How The Clone Wars Saved Anakin Skywalker 

this is true

@Kurupt Force He's a desperate troll. He's everywhere in the comment section spamming "cLoNe WaRs BaD!"

@C man Man Thanks for proving my point

@C man Man "do you need me to keep calling TCW all the time?" - reinforcing the fact that you're a spammer/troll lol

@C man Man Yes I do

I don't remember when i watched it for the first time. also when are we covering episode 3?

Yeah because for you, the movies and scenes DID earn the title of tragedy. You were connected to it. This video is for people who failed to understand and connect to the prequels. The ones who need it explaining to them. They have no emotional attachment to the prequels

@@yamborghini391 no, its not, its because the prequels didn't do a good job at making Anakin a good character.

I dont remember my first time either, but I think I felt fear, and anguish at Anakin falling to the dark side and when he killed the children, sadness I beleive.

As we see him crying at the horrid actions hes done.

absoul112 I’m glad you found lots of enjoyment in the prequels, especially Anakin. I always disliked an Anakin from the films. TCW made me not only like him but also I think turned him into a better character and making the films more enjoyable. Thank you for watching!

Same. Though if anything as I grew older I liked Anakin more and more and I find him very relatable. Except all the killings.

Prequels are the reason i became fan of star wars, sequels almost ruined it but my love for prequels is more than my hate for sequels

@@phoenixgray9231 poor fool

i agree

you're not wrong

@@thegoldman25 great video, I love hearing you're take on Anakin Skywalker.

Yeah, they should have showed more of his relationship with Obi-Wan in the movies though

@@echobase5774 Maybe you should've been put in charge

AYYY this is what I always tell people. They're not fundamentally different in anyway, we just see sides to the character in TCW that Lucas probably should have made more time for

It really did, great comment

Funny thing, my mother actually says Clone Wars Padme is her least favorite show character because she says she doesn’t believe Padme actually, likes Anakin in the show.

I agree 100%

For real, like we need someone to rewrite the start of their relationship. We are told they’re in love without knowing exactly why, besides the fact that they’re both physically attracted to one another. But instead of having them bone each other into oblivion like wild rabbits, Lucas tries to imply that there’s some kind of deeper love without showing how it manifested. It’s infuriating. Maybe if the selfless and heroic aspects of each of them were fleshed out more and they were both able to bare witness to them, then it would be more believable. We could see instances where Padme does something kind for some people who are less fortunate than her, and maybe Anakin could see it; conversely, there could be another instance where Padme is witness to Anakin doing something selfless or kind for someone else. Maybe she could be the one to initiate their relationship, and he could be resistant at first because it goes against his Jedi teachings. However as time goes on and he sees how compassionate, brave, and capable Padme is, Anakin can no longer deny his feelings for her and they consummate their relationship in either sex or marriage.

@@MrPjw5 I always saw it as Anakin liking her from their meeting in Phantom Menace it's obvious Anakin likes her from their first meeting, if you watch the movie again you might see that Padme seems to acknowledge his affection in their own way. Like the scene where Anakin gives her the Japor necklace, and it's almost implied Anakin is about to tell her that he likes her when she cuts off him and says "You miss your mother." I mean meeting Anakin is the whole reason I think Padme was wrote into the Tatooine arc, there's no other reason for her to be walking around with Qui Gon and Jar Jar. I think the whole reason Anakin was so keen to help Qui Gon was because of his attraction to Padme. So to me it always felt natural, I never questioned it like you did.

same here

Same man!!

This is THE Clone Wars, not Clone Wars, which was made by Genndy

I love the CGI Clone Wars but I wish Gennedy Tartakovsky's version was also still canon because I feel like it fills in a lot of the gaps between Attack of the Clones and the 2008 Clone Wars series. Maybe Disney will re-make it to fit the new canon?

Yes he’s so awesome

I really appreciate the kinds words, thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Because it just got recommended to me hahah but its a really good video!

This video is awful, what video were you watching?

@@MrZackavelli he brings up valid points. Do I agree with everything? No I believe anakin was good before clone wars but clone wars really helped expand his likeability

I find your lack of enjoyment disturbing

I liked the physicality of Anakin in the clone wars

Wrong

@@lukescrew1981 why so? Anakin was 6 ft 2 despite him not looking that height in the movies, so he's not wrong with saying that.

@@SWDude2710 Dude everything is wrong with Anakin in TCW

It's because of Anakin in tcw that the prequels don't look like idiot movies which standalone they are. ​@@lukescrew1981

Thank you for watching!

@Michael Taylor same but tbf Haydens normal voice sounds a lot like his, ifk why they asked him to sound whiney in the preuqels

@@ibraheemh5586 idk maybe because that's basically the whole point of his character? The emotional instability. You wouldn't understand his turn to the dark side if it wasn't for exactly that.

@@nikotakai8796 yeah probably, but then it makes little sense when he sounds quite emotionless in the clone wars for the vast majority of the time

Well your not suppose to love Anakin, especially not in the way one would love Obi-Wan or Luke. He’s he bad guy, or at least becomes one. Prequels Anakin makes the fact that he becomes Vader much more believeable compared to the smooth talking ladies man in TCW.

this show made him one of the bests

I understand that but Filoni would never do that

Filoni should remake the prequel trilogy. The entire clone wars era deserves a more coherent story

@@hopelesssituationwarrior6996 He won’t because Filoni simply respects the prequels way too much. He would never want to do that.

Bad batch did a little

Foreshadowing*

@@trevturp6891 he really wasn't...

@@theanimehub2180 Yes he was

That was the whole point of Anakin when he was young he was impatient, arrogant, reckless and sometimes unstable.

agreed, thanks for watching!

If he would've been more likable, people would've complained more about how his turn to the Dark Side doesn't make any sense. George Lucas showed what he had to show, then in Clone Wars he had a little more time to show what he wanted to show.

@@zachk.1682 but if he isnt likable, then the turn feels less like a heartbroken moment and more like an expectation. Now obviously going into the prequels we know he will go bad, however for a narrative purpose you'd want to make him look as good as possible so we really feel when he turns to the dark side

I think that during episode II, at the beginning he should have been more obedient and respectful to obi wan showing how he deeply cared for his master’s approval but as the film continues we start to see how he lets his feelings guide him. For example one of the stupidest moments in that film, for me at least, is when obi wan is captured and the Jedi order Anakin to stay in Tatooine and he’s like: yeah ok no problem, I mean wtf, he’s obeying the order instead of rushing out to safe his best friend?. It takes Padme to convince him to go.

​@@emanuelnunez1071The guy just buried his mother,give him a break..He saved Obiwans life twice in the movie,and while trying to save Obiwan they got captured and needed saving themselves.

YES! Anakin's story cannot be told in 3 movies imo

I agree 100%

That, plus bad dialogue, crappy green screen effects and under written characters

Totally agree!

I think that’s a problem that can be found in the DCEU. Warner Bros does not spend enough time building their characters and universe like Marvel did, so the characters were not compelling and Justice League felt lacking

That’s very fair

Considering it’s a fantastic show, it deserves more

Dude, this isn't Clone Wars, it's THE Clone Wars. Different shows. Clone Wars was actually good and fit the established continuity, and TCW doesn't

Lol at the end

The Sith require the death of your humanity to truly embrace the dark side. Part of Sith training is killing those closest to you, like your parents. Eventually you must surpass your master by killing them. When Anakin kills the younglings, he has already killed Dooku and Windu. He has thus committed to the path of the dark side. He doesn't want to kill the younglings, but he has been told this is what is necessary to save Padme. In the end he would sacrifice everything in the universe for her if he thought that's what it took. He cries as he kills both the younglings and the good child within himself. I think there's a reason the kid who comes to him resembles Anakin at that age. And they were all hiding until they saw it was Anakin who they loved and trusted to protect them.

You're only saying that because you're a youngling. I can tell because you spelt Anakin wrong.

@C man Man the person who wrote the comment obviously

@C man Man he spelt it "anikin" instead of "anakin"

I respect your opinion

Do you drink paint often? Or is it a recent thing?

@@PhonesHQ Oh, i've been addicted to the stuff even before i was born, i guess it cant be helped that only paint huffers could enjoy the prequels

of course

Very interesting viewing order to include clone wars, I’m glad she likes it!

I think the spike in Prequel love is due to people my age, who saw them as children and loved them then and still love them now, are of age to be a loud presence on the internet - I imagine something similar will happen with the children of the sequels in 10-15 years

Bro how did she react? I’m getting 3 of my cousins to go through this process too 😂

Did she watch it already? What did she say?

@@ParadoxicWasHere I don't think that will happen with the sequels and here's why: The OT was popular enough to warrant more Star Wars content like the EU. The prequels were popular enough to warrant more Star Wars content like The Clone Wars. You can't say this about the sequels. In Disney's announcement of the new shows that are coming to Disney+, not one of them are based on the sequels. In department stores, sequel toys litter the clearance sections. Criticism of the prequels was mostly blinded by OT purism and all of the complaints prequel haters make can pretty much be wittled to not liking the creative choices George took. There is a fundamental difference between the sequels. They're a soulless copy/paste job of the OT because Disney saw that the OT tested well with audiences in 1977-83 and wanted to duplicate the box office receipts. When you tell the exact same story that takes place right after what you're copying, you take all the significance away from the original blueprint. The picture-perfect ending of Return of the Jedi is now hollow because the problems that were solved in the OT turn out to be completely unsolved since the same problems just sprout up again. The sequels turned the OT into the equivalent of Garven Dreis' proton torpedoes ("Negative, it didn't go in") and have installed themselves as the equivalent of Luke's force-guided torpedoes. There are bunch of other problems as well: Complete lack of a coherent narrative since there was no plan for the trilogy (this is what happens when you tailor your story to the complaints of your previous film in order to get as many asses in the seats) no realism (how do the Death Star remains not burn up upon entering the atmosphere?), practically none of the aliens we've seen in the previous films make an appearance, repeated contradictions of established rules of the universe, a fundamental disconnect from the rest of the franchise (It's long been established that Korriban/Moraband is the homeworld of the Sith, yet we get this completely new planet that the movie tells us is the true Sith planet), they attempt to give the appearance of furthering social progress with lazily-written female characters that are superior to men just because they have a vagina, while pathetically crumbling to real-life bigotry (they shrunk Finn on the Chinese poster since an African-American wouldn't be as popular and a shoddy attempt at promoting LGBT acceptance with a same-sex kiss in the end of ROS that takes up literally a second of screen-time that can easily be cut from theatrical releases that play in homophobic cultures), they didn't innovate any new film technology in the slightest (a hallmark of Star Wars films), and plot holes galore. The reason why the prequels are getting support these days is largely due to the fact that kids that grew up with the prequels can now make their voices heard, but I think you're overlooking the significance of this. The kids that grew up with the prequels didn't spend years formulating their own backstory of Darth Vader and then react negatively when it didn't match. They were untainted with the prejudice that all these OT purists have. They went into the films without any pre-conceived notions or biases, and could see the films for how great they really are. It isn't due to blind devotion of what they loved as children. It isn't because kids will just love anything that's presented to them. It's because they saw the films with clear eyes instead of being blinded by nostalgia goggles. It highlights that 90% of prequel criticisms stem from preference for the OT and the fact that this is something different. When Batman v Superman tested negatively with audiences, Superman IV and Batman & Robin didn't start to get a new wave of appreciation. That's because Superman IV and Batman & Robin are objectively pretty poor films. I was one of these kids that grew up with the prequel theater runs as a kid (4 for TPM, 7 for AOTC, 10 for ROTS) and my appreciation for them has only grown over the years. Conversely, I grew up with the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy as well, but I don't defend them blindly in my adulthood just because I grew up with them. I'll defend the first two to the death, but I won't defend the 3rd one because I didn't even like it that much when I saw it as a kid. Hate for the sequels these days isn't just because they're new. Star Wars fans love Rogue One and The Mandalorian. It's because there are objective flaws with the sequel trilogy that won't go away over time. Sure, there might be a slight uptick in support for the trilogy as the years go on, but it won't be nearly as huge as the renewed appreciation for the prequels. The sequels are just a lazy cashgrab, and it's pretty hard to objectively defend that.

You make a great point

@@thegoldman25 Clone Wars shows that Anakin will do anything to protect the people arround him so its not a far reach that he would try everything to safe padme

Another reason why I love this show so much

@@thegoldman25 the first few seasons were meh but they picked up in the last few

The show didn't do shit

I'm jealous, when I watched that movie before clone wars i felt no emotion

@The Gold Man, you just got no soul... sorry!

This comment is really underrated

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exactly

It’s a very long story.

The crap Anakin had to put up with throughout The Clone Wars makes me feel arguably LESS bad for the Council members (minus Obi-Wan, Plo Koon, and Kit Fisto) that met their ends in ROTS!

@@jcrews8582 Ye Plo and Fisto have their shit together. Windu made his own bed. TCW episode with him and Jar Jar trying to stop the cultists really hits home a lot of his characterization

@@jcrews8582 plo and kit the bro’s

Thank you for watching!

agreed

Wrong the clones is perfect

@C man Man lol mad

@C man Man fucking chill bro, it’s not that serious

Thanks! The Clone Wars came out when I was so young so it's always been a part of Star Wars for me. I'm so excited to see it return

THE Clone Wars, not Clone Wars

I wish i felt the same way you do

i respect your opinion

True.

@@thegoldman25 and I respect you for respecting an opinion XD

I guess it depends on your age when you saw the Prequels. I was 33 when the Phantom Menace was released.

@@thegoldman25 that’s new

Thankfully, they have the comics and shows to fill in the gaps.

agreed

I respect your opinion

I would completely agree

The worldbuilding in the prequels where amazing

I wish the movies were better

The prequels aren’t objectively bad. Like, there’s nothing wrong with disliking them, but it doesn’t factually make them inferior movies. Just like how the sequels aren’t objectively bad, neither are the prequels. It specific to people’s opinions.

i actually think TV is the future for Star Wars because of something like that

that's fair

Early Clone Wars Anakin isn't Anakin from Attack of the Clones. There's been a year of war since then, he's passed the trials to become a Jedi Knight, and he's at the point where the Council is willing to entrust him with a Padawan. The 2003 series did a better job bridging that gap, it showed you immature AOTC anakin, leading up to him getting knighted and then gave you a montage of him doing heroics that built up his confidence. I wish there was a bit more of that in TCW as it missed a very important stage of his development, for all the other good TCW did.

@@MrSmitejr Since when there is a full year between the 1st Battle for Geonosis and the Battle of Christophsis?

@@Strongpoint_S you are right! My bad. It was a period of 1 1/2 to two months following that, and he passed the trials and became a jedi knight four weeks after after AOTC. Which is enough time for him to get a bit more confident about things following marrying the love of your life and not being in training anymore.

I wish I felt that with the movies

When he left Lucas, Filoni was but the learner. Now he identifies the master

I loved that arc, part of me wishes they brought it back for season 7 but I'm not going to complain

I appreciate that, thanks for watching!

Thank you so much!

me too!

me too

I disagree but i understand where you're coming from

Very interesting take I had not heard before. I'm glad however that you like the Anakin from the films. Thanks for watching!

I agree with this. Can't buy TCW Anakin as a young Vader. It's not what George wanted.

I'm so glad to find someone who feels exactly as I do. You explained my ferlings perfectly and even came to the same solution as me (using Mat Lucas). I agree completely

@@xx_creeperslayer_xx1943 interesting, for me TCW Anakin is more believable to become Vader. Episode 3 is my favourite SW movie of all time, but before I watched TCW it was hard for me to believe that the immature and emotional wreck portrayed by Hayden is actually the great Jedi General, hero of the war, who will become the undefeatable Sith menace in the original trilogy. However they should be one and the same, and I'll try to view them as such. Btw TCW is what George wanted, he supervised the whole show, Dave Filoni originally wanted Ghost Crew-type main characters, it was Lucas who said no, it should be about Anakin.

@@LordViktorHun88 Vader is supposed to be a pathetic insecure man under all that armor. George said it himself.

agreed

Thanks Max! Always a pleasure hearing from you

It's one of my favorites!

@@thegoldman25 wrong answer. It IS your favorite

@Cap'n Salt That is just a terrible take...

You should. Once you make it through the childish first two seasons, you’ll get to see peak Star Wars content.

@@reo_1907 I watch it at the moment. I just said that movies work on its own.

i wouldn't say perfect

I agree!

@@DayanaRockStar122 Thanks.

@@KingNazaru Grievous, Barriss, Luminara, Mace, Anakin, Maul, Aurra, the Mandalorians, and Dooku were just SOME of the characters that TCW completely trashed 😤

@@imyouralibi6208 Preach!

@@KingNazaru And don't even get me started on Ahsoka. Easily one of the worst additions to Star Wars I have ever seen. Let alone the fact that it makes *no* sense for Anakin to have a padawan (she would've been better off as Plo Koon's padawan) as the Council barely trusted him and he was still a student himself, Ahsoka was an insufferably self-righteous brat who outshone countless Jedi Masters as well as the Chosen One himself with her ridiculously overpowered feats and who Dave Filoni insists on shoving into any and every show he possibly can. Such a trash character 😤

thank you for watching!

I wish i saw what you saw

@@thegoldman25 the prequels bring everything together. Like yeah we got a few more glimpses of Anakins turn in the clone wars, and especially seasons 5-7. But in episode 2 although it’s shotty acting or whatever you can see him struggle with his attachment to his mom, then in revenge he has that same attachment struggle with padme. Also palpatine making him believe the Jedi are betraying him makes him feel as if his entire life is pointless and he has nobody except padme, and he just wants to save her

I wish i thought he was good

that's a fair criticism

Oh,yes. He is far too full of life,charm and happiness and he suddenly he is dark depressed in the films}

The start of revenge of the sith

I make 3 videos a week! You should check them out

you make a great point

this is true

that is true

@@thegoldman25 Thank you.(And thank you for the reply.)

I’m sorry that you can’t handle differing opinions

@@thegoldman25 it’s not that I can’t handle them, hell, the prequels aren’t good movies objectively speaking. But a lot of the points he makes against anakin in the prequels just aren’t true if you listen to/watch what the characters are doing. It’s pretty obvious that he sat through the movies just to grab a couple easy points for this video, he didn’t actually pay attention or he’d realize that many of his points are addressed.

I'm with you, he is now one of my favorites!

I'm the same tbh

Thanks for watching!

i appreciate your take

Anakin immediately after killing the tuskens was back to being his to being his old cringe self as soon as they left to save Obi wan on geonosis. So you can get out of here with that nonsense. Anakin in the movies suck!

I don't care

interesting

you make some good points

Yea I speak a lot like Hayden Christensen in Rots and I’m still masculine and show emotion aswell. I also prefer Hayden Christensen’s voice for anakin

@@thomaskelley6521 same.

Thanks! I really appreciate comments like that, it means more than you know. I am just starting out so I'm grateful that I already have 56 subs. Hopefully I can grow more soon!

couldn't agree more

@@thegoldman25 like im not kidding when anyone asks me about starwars and anakin thats exactly what I say

No, TCW Anakin was a stereotypical smooth talking ladies man who made is unbelievable that the character would turn to the dark side and become the galaxy’s most feared Sith Lord, Darth Vader. Prequels Anakin was the gifted but flawed and troubled youth that fell to temptation and fear and makes more sense in becoming Darth Vader. This is no knock on the Clone Wars by the way, it’s a kiddie show, making it more kid friendly by kiddying up Anakin was the purpose so kids would like it.

thank you so much!

i sorta mentioned that

@@thegoldman25 Really? Because I think Mace could have an explanation and how he fits into Anakin's fall to the Dark Side

i felt he needed to be saved

i disagree

@@thegoldman25 Fair enough.

No he wasn’t

That's a fair point, thanks for watching!

thank you so much!

Thank you so much for the kind words!

I wish I also shared that emotion, thank you for watching!

Very interesting take

Very true

it does fix a lot of people

100% hard disagree, he shows so many dark traits throughout the series

@@thegoldman25 the "dark traits" are so far-fetched that do not seem reasonable. He says to Trench that he does not has the weakness of the Jedi not killing unarmed enemies, but in the movies he clearly does has that code, even hesitating to kill the man that took his arm off. This moments are just flashs the writers have to say that they tried something.

A lot of people see it that way but i disagree

Bro what my man anakin kills people, has rage moments, and you see how much the counsel failed him, i dont like anakin in the movies and his main motivation for turning its very stupid to me, clone wars however improves his motivation for falling to the darkside. 1 the jedi failed and constantly lied to him, 2 they failed his padawan and basically forced her out of the order, 3 his main fear is lose of family, obi wan lied to anakin and sides with counsel a little too much, ahsoka left because of the jedi and them refusing to accept the fact that they f ed up, padme death was causing anakin to have an over reaction and the counsel refused to help him and palps used that to his advantage, in clone wars made anakins fall more tragic and I like anakin in clone wars he is known as the best, nicest, and overall good guy we hear obi wan say that he was a good friend in ANH, and we see that in this show, honestly anakin is really good in clone wars and made the prequels better cus even tho I still hate the prequels I usually think of clone wars and because of this series I enjoy the prequels more mainly ROTS.

I think there are many pros and cons to the prequels, i try to be fair whenever i can

fair enough

Thanks dude!

I believe George Lucas opened up about how he initially wanted The Phantom Menace to introduce Anakin already as a teen rather than a kid. It was the late 90s and of course he had Leonardo DiCaprio on his mind. But when he reached out to Leo and talked about it, he declined the offer. George probably couldn't think of anyone else of that age to play Anakin at that time, so he aged down the character.

Thanks got the kind words! I really love this show and I'm glad so many other people do too

this is true

true

you are correct

When most people talk about power/being powerful in star wars it is 99% to do with the force not the proficiency with a light saber or how well you can fly a ship

i disagree

Thank you! This show is amazing!