Via Techtimes.com:

It’s been thirty years since Return of the Jedi came out. Thirty years since fans have seen anything genuinely good from the Star Wars franchise on the big screen. This Christmas looks to change that with the long-awaited release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which reunites the original trilogy characters and ushers in a new era for that galaxy far, far away.

But if you really think there hasn’t been any Star Wars worth watching in three decades, you’re dead wrong. The small screen has been home to some tremendous storytelling — and no, we’re not talking about the godawful Ewok movies.

Television gets compared to film all the time, but the truth is, TV’s episodic runtime allows it to explore more shades of its characters than a movie ever could. TV gives stories time to live and breathe and change — and the depth seen in the recent Star Wars TV shows rivals – or even bests – anything the franchise has ever produced.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars got off to a rough start, but it ultimately produced some genuinely compelling stories, consistently depicting fascinating characters. Star Wars Rebels is the new kid on the block — advancing the plot forward a good fifteen years to the earliest days of the Rebellion, and presenting a fun, motley crew of Empire-hating adventurers.

Why should you watch them?

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