Originally posted by: JediRandy
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I dunno if the ratings will be that bad, man. I think a lot of haters kinda live in a bubble where SW it now a despised piece of crap that is laughed at... Networks try out these Sci-Fi type shows just hoping it catches a Buffy-like cult following. SW has a built in cult following no matter how much fanboy bitching takes place online.

The Clone Wars cartoon was a blast... even the most pissy fanboy should be able to enjoy a half hour of that stuff once a week. But who knows.

I really think that the SW TV show will be a purely niche audience, and how much of that I don't even know. I think we all forget that the PT had a built in audience of OT fans who were pretty much going to see all 3 of them in the theaters no matter how bad they were. Just think of many trilogies that faded away because of average sequels: BTTF3, Terminator3, SupermanIII, and Matrix Revolutions. All of those movies did significantly less business then its predecessors, and pretty much put a nail in any sequels, although Superman IV got green lit, but that sucked even more then III!

Everyone has to remember, which was the highest grossing PT movie? TPM, yet which is considered the best by the majority of SW fans? ROTS. The bottom line is that TPM had the widest audience of any SW, old, new, casual, etc. After that, many people, and a couple of them I knew, went once to see TPM caused they liked the OT growing up, didn't like it and moved on. Those people don't hate Lucas, they don't really care about the SE/OOT battle, they don't think Lucas raped their childhood, they just enjoyd the OT movies, didn't like TPM, and could care less about Episode II or III.

The SW movies draw a huge audience for several reasons: They are an event, they harken many people back to their younger days of seeing the OT as kids, and a SW movie has become a phenomenon where you have to be there opening weekend just to talk about it with everybody else.

The TV show has zero of that going for it, so right there you lose the casual fan who just liked the movies. Then you have diehard OT fans who didn't like the PT, and are disgruntled and kinda fed up with SW, so they probably aren't interested in it. Whats left? EU fans, people who just love anything SW, EU, PT, Movies, Clone Wars, more SW the better. There is a market of those fans out there, but I don't think Lucas realizes it isn't nearly as big as the movie crowd.