Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 5 (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Creator: George Lucas
	Actors (voices): Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF, Animation, Action
	Conditions of visioning: January-March 2017, VOD, 10" tablet
Synopsis: The Galactic war is not anymore fought only between clones and droids, but new participants like bounty hunters, fallen apprentices or old enemies come into play.
Review: I continue to follow the TV-series imagined by George Lucas and aiming at adults and kids alike, and I keep on noting how it evolved. I still like to learn more about the Star Wars Universe and some characters are well-developed, but against my expectations Anakin doesn't evolve and doesn't show any sign of what he will become. This season 5 continues the trend set in the previous season with stories that span several episodes: S5E1 Revival is the direct follow-up of season 4 starring the return of Darth Maul and will be continued by S5E14 Eminence to S5E16 The Lawless, itself ending with a small cliffhanger S5E2 A War on Two Fronts to S5E5 Tipping Point would not be extremely interesting apart from introducing the character of Saw Gerrera important in the recent movie Rogue One  S5E6 The Gathering to S5E9 A Necessary Bound interestingly shows training of young Jedi and introduce the Kyber crystals also referred to in the recent spin-off movie.  I loathed S5E10 Secret Weapons to S5E13 Point of No Return for many reasons: they depict a mission accomplished by a group of droids (including of course the brave R2D2) which goes very slowly and with very boring twists. The motivations and logic in many scenes is also extremely unbelievable. Only the special effects at the very end of the story are worth watching. Stuck in the middle of those episodes (actually when I saw a field of comets in the middle of space) I paused my watching of The Clone Wars for several weeks. Finally S5E17 Sabotage to S5E20 The Wrong Jedi start like a normal story of investigation by the Jedi but as the Finale in every season of this TV show turns out to be more than that. The episodes progressively focus on the fate of Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano, and raise valid questions about the Jedi's morality. This may lead to the answer in the next season to the question I was raising in my review of the first three: what becomes of Ahsoka before Episode III? But I have doubts about ever getting an answer as the following season contains only 13 Episodes because it was canceled before even being aired, when Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney. I will watch it soon for completion, and may continue with this other series in the same Universe: Rebels.
Rating: 5 /10