Clone Wars Cartoon – Is it canon? Or is it to be relegated to the EU
#1
Posted 16 November 2003 - 08:07 AM
I don’t know who did the reckoning before, but an early list included: the movies, novelizations, and the radio recordings.
Given the strengths and limitations of each medium, each could contribute to the bare essence of GL’s creation, as opposed to an acquired monetary franchise where companies simply make up the storyline with input from LFL (which isn’t necessarily GL).
Here’s something that impacts the SW universe depending on whether the cartoon is considered canon:
In Chapter 6, Asajj Ventress says she is Sith, not just an expert in lightsaber fighting. Are there suddenly more that just the master and apprentice, thus, breaking the so-called Rule of Two?
#2
Posted 16 November 2003 - 01:50 PM
#3
Posted 04 June 2005 - 08:43 PM
I for one, just recently obtained Vol.1 of the CLONE WARS on DVD and found it to be extremely well done.
As for the Sith thing, consider this:
In the Kinghts of the Old Republic game (which is considered part of the SW universe), it says that the Sith were an entirely different species. People went to the Sith homeworld and over time, the two species emerged as one. It also says that real Sith dies out ages ago, and modern ones are merely followers of an ideal.
#4
Posted 04 June 2005 - 08:48 PM
Like I said in another thread, I don't consider Jedi and Sith a race.
But to the point. I too liked the cartoons. Shame. Anyway, they have to be considered official storyline, cause GG got his chest chrushed in the cartoon, and it happened in ep.III.
#6
Posted 04 June 2005 - 10:42 PM
I really like Tartovsky's style.. granted he started with Dexter's Laboratory, and then did Samuri Jack (Which has won emmy's for soundtrack and maybe more I'm not sure.) which I totally dig. So I was extremely excited to hear he was doing these before they came out. Now that Lucas has decided to turn it into a 30 min episodic series, I'm not sure what to think.. mainly because I heard it was going to go to 3D rendered.. which could be very bad. (I'm not sure how well Tartovsky's style will translate.) Only time will tell.
#8
Posted 05 June 2005 - 12:28 PM
By any rate, Lucas is pretty strict about what fits into 'his' universe, so yeah, Clone Wars is canon.
#9
Posted 05 June 2005 - 12:51 PM
It can be argued that it is canon. I mean, the novel mentions specific things that happened in the cartoons. Are some of those planets mentioned by Obi-Wan and Anakin events from the cartoons? I'm not familiar enough with the cartoons to know for sure.
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#10
Posted 05 June 2005 - 03:20 PM
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Posted 05 June 2005 - 05:53 PM
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Posted 05 June 2005 - 06:05 PM
#15
Posted 05 June 2005 - 06:11 PM
Ah but Matrix did it for a reason. They were inspired by anime in the first place.. so they wanted to go back to that and have all the big names in anime do something as sort of a tribute back to the roots of the matrix.
But true.. will there be an Indy cartoon before Indy 4 comes out?
Or how about a Jason cartoon before his next horror film?
what do you do for animated movies? will we see a live action series of pokemon before the next pokemon movie?!