the weird thing about Clone Wars is that it tries to give fans and critics what they wanted (but didnt get) out of the prequel trilogy, which is watching Jedi and Hero Anakin before his fall, struggling with his feelings of ambition and pride. but the confusing thing about this is that Anakin actually falls somewhere between phantom menace and AotC. we never see it. this is what the conversation at the start of AotC is meant to show: prideful, wrathful Anakin literally idolizing this girl he barely knows (intentionally Oedipal shit from GL here because of the mom stuff, not for the last time) By the time he's General Skywalker, he'd already committed mass murder.
it's the sort of canonization of the idea that anakin STARTS his fall with mass murder, struggles throughout the clone war, and then finally falls in Revenge of the Sith, which i believe is a pivot based on the extremely wide expectation/misunderstanding that the prequels were meant to show you how cool and powerful anakin was before his fall when actually its a movie about how he was already a space fascist and a whiny pissy creep who helped his evil foster dad swallow up the galaxy because the jedi get off on being withholding and he couldnt deal
Now I haven’t watched any Clone Wars media but are you seriously telling me no one ever addresses that Anakin killed all those Tusken Raiders? Textually or metatextually? I’m floored.
