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Forum: Movies, Television, Books (Does anyone still read?) Topic: TV: Star Wars started by: GORDON Posted by GORDON on Mar. 21 2006,12:21
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Posted by WSGrundy on Mar. 21 2006,13:48
There is the regular TV show and there is also a cartoon taking place during the clone wars.It won't look like the one that already aired though but more like pixar films. From what I have read about. Posted by TheCatt on Mar. 21 2006,14:44
But... but... HE'S working on it.
Posted by WSGrundy on Mar. 21 2006,15:12
As long as he is alive he will be working on Star Wars in some fashion. From what I have read though he said he will direct some of the first year episodes and then others will handle the rest. Posted by DoctorChaos on Mar. 21 2006,15:38
Want to start a pool on when it cancelled? I'm saying it won't get out of pilot.
Posted by thibodeaux on Mar. 21 2006,17:01
I distinctly recall a scene in Phantom Menace where a character leaped over a large aquatic predator. That should have clued us all in right there.
Posted by GORDON on Mar. 21 2006,17:22
Naw, that was a boating accident.
Posted by Leisher on Mar. 21 2006,21:10
I'm still not sold on the idea that the movie franchise is over. Too many conflicting statements over the years, including Lucas himself saying there was more story to tell after Return and that he would probably do it in all CGI. Plus, his respect for the Zahn novels which if you've read them, you'll see their influence on the cloning process, aliens, and their world in the new episodes. As for the series, we saw what Lucas did with young Vader. How can anyone think young Luke will be any good? Posted by GORDON on Mar. 21 2006,21:20
Just how many stories are there to tell about a whiney farm boy fixing moisture vaporators?Turning Luke into a boy adventurer would absolutely destroy his character arc in4-7.... but then that never stopped lucas before, did it. Posted by Cakedaddy on Mar. 21 2006,22:21
I think a young Leia would be way more interesting having grown up with the rebelion and stuff.
Posted by DoctorChaos on Mar. 22 2006,04:42
I think that described the whole movie. Or is that what you meant? I agree with Cake. A young Leia would be more interesting. There'd be the possibility of some intrigue. Posted by Leisher on Mar. 22 2006,05:50
Young Leia would be interesting? Watching a spoiled high society princess grow up is interesting?I think I can do without Star Wars 90210. Posted by DoctorChaos on Mar. 22 2006,07:28
How about following the 3 founders of the rebellion?
Posted by Malcolm on Mar. 22 2006,08:08
How 'bout pooling some cash to hire a hitman to take George out so he doesn't Jar-Jar this shit up again?
Posted by Leisher on Mar. 22 2006,09:31
The perfect area for a TV series is after RotJ. You've got the Rebellion fresh off a win and the Imperials back tracking. What happens when the guy in charge gets knocked off his perch? A fight for power. Thus, the Rebellion sealed it's doom when they beat the Empire. So many stories could be done about certain characters' fates, how the remaining Imperials keep up the fight, how elements of the Rebellion broke away to stake claims for power, etc, etc, etc. Posted by Cakedaddy on Mar. 22 2006,11:28
Being that she was a spy and stuff, I don't see it being Paris Hilton in space. She was tough, mouthy and stuff. She took an active role in the polotics of stuff. Never afraid to grab a blaster and join the fight. She didn't just run around and spend money. At least, that's my impression of her. Posted by WSGrundy on Mar. 22 2006,14:50
You won't see any young luke or leia from what I have read beyond maybe him being in mos eisly and you see him in the background or a rebel meeting on Alderaan and Leia is in the background. The biggest character you are going to see in the beginning is a possible story of Boba Fett starting out bounty hunting. It has been said that the first season is going to revolve around bounty hunters, IG-88, Bossk, and others not on the star destroyer taking the contract from Vader in IV. There was talk of seeing Chewbaca in slavery or fighting before he is taken but that seems to have shifted to the cartoon. Posted by WSGrundy on Mar. 22 2006,14:54
I don't need to see Leia, Han, Lando(maybe a little) or even Luke anymore. If anything is going to take place after Jedi I want it to be so far in the future that they are all dead. I think it would be cool to put it far in the future and have Luke in the Obi-Wan role. Have him teaching students who would probably be Han and Leias kids although I don't need that. You could have Chewbacca there too since wookies live a few hundred years and have Chewie or Luke sacrafice themselves for a new characters so some sort of connection could be made there. Posted by Leisher on Mar. 22 2006,19:32
Read the Timothy Zahn novels. It's a trilogy set right after RotJ and was authorized as the "official continuation of the SW story" so sayeth Lucas.New heros, new villains, new weapons, a new badass Luke who becomes a teacher, Hand and Leia's kids, and Grand Admiral Thrawn. Can I get an amen for Grand Admiral Thrawn? Posted by GORDON on Mar. 22 2006,19:33
Thrawn!Never defeated in battle. Posted by Leisher on Mar. 22 2006,19:40
For those who don't know, the story goes that Thrawn is the Desert Fox of the Imperial Fleet. The true brains behind the brawn. He wasn't the man behind the curtain and the Emporer's boss or anything, just the best strategic and tactical mind in the Imperial fleet.The Emporer held him and his fleet back from the battle at the new Death Star. A move Thrawn advised would be unwise. One of the cool touches of his character is that he studies a civilization's art and finds their weaknesses through it. Think Hannibal Lecter in space without the flesh eating. Classy, yet vicious. He's even in Star Wars: Galaxies. Posted by TPRJones on Mar. 22 2006,20:01
I don't care what it is as long as we can get away from C3PO doing goofy shit.
Posted by Troy on Mar. 22 2006,20:15
I read, em, twice, and I'm not huge into star wars and those types of novels.
Posted by WSGrundy on Mar. 22 2006,20:49
The Zahn trilogy was OK. Definatly nothing I would want made into a film though. Thrawn was a cool bad guy and I liked capt. Pellion but Caboth was only so so and the rest of it wasn't anything special IMO. It has the tag of official and it is in the sense that when Lucas was given the gist of the story he said he like it and that he is happy how it turned out but it is all but it become void it he ever decides to tell any stories directly after Jedi himself. Not disputing the official part just commenting on what I think is the likely hood of the Zahn books being told on TV/Films. With that said I wouldn't be suprised to see Thrawn in the live action TV show since he isn't that well known outside of Star Wars circles and they could show him being an up and comer. Him and Daala maybe. Posted by DoctorChaos on Mar. 23 2006,04:26
Amen! The books were great. Unfortunately they'll never see any screen. They're too cerebral for the general public. Read the two books Zahn writes that take place after the trilogy. The Empire of the Hand continues. Posted by MommaBear on Mar. 25 2006,19:28
Greetings, all ... My daughter is really getting into watching the SW film series. I tend to skip through the parts of E:3 that are a tad violent ...still, CJ loves the droids, Princess "Nea", Chewie, the man in black "uh-oh, bad guy". She hums her version of the Imperial March when he comes on screen. Priceless. I haven't read the Zahn books, just cruised the expanded databank info on the SW website. I'm not sure where my head is regarding continuing the story, in film that is. There are plenty of gaps between E3 and E4, also from there to E6 but dammit wouldn't he'd have to renumber the series altogether, or just forge ahead from E6? Hmmm ... will meditate on this. Posted by WSGrundy on Apr. 01 2006,14:50
Appreantly Madonna's son is a big star wars fan and so she has been asking for the chance to be in the TV show and she may get it.Right now the word is that she will play a Sith Witch. Nothing else about the character has been mentioned. Not a huge fan or a fan at all but if the role calls for a mean bitch then she should be able to pull it off. Posted by Malcolm on Apr. 02 2006,14:17
Maybe they can work in a scene where she falls off a bantha & breaks her hip or something.
Posted by WSGrundy on Apr. 02 2006,22:24
You should be OK then. He shouldn't be in it. Posted by WSGrundy on May 04 2006,16:48
It is going to revolve around < Boba Fett >, my guess at least. Not enough people know IG-88(Which would rock), Bossk, or the others. Posted by Leisher on May 04 2006,19:07
I always prefered IG-88 and Bossk.
Posted by GORDON on Mar. 18 2013,20:21
Hey, regarding the ongoing "Clone Wars TV show...I haven't watched much of it, heh. But I have seen a few episodes here and there, and they all ranged from pretty good ---> pretty damned cool. Annakin even has a cute little girl apprentice, and since she wasn't in the Ep 2 movie, we know she must meet a bad end.... which leads me to posting this, which is a trailer for the season 5 finale. I was struck by the cinematic quality of some of these scenes. The girl doing most of the stuff is Annakin's apprentice. Looks like her bad end is coming. Posted by WSGrundy on Mar. 18 2013,20:53
I enjoyed these although I always felt like I wasn't sure the directors knew which way they wanted to go. Sometimes you would have joky robots followed by clones going on a suicide mission.The series is almost all done. 5 was the last full season and anything they were working on for 6 will be put out but no word if it will be TV or what. Posted by GORDON on Feb. 26 2016,14:57
Hey, I started watching the Clone Wars series on Netflix with my kid. During almost every episode we say, "That was better than anything in the prequels." It's actually a lot of fun seeing Yoda and Windu being badass, and Annakin not being a whiny teenage asshole. Even my wife catches an episode here and there, and says, "How did the clones go from being so awesome to just wiping out all the jedi?"This is a very well-done show. We started the second season, tonight. JJ decided the show was still canon, right? I thought I heard "everything in the movies and on TV since 2000" was official. Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 26 2016,15:27
The Clone Wars series is in.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 26 2016,15:31
Because it's so awesome.
Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 26 2016,15:33
(GORDON @ Feb. 26 2016,17:31) QUOTE Because it's so awesome. "Awesome" is relative here. Out of all the Star Wars flicks, I see two that climb above average. A cartoon kicking the collective ass of the others isn't hard. I think I saw a few eps. Not bad. Posted by GORDON on Feb. 26 2016,15:36
(Malcolm @ Feb. 26 2016,18:33) QUOTE (GORDON @ Feb. 26 2016,17:31) QUOTE Because it's so awesome. "Awesome" is relative here. Out of all the Star Wars flicks, I see two that climb above average. A cartoon kicking the collective ass of the others isn't hard. I think I saw a few eps. Not bad. It doesn't pull many punches. An assassin comes in and blows up a squad of clones, one survives, and she straight shoots him in the head. Someone in the old discussion mentions clones suiciding for his friends, and even though they are clones, it works. It doesn't show blood, it's the Cartoon Network, but so far it is very well done. Posted by GORDON on Mar. 02 2016,18:56
There was a scene in the episode we just watched where a bounty hunter straight-up tortures a jedi to death, on camera. This shit is hard core.
Posted by Malcolm on Mar. 03 2016,07:47
(GORDON @ Mar. 02 2016,20:56) QUOTE There was a scene in the episode we just watched where a bounty hunter straight-up tortures a jedi to death, on camera. This shit is hard core. Locked him in a room with Jar Jar? Posted by GORDON on Mar. 03 2016,07:49
(Malcolm @ Mar. 03 2016,10:47) QUOTE (GORDON @ Mar. 02 2016,20:56) QUOTE There was a scene in the episode we just watched where a bounty hunter straight-up tortures a jedi to death, on camera. This shit is hard core. Locked him in a room with Jar Jar? Speaking of him, there was a funny situation.... Jar Jar is a walking disaster in this show, too, so at one point the Clones came up with a plan to let Senator Binks be captured, then they just sat back and watched him wreak accidental havoc on the enemy forces. This show is also nearly self aware. |
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