Plus, any fans who had watched Star Wars Rebels already had an idea of what was in store for Rex and Ahsoka in the Star Wars timeline, so it wasn’t the end of their story even if it was the end of The Clone Wars.

The finale wasn’t an altogether happy ending, as it took place after Order 66 with Ahsoka on the run and the Empire in control, but it ended on a sense of hope for the future. The deliberate timing of The Clone Wars’ seventh and final season meant that the finale released on Star Wars Day in 2020, but the coincidental timing meant that the final season of Clone Wars was releasing in early months of the COVID pandemic lockdown. To me and to so many fans, Star Wars means hope, Ahsoka means hope, and leave it to Star Wars: The Clone Wars to provide that hope in the middle of honestly some of the darkest times. Everyone needed some light in the darkness. Everyone needed something to look forward to. At first it was really disappointing, but then I realized the timing was perfect, because this was right in the beginning of COVID, and everyone needed hope. We had planned fan screenings and press events and premieres and none of it got to happen because of COVID.

It's funny because we had planned so many things for the final season of Clone Wars. And it only gets better, honestly, in my mind, the more times I watch it, and the more I get to talk with fans about it and interact about it. I think the Siege of Mandalore – the finale of Clone Wars – is just incredible.

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