Cloning the Wars

Despite the efforts of friends and buses, I have finally managed to see Clone Wars. I do think the basic premise, of the event re Jabba, is pretty lame. Frankly, it's just an excuse for one battle after another... which does make it rather like the movies.

Speaking of, it's rather hard to get too worked up about some of what happens here. We know various characters have script immunity, so it doesn't matter what happens to them, they will survive to appear in Revenge. This is probably one reason the "cute kid" character was introduced, to give us someone to worry about (although the other reason would be: to appeal to the kid market).

Animation-wise, yeah, I thought it would be harder to get into than this based on the trailer. A friend of mine said the character models were based on the Thunderbirds, which explains their large eyes and that their bottom lip were the only movement during speaking (which wasn't entirely true). It worked pretty well, actually. Just some close ups don't quite work as we get far too close to the texture maps. Still, the ships work, probably because they were all CG in the first place (presumedly the production team got a hold of the models?).

Vocals work well too. It's more the actual voices that stand out as unusual than the returning guest voices (who probably won't be in the actual series).

Definitely something to see if you have any interest in the Star Wars series, and I did enjoy it more than I thought. But very thin on the plot.

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