The dialogue is beyond horrendous, and makes the most awkward “love” scenes in Episode II feel like the work of Shakespeare by comparison. It’s worse even than typical children’s’ shows in that while it’s obviously aimed for children, it’s still unbelievably terrible, and so full of stupid puns and tired expressions and dull monotonous recitation of lines that I imagine even the target audience would be bored with these sequences, and fast forward through all but the battle scenes.

Jar Jar Binks is rendered pleasant in comparison to this Padawan girl that Anakin is inexplicably given to train (Jedi Knights do not train Padawans; only Masters) whose entire role consists of generic “tough girl” sassy quips and ridicule.

The 3D animation is what you’d expect from a LucasFilms budget, but perhaps to keep themselves linked with the much more successful Clone Wars micro-sodes by Genndy Tartakovsky, they retain the stupid shapes of people’s heads that consists of various juxtapositions of gravity-defying squares, circles, and polygons. Count Dooku’s beard looks like the triangular front-piece of an old-time freight train, and it looks stiff as metal, too.

The battle scenes would certainly be the highest appeal for children, but for the non-children watcher, even those are usually made a mess by the constant stale quips and jabbering between Obi-Wan and Anakin and That Annoying Girl being spoken/yelled at one another throughout an entire sequence.

General Grievous is just as useless and nonthreatening a villain as he was in the movie, and the droid shenanigans that are apparently meant to be “humorous” are jacked up tenfold from the movie, and ten times less cute/funny.

Obviously the point of this series is to make an open-ended source of stories, no matter how stale or hackily written, to be exploited for episode fodder and money.