can someone explain "clone wars" to me?
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Paul Andrew
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the animated one is sort of ignored now canon-wise. I'd start at the beginning, but thats me. I haven't seen a stinker of an episode yet.
Canon. :lol
The animated ones are fantastic and the best thing to come out of the prequels IMHO.
They were so good they made the CG show!
Nick
They were so good they made the CG show!
Nick
Wakeem
Sr Member
Might as well start with the first animated series. Then go to the newer series. The original animated show is ok and so is the new one. Both exaggerate the strength of the Jedi. Also, they have some so so/really boring episodes. I still haven't seen the newer Clone Wars film yet. The comics covering the Clone Wars were pretty good as well. Strangely, it's just the actual prequel films which don't do Star Wars justice.
Zombie_61
Master Member
No. On the Clone Wars Season 1 dvd (the cg series, that is, not the 2d animated series), in the featurette for episode 16, "The Hidden Enemy", they state the episode is a prequel to the Clone Wars theatrical film. Although there are some two- and three-part episodes that are in chronological order, the stand-alone episodes of the Clone Wars television series don't strictly follow a chronological timeline. Although I haven't seen any of the season 2 episodes, I've read they jump around in the timeline even more than the season 1 episodes.
propologist
Sr Member
They are great ...much better than the 3 released movies after 1983
I find the movie a particularly difficult watch. Though it isn't completely without charm. I almost think you'd enjoy it more if you started the series without it because, personally, I wasn't sure I even wanted to watch the cartoon series after the movie.
I'll also add my voice to those saying I enjoyed the original Clone Wars cartoon series.
I'll also add my voice to those saying I enjoyed the original Clone Wars cartoon series.
"can someone explain "clone wars" to me?"
..........YES.
Clone Wars series Prime Directives:
1. Go nowhere and do nothing.
2. Pretend that Anakin is actually a likable character.
3. Most of the female Jedi should not wear the customary Jedi robes and instead wear very little. Oh, feel free to do that to the kids to.
4. Contradict everything, even openly. (Ex. "What makes Boba Fett interesting is the mystery" - Dave Filoni, series director on making a Boba Fett centered story)
5. The toys should have publicized midnight premiers, NOT the movie/series.
Funny part is, I 'could' by-pass all of this, if it wasn't for the fact that in the end, the quality all goes to crap. Sure, you may give Padme an important role here and there to make her heroic and stuff, but in the end, she's still the same character who would rather die than live a life without her man. BULL-FU$&*@-SH$&!!!!!!!
Forget about the wooden acting, forget about Anakin's turn being so gawd dang quick and forget Vader's "Nooo!". The element in which Star Wars died and never recovered for me was the part where the only female character that was worth anything in the entire trilogy loses the will to live is the worst thing to ever happen to the saga. Even if this series has great episodes, it still doesn't change the fact that deep down, these characters just plain suck.
..........YES.
Clone Wars series Prime Directives:
1. Go nowhere and do nothing.
2. Pretend that Anakin is actually a likable character.
3. Most of the female Jedi should not wear the customary Jedi robes and instead wear very little. Oh, feel free to do that to the kids to.
4. Contradict everything, even openly. (Ex. "What makes Boba Fett interesting is the mystery" - Dave Filoni, series director on making a Boba Fett centered story)
5. The toys should have publicized midnight premiers, NOT the movie/series.
Funny part is, I 'could' by-pass all of this, if it wasn't for the fact that in the end, the quality all goes to crap. Sure, you may give Padme an important role here and there to make her heroic and stuff, but in the end, she's still the same character who would rather die than live a life without her man. BULL-FU$&*@-SH$&!!!!!!!
Forget about the wooden acting, forget about Anakin's turn being so gawd dang quick and forget Vader's "Nooo!". The element in which Star Wars died and never recovered for me was the part where the only female character that was worth anything in the entire trilogy loses the will to live is the worst thing to ever happen to the saga. Even if this series has great episodes, it still doesn't change the fact that deep down, these characters just plain suck.
OldKen
Master Member
QFT! :thumbsup
I thought I did. This series isn't going to go anywhere or do anything. Star Wars is for all intents and purposes 'stuck'. It's like..... I don't know. Why can't we just make a series that's unfamiliar but still set in the Star Wars universe? Create new and fresh characters that have their own stories to tell rather than stories focused on characters who are not only unlikable ****** bags, but have had their stories already told in full.
This series is a waste of time because it doesn't do anything. It doesn't have a beginning, nor will it have an end. The characters you don't see in the movies will die, but the characters from the movies will not. Why does that matter? Because what matters are the movies. And if the movies suck, than we should move our attention and talent to other areas of Star Wars rather than trying to come up with new ways to get audiences and fans to accept the prequel trilogy. It's like no body gives a crap about the original trilogy and the awesome stories that happened in it. All attention and focus is going into the prequel era like it's the best that Star Wars can deliver. Well, screw that. I don't want to be stuck in the prequel era, I don't follow Anakin anymore, and I especially don't want to follow these idiotic Jedi either. You think I actually shed a tear during their demise? These idiots are literally passive about slavery, but god forbid a tax issue occurs somewhere in the galaxy.
cayman shen
Master Member
The Clone Wars is just fun, episode of the week stuff. You know, fun. Like Star Wars used to be. It's not all bogged down and overblown. Some episodes are better than others, but I've enjoyed them all.
Your definition of "waste of time" in your second paragraph pretty much applies to life in general. You might want to loosen your standards or else you're going to spiral into some pretty deep existential angst! :lol
Your definition of "waste of time" in your second paragraph pretty much applies to life in general. You might want to loosen your standards or else you're going to spiral into some pretty deep existential angst! :lol
At least my waste of life is moving forward and doesn't rely on being stuck in one place. And my original versions come in Anamorphic Widescreen too, with 5.1 audio.
When you kill a character because she can't go on living when the man in her life does something he's done before, you've really dropped below my lowest expectations. It's dropped so far that it taints everything. And what's worse, that character is in the series pretending to be a strong character when she's actually the worst of the lot.
Lucas used the term 'love story' to describe what cannot be described by anyone not on medication. Star Wars didn't so much die for me, as it went totally bat$#!+ insane.
Anakin: "Padme..."
Padme: "What's wrong?"
Anakin: "Padme. I killed a whole village of sandpeople for the death of my mom."
Padme: "You killed some of the men of the village...?"
Anakin: "Um...no. I killed everyone."
Padme: "Wait. You killed the men who actually hurt your mother."
Anakin: "No, no. I killed EVERYONE."
Padme: "You killed all the men...? Even the ones who didn't directly hurt you mother."
Anakin: "All of the men...and everyone else."
Padme: "Your mom...an innocent women...was killed, soooo...you killed all of their innocent women?"
Anakin: "Well...yes. And the kids."
Padme: "You killed all the kids!?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "Teens?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "Toddlers?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "And...babies?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "..."
Anakin: "I was upset."
Padme. "Yeah I get that. So...you just came from a village of sandpeople...where you committed an act of wholesale slaughter? Not just a small rage involving one or two people. You cut down men and women again and again and again in mass genocide? Then you turned on the children and cut them down, never once giving pause to assess the carnage and unchecked horror of hacking up an entire village with a sword? Are you sure you didn't bomb the site at high altitude where you could just push a button and fire on a faceless target?"
Anakin: "Nope. I stood face to face with men and women and cut them down as they ran about in terror, screaming and fleeing as they tried to save their children and loved ones. In fact, I had to be pretty quick about it, so that no one would get away, so a lot of them took it in the back. Especially the children. At least those who didn't throw up their hands in shock as I rushed them."
Padme: "So a lot of them would have been unarmed."
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "You need a hug, huh?"
Anakin: "I do, yes."
Padme: "I love you."
Anakin: "Ben never lets me do anything."
Not long after...
Anakin: "Padme..."
Padme: "Really? Again."
Anakin: "Well...yes...but this time it was an entire order of peacekeeping jedi and the betrayal of the entire galaxy."
Padme: "Please tell me that you didn't kill the..."
Anakin: "...Children? Yes...but to be fair, they had swords."
Padme: "These would be the children..."
Anakin: "Well, to be fair, they weren't children. They were younglings."
Padme: "So...they were at least 6 or 7."
Anakin: "Yeah."
Padme: "I love you."
Anakin: "And Obi-Wan is all pissed or something."
Forget Anakin. Padme is messed up in ways that cannot be explained a way. She's a headcase from the word go.
Anakin: "Padme..."
Padme: "What's wrong?"
Anakin: "Padme. I killed a whole village of sandpeople for the death of my mom."
Padme: "You killed some of the men of the village...?"
Anakin: "Um...no. I killed everyone."
Padme: "Wait. You killed the men who actually hurt your mother."
Anakin: "No, no. I killed EVERYONE."
Padme: "You killed all the men...? Even the ones who didn't directly hurt you mother."
Anakin: "All of the men...and everyone else."
Padme: "Your mom...an innocent women...was killed, soooo...you killed all of their innocent women?"
Anakin: "Well...yes. And the kids."
Padme: "You killed all the kids!?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "Teens?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "Toddlers?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "And...babies?"
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "..."
Anakin: "I was upset."
Padme. "Yeah I get that. So...you just came from a village of sandpeople...where you committed an act of wholesale slaughter? Not just a small rage involving one or two people. You cut down men and women again and again and again in mass genocide? Then you turned on the children and cut them down, never once giving pause to assess the carnage and unchecked horror of hacking up an entire village with a sword? Are you sure you didn't bomb the site at high altitude where you could just push a button and fire on a faceless target?"
Anakin: "Nope. I stood face to face with men and women and cut them down as they ran about in terror, screaming and fleeing as they tried to save their children and loved ones. In fact, I had to be pretty quick about it, so that no one would get away, so a lot of them took it in the back. Especially the children. At least those who didn't throw up their hands in shock as I rushed them."
Padme: "So a lot of them would have been unarmed."
Anakin: "Yes."
Padme: "You need a hug, huh?"
Anakin: "I do, yes."
Padme: "I love you."
Anakin: "Ben never lets me do anything."
Not long after...
Anakin: "Padme..."
Padme: "Really? Again."
Anakin: "Well...yes...but this time it was an entire order of peacekeeping jedi and the betrayal of the entire galaxy."
Padme: "Please tell me that you didn't kill the..."
Anakin: "...Children? Yes...but to be fair, they had swords."
Padme: "These would be the children..."
Anakin: "Well, to be fair, they weren't children. They were younglings."
Padme: "So...they were at least 6 or 7."
Anakin: "Yeah."
Padme: "I love you."
Anakin: "And Obi-Wan is all pissed or something."
Forget Anakin. Padme is messed up in ways that cannot be explained a way. She's a headcase from the word go.
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RebellionBarbie
Active Member
All I will say is that I truly thought there was no possible way for Star Wars to come up with a more annoying character than Jar Jar Binks.
...but then Jabba had a big gay uncle from New Orleans who speaks Basic instead of Huttese and never freaking shuts up and just generally grates my nerves, and I really wish I hadn't jinxed the series by ever thinking that about Jar Jar.
...but then Jabba had a big gay uncle from New Orleans who speaks Basic instead of Huttese and never freaking shuts up and just generally grates my nerves, and I really wish I hadn't jinxed the series by ever thinking that about Jar Jar.
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