In my opinion it beats even Mustafar

Clone Wars is great, I could rewatch every episode (and have) and enjoy them all but I do wonder how many episodes you could remove in their entirety and still come away with all the emotions and primary plot points of the story intact.

Now obviously this will be extremely subjective as what is necessarily a "primary plot point" in the first place is hard to define. In my opinion I would say that the following are loosely what I would call primary plot points of the clone wars:

-Stuff with Mandalor and Deathwatch -Stuff with Maul -Stuff with Domino Squad -Stuff that shows Ashoka's arc from Padawan to leaving the order -Stuff that shows Anakin's conflict between light and dark

I know these are pretty ambiguous but I do feel like they will provide enough information to grow attached to the main cast of characters while also knowing enough about key events and players in the clone wars to understand other star wars content that references the events of the clone wars such as maul appearing in solo or a bunch of stuff in mandalorian.

What are your thoughts?

As great as the later seasons are, I think seasons 1 and 2 were able to expand on world and character building the most (at the time). We got to meet all the Jedi, saw more of the CIS, and saw characters talk about and live their lives beyond what we could've already expected. Examples of this include:

General Grievous had more unique dialogue other than just barking insults and war orders

Other Jedi also had more unique dialogue other than their roles as generals and Jedi

We got to see more new characters for longer periods of time

and etc.

Idk it just feels like once they found what worked with the show, they just ran with it like "okay we've built the world properly in the first couple seasons, now let's get back to who we should actually be focusing on, which are Anakin, Kenobi and Ahsoka" and just threw away all the more obscure plotlines and characters by Season 3. I could be wrong tho, so thoughts?

Personally, I feel like the inhibitor chips were a major copout to explain why the Clones were willing to carry out Order 66 so easily and without question, as opposed to the original EU lore where the Clones were simply conditioned to follow orders blindly.

It’s quite a wonder why they didn’t get her to do the voice.

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His episode was perfect. His arc was complete and really great. Hands down the best D-squad episode. Then he inexplicably survives into Rebels/Bad Batch. Despite exploding. Now normally, I wouldn't really have a problem with this. I've enjoyed Echo ever since he was resurrected. But, what really triggers me with Gregor is that his true death is just dumb. He gets shot. By some random technician not even a trooper. Because he just wasn't looking. This is a clone commando we're talking about and he dies because he didn't notice that one Technician.

What makes it worse is that his final line to Rex is AMAZING. "It was an honor to fight with you for something we chose to believe in". As a diehard Clone Wars fan that line hits hard. But Gregor didn't need to be the one to say it. You could've substituted Gregor for basically any other clone and the line still would've hit the same. There was absolutely no reason to have him return especially just to kill him again and have his true death be significantly more anticlimactic than the first time.

Me and my dad love (most of) the movies, already watched The Mandalorian, Bad Batch, and Ahsoka.

We didn’t expect to enjoy Bad Batch, but it was actually great, so we are thinking about starting the Clone Wars (and eventually, probably Rebels).

But I constantly see debates on whether it’s better to watch them by their air date, or in chronological order, and I guess I’d just be curious where you guys stand?

For my own part, I like the idea of sticking to whatever seems “intended” by the storytellers. Which I would THINK is release date. But then, maybe chronological would be more satisfying from a story perspective?

I really hope that this season features the son of dathomir and dark disciple arcs. It’d be fantastic to see them fully animated and completed as they were intended.

I’m watching through The Clone Wars for the first time and I just finished season 5. I know that I should read Son of Dathomir before season 7, and I heard mother talzin appears in both SOD and in season 6. Is season 6 important to watch first, or is there nothing connecting them? (Also for Dark Disciple do I need to watch season 6 first?)