"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Feature Talkback (Spoilers)

You nailed it.

There is a multi-volume comic version of the clone wars.

But the Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars is excellent by itself. It can be viewed as part of the true Star Wars prequel (Ep 2, Clone Wars and Ep 03).

Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars Volumes 1 and 2 literally starts off when Episode 2 leaves off and ends right when Episode 3 begins.

I am starting to think Lucas may be tempted to do a Star Wars AU where Anakin never became Vader.
 
Ok, first of all, I'll get this out of the way before anyone comes after me- Yes, the prequels had faults.
However, I honestly believe these were magnified by people who had had nearly 2 decades to make expectations that these films could never reach. People often forget the power of nostalgia and how it can make you look on older things as being better than they are. Sadly, people's default reaction is to complain rather than to try and understand. Obviously Lucas has changed from when he started the series. Alot of folks in their younger days are charged up and want to make a bold statement, before declining later in life and softening up. The 'Greedo shot first' issue shows this perfectly, with Lucas no longer happy to see Han as the 'kill or be killed' underground rogue that he is when we first meet him. Clearly in his youth he found that scene perfectly acceptable.
 
I would say the one think Leia isn't is a damsel in distress. She was not asking for help for herself, but her planet. She's quite happy to meet her death at Vader's hand. She refuses to give up her rebels under interrogation and under the threat of her planet's destruction. That's before she starts making power struggle with Han in the escape from the Death Star.

Padme struck me as slightly weaker, given how broken she was over Anakin's shift to the dark side. Somehow I couldn't imagine Leia being the same, but then she was brought up in a harder, unfairer galaxy. She is a tough cookie by nuture.

As a role model for women, I think Leia is stronger. She can be soft, she can be sensitive, but she never loses face and she never loses hope.
 
Which would violate canon in so many ways it's beyond laughing.

Although I'd love to see Cade Skywalker get some screentime, since he already exists 132 years after the battle of endor.,
 
I don't even know if it's just age. I knew guys like George Lucas in art school. There's just some people out there who are *never* satisfied with their own work. It's just their personality, and that's the way they are. And George Lucas, who owns Star Wars completely and ultimately, is that type of guy, and has the money to do it.

Since it's completely and ultimately his, the rest of us really don't have a say in it. He has the money to second-guess himself, so he's gonna keep doing it, and to heck with the critics. Sad? Not really. In the long run, I think it shows he really cares for his work, and really, the rest of us can't judge what's best for a work that he makes for himself as the audience. Frankly, I think It'd be kinda nice to have the cash to make whatever crazy project I wanted and not worry about what other people think. All we can do is like it or hate it. For me, it was an excuse to see flashy lightsaber battles in theaters once again while shamelessly gorging myself on popcorn.

It'd be like if J.K. Rowling suddenly got a hobby in rat-breeding, and loved the little critters so much that she decided to re-write the Harry Potter series with 30% more rats. Silly and random as that sounds, none of us really have a say in what she does with it, do we?
 
I'm totally with HellCat here. The original fans grew up, but the movies did not. Star Wars is supposed to appeal to our inner 13-year-old, and that's exactly the way I approach it. And I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it: anybody that's ever read New Jedi Order will never ever complain about the prequels or the Clone Wars again. :D


So, with that in mind, I was geeking out nearly all the way through this. My only gripe was that there was no opening scroll! :anime: Other than that, it had everything I could want: Strong characters, exotic locations, massive battles, that overall epic feel.... in short, it was Star Wars. :cool: If the rest of the series is like this, then bring it on and bring it on now.

And I should mention that it does indeed look like we will be seeing more of Anakin's heroic side in this series and I'm all for it. Vader foreshadowing is all well and good, but we also need to see what a great hero he was before his fall from grace. And I'm also digging the budding "big brother/little sister" relationship between Anakin and Ahsoka.

So, let everybody else "harumph" and complain, I'm gonna go back to the theater tomorrow and lose myself in a galaxy far, far away. I give The Clone Wars five Death Stars. :D
 
In no way, shape, form, or fashion do I work for LucasFilm. I'm letting people know exactly why they are doing this series because of one or two biased opinions who seem to think that 3 or 4 battles are enough for an entire 3 year period.


Actually the new series can do just the opposite of what you've mentioned, that being tie everything together. Inconsistencies are only inconsistent if they aren't addressed. Furthermore, the novels only cover 2 additional battles, the comics follow mostly the same story as the Clone Wars series done by Genndy, and the video game only covers the most important events. There's still plenty that can be addressed during the Clone Wars. For example, how many times do Anakin and Palpatine cross paths, because we know Palpatine is slowly training him to be a Sith? When does the Jedi Order begin to suspect that Palpatine might actually be the Sith Lord, since they wish for Anakin to spy on him in Episode III? Who's to say that all the characters introduced in The Clone Wars will actually be killed either? Ferus Olin is introduced as a classmate of Anakin's that leave s the Jedi Order in the books and ends up doing the same thing Obi-Wan does for Luke for Leia in the books. A new series just started also says that some Jedi survive the Extermination Order. It'd be nice to get to meet some of these Jedi in the series so we can relate more to them in the books or other media they might be in.


I don't know what books you're reading, but the Empire never resumes power. They have The New Republic and The Imperial Remnant merge together to form a new superpower- The Galactic Alliance, and yes, they have the Jedi get betrayed by one of their own who begins to act like a combination of Vader and Palpatine, but the Republic is never replaced by the Empire. He acts solely under the name of The New Republic.
 
Read the Legacy comic book series. In that, about a century or so after Luke's time, the Galactic Alliance basically dies and the Imperial Remnant seizes control again under the reborn Galactic Empire. The reborn Empire is eventually taken over by the likewise reborn Sith order.

Additionally, on the Clone Wars game- assuming you mean the vehicle based combat one, that only covers a single story regarding Dooku trying to rebuild an ancient Sith weapon. 3 levels are set during Episode II, but the rest is a self contained story set in the early months of the war.
 
Eh, I say just leave Star Wars at the six movies. They told a spectacular epic story, and as far as I'm concerned, that story is over. I'm satisfied.
 
well, i saw it. and quite frankly, it sucked. i'll admit that there were few redeeming qualities, but all it did was open to plot holes and still leave me with the question of "why was this made? it just screws things up." the music blew, the opening blew, the dialogue and droid humor was FREAKIN TERRIBLE!!!! and above all it was UNNECESSARY!!!!!!

and I'll be honest, i don't want Star Wars to end. I just think Skywalker's story is finished...completely. I would rather them try to follow something with either KOTOR or something with Kyle Katarn. Please george, leave anakin and co. alone.
 
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