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:dunno Who did what to Genndy?

He stayed with Cartoon Network until he made his move to Sony, I thought it was an amicable split. He was talking about working on a Samurai Jack feature which I assume would be under CN's control.

No one did anything to Genndy - the deal was for the Clone Wars microseries, and that's what was produced. In this case it was like "Hey Dave, Disney doesn't want Clone Wars - you're done."

Still think that a blu ray release of the last few story arcs is in order...
 
Or if you see this thing:


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:lol :goodpost: :clap
 
Read an article at Io9 the other day that praised the Genndy series over 5 Years of TCW. Personally, I don't see a comparison. The Genndy series was nothing but blocks of action sequences, not much to go on. And I'll admit, not ALL the clone wars episodes were that good, but there are some damn good ones. I don't know about this 'bonus content" but with their direct to DVD films, I expect Disney to release the final episodes that way.

TCW had to end at some point. personally, I would have preferred it to run it's course naturally. Hopefully the last episodes will help that along.
 
Yeah, it's pretty much an apples to oranges comparison. The Genndy series was cool for what it was but the only things I remember were Anakin freeing the mecha-bears, Durge jousting, the underwater battle, and Mace taking out an entire planet of droids on his own. The Grievous one was ok though and although this was a nice take on the Clone Wars, I can't say that was enough to make me a fan of that micro-series.
 
Either there will be a season 6 but 1/2 season (less episodes). OR the series will continue w/either books or comic books.

Just guessing here....:dunno

The problem with books and comics is the Toys. Let's face it would anyone on this board really have bought Cody or even Rex without a story behind them? They would just be unknown clones. I would have just calling Cody Org Bob, and Rex Blue Bob. I call everything Bob.

To answer my own question is no. Disney does what Disney does. We well never see what they make in a hour then everyone on this board will see in their life time. But still. On the toy side. The clone war line is dead.
 
Well, now people will know better next time. Unless it's an actual motion picture coming from Lucasfilm... don't get too attached. And it's most likely not film-canon.

This is why I don't watch much live TV. For the most part I wait till the end of a show, buy the shows from Amazon ($10/$12 per Season 24/Sanctuary blueray or DVD).

Right now I are watching DS9, Then THG. But my GF went on got Netflix.

I am watching. Yes I am watching it.
Ultimate Spider-Man

I need help...Or a Hug....Or to stop drinking....Wait...No a Hug...
 
I still haven't seen the Clone Wars movie. But I'm going to get the show when they release it complete and it's cheap. It's far better than the prequels. Episodes are watchable multiple times. Unlike the prequels where I only want to watch scenes like TPM Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon vs Darth Maul or AotC Obi-Wan vs Jango Fett. Anakin is handled a lot better too. But like I said in my small review of the last few episodes, junk from the prequels manages to get into the show. Many episodes are not worth watching. I know I passed on many older episodes when I was watching the show regularly.

You could check my best of list, I basically trimmed it down to a little more than half of the episodes.
 
IGN: https://m.ign.com/articles/2013/03/...bye-and-obi-wan-and-anakins-future-adventures


Star Wars: The Clone Wars - James Arnold Taylor on Saying Goodbye and Obi-Wan and Anakin's Future Adventures
The voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi talks to IGN about The Clone Wars coming to an end.
March 18, 2013
by Eric Goldman

Last week, the news broke that Star Wars: The Clone Wars was coming to an end and that Season 5, which just ended, was the final season for the series. There are other episodes produced however, which will be released in a manner yet to be revealed.

A couple of days after the announcement was made about the series ending, I spoke to one of the show’s stars, James Arnold Taylor, who had released a statement the day the news broke. Taylor, the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi on the series, talked about saying goodbye to The Clone Wars, the episodes still to come and his thoughts on the big events of Season 5.

IGN TV: I saw your statement, but now that a couple of more days have passed, how are you feeling about the show coming to an end?

James Arnold Taylor: You know, it’s one of those things that I’d love it to not be the case. I’d love to finish it the way we all imagined it would be done, and I think that’s probably the biggest bummer for all of us on the show or anybody working on it is we envisioned it would go a certain way. And any time something doesn’t, you just have to kind of deal with the consequences of that emotionally. I think it’s more so that other really than the thought that there isn’t any Clone Wars; just that it isn’t going to be the way that we thought. I really liked your piece as well. I thought it was a nice, positive look at that, for fans of Clone Wars, in that it shows everybody that there is more to come.

IGN: Thanks very much. Obviously, everyone was assuming we’d see a Season 6 in the traditional sense, right?

Taylor: Yeah, we recorded Season 6, basically, the whole season. So yeah, your assumption is, “Okay, it’s going to run as a season.” But now knowing all of the things that we did, I just really want to make sure that all those get out there. I think my biggest -- I don't even know the right word -- but maybe "issue", was calling it “bonus content.” I think that could really make people feel like, you know, bonus content we think of as extras on a DVD or little snippets on the web. But we don’t think of it as maybe a full episode or as a DVD release on its own or a season anywhere. So I think perhaps if they consider changing the wording of it to just “more Clone Wars” and “finishing the saga of The Clone Wars,” that will appease fans maybe a little bit more than just the name that they came up with immediately.
IGN: We’ve been teased with a little bit of footage - not just the clip put out the other day [see below], but even some of the clips that were out last summer with Clovis, from a storyline that ended up being held from Season 5. Suffice to say, you're looking forward to fans seeing that material?

Taylor: Yeah, very much so, because I was excited about it before all of this. I thought, “Wow, I can’t wait for this next season.” Clone Wars is a unique show in that, while I agree with shows going on more than five seasons -- and usually, you kind of hit these downward spirals of ideas running out and stuff -- it was a very unique show in that, because it explored other aspects of Star Wars and other characters and didn’t always maintain the Obi-Wan/Anakin/Padme/Ahsoka arcs, there was still a lot of story to tell, and really brilliantly. I think the writers really hit their stride. Again, we were five seasons in, but it felt sometimes like we were two or three seasons in. I think the show really came alive and found its footing and our supervising director Dave Filoni really found his comfort zone in the third season. To go to maybe seven or possibly eight seasons would have been really cool, because we hit our stride… I don’t want to say “late in the game,” like the other episodes weren’t great. They were great, but they weren’t exactly the same storytelling, the same artwork, the animation, the style -- everything hit a stride around Season 3. That’s where there’s that change and that shift in our thought process and my excitement for what was to come in Season 6, because it was some really masterful and classic Star Wars storytelling. I think that when we do get to see it, you’re going to see stuff that you always wanted to see with these characters. Without giving anything away, I think that it goes without saying that you see more of Anakin and Obi-Wan together, which is stuff that I was really excited about.

IGN: What was your conversation like with Dave the other day, finding out the news?

Taylor: Bittersweet. I had been in Japan, and I was supposed to be at a record session. During that time we were going to have one, and then it got postponed because of my trip. Then I got a call literally as I was getting my luggage out of LAX, and I was like, “Oh, this is a bummer.” And I think that Dave and Cary Silver, our producer as well, there was not a tone of happiness per se, even though there is more Clone Wars to come. It was just kind of like, “Wow, yeah. This is a bummer.” Dave also had the very difficult job of having to call, contact, and speak to his whole staff and crew on that day. It was not a fun day, I don’t think. It was a day of taking it all in. So he was so gracious and very kind to just talk about the work I had done and how much he enjoyed it and how much we’ve grown as friends and family throughout all these eight years that we’ve been working together. So it really is kind of a trip to think that, while everybody else has only experienced five seasons of Clone Wars, we’ve been working for eight years now on this adventure.

IGN: So you were going to be recording more Clone Wars before you got the news?

Taylor: Yeah, yeah. We had episodes that were being plotted and planned and written out and ready to record. I’m sure there will be little pickup sessions here or there for ADR, but as far as new episodes go, I believe we’re completely done.

IGN: It must be interesting and in some ways quite gratifying to see the fan reaction. You go from the show launching, where there was skepticism, with people saying at first, “I don’t know about this,” to now, where people are very upset and sad to hear the news.

Taylor: Yeah, it really is a touching, heartfelt, wonderful thing to read people’s posts and comments on social media outlets and blogs. To get that outpouring of people saying how much they believed in the show and how they loved it and shared it with their kids and families. It was an introduction to Star Wars for their children at ages when they might not be able to really show them things like Revenge of the Sith just yet. They could show them Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and that was really a great introduction to these characters for kids. I find it fascinating, whether I’m in Ireland or Japan or here in the states -- anywhere I go -- people are saying they’re growing up on Clone Wars. To be talking to soldiers in our military that say, “Oh, yeah. I watched Clone Wars when I was a kid,” I’m thinking, to me, that was just a couple years ago when we started all this. But to look at an 18 to 20-year-old soldier, someone in the military -- an adult -- they did grow up with this show, and they did learn so much about Star Wars from this show. I think that’s a wonderful credit to Dave Filoni, but also to George Lucas for having a vision that was deeper than just the films, that went into this area of television and allowed him to explore characters in a way that he never got to in the films.

Continue to Page 2 for Taylor's thoughts on Season 5 and what he's most excited about fans to see in the upcoming episodes.

IGN: While I’m talking to you, I’d love to ask you what you thought of this past season and the finale and where that went.

Taylor: Ah, boy. I loved this last season, I really did. I think from the very beginning at Celebration VI when they showed the first episode of the season, they did a sneak peek of it, and I was sitting there with my cast mates, Dave, Cary Silver and all these folks. To watch the fan reaction in the theater at Celebration VI with over a thousand people in there, easily -- and they cheered when Obi-Wan cut off Savage Opress’ arm, there was that roar of applause. It did my heart good to know that everybody was still rooting for the good guys, because the bad guys had such a good run. From that beginning to the end -- and I literally watched the last episode just yesterday. I was in Japan when it aired, so I didn’t get to see it with everybody else. Then the news broke for me on that Friday when I was coming home, so I wasn’t really set emotionally to sit down and watch the episode yet. Over the weekend, I was really kind of dealing with all of that and knowing that it was all going to break on Monday. So yesterday I was able to sit down and watch the episode, finally, on StarWars.com. I was moved so much by all of it.
But I gotta tell you, too, this was quite a season because of course, it was Ian Abercrombie’s final season, it was Anna Graves’ farewell as the Duchess Satine. That episode we had recorded well over a year ago now was so heart-wrenching to me. As an actor, it was tough. I was really choked up. I’m a big enough guy to say that I shed a couple tears that day. It was tough stuff. Then not knowing at the time it was Ian Abercrombie’s final episode, that was really a special one. So this particular season had a lot of pivotal points. Of course, having this whole thing with Ahsoka’s storyline and going to a place where we feel that we have some closure or some idea of what happens to Ahsoka, I personally don’t think we know the whole story yet, but that’s just my opinion on it. Of course, I know a little bit more than everybody else, but that’s not to say anything, that there is more that I know of firsthand. I just don’t think it ends just that way. I think there’s more of Ahsoka Tano’s story to tell. Whether it’s in Clone Wars or it’s years from now, time will tell. But she’s one of my favorite characters, so it was very cool -- a great season.

IGN: Dave told me that it was interesting when you were recording Obi-Wan’s reaction to Satine’s death because you had a talk about how our natural reactions would be to be pretty emotional, but Obi-Wan, as a good Jedi, would probably rein that in.

Taylor: That’s a great point, and as you mention that I can close my eyes and see Dave behind the glass in the control room there giving me the direction and talking about that and us kind of debating the various ways of doing it. We always record several different ways. We probably did one that was a little more emotional, but the ones that they ended up using I think made perfect sense. It wasn’t hard to garner that emotion on that day because it was present. I really didn’t want to see that character get killed, especially by Darth Maul in that way. So it was easy to get in touch with those feelings.
IGN: One of the things I asked Dave regarding the finale -- and I had my assumptions but I wanted to know from him for sure -- was who on the Jedi Council sided with Ahsoka, since Yoda said it was not unanimous to kick her out. I was very happy to hear for sure that Obi-Wan was one of those who he felt did not go along with that.
Taylor: Yeah, me too. It’s funny, because I remember when we recorded these episodes and that final episode -- and this is up for debate among Star Wars fans, I suppose -- and part of me goes, “Why didn’t Yoda sense this?” He senses so many things, they know so much with the Force, and yet they were clouded on whether or not it was Ahsoka that did it, and Plo Koon as well. I found that fascinating, and at the time we were recording it, I was like, “C’mon! They should know that it wasn’t Ahsoka.” So I was happy that Obi-Wan was on her side in that.

IGN: Only Matt [Lanter] and Ashley [Eckstein] were in the recording booth for the very last scene. I know you just watched the episode yesterday, but when did you find out what exactly happened in the ending?

Taylor: That was yesterday when I watched it. [Laughs] Yeah, I had my suspicions of what all of that was going to be -- certainly from dialogue that we’ve done from what we were calling Season 6, which gave me indications of what happened. But I didn’t really fully know until I watched it yesterday.

IGN: Is there anything you can say or tease that you’re particularly intrigued or excited for the audience to see as far as what we’ll get in these other episodes?

Taylor: Wow, you know, there’s more Obi-Wan and Anakin to be discovered and in ways that we possibly haven’t seen before… But it’s still like what we get to by the beginning of Sith, that friendship and brotherhood. You see a lot more of that, and those were the ones that I was very excited about. I don’t think I’ll get in trouble for saying that; I hope not! At the same time, yeah, I think for fans that were saying, “More Obi-Wan, more Anakin,” there was and is more of them in the stuff that we’ve recorded.

Eric Goldman is Executive Editor of IGN TV. You can follow him on Twitter at @EricIGN, IGN at ericgoldman-ign and Facebook at Facebook.com/TheEricGoldman.
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Nice interview.

We've seen the 'Order 66' type clip and he mentions episodes focusing on Anakin and Obi-Wan but I hope we get some closure on Maul. Though at this point it may be hard to have a nice closure without Ian Abercrombie. Maybe Dooku hunts Maul, Maul joins with Ventress to take down Dooku and he kills them both?

Obviously the end is sad and reading that they were thinking of material for 7 or 8 seasons to me is very bittersweet. I can't help but imagine if they would have focused more on the important stuff instead of making episodes like the frog colonel ones than maybe we could have have had 4-5 seasons with less fillers and actually finish the series.
 
I can't help but imagine if they would have focused more on the important stuff instead of making episodes like the frog colonel ones than maybe we could have have had 4-5 seasons with less fillers and actually finish the series.



i had been thinking the same thing.
 
...and now Rebelscum has a report up saying the CW team and much of Lucas Animation is being let go...the chances are slim to none for seeing any of that "bonus content" (what was completed already for season 6) and if there is any more animated SW, it will be done by Disney.


So...season 6 has been "Order 66" 'ed......

Wow....so Disney/K K's first move is to cancel production on the only currently running property that is still popular with fans, gets good ratings and is on a creative high on all fronts. Then send the show's director out there with a story they know is a lie....
it's just sad and sloppy....
 
I don't know... I'm probably in the minority (in this thread, anyway) but I like this. It sucks for those working on the show, and I feel for them. But, let's face it... Star Wars needed an enema. The full deal. Clean the slate and start anew. And it's getting it. People like me have been waiting for this for years. Hell, I'd all but given up. Now I have "new hope".
 
I almost pretty much agree with Irish on this. I petered out on the CW series midway through Season 3, and could never get back into it for some reason.

"This town needs an enema!" :rotfl
 
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