# Clone Wars Cartoon Microseries Rocked! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clone-wars-cartoon-microseries-rocked/239658 "2004-04-12T20:13:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clone-wars-cartoon-microseries-rocked/239658/41 "2004-04-14T13:31:53Z")
Admittedly, I personally think that was mor the fault of “plastic Amidala” then Lucas or Christenson. I could believe Anakin was a horny, repressed young man with some major security issues who, neverthless, needs Amidala. Portman, on the other hand, mouthe her lines like she was a robot voice encode… hey… I FOUND THE SECRET PLOT! AMIDALA REALLY DID DIE AND SHE’S A ROBOT NOW!!1! No, seriously, I expect that Yoda and Palpatine will have their own battle. While it would be cool to have the Obi-Wan/Anakin fight where he gets dumped in [Dr. Evil] boiling-hot MAGma [/Dr. Evil] I won’t be dissappointed if we get something else instead. Oh, and some of you really need to cool it. Repeat after me: Lucas is not Satan. Lucas is not Satan. It reminds me of my local “Metropulse” paper, a den of liberal crap. They displayed extreme childishness in calling Lucas names and saying that he “hates you”. Of course, I long ago learned their taste in movies was suspect. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clone-wars-cartoon-microseries-rocked/239658/42 "2004-04-14T15:15:00Z")
> [@Soapbox Monkey](#): > > Wow wow wow…you’re giving credit away before George even has a shot to show you Episode 3. You say it’s a nice touch having Anakin and Asajjwhoeverthefuck’s fight mirror Vader and Luke’s!? I have news for you, ANY fan of Star Wars could have thought of that, and most of us see it coming. > > If you’ll notice, Anakin and Luke mirror one another. In ANH, Luke destroys the Death Star, and in TPM Anakin destroys the command ship. In ESB, Luke is an arrogant whiny bitch who gets his ass kicked, and leaves his training to save his friends. In AotC, Anakin is an arrogant whiny bitch who gets his ass kicked, and leaves his duty to go save his mother. But make no mistake; in Ep. 3 Anakin will come out in full badass Jedi form ala Luke (although I guess it’s really the other way around, with Luke becoming a badass ala his father). > > Anyway, judging from the way Lucas’ has been matching them up, its essentially a fact that Anakin will battle Dooku before Palpatine, just as Luke fought Vader, only where Luke held back and turned from the dark path at the last minute, Anakin will go full steam ahead and beat the shit out of Dooku, fulfilling his journey to the darkside in the process. Why you gotta be like that, **smiling bandit**? I was just pointing it out. It wasn’t meant to be any kind of deep insight. The whole sequence gave me big time chills–especially when the rain started to fall and sizzle on the lightsabers. It showed Aanakin’s movment toward the dark side without a single line of dialouge. The whole thing was freakin’ brilliant. BTW, I thought the slaughter of the Tuskin village was one of the best parts of Ep. II. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clone-wars-cartoon-microseries-rocked/239658/43 "2004-04-15T15:15:08Z")
> [@](#): > > BTW, I thought the slaughter of the Tuskin village was one of the best parts of Ep. II. If I give you that, will you give me that Anakin trying to “act” his pain about doing it was one of the worst? ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clone-wars-cartoon-microseries-rocked/239658/44 "2004-04-15T16:04:51Z")
Oh yeah! No question! It wasn’t as painful as the “love” scenes on Naboo, but it sucked. And it sucked even more because, as you see in the Clone Wars, the information it imparted (Aanakin’s rage is building, but he still has a conscience) could have been done as or more effectively with much less screen time. Same with the “giant ticks of love” sequence. All Lucas had to do was have the assassins find them on Naboo. That way, Aanakin gets to save her repeatedly, we get more action sequences, and she gets a motivation to fall in love with him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clone-wars-cartoon-microseries-rocked/239658.md?page=2)