As the final season of Clone Wars dipped further and further into the timeline of Revenge of the Sith, it was apparent that we were going to see Ahsoka have to face Order 66 on her own.
Disney is brilliantly setting up The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian for the price of one and is creating the kind of connective thread that made the MCU films so successful.
While we’ve followed the bad batch for four episodes now, the reintroduction of Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi helps to signal to us that we’ve arrived at a new plotline.
The Mandalorian isn’t the best thing on TV right now by a large margin, but as a Star Wars series, as a show for casual viewing there’s nothing wrong with it.
As we move into November, Disney+ and Apple TV+ are hounds baying at the door to our wallets. But how much potential do they really have to disrupt this streaming gold rush?