Cartoon Network picks up Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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darkwing_duck1
Vice Admiral
Well, considering the piss-poor quality of the PREVIOUS CN "Clone Wars" offering, this should spell the end of the show in short order...
After the dreary Clone Wars animated film and the disappointing prequel trilogy, I didn't want to like the series; but I do. Especially since they toned down Anakin's formerly-annoying Padawan. I'm looking forward to another season.
admittedly, it got better as it went along....ironically, the best episodes are the ones like the "Clone base under siege by commando droids" one that DO NOT feature the utterly bland prequel characters like Anakin et al.
It DID get better.....but someone should have realized that the original pilot episodes COULD NOT stand up to being released in theaters, and were AWFUL press for the show.
It's still a pretty bad show, even thought it kind of improved.
It DID get better.....but someone should have realized that the original pilot episodes COULD NOT stand up to being released in theaters, and were AWFUL press for the show.
It's still a pretty bad show, even thought it kind of improved.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Subpar film debut aside, it's been mostly enjoyable thus far. I think the plan was for 5 seasons for what I read.
The last episode was mostly pointless, except to explain why the clones were lacking hardware on Christophsis. And lightsaber battles that go no where seem to be a recurring cliche. But they can't all be winners.
The last episode was mostly pointless, except to explain why the clones were lacking hardware on Christophsis. And lightsaber battles that go no where seem to be a recurring cliche. But they can't all be winners.
Well in the movies a lightsaber fight ends with someone getting killed or loosing a limb. But when you do a 100 episode TV series, every lightsaber fight can't end that way unfortunately. Of course one way to rectify this is to introduce more disposable dark siders and not just have them fight Ventress or Grevious in every episode.
Good riddance, "only two Sith at a time" rule...
It's been shown in just about every Star Wars medium that while there are only two Sith there can be a bevvy of Dark Side adepts. There's using the Dark Side, then there's the secrets of the Sith. So the Seppies can have a thousand dark side warriors as far as established rules say.
Good riddance, "only two Sith at a time" rule...
nah they made that clear in Tartakovsky's shorts that introduced Ventress: she's not a full-fledged "Sith". You can be a "Dark Jedi" but not officially "a Sith". Which seems to be bending the rules a bit, but they DO stress "you are not a Sith yet"
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Bending the rules...definately. Merchandise calls Ventress a "sith apprentice" at least for the sake of easy labelling.
Basically, the rule of two really messes with EU. Why do all dark jedi seem to carry red lightsabers? Why are they aligned with the sith, as opposed to rivals?
Basically, the rule of two really messes with EU. Why do all dark jedi seem to carry red lightsabers? Why are they aligned with the sith, as opposed to rivals?
Well the website for the show lists Ventress as Doku's secret apprentice.
the Jedi Knight games all screw with the idea of dark-Force users not being Sith as well. Jerec, Maw, Pic et al in JK1 are all Dark Jedi. then in JK2, the Lizard dude was a dark Jedi with an apprentice and then had cannon-fodder dark Force users...
I don't find the idea of the Sith having dark sider soldiers to be breaking the Rule of Two at all. These are just lackies, cannon fodder. They're not let into the super secret pinkey swear Sith club. Without Sith teachings/magic they don't hold a candle to the actual Sith Lords and they don't have to worry about being betrayed, but they're kept at arm's length anyway.
What??? What planet are you on?
Getting picked up for a second season is the show's death knell in your mind?
I fully expect that this show will get its full order fully aired and syndicated.
I think the only real detractors to this show are those who hated the PT. But for those of us who thought the PT was alright, and just love the Star Wars mythos in general love this show.
What is it? Is it the fact that the guys dressed up in psuedo Storm Trooper armor are the good guys?
darkwing_duck1
Vice Admiral
OK, I MAY be laboring under bad information here:
1)isn't THIS Clone Wars (the full CG one) currently airing on some other network and CN is only NOW picking it up? Or was it a CN show from the beginning?
2) I was basing my crit of CN having the show on the cel-animated "Clone Wars" shorts from a few years ago. I found them childish and poorly written. They also WAY overpowered the Jedi, like the installment with Mace Windu single handedly taking out thousands of battledroids (several DOZEN at a time) without a scratch to show for it.
I always thought the Rule of Two was goofy, when I first heard it I assumed it meant there were always two as in a master and a padawan not there were two in the entire galaxy.
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