Star Wars: The Clone Wars- Season One (1 Viewer)

[Simon Massey]

I also enjoyed the first two episodes and recently caught the film as well which if you have enjoyed the TV show is in the same vein. Looking forward to future episodes.

 

[todd s]

Do we know how many episodes were/are being made?

 

[Greg_S_H]

A gajillion. Or:

 

[TravisR]

Just to add, they said they had already finished about 30 episodes back when the movie came out. So they had more than the first season finished before the first episode even aired.

 

[todd s]

Thanks Travis & Greg. If they can keep up the quality of the first two episodes. Then I look forward to the next 98.

 

[Tony J Case]

Just saw the Clone Wars - hey, it didnt suck as much as the movie did. It was still pretty bad, but it wasnt like trying to eat broken glass like the movie was.

Please, for the love of god - can we get rid of the Komedy robots? Oh, and goodie - the Padawan Hooker is still hanging with Anakin. At least she didnt call him Sky-Guy.

*sigh*

 

[Dave Mack]

We always set our DVR to end a minute later just to play it safe. Take a few extra seconds to program it but totally worth it in these instances.

 

[Todd H]

I missed the premier so I recorded it Sunday on Cartoon Network HD. It definitely wasn't in HD that night. It was the dreaded fish-eye stretch and looked terrible.

 

[Greg_S_H]

I hate when they do that. They used to do it on the WB. Veronica Mars would be preempted by basketball, so they'd play it late or another night and it would never be in HD.

 

[Chris Atkins]

Watched the second episode again tonight (even better the second time).

In the preview for this Friday's new ep, you can briefly see that Anakin is leading an attack against the Separatist Ion Cannon-Cruiser. Guess this means that there are some story arcs that play out over multiple episodes.

 

[TerryRL]

"Clone Wars" a new star for Cartoon Network - News - Yahoo! TV

The Force was strong for Cartoon Network as "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" became the channel's most-watched series premiere ever.

The computer-animated series, from Lucasfilm Animation, averaged 4 million total viewers in its debut at 9 p.m. Friday, according to Nielsen Media Research. The previous record holder was the April 18 series premiere of "Ben 10: Alien Force," with 2.9 million total viewers.

Cartoon said the "Star Wars" spinoff ranked as the No. 1 channel among all major kids networks in the time slot among total viewers as well as in the key youth demos of kids 2-11 (1.8 million), kids 6-11 (1.4 million) and tweens 9-14 (1.2 million, the largest in the demo for any premiere telecast of an original Cartoon series).

"Clone Wars" chronicles the adventures of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Ahsoka Tano and other "Star Wars" characters as they struggle against the dark side during the divisive, action-packed Clone Wars. An advance version of the series preniered in movie theaters in August.

An hour earlier on Friday, "The Secret Saturdays" premiered off with an average of 2 million viewers. "Saturdays," an animated comedy-action series created by Jay Stephens, centers on a family of world-saving adventure scientists.--Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

 

[TonyD]

I'm a little confused.
Is this an expansion on the movie? and were does it fit in with the series
from a few years ago in continuity?

 

[TravisR]

The Clone Wars mini-series took place at different points in the war. Some were right at the beginning, some were in the middle and some were right before Revenge Of The Sith. I don't think the timeframe for the new series has established yet but my guess is that these new episodes are supposed to be set relatively early on in the war.

 

[Chris Atkins]

Not sure about that last part. After all, Anakin is no longer a padawan in the new series, and you would think that after his failure at Geonosis, he wouldn't immediately be made a full Jedi.

Plus, the previous series shows the trial he faces to become a Jedi, though I don't know whether that is considered canonical or not.

 

[TravisR]

Good point. I still think it's supposed to be early in the war. I know they've said that they're trying to keep the continuity with the novels, comics and previous cartoons but I guess this is one instance where they just have to contradict it for the sake of the show.

EDIT: For what it's worth, Wookieepedia lists The Clone Wars movie as taking place about two and a half years after Attack Of The Clones (or six months before Revenge Of The Sith) so I guess ALOT will happen in those six months before Episode III. It still makes more sense to me to toss certain elements rather than try to say an entire series and all the other stuff from the novels, etc. happens in half of a year but who am I to contradict Wookieepedia?

 

[Chris Atkins]

That timeframe makes sense, since the visual look of the new series is much more in line with ROTS than AOTC.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

Was anyone else who watched the re-airings annoyed by the "available in HD" logo when they switched over to the Cartoon Network's HD channel and saw it in stretched/squashed distortovision? I hope they start showing it in real HD during all airings at some point. From posts here, I assume that it was shown properly on the Firday premiere airing.

Regards,

 

[TravisR]

I think I saw it on a Star Wars site but someone said that when the episodes ran on Friday night, they were in HD but the reruns were in stretch-o-vision. Obviously, I can't vouche for the validity of that info though.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

That is what I meant. I was re-editing my post to better reflect that while you were replying to it.

Regards,

 

[Dave Mack]

Here in NYC, Time Warner does not have cartoon network in HD. Bummed.
I'd imagine these will be on Blu ray soon enough.

Looking forward to tonite's ep. Even if it's imperfect, weekly new SW stories are a treat.