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03/21/09
However, someone at LucasFilm must have though it to up the ante a bit and they moved some of the last episodes around.
Unlike the reviewer, I liked Cad Bane. If most of the episodes for next season are like this (and the season 2 preview looked stellar) I welcome it.
Osaka dying at the hands of Cad? Amazing. Do it. Give Anakin more reason to go dark.
A lot of headshots by bounty hunters in this episode.
03/21/09
He did have a rather interestingly unattached personality. Also, I take umbrage to him being described as just "a guy with no nose". He was clearly a cybernetically-enhanced, old-west-style, Duros gunslinger.
03/21/09
Er ... you do know more people watch Clone Wars every week than Battlestar Galactica, right? That three times as many people watched the Clone Wars premiere as watched the BSG finale?
03/21/09
There's no dramatic tension, there's no reward in watching from week-to-week... it's a completely futile series.
The only thing I need to know is: What happens to Ashoka? That's the only thing TCW can answer for a 32-year-fan of SW like me.
03/21/09
As much as I liked RotS, that was actually my one unsurmountable complaint about it. The whole time during my first viewing, it felt like half of the point was to sit there with a checklist of events and see how many you could mark off before the film ended. With TPM, it was a more fulfulling experience to watch it the first time because there were only two boxes that I recall being able to check off (Obi-Wan agrees to train Anakin, and Palpatine sets himself up to become Emperor).
03/22/09
The Clone Wars series is doing a nice job of covering stuff the movies didn't - the feelings of the clones, the strategies of the Separatists, what it's like to be a civilian caught up in the middle of this.
And the fact remains - far more people watch it than are interested in Battlestar Galactica.
03/23/09
There's a world of difference between knowing the major resolution, watching a movie based on a book that you didn't know the plot of the first time you read it, watching a movie based on a real event that you know most of the details of, and watching a movie that fills in the blanks. RotS had a lot of the latter going on. For instance, we knew that:
1. Luke and Leia would be born.
2. Padme would die.
3. Anakin would become Palpatine's lapdog.
4. Anakin would do an impression of a BBQ cookout.
5. The Jedi would be just about wiped out.
6. Obi-Wan would go to Tatooine with the Skywalker twins.
7. Yoda would go to Dagobah.
8. Dooku would be "replaced".
9. The Separatists would be defeated.
10. The Empire would be formed out of the Republic.
11. Obi-Wan would end up with Anakin's lightsaber.
Now, that's all stuff that we knew would happen _without_ reading any spoilers or alternate presentations of the same story (books, comics, etc.), without being familiar with the specifics of that movie, and without the movie being based on real events. In terms of first-time viewings, I felt that RotS fell to the bottom of the pack, but watching it on DVD it's the strongest of the three prequels. It just needed to get past that whole "this shouldn't feel this familiar already" feeling.