10 Best Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episodes
The best adventures in between the prequels.
After a twelve year run filled with cancellations, revivals, and network changes, Star Wars: The Clone Wars has finally come to an end.
The anthology series, set between Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, began with a lackluster pilot movie before quickly picking up steam to become nearly as beloved as the original films themselves.
Clone Wars introduced many new elements to Star Wars, including developed clone characters such as Fives, Echo, and Captain Rex, new planets, and Ahsoka Tano, who is set to make her live action debut in upcoming Season 2 of The Mandalorian.
The series has low lows but high highs, with some of the best episodes rivalling even the original trilogy. The show took on some heavy themes, and became darker than the live action Star Wars films. Its ambitiousness paid off, as the show gave us these ten gems, as well as several other remarkable episodes which couldn't crack the top ten.
Here are the ten best episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
May the Force be with you.
10. The Jedi Who Knew Too Much
The Jedi Who Knew Too Much, the second episode in the final story arc to air on Cartoon Network, follows Ahsoka as an unknown antagonist pins the recent Jedi Temple bombings on her. She hides in the Coruscant underground, and, in a climax straight from the film The Fugitive, meets Anakin while standing in the middle of a giant pipe. She insists to him that she is innocent before jumping down to evade capture.
This fast-paced, adrenaline-filled episode works, not only for the excitement, but also for the plot escalation. The previous episode, Sabotage, ends with the capture of Letta Turmond, believed to be the sole conspirator behind the bombing. When she tells Ahsoka that a Jedi gave her the idea, and when that Jedi murders Letta while framing Ahsoka, the stakes become even higher.
This is also the first episode to see Ahsoka move away from the Jedi Order. Two episodes later, in The Wrong Jedi, she leaves the Order for good, but The Jedi Who Knew Too Much establishes what she can do on her own. The badass Fulcrum Ahsoka we see in Star Wars: Rebels would not be possible without her developments in this episode.