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Originally posted by: greencapt
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Disapointing a bit but arent all movies?

Well... uh.... no- not at all.

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In fact, my personal 'first indicator' of whether a film is good or not is whether at any time I find myself glancing at my watch. If I do look at it, I know the filmmakers have not done their jobs well- they lost me and kicked me out of the story...

Funny you should say that... the theater I watched in this afternoon had pretty steeply banked stadium seating, so I could see nearly the whole audience. About midway through I noticed a lot of people checking the time, and that was just the ones that had indiglo watches or were checking on their cell phones! So a lot of people obviously did feel alienated.

I for one still liked it a lot, probably because I have read every novel and most of the Clone Wars graphics novels and have seen the cartoons. But it is definitely bad form to rely on them to fill the holes. GL (or at least Lucasfilm) have been saying for years that the only true canon is the films. That seems to have changed with the onset of the PT. I like it that they have set an official storyline and had authors stick to it, and small references to the novels on the side help enhance the experience for those that do read, but they absolutely shouldn't depend on them to explain things. (Kind of like the Ord Mantell line in reverse- if they had written a canonical version of the story before ESB, it would have been a neat tie-in for those that read the book, but it still would have worked just fine as a throwaway for those who didn't.)