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Re: The General Star Wars Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Spiderbite (Post 14738734)

Are the Clone War cartoons as good as some purport them to be? That is one section of Star Wars I never checked out but probably need to give a shot, though my stamina for animation has really gone downhill over the years for some unexplained reason. As mentioned before, my son just wasn't into Star Wars that much as a kid, so those cartoons were never playing in the background like say, Ben 10, Regular Show, or Adventure Time, etc. which he was obsessed with all for a time.

And I agree with you. It is all in what you grow up with which explains my love for Krull, Flash Gordon, Popeye and The Pirate Movie. :lol:

I watched the entire first season and thought a single episode was good. The Gendy Tarkovsky series is VERY fun, but I guess it's not canon.

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Originally Posted by Hokeyboy (Post 14738738)

The Prequel Trilogy is unique insofar that is of the three trilogies, it's the only one where the third is movie is the best one, and not the worst by far.

I wonder how Mandalorian & Grogu will stack up against Rogue One and Solo.

After re-watching TPM in 2024 for that re-release, I switched from being a 3/2/1 guy to being a 1/3/2 guy. I actually laughed at a Jar Jar bit? It was weird, man. But it's the only one of the PT that functions as a movie on its own. I also think I simply let go of what a crushing disappointment it was back in '99.

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I have always prefered The Phantom Menace over the other two for the Prequels. TPM has the pod race and the Dual of Fates scene. Attack Of The Clones has the big action scene at the end and Yoda bouncing around fighting Dooku. Revenge Of The Sith has nothing good.

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Originally Posted by stvn1974 (Post 14738818)

Not to rehash a bunch of shit but I do remember the pod race sounding fucking amazing in the theater at the time. It had such cool sound design and was literally shaking the seats. Darth Maul was also really cool but damn, Jar Jar still makes it a tough watch. I even watched a fan edit clearing out most of him and he still stuck out like an annoying sore thumb.

Re: The General Star Wars Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by Spiderbite (Post 14738734)

Are the Clone War cartoons as good as some purport them to be? T

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Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 14738750)

I watched the entire first season and thought a single episode was good. The Gendy Tarkovsky series is VERY fun, but I guess it's not canon..

For the CGI Clone Wars series, it got off to a VERY rough start. The "movie" is basically the first few episodes bundled together, and most consider it terrible. The show got better as it went along, Star Wars Rebels acted as an indirect sequel series, with some Clone Wars characters and plots popping up later in the show, while The Bad Batch is a direct sequel to Clone Wars.

There's some viewing guides out there for watching the good/essential Clone Wars episodes while skipping most of the crap. A lot of them end up re-ordering the episode order too, because the show was somewhat episodic, so jumped around a lot and returned to various storylines, or even before other storylines, so some prefer to watch the whole show, or some storylines, in chronological order, which means jumping between episodes and seasons.

This guide looks pretty decent. It starts off with a Season 3 episode, but otherwise is in release order and is only skipping episodes, so when watching you'd mostly just skip forward a few episodes, instead of jumping around a lot.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...g/edit?tab=t.0

This guide has a much crazier viewing order, although it does list all the episodes and storylines and marks the ones to skip, and often gives an explanation of the episodes and why they're being skipped.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/co...star_wars_the/

I believe I used a variant of this infographic (spoilered for size)

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That one only went up to season 5, so I ended up watching all of season 6 and then season 7 (which came out in 2020, six years after season 6), but most people recommend watching all of season 7 anyway.