The highly-anticipated return of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars is nigh! Disney confirmed Season 7 will start streaming on Disney+ on Feb. 17.
Clone Wars fans have been waiting patiently for the new (and final) season ever since Dave Filoni dropped the teaser trailer at San Diego Comic-Con in 2018. The return of the beloved series is proof that fan campaigns are sometimes successful at saving, or in this case resurrecting a show (#clonewarssaved).
Starting with the Cartoon Network animated micro-series, which premiered Nov.7, 2003, the series evolved into the Clone Wars we know now with the feature film in August 2008. The 3D CGI series began just two months later on Oct. 3, 2008. The Clone Wars ran for five seasons on Cartoon Network before getting the ax during Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm.
Back in 2008, Lucasfilm began its animated show The Clone Wars with an animated movie in theaters, before transitioning into a weekly show that ran for five seasons. A sixth season (labeled by Disney as “bonus content”) started streaming on Netflix in March 2014. Still fans felt crushed by the lack of a proper conclusion to the series.
Hopefully the final season will leave everyone happy, unlike the finales for Game of Thrones, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, ALF (it’s a thing, look it up), and on and on.
Disney+ will probably drop Clone Wars episodes in a weekly format, similar to their approach for other shows like The Mandalorian. We hope they don’t mismanage the episode order like what happened with the early seasons. (Seriously, how could they let that happen?)
The Warp Gate 8 crew will be watching the series and reporting our thoughts and updates starting in February. Stay tuned!
