TheBoost said:
Fang Zei said:
Meanwhile, LFL launches that massive multimedia clone wars project with the six books, the genndy series, the comics, the digest comics, etc, and people got even more pissed as it became clear that GL intentionally left everything people wanted to see out of AOTC (tell me that's not the most commonly voiced complaint about the PT) just so he could make more money by spreading it out over that huge multimedia campaign. Cash grab though it was, the various creative minds behind it arguably did a better job than GL did with the prequels because they embraced what had come before in the EU and the OT.

In regards to Lucas leaving what people wanted to see out of AOTC (intentionally none the less!!!), what did people want to see in that film? I'm not sure what aspects of the Clone Wars 'cash grab' would have been better in the films.

The ludicrous action of the cartoon? The existential search for identity of Jangotat? Another disposable villain like Ventress or Durge? Obi-Wan's chestplate? Or were we all dispointed that AOTC didn't include MedStar Battle Surgeons!?? Which of these great plot points exactly were intentionally left out because of their overwhelming greatness?

As for most commonly voiced complaint about AOTC, it seems to me that it's between 'the love story blew' or 'the mystery subplot blew.'

I guess it's just the little things like the IG droids in the cartoon or dreadnaughts and the chemical spill on Honoghr in the comics. What really got me was how amazing the Anakin/Obi-Wan storyline in Labyrinth of Evil was compared to the Nelvaan story in volume 2 of the cartoon.

Even without the cartoon comparison, I remember hearing that Labyrinth of Evil was an idea that started as what was originally the first part of ROTS' screenplay. Like I said in the other post, I was reading that thinking "this is the best Star Wars novel ever."