A New direction for Lucasfilm Animation — Page 2

^I think this is too harsh. Quite honestly, long before the prequels came out, what I wanted out of them was the Clone Wars. Sure, they're now sandwiched between two fair movies at best (that is my opinion, as I do enjoy them despite their significant inferiority to the OT), but if they actually tell a good tale and fill in the gap of what I'd hoped from the pre-OT Star Wars anyway, I'm glad that it gets lots of time to tell the tale. I too am saddened at the news, but it did have to wrap up at some point.

That said, it is also good that things are finally moving on a bit. It would be neat to explore other time frames in the universe.

I don' think it's a surprise at all - considering they never intended to make an eternally long TV series. This is good news. 
It's a comfort that Disney's not going to keep up The Clone Wars - keeping it alive as some zombie show. 

People are just trying to sensationalize the news that Season 5 was the last complete season. 
There are still a bunch of episodes to show. They're just not going to broadcast them on Cartoon Network.

Cartoon network moving the show to Saturday mornings was a decision that predated the Disney thing, so I have to wonder how long the show would have gone on even with George still in charge. When Young Indy was canceled, he kept going with a handful of TV movies to wrap it up that showed on cable, which really doesn't sound much different than what is happening now anyway.

Well, seems like that "Bonus content" is pretty much nothing.

http://www.theforce.net/topstory/story/Report_TCW_Bonus_Content_To_Be_Two_Story_Arcs_150831.asp

I can not express with words how much more angry this made me.  WHAT HAPPENS TO MAUL?!  AND DON"T YOU DARE TELL ME HE'S IN EPISODE 7!

And really who care about the bounty hunters, except for Boba Fett.  They're cool characters, but it isn't what's needed to end this series.  Cad Bane And Aurra Sing make no difference.

At the least I hope the clone arc shows the fate of Rex (or any of the other important clone people I'm forgetting about).

Episode 7 better be worth it.

Terminator 4 wasn't.

emanswfan said:

Well, seems like that "Bonus content" is pretty much nothing.

http://www.theforce.net/topstory/story/Report_TCW_Bonus_Content_To_Be_Two_Story_Arcs_150831.asp

I can not express with words how much more angry this made me.  WHAT HAPPENS TO MAUL?!  AND DON"T YOU DARE TELL ME HE'S IN EPISODE 7!

DON'T *YOU* TELL ME HE'S IN THE CLONE WARS. :-/

I liked TCW, but frankly I'm really glad "Detours" wont see the light of day. Those clips were atrociously unfunny.

it's a shame, Clone Wars really deserved a final season , if only to put a bit of a gap between Ahsoka leaving and Episode 4, the recent episodes really fleshed out Anakin's and the Republic's growing dissatisfaction of the Jedi Order.  

I have not been a faithful watcher, but I hope to eventually get through it all. If they do not give anything more than bonus content for now, I hope that Disney/LFL will at least provide a second feature film to wrap things up. Sure, the first CW movie wasn't so great, but other incomplete shows (e.g. Firefly) can still be tied up surprisingly nicely with a well written movie (e.g. Serenity).

The recent announcement has spurred me to give more attention to this series.  I am slowly working my way through the episodes.  I also gave the ol' traditionally animated microseries a gander (finally).  I have to say that while the first half was kinda weird, with every other minute filled with dramatic pauses and poses, the second half was really quite good!  I wish the now cancelled series would have been able to transfer the same story points (up to the capture of Palpatine) to CGI.  I know 2008 series got better as it went, but even these first few episodes are really quite enjoyable.  It makes me excited to see more.  But I guess what interests me most about this show is that it increases the value of the PT.  Without TCW, the PT is a disappointing trilogy lacking in both character and action (I remember very clearly before 1999 wanting the PT to be about the Clone Wars).  With TCW, it seems that the PT at least serves as a buttress or complement to the series, which really gives Star Wars fans what they wanted from a pre-OT Star Wars.

Potentially some light at the end of our tunnel?

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/05/the-clone-wars-dave-filoni-developing-the-next-star-wars-animated-series?abthid=515e26868da4b8024d000024

I hope this means it will build off of TCW.  I know it will take place at some untouched timeframe, but what does that mean?  The only virgin Star Wars times are what, at least 150 years post ROTJ?  I can't imagine they're going that far out.  More likely in my mind is that it will take place between Eps. 3 an 4.  But who knows.  In any case, with Filoni at the helm, perhaps there will be some closure to the series.

I probably am the only one here who bothered to sign it, but I did my my name on the petition to save the Clone Wars.

http://www.causes.com/actions/1733395-allow-star-wars-the-clone-wars-to-remain-on-the-air-till-the-end

I doubt the Clone Wars protest groups are big enough or cohesive enough to change Disney's/LFL's mind, sadly.

Another article with a little more info on the Filoni interview:

http://screencrush.com/star-wars-the-clone-wars-dave-filoni-future/

And an interview from a couple of the guys from Lucas Animation and how in the dark they have been about TCW ending or how the "bonus material" will be released.  I'm starting to think we may get more than two arcs at least.

http://emertainmentmonthly.com/2013/04/05/interview-with-the-clone-wars-supervising-animation-editor-jason-tucker-and-assistant-animation-editor-nate-cormier/