skyjedi2005 said:
I like it, its kind of like a modern version of marvel star wars, takes Continuity with a grain of salt, Which is fun. I just dislike the obvious modern Lucas touches.
I also dislike that it is not EU and is Canon with the films, but hey whatever George knows best,lol.
Erik i think the live action could be good in certain circumstances. Like Lucas does not direct, and someone else writes the episodes. Guest writers and guest Directors like Young Indy, and up and comers in the industry as well as industry veterans.
As for Clone Wars i think it is really cool Walter Murch is directing an episode for season 4.
I think Return to Oz is unfairly maligned by Critics.
Still he is an incomparable editor, and sound guy.
Although, I really don't care about Star Wars "canon" anymore (and haven't for awhile since the term is really meaningless... it's no guarentee of quality OR continuity), technically the Clone Wars movie and the CGI series are in a category all their own called "T-Canon" (short for TV canon, even though it doesn't include ANY of the other Star Wars shows or movies that have appeared on TV like the Ewok adventures or even the previous Clone Wars series). The "canon" just morphs into whatever they want to include whatever they want. I think the only reason they keep the term at all is because they think fans care about whether something is "canon" or not. Even the films aren't very consistent with one another, and if Lucas himself doesn't care that much, then how much less will the hired writers who are constrained by Lucas' bottom line?
So essentially the CGI series stands alone, even if it appears to be loosely following the movies (like everything else in the SW franchise, it's all loosely following the films). It is certainly not the case that somehow this is "above" or "more real" than the rest of the EU (from the best of it to the worst).
It's sad when a (supposed) kids show is the best thing going in Star Wars. To me it's okay, but it might as well not be Star Wars at all, that's just a hook to get fans to watch it ("omg watch me or you're missing part of the Star Wars story!!!")
My philosophy is that these are just entertainment. I like what I like, regardless of what "level" or "category" it fits into. But it's not like somehow the rest of the EU has vanished in favor of the six films and the CGI series.
I will agree that the TV episodes I've seen were generally better overall than the big screen movie (which felt like an average TV episode anyway). Anakin is generally portrayed as a more likable "hero." Overall, some of the interpretations or ideas of the Prequel stuff is more interesting or cooler at times, but in general the technology seems a lot weaker (bringing Star Wars down to the level of Star Trek, let's say; this is the polar opposite of the previous cartoon series which turned all the main characters into gods, and exaggerated nearly everything's power to silver age comic book level) and the Jedi, if anything, seem even more incompetent than before (a staple of kid's cartoons is that both good guys and bad guys are dumb, though the good guys are just a tiny bit smarter than the bad guys, at least by the end of an episode). So while some episodes are clearly fan-service, it feels like a competely different interpretation of the Star Wars universe, using Prequel (mostly) characters.