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« Thread Started on Aug 18, 2012, 2:41pm »

So, this was going to be a pretty glowing recommendation, until I got to the episode with Jar Jar in it :-X

Still, the first disk and a half have been enjoyable. They do a nice job depicting the planets, and there's a real "planet-per-episode" feel to some of them. The depiction of Rodia was pretty interesting, and there was a coral planet (supposedly formerly an ocean world, so coral forests and dry land) that was pretty neat too.

So, if you can hold your nose at some of the prequel stuff you probably didn't like (clone soldiers, incompetent droid army, etc.) and pretend it's an "adventures of jedi knights" cartoon, I think it's not too bad. They even have fun with some of that baggage, really playing up the stupidity/incompetence of the battle droids, for instance. I really like the intro music and the way they do a voiceover (which sounds like an old radio show) instead of the opening crawl.

And I will say that the folks writing it could have been put to good use in the prequels... I haven't yet found a love scene

Even some of you saga-haters might find it enjoyable as sci fi set in the SW universe.

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« Reply #1 on Aug 18, 2012, 4:34pm »

Anyone know how many seasons of the cartoon are out there? I bought one for my son long ago and hadn't realized they had so many more until I happened to see a different one at the video store.

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Re: Clone Wars cartoons...
« Reply #2 on Aug 18, 2012, 6:21pm »

Aug 18, 2012, 4:34pm, Finarvyn wrote:

Anyone know how many seasons of the cartoon are out there? I bought one for my son long ago and hadn't realized they had so many more until I happened to see a different one at the video store.

Ditto, I just got around to watching the movie and then discovered there are four seasons in the can so far.

Apparently there's an entirely different cartoon, as opposed to CGI, that ran in 2003-5. I don't know anything about that, apparently the current series is a sequel to it.

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« Reply #3 on Sept 2, 2012, 11:58pm »

I've caught eps intermittently and have enjoyed many of them -- which is very odd, as I'm not technically a SW fan (d***ed ewoks!). I look forward to the next season, IIRC starting later this month.

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« Reply #4 on Oct 15, 2012, 4:11pm »

Aug 18, 2012, 6:21pm, barrataria wrote:

Apparently there's an entirely different cartoon, as opposed to CGI, that ran in 2003-5. I don't know anything about that, apparently the current series is a sequel to it.

It was two seasons of flash animation; the fist was dubbed a "micro-series" since each "episode" ran just five minutes in length between two half-hour "standard shows" on Cartoon Network. The entire first season was compiled as a single hour-long "movie" that is quite enjoyable to watch.

The second season had longer episodes (20 min, IIRC) and was more cohesive, but still quite enjoyable; the final episode segues directly into the beginning of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and explains why Grievous was coughing so much.

Both seasons were put together into a single 2-disc DVD set. I highly recommend it.

Aug 18, 2012, 2:41pm, barrataria wrote:

So, this was going to be a pretty glowing recommendation, until I got to the episode with Jar Jar in it :-X

For the record, I can't stand Jar-Jar either... that being said, I find him MUCH more likeable in the series than in the films; he is not so... childish. You also get to see what it was that Qui-Gon saw in him: he has the Feat: Luck of the Jedi... the Force is with him... but he is still a humble fellow (unlike the self-absorbed idjit from the films).

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