Animated Shorts The Micro Series & Genndy Tartakovsky appreciation thread

Or the fact they say it was made to market the TCW movie and not ROTS

 

I thought I heard that the relative success of the microseries inspired Lucas to consider a full-length show.

 

It's a shame that we didn't get to see the Battle of Coruscant pre-ROTS in TCW. But at least I've still got the CW microseries. It also covers things we've never gotten depictions of in canon (Introduction of Ventress and Grievous, Anakin's Knighting). I think that was because originally the CW microseries was still going to be canon and TCW was re-writing the events of novels and graphic novels of the time.
CW is still the best Star Wars series to me, and likely always will be. TCW is far, far, far longer and has some amazing moments. But CW packs a ton in 2.25 hours.

 

CW also has the distinction of being the only medium in which the character of Grievous actually works.

 

I just rewatched both volumes on DVD over the last week. Much of it still holds up. I know it's likely tied up in licensing hell and parts of it would never fit into the new canon now that Disney/LFL released the official ending to The Clone Wars Series (and some inconsistencies started popping up even when Lucas was in charge of The Clone Wars), but I think omitting this from the canon creates some big gaps in the Disney continuity.

We no longer have official canon representations of things like Anakins knighting, the introduction of Grievous, how Anakin got his scar, Anakins first fight with Ventress, etc. The Clone Wars series makes it seem like Ventress is a well known enemy to them, which always made me think Clone Wars was still canon in the early days of the CGI series, but that was quickly walked back by LFL.

In my perfect world, I'd love to see LFL buy the cartoons from CN and re-edit it together up to where the inconsistencies begin (something like chapter 21). Do it in a way almost like how they created the Droids and Ewoks DVD's in 2004. It's not a perfect solution, but it would help fill in some holes in the canon and re-introduce a really fun and creative series back into consciousness.

If not, I'd love to see them do a cartoon or comic series (comic being way more likely) called "Clone Wars: Year One" that would go back and retell these stories such as Durge, the knighting, Anakin getting his scar, Ventress in the arena impressing Dooku (I know that's covered a bit in Jedi Lost, but there's room to show it), Grievous first showing up, Anakin and Obi-Wan as padawan and master in the early days of the war, etc. Do this in a way that honors those older stories. I just think this first year of the Clone Wars is ripe for story telling in the new canon.

 

Do you think it still just about works in head canon if you assume original CW all the way up to the montage of Anakin and Kenobi after Anakin's knighting, then TCW follows this all the way to the final season.

Then it would have to go the story on Nelvaan BEFORE Old Friends Not Forgotten which happens at same time as Battle of Coruscant (dialogue about Shak Ti being sent to protect the Chancellor still matches up) then back to the original series for the link straight into ROTS then to TCW for the story up to Order 66!

 

Dammit I was trying to find this thread. Anyway really excited to watch this again

 

Just need Droids.

 

Does anyone know if they will retroactively label all thesereleases back to canon? I hope they do.

 

The Story of the Faithful Wookiee? So we're still pretending the Holiday Special never happened?

 

I wouldn't read anything into this regarding canon status. This is no different than continuing to publish EU books under the "Legends" brand.

 

Pretty much.

 

It'll be interesting if they add the "Legends" banner to the 2D series. Haven't seen it all the way through in a few years so pretty stoked to see it land. If anything I'm going to watch the Mace Windu short like 10 times ahhahaa.

 

I wonder if these will be in HD on Disney +? If this leads to a Blu-Ray release I will be pretty pleased.

 

It won’t most likely.

 

So great this is properly coming to Disney+. It remains my very favorite Star Wars series.

(Hopefully they're released as hour long volumes 1 and 2, rather than each individual episode).

 

So glad this is coming to Disney + this is great news.

 

I only have these on DVD and I always watched as a single flick and only 480p so I'm pretty stoked to watch them in HD. Gonna watch me part 1 right now.

 

Chapter 20 is still one of my favorites moments in all of Star Wars PERIOD, when I saw that for first time I even had a nightmare with Grievous.
Btw, I´m from south America, so I don´t have the Vintage Collection on my D+, can anybody tell if the Ewoks cartoon and CW comes with their openings?

 

I watched both seasons of the Clones Wars micro-series and it appears at least to me season 2 has better video quality than season 1, anyone else notice this?