Dave Filoni

First episode impressions: ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Season 5 (TV review)

“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (8:30 a.m. Central Saturdays, Cartoon Network), which has switched from Friday nights to Saturday mornings with little fanfare for its fifth

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On ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars,’ how in the world is Darth Maul still alive? (TV commentary)

The “Star Wars” saga has a weird tendency to tell stories out of order. Most notably, the film saga started with Episode IV. The books

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Oh my god, they killed Otis! (and thoughts on falls to the dark side) (TV and movie commentary)

Kind of a jerk move by Shane to kill Otis on Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC), huh? But also a

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First episode impressions: ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Season 4 (TV review)

As if to not overwhelm “Star Wars” fans who were also picking up the Blu-ray release of the films on Friday, the fourth season of “Star

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Chewbacca and Ahsoka team up in ‘The Clone Wars?’ OK, I’ll buy it (TV commentary)

Long before the prequels started filming, George Lucas announced that R2-D2 and C-3PO would be in all six “Star Wars” films, so we had time

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Top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 1 — Ziro the Hutt

I’ve heard more than one person compare “The Clone Wars” to “The Empire Strikes Back,” basically saying that this is “Star Wars” at its finest.

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Top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 2 — Cad Bane

Every good show has a villainous character that pops up only rarely — say, two or three times a season — and yet always steals

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John’s top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 3 — Asajj Ventress (TV commentary)

In the “Star Wars” universe, it’s almost impossible for a character to quietly, slowly emerge as a fan favorite. Most characters on this list arrived

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John’s top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 4 — Ahsoka Tano (TV commentary)

Because Jar Jar Binks was unpopular among fans and took on a lesser role after Episode I, the next two movies lacked a protagonist whose

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John’s top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 5 — Aurra Sing (TV commentary)

Aurra Sing makes her first “Star Wars” appearance in “The Phantom Menace”; she’s simply observing the podrace through macrobinoculars from a distant plateau. Yet it’s

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