- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 2

-----------------------------------------EPISODES' REVIEW------------------------------------------When a show says its pushing for 5 seasons, you generally tend to get very nervous, especially since an entire 1st season and a motion picture tanked your expectations, being "mediocre" at best. But now this new DVD release has really swept me off my feet! Star Wars never looked so good on TV! The acting is superb (with a few exceptions I'll roll out later), the story is never bland (although it suffers from unbelievably goofy premises) and each and every episode is able to hold the other up by its caliber in brilliance! It literally shoots the standards of the upcoming seasons by light-years!The animation has made great strives and Season 2 is not shy when it comes to proving itself. The character models themselves interact with the environment, climate and other characters much more realistically. I can't even think of any particular technical hiccup off the top of my head -- not one -- from this season, which is a huge plus, in my opinion.One technical issue I know the Clone Wars is suffering from though is that they haven't perfected the art of RAIN! I can't think of a single episode with a grey cloud in the sky, which is pretty unrealistic if you ask me. Its not a huge complaint, just a technical obstacle I'd like to see this show overcome.The character's models could be as fantastic as they please: the characters 'themselves', however, could definitely use some tweaking. In a time-block of half an hour (22 minutes excluding commercial breaks), if amazing what both Seasons have been able to pull off. Sometimes the acting sounds forced, though, and dialogue is painfully rushed (I'm looking at you, Ahsoka and Anakin!). On the plus side, the voices fit well with the character's and their established personalities (with the exception of Grievous, who is just a miserable mess of inconsistency).The story is outstanding, even for its constrained time-frame. Every episode acts and feels like it'd be at home playing on any big-screen cinema (which is, ironically, the exact opposite of how I felt about the feature-length film). The episodes' tone has gotten rather darker even, which I think compliments the kid's intelligence and the older viewer for watching a "kid's show" as well.There's really not much else to say except the lack of legitimate villains. Count Dooku, General Grievous and Asajj Ventress get little to no action whatsoever(with the exception of Grievous getting his own 2 episode story arc... which was VERY disappointing). Some new adversaries are introduced, but they never really go anywhere (Cad Bane and Captain Honoka are the only exceptions) Instead, mercenaries, bounty hunters and even giant Godzilla wanna-bes get jammed into the show and really takes a lot away from the "Clone Wars"!!!I understand that the Clone Wars can't shove battle droid and clone trooper clash in our face every episode, but it'd be a nice change of pace. Season 2 covered every genre you could think of: monster movie, murder mystery, kidnapping, extortion, revenge (the list goes on!), but the show needs to understand that it can't tread too far from its element.------------------------------------------DVD'S REVIEW---------------------------------------------Like the last season's collection, Season 2 offered 4 discs containing the 22 episodes and a very neat book that contains concept art relating to the season. The disc offers different language options and precise subtitles too (you know, the basics). Unfortunately, one REALLY disappointing thing about the package is its presentation and its lack of bonus material.Last Season's DVD boxset offered interesting featurettes for every episode, explaining production, technical difficulties, etc. Instead, Season 2 has a new tab on its 'bland' menu labeled "Bonus Material" where you're lucky if you at least find ONE episode autopsy (there is also trailers for Star Wars games and other media, but they hardly count as worthy material). Season 1's 'main menu' even looks more impressive than Season 2's: Season 1 has a montage of clips from its episodes on each disc, where as Season 2 only has a still picture of Yoda on each disc ("Very disappointing, this is!")Could it really have been that hard to stuff everything into those discs? Maybe the episodes' technical superiority made it relevant to take out good portions of bonus material, but that's no excuse: they could have just simply put another disc in the set dedicated to bonus material and be done with it! And its not like they weren't ever produced: even "StarWars.com" still has them in its video library, and its been -- what -- half-a-year, at most? To be honest, I smell a marketing tool to get Average Joes to get Blu-rays (which I assume are PACKED with bonus material) and with my limited budget, I guess I'll just have to stick to my guns and complain some more.----------------------------------------------OVERALL----------------------------------------------To write a lengthy review, it definitely required me to do extensive nit-picking. I still think, even with the few complaints I have, its a worthy buy. If you are willing to cough-up the extra bucks for Blu-Ray, you'll find a complete half of this review to be irrelevant. The episodes themselves are worth the buy, regardless of package and presentation.I see Season 2 as the forerunner... and the seasons that follow it will be as marvelous, if not greater, than the last.

Kids have watched the entire series multiple times; saved us on a few road trips

In the cover of this complete season two, Master Yoda is holding his lightsabor with a firm look that he gives to the enemy. Although I have no idea why master Yoda is standing there with a smirk on his face, I kind of like the design. The complete season two is like the complete season one. It has 4 discs and 22 series in total. Each series has about 30 min running time, and starts with different wise-sayings. The keywords of episodes per each disc, I think, are these:- Disk 1 : Holocron : friendships + trust- Disk 2 : Geonosis + Grievous : letting go + understanding- Disk 3 : Mandalore : betrayal + love+ patience + leadership- Disk 4 : Boba Fett + Zillo beast : all life formsFor example, the first disc has episodes in which the Jedi Holocron is mainly dealt with. Darth Sidious ordered Cad Bane to steal the Jedi Holocron, and he did it. Desperate to get it back, Anakin Skywalker and Asoka Tano are dispatched to a mission. In the story, you will see the strong bond between master and a Padawan. Thus, you will understand that Cad Bane is more dangerous than you thought. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that in the story, there is always a thing to learn.My favorite episodes are in disk 3. As said above, it is mostly about Mandalore, love, betrayal, patience, and leadership. I like it because, when I was watching the part about Mandalore, I found that like Skywalker, Obi-wan Kenobi has a love too (think about that!). However, the MAIN reason why I like is that it gives you a lot of wise sayings. For example, "a wise leader knows when to follow." from the episode where Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi engages an infamous separatist admiral.To sum up, I think it is a really, truly, literally, wonderful.P.S. if you haven't yet watched Complete Season One, watch it first.P.P.S. if you haven't watched Star Wars please watch them. (At least 1 and 2)

I'm too old for this stuff - NOT!! It's high time they turned the second season loose. One other reviewer said they should use this tech to continue Luke Skywalker's further adventures after "Return of the Jedi", ergo, the destruction of the Death Star. I agree 235%. That would be Timothy Zahn's "Heir to the Empire" book trilogy, which I found to be no less than awesome reading. So much of that stuff would have to be CG'd or animated. I'd get a huge kick out of it myself. This Clone Wars series is for kids and for big kids like me. My wife is resigned to the fact that I'll never grow up no matter how old I get. I have all Star Wars movies and all the animated movies and Clone Wars series and movies that have come out so far. I have them arranged in the proper order that the legend takes them. I'm a sci-fi nut. I've also got everything Star Trek and the complete Babylon-5 series and lots of old 1950s movies. For this, the second Clone Wars series to be coming out, and having watched all the episodes on Cartoon Network, it will be great to run straight through it without ads or those highly irritating (SHOULD BE OUTLAWED!!!!) POP-UPS that tell me what I'm watching and what's coming up next. I don't need to be told, and I'll bet a belly button to a doughnut hole that no one else does either. I enjoy the animation and the style of the series, and I think they are pretty well told even if they are "downed" a little bit for kids. If I can handle Jar-Jar Binks without a whimper, this is no problem.

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In this case, I can only judge the book by its content, not the packaging; the packaging is rubbish. The design is rubbish as well; I nearly broke the discs just trying to get it out - poor design indeed!Glad I got that off my chest lol. The episodes are nothing short of masterful; brilliant!! Just like season 1, you get a little booklet filled with cool concept drawings of characters and environments.I would have given this a 5 star rating except for 2 drawbacks (& I speak only for myself on this, not the general populous):1) In season 1, Yoda gets involved & you @ least get to see him in action in 1 episode. No Yoda action in this season even though his picture is splattered all over the cover swinging a lightsaber.2) The DVD case is a really poor design. Even if you posses tweezer-like fingers, the discs are hard to pull out of the case (a major annoyance, in my opinion).Otherwise, this season is really fun to watch and enjoy. Anakin & Ahsoka really crack me up and the other characters are just as colourful in their own manner. There is even a bonus disc that explains some concepts of the episodes.4/5 rating is pretty good considering i'm in a really cranky mood today because it's thursday & their's no sunshine outside!

I bought the Clone Wars Series 1 to 3 for my children as they had just started getting into Star Wars. I have really enjoyed watching the series with my boys and the quality of the writing is fantastic. The episodes are witty, sharp and not cheesy at all. Great action and funny, clever dialogues with episodes dedicated to great directors. Entertaining swashbuckling sci-fi for the whole family. I enjoyed the first three Star Wars films (the ones with Luke and Darth Vader) but was a disappointed by the more recent three. Clone Wars makes up for the disappointment. Highly recommend Clone Wars to Star Wars fans of all ages.

I loved the DVDs. They were great. My fav is the 3rd one. The only downside is thatyou can watch them also on youtube. Buy it if you want it in your library but theprice could be a bit lower for the above reason. The bonus disc is not a bonusreally. The booklet, might be. My kids did quite a few drawings from that. I alsoliked the case.

So the movie was surprisingly engaging. The first series was better than the movie and this one is better again. The Star Wars legend keeps getting back-filled by this series as more and more characters get their backgrounds expanded. There are Mandalorians and Boba Fett, all kicking off against the Jedi. Well worth a look for those who can't quite get Star Wars out of their system.

I liked this dvd because I am a fan of the star wars saga and this is like a continuation of the story. Each episode is about 20 mins long abit like mini stories, which is great. Some stories carry on from each other, some are different which gives you a bit of variety. I would recommend this dvd to anyone who loves star wars.