I love so much that Fives' sacrifice let Rex and Ahsoka survive Order 66. That in turn saves hundreds or even thousands of more lives across the galaxy; Rex gets to remove the chips from the Bad Batch, who go on to help more people. Ahsoka joins the Rebellion, rescuing Kanan and Ezra multiple times who then free Lothal (not to mention whatever she's gonna do in her own show!) All those dominos fittingly falling from the single action of the last member of Domino Squad. (Besides Echo, but we thought he was dead at the time...)

I always hated this arc. And it's not because it was bad, in fact, quite the opposite. I hated watching this arc because it was done so well and so artfully. It was amazing, but because I knew what would happen at the end, it broke me. I agree with everything you are saying.

Fives truly my favorite character in Clone wars, his death hit me like a train

This arc was great but child me will never forget Heavy and his death scene. He was a real one 😢

If you play the mobile game, star wars galaxy of heroes, a turned based rpg thing, the way Fives works is really poetic. He's a tank, and he taunts taking the hits to keep the rest of the team safe, but also if another clone trooper is defeated they're instead revived at 100% health and Fives will die instead. Literally how it worked in the show.

Fives death always makes me sad,especially when i see Rex reaction :((

Fives was my favorite clone from the first episode he was introduced. Watching him die was heartbreaking. My little brother watched the show long after I did but he still came into my room after that arch with tear filled eyes, all he said was “Fives” and I knew exactly what he meant. It’s truly a perfect piece of storytelling in one of the most perfect shows of all time.

"The missions, the nightmares, they're finally over..."~Fives

Fives was such a beautifully written character, definitely one of my favorites, and even seeing glimpses of this arc breaks my heart because all he wanted was to protect his brothers and the Jedi he served with. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to discover order 66 and realize you’ll lose what little identity you have and cannot fight against it, no matter how much you try. I wish current writers would make more characters like him.

I'm glad you got explained that Fox didn't want to kill fives but was given no choice. He was just doing his job.

hate how clone wars is still incomplete. we are missing out on so many great arcs like this one

A beautiful video, following one of my favourite character. Fives' arc was just so good, that once I get a feeling, that I need some clone wars episodes, I either pick a mandalorian themed one, or one about Fives or his brother in the 501st. Thanks for this great video!

I love the John 15:13 reference, it’s one of my favorite verses. So absolutely based

Every time I see a clone trooper die I get really sad 🥺

This Arc was the onld time I cried in the entire Show. A Testiment to how well it was made. (Your description of the Arc was on top: "I hated watching it, thats how good it was")

Another fabulous video! I totally get this being a favourite but oh man I find it gut-wrenching to watch. Similar to the dread in the penultimate episode of S7 knowing what's coming and being terrified for the character's in the moment. It's a brilliant arc, but my favourite has to go back to my favourite episode from S1, Rookies with Clone Cadets and ARC Troopers. I just love the growth you see amongst that band of brothers. Props to you for the sneaky Jesus and Stalin quotes!

A good video mate; well done. The 'deliver hope' moment caught me by surprise! I appreciate the fun and care you put into editing these videos. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Man, I really needed to be reminded that "It's possible to commit no mistakes and still lose" (quite ironically a Star Trek quote)

A lot of people, particularly Legends fans, dislike the additional of the inhibitor chips in Clone Wars, and prefer the original story where the clones knew from the start what they would have to do. But honestly, I think both stories are equally amazing. The story of the original Battlefront 2 game was told wonderfully, and watching the nameless clone narrator struggle with the future that he knew was coming was way too good for a 3-hour singleplayer campaign in a multiplayer game. But just as much, it's beautiful and tragic to watch the clones be _forced_ to turn on their Jedi generals, and Bad Batch has only increased that tragedy even more as we've gotten to see that they remember everything they did and now they have to live with it. Star Wars has really fallen off lately, but when it's good, it is REALLY good.

The moment of Fives' death is the moment I as an audience member really felt convicted that there was only one way the war could end. It was the moment that the reality of the Clone War fully set in.

and the music in this scene is amazing, Kevin kiner did a great job, I first watched clone wars last year and did my second watch last month, hurts everytime to see fives go out this way.

Truly one of the best Star Wars stories ever told, as a kid this arc hit like a freight train, and now it still makes me cry :)

LOVED this so much! You distilled into words perfectly how to make a tragedy captivating when we already know the outcome of the grander scheme of things! Wow! 10 minutes flew by! Never realized it so acutely, but it's so true that making tragedy personal is what gets us emotionally engaged in a story. Seriously, you rocked this video (and now I'm off to listen to the Katara and Toph one tomorrow!). Thanks for the beautiful insights! P.S. A fave CW arc would have to be the Water Wars undersea arc. I love that one for some reason 😂

It's both one of the best arcs of the show but it was the most emotional arc because at the time we thought the last domino had fallen. And the execution of fives fall was just amazing.

A story thats only gotten more tear jerking as I grew up

me and my brothers always had an attachment to the clones. we played a lot of star wars games growing up and when it came to battlefront 2 we would always opt to play as the clonetroopers and stormtroopers. we had our classes we'd like to play and fight together as a squad, even opting to not play as the hero chars... unless they were the fetts.

All of your quotes were absolutely on point! Some of my favorites.

Great analysis, love how you tied it in with Band of Brothers. Fives's final arc and the Umbara arc are the hardest to watch for me, and with good reason, it's the show at its best. You're right, because they approached the story through the plight of individuals instead of the entire galaxy, knowing that Order 66 will happen doesn't dull the tension. If anything, knowing that even fate itself is stacked against Fives ramps the tension up because we're worried about HIM, not the galaxy. It's kind of a shame that the show didn't give us more clone-centric episodes like this. Even Bad Batch, IMO, doesn't show what the Empire is doing to the clones at an individual level as often as it could. Oh well, that's what analyses like these are for, I guess.

I don't remember that arc very well. I watched season 6 when it came out but I was still gutted by the ending of season 5 so I wasn't really into it. My favorite clone arcs... Well that's a tough one. I like all the arcs involving Domino squad. They're interesting characters because they came from being laughing stock to the finest in the GAR through perseverance and loyalty.

I think about Fives ridiculously often

Wonderful video! I think this arc was really the epitome of what made the Clone Wars what it was. Whether it's your favorite or not, it is essentially Clone Wars in a nutshell. One of the best.

One of my favorite arcs in fictional stories is not from Star Wars but from the Halo Legends series. Halo also has a lot of noble sacrificial UNSC military service men, something like the GAR in Star wars. Among these sacrificial characters is UNSC Sergeant Ghost. A man who held no emotion in the face of battle and death even among the UNSC Marines under his leadership. His first battle engagements against the covenant lead to his whole squad being wiped out while he remains undeterred from the loss of life. His character development would evolve later in another mission against the covenant with UNSC hardware marines fighting a losing battle. Sgt. Ghost whole story is what did it mean to Be Human? To command orders and ignore the loss of life while you stand without any sign of emotion? Before Sgt. Ghost was assigned to a new platoon. One of the wounded and dying marines under his command asked him what it meant to be human. Why did he care now that she was dying and what did she and her teammates' lives matter to Sgt.Ghost now? This character arc improves later on as Sgt. Ghost found that to be human against an alien race that showed no remorse in killing them, Glassing the planet was something he had. His dying marine asked him could he Be Human just for Once? Sgt. Ghost saw in life that he had to be a leader that put lives above his cold nature. That the UNSC’s War and the lives of humanity meant something to protect and win. It is a short story of a Sergeant in the UNSC who saw that saving lives was worth dying for. His last act to be human was to self-destruct a highly advanced prototype suit giving the Hardware marines time to escape Algolis

fastest click of my life and to anyone reading, have a great time watching :D

Tragic bastard almost made my cry, kind of like in band of brothers but not one show or movie made me literally cry but almost almost, band of brothers, a comedic tragic Mexican movie about a dad and her dying child, and 5s death.

I agree 😢 ! Thank you for your vid

Star Wars didn't make me cry, until Fives died.

RIP Fives :(

This death always has me in tears

This arc was the key evidence against the argument that you always hear when people watch Clone Wars. "Well, we know what's going to happen because of Revenge of the Sith so there's no real stakes." This arc only has the tension it does BECAUSE we know what's going to happen. We know Fives isn't going to get the message out. And since he is a character that would die for his beliefs, we're fairly certain he's not long for this world

Thank you this is so good

And now I'm sad, thanks🥲 But what a great video essay! The Fives and Umbara arcs are my favorite, and Fives is indeed my favorite clone. Oh man, Vode An! I used to know how to sing that. (Including the super fast part; I was quite proud of myself for that one lol.)

first, my friend. may the force be with you.❤

I knew I'd cry if I click on this video. And I did

Not only did Fives’ death save Rex, but it saved several other clones that we see fight alongside him in the Bad Batch

The Fives arc so perfectly encapsulates the tragedy the The Clone Wars. We know how this ends. This story happened a long time ago. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it. No matter how attached we become to these characters, we know how they die. And if those who survive, we know that none of them are ever again truly happy

Fives was my favorite

This arc impacted me so much I got a Fives tattoo on my forearm

Landing on Point Rain, the second Geonosis war arc is my favorite. Not all the episodes but generally I watched Clone Wars for the WAR moments and those episodes gave me that. Umbaran arc too.

I really don't like how stupidly Star Wars generally handled the Republic suspicions of a plot against the Jedi and all that... but this arc is an exception. And I agree that Rex being able to resist Order 66 was an excellent payoff. Otherwise, Fives arc would have felt a bit empty.

Honestly this arc and the umbara arc and 99s death killed me. Clone Wars is such agood show.

One arc that is always overlooked was the Boba Fett arc from season 2 we see a kid hell bent on revenge against the man who killed his father have personal conflict within himself on how he and his fellow bounty hunters go about doing it. You see his struggle and his pain along with the hypocrisy of the Jedi and more closely Mace Windu. I wish that Arc was highlighted more than it was. Plus Plo Koon was pretty good in this episode and it was great to see Hondo’s parenting and remorse he had for Boba.

The clone rebellion would've really needed his help.

Personally, Umbara will always be my favourite arc, but this is a very close second

the tears mannn...

The last Clone wars are is by far my favoite because I the first star wars movie I watched was Attack of the Clones and I Played the games and collected the Legos of the era of stars wars media I saw the first Clone wars show and this second one... I was there for 20 years of my life and that last arc on Mandlore was perfect It wrapped up something that caused end debates and it did so perfectly.

Umbara was TCW at its finest

Thank you for making a Scripture reference! No truer words

HEYYYYYYY HE MADE A REPUBLIC COMMANDO OUTRO LIKE I SAID HE SHOULD LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

I love this arc really some of the best star wars, but in the siege of mandalore arc Ahsoka should have been saved by cap Rex, the fact that she saved him and removed his chip makes fives sacrifice mining less and makes her really over powerd in that arc. Not only is she smart enough to figure out how to save Rex, she can also hold off an entire company of clones, which also makes them look incompetent. Rex should have thrusted fives and removed the chip himself then helped Ahsoka survive order 66.

Umbara is number two

You're probably already thinking this, but now that you've teased it, you're going to have to start covering _Band of Brothers._

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I don't know why, but this made me think of Chernobyl, the Limited series on HBO, where you don't find the satisfaction of the show the living of the main characters l, but in the fact they ultimately chose to live well!

Fuck yeah

He was a good soldier... ...who was not following orders...

Tbh fox is very over hated

La verdad, desde que me di cuenta de lo estupido que fue Fives al no delatar el plan Kamino teniendo evidencia de ello y más de una ocasión para hacerlo le perdí buena parte del cariño que le tenía a este arco, hacen a Fives estúpido para que no pueda dar una defensa decente de sus acciones y la trama siga, porque de Fives haber usado su sentido común habría expuesto que los Kaminoanos desobedecieron una orden directa del consejo y planeaban engañarlos con un señuelo del chip lo cual era muchísima mejor defensa que solo entregarse como hizo. Ahora no me acuerdo muy bien de esta parte, pero si mal no me acuerdo tampoco expone que lo querian silenciar desobedeciendo otra orden directa, y de ambas cosas el droide debería tener alguna prueba en su memoria. Mientras más vueltas le das más te das cuenta de que la trama pone a Fives a tomar la decisión más estupida posible que cualquiera de nosotros no tomaría. Me pueden decir "estaba mal mentalmente por lo del chip" o "estaba pasando por estrés" a lo cual respondo, pues sí y no, osea es probable que el chip algo le afectará pero en ese momento no había perdido toda la cordura, si tenía cordura para planear su huida y predecir el plan de los Kaminoanos con el señuelo, tenia la cordura suficiente para saber defenderse ante acusaciones tan incriminadoras teniendo pruebas de todo, y los clones estan hechos geneticamente para no tener estrés, así que aunque podia no estar en las mejores condiciones tampoco le costaba decir "a si? ¿Y como explican que ustedes planeaban entregar un señuelo al consejo? o que querian borrarnos la memoria para silenciarnos llendo en contra de las "ordenes" de Shaak Ti" Y tiene menos sentido todavía cuando tuvo 2 ocasiones en kamino para defenderse y todo un viaje a Coruscant en el cual decidió sin ninguna razón en absoluto no jugar su mejor y única carta de defensa (la verdad)

There is one thing I dislike about Thops and Fives' story arc, and it's the cop out the writers have established to reuse Clone characters after The Clone Wars. Yes, people love Rex, maybe people also like the Bad Batch, to be fair, I have no idea as I have never watched neither Rebels nor Bad Batch, and even TCW i've only watched sparingly. Part of the tragedy of the clones is the ineluctable end to their service after the establishment of the Empire. The timer is set, and there's nothing they can do about it, their struggle for identity, their brotherhood, their friendships with the jedi... All of that is pointless in the end and we knew it from the start. Letting us get close to the clones only reinforces their inevitable downfall and makes it much more impactful when it finally happens (something the films never even bothered to try mind you). Thops should have been the sole anomaly, a glimmer of hope due to a failure in the system, a failure that would have reinforced the engagement of the audience towards the clones even more before the finale. Instead, we have X numbers of clones who continue to exist in between the Prequels and the OT because Disney simply couldn't let go of Rex and even doubled down on the concept to try and replicate his success, thus diminishing the impact of Order 66 in the process because we can arbitrarely choose clones who escaped it.

I find it ironic that this youtuber praises the clones for having "meaningful character arcs" but literally all of them are static caricatures that have their "quirky personalities" from the very beginning. I always questioned why I never cried or was even sad in the end of this arc as a kid and really, its just because the clone characters arent real characters. Theyre action figures.