re: Ahsoka for those like me that haven’t seen CW or Rebels

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I'm not 8 years old, so I never watched this.

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That was my standing as well until I got about 3 seasons into CW (almost all of that was the show being on as background noise as I was doing other things). Season 7 (the final season) was impressive in its depth. The only thing kid-related about that season was that it was animated. I'm more of a story guy but the animation style is off-putting and Ahsoka's voice in S1 and S2 was like nails on a chalkboard. That said, it was worth going through the series. Once. (also, I understand why they did animation over live action as the time and costs to do even half the live action things they did with animation would have been unrealistic - still, they could have used a style not as child-oriented)

A lot of the plots in the early seasons are very kid-oriented with their transparency. Still, they serve a purpose as they (laboriously) create a solid foundation for the Jedi and clone army not only working together but becoming trusted friends (or as near to that as possible within a military hierarchy). As the series winds on, it eventually matures as we see Anakin begin to struggle with following the path of the Jedi, some Jedi turning away from the Jedi Order (even betraying the Order), lots of killing (not just shooting robots) and characters making choices based on events that have shaped them over the course of the show (understand though, there's a LOT of episodes to go through so that view is arrived at only by going through lots of filler content).

By the time Order 66 is given, it actually means something as they've spent years and lots of episodes creating character development that the order destroys. Unlike something like the last movie, once the series is over you get the feeling (only through retrospect though, at least for me) that a LOT of serious thought and effort went into crafting a solid fleshing out of the story which bridges the time between Revenge of the Sith and Rogue One.

I just wish the whole series would have been more adult-oriented but their overall idea seemed to be a bit like Rowling did with Harry Potter by making the content of each installment appealing to an audience as it ages (but with more content within a shorter time frame, if that makes sense).

I'm somewhere in the 2nd season of Rebels and it seems to be following a similar progression path.