The Let us return once more to a more civilized age a Clone Wars podcast. I'm Rob

Zachny joined by Ali Akampora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.

Began The Clone Wars have and we're diving right into the action with 2008's The Clone Wars movie which picks up shortly after the end of

attack of the clones and years before the final fall of the Jedi Order in Revenge of the Sith.

To set the stage a little bit this is a movie that functions as a theatrical pilot for the TV series,

though a lot of film critics reviewed it at the time felt it was a little bit more like a commercial than anything else.

And I think that's maybe where Star Wars just kind of was in 2008.

The prequel trilogy had left the universe feeling creatively kind of exhausted and as Natalie

pointed out a couple weeks ago huge portions of that film felt more like

marketing for tie-ins, then vital storytelling.

So I think I'd have to concede that if I did not know there was a great TV show coming after this,

I'd sympathize with a lot of those measured or critical reviews of Clone Wars that came out back in 2008, but I am

curious and I'll throw it to you all now.

What did y'all make of this movie?

I feel like the past couple of episodes

I've continuously said, I wish there was a movie before this,

and I feel like I've been finally given that and I regret asking for it.

Because... I mean, I don't know if I regret asking for it but I just feel like this is like this I got

what I asked for in the most literal sense. This is the like pre, this is setting the stage for whatever is next to come.

And it is really just that. It is a lot of setting the stage, a lot of

introductions in a way and I just like miss the levity. I can't believe I'm saying this but I miss attack of the clones. I miss the drama. I miss the like the the weight that had and I just didn't feel it in this movie.

There was when I was watching this movie that when I got to the the

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