Meant that instead. My bad.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 1 X 16: "Trespass"
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Meant that instead. My bad.
Works for me. I wonder why Lucas seems to be so hands-off about exploring the original-trilogy era.
Perhaps because, for him, it's something from three decades in the past, from a much earlier point in his life, and he's moved on creatively and personally since then. Maybe it just doesn't interest him anymore.
Good question. The space of time between ANH and ESB would be a particularly good span of time to recount the adventures of Luke, Leia, Han, and could also flesh out some other characters like Garm Bel Iblis, Mon Mothma, Admiral Ackbar- particularly given what we've gotten so far with the Clone Wars.
And, of course, post-ROTJ stories have literally endless possibilities including those not already postulated by the body of EU literature, comics, etc. While ROTJ certainly wraps everything nicely in terms of the movies that came before it with the deaths of Anakin/Darth Vader and Palpatine, the main "leaders" of the Empire, as the post-ROTJ EU has amply demonstrated, there's still a lot more for Luke, Leia, Han, et. al to do in terms of restoring/setting up a new "free" galactic government and destroying the remnants of the Empire following its 20 years of harsh galactic rule-by-force.
OTOH as the previously established post-ROTJ EU has also amply demonstrated, the Star Wars saga can literally go on forever and ever thereby creating the problem of trying to figure out at what point exactly do you officially "end" it? Maybe that is why he doesn't want to touch it?
At least with the current Clone Wars series, as well as with the upcoming live action series set between ROTS and ANH, they're "sandwiched" in between the movies so there are pre-defined boundaries in terms of events and character development.
Well, it's from Lucasfilm, which can afford to make shows that wouldn't be profitable for other studios or networks. If Lucas uses the same production model he uses for TCW, then instead of convincing a network to pay for its production in exchange for broadcasting it, he'll just go ahead and make the whole thing himself and then sell it to a network afterward.
Besides, the audience reached by a cable network is smaller to begin with than that for a major network. So 4 million viewers as a percentage of the CN audience is quite large. On a major network reaching many more people, that same percentage would be a considerably higher number.
Anyway, apparently TCW is going to be rebroadcast on TNT later this year, to see if it can draw in an adult demographic as well as the younger demo it's attracting on CN. That will reveal more about how Star Wars does with television audiences in general.
Also, with the mindset of so many of the "suit types" I wouldn't be surprised if TPTB (or someone in a position of authority) came to the conclusion that they'd lose viewers if they didn't set the series in the same time frame as the most recent movies.
Lucas said that if the live action show wasn't picked up by any network (unlikely), that he could just make them himself and release them on DVD. It must be very nice to have that kind of money.
Well, in this case, the only "PTB" is George Lucas, and he's rich enough to do whatever the heck he feels like. As DarthPipes just told us, Lucas has said he'll make the show and release it even if the network "suits" don't think it can get good enough ratings to be worth picking up. So clearly he's not basing his decisions on the usual standards.
It's possible that Lucas has spent so much of the past three decades figuring out the background for the original trilogy that he never got around to working out what came after it in any detail. So maybe he has a whole bunch of stories yet to tell about the era before the OT but nothing much in the post-movie period.
They should really just do the KoTOR thing and just set it so far away that it has no effect on the current mythology. That way, it's a fresh start but you have all the trappings of Star Wars.
That said, I really hope Ashoka doesn't get skewered by "Sky Guy" when the series ends.
"Hey Sky Guy, whatcha up to?"
"Well Snips, I'm here to snip... your life! MUAHAHAHAHA".
That said, I really hope Ashoka doesn't get skewered by "Sky Guy" when the series ends.
"Hey Sky Guy, whatcha up to?"
"Well Snips, I'm here to snip... your life! MUAHAHAHAHA".
I agree-- the rippling of the coat hoods as the wind blew was a nice detail.
But if you take another look at those same scenes, you'll notice the snow in the background is falling almost straight down, like there is no wind.
I thought this was a really cool episode. The whole snow planet thing was done really well. I really am impressed with the animation on this show. The the leader of the blue peeps was a little over the top, but it didn't take away from the story. The series continues to be fantastic.
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