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BadWolf21 The Fastest Man Alive Since: May, 2010
The Fastest Man Alive
#1: Aug 24th 2012 at 1:58:13 PM

Remember a while ago when Seth Green announced that he was working on a Star Wars comedy series?

Here's a trailer.

Overall...it was alright. Not great, but it got a couple laughs out of me. My favourites were Ackbar trying to figure out his catchphrase, "It's a matte painting!", "Bad judgement in just about every area of her life, except for politics", "Am not!" "Are too!" *bee boop* "No one is talking to you, trash can!", "That joke was hilarious, and you all liked it", and Han putting on an Indy hat.

Here are a couple more clips.

As on Robot Chicken, Seth MacFarlane is the voice of the Emperor. Joel McHale and Jennifer Hale will have roles on the show. Leia is voiced by Catherine Taber, who does Padme's voice on The Clone Wars series.

Anthony Daniels and Ahmed Best are, of course, back as C-3PO and Jar Jar Binks. As is, in a surprise announcement, Billy Dee Williams as Lando.

Other cast members are Zachary Levi as Grand Moff Tarkin's son, Biff, Breckin Myer and Donald Faison as two recurring Stormtroopers, and Seth Green himself as Salacious Crumb. Dee Bradley Baker also shows up as multiple roles. Other cast members whose characters haven't been revealed are Abraham Benrubi, Cree Summers, Nat Faxon, Felicia Day, and Weird Al Yankovic.

Whew. Thoughts?

edited 24th Aug '12 2:27:18 PM by BadWolf21

DeathCloud Since: Apr, 2009
#2: Aug 24th 2012 at 2:24:59 PM

I watched those trailers (first link don't work btw) and I love it.

I cant wait to watch more. And I speak it as fan of both Trylogies, both CW series, and both RC and FG parodies.

BadWolf21 The Fastest Man Alive Since: May, 2010
The Fastest Man Alive
#3: Aug 24th 2012 at 2:27:32 PM

Should be fixed, now.

CorrTerek The Permanently Confused from The Bland Line Since: Jul, 2009
The Permanently Confused
#4: Aug 24th 2012 at 3:06:58 PM

I have no idea what to say about this. Seriously. I'm still trying to figure out positives and negatives.

FigmentJedi Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Aug 24th 2012 at 9:16:06 PM

I liked the Matte Painting gag, but otherwise this is falling into DO NOT WANT territory.

If you wanted money from animation George, just do DC Universe Original Animated Movie type things with various EU stories.

BadWolf21 The Fastest Man Alive Since: May, 2010
The Fastest Man Alive
#6: Aug 24th 2012 at 9:23:15 PM

This wasn't George's idea. It's Seth Green's baby. It's basically Robot Chicken Star Wars for kids.

And it's definitely not canon, or even pretending to be, so it's the sort of thing that I could probably just sit back and enjoy. When it comes to Star Wars, Seth knows what he's talking about. My interest in the EU actually partially stems from hearing him talk to Jimmy Fallon about Robot Chicken Star Wars, and explaining why he picked Bossk to build a sketch around.

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Pirate AND writer!
#7: Aug 24th 2012 at 9:30:14 PM

Looks cute. I'll probably watch an episode or two.

Loved the Queen Amidala gag.

Looking for some stories?
Sijo from Puerto Rico Since: Jan, 2001
#8: Aug 24th 2012 at 11:25:08 PM

That... was actually funny! Oo (I'm not much of a Seth Green fan.)

Pretty well animated, too.

SpaceJawa UTINNI! from Right Here Since: Jan, 2001
UTINNI!
#9: Aug 25th 2012 at 8:50:47 PM

It looks amusing, but that 'Detours' scream is a pain to listen to. >_<

Landstander God Of Cake from Somewhere else Since: Jan, 2001
God Of Cake
#10: Aug 26th 2012 at 10:22:08 PM

-reads premise-

Oooh, I like!

-watches trailer-

>.<

Terrible CGI and 85% of the jokes were cringe-worthy. I'm not even a big Star Wars fan, but this seems like something I'd really dig if it were actually well made. Liked that it included a Wilhelm Scream at least.

Emperor Wu liked cake, but not exploding cake!
CorrTerek The Permanently Confused from The Bland Line Since: Jul, 2009
The Permanently Confused
#11: Aug 26th 2012 at 10:51:48 PM

The dance party bit at the end lowered what enthusiasm I had.

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#12: Aug 26th 2012 at 11:21:02 PM

What's the chef's name again?

His description of Amidala was the diamond in the rough. Nowhere near saved the rest of the trailer, but it in addition to a couple other gags (at least one of them also involving him) were actually not that bad, if not pretty funny.

The rest was cringe-worthy, though.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
SpaceJawa UTINNI! from Right Here Since: Jan, 2001
UTINNI!
#13: Aug 27th 2012 at 5:26:30 AM

[up] Dexter Jetter, I think.

[Checks]

I was close - it's Dexter Jettster. Missed it by that much.

LushCity Since: Aug, 2012
#14: Sep 6th 2012 at 12:22:39 PM

What CW series?

Oh the Clone Wars, not the channel.

edited 6th Sep '12 12:27:02 PM by LushCity

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