Star Wars Clone Wars TV Series First Look
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?I’m one of those who thinks that with regards to the ” Star Wars” saga, it’s all been mostly downhill since “The Empire Strikes Back,” except, of course, Carrie Fisher in slave gear for “Return of the Jedi.” You may go ahead and hate me now, people under 30, you for whom Anakin Skywalker constitutes an interesting character, or simply take it as evidence that I am old and do not know what I am saying.
Though there are plans to enlist living, breathing humans in a “Star Wars” TV series that might appear as early as 2010, George Lucas has for the moment ceded to cartoons the task of continuing his story of the Empire and Republic in a galaxy far, far away. From where I sit, in my analog rocking chair, the switch to animation is a natural outcome of Lucas’ increasing reliance on digital effects across the three prequel films; it was almost a logical next step, taking the real people out, in this year’s seventh “Star Wars” theatrical installment, the CGI-animated “The Clone Wars,” and the TV series of the same name that begins tonight on Cartoon Network.
- from latimes
I watched the first episode of the new Clone Wars series on Cartoon Network tonight. I went into it not expecting much. I didn’t see the recent theatrical release, so I really wasn’t sure what to expect.
I enjoyed the show quite a bit. I was surprised at the level of the lighting, effects, and story. The animation of key scenes was well done, with some hit or miss bits inbetween, but overall it was pretty well done. I really liked the narrator intro at the start, and the pacing of the stories seemed spot on. - from here
Having already had our expectations lowered for the first animated Star Wars TV Series by the first animated Star Wars movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiered Friday, October 3 with virtually nowhere to go but up.
It does a pretty good job of not completely letting us down. Like the movie, it helps to have lowered expectations and it’s good to keep in mind that it is a kid’s show.
Broadcast in HD, the series is a good-looking CG cartoon, continuing the relatively high visual standard set by the movie. The blander textures aren’t as prevalent as they are in the big-screen and the good things are still good.
There’s still plenty of annoyances. The opening scroll of the movies is still replaced with a jingoistic narrator and Seperatist Droids are still ridiculously stupid. The obvious question is why, oh why, do droids need to speak to communicate if they have a big antenna on their back?
We’d all be better off if they did work via Bluetooth. - from here