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I did several searches for this, and waited a while to see if anyone would make a topic. But they haven't, so. . .
After Revenge of the Sith there were rumours going around that a TV show would be created based around some Jedi who had survived "Order 66," that it would be about them running away from Vader's Jedi cleansing. And the fact is that between Episode 3 and Episode 4 we have some 18 years.
Last week Lucas made it official. There would be a live action Star Wars show, tentatively set for release in 2009. No cast yet.
Here's the Wikipedia entry. Here's IMDB's.
The complaints I've been hearing are mostly along the line that it will just further sully the rep of Episodes 4-6, and that it can't live up to the high production values. I know that if Lucas attaches ILM and Skywalker ranch to the production then at least it will look nice, and he really has no reason not to.
As he usually does, Lucas hinted at further things to come if the show is a hit, possibly with some KOTOR-era series. My dream would be an HBO-produced EU series with hardcore Vong action. But that just won't ever happen.
So, is this great news for people who like watching TV, or is this one more kick in the nuts for everyone who wishes that Episodes 1-3 never happened? Discuss!
After Revenge of the Sith there were rumours going around that a TV show would be created based around some Jedi who had survived "Order 66," that it would be about them running away from Vader's Jedi cleansing. And the fact is that between Episode 3 and Episode 4 we have some 18 years.
Last week Lucas made it official. There would be a live action Star Wars show, tentatively set for release in 2009. No cast yet.
Here's the Wikipedia entry. Here's IMDB's.
The complaints I've been hearing are mostly along the line that it will just further sully the rep of Episodes 4-6, and that it can't live up to the high production values. I know that if Lucas attaches ILM and Skywalker ranch to the production then at least it will look nice, and he really has no reason not to.
As he usually does, Lucas hinted at further things to come if the show is a hit, possibly with some KOTOR-era series. My dream would be an HBO-produced EU series with hardcore Vong action. But that just won't ever happen.
So, is this great news for people who like watching TV, or is this one more kick in the nuts for everyone who wishes that Episodes 1-3 never happened? Discuss!
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Yes, shows. As in, two of them. The live-action one, and a CG one set during the Clone Wars, which had a trailer up on SW.com a short while ago.
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I remember that strip. They were portraying it as a typical shitty WB teen drama.
Edit: Found it!
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Because it's probably out of George Lucas' pockets, and he doesn't want to fund someone elses' baby?
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more firefly would rock but I think wheadon (sp?) kinda blew us all off when he killed book and wash.
note: no I didn't spoiler it... if you havent seen it yet you don't deserve a spoiler tag, it been years
The Adventures of Quinlan Vos: Jedi....WITH A GUN
Yes. Yes! YES!!!!!
STEAM
While he spoils his own baby while it shits all over itself.
Anyway, if these rumors/spoilers are anything to go by I think it will be more than halfway decent.
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1. Pod Races will be revisited as the series will try to take in and revisit a lot in the SW universe we have come to know and love through the movies.
2. One of the Pod Racers highlighted will be a character named Thall Joben, who you may, or may not, remember from the Droids animated series.
3. We will see Rebel bases, Star Destroyers, Imperial troops, officers, undercover operatives and much more...
4. Expect to see some EU tie-ins (horray!) An example being a Rebel General with the last name Durron. Could this be the father or family member of the future Kessel slave turned Jedi, Kyp Durron?
5. We will see a character named General Papanoida who could be the very same character that George Lucas played during the Opera House scenes in Revenge of the Sith, Barron Papanoida.
6. We will see some characters from the films such as Bib Fortuna and Oola, the poor, rancor eaten, beautiful dancing Twi'lek.
7. The Death Star plans should come into play.
8. The series will go into detail with the characters and what makes them tick. Not everyone is either good or bad.
9. Look for the tone to be that of the Original Trilogy but a bit edgier.
Kyle Katarn, anyone?
STEAM
I'd rather a smaller budget, gritty kind of rise of the rebellion, type show. The dangers and the espoinage involved in going against the new order...
I'm increasingly aware that although I'm a long term starwars nut... I might not be the target demographic for the new "glittery" show.
Please George... be kind.
God, for the amount of ignoring that George does to his fanbase, he must think we're his No Mutants Allowed or something. Except we're right, and he's slipping into dementia.
This would unarguably be better than whatever happens.
Any chance of your idea being reasonable ended at "smaller budget".
I guess what I was getting at was "less cartoony". Lets get less CGI... Back to the spirit of the thing.
But who knows. We'll see how it is when we see how it is. *shrug*
Young Han Solo Chronicles?
This has TONS of potential; they just need a talented crew.
Will it being cheaper make it better? I doubt it, most of what was wrong with the PT can be summed up pretty succinctly: Lucas being too involved. The best way for SW to be handled is for him to come up with the basic idea, have the script(s) re-written by competent writers, the whole thing not be directed by Lucas, and not involve Lucas cramming merchandise opportunities in. Now though, he's got enough money and can exert enough control for him to ruin anything, but I doubt he'll be writing and directing them all.
Also, why not set it during the NJO series? Can't I have one damn game with the NJO? Preferably a JK-style one. And, stop everyone involved in making new games think they can make things more interesting by making the characters more powerful. Damn it
Screw over-arching plots, just have self-contained episodes centering on different characters in different time periods.
and I will build
a temple
to the fucking gods
Old Mark Hamil would even make sense!
For a series called 'Star Wars', the new trilogy had little to no aerial combat.
I want epic fleet warfare. Like the last book of the Rogue Squadron series. A few X-Wings against massive Imperial Armadas.
And none of this robot crap: pilots and officers. The Episode III novel had more officer drama than all three of the new movies combined.
That's the stuff I miss.
Sort of like the Kotor games?
Yes. That would be awesome.
Ewan MacGregor was fine.
I'll tell you what Natalie Portman's problem was, and you'll be shocked.
She doesn't like Star Wars.
I'm not joking. She literally had never seen the movies before she was cast as Amidala, and she never did any research by herself into the history or lore of the series. She basically is phoning it in through the entire PT.
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McGregor was fine in places, in others he was completely off. And I'm not blaming him, it's the Director's responsibility to make sure the acting's okay, especially when there are good actors available.
Portman didn't like SW? That is news to me, but again I'm not going to blame her. There are actors who've been in films they didn't care for and played their parts fine, and Portman's a good actress. Also, Lucas cast her. If she couldn't fake it, he was the one who screwed up. Anyway, it wasn't just those two. Everyone was off in places except maybe Neeson. Notably poor were Portman and Christensen, and the kid from the first film. Blaming the actors is one thing, but films as big as the PT meant Lucas could've simply gotten better actors, so that's not really an excuse
Edit: If you think about it the PT actually makes some sort of sense in a very high level way. Most of the major story concepts are pretty good. It's just the execution of the whole thing wasn't so good. I bet you can make the prequels much better, without changing the basic stories too much, if you could fix the execution.
But easier to blame on Lucas