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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.
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."
OK. Just checking.
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.
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.
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.
each chapter is not much longer than a commercial... things that make you go "hmmm"