Enlarge / Could we squeeze a few more lightsabers into this Clone Wars poster image, Lucasfilm? (credit: Lucasfilm) After a long road to The Clone Wars’ final season, the animated series returns to wrap up a story over a decade in the making. The opening episodes of the new season—which debuts on Friday, February 21, exclusively on Disney+—are by turns thrilling, funny, and as good as anything the series’ live-action side has ever turned out. But appreciating how far The Clone Wars has traveled to get to this point is impossible without tracing the series' previous steps. After cancellation, a return of familiar story arcs The Bad Batch, left to right: Tech, Crosshair, Wrecker.