Miragedriver
Brigadier
I am a big Star Wars fan. However I have to admit I have never seen the Clone Wars. From your description they sound very good. Question: They are not too cartoonish? Are they suitable for 5 and 6 year old boys?
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I am a big Star Wars fan. However I have to admit I have never seen the Clone Wars. From your description they sound very good. Question: They are not too cartoonish? Are they suitable for 5 and 6 year old boys?
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Clones Wars is very good for what it is. As for is it okay for kids? I guess it depends on what you know what your kids can handle. People die in Clone Wars and I'm not talking about just nameless people. It's not graphic though. This is something that might gauge it that's being said about the animated series Star Wars Rebels coming this fall on TV which is it's not as dark as the Clone Wars.
Well stated.^^^
Clone wars is violent. Very violent when the citizens, Clones & Jedi die. Many times when the droids are hacked by the Jedi the dialogue is making an attempt at comedy. In one episode I saw a nutso female sith stab a bounty hunter in the back while he was piloting a spacecraft.
And if you are a member of the Separatists. You do not want to be interrogated my Anikin Skywalker.
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Today I watched another episode of Clone Wars and one of the things I do not like about the show was apparent on the episode I viewed today. Way too many aliens in the Star wars universe.
The entire episode took place on Coruscant. all sorts of strange lookin' folks gallivanting around that place.
The entire episode took place on Coruscant. all sorts of strange lookin' folks gallivanting around that place.
that's kinda the point though isn't it? After all Star Trek was exclusively just people in make up with maybe one ep a season to have colorful make up, costumes or appearances that weren't just people in silly costumes.
In a setting like Star Wars where humans aren't the only sapients it makes no sense that there aren't larger populations of them comparable to humans, hell the only setting that would make sense in would be Warhammer 40000
Miragedriver
Brigadier
One of my most intense dislikes are unrealistic and bad makeup on people to make them look like aliens.
That is one reason I enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica television series and all of the Dune books so much.
Dune movies I could have done without.
That is one reason I enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica television series and all of the Dune books so much.
Dune movies I could have done without.
Eh, suspension of disbelief, take into account the fact that budgets are limited and make up is a small part of most SF's budget.
On top of that, Gene Roddenberry the original creator of Star Trek had a rule regarding alien make up: it should never cover the eyes or mouth of the actor since that's where emotion is conveyed. You take that away you dehumanize the characters and thus prevent people from developing sympathy or empathy with the character. That does way more damage to a story than anything else if you don't see the aliens as actual people on the same level of the main characters.
On top of that, Gene Roddenberry the original creator of Star Trek had a rule regarding alien make up: it should never cover the eyes or mouth of the actor since that's where emotion is conveyed. You take that away you dehumanize the characters and thus prevent people from developing sympathy or empathy with the character. That does way more damage to a story than anything else if you don't see the aliens as actual people on the same level of the main characters.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Apparently Coruscant originated from the one of the sanctioned EU books adopted into the canon of the movies. When the Emperor and the Empire took over he was anti-"alien" which is why you don't see aliens a part of the crew on Imperial ships.
Except for some exceptional cases like Thrawn.
Although you wonder if that's more due to pragmatic rather than supremecist reasons, after all in KOTOR2 it was confirmed that the character Kreia, herself a former Sith lord, was unable to read the mind of alien members of the Ebon Hawk's crew like Bao-dur, an irridonian who is also the same race as Darth Maul. Its not that force users can't read the minds of aliens, but due to the inherent differences between physiologies they need to know the individual for a long time to understand their thought patterns.
So yeah, the emperor probably didn't the imperial navy staffed by officers and soldiers whose thoughts he couldn't immediately know.
Although you wonder if that's more due to pragmatic rather than supremecist reasons, after all in KOTOR2 it was confirmed that the character Kreia, herself a former Sith lord, was unable to read the mind of alien members of the Ebon Hawk's crew like Bao-dur, an irridonian who is also the same race as Darth Maul. Its not that force users can't read the minds of aliens, but due to the inherent differences between physiologies they need to know the individual for a long time to understand their thought patterns.
So yeah, the emperor probably didn't the imperial navy staffed by officers and soldiers whose thoughts he couldn't immediately know.