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Animated Star Wars on Cartoon Network
NeoCode writes "There were rumours and speculations first. Now it looks like its a done deal. Harry Knowles, of AintItCool.com has reports on an animated version of Star Wars set after AOTC but before episode 3. This series is produced by Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack). The cartoons will be a series of short films. Could this infuse Star Wars with a new life or is this just another merchandising plot? Nevertheless, this could be quite interesting."
Yeah look what good Ewoks & Droids did for the SW universe ;)
bleh
"the ee ee ee ee ewoks"
and that star wars cartoon they had back in the 80s?
I barly do.
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
See telnet://blinkenlights.nl
Have you metamoderated recently??
Is there anyone else in the world who feels the urge to beat the shit out of someone whenever they hear the words 'Harry Knowles'? Hell, with the proper technology, the government could use this information to make me an unstoppable killing machine.
I hate to see the already over commercialized star wars further cheapened like this. Are they going to have a Leia in the prisoner outfit???? If they do I'll watch it, cheap or not.
Not that there's anything wrong with Asciimation but I'm not sure if the masses would accept this sort of thing. Hey, and besides, your TV would need screen font anti-alaising! This thing should have sound too, it'd be really cool then...
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
hehe! It's a history of Michael Jackson's nose!He looks like a zombie in the last pic.
I've always been a fan of Tartakovsky's work, but I don't think his style suits the universe. I imagine it wouldn't have the detail that I need in a Star Wars franchise.
why the fuck does slashdot post so many fucking ads for cartoon network.
This is supposed to be news for nerds not dumb crap for dorks.
It'll be an interesting first show...you've got a series where millions of dollars have been dumped into redoing detailed features a la Special Editions, and it's being done by someone who likes to do series without a lot of detail (PPG and Dexter esp., don't watch too much SJ).
Luke Skywalker with a squared off head might get a chuckle.
They are going to make them geeks earlier on in their life. Little children doomed to become obsessed with star wars and read slashdot, never going out or getting a girl(boy)friend.
Umm... wait. Thats all GL knows. Time to pass the fire GL. Let someone else take a crack at SW!
Is it just me. Maybe, becuase SW "NewHope" was just so new to us then. Have we become a jaded mess, filling our time until "The Matrix:Reloaded" comes out?
Oh dear god I think I'm going to be sick. When has a cartoon version of any real life movie suceeded? One? maybe two?
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
Hmm. Well, this could be a boon to the Star Wars franchise (which of course has done amazingly well anyhow ;) ) or it could just throw the chances of any sequels (Episode VII, anybody?) into the toilet.
It's simple, and I'll illustrate it by the example of Back to the Future. BTTF was a successful trilogy with many fans (among whom I am one), but then they introduced an animated TV show, and did a ride at Universal Studios: Florida, which used a plotline set after (fourth-dimensionally-speaking) all three of the movies. Both of these things added quite substantially to "the canon", as they were all officially blessed by the producers of the original BTTF trilogy.
Every episode of any official "Star Wars" cartoon that's even remotely related to the Skywalker clan or other key figures from the series has the potential to -greatly- complicate the Star Wars "canon", and making another series of movies that fit with the sum of the existing canon that much more difficult...
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
I have a college degree.
I stopped watching cartoons when I was 10 years old.
I live in my own house that I pay for myself and drive my own car.
I buy and make my meals.
I mean, have I simply lost touch with all of you that much over the past few years? Or are all of these Harry Potter, anime, cartoon, and Nintendo articles as childish as I think they are?
Don't get me wrong -- I love Slashdot and have no grudges against any editors. But really, who the hell cares about this kiddie crap?
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5
The animated Trek series of the 70's didn't last long, but there were a few decent stories among the lot.
Rich...
Ignore Alien Orders
Anal Boot [n] When you take a pitcher of beer, everyone spits in it,
... one
someone stirs it with their cock and then the mixture is poured through
the crack of a man ass into the waiting mouth of the loser of a bet or
Drinking game.
Arabian sunglasses - When you cover a lady's eyes with a ball sack each.
(a.k.a. Arabian goggles)
Australian Death Grip [n] The act of grabbing a woman by the
haunches/crotch and staring deeply into her eyes until you're slapped or
kissed. A recommended tactic for very crowded bars. Another great
opportunity for wagering among friends.
The Ball's Eye - Shooting your load directly into the centre of a chick's
eye (or dude's eye, if that's your thing). Going two for two (i.e.:
getting both eyes) is referred to as the Deuce, as in "I deuced my wife
before she went to work this morning". The receiver of the Ball's Eye is
then referred to as being Cock Eyed or having Cum Eyes as in, when she
arrives at work her male co-worker could say, "Hey, I like your Cum Eyes
you ugly bitch"
Ball Sacking [v] stretching of the scrotum over the face of someone
sleeping or passed out, having a picture taken and posting it on the
internet.
Beef Curtain [n] The shanked out remains of the labia after being
stretched like Play-doh for an hour or so of jimmy-jam (a.k.a. Beef
Drapes, Meat Tarp, Piss Flappers, Quim Nuts, Vertical Bacon Sandwich).
The Beetle - When you put your index finger in a girl's ass, and your
thumb in her pussy and squeeze the two fingers together, like a beetle's
pincers. Variations include the Japanese Monster Beetle, wherein you use
three fingers in the ass, or Pac-Man, where you put all four fingers up
the ass. An extreme version is the Florida Gator, where you get one hand
up the ass, and one in the pussy.
The Bent Eddy - The act of propping yourself up against a wall in order to
facilitate cumming in your own face as you pressurize your Little Steamer.
The guy who first tried this was too ashamed to use his own name (me).
This manoeuvre can also be combined with the Ball's Eye for a wonderfully
masochistic experience.
Black Freddie - Taking a dump on your partners chest.
Variation: The Hot Plate - First taking a piece of plastic wrap, laying it
on the other persons chest, and pinching a loaf on it.
Blocking the Box [n] When you and your pal are double-teaming a chick -
he's got her from behind, you've got her mouth. Selfishly, he drops his
load in her, thus preventing you from using that input later (a.k.a.
Access Denied Error, Road Closed Due to Bad Conditions).
The Brodie - As named for Brodie Bruce of Mallrats. While a girl is
mouthifying your wang, cut a fat burning fart, then hold her head in
position so she must inhale the nastiness.... Beware, she may bite in
revenge.
The Bronco - You start by going doggy style and then just when she is
really enjoying it, you grab her tits and or a large lock of hair as tight
as possible and yell another girl's name or state "Ya know your by far the
ugliest girl I ever fucked". This gives you the feeling of riding a
bronco as she tries to buck you off. (See also The Rodeo)
The Burning Amazon - Setting fire to a girl's pubes. a.k.a. the Flaming
Amazon.
Carpet Sweeping - Fucking a girl wheelbarrow style and walking backwards,
dragging her along the carpet so as to "sweep the carpet".
The Cherry Danish - Cumming in a girl's face then punching her in the
nose. a.k.a. Jelly Doughnut
Variation: Chocolate Danish (self-explanatory)
The Chili Dog - You take a shit on a girl's tits and then proceed to tit
fuck her.
Chocolate Cha-Cha [n] Anal Sex. Used in a sentence: "John and George
danced the chocolate cha-cha all night." (a.k.a. Driving the Hershey
Highway, Riding the Dirt Trail, Utilizing the Third Input, Poking the
Brown Eye )
The Cleveland Steamer - Mentioned below in The Fountain of You. After
dumping your load on and around her chest--you position your ass just
above your own pool of soup and sit in it, full weight, possibly causing
her to gasp for breath. You then pretend to be pulling the whistle cord
on a genuine Cleveland steam ship. As you make the loud noise you slide
in your spunk from her chest to her bush smearing a spunk trail on her
body in your wake. This can be done with the male facing either
direction. The more authentic the steam whistle sound, the better.
Consolation Prize [n] When you take a girl home from the bar, thinking
you're going to get laid, and from all of the drinks you've been feeding
her all night long, she passes out on the bed right before you get your
pants off. To get revenge, you jerk off and spray your load all over her
back. Even though you lost and didn't get laid, the satisfaction you got
is almost as good, hence the term consolation prize.
Coyote - This occurs when you wake up in the room of someone nasty and you
know you've got to give her the slip. However, you realize that your arm
is wrapped around them. Therefore you must gnaw off your own arm to get
out of the situation. Can be very painful.
Cum Dumpster [n] Refers to a girl who has been around the block quite a
few times, hence she is full of cum.
Cum Savvy - Saving your cum in jars for no other reason than you have the
jars, the cum and the time.
DDF [n] Distance Distortion Factor - refers to someone who may seem
attractive from far away but is ugly upon closer inspection - "good from
far, far from good". Used in a sentence: "Whoa, she's hot... wait a
sec...ugggh major DDF!"
Dog in a Bathtub - This is a proper name for when you attempt to insert
your nuts into a girl's ass. It is so named because it can be just as
hard as keeping a dog in the tub while giving it a bath.
Donkey Punch - Banging a girl doggy style and then moments before you cum,
sticking your dick in her ass, and then punching her in the back of the
head. This should give you a tremendous sensation, but for it to work
correctly, the girl must be knocked out so that her asshole tightens up.
The Dirty Sanchez - A time honoured event in which while laying the bone
doggie style, you insert your finger into said woman's asshole, pull it
out, and wipe it across her upper lip leaving a thin, shit moustache.
This makes her look like someone whose name could be Dirty Sanchez. A
very popular European variation of this manoeuvre called "The Hitler"
involves a simple shit smudge under her nose, replicating the look of
Hitler's moustache.
Felching - It occurs after you have been sticking your babe in the can,
you bust your nut in there, back up and then pucker your lips up to her
rim and suck out your ranch dressing. (This is also the first step of a
very advanced manoeuvre called the Halmstad Hook).
The Finger Puppet - When you're fingering a girls asshole you push the
membrane which separates the anus from the vagina out of the vagina thus
creating a vaginal finger puppet. Play at will.
The Fish Eye - From behind, you shove your finger in her ass, thereupon
she turns around in a one- eyed winking motion to see what the hell you
are doing. At that point, you have received a "Fish Eye." ALT: When
you're fucking a girl doggy style and out of the blue you stick it in her
ass, the look she gives you when she turns around is the fish eye.
Fishhook - A variation of "The Shocker" (an uninvited digit placed in the
girl's anus ) in which, with the finger still up there, you "hook" back in
the direction the pussy. No real purpose here other than to think to
yourself while doing it, "ahhh yes the Fishhook......". Another variation
called the "New Jersey Meathook" involves sticking your uninvited digit in
the girl's anus while fucking her from behind. You finger is then turned
upward toward her back and you pull her entire body toward you over and
over while she is sliding on your cock.
The Flying Camel - As she is lying on her back and you are hammering her
from your knees, you carefully balance yourself without using your arms to
prop yourself up. You then proceed to flap your arms and let out a long,
shrieking howl, much like you would imagine a flying camel to sound like.
Strictly a class move.
The Fountain of You - While sitting on her face and having her eat your
ass, jerk off like a madman. Build up as much pressure as possible before
releasing. Then spew like a venerable geyser all over her face, neck and
tits. (Better in her bed). This is also a variation of the first stage
of a Cleveland Steamer to be described later.
Fumilingus [v, n] When a man (or woman) performs cunnilingus on a woman
and she farts directly in his face.
Fur Ball - You're chomping away at some mighty trollop who has a mane
between her legs the size of Lionel Richie's afro, you don't mind though,
that is until a mammoth fur ball gets lodged in your throat and causes you
to beat the piss out of her.
Game of Smiles [n] This games involves men sitting around a circular table
and a woman giving random blowjobs underneath the table. Anyone who
"smiles" has to buy a round of beer for the rest.
Going to the Bullpen [v] The act of fingering the anus prior to having
anal sex. It kind of "paves the way".
Goobin [n] One of the many wives had by an old-style Mormon who is not the
main wife. The setup usually involves having your one "main" wife and the
rest of your other wives who are strictly used for procreation. Hence
"Goobin" - a bin for his goo. Used in a sentence: "Mary's one of John's
goobins".
The Halmstad Hook - As mentioned above in Felching. This is a unique
sequence of events named after a town in Sweden, where this apparently
happens quite frequently. After dumping your spunk in her rear, the sauce
is sucked out of the anus by the male. Once the sauce has transferred
from her bowls to your mouth--the product that has been created is now
known as "Swedish Cheese." The move is completed when the "Swedish Cheese"
is transferred to the ladies mouth via a deep tongue kiss. You can cap
this off with a swift stinging slap of her ass to show her how much you
care and appreciate all her hard work.
Head-Rail Hip Thrust - While you're laying on the bed getting head from a
girl you grab the bed posts with your hands and just start banging the
hell out of the girl's mouth.
The Houdini - You are screwing a girl doggie-style when you pull out, spit
on her back, faking your orgasm. When she turns around and looks at you
lovingly, you blow your load in her face.
A Hot Carl - A simple manoeuvre where you withdraw your shaft from the
bowels of her anus and place it directly into her mouth for a cleaning.
Apparently some guy named Carl first tried this.
Hot Lunch - When you physically shit in the girls mouth. A popular variant
is the vegetarian hot lunch, in which you place saran wrap over girls
mouth and then shit, so she can have the texture of shit in her mouth
without coming into contact with any meat products. She then becomes the
"Lunch Lady."
The Ice Pick - In advanced foreplay, while the man is playing with a
woman's warm vagina, he proceeds to get it as loose as possible, and
unexpectedly shoves an ice cube deep into the woman. The woman must then
squirm and scream until the cube melts. This is great when sleeping with
an ex and wanting revenge.
Jim Henson [v] When you fist someone and physically lift them off the
ground. (a.k.a. The Muppet, Ass Puppet, Meat Puppet)
Kennebunkport Surprise [n] The act of covertly filling your cheeks with
chunky-style New England Chowder, and screaming in disgust as you hurl it
between your partners legs while giving oral sex.
Leave-in Conditioner [n] Dollops of semen strategically left in a woman's
hairdo at a public gathering following fellatio. A good lesson for those
who refuse to swallow the evidence Matching Drapes [n] Reference to
whether or not a woman's pubic hair colour matches the hair on her head.
Used in a sentence: "Wow what a hot looking redhead, but I wonder do the
curtains match the drapes?".
Mung 1[n, v] Two people dig up the corpse of the recently deceased. One
undresses the mungee and places his mouth over the sexual area. The other
backs up and does a running jump onto the corpses chest. The second
person has to eat everything that enters his mouth. Insult, seen here in
context: "I'm going to mung your grandmother!"
Mung 2 [n, v] What runs out the twat of a very pregnant girl who has been
beaten on the swollen belly.
New York Style Taco - Anytime when you are so drunk that when you go down,
you boot on her box. All the fixin's. (a.k.a. The wet Betsy)
Paying the Rent [n] A position in which the woman is folded in half, knees
above shoulders, while the man holds the back of her calves and bangs her
ferociously. AKA The Hucklebuck
Pearl Necklace - Whenever you cum on the neck area of a girl - it takes on
the look of beautiful jewellery.
Pet Shop - Inserting a small rodent such as a mouse or hamster in the anal
cavity or if a woman is very stretched, in the vagina and left to roam
around. The name comes from an English pop group
Pencil Sharpener [n] - A chick who gives a rough and toothy blowjob that
scrapes your willy up something awful.
The Phantom - see The Houdini
Pink Glove - This frequently happens during a marathon session (maybe a
second round) when a girl is simply not wet enough. When you give up and
attempt to pull out to give her money or whatever, the inside of her twat
sticks to your hog like the inside of a leather glove. Thus, the pink
glove.
Pole Vault - Originated by ancient Romans. When the female has sucked
your pole to the point of ejaculation she swiftly inserts the index finger
of her right hand into your anus. This surprise causes a subtle popping
out of the eyes, a natural arch to the lower back and extra propulsion
necessary to clear the high bar. Bruce Jenner added this to his warm-up
routine after losing to Sergie Bubka in the 1979 Olympics
Purple Mushroom - This occurs when a woman is giving you oral sex and you
pull your penis back slightly before poking it back into the inside of her
cheek. It should leave a lasting impression similar to that of a purple
mushroom.
The Ram - Again, you're attacking from behind, when you start ramming her
head against the wall in a rhythmic motion. The force of the wall should
allow for deeper penetration. Very handy for those lulls in penile
sensitivity.
Reacharound [n] The process by which one person is tossing a guy's salad,
and then reaches around and gives them a hand job. (a.k.a. Trombone)
Reading the Defence [n] The concept of a guy making a split second
decision when in a situation to score with some chick when out without his
girlfriend/wife. "Reading the Defence" refers to making all of the proper
"game time adjustments" not to get caught cheating later on at some point.
Having Beer Goggles makes it very hard to Read the Defence.
Redwings: (n.) One who has eaten a ragging chick out, has received his
redwings.
The Rusty Trombone, that's when a girl is tossing your salad and at the
same time giving you a hand job, see Tossing Salad
The Rodeo - Its close to the Bronco. You're in college and you go out on a
date with your girlfriend, you come back to have sex in your room. Four of
your buddies are in the closet. As soon as you get on top of her, your
buddies come out of the closet yelling RODEO! at the top of their lungs.
You try to stay on her for a full 8 seconds.
San Diego Surprise [n] The act of bringing a girl home and while fucking
her, having a friend in waiting enter the room naked in hopes of a
consensual threesome. Named by Navy guys stationed in San Diego.
Rumoured to work about one third of the time.
Soggy Biscuit - A group of guys, chicks, or both jerk off while standing
in a circle. When they blow their load, they have to spew on the biscuit.
The last person to cum has to eat the biscuit.
(a.k.a. The Ookie Cookie but a cookie is used.)
The Southern Trespass [n, v] The Southern Trespass most frequently occurs
when an over zealous (drunk) man is involved in intercourse with his lady
friend. Through lack of concentration, lack of coordination, or simply
because he wants to do it, the man quickly switches from the woman's
vagina to the corn hole, without missing a beat. If executed properly,
this act catches the female by complete surprise, stunning her like a
cattle prod to the ass in a rain storm. No matter how long the man reaps
the benefits of his efforts, he can now be content with the fact that he
has committed the coveted Southern Trespass.
The Stranger - Sitting on your hand until it falls asleep and then jerking
off, eliciting the feeling of a hand job from someone else.
The Thread - This can only be done by ridiculously muscular individuals.
Basically, this manoeuvre is "rotational sex", as opposed to the standard
"thrust sex": instead of banging' your lady-friend-for-the-evening in an
in and out style, hold her above the washing machine (or bed or floor or
the surface of your choosing) and rotate her mid-air. Rumoured to drive
ladies mad (a.k.a. Threading the Shaft, Louisiana Spinner, Korean Whirl):
Throwing A Pickle Down A Hallway [v] - When you've just laid the pipe to
some chick (usually fat) who has a big loose box. Used in a sentence: I
may as well have just thrown a pickle down the hallway instead of fucking
Fat Fanny's loose gash.
Tossing Salad [n] Licking another's anus. Done in prison as payment for
drugs. Variation:
Tumbleweed - man receives oral sex from woman whilst driving late '70s
model pickup truck (with gun rack for maximum enjoyment) at anything over
20mph. upon achieving orgasm, man reaches over, opens door, and ejects
woman with a brisk shoving motion.
Tuna Melt - Lights out, you're down on a chick lapping away at an
unusually juicy slab when you discover that it just happens to be the time
of the month. A man of honor, by no means do you stop. When the whale
spews, tartar sauce with a hint of raspberry smothers your face. (this
only work with chicks who REALLY cum hard).
Tupperware Party [n] When three guys are triple-teaming a chick
with his penis in her mouth, another in her vagina, and the third in her
anus. So named because she is sealed air-tight.
Twinkler [n, v] When you are 69-ing and she gags on your member and you
can see her bung-hole pucker up.
Times Square Shuttle [n] You have two girls with you and they are in the
69 position with each other. You then alternately fuck each of them while
they chow each other. You go from the missionary position on one and run
to the other side and work in doggie style on the other one. Repeat as
many times as necessary / possible. (a.k.a. Burning the Candle at Both
Ends, Playing Ping Pong, The Gunga Din)
Two Pups In The Tub - While in the middle of ass fucking a girl, you take
your left nut and stuff it in her ass along with your cock and then stuff
your right nut in along with your cock.
The Spalding - After a chick has passed out, proceed to jerk off onto her
eyelids. When she wakes up it has crusted and she can't open her eyes.
Valsalva [n] The act of pinching shut (with thumb and forefinger) a
woman's nose while receiving fellatio; most effective when employed just
prior to the release point due to the gag reflex and ensuing swallow that
the woman is forced to do to continue breathing. A great first date ploy,
as it sets the stage for what the rules of engagement will be ahead.
The Wounded Dragon - You start by having your woman suck on your cock till
you release into her mouth, before she can spit it out you punch her in
her stomach which will force your load to come out of her nose.
This cartoon is probably going to be even worse than the one that spun off of [i]Men in Black[/i]
Repeal the DMCA!
Then we got Senator/Princess/soon-Milf/ Amedalla and Pricess Laya. That covers the middle age male crowd.
Then we got Anakin, Obi Wan, Luke, and Han Solo. That covers the middle age female crowd.
Then we got Episode II Yoda whoppin some ass, but then getting really tired. There's a happy senior citizen crowd.
I think Lucas is just trying to appeal to as many people as possible to make as much money as possible. Make something for everyone and everyone will want one.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
I like to confess to things that make me feel guilty here.
Anyway, I infused my ex-girlfriend last night. I think she imagines that we're back together. She is a dirty Puerto Rican Star Wars fan, so this is actually on topic.
My head is the hurtx0rs like lunis is teh sux0rs!!!1
A cartoon/live action series, based on the X-Wing books. That would rock.
Even if I say something insightfull or inteligent, it doens't matter cause I'm an ass.
I wonder some days whether I would have liked the original trilogy even half as much if it were to come out now over when I was a wee little tyke.
(hint:the answer is no.)
I wonder how many people that were in their 20s when the original trilogy came out are at the same level of fandom as the people who are in their 20s now and grew up with the movies.
A planet where apes evolved from men? Long live the apes.
Perhaps on a better note, and possibly already mentioned somewhere here, Rendezvous with Rama is apparently to be all CGI, due out next year sometime. See here for details.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Put your sorry ass on an abandoned moon and beg for help!
If its by tartakovski, i seriously think that this will be amazing.
Samurai Jack is one of the most peaceful, and exhilirating cartoons I have watched. The director is not afraid of satisfying the modern day attention span. Rather, I find this show to be a truly artistic maverick in company with other more marketable shows. Example: in a given episode of Jack, you can easily find 2-3 minutes of pure silence, which brings out the mood of 2 great warriors resting midway through a battle, or a quiet brook trickling next to a snowy field where our hero is seen in the corner of the screen slowly making his way.
Yet....the show is sorta cooky AND funny at times. Its VERY well done, as emersive as Aeon Flux for sure.
I know the cartoon will be good.
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As long as Lucas doesn't write it, it will be the best Star Wars since the original.
Thats the sound of the cash cow, getting milked for all its worth.
If they make a Star Wars cartoon, they can make a whole new range of merchandise to keep em going until Ep3 comes out..
I wish they weren't so bloody obvious about it though.
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
... Will it be a cheap "Hanna-Barbera/Toei"-style flat animation, a good-quality "Looney-Tunes"-quality with Carl-Stalling-quality music flat animation, or will it use extensive CG (à la "Reboot") (and in that case, no one cares about the music)???
Much of Lucas' dialog writing skillz come off like Mojo Jo Jo.
Luke, I, Darth Vader, am your father! And you shall obey my commands because I am the father (not the son). It is I who you will obey! Obeying my commands is what you will do as the son. I will give you commands, and you will obey them! Ha ha ha ha ha! I do this because I am bad, I am evil, I am the father. I am Darth Vader!
Let's take an objective (yeah, right) look at the Star Wars universe...
First we have episodes 4,5, and 6. Taken in their own right they are a coherent plot spread over three movies, holding a single universe intact.
Then add the many, many books and references, written after episodes 4-6. While each stands well in it's own right, very rarely do two seperate authors works integrate into the overall universe. The books have covered timeframes before the as yet unreleased episodes 1-3, after them, in between them, and anywhere else the authors felt prudent. The Star Wars universe has now grown more complex and massive than congruent unto itself.
Then add the role playing games, cartoons, comics, etc. Over 20 years a lot of Star Wars information has come out.
Now we come to the present, where Lucas is releasing episodes 1-3, and in so doing is pretty much ignoring everything other than the episodes 4-6, thus breaking what little (if any) continuity remains.
So I would expect that any efforts to make a cartoon based off the movies would just further complicate and already messy universe.
This seems to me like trying to build a Beowulf Cluster by combining 8086's running Minix, 2/386's running DOS, Mac IIgs's running MacOS, and whatever else happens to have been built over the last 20 years. Doable, but not easy or effective.
You can have it fast, accurate, or pretty. Pick any 2.
Second, WILL HE STOP IT WITH THE NAMEDROPPING??? Honestly, I used to think it was just a matter of jealousy on the aicn users part that they hated when he'd mention Robert Rodriguez as a friend. Now, however, he states in every article almost how some director called him personally, or how scared the industry is of him. Ugh. So annoying.
However, the ultimate reason why I don't visit AICN anymore has nothing to do with Harry at all.
a) His forums are not threaded. When a major forum with 1000 posts comes, it's impossible to have a CONVERSATION (the responses are 100 posts apart)and it's impossible to read any of the posts towards the bottom.
b) The forum posters piss me off more than anything. These people do NOT know how to enjoy something. AICN forums are simply mediums to pick apart every film's most microscopic (and even if non-existing) flaws and state such claims that Spiderman with organic web shooters "robs my childhood" - THOSE are the guys I want to take a bat to (which is why I LOVED the end of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back!(
Geeks don't bother me (hense, I'm on Slashdot), but assholes do.
Uncle George does not have a good history with the TV medium. Witness the 2 ewok adventures, Droids, and the steaming pile that is the Star Wars Holiday special. I will give it a chance but, I am not holding my breath.
Star Wars does good film (usually) while Star Trek does good TV (again usually).
Hell, who knows. This could be the best Star Wars since Empire.
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I wouldn't get too enthused about it just yet. It has been evident that George Lucas not been in touch with the Star Wars phenomenon since Jedi. Since then, he has only been extending his retirement fund with poor quality "extensions" on the original masterpiece.
- Rerelease of the originals with "additional" footage, with a slew of promotional and marketing gimmicks.
- Three prequels, with a slew of promotional and marketing gimmicks.
and now:
- A cartoon version, with a slew of promotional and marketing gimmicks.
After all, he only needed 30 minutes to save the universe and get the girl, instead of the hour he used to need.
"You're never ready, just less unprepared."
I meant : The director is not afraid of NOT satisfying the modern day attention span.
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I mean, have I simply lost touch with all of you that much over the past few years? Or are all of these Harry Potter, anime, cartoon, and Nintendo articles as childish as I think they are?
No, you just grew up too fast to appreciate the finer (re:childish) details in life.
It doesn't take the whole of earth to be at war (umm, let me think about that one) to just have fun!!! Fuck, whens the last time you flew a kite just because? You with your "College" degree you're so proud of knows the dynamics of how and why and what weather patterns work best with flying a kite. But have you just for the sheer ( sp? I only have a BFA,*smirk*) fun of it!?
Having something that you built, relying on the forces of nature, be higher than you yourself cannot do without the help of a thousand engineers making sure your "College Graduated" ass can even begin to be as high!
Fuck you! If not the simple pleasures in life that we can enjoy than what do we have?
And BTW that car and house you paid for and live in are most likely killing the rest of us, So once again Fuck you!
Cartoons are fucking Fun! Is that so hard to handle
Maybe it's just me but, I might be wrong. Cartoons seem childish. But have you stopped to realize that the people who started watching 'toons at the same time we did are now making them more "us"ish(well not you apparentley, but the rest of us)?!
Word on the street is that it's just rumors for now. I submitted this story four days ago.
(Luke is busy working on a piece of machinery)
Leia: "HI LUKE!!!!!"
(Luke tumbles from the shock of surprise)
Luke: "Leia, what do you want? I wish you would leave, because you are so STUUUPID. You are dumb and you are stuuupid."
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
I've got a bad feeling about this...
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Harry Knowles is a stupid fucker...
"The meek shall inherit the earth, the rest of us shall go to the stars." Isaac Asimov
I think Genndy Tartakovsky has done a wonderful job with the cartoons he has on Cartoon Network. I mean you can not like the plot lines of Dexter or the Power Puff girls, but you have to admit they are defiantly in the top ten of American cartoons in the past 5 years (I'm not counting movies here). And Samurai Jack is amazing. Granted the style is not realistic, but the animation is really top notch, and the stories are very detailed and well thought out. I haven't seen very many that I thought took the road of "well this is for kids so we can make it dumb." I think Tartakovsky will do an excellent job with this endeavor.
The force is strong w/ this one.
If anyone can restore the balance, I hope it's him.
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*sniff... sniff*
I R is good jedi!
Take that, silly weasel!
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The Droids cartoon was not that bad. In fact i rather enjoyed it. I wish they would show the droids cartoon again.
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Star Trek "Classic" was cancelled prior to 1969. The animated show was not produced "a little after", but in 1976. The first blessed "Star Trek" movie slightly over 2 years later.
We can, for example, thank Larry Niven for mucking up the Star Trek universe (animated episode: "The Slaver Weapon") with his beloved Kzinti and then forbidding the species use ever again. "Thanks for the paycheck guys, sorry about the mess! Mention the Kzin again and I'll sue."
The Power Puff Girls are just Rocky & Bullwinkle for a different generation. Not that this is a bad thing at all. As far as a SW animated series goes, who cares? It will be another so-so cartoon series that everyone will call a classic ten years later.
Surely no one really wants to read of this stuff? (Maybe I'm wrong?)
Yell, YOU do! Dammit, I set my treshold at 1 so I don't have to read the offtopic trolls like this, but then you start a thread that's at my threshold about it, I change my setting and go read what all the fuss is about.
Why the hell are you drawing attention to this crap? Slashdot doens't censor, it mods down. If you don't want to read stuff like that, don't read it! When you see a post with a title like that, get a clue: its a troll! Now you just got him a lot of attention and he's feeling all proud and motivated to do it again!
There is a line drawn somewhere, in my case its at 1 (except when I'm moderating, then I go at -1). There is a perfectly good working system that lets you not read the posts of that sort, use it, don't sabotage it for the rest of us.
I didn't want to read it, but I wanted to know what got you so excited. (Hint to others, its some adolescent attemps at inventing sexual acts or something...basic scat and humiliation nonsense, don't bother reading it)
PS I'm posting anonymously so that the moderators wil only have to waste 1 point on my post to get down to the "-1 offtopic" place wich it deserves, however your dammed thread will waste many many more points to get it all out of sight. Seriously, this is not cool.
"Too cartoony" is how I personally would describe the way the prequels look, with everything but the actors being generated by computers.
You don't have to hunt down the perfect actor/actress with the perfect weight, the perfect hair colour, the perfect voice, the perfect skin colour, etc., etc., in animation. You just draw the character the way you want him/her to appear, and there s/he is.
Do you discount the importance of a good voice actor? In some respects, voice acting is harder than traditional stage/screen acting.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Like making people look like people.
Dexter is roughly the shape of a pill. Dee-dee and her friends have all of her limbs extending from a single point. All legs look like they did in the flintstones - like pipes that have a turn and end with a round stub (the turn is where the feet begin).
Almost nobody has any noses, or the noses look very strange. Also, no one has normal looking hands - very few have thumbs, or a full complement of fingers (10 total). The powerpuff girls have no hands and no feet. Samurai Jack is a little better, but still...there is very little detail in the characters. Jack himself has fingers that are apparently glued together, since they never seem to separate. Also, his four fingers are all the same length, unlike human fingers (his thumb is opposable, they show that when he holds a sword).
I would expect a Star Wars Universe to be much more lifelike since its based upon a live action universe, with, at the very least, five fingers on each hand, and the ability to move them the way humans do, and normally drawn noses. I don't expect that it'll happen because I think it costs more.
Which means really, really bad reviews, I think.
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Not many, really. I can only think of a few, myself.
The Real Ghostbusters comes to mind. That ran for quite some time - several years. Also, Voltron, which was basically a rehash of the old Ultraman movies (they're kind of like Godzilla flicks). MIB has done pretty well as well. Jumanji lasted one or two seasons, which was enough to make money.
Captian Simian and the Spacemonkeys obviously drew its inspiration from the Starwars movies, and that one was on for a while (though you may not have heard about it - it was kind of a small scale cartoon).
Of course, if we open up the category to include series based upon movies, there are a few more, though still not many.
The ever popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a shining example of that. And we probably should add Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which are really just rehashes of Ultraman mixed with Voltron.
And then there are all of the Spy shows inspired by James Bond: first Get Smart, and then Inspector Gadget, and then young Inspector Gadget (or whatever they called that).
It all comes down to whether or not enough people identify with the ideas in the series to make it work. Just because its live action doesn't mean it doesn't translate into a cartoon or a series.
However, the cartoon or series can't stand upon the concept of the movie to work, just as a sequel can't be a rehash of the first movie and expect that it will do incredibly well (*cough* Home Alone 2 *cough*). It has to have its own new ideas, even if it has the same beloved characters.
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This series is produced by Genndy Tartakovsky
Nooooooooooo! I'm going to be victimized with cheesy anime-like fight scenes:
Droid
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Fire
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I saw it posted on "slashdot", that means it must be true.
Yeah, but can you explain why 'uncle owen' didn't recognize the droids? And why the hell wouldn't the droids recognize him or anyone else?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I for one think that this series could do very well if it was gone about in a similar manner as Starship Troopers: Roughnecks. Roughnecks was a well done story-arc of the SST universe that gave the viewers an idea of what "day to day combat" was like, and introduced new concepts/characters(Ice Bug in particular) without breaking the main story too much.
If this cartoon were done in a similar manner, say a story-arc of the Clone Wars, it could be equally as good I believe. Just think about it, a chance to see more battles, on different worlds, and see what kind of enemies the Republic faces besides the Droids.
With an idea this tantalizing, I think I'll give Lucas a chance here.
"The Liea sleep over" and thats some funny shit..
Luke in tights or a robe.. oh wait.
What the hell's the point in doing this? Episodes 1 and 2 are already animated!!
"StarWars Christmas Special"?
'nuff said!
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every successful American made cartoon aims strictly for the children. Star Wars has a enourmous audience that caters to all ages.
At least it is being handled by the gang from Dexters, PPG, and Samurai Jack so I don't have to worry about some moral at the end of each episode.
Other than that I find it unfortunate that they didn't speak with ADV, Pioneer, Bandai, etc, etc to be made into an anime where a good plot, and believable characters could come to life in a story told over many episodes that connect to each other. Not just jump from one episode to another.
And to the anime nay sayers. If you don't hate cartoons to begin with. There is an anime out there that you would love. It's just a matter of finding it. Trust me.
I have a feeling that this cartoon series is related to this news tip (while we're all waiting for episode 3 movie to be completed) from TheForce.Net's archive:
I work in a bookshop in England. Yesterday our friendly Penguin/Dorling Kindersley rep was in and was going through new books for next year. He showed me the cover for Star Wars - The Worlds of Episode II and told me an interesting story.
Very recently, the head of LucasFilm UK was giving a small presentation to the Penguin Group. She was telling them how Episode III was going to be the biggest thing ever, partly because of it being 'real time'. "You mean, "asked a quizzical rep,"it will only cover 2 hours of Star Wars time?"
No. What she meant was that when Episode III opens in May 2005, the Clone Wars will be just finishing as the film opens. The Clone Wars last for three years. "So the Clone Wars are happening now," she said. Ergo, Episode III takes place exactly three years after AOTC. Cool huh?
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"Yeah look what good Ewoks & Droids did for the SW universe ;)"
I suspect that some of the people who worked on the plot and storylines for both episodes 1 and 2 were some of the very same people who wrote for those two shows.
Any relation to the revered Soviet director? Doing cartoons?
...not unless they can find a slave outfit to fit her unborn fetus.
Damn! You're one sick dude.
But it's only as good as the scripting. And because this is a less important project than the big films, perhaps, PERHAPS, a good writer or two will sneak in under the radar and do something which has apparently become of late truly offensive; A good bit of story telling.
I hope they go for high-end dramatic realism with proper pacing; for all those kids who haven't burned out their attention spans on video games, MTV and E. --The last couple of Harry Potter films, though by no means land-mark works, were still pretty damned good considering. And they were both LONG! --Which just goes to show that slowing things down will not annoy the younger set, and certainly won't annoy the older viewers.
My recommendation to the studio: "You have an opportunity to make good. Please don't blow it."
-Fantastic Lad
I hate it when I read news on Slashdot that I heard about days before. Slashdot, in my opinion and because of its millions of "reporters", is supposed to find all the cool news no longer than forty-five minutes after it breaks! Why the dealy on so many good news articles?
Cartoon Network would have been better off to contract for something set in the New Jedi Order period, where everything has fallen apart, the New Republic has basically collapsed, the Star Wars galaxy is being invaded by a seemingly unstoppable new alien race, major characters in the Star Wars universe are killed, etc., etc.
Of course, that would be adult anime, not childrens' cartoons which are better suited to the new pre-episode IV world of pablum.
* As is generally the case, my opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
Judging by the traffic on this story, quite a few people.
Just because you neither share nor even understand their interests doesn't make your post any less rude. Although I'm not particularly interested in either Star Wars or cartoons, it would be uncivil for me to simply barge around like the proverbial bull, accusing those who are of being "childish." Nonetheless, to judge by your post -- and its snide insinuation that many of the posters to Slashdot are, unlike you, incapable of caring for themselves -- civility is not a priority of yours. Unfortunate.
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If it gets rid of the whole aisle of action figures from the toy section in Wallmart. I am all for it!
*shudders*
If I had mod points, you, sir, would have them all.
I thank God that I was not drinking as I read this, all I can picture is Mojo Jojo wearing a Vader mask. And pulling it all off without seeming out of place.
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I would not like to see a Star Wars animated series. One of the appealing aspects of Star Wars is that it is something we take semi-seriously. When you watch a Star Wars movie, you are indulged in the world and it's physics and rules seem to be second-reality. If they create an animated series with slapdash plots and create superficial characters, it destroys the sense of a real Star Wars universe that George Lucas and his movies try to create. The extensions of the Star Wars universe thusfar have taken the Star Wars universe seriouesly, e.g. the independently written Star Wars books are rich in detail and try to remain undeviated from George Lucas' universe. These authors go through extensive research to write one of these books that carefully expands the Star Wars realm. I do not think that an animated series will continue this precedent. Instead, it will, with a simple stroke, destroy all that has been created.
star wars is fake get a life get a job just do somthing
Anyone that reads AICN frequently knows that "done deals" are reported almost daily, and less than half of them ever materialize. Harry Knowles publishes twice as much disinformation as he does scoops. He's either a mark or a whore, and either way you'd be a fool to consider his site useful for anything other than laughs.
Oh, and why would anybody believe that Lord Lucas the Tyrant would ever allow a low-tech, terrible animator like Tartaovsky to even come within a mile of his baby? This is the guy that's obsessed with the bleeding edge of EVERYTHING. This story is false. If it's true, I'll eat my hat and post pics. And I mean a leather hat, not a delicious chocolate hat or a hat made of scrumptious truffles or anything like that.
Nowadays, of course, distance is a bit less of a problem. Movies are shot all over the world, whereas they used to be done almost exclusively in Hollywood backlots. Had it not been for the unprecedented success of the original trilogy though, ILM never would have made it off the ground.
I do agree, absolutely, that money is not Lucas's concern. However, those below him in the power structure most certainly do care about the money. Since Lucas probably does not micromanage the promotional material and licenses, that may be where some of the "moneygrubbing" accusations come from.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
and that Mojo Vader post was the best
post
ever.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
I hope you're not.
IF (capitolized on purpose) Lucas was actually re-releasing those films for the reasons you listed, then the HORRID Taun-taun (Tawn-tanwn?) in Empire would have been replaced (you know the one I mean) and Greedo would not have shot first, and that black thing on the emperor's cowl in the climax of Jedi would have been fixed.
Those things are all the evidence I need to say that money was all he was worried about.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
You laugh. Try "Starwars the 70's Custom Van!" I shit you not.
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Apparently, all of star wars was designed to make buckets of money. Interestingly, it's still fun to watch, so I guess Lucas has some kind of talent
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With all the talk about the "canon", I can picture the archaelogists of the 30th century quite surprised when they find a "Project Time" bag enclosing a video tape depicting His Fallen Lord Faeder and His Son Lucca (or a teen Angel Solo?) as stylized cartoons. They will be known as the Apocryphal Vids.
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Lucas: "wow, there are a lot of bad scenes in these movies. A lot of mistakes I can fix. A lot of mess I can clean up.
Or I can add a bunch of ewoks, a couple dance numbers, some dewbacks and a few ships!"
If he wanted to "fix" things, he would have done so instead of adding more crap instead. Adding crap took precident over fixing problems to the point where fixing problems can not be his goal.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on
the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is
quite untrue in practice. Disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather
than blinkers it.
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