I agree. I was skeptical of the current CGI version, both because I'm not a super fan of CGI (overdone, often average, pushing out traditional animation), and because I was afraid it'd be too juvenile in tone. Tartokovsky's 2D animated version set the bar very high as well. But the current program gets better with every season, and seems to be getting more mature in tone as well. Like I said: surgery on infants, attempts to kill them when the gig was up? Unexpected.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 10:27:50 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Clone Wars" Great Fun on Cartoon Network I love the animated series. I don't think of them as being related to the movies at all even though they are the same characters. The series is very consistent in the level of action and good writing. Its a joy to watch. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: speaking of all our conversations about how the Star Wars movies lost quality over time, do you watch The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network? Tonight, nursing a summer cold and listening to major rainstorms, I sat down and watched a two-part ep tonight, and I must say I was impressed! The story centered around a bounty hunter named Cad Bane, who has stolen information about several Force sensitive children. At the future Emperor's behest, Bane sets off to kidnap the children. Darth Siddious then would have the children operated on to force their premature growth in the Force, and use them as a type of living remote sensing spies bound to his will. This was one exciting hour. The action was non-stop, there were lots of good battles, both in space and hand-to-hand, and even the acting was good. The voice actor behind Bane was suitably menacing, as were the others. And the way the subject matter was handled was pretty surprising for a kid friendly show. When the robot Siddious orders to operate on one of the children points out that the child might not survive, he replies, "In that case I still lose nothing". Later, with the Jedi on the way, he orders the entire hideout destroyed, fully intending to kill the kidnapped infants as well. The music, action, acting, writing, and vivid colors on display all combined to make this a really fun hour. I can honestly say that The Clone Wars is in the main far superiour to the vast bulk of all the recent Star Wars movies. I could honestly watch this series on DVD, coupled with Gendy Tartokovsky's animated Clone Wars, and never watch the three prequel movies again, and be very, very satisfied. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
