At least it's back early in the new year.

Does anyone else think season 5 sucks (not counting the Darth Maul story) compared to the rest of the seasons??

They should do more stories with Grand Moff Tarkin and his dark ways to win the clone wars at any cost (double crossing a jedi that led to their death maybe). How about episodes having clone troopers on secret missions obtaining parts for the construction of the death star laser like in the battlefront II game. I don't like these filler episodes we been seeing...
 

I really hope that the second half ties to episode 3, Lucas did say he only wanted to make a 100 episodes, so the rest of the season should see the end of Ashoka and the kidnaping of Palpatine on Coruscant.

Horcruxx, you can watch the kidnaping of Palpatine on the original Clone wars cartoons Volume Two dvd. Definitely should tie into the beginning of episode 3. Show more of the battle over Coruscant in episode III before anakin and obi-wan show up...