Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

No joke, I had zero expectations from this and I have come away from it with my jaw on the ground, my eyes wide and tears. This was top shelf Star Wars. I am NOT going to give spoilers, just want to say that if you are a Star Wars fan, drop everything and go and watch this right now.

The way the story interweaved the prequel trilogy and showed the decent of the republic into corruption, Dooku's origin story essentially and served as a companion piece to The Clone Wars series as well and bridged into essentially the start of Rebels...and kind of the Ahsoka novel (again no spoilers here), well let's just say this will be essential viewing on any Star Wars chronology re-watch.

This, legit, is among the best Star Wars ever produced, seriously. Don't take my word for it, go watch it, I will be for the third time back to back to back.

Take notes, live action SW shows. (other than Mando). This is how you do authentic Star Wars.

I really wish this series was longer and more like TCW/Rebels in episode length. I really hope for a longer season 2 with more than 6 episodes and longer episodes.

Story wise, I think it does a great job at showing the corruption of the Republic and how the Jedi really did lose their way. It gives so much more light on Dooku's perspective.

Visually speaking, the animation style is breathtaking! 10/10. Nothing can beat this type of animation. I am keeping my fingers crossed this gets picked up into a full series going forward and not just shorts.

I'm giving it a 9 instead of a 10 only because it was too short and the Ahsoka stories broke preexisting canon. I don't mind tweaks here and there, but the entire story was changed. Between this and Mando arc of TCW Season 7, the Ahsoka novel is no longer canon. (which I'm fine with, I'd just like to hear something official and designate the book to 'Legends' category.

It will fill your soul - and satisfy your thirst for quality Star Wars movies.

Not rushed at all, unfolding at a slow, ideal pace, this series will leave you in a meditative state, like the good movies of old, captivating your mind and soul. Because this is what Star Wars is about - the Force, and the Jedi, wielders of the Force, become living embodiments of the Living Force. And this series will return your mind/attention to this essence of SW.

It also fills some gaps left by the first trilogy, revealing some key names and characters from the first episodes.

All in all, Filoni did it again - only this time it's even better (on a deeper tone) than the Clone Wars series.

WOW. I really was going into this not expecting much, I'm sure most of us saw the short episode run times and were disappointed at first. But it really really works all together as complete, hour and 15 minute feature.

This show had everything, a much darker tone (imo one of the darkest we've seen in a while), together with great music, a few well placed cameos (my favourite in episode 5 and a very exciting voice cameo) and a fantastically written story, filling in a lot of gaps between especially the prequel trilogy.

My only gripe is that 1 of the arcs in my opinion could have been an AMAZING live action show or series. It's a story we've all wanted and I feel slightly disappointed we didn't get it in live action. Although animation is a completely valid form of story telling.

Dave please give us more!!

This is it. This is where we need to go. Dave Filoni has done it again.

Star Wars animation never misses the mark.

The best characters in the best timeline with storylines that truly matter. The lighting, the themes, Kevin Kiner's immaculate score, it all moulds into something exceptional.

This show plunges us into stories, right into the thick of it, and lets the audience work out the timeline and context, no tedious 30 minute build up like Andor and BOBF.

The runtime and budget on this show is so much lower than all the other Disney+ shows, yet each episode leaves you more fulfilled than any other Star Wars content released since Mandalorian S2 and a couple of episodes of BOBF.

What's next?? Tales of the Sith?

Personally i would like to see an animated show following Dooku and Palpatine covering the 10 years from Episode 1 to Episode 2.

Whatever we get next, put Dave at the helm and let him steer.