Star Wars Clone Wars on Cartoon Network (1 Viewer)

[Adam Lenhardt]

Depends how you define canon. Lucas has watched them personally and approved them. From USAToday.com:

"My son Jett (age 10) and I sat down to watch Clone Wars one weekend, and we were blown away by it," Lucas says. "I've always loved Samurai Jack, so I was curious to see what Genndy could do with Star Wars. ... It complements the movies well."

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

Lucas also watched (and approved) the Holiday Special. Does that make it canon too?

 

[Joel C]

What time are they airing all 10 on Friday?

 

[Jason Guardiano]

The airing of all 10 Chapters on Friday in the US

* Episodes 1-5 will air from 7.30pm (ET/PT) with approximately two breaks.
* Episodes 6-10 will air from 9.30pm (ET/PT) with approximately two breaks.

(http://www.theforce.net/episode2/clonewars_tv.shtml)

and Here's a blurb on Lucas and the holiday special
http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/featur...special.htm#11

and some talk about canon on sw.com
http://www.starwars.com/community/as...c20010817.html

 

[Phil Florian]

If the Holiday Special is canon, then did Luke Skywalker really save Chewbacca from the "Pigs in Space?" And can he really sing like that?




Phil

 

[Bill Williams]

Now the next big question is, exactly when are the next 10 episodes scheduled to air? All we know is that it's set for early 2004, but I've not heard any definite airing date.

 

[Jerome Grate]

Just picked up my TDK S-VHS tape to record this from satellite. One of those times I wish I had two machines a DVD recorder and a Liteon DV2001 player. Record it one the DVD player, upscale it to 1080i and record it in it's 1080i glory. But one needs a HD t.v. to even hope, oh well, end of the day here and trying to keep awake before the long trip home.

 

[Tim Glover]

Thought I would comment on Clone Wars now that I've seen them all a few times. Great stuff. And I'm not a big animation fan.

Great action, great art, and just cool.

Can't wait for the dvd!

I'm guessing this is where Lucasfilm will be heading following Episode III????

 

[Brenton]

That wasn't Luke Skywalker, that was Mark Hamill

 

[oscar_merkx]

I still have not had a chance to see this

 

[Dan Hitchman]

It sounds like these shorts are better than the actual prequels!

Dan

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

Not really. About the same in the sense that they all have aspects which just don't fit in with the rest of Star Wars.

Here's why I think so:
The bad guy who is made of silly string and Obi-Wan busting out of him like Tommy Lee Jones in MIB.

 

[Rob T]

There's only 10?
Damn. I was kind of hoping they'd finish off the Anakin battle in this season.
It was pretty sweet though.

 

[EdHoch]

any word on Cartoon Network rebroadcasting Eps 1-10 any time soon? Missed the first go round, would hate to have to wait until Spring...and would rather not watch them over the web...

 

[Diallo B]

check out www.starwars.com to see the episodes. i missed the last few and saw them there.

 

[Mike_G]

New episodes in the spring.

I really enjoyed this little micro-series. I was pleasantly surprised at how it got me to itch to watch the next episode.

I think that the SillyStringThing was a little over the top, but the rest of it was darn good.

Mike

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

I had an opportunity to watch the first five episodes last week, and found it to be a major disappointment. I was looking forward to it, given the positive comments here, but it bored me. The first episode was promising, but then it just stopped being anything. Instead, its just big battles with no point, no plot, no characters. The main SW characters stand around in the background, occasionally appearing in some hologram for five seconds to give orders, then going away. I simply did not care.

It really needed to be 1/2 hour long - this would allow time to have the big battles, but also have some plot, give you some idea why everything is happening, and most importantly, give our main characters some screen time.

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

There is more of Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Count Dooku in episodes 6-10.

 

[Bill Williams]

TheForce.net reported that Episodes 11-20 will begin airing on Cartoon Network in the U.S. March 26th, based on a report linked from the New York Post. So it looks like we now have a date that appears to be confirmed!

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

There is more of Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Count Dooku in episodes 6-10.

Good. Hopefully that will address some of my problems.
Still, I think I will rent the eventual DVD before purchase, as I am not at all confident I will enjoy it enough to justify purchasing.