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Clone Wars (2003 animated series by Genndy Tartakovsky) - a general discussion thread — Page 2

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Man this series, a sad glimpse into what the prequels would look like if they were well made. Honestly just watch the theatrical version of The Phantom Menace, this and the extended cut Revenge of the Sith edit. Forgive me, I don’t remember offhand who made it. It doesn’t fix Grevious’ character nor does it help the horrible tonal inconsistency of the film, but it makes it a MUCH better watch with this cartoon. Highly recommended and criminally under-rated.

Luke astro-projects himself to Salt Lake Planet, gets shot at by gorilla walkers, has a non-lightsaber duel with Darth Millennial, then dies of a broken heart, inspiring broom boys throughout the galaxy to get creative with their sweeping. - DuracellEnergizer

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I have the DVDs of this series somewhere as it is long out of print. I also have a fanedit episode II.V but seeing as how its on a burned disc i bet it no longer reads.
Trying to remember who did the edit was it ADM.
It was also on youtube but i think it since has been deleted.

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I wish Genndy had cared more about the series. Lucas recruited him because he liked Samurai Jack, but Lucas wanted to go further than Genndy was interested in going, and Genndy didn’t want to stay glued to Star Wars.

Anakin was terribly cast, but the animation was beautiful.

The more I rewatch it, and the more I learn about that transition, the more I understand it. They parted ways, and Lucas sought out Filoni after his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender. This time, Lucas made clear his intentions: a long running series in 3D animation. Lucas pushed for nonlinear storytelling, and to aim it more for kids.

At the beginning, they were supposed to kinda follow continuity of the micro series, but Lucas quickly transitioned to allowing the new series to contradict it. There are still moments of continuity that were never re-adapted, such as Ventress’s introduction, Anakin becoming a Jedi Knight, or Grievous’ introduction. These impressive and minimalist stories were so well crafted that it’s difficult not to hold them dear.

I also loved Dirge and some of the other weirder elements and characters.

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Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated Clone Wars series finally coming to Disney Plus’:-

www.polygon.com/star-wars/2021/3/16/22334599/star-wars-clone-wars-genndy-tartakovsky-streaming-disney-plus-ewoks
 

^ ‘One of the best Star Wars projects ever is finally coming to Disney Plus for easy streaming. ‘Star Wars: Clone Wars’, an animated series created by legendary animator Genndy Tartakovsky, is coming to the streaming service on April 2.’

 

So it may also be worth checking out the Star Wars Preservation Index for more 2003 Clone Wars fan projects coming soon…

 

a few articles rejoicing that Genndy Tartakovsky’s 2003 Clone Wars series is finally available on Disney+…

Watch Star Wars Vintage: Clone Wars 2D Micro-Series’ - at Disney+

Clone Wars 2003: The best Star Wars series is finally on Disney+’ - at Inverse

The original Star Wars: Clone Wars still kicks ass’ - at TechRadar

The Only Truly Great Star Wars Prequel Is Now on Disney+’ - at Esquire

The best ‘Star Wars’ animated show is finally coming to streaming’ - at Collider

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars proves General Grievous was actually cool’ - at Polygon

Star Wars: Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars Is On Disney+ Now, And You Should Watch It’ - at BOLS

Why You Should Watch ‘Star Wars: Clone Wars’ (2003 Series)’ - at The Indiependent

Genndy Tartakovsky’s ‘Clone Wars’: Why the Star Wars Microseries is Still Great’ - at MovieWeb

The Best Clone Wars Cartoon Is Coming Back’ - at Kotaku

 

 

My most CONTROVERSIAL Clone Wars Opinion(2003 Clone Wars is better than the 2008 The Clone Wars - and why)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOGZyg7P4M - a 9 minute video at the Bombastic youtube channel, in 2021.

 

 

 
I’ve also added some content for the whole '2002-2007 Clone Wars multimedia project, on Page 1 of this thread, or here.
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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Nice! So glad they’re finally bringing some Legends content to Disney+.

If people stream the hell out of it, there’s a chance more things will come, like Droids and Detours.

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I can’t believe we will see a release of the Ewok movies before the unaltered theatrical original trilogy. If they put the Holiday Special up, that’d be insane.

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Rodney-2187 said:

I can’t believe we will see a release of the Ewok movies before the unaltered theatrical original trilogy. If they put the Holiday Special up, that’d be insane.

I don’t think they’ll ever put up the full Holiday Special. Too many rights issues on top of it being incredibly bad.

As far as the theatrical OT, rumour was that it was being remastered and prepped, but they stopped before releasing it. Instead they let George tweak the Special Editions one final time before launching Disney+.

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For some reason this show give me OT vibres than the Prequels films ot TCW

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JakeRyan17 said:

I wish Genndy had cared more about the series. Lucas recruited him because he liked Samurai Jack, but Lucas wanted to go further than Genndy was interested in going, and Genndy didn’t want to stay glued to Star Wars.

Anakin was terribly cast, but the animation was beautiful.

The more I rewatch it, and the more I learn about that transition, the more I understand it. They parted ways, and Lucas sought out Filoni after his work on Avatar: The Last Airbender. This time, Lucas made clear his intentions: a long running series in 3D animation. Lucas pushed for nonlinear storytelling, and to aim it more for kids.

At the beginning, they were supposed to kinda follow continuity of the micro series, but Lucas quickly transitioned to allowing the new series to contradict it. There are still moments of continuity that were never re-adapted, such as Ventress’s introduction, Anakin becoming a Jedi Knight, or Grievous’ introduction. These impressive and minimalist stories were so well crafted that it’s difficult not to hold them dear.

I also loved Dirge and some of the other weirder elements and characters.

I will forever prefer the CG series but the 2D show was pretty good. The non linear-ness worked better in the CG series since they took a half hour per episode and 2D Anakin wasn’t great but, yeah, I think I liked the 2D series. The designs were awesome, especially the backgrounds and the the characters’ expressions trounced the CG characters’.

I felt the 2D show’s episodes would’ve worked well as full length stories in the 3D series. In fact, my personal head canon has that, whatever isn’t contradicted by the CG show or other stuff happened for realz. I mean, why not? 😃

Rodney-2187 said:

I can’t believe we will see a release of the Ewok movies before the unaltered theatrical original trilogy. If they put the Holiday Special up, that’d be insane.

shrug What can you do? I like the special editions ok so I don’t feel the pain as badly but, yeah, that happened. Who knows about the Holiday Special. I feel like it won’t only because they want to respect George Lucas (I mean, if they remastered the original cuts but aren’t releasing them yet, I feel it’s, at minimal, honoring Lucas’ requests)

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digitalfreaknyc said:

I did a quick-and-dirty screenshot comparison between the 720p Disney+ version with the DVD of Clone Wars.

https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/16669/picture:0

Not drastic but there is a difference.

Also, season 1 does not line up with the DVD so it’s a different master.

So the Disney+ version maxes out at 720P? Has anyone been able to confirm whether or not it’s an upscale?

It does look like an improvement based on those screenshots.

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I love it for its grittiness and it’s interesting takes on the characters!

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