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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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this looks pretty sick... then again, the movie wasn't any good, so this can't be any worse. Low expectations means no disappointment.
So instead of fighting and light sabers, they just go straight to plaid
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.
Canadian Cynic, canadian politics is less boring than you
Do they feature a horrible actor, awful script, and whiny, annoying characters?
No? Then it's got to be better than the last movie.
So, I tried to watch the season 1 episodes, and apparently you can't unless you're in the USA. Is there an easy way around that?
Old What is it ?
Its as if I heard a thousand poping tivos on the Season Pass.. then.. Silance
VCR?
Do we always have to go for the fancy gadgets?
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."
According to Lucasfilm, first you'll have to wait for the special edition, then reruns of the original, and then the next three series of cartoons. Then they'll put out DVDs of everything, except the DVD of Clone Wars will only be the special edition, not the one you watched.
Breakfast served all day!
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."
I very much disliked the series. There is very little that seems to happen in each episode, of course, they're only 5 minutes long. Plus, I'm not a big fan of the animation at all. While I love Samurai Jack, I don't think this particular style suits Star Wars at all, and it doesn't seem to do justice to the Star Wars legacy in my eyes. Then again, neither did Episodes I and II. And the more I watch Clone Wars, the less I like it... I'm starting to get disappointed with Star Wars. I know they can do better.
OK. Just checking.
Yes, we do.
TW
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.
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.
Series premiere on a Friday night? They clearly know their audience.
Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?
Like Jumbo Shrimp...
Clone Wars had at least one extended, cool-looking space battle, something the last two movies have been somewhat lackluster in, IMHO. And never once did it grievously insult my intelligence, as the last two movies, sadly, have done.
So I will buy it when it comes out on DVD for those reasons alone, because there is a small part of me that still wants to like Star Wars despite the many disappointing things done to the franchise since 1999.
Jonas, thanks! I almost forgot about Game Over... I'm going to set my TiVO right now (then my wife and I are off to dinner).
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.
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
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.
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
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.
"Not all who wander are lost" -- JRR Tolkien
I have a serious question (or poll really): Who likes Jar Jar? Is there a segment that is drawn in to him? Does this segment also like Ewoks?
I'll say this much about him. I don't dislike him, and I really really really like it when Quai-Gon grabs his tongue and says "Don't". I really wish Sebulba would have just kicked his ass, 'cause he's a mutherfucker who needs a fuckin' stompin' on.
But other than that, I don't dislike him, and I think he adds something to the movie that wouldn't have been there without him, since all the other characters were dry, boring, and very very weak (except Quai-gon and obi-wan in the Phantom Menace, but Obi-Wan has gone straight to hell since then).
And yes, as a matter of fact, I love Ewoks. I like to throw 'em on the smoker, still kicking, and skin 'em when they're still only half-cooked. Then you wrap 'em in foil (they're usually unconscious by now, but if not you can still wrap 'em) and start tanning the skin. You wind up with a helluva meal and a really sweet leather jacket out of it.
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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.