skyjedi2005 said:Avatar the last airbender is so incredibly superior to the clone wars that i am suprised filoni had anything to do with airbender.
Most of season 1 of clone wars was okay but the ending with this Cad Bane boba fett ripoff with a bad accent totally changed my opinion on tuning in for season 2.
It was nice to read matt lanter saying he and his costar were trying to match Han Solo and Princess Leia of the originals than the prequels.
Still clone wars might be a slight improvement over the prequels, but in my opinion Lucas has way too much of a hand in things and way too much control. I liked the genddy series because he stepped backed and allowed them to do their own thing, funny how that dvd is now permanently out of print because genndy did something Kershner did better star wars than george lucas, which is not allowed.
I really hope Mr Lucas daughter turns out a better writer than he is, because if not the future of clone wars is indeed very grim.
There is not a thing that cannot be destroyed to fit the prequels anymore. They ruined the EU novels, the games etc.
To me i almost put the cut off point for star wars in 1996, before the laughably bad shadows of the empire and the special editions, and before the ruination of star wars in 1999. 1999 was also the year of vector prime when they destroyed the star wars EU in the first book by Killing Chewbacca.
There has been some good star wars fiction since then. I liked Shatter point, and revenge of the sith by stover, and dark lord.
In fact a lot of the tie in writers for the EU write so much better than Lucas it is almost a shame they were writing for the EU universe that does not exist as far as Lucas is concerned.
To this day i don't understand how a self described terrible writer allowed himself to write the 3 screenplays to the prequels. The same guy who says he hates character and plot and likes to do purely visual films.
The strength of the prequels was in the visuals, but the non devloped characters and non existant plot made me not care in the end. Six Hours of explosions, lasersword duels and cgi do not a good human story make.
I don't hate the prequels i just wish the characters were more fully developed than cardboard cutout archetypes.
They tried adding a soul to the visuals by having willaims compose some wonderful music. But Even he this time could not save the films.
I wish the effects were secondary to the human story. But Lucas made the focus on what he considers his strongest abilties. I can only blame him for not hiring a different director for both attack of the clones and revenge of the sith and some other writers to help flesh out the skeleton plot.
To me you have only half a movie with the prequels, you have the effects music and sound effects, but the actors are either under used or ill used. The human story of the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker the greatest jedi of his generation takes a back seat to the action.
Lucas had some truly great and epic ideas to use. A lot of them were under used or underplayed or left in tne background or up to the tie in fiction writers to flesh out.
He talked about the story of faust and miltons paradise lost on the 60 minutes interview, and when i saw revenge of the sith i missed the echo of these great literary works. Because the turn was botched and made zero logical sense.
I also wish a female writer could have helped Lucas on clones and sith to flesh out the character of padme, in clones and sith her character is ruined as much as anakins is. I much prefer the phantom menace which at last focused on the characters. What happened in 2 and 3, did lucas forget or something?
I agree that Lucas had great ideas. I once called him an "idea machine"... he's good throwing cool ideas onto the table, but when it comes to delivering it all on screen, he faulters very badly. When it came to the prequels, I think he should have left the writing and directing to more competent hands, while he acted as just a producer and consultant, which he would have excelled at.