You have to divorce Lucas from Clone Wars (and any EU for that matter). Remember Lucasfilm Ltd is a big corporation. Oh he may have a hand in stamping approval on greenlighting this or that project but I'd imagine that George will approve just about anything that doesn't overtly harm the franchise. That said I think what makes Clone Wars work is, like I mentioned, are the actual CREATORS of the series who had little influence from George and had a love for the source material. George only had a hand in the PT and we all have our opinions of those. I see the PT as mainly a marketing driven entity helmed by not a filmmaker and a creator but by a CEO interested in keeping a cashflow alive. Clone Wars was produced by a bunch of guys in a small studio with action figures all over their desks- people who love what they're doing and would *probably* be doing it even if no one was even to see the finished product.