I have to say, This tromps all over the place, and i have been able to prove, without a doubt that Asoka can't exist, and that is using only the 3rd movie! This is basically a Did Not Do The Research moment.
This review is a total joke. The series was the highest rated CGI show will really high viewing ratings. The first season was slow but it's only late in that season that it kicked up a notch. Then came Season 2 which was even better and had good storylines. Now we enter season 3 which started of extremely strong. This season is made by great writing if anything by giving the clones such diverse characters and making you care for those that could quite well easily die. They even make the droids more comical in terms of characters. They deal respectfully with the EU, and the CGI is kickass. It allows them to create masssive fights that animation teams could rarely achieve and the fights are fairly good. It is even better than the Clone Wars animated series by the depth that it goes to and the grand scale.
A wish is never free.
It's fine if you disagree, but a better way to show that would be to write your own review defending your opinions with details, rather than declaring this review to be "a total joke" and then saying your own opinions as if they're facts that disprove my opinions. For example, you could explain how exactly it's respectful to the EU to use EU planets for a couple of episodes and demolish a good deal of their continuity in the process, or say what you like about the writing.
I like ep I, but still a like ep V more, but also I like this series to.
Because he know I'm going to go out in this plane and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe.
Wrong page!
Could have sworn the reviews section was a place for people to give their opinion on the reviews.
Is this review for Clone Wars or The Clone Wars?
This really needsto be moved to 'THE Clone Wars'. Different series; the one you reviewed is all CG with Ahsoka, this one is normal animation dripping with awesome.
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Indeed, you appear to have written a review for the wrong show. Granted, it is confusing.
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One long meh
This series is, at its best, So Okay Its Average. I'm coming from the perspectives of a fan of both the movies and the Star Wars Expanded Universe when I say this. I've watched the series ever since I first saw The Movie in theaters on opening day, not knowing anything about it except that Warner Bros. wasn't allowing advance reviews, so I think I've given it a fair chance.
The writing is the biggest problem. Sure, Star Wars has never had fantastic writing, but I think the movies pulled it off well enough; not so much here. As Roger Ebert put it in his review of the movie, "The dialogue in the original "Star Wars" movies had a certain grace, but here the characters speak to one another in simplistic declamation". The show is also written to people who may not have seen other episodes, or even the movies, and while I guess that makes things easier for those people, it mostly works as a limiting factor in terms of narrative depth, Story Arcs, etc. One "Decoded" pop-up episode even said something like "Did you know: Anakin and Padmé are secretly married!" I had to think about that one for a while.
The directing, voice work, and music also aren't fantastic. You could make a drinking game out of how often the camera slowly zooms in on a character's face every time they say something, and practically every line sounds like it's said with a wink to the camera. It's nice that they got a couple of actors from the movies onboard, but some (Anakin) sound very Off Model. The music alternates between sounding like someone playing John Williams on a keyboard and stock "action" or "ethnic" TV music.
The animation is usually pretty good, though. The movie was about the same level as Jimmy Neutron, but it's evolved over time. I'm not a huge fan of the art style, and the costcutting measures are often blatantly obvious (such as the Jedi wearing armor 24/7 so they don't have to animate robes, or not giving characters space suits and having them just wear robes/armor in space) but this doesn't detract from the experience too much.
There's also the issue of retcons, which is maybe best left for another review, but suffice to say the show as it is isn't really worth the (extremely avoidable) changes it's made to existing continuity.
Overall, watch it if you like The Phantom Menace more than The Empire Strikes Back.