The Clone Wars: Season Seven

The seventh season of the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, marketed as The Final Season, is a revival run of twelve new episodes that currently airs on Disney+. The revival was announced by the show's supervising director, Dave Filoni, on July 19, 2018 at San Diego Comic-Con, during a panel commemorating the show's tenth anniversary. The episodes are a continuation of the series after it was cancelled in 2013, and include the Siege of Mandalore. Series stars Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Tom Kane, Sam Witwer, and more have all returned to lend their voices to the series.
==Development==
Star Wars: The Clone Wars ran from October 3, 2008 until its final regular broadcast episode on March 2, 2013, following the show's cancellation at the end of its fifth season. A half-length season was available on Netflix on March 7, 2014, and some story arcs were released in several different mediums in the following years. The show was succeeded by Star Wars Rebels, which continued the story of Clone Wars era characters like Ahsoka Tano and Clone Captain Rex, but fans continued asking for more episodes of The Clone Wars. A famous hashtag for the campaign was #SaveTheCloneWars.SaveCloneWars on Twitter
An extension of the original series on the Disney+ streaming service was announced at San Diego Comic Con on July 19, 2018, during a panel commemorating the show's 10th anniversary. The announcement came with a trailer for the new season and a poster that contained the hashtag #CloneWarsSaved, referencing the fan campaign. A StarWars.com interview with Dave Filoni, the show's supervising director, confirmed that the new season would contain 12 new episodes. One of the story arcs in the new season will be the Siege of Mandalore, it has some scenes about it in the trailer. The arc was originally intended as the show's series finale, which takes place before and during the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, including Order 66.Ahsoka The arc has been referenced in Star Wars Rebels and partly adapted in the young-adult novel Ahsoka. The author E. K. Johnston later revealed that she was asked not to write action scenes for the Siege of Mandalore in the book, as unbeknownst to her Lucasfilm was working on the final season.
Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor and Dee Bradley Baker were confirmed to be reprising their respective roles as Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Captain Rex by the revival trailer. In August 2018, Tom Kane confirmed on his Facebook account that he had recorded lines for five new episodes of the revival, though he did not confirm if he will be reprising his roles as the Narrator, Yoda or Wullf Yularen. As of November 5, 2018, recording is still underway according to Eckstein. Sam Witwer and Ray Park were later confirmed to be reprising the role of Darth Maul, with the former providing the voice and the latter performing motion capture reference. During production, several of the models, including that of Captain Rex, were tweaked and improved upon based on new animation technology. Star Wars Insider 190 later revealed that as of June 12, 2019, production of the episodes was still ongoing.Star Wars Insider 190 Filoni felt that his experience making The Mandalorian had informed his work on this season. Even though he was no longer working on the franchise, Star Wars creator George Lucas talked about some series concepts and ideas with Filoni, who endeavored to keep the revival with Lucas' vision so it, along with other projects, can be faithful to the franchise's films and ideologies.
==Release==
The Clone Wars revival was the subject of a panel at 2019's Celebration Chicago, which took place on April 14. During the panel, behind-the-scenes images and a trailer were shown. The trailer, besides showing more footage of the Siege of Mandalore, also confirmed that the revival would include a finished version of the "Bad Batch" arc, initially released as an unfinished story reel, with completed animation.
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The season premiered on Disney+ on February 21, 2020.
Alongside the release, Clone Wars Download—a series of short videos exploring the episodes—also premiered.
==Episodes==
Episode	Image	Title 	Original Airdate	Prod. #
701 	 	"The Bad Batch" 	
*April 17, 2015 
*April 29, 2015 
*February 21, 2020	101
702 	 	"A Distant Echo" 	
*April 17, 2015 
*April 29, 2015 
*February 28, 2020	6.10
703 	 	"On the Wings of Keeradaks"	
*April 17, 2015 
*April 29, 2015 
*March 6, 2020	6.11
704 	 	"Unfinished Business" 	
*April 17, 2015 
*April 29, 2015 
*March 13, 2020	6.12
705 	 	"Gone with a Trace" 	March 20, 2020 	6.05
706 	 	"Deal No Deal" 	March 27, 2020 	6.06
707 	 	"Dangerous Debt" 	April 3, 2020 	6.07
708 	 	"Together Again" 	April 10, 2020 	6.08
709 	 	"Old Friends Not Forgotten"	April 17, 2020 	109
710 	 	"The Phantom Apprentice" 	April 24, 2020 	7.22
711 	 	"Shattered" 	May 1, 2020 	7.23
712 	 	"Victory and Death" 	May 4, 2020 	7.24
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==Notes and references==
Season 07