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Post #315821

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zombie84
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New 'The Clone Wars' movie trailer
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Date created
13-Apr-2008, 10:51 AM
I can put aside all the retcon and deviations from the actual films, because as long as the story is good and the characters well done and it is entertaining, that is really all that matters, you can just sit and enjoy it. But theres nothing about this show I can find that gives me any confidence, any time I learn something new my opinion sinks. I mean its not like we've seen the show but theres lots of info and clips around now to judge by.

-bad storyline. Yoda and Anakin's padawan saving Jabbas son? Thats the story??
-bad visuals. The thing looks like fucking Reboot from 1995, except its not 1995 and this is a feature film.
-bad writing. Have you heard the way Yoda speaks in the trailer? If thats an indication of how the dialog is, then we are in trouble. And its consistent with the first point I brought up, and consistent with the next
-action overload. If you look at the material presented online its all action, theres like 3 lines of bad exposition dialog, a ridiculously lame story about Anakin and his Padawan being sent to Tatooine with an army of clones by Yoda to rescue Jabbas son thats barely even mentioned, and everything else is just eye candy and pointless fighting shots.

And this brings me to the realisation that I originally had: its just a bloody Lucasfilm tv show for kids. Not much effort has gone into it, the characters will not be developed the way they would in a real, serious feature film because this was just a show designed for Saturday morning for the kids that will be lining up to buy Force Unleashed. I had hoped that this would be something more, because it sounded maybe promising and Lucas started getting involved and then they decided to release it theatrically, so I thought maybe my prejudgement was premature, but it turns out that I just got tricked by the Lucasfilm hype machine.