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While Star Wars The Clone Wars was a major success in expanding, enhancing and redefining the Star Wars story, yet one of the most pivotal aspects of The Clone Wars is that it’s canon. For those who are unfamiliar with the term “canon”, canon is an label authenticating and unifying the grand overall Star Wars story and history.
The reason for having to categorizing certain material cannon is to prevent historical conflicts.
As stated by Sue Rostoni, Lucas Licensing editor,
"Canon refers to an authoritative list of books that the Lucas Licensing editors consider an authentic part of the official Star Wars history. Our goal is to present a continuous and unified history of the Star Wars galaxy, insofar as that history does not conflict with, or undermine the meaning of Mr. Lucas's Star Wars saga of films and screenplays."
Star Wars.com goes on to elaborate on the reasoning behind the creation of canon.
“While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU consistent with our film and television content as well as internally consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the EU. He set the films he created as the canon. This includes the six Star Wars episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and produced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align”.
With this said, how can you have a product of Star Wars that is canon be incomplete? This incompletion creates holes and questions to the audience of Star Wars, which contradicts the whole purpose and creation of canon.
With the Clone Wars being canon, it’s canon for a reason, as it bridges the gap between Episode II Attack of the Clones to Episode III Revenge of the Sith
With this said, The Clone Wars shows an excellent development of all the main characters in the prequels, enriching their character and redefining the tragic plot of Star Wars itself.
This idea is reinforced by Sean Fallon, author of “Why you should be watching Star Wars the Clone Wars”, as he states:
“Somehow this show managed to do the unthinkable. They improved the prequels. They made them seem less like utter failures and more like parts of a bigger story. And I don’t mean the whole Star Wars franchise as the bigger story. No, I mean the prequel story. The story of the fall of the galaxy into imperial tyranny. The story of Anakin Skywalker, the lowly slave who rose in the ranks of the Jedi and then fell to become an unrepentantly evil scourge upon the universe. That is the story I had hoped for with the prequels that the prequels did not deliver on their own. The Clone Wars, on the other hand, deliver that story and then some.”
Sean continues on to state:
“The show is incredibly manages to somehow fix a lot of the faults with the prequels through its longer run time and, simply stated, better writing. If you are a fan of the prequels, then you’ll be happy and if you’re not, then give this show a chance. Watching The Clone Wars managed to make me excited to sit down and watch the prequels again.”
These ideas are again echoed by The Cosmonaut Variety Hour’s video: “Why You should be watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars” as he proclaims: “This is some of the best Star Wars you can ask for”.
“The new characters of the show are welcomed additions to the Star Wars Canon. Ahsoka seems like this scrappy side-kick, but she can take care of herself. She is never annoying as she always says what the viewers thinking.”
“The other character that is exclusive to the show is Asajj Ventress. She’s really similar to ahsoka, she was raised to believe that rage and anger were the only beliefs to live by. And eventually she learns that’s not how life is”
Cosmonaunt goes on to state:
“But on TCW, you get stories on characters you don’t know, on planets you spend a lot of time on, doing adventures you want to watch. On top of that, everything in this show is canon. Honestly, It’s so easy to watch, you get to really appreciate Star Wars. You start really getting into these characters”
Being canon means bridging the gap between each episode, creating a uniform and continuity for the audience. The Clone Wars did this and then some, however is incomplete and must be finished to fulfill the canon category.
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