How Disney’s 40-Episode Star Wars Show Became Clone Wars for the Sequel Trilogy
A New Animated Mission
Star Wars: The Clone Wars deepened the prequel era by exploring the conflict between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. In the late 2010s, Disney launched Star Wars Resistance with a similar purpose for the sequel trilogy.
Familiar Faces And Events
Resistance begins six months before The Force Awakens, when the New Republic remains in power and some characters have not heard of the First Order. The series reaches the film’s events in season 1, episode 17, “The Core Problem,” as Poe and BB-8 travel to Jakku on a secret mission.
The Timeline Across Two Films
The season 1 finale, “No Escape: Part 2,” takes place after the First Order destroys Hosnian Prime in The Force Awakens. The opening episodes of season 2 occur during The Last Jedi.
A Story Left Unfinished
The series ends with Kaz and his friends reunited, rather than on a major cliffhanger, but it did not receive a third season. As a result, it never covered The Rise of Skywalker, which takes place a year after The Last Jedi.
The article argues that a further season could have sent Kaz and his friends on missions with Poe, Finn, Rose or Rey, then led toward the Colossus joining the Battle of Exegol. It also suggests that the series could have filled gaps around the sequel trilogy and Palpatine’s return that the Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker publishing plan did not address.
Key points
- Star Wars Resistance ran for two seasons and followed Kazuda Xiono’s efforts against the First Order.
- The series starts six months before The Force Awakens and later overlaps with The Last Jedi.
- It ends with Kaz and his friends reunited, but never reaches The Rise of Skywalker.