Also not helping is that S1 and S2 have some episodes pretty out of order which means that you don't really get the back story on some clones who are important till Season 3/4. Heck, some of the clones who have important backstories are already DEAD by the time you get to the episode that would actually make you care about them.
Basically, Its Domino Squad, Cody, Rex, Waxer, Boil, who are most important in terms of developed character arcs.
Also, in S2, the little Twilek girl that Waxer and Boil carry to safety ends up growing up to be a minor character in Rebels. None of it is super necessary, but its nice to see these characters pop-up and make the Rebels sequel feel like a very fleshed out world as you get to see adult versions of one offs in Clone Wars.
Ideally, Lucas should have done the Phantom Menace, skipped AotC entirely and replaced AotC with the Clone Wars show, then finished Clone Wars up with Revenge of the Sith movie having live versions of the animated characters.
This way Anakin's fall would have been HUGELY developed. It wouldn't have felt like it came out of nowhere. Which it did. Other than the slaughter of the Tusken camp that kidnapped Shmi there is NOTHING in AotC that shows Anakin's potential to fall.
I'll just watch them how they aired.
