But it also helped position both its writer and its most memorable character for expanded roles in the franchise’s future. Season 7’s 12-episode send-off was largely intended to tie up loose ends and bid goodbye to a show and an era that hold a special significance for many Star Wars fans who were weaned on the prequels. The seventh and final season of The Clone Wars, which returned from a six-year hiatus in February, bowed out with a May 4 finale that saw the prequel-spanning series catch up to-and briefly vault past-the conclusion of Episode III. Fifteen years after Lucas presided over preproduction of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the animated series has reached its long-delayed conclusion. On Monday, Disney snipped the last link to George Lucas’s decades-long tenure as the steward of Star Wars.
