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Star Wars: Clone Wars Premieres Tonight
phalse phace writes "According to Cartoon Network, Season 2 of Star Wars: Clone Wars, the epic micro-series, is going to premiere tonight at 9:30 PM (E/P)."
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Is avalible on cartoon networks website(warning, lots of flash). Its avalible in streaming Quicktime and Real(gag), and you can google around for direct download links (looks like the first listings already slashdotted...). I've got all of them in divx at about 35mb apiece, not a bad series either, more deserving of the Star Wars title than some of the other cartoons that have been done(holiday special, and that droids cartoon i havn't seen but have heard was awful. and dont get me started on the ewok adventures...)
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Using a standard connection and browser, you can't access this site from outside the US (I'm all of 50 kms north of the border in Canada). There are ways around this particular bogosity, but it's generally so irritating that I don't bother with whatever site sets this restrictions. I noticed that Showtime does this as well.
More direct link to the clone wars site...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
The high quality and similarity to Samurai Jack is because the person responsible, Genndy Tartakovsky, also created Samurai Jack and worked on Dexter's Laboratory and the Power Puff Girls.
Upon attempting to watch one of the episodes, I was greeted by this wonderful message:
"We're sorry, but this content is
viewable only to those
within the United States."
What a bunch of wankers.
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
I had a friend who taped the 10 episodes from season one and we watched it in a single 30 minute sitting. Each episode is only 3 minutes, so they seem more like a scene from a story rather than a complete story.
It is mostly action driven with very little dialog. I found it to be enjoyable. However, I think if I watched each 3 minute episode a week apart it wouldn't have been as good.
Season 1 is archived at Cartoon Network's page
Yes, this is canon. There was much debate over this on the StarWars.com message boards when the episode with Kit Fisto used a lightsaber underwater.
In the EU books, games, and the scene snipped from TPM, lightsabers do not work underwater. But none of those were canon. So, now it's official.
The 20th episode is supposed to intro the villian for episode 3, as well.