Star Wars: The Clone Wars' narrative is fully finished, series creator Dave Filoni maintains. Kicking off with a theatrical feature film, Lucasfilm decided to better flesh out their planned narrative with an animated series. More than 10 years after the prequel show debuted, it's wrapped up with a seventh and final season airing on Disney+ from February to May 2020.
Prior to the surprise revival of The Clone Wars following its unceremonious cancellation in 2014, there had been five complete seasons of the project. Lucasfilm rolled out additional episodes named the "Lost Missions" which effectively made up for its sixth year with The Clone Wars' seventh and final season picking from there. Its last 12 episodes were received positively, leaving viewers wanting more.
Unfortunately, for those hoping that more The Clone Wars is coming people's way, Filoni revealed to Nerdist that the story is done. While he understands fans' sentiments, admitting that even the show's creators also want to do more, the narrative is finished. He's thankful that they were able to revisit the property and gave it the send-off it deserves. At this point, he's ready to move forward, teasing how excited he is for the what's next for him in Lucasfilm:
I don’t know. Personally for me, probably not. I have a lot of things I’m excited that we’re doing looking forward. I think it’s hard because I so appreciate the fan support, and I appreciate just how excited everybody was that we were back. I understand them wanting more and more episodes. The people that worked on it—myself and the team, basically all the leads—they were on the original run and I think it shows. We’re really thankful we got to finish it. But I also think creatively, you always want to move forward. I think you could get stuck in a situation where suddenly we’re doing all these stories again, but where is the ending? I don’t want that feeling. I want you to feel like this had a purpose and it rounded out and let’s find something new that’s exciting. We’ve got to look forward a bit here, but boy that was really satisfying to get to do. I can’t even tell you how grateful we all are that people were there for it to watch and support it. Disney+ supported us greatly to get this done. It was a great effort by everybody that understood what Clone Wars meant to people. It feels good. I’m glad it’s done.
I will say one other thing because I don’t think I say it enough: Kevin Kiner’s music, it’s just phenomenal. The finale—I mean it’s phenomenal all the time, but no more so than wrapping up this ending. Every time that he and I have gone into the ending of the series now, and we’ve got through it twice, I just think he and his team have hit a home run. One of the things I enjoy the most is I’ll just still, to this day, sit and listen to the music he composed for scenes because it’s just so perfect and the way that it encapsulates the mood and the tone and the emotion. He just gave fans something great.
Given where things ended in The Clone Wars, Filoni's stance on the matter makes sense. The show, which initially was supposed to tackle the events between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, overlaps with what went down in the latter, even including a tease that goes beyond it. With this, Lucasfilm pretty much covered the whole era in terms of the show's primary premise. Extending the show just because of fanfare without any need for it would only risk tainting the legacy it will leave. The Clone Wars offered viewers a satisfying ending - a big win for Lucasfilm considering how divisive the Skywalker saga's conclusion was via Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
While there won't be any more Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Filoni's growing creative control over upcoming Star Wars projects is something that fans should be excited about. He debuted as a director in last year's The Mandalorian and he's expected to continue his involvement in the upcoming season. There are also several rumored projects centered on characters he introduced such as Ahsoka Tano and Ezra Bridger from Star Wars: Rebels. Given all this, there won't be any scarcity of Star Wars content from Filoni in the foreseeable future.
Source: Nerdist