Lucas McCain

My kids (and me) love the new Clone Wars cartoon on Cartoon Network and I had some questions for Star Wars nerds (I'm one too but I don't know this answer)....

1) Is this series supposed to be separate from the earlier Clone wars cartoons? In other words, since Anakin killed Asaji (or something like that) Ventress in the earlier series, is that how she goes out or is this series assuming the prior series never existed, therefore letting somebody kill her again?

2) Is this series only supposed to run for 2 years? I thought I had read that somewhere? Or will it go as long as people watch it?

GuessWho

I believe it takes place inbetween the earlier cartoon's 2 seasons.

It's supposedly going for 100+ episodes, so that will be a few years.

davidh777

It's a good show with numerous fans on this board. Read more here:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/tv-talk/540...s-reviews.html

resinrats

They could be taking place the same time. Some episodes taking place between the episodes of the other series. We don't actually see Ventress die. She just sort of falls out of sight. As any comic book fan knows, unless you see a body, they probably lived. It has shown Jedi jumping from insane heights so she just landed fine and ran off.

Snowmaker

I consider myself a huge SW fan. I have the original CW cartoon DVDs, I'll even sit through the Star Wars Holiday Special, but I just cannot get into this series and did not even see the movie. Not sure what it is about it, but I just can't watch it.

nemein

The only thing I'm not liking about it so far is the screwed up release schedule/order and trying to find new eps. Can't wait for the DVD release to finally see it in the order it was meant to be.

BTW what's the other cartoon people are talking about? Was that the traditional animated one a few years back? I never bothered watching that, was it worth it?

GuessWho

Anakin had a padawan braid in the 1st half of the older series and long hair (and scars?) in the 2nd half so I think the current series is inbetween them.

milo bloom

The previous animated series is incredible. It's done by the guy that did Samurai Jack and I basically consider Episode 2.5.

I'm still a little bothered why they didn't approach him with a blank check for this one and tell him "do it again".

taffer

Asajj Ventress was never actually killed in the original Clone Wars cartoon. She reappeared in later comic books. If you want to see her final fate (as well as Durge's final fate) you need to read the Star Wars: Obsession five-part miniseries.

Morf

Those comics are not canon though, correct?

Baron Of Hell

This series is before the first cartoon series or at least part we seen so far is.

taffer

The Dark Horse comics are just as much canon as the rest of the EU.



Not sure because the time line is so screwy, but Asajj Ventress was introduced in the original cartoon so I don't see how this new cartoon could possibly take place prior to it.

Panda Phil

Can the dvd's of the first two animated series still be found? It was something I kept putting off buying, and now that I'm interested, the blasted things are OOP.


Aww c'mon, at least give the movie a shot. I was skeptical too until a friend showed it at his place one Saturday night. I actually enjoyed it a lot. Did a good job of bringing back the same sense of fun as the OT.