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The Clone Wars • S1 E1-5

This week we kick off our Clone Wars series, where each episode I will be joined by my co-hosts Riki and Sarah Hayashi as we go through the whole show, with each episode covering 3-5 episodes of the show, based around plot arcs. 

Here we cover season 1, episodes 1-5, as well as intro the show itself. What makes this, ostensibly, kids show, so good? What do these first episodes teach us about the war, the wider world, and the clones? Why do they have such interesting and powerful character moments, wrapped up in so many plot holes? And can our hosts tell the difference between episode intro text and the text of fortune cookies?

Sarah Hayashi was born and raised in the wilds of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her love of Star Wars started when she first saw A New Hope as a teen, and has only deepened through the years (spending 6 years working at her local comics shop and nerding out on the regular definitely helped). She now lives in Virginia where she’s finishing up degrees in Mathematics and Studio Art – Ceramics, and is currently attempting to con her husband into taking her back to Disneyland so they can go pilot the Millennium Falcon again.

Riki Hayashi is a lifelong Star Wars fan. He believes in finding balance in your relationship with the Force, one that embraces both the light and the dark. He also geeks out about the technical side of the Star Wars Universe and hopes to one day build a Star Destroyer of his own.

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