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Points were made.

This feels like exactly the right instinct.

Dave Filoni identified Duel of the Fates as one of the most important Star Wars moments during a roundtable discussion on Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian.

It's the only part of The Phantom Menace that everybody loves, right?

Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned from one of cartoon history's strangest hiatuses to finish out the story that Dave Filoni and Lucasfilm started back in 2008. Now, in Season 7, the journey of Rex, Ahsoka Tano, and more iconic characters will come to a close, resolving at least their parts to play in the acclaimed animated series. But with more than five years between seasons, things will certainly look and feel a bit different in Season 7, even though it features familiar faces that we've been waiting to reunite with for the better part of a …

Dave Filoni has drawn and shared an image of The Lord of the Ring's Gandalf and Ahsoka Tano that hopefully means we haven't seen the last of the beloved once-Jedi.