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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] More future-Star Wars news: not only have they pegged Michael ("Little Miss Sunshine") Arndt as writer for Episode 7, they got Lawrence Kasdan, who needs no introduction, and Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class) for episode 8 and 9. I'd say that's good news. As for Clone Wars, I'm through most of season 4, got some episode comments and some more ship notes. First off, I liked [URL=http://i.imgur.com/KPwLq.jpg]this little nod to KotOR-mandies[/URL] in the episode "Wookie Hunt", while showing off Trandoshan hunting trophies. About that story, and CW-Trandoshans in general, it's sad that they made them bilingual, alternating between their hissing guttural reptile speech and then diluting it with corny, macho Klingon-sounding english. Taking a cue from Bossk in TESB, they would've been much more scary if only hissing in native tongue, like they did in the KotOR games. No subtitles, you'd have to make conjecture of their motives from their actions. Even more alien and unknowable. Ah well. That episode gave [URL=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110923025855/starwars/images/thumb/e/e6/Halo.jpg/1000px-Halo.jpg]another show of the Halo[/URL], bounty hunter Sugi's SS-54 assault ship. I'm starting to really like it. The engines are very big targets, of course, but anything with tiltmotors is a very welcome addition to CW. I loved R2 and Threepio's two episodes. R2 is racking up a pretty sizeable body count by now, and Threepio's attempt at instituting democracy on the Gulliver-planet was cute, then horrible and funny. I really like [URL=http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120305062048/starwars/images/0/01/Rex-SWErelated.png]Commander Rex' new helmet design[/URL], a perfect combo of the first clone-visor and the vintage stormtrooper muzzle. The aesthetic blend feels natural, a match made in heaven. The slaver episodes were pretty good, Kenobi did get to play rough, and the [URL=http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111126174354/starwars/images/7/72/ZygerrianSlaveShip-SWE.jpg]Zygerrian ships[/URL] were nice. More tiltmotors still. I've just finished the four-episode "Palpatine kidnapping" story, it felt like a thrust back to the worst parts of season 1. Dooku has no reason to kidnap his boss Palpatine, and if they truly wanted to, Palps could just walk out the door and onto a Dooku-hired ship, then claim "I'm kidnapped". The convoluted and unnecessary circus Dooku actually came up with was exactly why I stopped watching Clone Wars the first time around. Insulting the intelligence of the viewer. I hoped the plot would have some other, deeper layer, but no, Dooku just wants to waste millions of credits in resources, prance about and have yet another pointless and predictable saber fight, then escape on a chopper ladder and gloat, even though he's the biggest loser there, having gained nothing, the entire operation a complete and utter failure. An operation which he had no motive to want to carry out. Also, Palpatine could've just as soon died in that shield reactor explosion. As it was, he blew up juuust hard enough to become unconscious. The script is worse than Ducktales. I see from the wiki that a "Brent Friedman" was the writer for those four episodes, and his name appears nowhere else. Thank goodness. In the episode prior to this, Katee Sackhoff calls Ahsoka skinny and smacks her on the rump. The bizarre hilarity of it almost makes up for all the crap in the proceeding four eps. Almost. Then comes "Bounty", which shows just how night-and-day these episodes can be, depending on writer, director and cast. Simon Pegg as Dengar, new cool characters (Latts Razzi, Highsinger), an interesting plot, and a very pretty sky elevator. More of this. More of all of that. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$poilers "Revenge" and "Brothers": pure gold. I never knew Clancy Brown was the voice of Opress. Talking snake funny. Sam Witwer's Darth Maul is spot on, from the one line spoken by Peter Serafinowicz in TPM. Quad-fight aboard the freighter was geniously choreographed, they [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNlGUhV3vEg&feature=plcp]even had Maul do some genuine Wushu-style acrobatics and attack chains.[/URL] Some of the finest animation I've ever seen. It's great that they still work to harness this style of rendering and don't just cheat and resort to simplistic motion-capture, like in the 2004 Appleseed-movie. Jason: No more excuses. [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OpTTnIqz-M&feature=plcp]Watch my clip[/URL] or [URL=http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/kill20this20dog.jpg]you know what happens[/URL]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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