Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show

Posted by Zonk on from the could-be-worse-i-guess dept.

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'."

8 of 270 comments (clear)

  1. Timeline by cthulu_mt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not to nitpick; but where in the prequel trilogy did Anakin have the spare time to take a Padawan?

    --
    Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
    1. Re:Timeline by patrixmyth · · Score: 5, Funny

      And so we can assume that at the end of the series, he slaughters her along with the rest of the padawans? What a lovely cartoon moment that will make. Kids, hurry in, Star Wars is on!

      --
      "Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel
    2. Re:Timeline by Orleron · · Score: 5, Funny


      I've got a bad feeling about this.

    3. Re:Timeline by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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) So why in the name of FUCK would a Sith ever take on an apprentice?! Why would they even care about carrying on the Sith traditions? Honestly, that's probably the dumbest thing Lucas put in the nuTrilogy and I'm including midichlorians, the Anakin/Padme romance, and Jar-Jar Binks.

      No, with the Sith, it would have to be the traditions that keep them alive. If you consider the Jews, they've persisted as a unique cultural identity for so long because of the strength of their religion and traditions. They set themselves apart from their host society, there's lots of social approbation for keeping it within the religion, not inter-marrying, etc. You compare them with their biblical contemporaries, all of those people have been subsumed by new cultural groups. The Philistines, Romans, their descendants probably aren't even aware of their own lineage.

      What the Sith would have to be is a highly arrogant in-group, selected by a pure meritocracy, with an understanding that they hang together or will surely hang separately. There would be great pride taken in being amongst this august order, the very name of which causes planetary populations to cower. But they tend not to congregate in great numbers because that many egos bouncing around in the same room would lead to violence. If you consider sharks, some can school and some are solitary. They may attack each other in the open sea and in a feeding frenzy certainly and yet they're able to suppress the feeding instinct from time to time and can get close enough to mate. If they could not, they would go extinct. The Sith would pride themselves in being better than everyone else and would have their own code of honor they use in dealing with other Sith. They'd have to or else they'd tear themselves apart. The way Lucas portrays the Sith, they would go extinct! Now of course there are going to be Sith who are rather antisocial, even by Sith standards. The kind that would use guile and deceit and violence against other Sith, he would end up seeing himself shunned. None of the other Sith would put themselves at risk. So he can go off and be his chaotic evil badass self, conquer planets, get himself defeated, but he certainly wouldn't represent the whole order of the sith and defeating him doesn't mean you've seen the end of them.
      --
      Kwisatz Haderach
      Sell the spice to CHOAM
      This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
  2. Translation by Jaysyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I really, really wanted to squeeze some more cash out of this franchise. I have my eye on a small island, you know."

    --
    There is a war going on for your mind.
  3. New Stories? How about going beyond ROTJ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.......

  4. Who cares? by realmolo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The "Clone Wars" are boring, and we know how they end.

    Jedi are boring.

    Anakin is boring even for a Jedi.

    Lucas has a major hard-on for Jedi, but they are just incredibly limited as characters in a story. What we need is a "Star Wars" show based on a young Han Solo.

  5. Oblig Quotes by andphi · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You don't want to sell me a new series. You want to go home and rethink your profession."

    "That's no franchise. That's a merchandising opportunity!"

    "Don't try to frighten us with your director's ways, Lord Lucas. Your hidebound dedication to that re-imagined franchise hasn't given you the clairvoyance to see what the fans want or the insight to leave things well enough alone."

    "I find your lack of plot disturbing."

    and finally

    "It's a Trap!"