TCW Anakin is great at points, when he got to be a kind of ruthlessly heroic character. He wouldn’t hesitate when a friend was in danger, which was an interesting way to foreshadow his eventual turn.

It seems pretty fair to me that Lucas doesn’t get much credit for ‘saving’ Anakin though. It would only be balancing out the ruining he did already. I’d have much preferred to just have a decent Anakin in the films, and not scattered throughout 7 seasons of a cartoon spin-off. TCW is fairly overrated by the fanbase too. The good stuff is remembered fondly, but there was LOADS of average to outright bad material too. It’s a worse hit rate than the movies.