negative1 said:
if you want to argue about semantics, then fine... but saying a movie = tv series, is false, since it was NEVER on tv, that's my point, you can watch the tv series without ever having the movie, and still 'get whats going on'......... and my point still stands, just because you watched the 'movie' doesn't mean you've watched the tv show, which has had several episodes that are well beyond the scope of the movie, and have shown a high and consistent quality..
No, the movie is the start of the tv show, that's the reality. And it's going to have a lot in common with it. So yeah you can get a good idea of the tv show from the movie, because they're of the same cloth. Heck, I bet you can get a good idea of the show without even having seen the movie. The movie in many ways was as I expected it to be. It's made of prequel stuff, except even shallower and less faithful. If I could guess what the movie was going to be like from having read about it and seen stills and seen the prequels, then chances are I can tell a lot about the show from seeing the movie. When after all the movie and the show are just two parts of the same thing. High and consistent quality? Are you kidding? A modern Lucasfilm show that puts itself forward as real Star Wars while peddling revolting animation and prequelish nonsense? High and consistent quality is hardly likely. You just want to invalidate my view because you don't like it. Sorry, my view is valid.
yes, i knew it was GOING to be made into a tv series, and because IT WASN'T, thats why it comes down to semantics..... again, you have nothing to criticize about the current tv series, becuase you haven't watched any of the new episodes, or at least you won't admit it. that was my point. if you had, you wouldn't be complaining about the quality or tone of the 'clone wars' in the manner you did.
Semantics my ass. The movie is a sample of the show. Maybe slightly different from the rest of the show, but still a sample of it that can give me some idea. So I have plenty to criticise. Heck, I'd have plenty to criticise if I'd never seen the movie. There's a lot you can tell about this whole project without having seen any of it. As for telling me I wouldn't be complaining about the tone and quality of the show if I saw more of it... are you serious? We're talking modern Lucasfilm bullshit here. The last Star Wars screen fiction I found remotely worth watching was the Phantom Menace and the "in" style has changed since then, things have gone downhill, what professes to be Star Wars has gone yet farther from real Star Wars than TPM. I don't expect it would go back to real Star Wars when they're trying to push an animated show as the real thing, an animated show with annoying characters and revolting animation. The chances of it being quality or being properly Star Wars are nil. They don't make quality in "Star Wars" nowadays. The only question is how bad it is. Maybe the main body of the show is a bit better than the pilot movie, but it's not going to be good, it's not going to be worth me wasting my time on it, it's not going to have depth or Star Wars feeling or animation I can bear to look at. So yeah I'd be complaining, as you put it, if I saw the episodes.