Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 9 - 5 Ups & 1 Down From "Old Friends, Not Forgotten"
The Siege of Mandalore has begun.
The Disney+ season of Clone Wars has been hyping itself up as the show's final outing since Disney announced it alongside their then unnamed streaming service. The past few story arcs haven't really felt like much of an ending, introducing new characters, locations, and plot lines. With "Old Friends, Not Forgotten," it finally feels like things are headed towards a concrete end.
The first episode in the final Clone Wars story arc, The Siege of Mandalore, brings Ashoka back together with Anakin, Obi-Wan, the clones, and the Jedi, as they team up with Bo-Katan to track down Maul on Mandalore. Filled to the brim with action, the episode sets up the rest of the story arc, ending with Maul and his men staring down Ashoka.
After a lackluster second story arc, this episode gives the seventh season of Clone Wars the shot of adrenaline it needed. The entire script could have been an up, and the cliffhanger ending just makes the wait for the next episode feel even longer.
Here are five ups and one down from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Old Friends, Not Forgotten.
6. Down - Barely Any Maul
Even though he's only appeared in a handful of episodes before this season, Maul is perhaps one of Clone Wars' greatest characters.
Formerly Palpatine's Sith apprentice, Maul, then Darth Maul, fought as 1/3 of the greatest lightsaber battle ever in the otherwise lackluster Phantom Menace. He kills Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan's master, before Obi-Wan chops Maul in half. Long thought to be dead, Clone Wars reveals that Maul had survived his fall, and his de-half-itation, and had been lying in wait, hell bent on revenge.
After a cameo in the previous episode, Together Again, fans couldn't wait to see Maul back in action. However, he didn't do much in this episode, aside from one line at the cliffhanger ending. Hopefully, Maul will play a much bigger role throughout the story arc.