Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Which is why I hate ROTS's General Grievous. He walks around crippled avter being wounded in the cartoons. I shouldn't have to watch the friggin' cartoons to see the villain! It should be in the movie!!!

Even worse than that I wonder which came first, the cough or the cartoon. I've heard that the Clone Wars producers put it in to explain the cough, just as they put in Anakin's knighting ceremony, etc. But I haven't heard a clear timeline as to whether or not Lucas told them "this is how he got his cough" or if, when presented with the script of ROTS to 'animate the crawl' as they've said, the animators just thought 'this is stupid but let's try to explain it like we've had to do with everything else.

Part of me wishes I'd have never seen Clone Wars prior to seeing ROTS so that my mind would have been even freer to love or hate the film based on its own merits. (Not that my opinion of it could have been much lower)