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[EnigmaticHat]

I've never watched that one, no doubt partially due to a distaste for 3D animation. Like, gross.

Main highlights: Padme does more stuff to try and stall the inevitable rise of the Empire and broker peace with the CIS. Anakin gets an actual gradual decline from hotheaded hero to being pretty ruthless. Obi-Wan is a sarcastic quiplord with a more fleshed out personality and a tragic character arc. Darth Maul comes back and is pretty cool though rather OTT at times. Sadistic Palpatine comes out to play a few times. The Confederacy is fleshed out so it's not entirely maniacal idiots, though it is still run largely by maniacal idiots. The conflict within the Republic about the war is explored a bit, as well as anti-Jedi sentiment. Clones with actual distinct personalities and emotional moments. Star Wars Vietnam was a thing.

C3-P0 gets tortured. 

Bad stuff: Jar Jar is still in it, and he looks even more terrible than normal. Droid humour usually falls flat. Lots of jumping the shark moments. Names are often very silly, but hey, that's Star Wars for you. It's rare for a battle to hold tension unless it involves one of the few characters you know can actually die before the Empire rises, which basically means clones and non-movie Jedi. Grievous is horribly incompetent compared to most depictions, including the movie version.

The entire first season. 

I enjoyed the Clone Wars cartoon but at some point I had to stop watching it because I knew the end and it made it really hard to care about anything.  What's really frustrating to me about the Clone Wars story as a whole is that the ending has almost nothing to do with the war or the actions of the characters.  The droids don't matter because they're soulless*, the clones aren't soulless but IIRC because of genetic engineering they're basically predestined to die young and childless**, so within a decade or two there will be no evidence that they ever existed.  The overarching plot of the prequels seems to be that Palpatine set himself up to be in charge of both sides so that whichever one wins, he ends up ruling the galaxy.   We know nearly all the Jedi die.  Its like... it doesn't matter who lives or dies, it doesn't matter who wins.  Its such a shame because the show is well made but the inevitable ending sapped away all my enthusiasm.

*the first movie seemed to imply that they weren't droids as previously defined in the Star Wars universe, more like really violent RC cars

**episode 2 implied the reason Jango agreed to the cloning was because he was infertile

[ChairmanPoo]

I dont remember aything about Jango being infertile

[Dunamisdeos]

The sheer volume of utterly ridiculous social media theory-mongering being done by Disney leaves me little hope for future movies.

It says to me that their goal is to simply stir people up into enough of a froth that they make money on opening week. That way they don't have to create anything of substance, and they already have your money.

[Enemy post]

I dont remember aything about Jango being infertile

There's also a clone who has biological children in Clone Wars.

[Dunamisdeos]

The trailer for STAR WARS: ALL POSSIBLE PLOT TWISTS ARE REVEALED IN THE TITLE, has happened.
Link: https://youtu.be/adzYW5DZoWs

Discuss.

Before I get negative on it though, Lando is back, and Billy Dee is playing him. Woop woop!!!

EDIT: To be clear, the teaser has the following things tha I find (hilariously?) awesome.

Spoiler: Actual spoilers (click to show/hide)

Rey doing backflips to fight tie fighters in melee
BILLY DEE, HEYOO
C-3PO.... basically surfing some kind of land craft, hanging onto a mast?
Is that Kylo Ren killing bad guys?

[Egan_BW]

Well, it's helpful that you didn't link the trailer or actually say what the title is.

[Dunamisdeos]

Wow tho, you right. Added a link. Title not included for dramatic effect.

Also I made like 50 sudden edits after posting and I'm sorry for being a terrible human being.

[Egan_BW]

I watched at 1.75 speed so I didn't understand everything that was said but it probably doesn't matter and also it made Rey running look very silly.

[Teneb]

Frankly, the only thing that matters in the trailer is a very specific sound at the very end.

Spoiler: Here's a very big hint as to what its about (click to show/hide)

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

[McTraveller]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One interesting thing I saw was it looked like they were repairing Kylo's helmet.

[ChairmanPoo]

Goooooood

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm actually not sure how I feel about "The sound at the end".

He's dead. Like, super dead. The stories in the EU where he returns via any method whatsoever are considered to be... well, sort of terrible. Like the Star Trek Insurrection of the EU. Don't get me wrong he's basically my favorite, but I feel like this could be very easily mishandled, or just a ploy to increase FAN SERVICE REVENUE RATING.

Also at what point do we start talking openly about it XD

[Teneb]

I'm actually not sure how I feel about "The sound at the end".

He's dead. Like, super dead. The stories in the EU where he returns via any method whatsoever are considered to be... well, sort of terrible. Like the Star Trek Insurrection of the EU. Don't get me wrong he's basically my favorite, but I feel like this could be very easily mishandled, or just a ploy to increase FAN SERVICE REVENUE RATING.

Also at what point do we start talking openly about it XD

Spoiler: I dunno about talking about it openly, but... (click to show/hide)

The "Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise" copypaste I posted earlier wasn't just for the memes. He did apprentice under a guy who could manipulate life.

[Persus13]

Its not like they haven't had sound clips calling back to the OT in teaser trailers before.

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm actually not sure how I feel about "The sound at the end".

He's dead. Like, super dead. The stories in the EU where he returns via any method whatsoever are considered to be... well, sort of terrible. Like the Star Trek Insurrection of the EU. Don't get me wrong he's basically my favorite, but I feel like this could be very easily mishandled, or just a ploy to increase FAN SERVICE REVENUE RATING.

Also at what point do we start talking openly about it XD

Spoiler: I dunno about talking about it openly, but... (click to show/hide)

The "Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise" copypaste I posted earlier wasn't just for the memes. He did apprentice under a guy who could manipulate life.

Spoiler: Ok I'm talking about it openly now, watch the trailer before you read this. (click to show/hide)

I mean, he did, but he was also thrown down a shaft that apparently descended the length of a moon whereupon he fucking exploded and died.

If Palpatine can come back from that, where the hell has Plageuis been this whole time? Gotta be a force ghost sort of thing. Maybe Kylo summons him with a circle drawn of wrinkle cream.