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Star Wars: The Clone Wars. [YouTube][Trailer] “Today at the 10-year anniversary San Diego Comic-Con panel for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, fans were hit with news they couldn’t have seen coming even from a galaxy far, far away — after an abrupt ending, Dave Filoni’s CG animated series will return for one last season on Disney’s new streaming service.” [via: Polygon]
Yay! I guess, now that I think about it, The Clone Wars is my favorite Star Wars. It used to be ESB, but no, definitely this.
posted by BeeDo at 2:49 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by BeeDo at 2:49 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
The Clone Wars is my favorite Star Wars
I think Rebels will hold that spot in my brain, but I've basically retconned this entire universe and The Clone Wars are basically the prequels we deserved and should have been given from the get go. But then again, maybe the prequels we were given allowed for the Clone Wars to happen in the first place. Either way, this is the true beginning and how I'll keep it in my brain.
posted by Fizz at 2:50 PM on July 19, 2018 [4 favorites]
I think Rebels will hold that spot in my brain, but I've basically retconned this entire universe and The Clone Wars are basically the prequels we deserved and should have been given from the get go. But then again, maybe the prequels we were given allowed for the Clone Wars to happen in the first place. Either way, this is the true beginning and how I'll keep it in my brain.
posted by Fizz at 2:50 PM on July 19, 2018 [4 favorites]
Will future generations consider Dave Filoni to be the most important Star Wars creative of this era? That would be weird, but not undeserved.
posted by selfnoise at 2:55 PM on July 19, 2018 [13 favorites]
posted by selfnoise at 2:55 PM on July 19, 2018 [13 favorites]
I still haven't seen Rebels, but if it is as good as The Clone Wars that's high praise.
posted by BeeDo at 2:57 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by BeeDo at 2:57 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
ESB?
Ectoplasmic Sausage Buffer?
European Seismic Badminton?
Extremely Stupid Buffoonery?
sorry, I are having a bigly ADHD day today.
posted by evilDoug at 3:01 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
Ectoplasmic Sausage Buffer?
European Seismic Badminton?
Extremely Stupid Buffoonery?
sorry, I are having a bigly ADHD day today.
posted by evilDoug at 3:01 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
So, like, four episodes of "Crystal Crisis on Utapau", four episodes of "Bad Batch", then four episodes of WTF starring the Mortis Gods?
posted by The Tensor at 3:07 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by The Tensor at 3:07 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
They already put the half-finished episodes on Netflix, right? Clone Wars is pretty good. It performs the invaluable service of convincing me that Padme/Anakin romantic involvement is plausible. (It also gave us a very flirty cartoon Obi-Wan.) I don't love the show enough to sign up for a new streaming service (ugh), but I'm glad Disney is finishing it. Disney's purchase of Star Wars ended the show, and they've been very cagey about what counts as Star Wars canon. I'll take the finished final season as an endorsement -- and hope that they'll make an Ahsoka Tano movie!
posted by grandiloquiet at 3:20 PM on July 19, 2018
posted by grandiloquiet at 3:20 PM on July 19, 2018
grandiloquiet, if you've not seen Rebels. Do it. You'll thank me later.
posted by Fizz at 3:51 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Fizz at 3:51 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
Disney's purchase of Star Wars ended the show, and they've been very cagey about what counts as Star Wars canon.
They actually straight up said at the time that the Clone Wars series was the only non-movie Star Wars media to remain in the canon. And that everything else and the Extended Universe was not considered canon, but could be upgraded to canon if so desired in future, like our good friend Grand Admiral Thrawn.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:57 PM on July 19, 2018 [3 favorites]
They actually straight up said at the time that the Clone Wars series was the only non-movie Star Wars media to remain in the canon. And that everything else and the Extended Universe was not considered canon, but could be upgraded to canon if so desired in future, like our good friend Grand Admiral Thrawn.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:57 PM on July 19, 2018 [3 favorites]
I am excited for this.
Maybe not subscribe-to-a-new-thing excited, but still excited.
posted by Artw at 4:04 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
Maybe not subscribe-to-a-new-thing excited, but still excited.
posted by Artw at 4:04 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
grandiloquiet, if you've not seen Rebels. Do it. You'll thank me later.
If the first season doesn't do it for you it;s worth pushing on through.
posted by Artw at 4:04 PM on July 19, 2018 [5 favorites]
If the first season doesn't do it for you it;s worth pushing on through.
posted by Artw at 4:04 PM on July 19, 2018 [5 favorites]
I don't think I made it far past the first season of Rebels, though it wasn't bad. I think I streamed it from the Disney kids channel, though, and they had cut-aways to very aggressive (loud!!!!!) advertising.
I know they have Darth Cockroach, Ahsoka Tano, and a bunch of Mandalorians in later seasons...so its definitely on the list. There's too much TV now, I'm always missing something!
posted by grandiloquiet at 4:26 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
I know they have Darth Cockroach, Ahsoka Tano, and a bunch of Mandalorians in later seasons...so its definitely on the list. There's too much TV now, I'm always missing something!
posted by grandiloquiet at 4:26 PM on July 19, 2018 [1 favorite]
...uhhh sorry and please delete if that was too much of a spoiler, I'm terribly careless about anything more than a week old.
posted by grandiloquiet at 4:37 PM on July 19, 2018
posted by grandiloquiet at 4:37 PM on July 19, 2018
Begun again, The Clone Wars has.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:28 PM on July 19, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:28 PM on July 19, 2018 [6 favorites]
I don't know. That was a long time ago.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 7:41 PM on July 19, 2018
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 7:41 PM on July 19, 2018
Twelve episodes of wtf starring the Mortis gods, please and thank you
posted by potrzebie at 9:40 PM on July 19, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by potrzebie at 9:40 PM on July 19, 2018 [3 favorites]
I'm happy to see more things being done in the Clone Wars era, but at the same time I didn't think that the way the series ended was all that inconclusive. There were plot threads left hanging, but most of those got picked up in some way by Rebels. Then again, I trust that Dave Filoni implicitly when it comes to animated SW, so I'm prepared to enjoy this quite a bit.
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:58 AM on July 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:58 AM on July 20, 2018 [1 favorite]
This was an incredible announcement that elicited so much joy across the fandom yesterday (yours truly included). The Clone Wars helped me to better appreciate the prequel trilogy, but more so, pushed and pulled at the Star Wars universe in way that both invoked the original trilogy's homage to the cinematic past but brought in new types of stories. It provided more empowerment for Padme, while introducing two amazing women characters, Asajj Ventress and Ahsoka Tano. Incidentally, it also helped me regain some admiration I had for George Lucas' storytelling ability, as he played a significant role in story development and production of the series. Dave Filoni gives Lucas an incredible amount of credit for not just making the show what it was, but also teaching him the language of Star Wars, which he carried on into his other projects. When it was unceremoniously canceled following the Disney acquisition, it was running at an amazing level of quality, story-wise, animation wise, and so on.
I would argue that the show ended on something of a solid foot, benchmarked by the story of Ahsoka Tano (I won't ruin it for those who haven't watched); but originally, Filoni had hoped that the final episode would lead right into the beginning of Revenge of the Sith - which I'm predicting it will, if not chronologically skip forward even a bit with regard to some specific characters (I.e., provide us the impact of Order 66 with our favorite clones and Ahsoka Tano).
When it was canceled, the stories did not end. As some of have mentioned, The Lost Missions were released, the episodes that were completed already for the next season (watch them for insight in how Yoda came to realize Qui-gon's fate). Then on StarWars.com, under the Clone Wars tab, you could find the story reels of episodes where the voice work had been completed, some sound effects, but the actual animation was not finished - it's rough, really rough. This included two arcs, Utaupau and the Bad Batch, I think, (maybe there's a third arc in there?); and there's even some art work available and preliminary animation on the episodes that were part of batch of scripts that were novelized into Dark Disciple by Christie Golden (essential for those wanting to see the completion of Ventress' story).
What a lot of people are expecting, at the least, is the depiction of the Siege of Mandalore, which was supposed to conclude the series. The very conclusion of the actual battle/siege was briefly shown in E.K. Johnston's Ahsoka novel, and it was referenced, I think in Rebels. A certain bit of Rebels was definitely written to compensate for the premature conclusion of its parent show.
But, if you haven't watched The Clone Wars, you're denying yourself a lot of excellent Star Wars, that has strongly influenced franchise content since it's release. The show is on Netflix, along with the movie, and if you have an interest to check it out, watch it in chronological order (here's the list of episodes on how to do it).
posted by Atreides at 1:20 PM on July 20, 2018
I would argue that the show ended on something of a solid foot, benchmarked by the story of Ahsoka Tano (I won't ruin it for those who haven't watched); but originally, Filoni had hoped that the final episode would lead right into the beginning of Revenge of the Sith - which I'm predicting it will, if not chronologically skip forward even a bit with regard to some specific characters (I.e., provide us the impact of Order 66 with our favorite clones and Ahsoka Tano).
When it was canceled, the stories did not end. As some of have mentioned, The Lost Missions were released, the episodes that were completed already for the next season (watch them for insight in how Yoda came to realize Qui-gon's fate). Then on StarWars.com, under the Clone Wars tab, you could find the story reels of episodes where the voice work had been completed, some sound effects, but the actual animation was not finished - it's rough, really rough. This included two arcs, Utaupau and the Bad Batch, I think, (maybe there's a third arc in there?); and there's even some art work available and preliminary animation on the episodes that were part of batch of scripts that were novelized into Dark Disciple by Christie Golden (essential for those wanting to see the completion of Ventress' story).
What a lot of people are expecting, at the least, is the depiction of the Siege of Mandalore, which was supposed to conclude the series. The very conclusion of the actual battle/siege was briefly shown in E.K. Johnston's Ahsoka novel, and it was referenced, I think in Rebels. A certain bit of Rebels was definitely written to compensate for the premature conclusion of its parent show.
But, if you haven't watched The Clone Wars, you're denying yourself a lot of excellent Star Wars, that has strongly influenced franchise content since it's release. The show is on Netflix, along with the movie, and if you have an interest to check it out, watch it in chronological order (here's the list of episodes on how to do it).
posted by Atreides at 1:20 PM on July 20, 2018
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