The Clone Wars 'Space 'Nam' — Why Umbara Changes Everything

Описание: Most fans think the Clone Wars lasted about six years — roughly one year per season of the show. The real answer is three. And once you realize how compressed that timeline actually is, arcs like Umbara — what fans call "Space 'Nam" — hit completely different.So let's talk about that number. Three. Because I don't think most people have actually sat with what it means.The Battle of Geonosis — Mace Windu taking Jango Fett's head, the clone army marching out of those Kaminoan hangars for the first time — that's 22 BBY. Order 66, the moment every clone trooper in the galaxy turns their weapon on the Jedi standing next to them, lands in 19 BBY. That's it. That's the whole war. Everything the show covers across seven seasons and a hundred and thirty-three episodes fits inside roughly thirty-six months.
And the reason you probably didn't know that — the reason almost nobody processes it correctly — is that the show ran for twelve real-world years. Premiered on Cartoon Network in 2008, wrapped its final season on Disney Plus in the spring of 2020. Your brain does something completely natural and completely wrong: it maps one season of television onto one year of story time. Seven seasons, seven years. Makes sense. Feels right.It's wrong.