This is becoming an increasingly unpopular opinion but I've begun to resent The 2008 Clone Wars series, or at least what it's caused.
That's not an unpopular opinion around here, I can assure you. I myself didn't abhor TCW at first, or even really Ahsoka herself...I kind of just dismissed it as "another route to
Revenge of the Sith", with the Genndy Series and accompanying games like
Battlefront II being my "preferred route."
But as time has gone on, the Fisher Price nature and vapid quality of the cartoon grew more apparent to me---but I would've even tolerated the show in light of that re-assessment if not for the growing insufferable presence of both Furloni and the Ahsoka Autists who
will not shut the fuck up about this show, and act like it not only is the greatest piece of Star Wars Media in existence (spotlighting how little media they've experienced outside of the film), but that it "fixed" all that was wrong about the Prequels...a notion I find laughable, given how the show almost never ties into the films and often segues into its own fanficky direction. And even if you were able to excuse those maladies infecting TCW (and God knows I can't anymore), all of these problems would be compounded in
Rebels, which is intrinsically tied to TCW as a continuing story, and does everything it does but
worse. That series is Filoni Unleashed, dialing his tendencies to 11 by making his OC's the center of everything, abandoning all coyness about his Wolf Fetish by making wolves instrumental to the Force as some kind of shinto guardians, and cranking Ahsoka's self-insert Plot Armor to maximum by
literally inventing time travel to save her from death and have her reappear...dressed as Gandalf The White, just so you know how much of a Light Side Paragon she really is.
But the biggest lasting scar of TCW is that it encouraged the dumbing down of standards so prevalent in SW today. This new Disney Plus model, of having a threadbare show with zero plot, empty-ass characters, strung together by contrived writing and whole bushels of fanservice wankery to trick you to sit through till the end of the series? That started with Filoni Wars...and if you don't believe me, consider how much of the praise for the show is for the "moments" fanboys latch onto, like Palpatine's WWE Match with the Maul Brothers or Vader holding Ahsoka's lightsaber for "MUH IMAGERY", rather than the writing or dialogue stringing those moments together. It's why these fagaloons don't actually rewatch TCW...they just watch a compilation of their favorite moments on YouTube, and hoodwink themselves into thinking the
whole show is that good, when an actual re-watch of all of its clunky writing and contrived-as-fuck scenarios would reveal the opposite. It's the same symptom as
Rogue One, The Blandalorian, Book of Blorba Fatt and
Kenobi...lobotomized media for consoomer monkeys with short attention spans, that are easily pleased by fanservice and wouldn't know a competent story if it fell on their caved-in Neanderthal heads.
It all started with TCW and Filoni, who is rapidly becoming the Ken Penders of Star Wars.
