Post by DTH on Dec 10, 2008 11:43:59 GMT -5
Hands up who thinks that George Lucas decided that he didn't have enough money, what with having approximately half the world's money stuffed under his mattress? Because, given the quality of Episode One to Three, money must have been his main motivation because story certainly wasn't...
ZING! (am I allowed to zing myself? or did I just undermine my own zing there?)
I'm a casual Star Wars fan: I really like the movies, have a bit of memorabilia but I don't cry myself to sleep every night because Jar Jar Binks exists. Most people in my category (that I've met) agree that Episode One was pretty poor, Episode Two was about 50% cool and Episode Three was the best of a bad bunch.
One of the things that let Episode Three down, for me, were the characters that screamed (in bold no less) "IMPORTANT CHARACTER HERE!" but were forever relegated to "Darth Maul" status. I cite "General Grievous" and "Count Dooku" as Exhibit A and B, respectively.
I was left with a feeling of "Is that it?" for those guys.
Well, having seen the animated "Clone Wars" movie and the first four episodes of the animated series, I entirely understand what happened here: the first act of Episode Three is the final act of the animated series...
Much confusion there is.
Let me back up a little.
In the summer, I went to the see animated movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This detailed some of the events that occurred between Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars II: Revenge of the Sith. And while it didn't suck, it wasn't awesome.
What I wasn't aware of was this movie is, in part, the pilot for the animated series of which I now speak. Having seen the first four episodes, I can report that I am psyched to see more of this show!
The animated series is slickly produced and considering that George Lucas is only involved on the periphary, each episode still manages 22 minutes of awesome Star Warsy goodness!
The show details all those Jedi that we saw for like 10 seconds Episode Three before they were all mercilessly killed, like Master Plo Koon, and gives them some personality. It also lends a massive amount of credibility to Count Dooku and General Grievous who are both major players in the series, but were punked out fairly early in the third movie.
So all those things that happened in Episode Three that were kind of "O..k..." (Order 66, the discovery that Darth Sidious was the Chancellor etc) suddenly become much more "ABOUT TIME!" after watching the series.
Little things like Darth Sidious using his alternate persona to gather information and to set traps for people, it makes the whole thing so much more evil.
Part of me is extremely happy that there is actually a point to all this Clone Wars stuff that is getting churned out. Part of me is also very annoyed that not only have we already seen the finale to anything that now comes out but also that this stuff is coming out too late. If it had come out before Episode Three, then I think we'd all have enjoyed that movie a lot more.
Now, I've just splurged out a lot of ill-conceived thoughts on the tail end of watching 88 minutes of Star Wars cartoons. Most cogent, my thoughts are not. And yet, I really wanted to convey how much I enjoyed those 88 minutes... I just hope those of you reading this can actually make sense enough of my rabid enthusiasm to catch an episode or two of this series
ZING! (am I allowed to zing myself? or did I just undermine my own zing there?)
I'm a casual Star Wars fan: I really like the movies, have a bit of memorabilia but I don't cry myself to sleep every night because Jar Jar Binks exists. Most people in my category (that I've met) agree that Episode One was pretty poor, Episode Two was about 50% cool and Episode Three was the best of a bad bunch.
One of the things that let Episode Three down, for me, were the characters that screamed (in bold no less) "IMPORTANT CHARACTER HERE!" but were forever relegated to "Darth Maul" status. I cite "General Grievous" and "Count Dooku" as Exhibit A and B, respectively.
I was left with a feeling of "Is that it?" for those guys.
Well, having seen the animated "Clone Wars" movie and the first four episodes of the animated series, I entirely understand what happened here: the first act of Episode Three is the final act of the animated series...
Much confusion there is.
Let me back up a little.
In the summer, I went to the see animated movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This detailed some of the events that occurred between Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars II: Revenge of the Sith. And while it didn't suck, it wasn't awesome.
What I wasn't aware of was this movie is, in part, the pilot for the animated series of which I now speak. Having seen the first four episodes, I can report that I am psyched to see more of this show!
The animated series is slickly produced and considering that George Lucas is only involved on the periphary, each episode still manages 22 minutes of awesome Star Warsy goodness!
The show details all those Jedi that we saw for like 10 seconds Episode Three before they were all mercilessly killed, like Master Plo Koon, and gives them some personality. It also lends a massive amount of credibility to Count Dooku and General Grievous who are both major players in the series, but were punked out fairly early in the third movie.
So all those things that happened in Episode Three that were kind of "O..k..." (Order 66, the discovery that Darth Sidious was the Chancellor etc) suddenly become much more "ABOUT TIME!" after watching the series.
Little things like Darth Sidious using his alternate persona to gather information and to set traps for people, it makes the whole thing so much more evil.
Part of me is extremely happy that there is actually a point to all this Clone Wars stuff that is getting churned out. Part of me is also very annoyed that not only have we already seen the finale to anything that now comes out but also that this stuff is coming out too late. If it had come out before Episode Three, then I think we'd all have enjoyed that movie a lot more.
Now, I've just splurged out a lot of ill-conceived thoughts on the tail end of watching 88 minutes of Star Wars cartoons. Most cogent, my thoughts are not. And yet, I really wanted to convey how much I enjoyed those 88 minutes... I just hope those of you reading this can actually make sense enough of my rabid enthusiasm to catch an episode or two of this series
