The history of animation in the Star Wars universe is . checkered. For every transcendent show like
The Bad Batch, there’s a wisely forgotten pockmark on the franchise like
Star Wars: Ewoks. Sure, you can watch Ewoks and its contemporaneous cousin,
Droids, on Disney Plus, but you could also hit yourself in the face with a hammer tonight. Choices, choices.
Despite how awful some Star Wars cartoons are, the modern incarnations are universally fantastic. The Genndy Tartakovsky
Clone Wars, and
Rebels are arguably as beloved, if not more so, than half the actual live-action Star Wars films. They’re dramatic, well-written, and genuinely exciting where the prequels, to be blunt, weren’t. This is in spite of the fact that the prequels were borderline cartoons themselves. George Lucas eschewed real locations whenever possible, creating alien landscapes and massive space battles through computer-generated imagery.
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Screenshot: Ewoks: Battle for Endor/YouTube
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Little ones, gather ‘round. Let me tell you a story of the dark times in the galaxy far, far away. Before the prequels, sequels, and the animated series, there was a time after