me: I love Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It’s such an interesting and entertaining show, giving us so many insights to the already existing characters, not to mention iconic new characters like Ahsoka and Rex
me, five minutes later: While being a fantastic show with many stunning visuals and engaging, emotional plotlines, Star Wars: the Clone Wars has so many fucking problems with it, reaching all the way from how consistently it keeps up with canon, to the extremely problematic moral stances it occasionally pushes forward. While the show brought me and many others hope and enjoyment, it also plays into many damaging tropes, which affect not only the success of the storytelling, but also my and many others’ enjoyment the show. In this essay I will-