Star Wars: Clone Wars

Has anyone been watching the new little animated "micro-series"?

Each episode only runs about 5 minutes, and they're having episodes 1 - 5 on Foxtel today, so I've got my son watching all the stuff in between (Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, etc) and telling me when each ep of CW comes on so I can tape it.

I've only seen the first one, so far, but it looks pretty cool! The animation's not great, but it should provide some interesting back-story for between Episode II and III, and it's a Lucasfilm thing, so we know it's not going to violate canon for the films.

The animation looks strongly like Samurai Jack. I've seen three of the five so far. Not bad...when I heard that this was coming, I was seriously hoping for a half-hour episodic series, with real dialogue mixed in with the abstract action....but, I'm enjoying the little 5-minute tid-bits nonetheless.

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Originally posted by Aldaron
Has anyone been watching the new little animated "micro-series"?

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I've been enjoying it quite a bit. Honestly, I don't care much of "Samurai Jack", but its creator has done a nice job with these little short stories. There are going to be a total of 20 chapters, so in sum we're looking at like 100 total minutes worth of new Star Wars material. There seems to be a main thread running through the little chapters (involving Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker leading a Clone attack on the homeworld of the Banking Clan), but I like how this series also veers off this thread to give us little stand-alone snippets of ancilliary events. My favorite so far was the five-minute chapter about the civil war on the Querran and Mon Calamari homeworld, and how one "Aquaman" Jedi went there to save the Mon Calamari. I thought this was really cool to "flesh out" a sideline in the SW universe.

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Originally posted by Scottomir
I've been enjoying it quite a bit. Honestly, I don't care much of "Samurai Jack", but its creator has done a nice job with these little short stories. There are going to be a total of 20 chapters, so in sum we're looking at like 100 total minutes worth of new Star Wars material. There seems to be a main thread running through the little chapters (involving Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker leading a Clone attack on the homeworld of the Banking Clan), but I like how this series also veers off this thread to give us little stand-alone snippets of ancilliary events. My favorite so far was the five-minute chapter about the civil war on the Querran and Mon Calamari homeworld, and how one "Aquaman" Jedi went there to save the Mon Calamari. I thought this was really cool to "flesh out" a sideline in the SW universe.

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Hehehe..."Aquaman"...like that (was it Aquaman that used "oxy-gum", or was that Marine-Boy? I can never remember! :) )

BTW, wasn't that Kit Fisto? The Nautolan Jedi Master from Attack of the Clones? He was the guy with the head-tentacles and black eyes that seemed to be having an absolute ball of a time during the Battle of Geonosis.

One thing, though - if Lucas is behind the Clone Wars series, then we can take it as canon that lightsabres do work underwater, I guess...

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Originally posted by Aldaron
Hehehe..."Aquaman"...like that (was it Aquaman that used "oxy-gum", or was that Marine-Boy? I can never remember! :) )

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That would be Marine Boy. And I am not happy I remember that! :)

(He also had an electric boomerang. No, I'm NOT kidding.)

Marine Boy...I remember that one.