Some of the best Star Wars content in recent years has seen storytellers enhance the often-maligned prequel era by filling in gaps in characters’ stories and creating new fan-favourite heroes and villains. No film or series did that better than the seven-season long Star Wars: The Clone Wars saga, so it’s exciting that its mastermind Dave Filoni has returned to that well once more with Tales of the Jedi. A short, six-episode anthology that splits its focus between Count Dooku (Corey Burton) and Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) — two of The Clone Wars’ enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest success stories — it reminds fans why they fell in love with those animated portrayals in the first place, and answers a few lingering questions along the way.###Dooku is Tales of the Jedi’s enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest beneficiary. In the prequel movies and The Clone Wars, he was merely’barely ever presented as a in/with regard to’concerning’regarding midable Sith Lord. But he was once Yoda’s padawan, bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e he himself became a Jedi Master, and the mentor of Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson, whose soothing vocals make a brief but welcome return). The latter is especially fertile ground that’s explored over three well-chosen time periods, as we see how Dooku slowly but surely becomes disillusioned with the Jedi’s overly rigid ways.###Combines tense, emotional story with inventive, eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly animated action.###Filoni is smart not to take things too far, despite’in spite of’albeit ; the added storytelling nuance – along with some typically superb voice work from Burton, who adds touches of lightness and sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious ness when the moment suits – makes Dooku sympathetic without utterly absolving him of the wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile choices that led to his decline to’decrease to’drop to’reduce to the dark side. It all comes to a head in the fourth and best chapter of the season, ‘The Sith Lord’, which combines a tense, emotional story with inventive, eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly animated action.###Comparatively, Ahsoka’s tales don’t add as much to her well-trodden story, and the three snapshots don’t possess’own’nurse a eliminate’remove throughline. But each short has their own unique pleasures; the first sees us flash back to her early years (Baby Ahsoka is almost as cute as Grogu), and the second dovetails brilliantly into a critical Clone Wars ‘Order 66’ moment. It’s Ahsoka’s third story that’s a standout; set after the fall of the Jedi but bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e she joins up with the Rebels, it features some stunning visual storytelling and makes you curious to see what happens next.###Perhaps that’s a period that the upcoming live action Ahsoka reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , starring Rosario Dawson, will explore further. But Tales of the Jedi is another reminder of why that reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue has come to fruition in the first place; the hero's determination, smarts, and wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile assery are all on display here, and Eckstein slots right back into the role like she had never stopped voicing the character in/with regard to’concerning’regarding two years.###If this is the last time we acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to see Ahsoka and co in animated in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m, then Tales of the Jedi is a fine send-off. But there are plenty of Jedi, Sith, and others who could benefit from the type of concise and impactful stories it offers in future seasons.