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[RedKing]

Recently finished up watching the first season of the Clone Wars cartoon with my kids.

Why couldn't the writers of this have written the damn prequel movies? Soooooo much better.

Then, this past weekend my daughter and I watched Episode III. Two things I noticed:

1. Watching The Clone Wars actually made the movie better, because it filled in a lot of backstory that made certain characters' reactions seem far less arbitrary. Hayden Christensen still can't act his way out of a wet paper bag though.

2. This was like something out of Game of Thrones, because suddenly all those various throwaway Jedi characters getting massacred had names and voices and personalities and backstories.

[Remalle]

Is this the old Clone Wars or the more recent one?

[RedKing]

The 3D one (the newer one).

It actually dealt with the politics of the Republic and showed WHY reasonable people would actually want to replace the Republic with something more effective. Also dealt with the grey morality of breeding millions of clones to be essentially property of the Republic and cannon fodder.

[Neonivek]

My only issue with the Clone Wars cartoon is it hit "Prequel" syndrome where you already kind of know where it is going.

Part of me wanted them to change things up or even to declare the show an alternate timeline.

Prequels work in my opinion when they are about something that the original doesn't touch upon or when it is supposed to be an in depth character analysis.

That and it REALLY REALLY needed to focus on other villains after a while. It gets really tiring seeing "Count Duku Capture #28" and knowing he isn't going to stay captured or that he must win a fight because otherwise he would die.

But honestly... episode to episode the show is fine and often great.

[RedKing]

Yeah, there is that. And some of the taunting between Anakin and Grievous in the movie seemed out of place considering they'd met and fought half a dozen times or more in the series.

But overall I've been quite impressed. And I like that the focus isn't always on Anakin and Obi-Wan.

[Neonivek]

Yeah but to admit Starwars episode 3 could just be called the "anticlimax" anyhow.

[WillowLuman]

New Korra to air this Friday.

[Remalle]

New Korra to air this Friday.

Sweet, that gives me plenty of time to prepare for the disappointment.

[WillowLuman]

I have high hopes for it. They said they dropped the whole love triangle thing, there are rumors it's structured more like A:TLA, and the trailer features 1 second of old!Zuko. Also, lavabending.

[Zangi]

New Korra to air this Friday.

Watching that so hard.   If I remember to.  Despite disappointment of last season.  Ready for more of it, will be pleasantly surprised if not.

[Azinesmul Geshud]

I know it's been said, but I loved the WB cartoons... Earthworm Jim, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Batman. It all just oozes nostalgia from every orifice.

I remember my mother used to watch Beavis and Butthead with me occasionally. I was too young to get most of it

[Neonivek]

I swear if lava bending is earth bending I am going to groan.

I mean I know that mud bending was water and earth... but still

[Mageziya]

Wasn't it said somewhere by a creator during A:TLA that lava bending was Earth + Fire bending?

[penguinofhonor]

I look forward to genuinely enjoying Korra.

[Neonivek]

Wasn't it said somewhere by a creator during A:TLA that lava bending was Earth + Fire bending?

I swear if a Fire Bender discovers that he essentially has air bending (because... he does) I am going to start to seriously question the logic of the show.