I did get to see the Lucasfilm logo though. That was awesome.

*tear*

I will watch this. I will probably enjoy it. I would enjoy it more if there weren't always some prick blah-blah-blahing about how much he hates Lucas, but I still LIKE the story Lucas is telling, and really don't give a fuck what you think of it. Lucas lost you a long time ago because he didn't tell the story YOU wanted to hear. Fine. GO AWAY. Stop showing up in every Star Wars thread to tell us how much you hate Star Wars now. WE GET IT. MOVE ON, NOW.

They also have a previously lost interview with Lucas from while he was making A New Hope, he even mentions how he is having trouble convincing Alec Guiness.

I just had a big problem with the lack of classic adventure in the PT.

I didn't hate any character, I just couldn't find one I could relate to the way I could with Han or Luke. I still watch the PT and I love what they add to the mythology but they don't entertain me in the way the OT did. It's not blind nostalgia, it the fact that they are different types of film. The OT could be understood even if there was no sound, that was the essense of that type of film. The PT are a different beast, less concerned with telling a good story in moment and more concerned with telling a history which spans 30 odd years. If you ask Lucas he would probably agree, he never wanted the PT to be admired for the same reasons as the OT.

The new game 'Force Unleashed' looks way more interesting than this in terms of story, and it's a frigging video game.

Obviously you care. You posted. If you don't care, then move along.

SOME OF US like the prequels AND the OT. Really, we don't care if you don't want to watch this. Mostly, we're just getting sick of everyone jumping on the "hate the prequels" bandwagon. It's the hip thing to do, I guess.

And before I get accused, this is not "prequel hate", this is "lame animation / redoing the same shit over and over" hate. Like, what, is this going to take place inbetween the break in Clone Wars which was inbetween the break between Attack of the Clones? Just keep dicing it down until there's no more room to add ANYTHING and it's just a huge convoluted mess. Good idea, George.

the bald chick is hot though

More over, it seems that they've never heard of the concept of character animation before. It would seem to me that, given the production constraints, the quality of the character animation itself is fairly low. What little character work is demonstrated in that trailer is stilted, as if there's not much blending or overlap.

Considering the medium, one would have hoped for that level of character animation be as stylized as the designs themselves. To me at least, the CA work briefly demonstrated here is barely Reboot level.

Remember, I'm not talking about the actual modeling or texturing, but the character animation itself.

The overall vibe I'm getting is that of a Star Wars game or a fan-made CG flick. It's certainly not film-level CG. It's actually a slight step behind the long canceled "King of the Pride".

As a professional CG animator myself, I found this trailer to be mediocre at best. Then again, maybe I'm being overly critical and should turn off my artist's eye. Probably.

From a TECHNICAL point of view, it basically looks all right. Sure, you can always bitch about a particular design element...the stylization to the animation overall...the quality of the voice work...yada, yada, yada. Or for this talkback should that be yoda, yoda, yoda?

The point being, we could all spend an eternity nitpicking "how" we think it should technically look. But we're all never going to agree on that since it's just a matter of taste, so I have no problem moving past all that. Fine -- to each his own.

But in the far larger scheme of things, and speaking as a lifelong Star Wars fan -- and yes, I'm old enough to say I was there back in May of '77 to see SW when it first debuted -- I don't get WHY I should care about this. As others have noted, but I'll echo it as well, I ALREADY know how this all ends. No matter WHAT dire situation Obi Wan or Anakin or Yoda or Mace or Dooku or General Grievous...yada, yada, yada, yoda, yoda, yoda...get themselves into, I already know they're never in harms way. That nothing will actually change or affect them. Because I've already SEEN the end results. I not only know where it's headed, I literally DO know how it ends.

So since there's literally NO dramatic tension or suspense involved here, what's the point? Other than to fill in some minutia that is only interesting in a truly, truly diehard "I'm such a SW geek that I need to know the backstory that explains why Dooku's belt buckle was the one he chose to wear that day" type of way.

The problem with this series is painfully obvious: it should have come out before SITH. Hell, let's face it -- the prequels really should have BEEN the cartoon series. The prequels would've been a helluva lot more interesting and fun if we really did see a live action Clone Wars all out rather than what we were subjected to -- which was ATOC telling us "Oh look! The Clone Wars have begun!" (which at least seemed promising), but then cheating us by having the opening sequence of SITH being "Oops! You blinked! Too bad, now it's all over!"

So again, as a lifelong fan, I agree with others. This is essentially pointless. KOTOR was a truly kickass game and PROVED you could do an amazing SW storyline AWAY from the Lucas films. So why they didn't take that original, fresh approach when deciding to do a new CGI cartoon series is beyond me. Frankly, even this trailer looks creatively lazy to me. It's all ships and whatnot that we've already seen, so it just smells of Lucas saying "Hey, let's take the stuff we have on file and milk it yet again. This is my cash cow and I have a trip to Vegas coming up, so let's milk this thing some more so I have plenty of spending cash on hand."

Seriously, I truly do LOVE Star Wars, but the the point on this show is lost on me. Why they couldn't do something fresh is beyond me and is actually rather sad and depressing given how rich and textured the SW universe is and COULD further be if only Lucas would turn over the reigns far more fully to people who REALLY want to have a blast and go to town in that galaxy far, far away...

OH, and Star Wars is, like, the biggest-grossing thing ever, so does their official site REALLY need ads plastered all over it??

Anyway, the Emperor's not dead, the Empire didn't instantly vanish and go away just because of the events of ROTJ, eitherl. Or d'you think that was it - the Emperor's dead, therefore the universe is INSTANTLY at peace? Puh-leaze ;)

I consider the Dark Empire comic to be one of the best things of my childhood, so it's canon for me ;)

Oh, yea, and they should have tested the Death Star on Naboo. Hence it should have been a pile of asteroids during the finale "celebration".

Special Editions suck my balls. That is all.

Yea. I'm not saying the material and characters of the prequel universe is bad, but the films were poorly executed. I honestly can't see how anyone who can read above a 5th grade level can listen to the dialogue in Phantom Menace and not cringe horribly. Not that Lucas's dialogue in New Hope was much better, but it was FUN!! Not a fucking political borefest interlaced with WAAAAY overblown fights that had no heart or tension. And come on, what the hell was the deal with the 50 force fields that close in sequence? Wouldn't that be like, some kind of containment system for something? Releasing hazardous gas or some shit? What the fuck was that big stupid place? Almost as bad as the 15 foot long scaffolding hanging in the middle of a football stadium sized hole in the center of Bespin.

Whatever, I love Star Wars, I won't deny it. But unless they clean up this animation, maybe make it look a little better than the FMV's from "X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter", I probably won't dig on "Clone Wars 2: 2Cloned 2B Serious"

Then again, I have a whole year and a half to change my mind, so go ahead Georgie. Wow me.

Have to beat you fuckers to it o_o;