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Further rewatching of the Clone Wars eps. You know, I find myself looking at this thing very differently depending on which of two ways I view it -if I view it as supposed to be Star wars canon or if I view it as just an insignificant piece of expanded universe. As the first it's criminally shallow, like the later two prequels, and annoys in various ways. As the second I don't mind it and feel it has its good points if judged as a non-serious animated show. The problem is that Lucasfilm seem to be pushing us to go for the first.
Even the prequels wouldn't be quite as bad as they are if they weren't meant to be serious canon Star Wars. They fail utterly as canon Star Wars. They're really in reality no higher than expanded universe spinoff material, but alas Lucas isn't go to agree to calling them that any time soon. I guess the whole of modern Star Wars is just an exercise in expanded universe.
Anakin in the show is better than the Hayden Christensen version, but he's still not a very believable Anakin. In the show he's basically an anonymous sort of ordinary joe shmoe. But Anakin is supposed to a Jedi hero who turns into a forceful iron-willed villain and then into the wise benevolent old guy Sebastian Shaw played at the end of ROTJ. I just can't see the show's Anakin being/becoming all that. He's too much of a limited bland joe shmoe. And there are some hints of the whiney Anakin.