What we know about The Mandalorian season 3įor its first animated Star Wars show since ’80s spin-offs Droids and Ewoks, Lucasfilm turned to Genndy Tartakovsky.How to watch the Star Wars movies in order.The contrast with the often-ponderous prequel movies couldn’t have been starker. Set just after Attack of the Clones had kickstarted the galactic conflict that would subsequently conclude in 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, it was our first proper glimpse of the skirmish Obi-Wan Kenobi had teased in A New Hope.Īnd even though the first run of episodes clocked in at just three minutes apiece, you rarely felt short-changed on the storytelling front – it was like watching Star Wars on fast forward. First released on the Cartoon Network in 2003, the original, 2D Clone Wars cartoon was Star Wars with the talky bits surgically removed.