I used to adore the 2003 Clone Wars miniseries, book and comic series’ and find them far superior to the 2008 TV show, but the more I think about it the more I feel I prefer the newer series. In the earlier comics and books, which were made between the release of AOTC and ROTS, it seems that every time Anakin is used he has to use the dark side to solve every problem, and overall is portrayed as a depressed, repressed, angry and aggressive character, like his character in AOTC turned up to eleven, which I guess is how the writers thought he would be in the third movie, in which he seemed to have mellowed out a bit. It wasn’t until the very end of those series’ that he was actually portrayed anything like he was in ROTS, because of course by then the movie was basically completed. It also suffers from a disjointed overarching ploy, which I guess the 2008 series has as well, but to a far lesser extent. I feel that the 2008 series feels more like Star Wars whereas the older books and comics felt like highly stylised edgier versions of the films. Also one series has the novel Jedi Trial which is garbage, and the other did not.