Full Series The Clone Wars cancelled.

Yep, these were all non-issues before TCW. But now since the show decided to meddle with them, it would have been nice if they did the courtesy of tying it all up in the end.

 

Gry you really want to get more explanations from the TCW crew? No thanks.

Oh, and with respect to Disney toning down the violence in Star Wars,

 

I'm not sure there is a whole lot of room left in the PT era for EU authors to write about anymore. They have a year at most left until Ep. III (and chances are TCW will tie up the rest of that time for the important characters). Probably the best era for EU authors to write about now is the pre Ep. I days. If Disney ever does go back and make movies prior to Ep. I it probably won't be for a long long while and I doubt to many of Lucas's notes take place prior to Ep. I.

 

JAT said in this interview that most of s6 is finished:

http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/49763

 

That would probably be a good idea. Again if these coming movies are successful enough I'm sure Disney will eventually come back to these time periods but it probably wouldn't be for quite awhile.

 

I can totally agree that before TCW I did not have to worry that according to new canon, Wat and Poggle were stuck in prison for most of the war. That is the thing with older stories in the EU... they tied up what they had to without causing such chaos.

 

I think "Old Republic" and "Post-ROTJ" are some of the vaguest descriptors. If you refer to The Clone Wars, you are referring to a specific 3 year gap. If you refer to the Dark Times you are referring to a 19 year gap. And then the PT and OT eras constitute time frames of several years.

But "Old Republic" spans thousands upon thousands of years. So people say things like "I'm sick of the Old Republic era" meaning what exactly? The short time frame of KOTOR? Obi-Wan refers to the Jedi as being defenders of the Old Republic for like 20,000 years... And the Republic (in the EU) existed before the Jedi Order even became affiliated with it. And for post-ROTJ, the time frame can expand infinitely beyond ROTJ. They could jump 5,000 years into the future past ROTJ and pick up a story there if they wanted. There is so much potential in the "Old Republic era" and "post-ROTJ era" with almost infinite expanses of time that I don't know how they are so easily written off as boring by some. Even if someone didn't like KOTOR or hates TOR, there are still thousands of years for completely different stories with completely different casts to take place within the same "era" of the "Old Republic." And there's even more, infinite swaths of time to explore completely new stories post-ROTJ.

All the end of TCW means is perhaps no more Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Mace, Kit Fisto, Plo Koon, etc. on screen. Dark Times allows for some familiar faces like Vader, Palpatine, Boba Fett, Ahsoka, etc. but by and large a new cast. And go back to an untapped moment in the Old Republic time frame (again thousands of years) and they can do whatever they want with an all new cast built from the ground up - something I wish Lucas Animation were ambitious enough to attempt.

And even though we are moving to the sequel era in regards to the films, I can't imagine that Mark, Carrie and Harrison are going to be front and center as the main cast. More likely supporting roles. I mean, Lucas was writing his treatments before any of them signed on. And many suspected that Harrison might not. So I can't imagine that the treatments centered around those characters because what happens if one or more of them said no? They probably wouldn't recast them. So I suspect that their roles had to be small enough that they could have easily been altered or written off should the actors not want to return. I suspect they will feature an all new main cast. A prospect I am looking forward to.

 

I didn't know this was still on the air until I saw the news about it being cancelled. My kids got bored and stopped watching it at the beginning of the second season, so I assumed it had been off the air for years.

 

Which hopefully means we will get all of that, and they'll be finishing off those episodes that weren't finished. Hopefully they'll let us see all of them. May as well get as much of our money as they can

Though its a bummer to learn that they planned 8 seasons, so an ending was planned. That means it would have continued until 2016.

 

Nah, 8 seasons was what he felt, then when he heard about the sequel trillogy he thought 7 was a more likely number.

 

Ah ok... I should listen to this interview.

 

I'm just going to say it. I blame them bringing back Darth Maul. If they left him dead like he should be then everything would be fine.

 

Do you really believe that?

 

No, not completely. I just like to blame everything on the bringing back Maul storyline.

I think it ultimately came down to, Disney wants it on but doesn't want to pay for it to stay on Cartoon Network. And Warner Brothers doesn't want to pay or share the profits with Disney.

 

If all 22 episodes of the broadcast S6 (or is that referring to all 26 episodes of the S6 production schedule, plus the unaired remaining 15 from the S5 P.S. and the Clovis trilogy from the S4 P.S.?) have actually been produced and require only a small amount of work before they're fit to be seen, then only the content of S7 is in question. That's a substantial "if", but it seems to be the gist of what JAT is saying.

Hopefully the finale was planned for S7 rather than a hypothetical S8 that wouldn't have entered production until 2014. That would be likely if JAT's perception of TCW only having seven seasons was shared by Lucas and the writers. That way, much of the work on it might already be done and subsequently accelerated for a Netflix/DVD release.

 

I meant it more for the characters and places that don't appear in ROTS. For example if Ahsoka never appears again, (or Asajj or Hondo) those three can get a book and have some adventures, that in theory, go through the events of ROTS.

 

Two Arcs???

"All Lucasfilm could confirm is that there are at least two arcs worth of story content to be released. A Lucasfilm rep told us “we love the stories we have left, and we will make sure they get out to our amazing fans.”

http://www.newsarama.com/tv/ashley-eckstein-ahsoka-tano-exit-interview-1.html

 

If disney wanted it on they could have put it on their own channels.

TCW is incredibly expensive to produce... and since that came out of Lucas' pocket... Well, Disney probably won't be interested in something that won't have a chance in hell of ever making back all that money. If one episode costs $2million dollars to produce...well you can see the logic there... Lucas can afford to not make back that money... but Disney can't.

 

Note: they key words here is 'at least'. If it said 'at most' you might have something to worry about.

 

I wonder what label Disney will present Star Wars under. Will they go with the blanket Disney label, or with Touchstone Pictures?

 

"Walt Disney Pictures", probably. That's the brand they distributed John Carter, Prince of Persia and Pirates of the Caribbean under. Star Wars' action sci-fantasy would fit right in.

 

kinda ironic how lucas kept controll all this time and made exactly what he wanted by staying independant knowing the corporites would change it and make decissions based on £$

 

No, I was just posting that we would at least get 2 arcs, hopefully more.

From the sound of the interview, Ashley is done recording , or at least done recording with Matt. So whether that means Ahsoka will be in the Arcs is very questionable.

"I realize that's probably the last scene I'll ever record with him. It hit me pretty hard, so I was ready. "

And she had this to say about the ending of season 5.

"I think we were in our little bubble. I think I thought it was just going to keep going, even though I knew that this was something we had to address, what was going to happen to her. But unfortunately time does not stand still, and we had to move forward pretty quickly. So, it did catch me by surprise."