The Single Biggest Mistake Each Star Wars Movie Has Made

Oh yeah... this movie exists.

After seeing the first few episodes of the planned TV series George Lucas suggested releasing them as a feature film to act as a pilot for the TV show. While it was a moderate box-office success, almost no-one liked it and now people have to be reminded that it actually came out. Still, it is part of the Star Wars canon and gets an inclusion here.

It's a thoroughly incompetent film that has terrible writing and awful animation, but with this movie its biggest mistake was existing at all. This should've just been several TV episodes as planned.

Structurally, it's a mess, with characters constantly appearing and disappearing and every set-piece feeling like a finale, meaning that the screenplay's roots as television episodes are painfully obvious throughout, while the evidently low-budget and cheap-looking animation makes one further question why it ended up in cinemas.

The Clones Wars TV show turned out pretty well, so in this case the first impression was entirely wrong. Still, Star Wars: The Clone Wars remains the worst Star Wars film to date.