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Star Wars TV Show Tainted By Memories of Jar Jar
bowman9991 writes "Can George Lucas' new Star Wars TV series, the first Star Wars spin off with real actors, atone for the flawed follow-ups to his original classics? Producer Rick McCallum calls the new series 'much darker,' a 'much more character-based series' and 'more adult,' while George Lucas himself calls it more like the first Star Wars film. The new TV show takes place in the 'dark times' between the last prequel Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, when most of the Jedi and anti-emperor politicians were hunted down and killed. The characters of Boba Fett, C-3PO, and the Emperor Palpatine will return, and casting has now begun. Mark Hamill, the actor who played Luke Skywalker from the original movies, believes George Lucas lost his way, 'making it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger until you're just exploding with special effects all over the screen like some fireworks display,' but thinks the new show is a 'positive' step forward. Hopefully George Lucas can wipe the memory of Jar Jar Binks, Anakin and Padme's romance, his shameless merchandising, and some lame attempts at humor from everyone's minds once and for all."
I find your excess of faith disturbing.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Memories of Jar Jar sounds like a fragrance that George Lucas would put on the market.
Who??
And there are no prequels, and there is no way to ever make any. Any possible existence of Star Wars prequels have been curiously eliminated in the space time continuum. Interestingly the same applies to the much later stand-alone sci-fi movie Matrix (in case anyone wondered why no sequels were ever made). No one knows why this stands as such immutable facts though.
"There is no fixed release date for the show, but it's expected sometime in 2011 or 2012..."
Lets see, the Mayans called it in 2012.
Nostradamus called it around 2012.
People are all end times for 2012.
Then we had Jar Jar... DEAR GOD NO!
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
Don't bet on it.
There are worse things. The Star Wars Holiday Special. Absolutely nothing in episodes I-III is as bad as that...
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
There's a 3-way my mind could have done without.
Perfectly stated!
Or more accurately, stated in a manner that completely agrees with my stance, which of course I consider to be perfect.
Paul Lenhart writes words!
Hopefully George Lucas can wipe the memory of Jar Jar Binks, Anakin and Padme's romance
I must have missed this perverse threesome when I watched the film.
"Much Darker" just means more poorly lit sets.
Gritty means there will be rain, garbage strewn about, and major set pieces will be taking place in either abandoned industrial complexes, or abandoned buildings.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
"We found him in the Academy sewers and the burns on the decapitated corpse indicate lightsaber cuts, which means the killer is probably... *beat* It's not a Jedi that I'm looking for. Please move along. Move along!"
Mark Hamill is probably just bitter because he never did get those power converters.
What? Doesn't "Bobby, milkman to the Emperor's pet cat OF DUNE" count?
Copying anyone other than Kurosawa is ripping off that person.
Copying Kurosawa is making something more awesome than it has any business being.