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Comic Con: Dismemberment, Jedi Death And Bounty Hunters To Attend More Adult Second Season Of CLONE WARS!!
I am – Hercules!!
I still haven’t been in Comic Con’s Hall H this year, but the Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibberd’s in there right now, and he reports “Clone Wars” is headed in a new direction for season two:
“Season two we had to develop the series we started it like typical cartoon,” says series director Dave Filoni. “For season two, we made it a lot more intense ... Little more violent. Villains are evil ... We have to kill Jedi ... People start losing limbs in season two.”
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"Season two we had to develop the series we started it like typical cartoon," NOTHING in that makes any sense.
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And not how David Filoni actually speaks.
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Someone doesn't like making any sense. But Herc's in the clear. And really? Am I the only talkbacker here? Helloooo? Echo, echo echo...
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Its a goddamn galactic war. We should see death in every possible way there is.
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Not my cup of tea.
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Padme is fucking hot for a CGI cartoon woman.
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...a sequel trilogy to the original films, and that he's only producing and overseeing while he allows others to direct and write, Star Wars is dead. Cartoon Star Wars is pretty awful, animation or CG. Nearly as bad as the prequels.
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I wasted my time reading that live! AGH! Who cares about some Star Wars laser light show concert. Shit.
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a fucking KIDS cartoon.
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after giving up 6 bucks to that horrible cartoon feature with the gay lisping capote-esque Hutt. No way is this series getting more adult, they're just trying to lure people in so lucas can have more money for whores.
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Damm it I want to see Obi Wan get a day off & see his parents or something out of the ordinary. Anyone else???
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Those ads have invaded every site I go to. They're stalking me!!!!
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I doubt it. She's a fan favorite.
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The reboot of this show is fantastic.
I personally think the animation is superb aswell as the stories.
I can't wait for the new season.
They just need some new characters, and other Jedi. -
Jul 24, 2009 11:27:14 PM CDT
Isn't it funny how all last year the show was about Clone
by lockesbrokenleg
troopers, and how the REAL show was all about the Jedi?
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stop complaining and enjoy it while u can fuckers.
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a Jedi, a Senator, a bunch of clones, some crooked droid saleman (voiced by Ron Perlman!), a disloyal senate guard... and at least the last two were stabbed through the chest onscreen.
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Aside from Jabba the Hutt and the Emperor? Fucking NO. I think Season 2 will be the last for this show.
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Eh yeah, I wish.
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it makes me sad to see Lucas scraping the bottom of the barrel like this.
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...Is this supposed to surprise us? Episode 3 came out 4 years ago! Everyone knows! Let Star Wars die while it still has some shred of dignity left.
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Um...Qui Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, Obi Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Darth Vader...Porkins.
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Saw about the first 8 or 9 episodes and loved it. Filoni's version of Anakin is so much better then the one in the prequels. Can't wait for the full season 1 to come out on DVD instead of the piecemeal way they've been selling them (3-4 episodes at at time). This is really good Star Wars TV. Something that many of us have been waiting for since we were kids. Put away your bitter feelings about the prequels and hatred towards Lucas and enjoy this one!
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The Clone Wars feature film, it's a mistake. The Clone Wars feature film was simply a television pilot that played on the big screen. The show gets better as it goes on. How many tv pilots that you've seen that are balls out awesome coming out the gate? Not many. Most shows improve over time. Watch the very first episode that focuses on a Yoda solo mission and you'll be sold on the series.
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yes... yes... YESSSSSSSS!!!!
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As much fun as the CLONE WARS cartoons are (and they're NOT as good as the Tartakovsky ones) there's still NO jeopardy, because we know practically all the Jedi die at Order 66, so why all this supposed dramatic tension! WE KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS, YOU DUMB FUCKS! Some of us even remember watching REVENGE OF THE SITH!
When will Uncle George and his choldhood-raping ways realise that there is AERO DRAMATIC TENSION IN TELLING A STORY THAT WE KNOW THE FUCKING ENDING TO?!?!?
Oh, and some random Jedi I've never heard of, and who never made an impact in the Star Wars universe, getting killed in Season 2 ISN'T FUCKING NEWS. WHO CARES?!? -
Jul 25, 2009 8:14:49 AM CDT
"...a sequel trilogy to the original films, and that he's only p
by darth busey
Ditto. Who the hell cares about the Clone Wars anymore?
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choldhood = childhood
AERO = ZERO
Spud McSpud = FUCKING TIRED. I need a vacation. -
a sequel to the original films will not happen. Lucas says the ROTJ is the last chapter. Why? Thw whole point of Anakin and Luke's story was to destroy the Sith and the Empire. Fighting Cloned Emporers, and an Empire without Palpatine and Vader is not interesting. That's why Lucas lets other people write the E.U. novels, comic books, etc. None of it matters, it's not canon, and Lucas gets to collect the checks from us who buy copies of the Thrawn trilogy... Officially, Episode 6 is the end. All the rest is just glorified fan fiction that Lucas gets to profit from.
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Doesn't mean The Clone Wars sucks. The Star Wars universe is big and detailed. We've been waiting to see the Clone Wars ever since Obi Wan first mentioned them in A New Hope, and the prequels didn't show us very much of them. Are there any huge mind blowing surprises from the Clone Wars? Of course not, but it's a well made well executed story.
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I feel your pain.
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You know, for the panel today....Someone had to start the ball rolling
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Maybe he finally realizes that he needs to give the fans what they want. Tool.
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Instead it was insanely boring and unbelievably inane. Poor George is just so, so clueless...
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That is, when I can. Fortunately, we will be able to enjoy the entire 1st season on Blu-ray, later this year!
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because that would have been awesome! "I want to kill George Lucas with a shovel" He would have torn them to shreds
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It's you posters who have impulse problems. Not to mention that you're too damn picky and hardly anything makes you happy.
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You're onto something good there.
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For the Clone Wars movie, it was as if the creators of the show compiled the 3 worst episodes and edited them together as a film. Even the Jar-Jar episodes of the show are better than that crap.The show, on the other hand, is extremely fun, at times, and intriguing at others. The reason for it's existence, beyond the obvious money making opportunity, is because the Clone Wars were supposed to be epic and not an afterthought that happened between films. By making this a series, we get the feel of seeing an entire galaxy at war and see how this war effected everyone. That's how I look at it.
I would, however, love to see some more movies that are just produced by Lucas. I see his point in not making sequels to the originals as he says that he saga is about Anakin and Anakin is redeemed and dies in Jedi. So, maybe they could start a new series based on something like the Legacy comics. Or do the Old Republic. In the right hands, like Whedon, Ron Moore, or Abrams, we could have a great new series of films. -
Jul 25, 2009 12:34:21 PM CDT
beastie got it! Lucas just PRODUCE from afar, very far away.
by shogunshin
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We're just not sad Lucas groupies who mindlessly swallow whatever the fucking fat Dexter Jettster-looking dickweed manages to shit out of his Jabba the Hutt-sized ass.
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by the twilight moms i just dont get it....really...can someone please explain to me why that tripe is so fucking popular do women really have a fetish about getting fucked by old men who look young?
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anyone see it on sci-fi australia? http://bit.ly/HJRGp
Makes me feel bad for the guy. -
Wow. Did people really hassle him about ruining the Star Wars universe in high school? The bad acting is the director's fault- either because of poor direction or bad casting. I don't blame Jake Lloyd at all/
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His statement doent mean anything. Will Lucas allow Filoni to flesh out the respective Sith and Jedi philosophies and their reasons for their conflict in the cartoon? Will we get to see Jedi going up against proper villians and opponents?
Genndy's clone wars had more depth and and pathos in a four minute segment than the entire season of Filoni's toy advert for Lucas/Hasbro. -
Jul 25, 2009 1:40:32 PM CDT
The idea of the Clone Wars never really gripped me to be honest
by savagedave
Clones vs Droids....you're supposed to care why exactly? Deep down you know that Lucas wrote that original line about the clone wars as some throwaway thing that would never go any further. Now he's desperately trying to flesh out the idea with whats left of his imagination, knowing that he could shit in a star wars bucket and people would still pay for it.
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They centered the show aorund Jedi we had never seen before. Sure they more than likely would have bought it when Order 66 comes down, but at least we wouldn't have known exactly when they would die (would have made their missions more interesting since we wouldn't have known if they bought it then or later) and they could have even done a big surprise and had one of them survive Order 66.
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Jul 25, 2009 1:45:36 PM CDT
Nothing can touch the brilliant Tartakovsky Clone Wars Series
by bullet3
Watching those made me realize why I liked star wars in the first place, after being totally disappointed by the prequel movies. Storm Troopers were badass all of a sudden, people were getting killed left and right, the characters were much more memorable. This stupid CG version doesn't capture any of that as far as I'm concerned. It actually pisses me off, because now if you mention the "CLone Wars cartoons", people automatically assume you're talking about the shitty new ones.
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Maybe I'll actually start watching it now. Can i vote that horrible apprentice character to be the first jedi to get it??
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I don't could Obi Wan, Yoda, as deaths cause we see them at the end of ROJ. Yes Mace died, but he really didn't do anything. Qui Gon didn't die. He's with the Force. Maul died and the Emperor did.
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...for 32 years. Remember in the 90's, before the release of TPM when it all reached that height of coolness? Hipsters referred to themselves as Jedi and DJs were releasing CDs full of techno songs featuring sampled dialog and sound effects from the movies? Then, TPM dropped and killed all that shit overnight and it was allll over. Now Star Wars fans are the nerdiest of the nerds, complete die-hard, pathetic bottom feeders and George Lucas is one of "history's greatest monsters". (Couldn't resist that one.) Sad, really... just sad.
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... 1977-1999, od course.
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back up to the level of the orginals.
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Jul 25, 2009 3:42:00 PM CDT
Jar Jar has to die! Lucas didn't have the balls to do it in Ep.I
by drunken busboy
He is never seen in the original trilogy so he has to disappear somehow and someway! So why not show it and explain it! It's the only thing that will make me watch this show again! I lost interest about 4 episodes in1 :(
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Jul 25, 2009 3:49:48 PM CDT
OOOps! I forgot this show takes place between II & III!
by drunken busboy
Shows you how interested I was in it. The show's biggest flaw isn't the crappy dead eye CGI or muddled stories. It is just plain boring! I tried! I really really tried to watch and like this show but I couldn't! So sad!
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It can sometimes be really good and a lot of times really so-so. Kids seem to like it... I've watched a bunch of them. As I head into the twilight years(no fangy pun intended), I have more and more ambivalence towards it all.
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I watched the first season, but I enjoyed maybe 4 or 5 episodes out of 22.
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I just got done reading SHATTERPOINT by Matthew Stover (hands down the best Star Wars author - he's fucking AWESOME), and that fleshes out the CLone Wars waaaaaay better than either series did. That said, the Clone Wars adult novels and the post-Order 66 novels are just brilliant stuff - all the darker stuff we grown-up SW fanatics want is in there, and the visuals are way better for me because they're in my head. In your own head is ALWAYS going to be where the best Star Wars movies are. Grab some decent Clone Wars and post-Clone Wars novels and get stuck in. And ESPECIALLY anything by Matthew Stover - who novelisation of REVENG£E OF THE SITH made me think I must have seen the shit version on a really fucking fantastic movie, because the novel is just amazing. I have no idea how deep my despair would have been had I read Stover's novelisation first, THEN saw the movie. Fuck - he even makes Darth Emo Bitch frightening again! That's REALLY saying something after that big gay "NOOOOOOO!!!" at the end of the movie.
"What... about Padme? Is... she... alright?"
"It seems... in your rage... you killed her."
No, it seemed in Uncle George's fucking dotage, decent dialogure is always the first casualty of a new STAR WARS movie. Bantha poodoo motherfucker. -
"What about ROTS? That movie brought Star Wars back up to the level of the orginals."
Hang your head in shame, sir. You know not what you say.
Three words: DARTH EMO BITCH.
You know I'm right. Right, Iam. Know this, you do.
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Mrs Spud-To-Be thinks you should have your other leg broken for even THINKING about that movie in conjunction with the Holy Trilogy (1977-1983).
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Emo Jedi are better than shit muppets.
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Jul 25, 2009 10:40:17 PM CDT
Whomever said this series is never as good as Tartakovsky's...
by d.vader
Obviously isn't watching, or really enjoys hyperbole. There is much more depth in this series than was ever in Tartakovsky's, admittedly fantastic, version of the Clone Wars.
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Jul 25, 2009 10:42:13 PM CDT
The trailer for Clone Wars Season 2 was ALL kinds of awesome
by d.vader
It gave me chills. You know the kind I'm talking about. The ones that say to you "Wow... I'm watching Star Wars all over again." It got me very excited. Haters be damned, this show really is extremely entertaining.
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"Will Lucas allow Filoni to flesh out the respective Sith and Jedi philosophies and their reasons for their conflict in the cartoon? Will we get to see Jedi going up against proper villians and opponents?" Well, if you watch the trailer for Season 2 (dunno if its online yet or not...), you'll see that Darth Sidious hires a bounty hunter to steal a Jedi Holocron. That's right, a HOLOCRON, those cubes of knowledge that are all over the Expanded Universe involving secret knowledge and whatnot. What would a Sith want with a Jedi holocron? Beats me, but I'm sure it will, like you wished, flesh out some of the Sith and Jedi philosophies. Also, the trailer shows the appearance of some more Mandalore warriors working behind the scenes. Looks like the remnants of the Mandalore culture may be making things difficult for the already stretched Jedi Order.
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Remember those awesome Clone Wars shorts by that guy? The cartoon, not the awful dead eyed Pixar wannabe it is now? They aren't as bad as the movie version, or the prequels, but they're no where near as good as those shorts by what's his name mentioned above. Bring that guy back, and lose the annoying sidekick, or just admit that it's for kids now and get it over with. I don't know, I don't really care anymore.
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Fuck this shit. I'll just go watch ESB again for the billionth time. I don't need to see this shit.
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but because it's one of the prequels it's not cool to like it. The truth is, ROTS is an awesome movie where basically all the cool shit happens. So much so that I think that someone who had never seen SW before could skip TPM and AOTC, see the rest and still get the whole story. In the same way that ROTJ has a little better reputation then it deserves because it's part of the classic trilogy, ROTS has been undeservedly downgraded by the fans because it's one of the prequels...
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Not even Boba Fett can save it in my eyes. Bland and uninspired and uninspiring. The main characters are bores. I don't care who wins the epic struggle (since the main good guy later becomes the main bad guy who the HELL am I supposed to root for? And that's the main problem with it). No good characters that make you laugh and cry, like Luke and Han and Chewie and Leia. Screw Lucas. Fat old has-been should waddle back to his ranch and raise cattle and therefore produce for more beneficial bullshit.
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are the only one s who still care, but it is nice to see Lucas doing well financially for a change.
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'nuff said.
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'nuff said.
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Revenge of the Sith... BORING?! The Cllone Wars... AWFUL?! R we living on the ame planet? Star wars is pure unadulterated escapism, fantasy and fun fun fun. I was there at the originals and im still here now. I really, really dont get all you weird, pessimistic folk. And to the guy who complained that ROTS wasnt dark enough and didnt have any adult themes in it...
WHAT?!
Being burned alive, choking your pregnant wife, killing kids and the overthrow of a republic by a dictatorship isn't adult themed?!
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Why does the Empire even need to use bounty hunters? They are an EMPIRE! Why is Boba Fett suddently a better tracker than a well trained Imperial officer? Don't get it.
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...mouth, then ignited, right through the back of their head. I was hoping for that on Revenge of the Sith. Please make it happen, George. That would be cool.
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Jul 26, 2009 3:51:35 PM CDT
I think for Star Wars to get back where we want it to be...
by pissed off and bitter
It has to be like that AWESOME Old Republic video game trailer. Now THAT is what Star Wars should be like!!!
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I think that bounty hunters would be used by the empire because of their connections in the galaxy. It's like the military using private contracters which happens in this day and age very often. For instance, an informant would not necesserily talk to an imperial officer but maybe would a bounty hunter. And bounty hunters track prey for a living, existing in and out of the law - imperial oficers trained at the academy just wouldnt gain the same experience in the field as bounty hunters. And because bounty hunters are the tits. 8-)
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move along..
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Vader did want the Imperial presence at Cloud City kept secret to lure Luke in. Plus, he knew Fett's history with Solo, and he knew Fett would quickly find him
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finally....looks good,real good.....
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You're not watching.
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Chris Murray would be proud of you.
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and hate the new one... You remind me of the haters who love the British Office and loathe the American version. Both are good. Tartakovsky's version was nice and accomplished what it set out to do. To be honest, I never enjoyed Tartakovsky's style. I didn't think it really lent itself to Star Wars well but overall I enjoyed his micro series. I like both but I love the new Clone Wars series so much better. Really, it's okay to like Star Wars again! It really is. You don't have to keep saying that Lucas raped your childhood to keep your geek cred.
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seriously
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It's not about geek cred. It's about sequences like Grievous running down the building, chasing the elevator, looking particularly badass as he did so. It's about the sequence where Mace Windu single-handedly takes apart an entire BATTALION of battle droids with nothing more than his mastery of the Force. And the fact that nothing in the new CLONE WARS series has come close to that greatness.
Sure, it's very watchable. There is some funny stuff about how dumb battle droids are. The action geography onscreen is great - you can see who is aiming at who, and where. There's some great character work - loved the bottle episode where the clones and Kit Fisto are drifting in a pod, waiting for rescue. The animation, in my opinion, IS better than the previous Clone Wars - I prefer the CGI, and the design is nice.
But there just isn't that badass spirit that Tartakovsky's had - the idea that one Jedi Master can destroy a whole field of droids. It's all very cute and cuddly and perfect for the 6 year olds, but then - so was Tartakovsky's, AND it managed to be more the Star Wars that we adult fans want to see than this new version.
It's not about geek cred. It's about Filoni playing it safe, but Tartakovsky giving us more of what we REALLY wanted to see. -
Seconded. And get Matthew Stover to write it.
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I understand what you're saying. Believe it or not I actually felt that some of the Superman-ish stuff (like Windu destroying all those droids) actually diminished that series. I tried to look past the design (which I didn't like), but the Jedi as almost omnipotent Supermen didn't work for me. I didn't find Greivous or any of the bad guys scary either. That said, I enjoyed Tartakovsky's version, but like Filoni's so much more. I don't understand this knee jerk reaction to love one and absolutely hate the other by some...
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For whatever reason, I feel Filoni's version captures the spirit of Star Wars better. I'm sure that I'll get blasted for saying that, but Tartakovsky's version just never felt right to me. Again, that being said I don't hate it.
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