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Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show
Sasseen writes "George Lucas has announced that the animated Star Wars television show, which we've discussed previously, will be kicking off with a feature-length theatre release. Lucas felt that, 'there were a lot more 'Star Wars' stories left to tell. I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the animation forward.' A fully animated film will be released in theaters on August 15 with a TV series of more than 30 episodes planned to follow on Cartoon Network and TNT. Also of note from the article, 'A new character named Ahsoka, Anakin's padawan, will be the first female Jedi to be a character of focus'."
I'm tired of every "new" story Lucas does taking place before Episode 4. Yeah, we get it, Annakin turns into Darth Vader. He's probably going to corrupt this new girl Jedi. Who cares? What happens to the Empire after the destruction of the second Death Star? The Rebel Alliance? The new Jedi(s)? Anything? Hello? Enough with the prequels already.......
... but wasn't the star wars holiday special also (at least partially) animated?
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BTW, Emperor Ashoka, won a bloody war, had a change of heart and renounced violence. His empire disintegrated shortly thereafter.
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Ugh, please don't tell me that this padawan resembles a Japanese chick. With all the other punly names in Star Wars (Grievous? Porkins?), the cliche phrase, "ah, sou ka?" (Japanese for "oh, really?") is all that comes to mind.
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I always read that as:
There may exist more than two, but only two work together, because master Siths don't trust each other, or are killed by their padawans. Siths don't have more than 1 padawan because the padawans would probably off each other in the competition anyway. (remember how palpatine wanted luke as his apprentice...probably to replace vader who was getting old and independent...so he wanted luke to kill his father, lose himself to darkness, and then become the next padawan)
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Most of his rebuttal over the Jar Jar fiasco was basically "These movies are for kids -- they've always been for kids. You just grew up."
:-)
I think it's a load of hooey, but I can believe that he believes that.
So I think he doesn't mind if the average slashdot reader doesn't like what he's made as long as "the kids" find it entertaining.
But nice Karnaugh map of the Lucas psyche, anyway.
Also, in the upcoming Force Unleashed game, you play as a female sith. Supposedly the unknown apprentice of Darth Vader. The character in this TV series may NOT be killed when Anakin kills the other padawans, rather, she may fall to the dark side with him, and be the apprentice in that game.
This is just speculation though.
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and that would be what? Ruling by jackasses? Never has a slashdot misspelling been more apropos
Except Lucas has to recognize that the generation of kids who watched the prequels aren't even 1/100 as attached to it as the ones who saw the original movies growing up.
Not that it's all his fault -- internet, Matrix, Harry Potter -- lots of strong competion.