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Originally Posted by Wormius
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The prequel movies should never have been made. It was better to imagine what happened in these fabled "clone wars" or the transformation of Anakin to Vader than see it in sinful CGI.
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Anyway, the Clone Wars to date have been a bit of a let down from last season. I can't exactly put my finger on it, some of the episodes have been a bit too silly, and the last episode's scenes with R2D2 reminded me more of Wall-E than Star Wars.
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After reading the Plageus novel, I have a better appreciation of the Phantom Menace in a lot of ways, and way more appreciation for Palpatine/Sideous, and how devious the guy really is.
It actually made the Sith based events of the pt a lot better.
There were certain aspects that I really liked about the PT. I did like the Sideus angle, I remember in the ROTS novel Dooku musing that the Sith saw the force as a event horizon, a dark unstoppable power, the Jedi saw the Force as a window looking out on a calm field. Sideous sad the force as a window of opportunity where he was peering in at the Jedi and using that power to destroy them.
I liked a lot of the action footage in the PT
The whole Sifo Dyas creating the Clone armies makes a ton of sense now, as did the events that started the downfall of the jedi.
I like that Lucas knew that Jar Jar was enough of a hated character that he made him responsible for the final stages of the Sith plan for revenge.
I liked the idea of a clone army.
When I read ROTS I wish that they had time to do the fall of Anakin instead of rushing it, the Palpatine seduction in the books was far far better.
I am a fan of the Clone wars, I liked the Jedi falls trilogy that they just completed and liked the Slave story line. The two story arch around the droids was fairly light hearted and fluff. The Tarkin trlogy I thought was outstanding and really defined Anakin as heading to a place where the Jedi can't follow, and you can already see the type of jerk that Tarkin is going to be.
They amped up the darkness a lot this season. This last episode with the Death Watch was the first time that I have seen mass jedi on living thing killing, that wasn't based around clones. And the fight scene between Ashoka and the Death Watch Commander was really well done.