Full Series The Clone Wars cancelled.

Fair point, but the chronologies and source books always placed them alongside one another. Not to mention that, in the Labyrinth of Evil's case, there was a blurb on the cover mentioning how it was the official prequel to ROTS or some such.

Ideally, George or Roffman or whomever would have managed to story as such that it is all reflective of a single, coherent vision. TCW's retcons were ridiculous at times (Evan Piell's death, for example), but I maintain that the series expanded on the mythology in new ways and for that I'm grateful. In summation, I believe the film/TV world should endeavor to never encroach on the EU; but I also believe the EU, being a subordinate, should never (under any circumstances) defy the film/TV world.

 

Sooooooo.... does this mean no more Katie Lucas writing stuff?

 

I'm not a peace loving hippie saying "let's all get along", but I don't understand the hate (in both directions). I love the EU and I love TCW. I love the OT and the PT.

Granted!! I got angry as hell on how Mandalore was represented. I was mad that Karen Traviss basically got booted from writing anymore Republic Commando books because TCW supersedes 3rd party EU novels. But you know what? I got over it and I excepted it. And you know what? I'm not even upset about it anymore. People need to let things go.

And before I get called a hypocrite, I will "eventually" let TCW go, but this is still pretty fresh news and a lot of people are upset about it. The one thing I don't know I can get over is the direction and the motives that Disney seems to be taking.

 

Well, again, I sympathize. A lot of people spent hard-earned money on materials operating under the cultivated impression that what they were buying was "real" to the story. I'm willing to set that aside as long as the product replacing it is better. TCW had brilliant potential that was often squandered.

 

I was lucky enough to be on the boards when this **** broke today.

 

But it is cancelled is it not? If they're not storyboarding new episodes, what they have is what they got, and when they run out of those episodes...

I was in my college class when the news broke.
Suffice to say I didn't pay attention to my professor's reading of Othello.

 

I'm glad we are coming to somewhat of a consensus. The problem is "better" is objective and completely based on opinion. I usually use this defense against prequel haters, but it works well for TCW haters too: it's all about "managing expectations". Before TPM was released, everyone had "their" vision of what they thought the PT would be. As could be expected, a lot of people were disappointed because it wasn't what "THEY" expected it to be.

I call it the "infinity-1" equation. Basically you have ONE really cool way you would want something to happen, however there are infinite other ways outside of that one way you'd want it for it to happen. Odds are it wont happen the way you want.

I was a big Barriss fan (Medstar series, and that other book where she spent time with Anakin). When she was the traitor in the last episode, I was kinda bummed, but then looked at it as "it could work". I eventually thought that the Barriss' TCW ending was better than "meanwhile on another planet, Barriss get's shot in the back by a clone..." Also Mandalore can have other areas, it's a big planet. Most of the "changes" aren't that drastic, and can exist along with some EU.

Long story short, you are right "some" episodes were "squandered", no doubt. I feel that TCW was riding their high thinking that this was going to last forever so they DIDNT have to give their BEST every week. Now in the end they have to throw together some endings to finish it up because they wont have another 3 seasons to do it. I gues TCW team should have managed their expectations of the job better too.

 

Not mention the Micro AND THE PT ITSELF as I've said...

For record I'm not much of EU fan though I like CW EU because tied in with the Micro quite nicely for the most part....and far more creative than 98% of what TCW has dished out.

But I believe that the universe half responsible for keeping the SW franchise alive in a sense deserves a better treatment than being rebooted at whim..even if I find almost all of it complete ridiculous.

 

Are you prepared to deal with all the ramifications of the use of the word CANCELLED? Are you?

But yeah, it's cancelled. People were getting all silly in here with that earlier. Since then we've gotten links where the voice actors themselves used the word "cancelled". So most likely whatever was already in the works will be finished, IF it is deemed essential to finishing up the main story lines, and it will be shown online or DVD or something along those lines. Then when all that is done, that's it.

 

I don't know how they think they could possibly top this:

 

As opposed to the box someone is placed in if they dare to contradict Lucas's "vision"? Ever hear about the "Roddenberry Box" for Star Trek? It nearly killed Next Generation because Roddenberry's adamant stance on what could and could not be shown in Star Trek pissed off his entire writing staff, to the point where nearly every writer in seasons 1 and 2 quit when their contract ended. It was only really when Michael Piller stepped up to bat that things began to change. And even more so after Roddenberry died. Do you really think that the Dominion War would have been greenlit if Roddenberry was still around?

 

Hey gang, just a reminder to please 'star' out words that are not allowed here. Also, if you quote someone who uses the language, you are responsible for starring out the offending word or you might be given a warning as well. Thanks.

 

Disney's gonna have to do some serious damage control to fix their image soon. The regular entertainment news headlines are looking dour:

Entertainment Weekly: "'Star Wars' TV massacre! Lucasfilm cancels 'Clone Wars,' indefinitely postpones 'Detours'"
MTV: "'Star Wars: Clone Wars' Canceled To Make Room For New Series In New Time Period"
Wired (not bothering to play discrete about where to point the finger: "Disney Cancels Clone Wars on Cartoon Network"

Glancing through the major entertainment and geek news sites reveals a general feeling of... negativity? toward Disney. Not so much "boo-hoo TCW is over," as "Disney is wiping the slate clean without leaving something behind for the fans."

 

Why are there so many threads about this?

 

There was an article on IGN earlier decrying the state of LucasArts (the video games division) which contained this gem:

"If LucasArts doesn’t get its act together and come up with a sound organizational roadmap very soon, Disney might swoop in, assume control, and begin ordering game after game with no regard for quality."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/11/hey-lucasarts-get-your-act-together

You weren't here man! It was crazy!

 

Thankfully I was doing something better with my life.

 

Yeah, that's the sense i'm getting. Filoni and Co. have tried to give us hope with "we still have some stories to tell", but that's getting pushed to one side due to the ill feelings. I really hope this isnt a sign of things to come, especially when it comes to the new trilogy...

 

Can you really blame people after The Phantom Menace?

I love AOTC and ROTS but TPM was just really bad. Disney cancelling every project they can reach doesn't inspire confidence.

 

I maad.

 

Sad as I am, this is kinda gratifying. I don't remember seeing Entertainment Weekly and Wired bashing Disney like that when the Marvel purchase happened.

 

I don't want to get all emotional, but I want to say, I guess I was glad I was on TFN the day TCW, and subsequently the prequel era got cancelled. Even wading through the hater posts wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

From what I've been told, it's good to grieve together. I'm just glad I'm not the only one feeling this way. After Ahsoka's ending, and then today's announcement, I'm at the bottom of the barrel in hope for Star Wars.

My only fear is that the LACWAC may become a ghost-town now, as there doesn't seem to be anything on the horizon anytime soon..

 

The article from the OS teased about something new we'll learn about in the coming months. I think this subforum will have some gas. That may depend on what that is.

 

Javik's thoughts:

 

The Season 5 finale didn't seem to be series finale worthy.