Star Wars:The Clone Wars S3......so far
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New interview with Dave Filoni. He talks about Season 3 and what to expect in Season 4. Just general details for the next season. He also talks about Walter Murch directing an episode and Katee Sackhoff guest-voicing.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/04/03/star-wars-clone-wars-katee-sackhoff-dave-filoni/
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/04/03/star-wars-clone-wars-katee-sackhoff-dave-filoni/
^ The Murch thing has been known for a while. Think I posted an article in here a while ago on it. Interesting interview from Filoni as always. I'm not sure what the rest of you think about him but I have been a fan of his since the movie. Lucas could have done a worse job picking a showrunner. I suspect that we'll get more in depth season four information and previews during comic con and celebration six if there is one (not sure since i've not really seen anything about one this year).
Thanks for that reminder timothy 
I like Filoni. I think he's an excellent showrunner for CW.
He directed some of the best A:TLA episodes.
Other people have noted that the PT desperately needed a Han Solo character. Could have been someone other than Anakin, but why not go for the simple solution?
Lucas was on the right track to rip off the OT, as long as he was ripping off the right stuff. The trouble is, he wasn't.
Interesting interview w/Filoni:
I'd like to see some of that training, and more details on exactly why it might have failed Anakin. Presumably the Jedi know the danger signs of what to look for (if they know how to train to defend against the Dark Side, they'd have to). And given that the Jedi seem to have gaps in their knowledge (not seeing the Sith right in front of them), what are the vital things they don't know, and don't know that they don't know?
I'm pretty sure we've seen the Jedi launch attacks. Kinda hard to fight a war if you're always on the defensive. Just how much "aggression" or "anger" do you need, in order to become vulnerable? It's normal to be aggressive and angry in war. I don't see how it's possible to entirely avoid it.
If it's against their nature to fight, then what's with the lightsabers? Shouldn't they all be carrying bouquets of daisies instead?
And if it's against their nature, why is Anakin the only one depicted as going off the rails? The interviewer is right; there should be much more widespread effects among the Jedi. And if there were, that would let the Jedi off the hook more for not clueing in about Anakin sooner; if everything were falling apart at the seams, they might not notice that they have a really bad problem amidst all the chaos.
That's a very interesting statement because it appears that Filoni is taking the story in the opposite direction - Anakin has learned to successfully let go of an attachment. It was already implausible that Anakin as he is now could do all that stuff in ROTS (barring total Dark Side mind control, which would be a cheat) yet now he's moving further away from that mark. Filoni must have something dramatic in mind.
And more on the Mortis plotline (or the stuff it's set in motion) in S4, whee! I'm very curious who Katee will be playing.
Filoni didn't talk about Padme's arc with finding out that the "good" Separatists have been murdered. Who would be motivated to do that? She must know something is very wrong, and it wouldn't be a stretch if elements inside the Republic were involved.
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Someone on TFN who wrote one of the better Prequel Rewrites suggested Padme.
I don't think the PT needed or needs a Han Solo character. I think the focus on politics and humor are two issues that really hurt the prequel trilogies. While they were heavily featured in the Original Trilogy we weren't bashed over the head with them and they didn't seem forced.
Anakin was described as a great pilot and good friend. While the pilot part sort of was true the good friend didn't really come across.
Anakin was described as a great pilot and good friend. While the pilot part sort of was true the good friend didn't really come across.
Wow, now there's an idea! And why the heck not, she's a pretty boring character. Perfect characters are like that. What can we do to improve her?
Padme is some wild spice-trading chick who hooks up with a naive young Jedi, and leads him astray...or maybe she's a more positive element, the only person he knows who has any savvy, and figures out Palps' game while all the Jedi are clueless. It would be tempting to say that Palps was the one who killed her, but what if he made it look like it was the Jedi who assassinated her, to get rid of this shameless hussy who was corrupting one of their most promising young Jedi? That certainly would sour Anakin on the Jedi...
That's because they were terrrrrrribly done.
Just check out DS9 - The Way of the Warrior being a great example - for how to do sci fi politics and humor right.However, that said, politics is probably too grown-up of a topic to ever fit well with Star Wars' crazy space-romp style. Even DS9's modest level of complication would drag the action down. Better to leave the politics simplistic, like in the OT, and beef up the mystical angle, and make that the dramatic focus.
Not in the PT, no, but I buy the friend stuff entirely in TCW - it really isn't that hard to show someone being likable. The transition to the Dark Side will be the real challenge. They've foreshadowed it in dribs and drabs, but he's still a long way from it.
^ Agreed. I wonder why our friend Set Harth seems to think we're against the prequel trilogy when we bring up Anakin's change in the TCW? I'm saying and I think you are too Temis that the prequels would have been more enjoyable at least for me if Anakin was portrayed this way rather than the way he was written in the movies.
Yeah, TCW proves that Lucas had a very good story. He just needed to hire the right folks to help him tell it. No shame in that.
But we are saying that the PT wasn't done well. There's no getting around that. And they'll never be done well, unless Lucas decides to burn the negatives* and do it all over again, with TCW as the basis. I wouldn't mind that one little bit.
*Metaphorically speaking. I think I remember hearing they were digitally shot or some such?
But we are saying that the PT wasn't done well. There's no getting around that. And they'll never be done well, unless Lucas decides to burn the negatives* and do it all over again, with TCW as the basis. I wouldn't mind that one little bit.
*Metaphorically speaking. I think I remember hearing they were digitally shot or some such?
Clone Wars is not a rewrite it's an inclusion is what I believe Filoni would say. No I don't think we'll get an animated version of Revenge of the Sith. As I've suggested before in this thread I think it'd be kind of cool if got a coda at the end of the series.
A coda simply means a conclusion to something.
ROTS from Ahsoka's point of view would be cool.
The voice actors have done a great job with the characters. They should be allowed to continue performing the characters through all the relevant scenes in acknowledgment of their accomplishment.
^It would be cool if Ahoska is alive during ROTS 
They've already changed so many assumptions, they may as well change one more.
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