Weren’t the droid episodes the first ones produced? I remember hearing that…

I rarely rewatch Season 1. Season 2, sometimes. But the show to me is basically Season 3 onwards. 😛

I can’t watch Season 1 because of Anakin’s voice. 😆 It’s so odd.

But your point about different Jedi appearing – I liked that about Season 1. We already had the movies to cover Anakin and Obi-Wan – it makes sense for a TV series to cover more of the Jedi. By Seasons 3, everything was done with Anakin and Obi-Wan and it began to be annoying.

Plo Koon was appeared often because he’s DF’s favourite.

Season 1: Best thing about it was that it was more fun. I appreciate a plot with depth but sometimes simplicity is better. One thing that makes this season stand apart from the rest is the character variety for both the heroes and villains. Everyone had their own personalities and traits which kept their interactions fresh. It’s a shame this aspect wasn’t carried over after Season 2. And the shorter story arcs helped keep up momentum even if some of those stories weren’t good.

Dooku was portrayed at his best here. He actually comes across as the charismatic political idealist described in AOTC instead of the generic moustache-twirling genocidal lunatic from later on. But captured by pirates? Oh, please. They could have used another important CIS figure that. Conversely Grievous was severely lacking. Defeated in several consecutive episodes then disappeared for about a year before returning nearly half-way through Season 2…only to lose again. What a joke. It’s a shame his and Dooku’s models were never updated before the end. This is more of a show complaint but it’s more prominent here than anywhere else: CIS always losing and so easily. The only thing that could be considered a victory (from this season) is Ventress escaping with Nute Gunray. Despite them essentially being villains of the week, Wat Tambor, Nuvo Vindi and Lok Durd were all unique and not clones of one another. It’s a shame they weren’t featured again. Although I will say Vindi comes across a better villain on one page of The Bounter Hunters Guild handbook than in his episodes here.

Moving on, the writing and dialogue was very up-and-down. We go from something like The Gungan General to Trespass to Blue Shadow Virus . One step forward, two steps back. The R2 episodes in particular are so full of plot holes that I’m surprised the characters didn’t fall into one. Voice acting was spotty. Ahsoka’s high-pitch wailing was awfully grating and so were her mannerisms and nicknames for other characters. The animation while sub-par compared to now, was much more detailed than other animated shows at the time. Main issues would be characters being completely weightless and robotic.

A big MEH overall, but better than Seasons 3, 5 and 6.

The show started out as a “children’s show” so I guess they had reason to make it all Republic victories in battle. But, by Season 6, it would be a lie to say that the good side suffered no losses. (Ahsoka, Fives, Satine, Ventress, Steela, etc)

Just… no losses by the Confederacy in battle. 😛