Star Wars: The Clone Wars To Return With New Episodes — Page 6

idir_hh said:

This newest episode is the best Star wars content I’ve seen since Revenge of the Sith. Apparently the siege of mandalore arch is a movie split into 4 episodes.

Ah, so you’ve not watched anything released since RotS. Got it.

Even as a ST apologist, I enjoyed this first episode of Siege of Mandalore more than I enjoyed any of those movies. It was very polished, and TCW has the advantage of having had six previous seasons to set up its characters and build up to an exciting conclusion.

canofhumdingers said:

idir_hh said:

This newest episode is the best Star wars content I’ve seen since Revenge of the Sith. Apparently the siege of mandalore arch is a movie split into 4 episodes.

Ah, so you’ve not watched anything released since RotS. Got it.

Hahaha yep.

You’re right Force Unleashed wasn’t amazing, so I guess there was one thing ROTS might have been better than.

NFBisms said:

EDIT: oh right, RotS is what’s bad

^This guy got it!

As for my personal opinion, Rogue One and The Mandalorian are both just fantastic, TFA is pretty good but flawed, Solo is better than it had any right to be and I’d say is like one of the better Star Wars comics brought to life, and TLJ is uneven with some very high highs and some very low lows but still enjoyable overall (the ending saves it for me). And they are ALL better than RotS!

The only exception is Rise of Skywalker but that’s only because I haven’t had a chance to see it again since my one time at the theater in order to form a more solid opinion of it, good or bad. I really wanted to see it again but I was so busy over the holidays I never got to. And haven’t had a chance since it came out on video.

I just about shit when that came up.

And then… then! The open!

If the rumors are true and this is going to be re-released once the arc finishes as a legitimate stand-alone movie (and the animation is more than good enough to do that) I hope they go with an actual crawl instead of Yularen’s voiceover.

Anyway, yeah, this is in a whole lot of ways probably the biggest thing they’ve tried to do on that show? The scope, the quality of animation, the storytelling… I’m honestly very excited.

There’s a lot of very, very good Clone Wars arcs in the show’s history already, but this seems like it could be THE ONE.

LOL! But honestly, that would have probably invoked a negative response, if I think about it. Fox doesn’t have anything to do with making any of this new stuff, so sticking their logo on the front of a movie nobody working there had anything to do with would have felt like the wrong kind of hat-tip. Or pandering, really.

Not that the green logo wasn’t its own form of that, I guess. But the difference is that it was gone for way longer, and I honestly never thought I’d see that logo in front of a new production again, and then… there it was. And it fit just right.

That’s a good point.
I recall a story about a dad who introduced Star Wars to his two young sons by first showing them the Clone Wars. What was great about it was how they came to love Anakin and Obi-Wan as these great war heroes. Then, when he showed them A New Hope, they were surprised to see Obi-Wan as this hermit, Luke’s son brings simple farm boy, and shocked to learn Anakin was murdered by Darth Vader. They hated Vader, just like Luke did.

So, you can imagine how shocking Empire Strikes Back was for them.

But to be fair, the Mortis arc already made it pretty obvious too, and that was from season 3, right?

This is already doing what Revenge of the Sith wanted to do so much better than Revenge of the Sith did it.

Also, was that Kevin Kiner trying to quote Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the opening?

I love that they mo-cap’d Ray Park for the fight scenes, you can immediately tell how much more grounded the choreography is.

The mo-cap for both fighters was great, although as amazing as it looked, there were a couple times where I was sort of jarred out of the moment because of just how different this fight looked compared to every other fight they’ve done on this show. The choreography itself is stellar. This is maybe the best lightsaber fight of the prequel era.

I do want to see the behind-the-scenes filming of the fight between Park and Lauren May Kim (who did Ahsoka’s moves).

I also understand why everyone is all “PRAISE FILONI” in response to these two episodes, but I do think it’s worth pointing out Dave didn’t direct these episodes. He wrote them, and he’s the showrunner, so I absolutely understand giving him credit, and he deserves a ton of it. But the way this episode looks, moves, and is cut together? That’s not Dave. I feel sort of bad for the animators and the ACTUAL directors (Saul Ruiz, Nathaniel Villanueva) that the greatness of these last two episodes is being 100% credited to Filoni and Park.

The way these last episodes of The Clone Wars are overlapping with Revenge of the Sith, I bet someone will eventually edit them together like the Watchmen and Black Freighter “Ultimate Cut.”

Rodney-2187 said:

The way these last episodes of The Clone Wars are overlapping with Revenge of the Sith, I bet someone will eventually edit them together like the Watchmen and Black Freighter “Ultimate Cut.”

Yeah, I’ve been working on this, and Delpheas is doing a similar thing. The pacing doesn’t quite match up since so much of TCW Episode 9 occurs before ROTS even starts, but if you delay the start of the actual siege a bit then it can help add more excitement to the lul in Revenge of the Sith.