The Star Wars franchise that was once exclusive to the big screen has since expanded to include some high-profile live-action TV shows, with The Mandalorian recently wrapping Season 3 just months before Ahsoka is set to debut for Disney+ subscribers. For me, the Star Wars TV journey started well before the Disney streamer even launched, and like many, it was with an animated show. Unlike others, however, my first animated show in the galaxy far, far away was Star Wars Rebels instead of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And while Clone Wars came first and is better known, I'm glad that I started with Rebels.
This may not be the typical order to watch the first two Star Wars animated shows, with Clone Wars premiering (packed with prequel characters) in 2008 and Rebels not debuting the crew of the Ghost until 2014. Through a combination of timing, love for a film that can be left out of watching Star Wars movies in order if the focus is just on the Skywalker saga, and not getting more than a few minutes into the Clone Wars movie when it was available to Netflix subscribers, I watched Rebels first.
