Sam Witwer argues that The Clone Wars doesn't just supplement the prequel trilogy—it retroactively justifies it, revealing that George Lucas had a coherent, massive narrative that simply couldn't fit into three films of runtime. What felt like arbitrary plot choices in the prequels become intelligible once you see the larger tapestry Lucas was actually weaving. The prequels weren't clumsy—they were compressed.
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