I can't tell you how uninterested I am in the new Star Wars series that debuts on Cartoon Network tonight at 9pm, The Clone Wars. In fact, I don't think I'm interested in the Star Wars universe at all anymore. To quote a cliche, been there, done that. To quote Yoda, watch it I won't.Honestly, it seems like George Lucas is just creatively bankrupt. He keeps going back to the same thing (it's actually the second Clone Wars series - there was another in 2003).. He couldn't stop at the first three films in the Star Wars franchise, he had to give us three more. The first one is abysmal, the second one is OK, and the third one is pretty good. Just when you thought the entire saga was over, he comes out with an animated feature film this summer that was an intro to the new show that starts this evening.
I'm sure he has other movies and shows in the works, ones that show what Han Solo was like as a kid, what happened 7 months before the first blueprint for the Death Star was finished, and a rollicking sitcom about the people who run the Cantina Bar.
When it comes to science fiction, Star Wars just doesn't interest me anymore. Give me Star Trek any day (including its cartoon).
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10-03-2008 @ 6:32PM
Jack said...
From what I understand, this cartoon is aimed at children, not clever bloggers still bitter Sorkin's last show tanked.
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10-03-2008 @ 8:07PM
Wii60 said...
As much as I enjoy Bob's posts, I do take too much pleasure is someone ripping on him for Studio 60. It was the most disappointing show in recent memory.
Well played, sir.
This is aimed at a completely difference audience. If you're a kid or a diehard this is for you. If you're somewhere in between, just wait for the live action show next year.
10-03-2008 @ 7:53PM
Europa said...
I didn't even know it was coming on. :-/
I guess that's a "no" then. And I couldn't agree with your comments more - I'm sad to say.
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10-03-2008 @ 8:19PM
Andrew said...
I am a die hard Star Wars geek but I hated the movie that came out. It is for kids and it was pretty terrible. Of course I'll be giving this show a try, but I don't really have my hopes up.
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10-03-2008 @ 9:21PM
Scott K said...
I'd be interested to see stuff based on the better Star Wars books, but this show doesn't interest me.
I would, however, definitely watch that Cantina sitcom.
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10-03-2008 @ 11:29PM
edgore said...
Sadly, I als thought right away "I would watch the cantina sitcom". Then I realized that I would have watched it only if it was made by the real George Lucas, not the pod-person version.
Oh, btw, the show is called "Bar Wars"
10-03-2008 @ 10:25PM
Monkeydog said...
I'm also not interested.
I want to hear more about the Live Action show they're planning to do, that could actually be slightly interesting if done right.
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10-03-2008 @ 11:19PM
drklrdbill said...
i was a huge star wars dork as a kid, but my interest kinda tapered off after I saw The Phantom Menace (though I did win a darth maul lightsaber at Comic Con 2006 when I won the SW trivia contest, so I am quite the nerd), but yeah, I'll still wath this. I went into the movie not expecting much, so I was entertained. Expecting nothing amazing here, but some just some good, old clean fun.
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10-03-2008 @ 11:48PM
Picviewer said...
Well lets take a look at when it is on on cartoon network. Is it a Adult Swim blocked show? Ahh no. So right there it should tell you it's aimed at kids much like the summer movie was. If you were a douchebag running around dressed up as any of the characters at conventions it's not aimed at that demo. Star Trek? You mean the show that when it runs out of ideas always falls back onto a time travel or alternate universe episode arc yet Star Wars has run it's course in a creative backruptcy?
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10-04-2008 @ 12:51AM
Andrew said...
Everyone always forgets that the original trilogy was aimed at children.
10-04-2008 @ 1:12AM
Angie said...
My 5 year old son loves Star Wars so we watched the episodes. He loved it and I got into it as well lol.
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10-04-2008 @ 1:17AM
Ian said...
I'm kinda done with Star Wars. And the character models are so...bleh.
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10-04-2008 @ 2:07PM
John said...
No Andrew (and others), the original Star Wars was most definitely *not* aimed at children! It was aimed at teenagers. Lucas specifically added the cut-off arm in the cantina to get a PG rating so it wouldn't be seen as a kid's movie. There was always humor in the SW films, but there was never any juvenile humor until Boba Fett got cheaply killed for a burp joke in Return of the Jedi. It wasn't until Phantom Menace that the SW universe became filled with fart jokes and cartoons for main characters.
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10-04-2008 @ 4:25PM
Andrew said...
"The movies are for children but [the geeky fans] don't want to admit that." -George Lucas in an interview with the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/394542.stm
10-04-2008 @ 7:52PM
D-Bo said...
I watched it and it wasn't as bad as I expected. I'm fortunate in that my kid is getting into Star Wars and with this resurgence we can share in the new stuff together. So maybe I'm a bit more tolerant of the obviously forced kiddie stuff, which was certainly there but not as bad as I feared. In the first episode Yoda goes out with three Stormtroopers and kicks a legion of robot army ass, pretty cool and fun to watch IMO.
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10-05-2008 @ 9:12PM
JCharm said...
This show happens to be aimed at kids. Batman:The Animated series was aimed at kids too but the episodes were still well done and literate. This show is bantha crap. Some of the fan based films are better. Lucas made this to sell toys not entertain. Its really too bad because the other animated Clone series shown in five min episodes was far better than these digital dregs, they should bring the other back.
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