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Galactica500
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6/27/07 12:13pm
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I'm reading Shatterpoint now and loving it. I own the original Clone Wars cartoons. Love them. The whole Clone era is so well documented and continues to be in EU fiction. Why is there another series about the Clone wars? I mean we will NEVER get to see Ventress die will we? Hey, I'll watch it but what does Lucas think is there left to mine story wise?
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Perhaps he is banking on the fact that the clone wars spanned the entire galaxy and that what we have seen so far has been strictly limited to certain themes and story arcs. This is an opportunity for him to clarify and expand the mythology of the clone wars and to continue making politically relevant commentary on the abrogration of freedoms in favor of illusory security.
I also think he doesn't want to screw with the OT and the stories surrounding that trilogy. Last time he did that (Holiday Special) he botched it quite significantly. I imagine he might be thinking, if I keep tinkering with the PT and those stories, maybe I'll get it right.
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Alpha-Red
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Hmmm, I haven't read the comics, but I still think there's plenty more to look at. Besides, there's not much more we can look at. Post-ROTJ you have Luke as the sole Force-user left in the galaxy, and without Darth Vader or the Emperor there isn't anything up until the Yuuzhan Vong that really makes for anything worth depicting. The KOTOR era probably wouldn't work either, since the most interesting main characters have already been taken up by the games and comics.
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redxavier
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They are planning 100 episodes of the live action series, not the Clones one.
Just to clear that up.
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about this comment. One series will have one hundred episode's and the other will have one hundred TV hours, I think? But I can't remember which one both of those applies to?
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smudger9
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Galactica500 posted:
I'm reading Shatterpoint now and loving it. I own the original Clone Wars cartoons. Love them. The whole Clone era is so well documented and continues to be in EU fiction. Why is there another series about the Clone wars? I mean we will NEVER get to see Ventress die will we? Hey, I'll watch it but what does Lucas think is there left to mine story wise?
My take on the clone wars era is that there is a lot of good EU stuff out there but that it is all fragmented. I'm looking forward to this series in the hope that it pulls the important EU stuff plus some new stuff together into a clear sequence of events, hopefully right upto and including the end of the clone wars, which was disgracefully glossed over in ROTS.
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What is known is that at least one series will give us a lot more clones than we have heretofore had.
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The new animated series it just fine for people like me, in that I don't care about novels and comics that other people write (not GL)and I think the CW cartoons are silly. At first I thought they were cool but now I find them to be quite cringy at many points and too saturday morning-kiddy cartoonish. I don't like the OTT Grevious or the "shorts" style of storytelling either. So I welcome this full length series that has high production value and apparently SW movie ambiance with a story arc overseen by GL himself. I think this series will do justice to the CW era and I hope it spans from the earily years up to ROTS. IMO that would be perfect.
Honestly, I don't understand how any fans are complaining about this series simply because of when it takes place. I mean the SW movies are done and we should feel very lucky to be getting not one, but two full length TV series. So far the series looks really cool so people should give it a chance before saying there is nothing left to do for the CW because apparently there is and they're doing it now. It's a good time to be a fan. 
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You're right, MN. I for one am grateful for all the "new" SW I can get. I love the ideas for the two series and I hold out great hope as to their quality. However, I can understand that with the diminished quality of the PT compared to the OT, there could be some concerns. Plus, there are lots of stories out there to be told in the canon of the SW universe and it is somewhat curious that those new angles are not being explored. Don't get me wrong, the clone wars works just fine for me...but there are other eras that could be developed.
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I think one of the earlier comments nailed it- though we have a few portions of the clone wars timeframe covered well in the comics, novels and cartoon, it's fragmented. There wasn't a cohesive arc to the whole war, so there's an opportunity to bind the era and those various comcis and novels together into a better structure with this series, while at the same time telling new stories in the large gaps that haven't really been covered yet in any source.
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^I agree.
Furthermore, the majority of the Clone Wars EU so far centers around Obi-Wan, Anakin, and to a lesser extent, Quinlan Vos. I, for one, am curious to see how they'll make use of the other characters.
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Sith-Lord-Gunray
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Sith-Lord-Gunray posted:
^I agree.
Furthermore, the majority of the Clone Wars EU so far centers around Obi-Wan, Anakin, and to a lesser extent, Quinlan Vos. I, for one, am curious to see how they'll make use of the other characters.
That does not sound like something I said, fiend who hacks into my theforce.net account!
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vong333
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Well the cartoon series will be 100 episodes (give or take), and the live action will be 100 clock hours. I have to agree with the above comments, I for one did love the previous animation, the novels, the comic books, the video games, and the short stories that centerd on the clone wars. But, it was centered on Obi-Wan, Anakin, Mace, Yoda, and Vos. With this new series, we will get a very cohesive storyline that will add a lot to the star wars mythology. Though, despite the movie quality, the digital high def, in the end, it will not be suffice. Just look at the above comments: Why more? What could you add? Do people really care about more clone wars, when we already know the ending of it with ROTS? Those are the questions that only time will tell, and good looking spruce up animation, and a movie serious Grevious wouldn't take it,
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MN_JEDI posted:
The new animated series it just fine for people like me, in that I don't care about novels and comics that other people write (not GL)and I think the CW cartoons are silly. At first I thought they were cool but now I find them to be quite cringy at many points and too saturday morning-kiddy cartoonish. I don't like the OTT Grevious or the "shorts" style of storytelling either. So I welcome this full length series that has high production value and apparently SW movie ambiance with a story arc overseen by GL himself. I think this series will do justice to the CW era and I hope it spans from the earily years up to ROTS. IMO that would be perfect.
Honestly, I don't understand how any fans are complaining about this series simply because of when it takes place. I mean the SW movies are done and we should feel very lucky to be getting not one, but two full length TV series. So far the series looks really cool so people should give it a chance before saying there is nothing left to do for the CW because apparently there is and they're doing it now. It's a good time to be a fan.
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PerfectCell
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The Clone Wars is a time full of so many events that there will always be stuff left to talk about or show on screen. Personally I'm a littl;e leary of anytime Lucas decides to toss his hands into established EU time periods, but that's my only real trepidtation in regards to this series.
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PerfectCell posted:
The Clone Wars is a time full of so many events that there will always be stuff left to talk about or show on screen.
Absolutely 
Using the 'seen it before/know how it ends' logic, then Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan would never have been made.
Although Pearl Harbour is the perfect counter to that one 
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