Recap / Star Wars The Clone Wars – Yoda Arc

Warning! This story arc recap page contains unmarked spoilers! Read at your own peril!

List of episodes in this story arc

• "The Lost One" (first of a four-parter season finale)
• "Voices" (second of a four-parter season finale)
• "Destiny" (third of a four-parter season finale)
• "Sacrifice" (fourth of a four-parter season finale)

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Tropes:

• Arbitrary Skepticism: The idea that someone can return from the Force to communicate with the living is met with equal skepticism from Ki-Adi-Mundi, despite the fact that the Jedi regularly use Psychic Powers granted to them by the Sentient Cosmic Force. Justified in that belief in the Force explicitly renders spirits impossible, as all beings become one with the Force when they die.
• A Day in the Limelight: Yoda is the sole focus of this story arc.
• The Bus Came Back: Chancellor Valorum and Qui Gon-Jinn's force ghost come back for this story arc. Sifo-Dyas sort of comes back for this story arc, and most major characters within The Clone Wars cast itself (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Rex, Dooku, Mace, Artoo, and Sidious) pop up at varying points or another.
• Book Ends: At the time of airing, anyways. The Clone Wars began with Yoda being the first major character featured, and it ends with him being the one to take center stage in the final story arc of the series. Subverted once the seventh season came out, though Yoda does have a role in that one as well.
• Call-Forward: Towards the events that lead to the Original Trilogy.
  • Yoda briefly hears himself say that there is another Skywalker.
  • A baby's cry is heard.
• Foregone Conclusion: Yoda fails to uncover who Sidious is, though he comes very close in his visions, only being stopped due to his choice to save the vision's incarnation of Anakin.
• Grand Finale: At the time it was released, the arc was the finale for The Clone Wars. It ends up being a case of Series Fauxnale due to the release of the seventh season of The Clone Wars.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: Yoda now knows that the era of the Republic and the time of the Jedi will soon come to an end, but he knows that there will be an ultimate "victory for all time" over the Sith, which will be seen (for the first time) when Sidious is defeated during Return of the Jedi and a permanent time in The Rise of Skywalker.
• Two-Part Tetralogy: The first episode focuses primarily on the Sifo-Dyas conspiracy and doesn't give quite as much focus to Yoda as the later three episodes, which all deal much more with Yoda discovering how to manifest consciousness after death, like Qui-Gon before him had attempted to do.

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