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Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-could-make-this-stuff-up dept.

The Bastard writes "As if the Star Wars Holiday Special and Jar-Jar weren't insulting enough to fans, George Lucas has decided to turn the franchise into an animated sitcom. I have a bad feeling about this." The article says that Seth Green is involved, which either sets off your late April Fool's Day alarm, immeasurable dread, or excitement.

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  1. I Guess That's About All That's Left by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the official site there's an announcement from April 5th. Probably not a late April Fools joke.

    After Robot Chicken and Family Guy's parodies of Star Wars, I guess Lucas knows what the fans want: humor. And let's face it, they were funny. At least for me anyway. Star Wars used to be a religion to me until Phantom Menace. I distanced myself and have since had plenty of time to recover. Even though I had read all the expanded universe material in my youth and could recite from memory more about an Aqualish than even Wikipedia would tolerate (hooray for retroactive continuity!), I found Robot Chicken's sketch of Ponda Baba's Bad Day hilarious. Laugh for ten minutes hilarious. Re-enact for my friends hilarious.

    And it saddens me that all he has left is humor. I mean, I'd rather see both serious material and humor. Futurama had a great way of making fun of itself but also baking in really serious themes that made me love it. I hope Star Wars manages to maintain some sort of integrity through all this. I agree with what the quotes said about this being a large intricate universe with a lot to work with. And I had always been hoping for a TV show similar to the Tales from ... series in both short story and comic book form. I mean, you have a whole invented universe just sitting there waiting for writers to discover new intricacies with it. And, aside from the expanded universe, all we've gotten in approved cannon is three really bad movies and some decent kids shows. Where are the Grand Admiral Thrawns and Admiral Daalas? Where is the fleshing out of a background story for each of the aliens you see in Mos Eisley and Jabba's Palace? Confined to books I guess. I just don't understand why TV writers haven't been solicited to explore the Star Wars universe in the same way the expanded universe books have. Sure some have been trash (Barbara Hambly's Children of the Jedi) but you'd think someone could write a really neat story line with new villains, new force sensitives and new characters that are distantly related to the movies.

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    1. Re:I Guess That's About All That's Left by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

      After Robot Chicken and Family Guy's parodies of Star Wars, I guess Lucas knows what the fans want: humor.

      What the fans want is the prequels rewritten and refilmed with good actors, compelling storylines, characters you can give a shit about, and most importantly, no Jar-Jar or midichlorians. As well, to reverse the pathetic attempt to rewrite Han as a total good guy be reinstitating the wanton and totally justified murder of Greedo (if anyone short of Jesus Christ was in Han's shoes, they would have shot first too).

      Star Wars was an incredible space opera-fantasy mashup universe that has always had a serious flaw, and that's Lucas himself. As a sort of idea man, he's pretty good, but he's always had this knack for soiling his own bed, and the prequels are by far the best example of how Lucas just screwed the pooch. The latest animated series is bad on every level. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he was completely selling out now.

      What Star Wars really needs is for Lucas to give up control, let someone else take over, and maybe bring out a new trilogy that returns the movies to the feel of the original trilogy.

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    2. Re:I Guess That's About All That's Left by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well if you took off the nostalgia blinders you can see that episodes 4,5,6 were bad too. Campy acting and a basic storyline... Heck I would credit the fall of the empire not to Luke Skywalker but to Admiral Ackbar for his keen military leadership.

      Part of the problem is after people became nostalgic to Star Wars the new stuff just didn't seem up to par. Jar-Jar wouldn't be so bad if R2D2 and C3PO wasn't there. Also I think if Anakin Skywalker was more like Kirk in the new Star Trek movie, (where you can sence a dark side but you still root for him)

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  2. There is no match by sjonke · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... for the comedy that is Episodes I, II and III.

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  3. Yeah... by Spatial · · Score: 5, Funny

    George Lucas has decided to turn the franchise into an animated sitcom.

    Slashdot is so far behind. The Episode 1/2/3 movies have been out for years!

  4. Penny-arcade already covered this. by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.angryzenmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pennyarcadestarwarscw.jpg

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  5. I think I speak for everyone when I say... by Facegarden · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its a Trap!

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  6. The world just sucks by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good men die every day. And yet Lucas keeps on living and living. If there is a god, he's not even *trying* to be fair.

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  7. Re:Lucas just wants more money by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.

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  8. "isn't going to suck as much as you think it is?" by aapold · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seth Green says:

    "Let us assure you this isn't going to suck as much as you think it is."

    It couldn't possibly.

    But it could still suck a great deal without reaching that level.

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  9. Re:See... by MBGMorden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While Indiana Jones may be REMEMBERED, I don't think it's too often associated with George Lucas. As a matter of fact if you told 20 people on the street that he was even involved with that franchise at all I'd bet that 18 of them would be incredibly surprised to find that bit of info out.

    The reality is when people think George Lucas they think Star Wars, and not much else.

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  10. Re:Obligatory... by DarKnyht · · Score: 4, Funny

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror

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