# Should I watch"The Clone Wars" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729 "2009-08-17T15:33:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/1 "2009-08-17T15:33:45Z")
Because you people recommended it, I am about to finish watching “Avatar: The Last Airbender”, and it’s excellent. Kudos for Cartoon Network. That channel also has two animated series about Star Wars. Are they any good? Should I watch them? Of course, the final question is ¿What other animated series (of the last few years) I’ve missed? As a child i loved Robotech and Future boy Conan, ¿What current series I would enjoy as an adult? ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/2 "2009-08-17T22:08:09Z")
I personally love the current (3D) animated “Clone Wars” series. Its quality took me by surprise, actually. The movie (i.e. the pilot episode) isn’t great, so I’d recommend watching several regular episodes first – maybe the first four or five. The series is where they got the tone right. Incidentally, Dave Filoni, one of the main guys involved in “The Clone Wars” was a director on “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/3 "2009-08-17T22:16:07Z")
I wouldn’t use any of the prequel trilogy Star Wars films or perhaps even the big screen introduction to the animated Clone Wars as a bench mark for prejudging the 3D animated series. It’s more enjoyable than those four, a mixture of running time and writing. The 2D series isn’t bad either, enjoyable if you like Samurai Jack, but in much smaller doses. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/4 "2009-08-17T22:25:24Z")
The 2D series is great. I haven’t seen enough of the new series to say either way, but the pilot movie sounds like it sucked abysmally. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/5 "2009-08-17T22:34:15Z")
What’s not to love about Jabba the Hutt’s sulky campy uncle? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/6 "2009-08-17T23:26:53Z")
I watched two episodes and found it kind of boring. ---
**Author:** ![Trafalgar\_Laura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trafalgar_laura/32/2907_2.png) [@Trafalgar\_Laura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trafalgar_Laura)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/7 "2009-08-18T01:17:32Z")
Actually, Avatar was produced by Nickelodeon, not Cartoon Network. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/8 "2009-08-18T06:11:16Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > What’s not to love about Jabba the Hutt’s sulky campy uncle? This may disqualify me from giving my opinion in any Cafe Society thread in the future, but Ziro the Hutt redeemed the _Clone Wars_ movie for me and gave me some of the best laughs in a Star Wars movie in years. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-the-clone-wars/506729/9 "2009-08-18T15:20:04Z")
As several people have mentioned (and several others ignored them) the 3d movie is onyl semi-related to the series. Overall, the series is pretty good. Some people complained about the art style, but I think their objections alrgely boil down to “it’s stylistically different from anything we’ve seen before”. This is true, and if you don’t like it you don’t like it. But it’s a good series and focuses on a lot of different and interesting events.