The micro-series Anakin sounded absolutely nothing like H.C.
He had a much higher pitched voice with a vaguely British accent.
That was probably an attempt to re-create the accent James Earl Jones created for Vader. It still bugs me that Anakin doesn't have the accent. Dunno what it is, Shakespeare by way of Savannah, but it was creative and cool, and gave Vader a big part of his identity.
I get that the damage to his lungs explains the deeper timbre of voice, but that doesn't change your accent! Both Anakin and his mom should have had that accent, so they would sound kind of unplacable, like you couldn't tell what mysterious planet they originally came from. That would really have added to his mystique.
Also while both toons use largely the same voice cast, Anakin is different-in the original toon the actor is trying to replicate Hayden Christensen's voice and delivery, while in the second toon we have Matt Lanter's Anakin which sounds more casual and different from Hayden.
Sounds like a good acting choice. There really isn't much about the movie Anakin that is worth preserving for the cartoons, other than that he should be tall, blond and good-looking, and be a bad-ass fighter.
sonak wrote: 
I just can't get into Clone Wars stories because there's no real point to the Clone Wars-they were a sham orchestrated by Palpatine to gain power, so they didn't really matter.
You mean like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Seriously though, the fact that Palpatine orchestrated the war makes it even more important to watch, to see all the waste and destruction that the galaxy has to go through just for the whims of one man.
Reality and fiction are two different things, and while plenty of great fiction is reality based, that's not
Star Wars, which is best when it sticks to what it originally was, a total fantasy that draws from mythology and fairy tales.
I don't mind that Palps manipulated the Jedi into the war, but I would have been much happier if the Jedi had been far more suspicious overall, maybe just fighting because they had no real choice, while using diplomatic back channels to desperately end what they suspected was a stupid, contrived war. It's not good for the heroes of a story to be dragged along by events like that; they should be doing something to get out in front of the story and drag events in the direction they want. Even if they're not successful, they'll look better for a) figuring out what the audience already knows and b) trying.
For this to work, the Separatists should have been depicted as basically decent folks who were also being victimized by Palps, and the Jedi should not have been in charge of the war effort because then they'd have the power to stop the fighting. The Jedi should be a priestly caste who is popularly regarded with awe but not in charge of the military. There should be a non-Jedi command structure that the Jedi have to negotiate with to get anywhere, and that military could have had its own reasons to allow Palps to continue "duping" everyone.
Just in general, I would prefer the story to be arranged to make the Jedi look more moral and intelligent. Having the clones be produced by, and fighting for, the Separatists rather than the Jedi would have been another improvement.
But all this is being imposed on the cartoon series by the movies, so I won't blame the cartoons for making the best of what they've been handed.
Follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far.
