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- Jun 12, 2019
I'm honestly surprised that people liked the politics of the Clone Wars imo those episodes are some of the worst ones in the earlier seasons. The villains are all greedy old people with all the nuance and motivation of a potato and the conflict is resolved with Padme saying democracy good. There's the episode where Padme fights againts a bill to order more clones but at no point considers that the Republic forces are overun and they desperately need new troops even though this is stated in the opening of nearly every episode previously, it's not a bad conflict but it's handled in such black and white terms it's hard to care.
The show just has an execution problem at times like when they try to introduce a 'sympathetic' Separatist lady who wants peace, seemingly forgetting the two whole season's previously where Separatists have committed every war crime in the book and the unfortunate fact that their forces are lead by General fking Grievous, lightsaber collector extraordinaire. None of the characters bring it up even though Ahsoka is right there! Then the woman dies because they writers are lazy and coming up with a more plausible reason the peace treaty fails is hard.
Personally ,I think the Mortis arc is a perfect example of poor execution: the Father spends most of the arc telling the viewer things instead of the episode showing it in an understandable manner. The Father says he keeps balance because it's necessary but what balance? The Daughter is clearly good while the Son is described as 'falling into the dark' and that his nature is the opposite of the Daughters so is the Daughter tempted by darkness? I doubt it, she's literally selfless. So that then makes the viewer think that the balance is between good and evil itself which is what exactly? Half-evil? Half-good? To maintain balance whenever you save someone do you have to then kill someone else? Incidentally TLJ raises and refuses to clarify on the exact same point.
Personally ,I think the Mortis arc is a perfect example of poor execution: the Father spends most of the arc telling the viewer things instead of the episode showing it in an understandable manner. The Father says he keeps balance because it's necessary but what balance? The Daughter is clearly good while the Son is described as 'falling into the dark' and that his nature is the opposite of the Daughters so is the Daughter tempted by darkness? I doubt it, she's literally selfless. So that then makes the viewer think that the balance is between good and evil itself which is what exactly? Half-evil? Half-good? To maintain balance whenever you save someone do you have to then kill someone else? Incidentally TLJ raises and refuses to clarify on the exact same point.
