I would say Clone Wars, Bad Batch and Rebels as well were all really good series.
Clone wars in perticular was great for showing that as powerful and formidable the Jedi were/are that sometimes it's not enough. Like when Ahsoka was dispatched to help some rebels, and got shot plus lost the leader of that rebel cell, or again when she was kidnapped by Transhodans, and she lost of of the Padawan she wanted to save.
It also showed their hubris in the trial episodes, and how callous they could be with the Carnage of Kral. Dude got clones dead left right and center but the council allowed him to remain in command because he won, but at what cost? Just some clones, the fact that they are living, breathing, feeling people did not matter.
Clone wars in perticular was great for showing that as powerful and formidable the Jedi were/are that sometimes it's not enough. Like when Ahsoka was dispatched to help some rebels, and got shot plus lost the leader of that rebel cell, or again when she was kidnapped by Transhodans, and she lost of of the Padawan she wanted to save.
It also showed their hubris in the trial episodes, and how callous they could be with the Carnage of Kral. Dude got clones dead left right and center but the council allowed him to remain in command because he won, but at what cost? Just some clones, the fact that they are living, breathing, feeling people did not matter.
There was a deleted scene conversation in ROTS that tied this together nicely when Yoda and Kenobi mused about the arrogance of the Jedi.
We saw select few Jedi in the Clone Wars cartoon series. For the most part Clones sadly had no rights, most of the Jedi saw them as no better then the droids that they were fighting and used them as tools. For every Anakin, Kenobi, there were Krells and Quinlan Vos' who outright hated the clones. And frankly the government nor the Jedi Council cared all that much.
The Jedi were in a holy war casualties of non force users meant literally nothing to them.
Even Ashoka before she gained some wisdom treated the Clones as disposable. She lost an entire fighter wing due to that belief, and while she mourned them, the mind set were clones were disposable.
The funny thing is they didn't really need the inhibitor chips for anything except a plot device to make Order 66 not their fault. But in the EU Legends where the chips didn't exist, the Clones were fiercely loyal to the Republic and the Chancellor so they were going to follow Order 66, but a lot of Clones saw the Jedi as willing butchers of the Clones throwing away their short life for nothing or little gain. I think that would have in the long run been more intriguing as a plot point that the Emperor didn't need chips to ensure the death of the Jedi.
Even in the rise of Darth Vader book the Clones that disobeyed Order 66 did it not because of some affection of their Jedi General's or Commanders. But they felt that the order didn't sound right, there was no logic to it, but when it was explained, it was like, wait the Jedi tried to kill the Chancellor and they were behind this war all the time, then yeah, they probably deserved to die.
I was watching Generation Tech the other day by the way which is a great youtube channel. And he as an another discussion talked about the chosen one prophecy. He theorized that Anakin was meant to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the force. But was bought forth to destroy the Sith and Jedi as both of them were continually fighting to influence the force and shape it, and change destinies and the Force responded by birthing their executioner. It makes sense because if Anakin destroyed the Sith and left just the Jedi as the practitioners of the light side, the force is out of balance. When Anakin killed the Jedi off, the force was out of balance. But if Anakin wiped them both out you'd have one force user in Anakin who would be the balance of light and dark like the Father in the Clone Wars story.
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I saw this older (2005) infographic about everything that came as a direct or indirect result of George Lucas. It's pretty amazing the innovation that came out of his films.
The yellow text are the technologies created through the process of making the films and games.
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For all the complaints about Lucas in terms of dialogue etc. The guy really has revolutionized the Movie Industry and pushed a lot of boundaries. He's provided us with a lot of quality entertainment either directly or indirectly. He shouldn't just get a hand print on Hollywood Blvd, but a whole block.
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A big one for me personally was John Knoll, who was visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer (CCO) at ILM. He and his brother created Photoshop in 1988. I'm sure we would have got there eventually but his years at ILM must have pushed it's development much more quickly. It's the piece of software that got me into my career.
We also got David Fincher after doing matte photography and camera work on Temple of Doom, Neverending Story and Return of the Jedi with ILM.
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Not sure if anyone has seen this or not, but a fan turned Colin Trevorrow‘a Episode 9 script into a Comic. Can’t say it’s amazing, but I do like it better than what we got.
Not sure if anyone has seen this or not, but a fan turned Colin Trevorrow‘a Episode 9 script into a Comic. Can’t say it’s amazing, but I do like it better than what we got.
Ya they are going to have to explain that part for sure and why it took him 5? years to track down his gear etc..
But it looks good, has me intrigued.
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Cracked takes a shot at fixing Anakin's fall. Out of the prequels I really did like ROTS the best, I thought it had potential. The way it was written in the novel was awesome.
The problem was that the fall was rushed, they could have Harry Pottered ROTS and split it into two movies with the first one focused on the end of the Clone Wars and the Second on the Rise of the Empire. Instead they rushed the fall and it flopped. But Cracked really captures how I think a good fall would happen.
When you look at it, it makes the Jedi look inflexible and arrogant, and it really goes to the whole Anakin feeling that the Jedi don't trust him. Throwing him out of the Order and having Obi-Wan being the instrument of that portrayal would make a lot of sense and set things up nicely for his fall. Finding a way to have Padme fall ill, and Palpatine swooping in as Anakin's hope would make the Sith point of view look like the solution, and having him fight at Anakin's side puts trust in Palpatine.
Having the Jedi going against democracy and jailing Palpatine would have abeen a brilliant stroke. Then Palpatine could show that the Jedi support an unfeeling and corrupt government and that he as a Sith is going to reform things and ensure that things like the Clone Wars will never happen again.
So frame the Jedi as evil and corrupt and the Sith as the great reformer bringing peace and order and the rule of law to a huge galaxy.
Then having the final stroke of Padme dying and where's obi-wan maybe he had something to do with her death and sending out a now committed Sith to kill him would make a lot more sense.
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