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Tales of the Jedi slaps. It brings the prequels energy to the table and presents a lot of context for two fascinating characters in the history of Star Wars : Dooku and Ahsoka.

It is very much its own thing with its unique spin and storytelling techniques. The way the stories are interwoven together, and with the preexisting material is sublime and well thought.

You get to see a deep exploration of Dooku's mind, his views and distrust of the Senate, and own ambitions. We get a lot of info on Master Sifo-Dyas, the missing Kamino, and even an exploration of Yaddle.

Ahsoka shines a lot, and what was presented here was outstanding, with Anakin pushing his padawan to greatness. Her training against the clones was what ultimately saved her life in Victory and Death. Rex is amazing yet again. Bail Organa's character gets more development and comes to Ahsoka's aid. And while the former Jedi is sad about Padme and everything that happened, she ends up realizing the fight can never really leave her.

TOTJ is just a poignant take on the lore and it enhances the existing media, providing context and deeper explorations of ideologies. The characters are great and the writing is sharp and to the point.

Honestly where to begin...

All these episodes were so amazingly put together. I am just so sad how short they are. Arguably imo the best Disney content for Star Wars since Rogue One. The Dooku arc was poetic and really underscored his spite and annoyance with the counsel. We see Windu not understand how agitating it is to be passed up Dooku then Anakin in ROTS. Honestly I'm not sure where else it could have been better minus maybe the last episode they could have incorporated more from the Ahsoka book.

I also thought the first episode was a little strange but overall really well done. Filoni and team need to keep making content like this.

Fantastic. Episode 1 start slow and had me questionning the strenght of the series and show, but after Episode 1 it was all banger after banger after banger. Dooku's story is great and provides much needed context of Dooku's reasons for turning to the dark side which was previously only available to those who'd read the legends comics. Ahsoka's story in the final 2 episodes is beautiful. I really loved Anakin training Ahsoka to basically survive Order 66.

All in all, fantastic. Dave Filoni knows how to make great Star Wars, that will resonate with all true loyal fans of the franchise.

I hope the future of Star Wars is more of this.

I've never written a review before but the fact that I'm seemingly the only person kind of indifferent to this just made me have to express this. I loved Clone Wars, enjoyed some of Rebels, but this is just so bland.

You'd think since it's just a bunch of shorts maybe they're show us something about the characters that we didn't know. Not really, Dooku was evil in the prequels and CW, and here he's.. still super evil and inclined to do bad stuff and murder people. I won't even say that it shows why he leaves the Jedi order because he already is so "un-Jedi" like that you could really just have his first episode and it's pretty clear.. So what's the point of it? Just showing a bad guy be bad from the start, but just a little less? It just doesn't really do anything to develop the character. And with such a short amount of time to do it, why choose a story that would need to fleshed out much more? This could've been a really compelling story that showed more about a character but it was so predictable and just made you continue to think an evil character is evil.

There's an episode of Ahsoka as a baby which is just completely pointless. Her mother goes hunting and decides to bring a baby with her for some reason. Then she essentially tames a wolf because Dave Filoni loves wolves. And predictably they all wonder how it happens and the old villager says she's obviously a Jedi because what else could it be.

There's another episode of Anakin forcing Ahsoka to train for a scene we see in the Siege of Mandalore arc. This is something that's been bothering me with so much Star Wars content the last few years. Everything has to be explained. Instead of just having an interesting episode where you learn something new about a character (or just using this entire 6 episode budget for a complete arc), it's just used to explain why a character was able to do something difficult. As if fans complained about her being so powerful in the final Clone Wars episodes and it has to be justified or something. It was cool to see the characters because I like them, but why not use them in a more interesting way? Also what's with putting young Kanan in the beginning of the episode? Why are we just shoving random characters we know into stuff, as if that makes it better because we know who they are?

Then the last episode is just retconning the entire Ahsoka book and telling a condensed and worse version of it. It also covers such a long timespan in the weirdest way. The only way this episode makes sense is if you've read the book because the time jump on the planet she's on would make no sense without context. Don't try to condense what would probably be 4 episodes into 16 minutes, it just turns it into a mess. And of course people will only remember Ahsoka being at Padme's funeral, which just feels like it was shoved in there to draw cheap emotion.

The animation was fantastic and I was really looking forward to this show but I was just sighing or bored the entire time. This show was pretty low key and wasn't advertised that heavily so I assume they had the freedom to do whatever they wanted, so I don't understand why they decided to basically just show a bunch of characters doing stuff that didn't need to be shown or explained? I expect if they make more of these they'll make an episode with Obi Wan that explains why he hates flying. Or maybe an episode that explains why Anakin says that Obi Wan would disapprove of using the force to cut fruit. Or some other pointless thing that doesn't need to be shown or explained. Not everything has to be hardcore plot to be good (aka most of the Clone Wars show which was random adventures/stories) but this was just so disappointing and didn't do anything for any of the characters. It seems like everybody is loving this, maybe I'm crazy but it felt so pointless and not to the quality I'd expect when it's made by Dave Filoni who has created some fantastic stories and arcs in the past.

It's just pure art. The animations are astonishingly beautiful, the scenery are gorgeous and it's extreamly cool to finally see our beloved charaters once more.

Most of the stories are nothing special, but they give a new depth for certain characters (I'm looking at you Dooku). We even got a little bit of politics again, which I kind of missed from the Star Wars content since Revenge of the Sith. The only downside I could think of is the lenght of the episodes. Personally I could watch Jedi tales (or basically any prequels content) forever and I am probably not alone with this.

Also we've got some Rex scenes again <3.

As a lifelong fan of Star Wars - including the animated show following the age of the 'Clone Wars', I was very pleased to see more animated content announced in and around this era in this universe.

I didn't expect or even dare to hope that we'd ever get to have the pleasure to see more of 'Count Dooku', especially whilst he was still a Jedi. I have always loved his character and the duality that he faces. Speaking of that 'duality'; this show really helps to fill the gaps as to how and why Dooku turned to the dark side. Things make a lot more sense and these pieces of lore will change the way I think of him when I see his tragic character again in the prequel movies.

Fan favorites like 'Qui-Gon Jinn' and 'Mace Windu' return as well, which is lovely to see. An unexpected standout impressed me a lot, someone whom used to be no more than a background character for most: 'Yaddle'. In just the short amount of time she got, her character managed to grow on me and make me feel remorse when she passed. To that I say: great writing!

It's always nice to see more of 'Ahsoka Tano'. Her short background story was wholesome, though it didn't add much to her overall story in my opinion. The two other episodes featuring her (mainly "Practice Makes Perfect"), however, did do exactly that. The poetic fact that Anakin was indirectly the one who saved Ahsoka from dying by the hand of clone troopers as they obeyed Order 66 - thru training her and pushing her beyond her limits, is genius.

I'm glad that they aren't afraid to show how powerful Ahsoka really is by showcasing her defeating an intimidating Inquisitor with ease. It highlights once more that she was pushed much further than most Jedi by 'currently' one of the most powerful beings in the universe, being Anakin (by now Vader).

Ahsoka has through experience become a masterful Jedi and it's satisfying to see her being "a boss". Compared to characters like 'Rey Skywalker' - whom seem to somehow be at their peak right of the start, it truly feels like she has in a way 'earned' her moment through battle experience, training and most important of all: failure. One never learns without failing first.

The show also once more highlights that the Jedi weren't morally perfect compared to any other group of people, like the Sith. Firstly - as we see - using children as warriors to fight their 'wars'. Secondly claiming to preserve peace & order for the Republic whilst really only protecting the rich and powerful as the senate wishes. It makes us look at them at a much more realistic point of view.

The animation style is gorgeous as always. Voice acting is pristine once again, I'm glad the original voice actors keep returning (Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, ...) to voice their characters. Also, hell yeah Ian McDiarmid & Liam Neeson, nice to hear your awesome voices once more! The music was pretty neat as well, loved the vibes it was giving me in Coruscant. Very reminiscent of some of the eerie music used in the prequels.

The overall show is a solid 9/10 for me. I hope and expect to see more of this in the future, perhaps following tales of some Sith and/or other Jedi. This is the Star Wars content this universe and the fans need/want so it would only be smart to keep giving us more of 'this'.