Clone Wars Indecision
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So, the new Star Wars movie comes out in a few hours. Sigh.
Warning: Senseless rant Ahead!
I am an old school Star Wars fan, and am devoted to the original trilogy. So epic. So brilliant. Great characters and acting. The prequel trilogy, on the other hand, I despise. Well, maybe not despise, but I really dislike them. Just too much CGIing, bad dialougues between characters, poor acting, and Jar Jar Binks. Now along comes Clone Wars. It gets slipped in between episodes 2 and 3 again. In case you didn't know, there were already two seasons of a Clone Wars cartoon in that spot. Understndable at first, since there is a several year gap between movies 2 and 3. But taking a closer look at the time line reveals some problems. Clone Wars cartoon season one leads directly into season 2, which leads directly into Episode 3. In Cartoon Wars season 2, Anakin is granted the rank of Jedi Knight, and from that point onwards he is able to take an apprentice, like the one he has in CG Wars movie. Okay, but there's not enough time between then and episode3 for all the events of the CG movie to happen, along with the events of the new CGClone Wars TV series coming out in the fall. Next issue is the apprentice Anakin takes in the new movie. Where does she go in episode 3. I can't imagine she is fully trained in that short an amount of time, so why isn't she still with Anakin. And even if she was trained that quickly, how come she is never seen or even mentioned by anyone in episode 3. Thus, my theory is that she will have to die, or go off to a far away planet on a mission, or give Anakin severe amnesia about the whole thing. My third thing here isn't really a problem, just a wish. I hope that General Grevious is actually amazing in this movie. The first time we saw him in the cartoon clone wars series, he took on six Jedi at once. And won. Three were killed in battle, and the other three were severly wounded. If not for the arrival of reinforcements, they too would soon have died. In the second season, Grevious was shown kicking even more tail, this time by launching an attack on Coruscant itself. Killed two more Jedi, and kidnapped the Chancellor Palpetine. So now when Episode three came out, everyone was expecting Grevious to be awesome on the big screen as well. But I was disapointed. First, he was coughing the whole time like someone with a deadly illness, second he was quickly defeated by only one Jedi, when previously he had been seen knocking the stuffing out of six at once. Bah. I just hope he is better this time around.
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Yeah, just had to get that out of my system. Ahhh...
Anyways, my brother and I were going to see Clone Wars at the midnight premeire tonight, but at the last minute he remembered that he had plans already. I don't have any friends who would want to see it with me, so I may just go alone. I'm not really expecting anything amazing since it already looks to me from previews like it's aimed at little kids and new fans, but I intend to see it anyways, because I feel almost obligated to do so as a Star Wars fan. I can still try to go in with a tiny sliver of hope, hope that somehow it will turn out as good as the originals. But then there's also the possibility that it will just take my little piece of hope, and smash it to dust with a giant hammer. Sigh... Decisions, decisions. To go on opening night by myself, or to wait till after everyone else has seen it to go with my brother.
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