CLONE WARS weekly discussion thread
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neosporing
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especially now that they've given her a cloak with cute kitten ear holes cut out of them!
i love this new look.
Some insight on the season finale, some minor spoilers, doesn't sound like Ahsoka dies either, and the question of a Season 6.
Big Shiny Robot - REVIEW: The Ahsoka Arc ? The Clone Wars Season Finale
Big Shiny Robot - REVIEW: The Ahsoka Arc ? The Clone Wars Season Finale
Edwardowan
Sr Member
can't imagine we fans would have to actually fight for the show's survival. I'd say its just a marketing ploy to get publicity and get the fans buzzing about the show. No way Disney wouldn't take it up and put it on their own channel. (what do I know though but seriously... has the show ever had any ratings issues? its in syndication for cryin out loud! so I call bunk)
for 2nd week February 2013: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Ratings - TVbytheNumbers
The Saturday morning action-adventure line-up of Beyblade: Metal Fury (8 a.m.), Pokemon BW: Adventures in Unova (8:30 a.m.), Ben 10 Omniverse (9 a.m.) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (9:30 a.m.) each ranked #1 in their respective time periods among boys 9-14. Compare to the same time period last year, Ben 10 Omniverse and Star Wars: The Clone Wars both grew all kids and boys demos, mostly by double-digits, ranging between 7% and 60%.
August 29th, 2012:
The Season Four finale was the #1 watched telecast of the day versus all of television among boys 9-14, and #1 for its timeslot among boys 6-11.
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I agree the show is a clear rating success and if Season 6 is already in the can, why waste it as Disney got that content as part of the deal. Having said that, it is very possible they want to immediately leave the prequel era behind and focus all their efforts on the new STAR WARS they will create. But I think we will see Season 6 as it sounds like this last episode will not end Ahsoka's story.
Edwardowan
Sr Member
Even the top rated network shows usually only last 7 to 10 seasons at most anyway but I think there is plenty of life left in Clone Wars and its unlikely a highly rated show will just be arbitrarily tossed since high ratings = high value and getting top dollar for advertising placement. Its a money maker for whichever network carries it hence the fact that its now syndicated on other channels… not to mention the dvd sales. Sure any show is at risk but Disney = Cartoons and own multiple cartoon stations. I’m sure they will want it on at least one of those. Disney can afford to keep the cartoon staff working and hire others for the films... besides, keeping the cartoon promotes that franchise and keeps it relevant.
Edwardowan
Sr Member
exactly why I think they got the "no comment" stance since it isn't appropriate to discuss such matters with a fan website. They can't just say, ya, we are moving to Disney XD in September! be sure to watch Season 6 There! :lol
EyeofSauron
Master Member
did you miss the press announcement with the merger, that clone wars will move to the disney channel?
Edwardowan
Sr Member
do you have a link to this? I'd love to read it. I've only seen speculation reports that date back to january at the latest.
Possibly because that never was said! There has been no official word as to the future disposition of the show from either LF or Disney. I'm not sure what your are confusing this with.
Mara Jade's Father
Master Member
I just did a google search and all news articles I found in regards to this subject simply speculate the move but i have seen nothing official.
I think that if there was some official word released in the past, I would have been slammed with it on Facebook.
I think that if there was some official word released in the past, I would have been slammed with it on Facebook.
Mara Jade's Father
Master Member
I think people worry too much about what Disney is going to want. It's not like LFL has gone away. Look at Pixar, did their stuff start sucking after Disney bought them?
Not to start anything, but weren't most of us kids when the OT came out? GL made those first 3. We were kids & he was an adult.
Then he made 3 more.He was still an adult & now, so were we. We grew up & matured. Thing we thought were cool then, we now find corny (I love to watch it, but pretty much the entire ESB Hoth sickbay scene...lazer brain, fuzzball, nerf-herder).
I still hold that Lucas & the storytelling didn't change,
We did.
Mara Jade's Father
Master Member
I think the concern is valid because people remember the Holiday Special, the two made for TV Ewok movies and the droids and ewok Saturday morning cartoons. All aimed more at a younger audience. While the cartoons are still remembered fondly, back then, it was almost unheard of to do animation for adults in the US. Anime had a small following but it wasn't till the Simpsons that aiming animation at adults because a real market.
However I still think people are going aboard worrying about it. Every time there is some sort of change, people freak. They know there is a kids market and that is why you see Star Wars lego movies and the TV show that Seth Green is suppose to be doing. I think CW will continue on unaffected.
However I still think people are going aboard worrying about it. Every time there is some sort of change, people freak. They know there is a kids market and that is why you see Star Wars lego movies and the TV show that Seth Green is suppose to be doing. I think CW will continue on unaffected.
jme3
Sr Member
I think having experienced the original SW as kids (those of us who did anyway) has greatly influenced our perception and we give GL a free pass on those things then that we might, as you say, see as corny now. But SW was highly acclaimed even by adults back then as great movie-making. Whatever I might find "corny" about SW now that I didn't then, those are trifling considerations next to the avalanche of criticisms that the prequels have justifiably had, and that have had really nothing to do with having experienced them as an adult as opposed to a child. Bad performances, ill-conceived dialog, an over-reliance on eye candy, etc.
Fair opinion, but my kids & the kids that I teach are teens now, & without the influence of critics & internet opinions, they loved the last 3. I guess I feel strongly because I've had full grown adults in a video store, loudly & forcefully tell my kids & some of their friends why the prequels were horrible & question their intelligence for liking them.:angry. I obviously wasn't there.
As far as the perception of the OT, anytime a film does something groundbreaking, accolades are flowing, but when the creator tries to complete the story they want to tell, fans take ownership of the first film & the wishes of the creator are out the window. Probably the best & most recent example of this are the Matrix movies.
But I don't want to hijack a CW thread. Thanks for the discussion though.:thumbsup
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