Which crowd is that?
The crowd that enjoys well-written, imaginative stories that win four out of six Emmy nominations?
Exactly. Ain't Genndy's fault a small minority have no soul.
AICN Skewers "The Clone Wars"
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Exactly. Ain't Genndy's fault a small minority have no soul.
I think Samurai Jack was the best animated show to come along after Batman: The Animated Series.
I need to make some avatars from that.
I need to make some avatars from that.
It's a trade off. A cartoon series for kids and a live action one for those who aren't which will generate it's own line of toys just as the cartoon does. Lucas makes bucko bucks.
Nah, he just didn't like this one.
I've never claimed otherwise. But it's an interesting comment, seeing as how what I've seen of that show leads me to the opinion that it's a deliberate exercise in style over substance, a story that's all (flat) surface. (And not a very good style, either, but I suppose that's a matter of individual taste.)
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
For the record, I wasn't a fan of Gennedy's Clone Wars, either. Or Samurai Jack.
Dug "Dexter's Lab", though.
Dug "Dexter's Lab", though.
Another comercial for this thing just came on the TV, and I think I've come to a conclusion. I don't think I can judge this movie one way or the other, as it's clearly geared directly for six and seven year olds. Too bad most of them are more interested in Harry Potter and Narnia. Now the only question is just who is the target audience?
The commercials look like it sucks so I am not wasting a dime on it. What Lucas needs to do is to start focusing on the SW universe AFTER episode 6. I dont care about all this prequel crap.
With all the fuss about how this new movie isn't consistent with the Clone Wars cartoons by Genndy Tartakovsky (why isn't it spelled Gennady, anyway? isn't that the way everyone else spells it?), I finally watched some of the originals. I was underwhelmed. Bad character design, cheap-looking animation, no character development, just action action action. Does it get better after the first five episodes?
Oh man, that's awesome.Yeah Dexter's lab was pretty awesome. I never watched Jack.
I can't believe SW:CW won any awards. The animation was flat and lifeless. The voices were mediocre at best. There really was no story at all, just a series of increasingly nonsensical battles with such overpowered opponents, either side could essentially win just by one-upping the deathray/force power. Which is not exciting. What'd it win for, best lightsaber sound effects?
It won an Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour Or More)" in 2004.
Go figure.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Go figure.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Dexter not getting his own theatrical feature film remains the biggest crime in cartoon history.
I said this to a friend the other day and he(rightfully)said, "Do you want that fucking idiot writing a Luke/Han/Leia post-ROTJ story?"
'nuff said.
No - it doesn't.
It is all style over substance.
A "character"(they really don't have a lot)will do some eight way lightsabre technique(impossible to do IRL)then freeze for eighteen seconds onscreen while the bloated thirty eight year old fanboys can memorize how his moustache/beard is worn on his face and then they can go and begin growing one exactly the same.
I have said this elsewhere - WTF is it with fat SF fans and their "Worf" beards/goatees?
Anyway - no, the original CW series is just like you have seen. Flashy, poorly designed characters and Samurai Jack-style animation(which I hate).
Yeah. It sucked. It sucked so bad and was so badly received that they made a sequel and gave it more television time then did a full-length, feature movie that played in most theaters worldwide.
No one is questioning its popularity. It's just one of those things I can't understand. I wanted to see it, but never got a chance when it was running. (of course, seeing how each episode was about 30 seconds long, I guess it was easy to miss.) So when I saw it on DVD I got it.
It's just a series of battles. Nothing happens. I'm sure a lot of fanboys just loved watching cartoon Mace fly around like superman on some random nameless planet for a whole episode, killing thousands of identical robots, but frankly that's not for me. I certainly wouldn't call it Outstanding, either in story or animation or creativity.
It's just a series of battles. Nothing happens. I'm sure a lot of fanboys just loved watching cartoon Mace fly around like superman on some random nameless planet for a whole episode, killing thousands of identical robots, but frankly that's not for me. I certainly wouldn't call it Outstanding, either in story or animation or creativity.
As opposed to what?
So those of us (including the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) who appreciated the shorts for what they were--we're a bunch of fanboys, just because you didn't care for Clone Wars?
Five minutes.
The episodes were five minutes.
^For what it's worth, it would have been nice to see Genndy animate all three of the prequels.
They'd at least look better.
They'd at least look better.
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