Full Series Where do you rate The Clone Wars in the Saga?

Droids and Ewoks were awesome, but from a different time.

 

Hmmm...

ROTJ
AOTC/ROTS -- tied!
ESB
ANH
TCW
TPM

 

We need some kind of counter to keep track of how many times Zeta1127 says "the Clone Wars multimedia project and its derivatives" on here.

 

ToddtheJedi was the first one to notice my propensity to refer to only Clone Wars timeline I recognize as the Clone Wars multimedia project and its derivatives.

 

Well, the Republic Commando series (technically Hard Contact was part of the Clone Wars multimedia project), Labyrinth of Evil, Revenge of the Sith novelization, and Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader aren't part of the Clone Wars multimedia project, so I refer to them as derivatives because they continue the storyline from the multimedia project.

 

Well, you sure were the first one to call me out on my use of the Clone Wars multimedia project and its derivatives. LL doesn't consider the Dark Lord Trilogy and the Republic Commando series to be a part of the Clone Wars multimedia project, and that's what I was going on, but I agree that the Dark Lord Trilogy is actually a part of the Clone Wars multimedia project.

 

I love this topic, this is actually really difficult for me.

I may come back to revise this but here's how I feel about it right now:

1. A New Hope
2. Revenge of the Sith
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Clone Wars
5. Return of the Jedi
6. The Phantom Menace

Attack of the Clones doesn't even make the list. Seeing so many people here rate it higher than TCW is honestly somewhat stunning, though perhaps it shouldn't be.

This may surprise some people but one of the reasons I rank TCW so high is because depending on which TCW you're looking at, it's not as oriented towards kids as other SW. The Krell or slaver arcs, for example, have much less in them that just-for-kids than all three SW films I ranked below TCW IMO. There's actually probably more episodes than not that whose most kid-oriented element isn't as bad as fighting teddy bears or Jar Jar Binks. In terms of adult-oriented story-telling, certain TCW episodes wipe the floor with the films I ranked below it.

 

And I am surprised that the disrespectful osik that is TCW even rates for anyone at all...

 

I don't hold EU-steamrolling against the OT sequels or PT as signs of unforgivable disrespect, I'm not doing that with TCW either.

 

TCW is screwing with the EU as I see it, so it means nothing to me.

 

That's cool. I'm interested in the unseen back-story of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi and I like old fashioned pulp, so it means something to me.

 

TCW offers nothing that hasn't been done better by the Clone Wars multimedia project.

 

Sorry, what?

 

Fixed.

 

I somehow doubt a mini-series of comics contains all the different views of their relationship shown in TCW. And that's not even getting to the point that unseen on-screen and unseen in a comic book are not one and the same. There are a ton of SW comics I love, but it's just not the same. So by one definition or another, it is unseen back-story. The PT showed some of it too, but not nearly enough, that's really the whole point.

 

The books and comics have added a to of more depth to the relationship than TCW.

 

Three words, Labyrinth of Evil.

 

Oh, we're bringing the DFS meme back? Here's where the fun begins.

Comics are borderline unseen, books are entirely unseen in the sense that you're not seeing any images at all except the cover.

And to people who saw the PT and gave up on SW for a little while instead of reading every single piece of EU, it's still unseen. I'm not saying my demographic is the only one, but my demographic does exist.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, this!