Shortly after Disney bought Star Wars, they cancelled The Clone Wars TV show. Since 13 episodes of (what would have been) season 6 had already been completed before the cancellation, they decided to release these under the heading The Lost Missions.
The Lost Missions are probably the best Clone Wars tales of the entire series. We get a lot of backstory here to events in the movies- Episodes II and III especially- which gives interesting insight into things only mentioned on the big screen. We learn things like:
- how the clones were 'programmed' with Order 66 without Jedi knowledge
- how the clone army was created and Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas was involved (and betrayed) in so doing
- how Yoda learns about Dagobah and picks up a new ability that will be important in Episodes IV-VI
In short, these Lost Missions are rife with Palpatine/Sidious machinations, deceptions, and suspense in addition to the adventure and action we expect from the series. We sense a storm is coming . . . a storm that will break, with horrible consequences, in Episode III. Indeed, some of these episodes were dark- even for adults- but (I would say) suitably so. It makes me wonder what the rest of the season could have done, had the show continued (for the first time, it felt as though the series was going somewhere, rather than just telling miscellaneous stories). Well done.
Rating: A+
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