I had allowed myself to become pretty detached from "Star Wars beyond the movies" over the past while, but Clone Wars blew right through that and caught me up. (I suppose that may have something to do with it being "the closest thing to the movies," to be sure.)
After the previous "drawn animation" "micro-series," I suppose I found it refreshing myself to see an Anakin who didn't have "anger management issues," but as you said they could probably get away with starting to working in the "potential for darkness" a little more. (That said, I can see how spinoffs produced before RotS might not be thinking in terms of "Anakin's attachments are his main problem," and that does seem to be brought up in a possibly subtler form every so often...) While the new characters are all impressive, I feel somehow compelled to say the possibly dangerous thing that one of the gutsiest things about the series to me is bringing back Jar Jar, and for more than just one episode. While I suppose it's possible to wonder if "toning his role down" was the best thing for the movies, I can get the feeling that was somehow "surrendering him to the bashers"... now, to some extent he's being taken back.
If there was one thing about the writing midway through the season that had begun to get to me, it was that "I have a bad feeling about this" seemed to be turning up in every episode. Showing up once every three years in a two-hour movie is one thing, being heard once every week in a twenty-two minute episode was something else... fortunately, the writing seemed to get over that.
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Date: 2009-03-29 11:03 pm (UTC)After the previous "drawn animation" "micro-series," I suppose I found it refreshing myself to see an Anakin who didn't have "anger management issues," but as you said they could probably get away with starting to working in the "potential for darkness" a little more. (That said, I can see how spinoffs produced before RotS might not be thinking in terms of "Anakin's attachments are his main problem," and that does seem to be brought up in a possibly subtler form every so often...) While the new characters are all impressive, I feel somehow compelled to say the possibly dangerous thing that one of the gutsiest things about the series to me is bringing back Jar Jar, and for more than just one episode. While I suppose it's possible to wonder if "toning his role down" was the best thing for the movies, I can get the feeling that was somehow "surrendering him to the bashers"... now, to some extent he's being taken back.
If there was one thing about the writing midway through the season that had begun to get to me, it was that "I have a bad feeling about this" seemed to be turning up in every episode. Showing up once every three years in a two-hour movie is one thing, being heard once every week in a twenty-two minute episode was something else... fortunately, the writing seemed to get over that.