The End of an Era — Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7 Review

By: Tristan Ortiz

*Spoilers Ahead*

The seventh season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars has finally come to an end this past week, and it sure went out with a bang. With some of the best Star Wars content made in the last half decade, Clone Wars at last puts the final piece in the puzzle that is the prequel era.

The season as a whole is split up into three distinct story lines, each containing four episodes per arc. The first story line reintroduces the clones as loveable and loyal to each other and the Jedi leaders around them (a theme that is heavily fleshed out and challenged towards the ending of the season).

We are introduced to Clone Force 99, nicknamed “The Bad Batch,” a group of genetically defective clones who are of the “shoot first, ask questions later” variety. Because of their unique defects, each one is highly advanced in a certain field of warfare, giving them the upper hand in combat as a combined team.

Our main clone friend, Captain Rex, must employ the unorthodox strategies of this “Bad Batch” in order to rescue a good friend of his, Echo, who he had long…