Star Wars: Clone Wars

[Aldaron]

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.

[Sea Tyger]

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.

[Scottomir]

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

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.

[Aldaron]

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.

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...

[Balok]

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

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

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

[qerlin]

Marine Boy...I remember that one.