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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008 · TV series · 7 seasons
Created by George Lucas
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Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and other Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.
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Per the Wikipedia article:
>The word clanker has been previously used in science fiction literature, first appearing in a 1958 article by William Tenn in which he uses it to describe robots from science fiction films like Metropolis.[2] The Star Wars franchise began using the term "clanker" as a slur against droids in the 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando before being prominently used in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which follows a galaxy-wide war between the Galactic Republic's clone troopers and the Confederacy of Independent Systems' battle droids.
I did watch The Clone Wars (note this is the 2008 TV series, not the 2003 one). The last season (especially the finale) was amazing, up there with Andor for best Star Wars content of all time. But watching the rest of it to get to that point was honestly a slog, and plenty of the shows are gag-worthy or at least blah. It's bad enough I can't recommend it to friends, but I've been trying to think about whether there's a minimal subset of shows I can recommend watching to give enough of the experience that you can appreciate that finale without needing to suffer through the rest of it.
Andor comes with the distinct advantage that you don't have to slog through hours of questionable content to get to the good stuff.
SW pivoting away from Movies to TV is a really good move in my opinion. The last 5 movies were fine. But on the TV has been great. Clone Wars, Rebels, Mandalorian have told the stories that have let me escape to the far far away galaxy.
Without the Episode you default to the release order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_films_and_television_series
"The Clone Wars", "Rogue One" are both on this list. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Star-Wars#tab=summary So 8 is "Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens" and 9 is "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"
Ignoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special which was never in theaters.
I watched the cartoon series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" with my young son a few years ago and came away with an uncomfortable sense that the Jedi were morally bankrupt having created clones who they mostly treated like nameless slaves and used as cannon fodder. I haven't read the books so I don't know if the treatment is better but the Republic probably had the resources to develop and deploy drones too but they didn't, instead they chose to burn through human beings.
I've been watching the movies with my kid now that he's a little older and we're discussing the moral ambiguity.
Thank you. For any other searchers, Jaybo [0] says this in Episode 0202 [1] of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (not "Star Wars: Clone Wars" - an earlier series, of which I thought my encyclopedic knowledge had failed me, spurring my question).
[0] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaybo_Hood [1] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mystery_of_a_Thousand_Moons
The definitive word on the Star Wars canon was given earlier this year: only the six films, Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, Star Wars: Rebels, and new content are considered canon.
Also, Wookiepedia is doing an excellent job differentiating Canon and Legends, so you can take your cues from there.