The droid antics are just appalling. It is impossible to take any situation involving the villains seriously with battle droids frolicking and making stupid remarks in the background. Of course, it doesn't help that Grievous is written to be as campy, over-the-top and incompetent as possible. He now has a moronic Russian accent to go with his other Boris Badenov personality traits. He's a cackling imbecile and has zero believability as a genuine threat to the Republic.
The first two episodes can been seen in full on Cartoon Network's
site.
Ding Dong. The Movie is dead. The last 166 cinemas decided $36 a showing wasn't worth the cost of cleaning, and axed it. The total domestic takings of $34,871,515 are very poor for a "Star Wars" movie, but enough so Lucas can afford to never wear the same flannelet shirt twice.
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The first two episodes can been seen in full on Cartoon Network's site.
Thanks Commodore. Kudos to CN for be smart enough to release them online.
I watched it. They were better than the movie, but then the movies were truly awful. The first one, Yoda on a 'race' to meet Watoo's King, was pretty standard kiddie fare. This time there was at least an 'emote' scene where Yoda bonds with his Clonetroopers, but they still spend too much time with their helmets on, they look alike with them off and their differences are so superficial it doesn't pass for characterization (e.g. one of them 'likes' weapons. Who would have thought...) No plot, and the conclusion was never in doubt. Ventress predictably escapes in a dumb way.
The second one was Skyguy and Snips rescuing that cane toad Jedi and his clonetroopers. Similar 'emote' scene, but same problems. The whole 'Skyguy' and 'Snips' bickering is annoying. The violence is pretty weird: The brown noser at WIRED claims it's a kids thing, but then we have a scene where Roger-roger droids smash a window of pleading uniformed clones trapped in an escape capsule, sucking them into space. Creepy, sure, but kids stuff? Unlike the first one, there was a bit of suspense.
In all though, standard kiddie fare. Despite Filoni's claim to be inspired by anime, these things simply lack the of quality. The stories are too simple to suck adults or even older kids in - And heck even kiddie anime has decent stories. We all know how this ends anyway, so the end is in doubt and still hard to emote a clone/roger-roger droid. Greivous isn't the cool dude he was in the Tartovsky cartoons - It's Prequel Greivous instead. The comedy isn't funny. I didn't laugh once.
I watch some anime, but I don't watch American kids cartoons, so maybe someone with kids can position it better. I presume they had the brains to look around and premiere with two of the better episodes, given the drivel that was the movie. Adults will lose interest, but if they can keep to this 'standard' and the ratings remain high, the series will survive. Despite what he says, Lucas didn't go for a "tune in next week" ending. The stories are completely disconnected. There is no story arc here. Disappointing too, because the whole CGI series should have been awesome.
Question now: Are these the best episodes they could come up with?