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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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I've got to say, since Episode 1 and 2's massive failure in the eyes of many geeks, and most of the press (despite my love of both movies), the press surrounding the Clone Wars and the opinions I've heard have been tremendous, to say the least. IMO, the quality of animation is superb, Samurai Jack style, and it's just real Star Wars fun to watch. Also, one simply MUST love the new dark Jedi in the fight against all those monsters.
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Truly brilliant.
wtf?
seriously.
add to that, s1 at least lacked quite a bit in the story department. sure it had long stylistic(untraditionally for starwars styled) scenes of guys whacking around with a light saber, in air, in space, on a planet, underwater... but not that much else(hey, that reminds me of... wait for it.. episode 1 and 2!).
I thought it was just a mini thingy to keep the starwars hype up, so whats the deal with this second season? you know, it seems awfully lot like milking for the viewers since it was a micro/mini ('limited') series after all(as far as I know, I don't live in the states so can't really catch it on 'real' tv).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Man, sometimes I *hate* living in Brazil. The original series (first season?) was truly amazing. I thought putting Genndy drawing was a big mistake (his lines didn't fit in the way the movies where made), but, for some very misterious destiny things, his drawings where perfectly on sync with the Star Wars universe. Even better: the stories where so impressive that someone should take that Lucas guy out of the direction of the next movie and put Genndy there! :)
Admit it. You'll camp out anyway. Just like me, we can't not watch it. Seeing it might make us angry, but not seeing it at midnight of the release is possibly deadly. It's just like any addiction.
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What i'm getting tired of is that they're all tiny little slivers of plot, but you have to sit through an intro, review of what the last episode was about and previews of the next episode. This is like HALF the total time of each episode... Someone needs to take all these, remove all the intros, reviews, and previews, and make a single 1 hour episode out of the entire first season... Am I the only one who feels this way? I stopped downloading the episodes after Season 1 Ep 06 because of this.
Man, what a harsh thread.
The Clone Wars series has to be one of the more interesting and original TV shows/experiments in TVs short history. They're short, paced perfectly, fun to watch, and just well done overall. I fully believe if this wasn't attached to the Star Wars franchise we would be singing its praises on originality and animation quality alone.
Cut Tartakovsky some slack here. He inherited a big job and pulled it off almost flawlessly. Kids love it, adults (at least the ones I know) dig it. He managed to work with such a limiting format and deliver the goods.
Tartakovsky could very well be the next Disney.
each chapter is not much longer than a commercial... things that make you go "hmmm"
The 3 minute episodes. Hands down.
After having obtained a copy of the first season of Clone Wars and watched it all back to back I realized how much fast-forwarding they had to do to make each 3 minute episode entertaining. I for one thought the series was good, if a bit watery on plot (and who can blame them - Lucas isn't likely to give them many plot tidbits with EP3 imminent), but the action was solid and enough to satisfy in a 3-minute format. True SW fans would've liked something more robust I'm sure, but you can't stretch plot over 10 days of 3-minute shorts and expect ppl to be able to soak up deep plotlines.
The Sith initate was cool, the action in the rest of them was pretty spiffy. All I was really looking for out of this was the Star Wars equivalent of a Kung-fu movie - all action, little story. But to my surprise, that one moment in the first season where Anakin and Amidala exchange a look as he takes off for battle displayed more real emotion and caring to me than any of the hollow-acted "love" sequences in Ep2. But then I give Hayden/Natalie the benefit of the doubt and just consider those parts to be stiff and unnatural in EP2 because he's restraining the true evil bastard he wants to be. At least I hope so, if this turns into Dawson's Galaxy at the end I'm gonna be ill.
The 3-minute shorts didn't work for people, this isn't like the early theatres where you HAD to watch the serial shorts to see the movie. People have short attention spans these days and you'd better get everything you wanna say across while the hype waves run high.
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