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post #51 of 128
5/27/07 at 6:38pm
Here's the trailer for it on the starwars.com website: http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

The look of it is fantastic, but I wonder how much story they can really get out of putting it in this time period.

The sequence with the Jedi jumping from flying droid to flying droid is great.
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post #52 of 128
5/27/07 at 6:48pm
Geez, George, enough with the Clone Wars already. Seriously, would it kill him to set something during the Rebellion? You know, the storyline most people still actually like?
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post #53 of 128
5/27/07 at 7:15pm
Damn you, Lucas! That looks like it had great action and its a well made trailer. But how the hell is he going to pull more plot from this timeframe?

Which then begs the question, if there's enough there for 2 fucking series, then maybe he should've made a movie about it!
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post #54 of 128
5/27/07 at 7:21pm
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Originally Posted by Pop Zeus
Which then begs the question, if there's enough there for 2 fucking series, then maybe he should've made a movie about it!
Bingo.
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post #55 of 128
5/28/07 at 12:29am
I first looked at some atrocious clip on Youtube, but I guess that's unrelated.

The clip on the Star Wars site on the other hand is reasonably well animated, although the characters are stiff as boards. I might check out an episode or two.
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post #56 of 128
5/28/07 at 5:56am
Kinda cool. Looks like a hell of alot more prequelesque footage. Yay! Heh heh...

They managed to keep General Greeves ruined. Good work there. There's nothing more annoying than that voice.
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post #57 of 128
5/28/07 at 11:21am
It looked like Anakin was drawing his lightsaber against Count Dooku out in the desert. Was I imagining things?
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post #58 of 128
5/28/07 at 11:59am
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I love the look, and don't mind more stories in this time period, the original clone wars cartoon was a lot of fun and hopefully they can keep the pace that one had. The nice thing about this time period is you can still have crazy jedi and sith battles, so that's never a bad thing.

As for making something during the rebellion, maybe they should do something after ROTJ.
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post #59 of 128
5/28/07 at 12:02pm
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Originally Posted by Chris Wood
the characters are stiff as boards.
You didn't like the 2D animated version then ?
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post #60 of 128
5/28/07 at 12:09pm
Which network is this coming on - Cartoon?
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post #61 of 128
5/28/07 at 12:48pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica
You didn't like the 2D animated version then ?
I wasn't a big fan of the designs, no. At least the characters' faces were more expressive in that series though.

I'll definitely give the show a shot, but visually it doesn't look like they've made much progress since Starship Troopers Roughnecks almost a decade ago.
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post #62 of 128
5/28/07 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica
I love the look, and don't mind more stories in this time period, the original clone wars cartoon was a lot of fun and hopefully they can keep the pace that one had. The nice thing about this time period is you can still have crazy jedi and sith battles, so that's never a bad thing.
I know, but it's gotten old. And I'm just sick of the whole clone trooper thing -- I never thought they were all that cool, yet we get keeping them shoved at us over and over again. Why he insists on continuing to branch off from the prequels when he's got the OT sitting right there is beyond me -- it's like having annual passes to best theme park in the world but going to play in the vacant lot next to it.

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As for making something during the rebellion, maybe they should do something after ROTJ.
That fan trailer set after Jedi actually had me more excited than the real one. It felt more like Star Wars than what Lucas is putting out.
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post #63 of 128
5/28/07 at 1:26pm
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OK, good to know. Was asking because this 3D version seems in line with the 2D one, which I like since I like the original one a lot.

People often complained that the original cartoon was too simplified, but I also saw it as highly stylized. I also like the fact that it wasn't overly animated, which is often not a problem with 2D animation.

For the 3D version, the human faces seem to still be very stylized, trying to keep some of the sharp angles from the original cartoon. I didn't really watch much of the Starship troopper cartoon, but by looking at the screenshots humans look more like generic 3D models that you could not distinguish from anything else in movies or TV.
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post #64 of 128
5/28/07 at 1:32pm
I just don't see the point of this series. Really, they have covered this ground already. Find something new to tell. Especially when you are trying to win back a lot of fans and a lot of goodwill. Either go hit the ancient times or go hit the current set of books. But this feels like it is covering old ground.

Of course, I wouldn't mind maybe a series just following Han around as a smuggler.

Ugh, I am getting old. I can't even pretend excitement at Star Wars anymore.
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post #65 of 128
5/28/07 at 1:56pm
I can't even make this video play.
and I've tried several times over two days.
whatever, I'm sure I would hate it anyway.

I pretty much agree with Dickson, does anyone care about the clones?
If it had one stormtrooper or a snowspeeder up there I'd probably at least smile.
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post #66 of 128
5/28/07 at 2:07pm
I agree that 2 SERIES on the Clone Wars is a waste of time. Are we REALLY going to learn anything more interesting in that period? And why wasn't the Clone Wars a chapter in the prequel trilogy?

Oh well. My dream is to see a series set in the Old Republic and have Yoda as the central character. I mean the dude is 800 years old. There's gotta be some interesting stories to be told there.
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post #67 of 128
5/28/07 at 2:14pm
I honestly wouldn't mind some Boba Fett stories.

That's just me.
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post #68 of 128
5/28/07 at 2:22pm
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Originally Posted by Casey Moore
Of course, I wouldn't mind maybe a series just following Han around as a smuggler.
That's what I'm talking about. The old comic series had a bunch of stories like that, and they were always the best ones.
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post #69 of 128
5/28/07 at 2:31pm
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Originally Posted by Domingo
I honestly wouldn't mind some Boba Fett stories.

That's just me.
I thought that was what the TV series is going to be about.
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post #70 of 128
5/28/07 at 2:36pm
I'd rather see a series following a lone (unknown)Jedi. He helps people and gets in adventures, all while the Empire is trying to hunt him down. Like the A-Team, only it's one guy, and it's more like a samurai show.

But what do I care, I don't watch television much anyways.
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post #71 of 128
5/28/07 at 4:00pm
I don't think it even needs to necessarily be about the clones or Yoda or any of that.
Remember the old comics were just random sci-fi adventures full of weirdness. I want that. I don't need EU cannon, I don't need a detailed storyline based on the films and I don't need young Boba Fett. I need Star Wars space adventures without the mumbo prequel jumbo and revisionist baby versions of every character.

I need an episode of this:

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post #72 of 128
5/28/07 at 4:43pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Collins
I need an episode of this:
I never knew there was officially-released STAR WARS hentai before. Thanks for the tip!
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post #73 of 128
5/28/07 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by Litmus Configuration
I never knew there was officially-released STAR WARS hentai before. Thanks for the tip!
That was actually a fill-in issue they put out when they were forced to delay their Empire adaptation by a month. It's drawn by Michael Golden and it's one of the best-drawn comics I've ever seen, Star Wars or not.
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post #74 of 128
5/28/07 at 5:05pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
It's drawn by Michael Golden and it's one of the best-drawn comics I've ever seen, Star Wars or not.
Then he didn't draw the cover right?
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post #75 of 128
5/28/07 at 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7
I'd rather see a series following a lone (unknown)Jedi. He helps people and gets in adventures, all while the Empire is trying to hunt him down. Like the A-Team, only it's one guy, and it's more like a samurai show.

But what do I care, I don't watch television much anyways.
I think that's pretty much what the live action series is going to be.
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post #76 of 128
5/28/07 at 5:30pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
That was actually a fill-in issue they put out when they were forced to delay their Empire adaptation by a month. It's drawn by Michael Golden and it's one of the best-drawn comics I've ever seen, Star Wars or not.
It's my favorite Star Wars comic ever, the first I ever owned and yes - amazing art.
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post #77 of 128
5/28/07 at 10:42pm
I got your series right here:

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post #78 of 128
5/28/07 at 10:46pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
And I still don't understand the love, as I don't see the potential. He's a bounty hunter. Where's the character potential in that?
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post #79 of 128
5/29/07 at 12:43am
If they cast Christopher McDonald as Boba Fett, I'll watch it.
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post #80 of 128
5/29/07 at 1:10am
They could call it Midnight One...slave one...wow. Wow. That made sense in my head.
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post #81 of 128
5/29/07 at 1:13am
'Look, it's absolute shit... rendered in three dimensions!'
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post #82 of 128
5/29/07 at 1:27am
Uchh.
put the clone wars to rest, George.
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post #83 of 128
5/29/07 at 3:10am
I just don't see how there's any kind of compelling story to be mined from the clone wars. The rise of the Empire and the Rebellion seems like much more fertile territory. But I have to say that a post-ROTJ-set story sounds dreadful to me. There's nothing to do but set up the new government. The Star Wars equivalent of C-Span.
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post #84 of 128
5/29/07 at 3:34am
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7
I'd rather see a series following a lone (unknown)Jedi. He helps people and gets in adventures, all while the Empire is trying to hunt him down. Like the A-Team, only it's one guy, and it's more like a samurai show.

But what do I care, I don't watch television much anyways.
Thats exactly what i've thought all along. It'd basically be Kung Fu meets the Equalizer with Vader and other Empire assorted baddies on his tail each episode.

As it is i'm not sure what George is trying to do but pad his wallet these days.
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post #85 of 128
5/29/07 at 3:38am
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George Lucas is greedy! Stop the presses!!!
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post #86 of 128
5/29/07 at 11:26am
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Originally Posted by Greg David
I just don't see how there's any kind of compelling story to be mined from the clone wars. The rise of the Empire and the Rebellion seems like much more fertile territory. But I have to say that a post-ROTJ-set story sounds dreadful to me. There's nothing to do but set up the new government. The Star Wars equivalent of C-Span.
Au contraire, mon ferre....

There's how many Grand Moffs out there with how many ships and bad intentions thinking they can be the new Emperor. They'll be stamping out warlords for decades....

Forget that EU stuff, and just give me some bad guys wearing Neo-Nazi uniforms and throw some Jedi their way for fun!

Please no more Annakin adventures. He's blown his chance already.
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post #87 of 128
5/29/07 at 10:41pm
Yes, because after you've finished off the ultimate bad guy, nothing makes for more riveting story than mopping up all the minor bad guys. If only they'd make a sequel to Lord of the Rings detailing all the traveling around slaying random Orcs. That would be classic.

Seriously, that sounds boring as hell.
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post #88 of 128
5/29/07 at 11:00pm
That's why, once the EU books got past Thrawn (who actually seemed like a legitimate threat to bring back the Empire), they've been casting about for something to equal the threat of the Empire, and they still haven't found it yet.

Now a Rogue Squadron series, something that's basically a Rat Patrol in space set during the Rebellion, that would work. It wouldn't really matter that we know the Empire loses, since the outcome of the individual battles would be unknown, and the characters wouldn't be ones we know make it until Endor.
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post #89 of 128
5/29/07 at 11:58pm
As a kid I loved the old Spider-Man cartoon and watched it every Saturday. I was always bummed out when it was one of those weird episodes when the buildings would sink into the ground and Spider-Man would fight some kind of underground dwellers. (Bring on the Lizard already!) But never the less, I loved it.

Later, I even watched some of the "Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends" series. It was kind of wonky with the secret computers and whatnot in Peter's apartment. But, hey! It was Spider-Man.

Then they had that computer animated Spider-Man on Mtv. I heard it was supposed to be decent. I never watched it.
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post #90 of 128
5/30/07 at 12:33am
.....?.....
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post #91 of 128
5/30/07 at 12:50am
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Originally Posted by Greg David
.....?.....
Really? Didn't follow me?
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post #92 of 128
5/30/07 at 1:06am
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Originally Posted by P-3
Really? Didn't follow me?
I followed you, but you led me out to the middle of nowhere, abandoned me, and didn't have the common courtesy to tell me where the hell I was.
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post #93 of 128
5/30/07 at 2:22am
I suppose it's a cry against hollow retreads.
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post #94 of 128
5/30/07 at 10:17am
The first Clone Wars series only added up to a little more than 2 hours. I think that the first Clone Wars was just a warm up to what will probably be at least a 13-24 episode commitment which could eventually finish at around 60 episodes. This allows for more of the Clone Wars story then the shorts ever could give.

If Clone Wars is successful, Lucas could always make another Cgi Series set during the original Star Wars trilogy. He could even make CGI Star Wars Films 7-9 set after Return Of The Jedi.
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post #95 of 128
5/30/07 at 12:58pm
No one cares about the Clone Wars.
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post #96 of 128
5/30/07 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
No one cares about the Clone Wars.
That's right. No one enjoys seeing the good guys lose. That's why there's a million World War II films, and ten films about the Bolshevik Revolution.
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post #97 of 128
5/30/07 at 1:30pm
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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector,
That's right. No one enjoys seeing the good guys lose. That's why there's a million World War II films, and ten films about the Bolshevik Revolution.
It's more the fact that every time I see something relating to the Clone Wars, it reminds me of how Lucas wasted three movies NOT showing it to us and giving us political debates and Jar Jar instead. So when yet another Clone Wars tie-in comes along, it feels like he's trying to force us to like something about the prequels.

It's like being told one of the Judd sisters is going to dance nude, and they keep bringing out Wynonna instead of Ashley.
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post #98 of 128
5/30/07 at 1:35pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
It's like being told one of the Judd sisters is going to dance nude, and they keep bringing out Wynonna instead of Ashley.
Thanks for that indelible image. I'd rather watch mom dance than Wy, eww.
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post #99 of 128
5/30/07 at 3:05pm
I don't have any problems with the concept of a Clone War series, but the CG versions of the human characters are totally unappealing. Padme, in particular....yikes. She's supposed to be this great beauty, but in CG form, she's just scary and bug-eyed.

The look of the series seems to be fine, so far, but the real question is whether the characters will convincingly emote. Tartakovsky's 2-D characters made me feel for them, but I'm skeptical about these CG people because the emphasis seems to be on action and not reaction.
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post #100 of 128
5/30/07 at 3:36pm
I am all for more Clone Wars. I thought that Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith were great films, with the Clone Wars being the best thing about them. Sure, the Jedi all die at the end of these wars, but this series will be about the time before they died. The only negative thing about the original trilogy were the Ewoks and there were not enough Jedi. Clone Wars should be great and last for a good 5-8 years before the Sith gain their revenge. If you do not like Star Wars Clone Wars just change the channel.
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