 1 and Armed Fighter 2 , Nika Futterman as Fauja and Shaeeah , Kath Soucie as Jek and Cara Pifko as Suu.

Now then boys and girls there is a few names on there that i've chosen not to mention when crediting who's starring / appearing in these first two episodes simply I want you guys to go into these episodes without knowing as much as is humanly possible which given that the first episode of this show came out a few days might be impossible. As for what I thought about the acting that's featured in these first two episodes in all honesty the acting that's featured in these two episodes is really freaking good which in all honesty shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone since the acting in pretty much all of the Star Wars animated projects be they for a TV series , a film or a TV Holiday Christmas special is freaking always freaking top notch anyways but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very honest and as well being in my very humble opinion anyways.

As for who is doing the animation for these two episodes plus the entire series as a whole we have CGCG Inc who also worked on Star Wars Rebels. In terms of what I personally thought about the animation that's featured / presented to us in these first two episodes in all honesty the animation that's featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was so freaking good that at times not only did I feel like I was watching a movie but the show also looked like a movie because the animation and the visuals was that good and this level of high quality animation is something that you'd expect to see in a movie and not something that you'd expect to see in a TV series / a streaming service TV series.

Now then boys and girls for those of you who don't know this series is actually a spin off series since it's spun off from the animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. While I personally cannot say for sure if you absolutely need / needed to watch every single episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars in order to fully understand the characters that are appearing in / starring in these first two episodes I do think that you need to at the very least have seen a good chunk / a good portion of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

However I personally haven't seen every single episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and I fully understood everything that was going on as well as fully understood each of the characters relationships to each other but that's just me tho. Yes I do think that it would help if you've seen Star Wars: The Clone Wars but I don't think that it's an absolute necessity tho since you can very easily pick up on each of the characters relationship to each other and as well what each of the personality traits are for not only each member of the titular The Bad Batch but for the newly created character of Omega.

Now I have to say that I honestly wasn't able to watch and cover episode one back on May The 4th since I was on holiday on May The 4th.As such I made the conscious choice to watch and cover episodes 1 and 2 together since I knew that episode 2 was coming out and May The 7th and I have to say that this was a wise move since both of the first two episodes in this show flow together really well but at the same time I don't really feel that you need to watch both of the first two episodes in this show since both episodes of this show tell different stories but it was fun seeing both of the first two episodes in this show back to back tho.

Now then boys and girls the first episode of this series has a total running time of one hour and eleven minuets and fourteen seconds while the second episode of this show has a total running time of twenty seven minuets and twelve seconds. In all honesty I really don't see why episode one of this new show had to be one hour and eleven minuets and fourteen seconds since it really doesn't have the story needed to cover that amount of time if anything you could have told the story of episode one in forty five minuets and nothing of importance to the plot would need to be cut / lost / sacrificed and I feel that episode two had the right amount of running time since episode two was basically telling a simple story and as such episode doesn't need / didn't need a long / longer running time in order to fully tell it's rather simple story but that's just what I think anyways and that's in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Now then boys and girls this is an action show after all and there is action in these first two episodes and that means that I have to talk about the action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episode and in all honesty I thought that the action that was featured / presented to us in episode two was pretty weak. Especially when you compare the action in episode two to the action that's featured / presented to us in episode one which I not only felt was better but the action that's featured / presented to us in episode one was also more fun to watch simply because we get to see all of the members of the titular The Bad Batch doing what they do best and as well as showing us what ever it is that they personally bring to the group / team.

Overall even tho episode one of this show does rush it's timeline with Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge Of The Sith I honestly do feel that out of these first two episodes episode one is the better episode not that episode two is bad per say but it's just that I personally prefer episode one of this new show. Now then boys and girls since i've just this second finished talking about both of the good things that are in these episodes and as well as both of the bad things that are in these first two episodes in this very review I will not be giving either of these first two episodes a rating / ranking simply because this isn't a review of either episode but is rather instead just my first impressions of Star Wars: The Bad Batch as a whole and yes I might continue to watch this show / series but only time will tell tho.

As for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from either the official Star Wars: The Clone Wars fandom wiki page or from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page and well I honestly cannot say which website that I personally prefer to use for the images from eithetr of these two episodes. Since even tho there aren't that many images from either of these first two episodes that are on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page the images that are on the official Star Wars fandom wiki page are really high quality and are really high definition which sadly the same cannot be said for the official Star Wars The Clone Wars fandom wiki page which has a lot more of a verity of images but the images that are on the official Star Wars: The Clone Wars fandom wiki page are at best fairly high quality and are at best fairly high definition.