Although the series got a rocky start thanks to the botched 2008 theatrical film of the same name, the show developed the characters of Ashoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) and Clone Captain Rex ( Dee Bradley Baker) into beloved favorites. Before there was a new Star Wars television project announced nearly every week, Dave Filoni’s groundbreaking animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars expanded the galaxy far, far away during a time when the concept of a “sequel trilogy” seemed like a distant dream.