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Star Wars didn't produce a TV series at all until the 21st cy. "The Clone Wars" was pretty much Filoni's thing but under Lucas' auspices. Not even counting the 2-D series from 2003-2004, there are more than 100 eps in 7 seasons of TCW, dwarfing the total duration of all Star Wars films put together. (And the 3-D series is SW canon, while the 2-D series is not.)

Part of why it gets mixed reviews, imo, is that it was animation. This was Star Wars' first foray into TV & animation, 25 years after the first film. What made SW what it was originally was sfx in live action.

But TCW also developed its own weird structure by about the 3rd season. After that it's nothing but 3- & 4-ep arcs, like one animated feature-length film after another. I think this made for less episodic content.

Some are awfully good. Some spectacularly bad.

After that was 4 seasons of Rebels, also Filoni animation, but I think at this point among the fandom it's nearly as essential as "The Empire Strikes Back." It's way less controversial among fans than the sequels. This series returned to a format with a lot more episodic content.

I think Filoni deserves a lot of credit for SW on TV. He continues to have a central role in the Mandoverse & is still making a feature film afaik. Whether live action is really his thing idk.