I agree that it wouldn't be good to have Anakin too dark, too often, so that Clone Wars EU portrayal of him doesn't sound better than his TCW portrayal to me in terms of fitting in with the films. If Anakin has moments that are too dark, too often, then the Ep. II Sand People incident ceases to be significant and becomes just the first in a long history of similar incidents. I've said many times that I like TCW Anakin the best because we never got that hero-like figure in the PT that we always imagined he would be from the OT, and TCW is delivering on that character. This couldn't be the case if he were significantly more unstable than S4 has already shown him to be, imo.
For the most part, I think that Anakin's gotten progressively better over the course of the series. I can still remember watching the movie for the first time, and that moment where the Vulture droid crashes into the Venator hangar. The implication is that the entire clone flight crew and all the pilots of the fighters that were still preparing for launch on the flight deck were just killed. And yet...Anakin doesn't even seem to care. His actor ruined the gravity of that moment completely. But now he's seemed to find a place where Anakin feels as though, for the most part, that he's been through the hell of war, and is simply doing his best effort not to succumb to the mental wear and tear of it all. That's how I see it, anyway.
No, I consider TCW to be in the same universe as the movies. Of course, I haven't really read anything from the EU yet so that probably helps.
Don't worry, there's a lot of great EU outside the Clone Wars you can stick to if you'd rather have TCW filling this era in your canon.
Nope. There is only 1 obi-wan, 1 Anakin, etc. If we believe there are more then one universe, then there are many versions of the same character. There is no multiverse in Star Wars.
Personally, while I accept it as canon - and love most of it - I'm tired of people jumping into the Star Wars universe and making a mess. Writers, directors, whatever. It's like they get the go ahead to join the Star Wars universe and then spew out something like: "Hello, I'm Mrs. So-And-So and I know I'm totally new to this universe, but I'm going to just go ahead and take this accepted-as-canon character back-story, rip it up, chuck out the parts I don't like, and add in my own random thoughts." I'm tired of having to relearn a character or a planet or an idea because someone decided to mess with it and someone else let it happen. I just don't understand how, with such a well established universe like this one, that we even HAVE these problems!
Nobody really knows what exactly is going on with Bond... As for the DC and Marvel multiverses: Despite the fact that I'm a long-time fan of both franchises, and have found large, multiverse-spanning stories to be among the most epically grand examples of storytelling, there's still something to be said for a single universe with a single, unbroken timeline.
Point made regardless.. Not that I'd want SW to be as "multiverse" as those examples.. I heard the new Ninja Turtles movie is going to make the turtles into aliens. lol
It's not an alternate universe to me, it's just not part of my personal canon all together. I enjoy the show well enough for what it is, but I could never bring myself to watching A New Hope and seeing C3PO and thinking "he went on a Gulliver's Travels/Wizard of Oz adventure in space 19-22 years prior to this." That's good enough of an explanation for me. If I had to take it further, I could just treat the stories of TCW to be legends about the characters. It's not like historical figures that are considered heroes/evil never have a bit of fiction that gets mixed into their life story to exaggerate those qualities.
Until Dave becomes the head of Lucasfilm, I, frankly, don't give a damn what he says about the Expanded Universe. He's not in charge, and if he happens to think his TCW is more important than everything that's gone before, then so be it. He's no different than any other author we're had, who ends up thinking that they cannot possibly ignored. Real players in the sandbox remember their place - its a joint sandbox, it is certainly not Daves.
Exactly -- like I posted in Lit a few days ago, TCW isn't going to last forever. It will eventually get incorporated into the rest of the EU, which will live on for who knows how many generations to come.
It's doubly, nay, quadruply ridiculous when Apocalypse - the most recent Expanded Universe novel - went out of its way to tie in the Mortis Trilogy. It could have had a separate Celestial entity running around and completely ignore Mortis, but instead it very neatly tied everything together into a plausible and beautiful notion that is considerably more important than one isolated Trilogy in one piece of media in one part of the three-year-long Clone Wars in a fifty thousand year continuity.
Excellent post. If TCW has come along and kinda taken the Genndy Clone Wars place. Then 10 years how the road the same could happen to TCW. Sometimes I wonder if Dave Filoni really knows what he is saying. This is why I think DBB and JAT should do all the press work for TCW because they handle it better.
It's up to personal opinion on if you consider is an alternate universe. It's officially canon, and exists in a way that makes it plausible. But it takes many liberties as well, and some may view it as a little inconsistant. I think it's a lot different than the original Clone Wars show in that the original explained the occurances we saw in Revenge of the Sith, but the Clone Wars is creating new stories, and isn't limited to filling that gap, it merely accounts for any stories taking place during the Clone Wars.
