Star Wars: The Clone Wars To Become Darker, More Violent

[Kaveh77]

Sounds good cant wait for season 2

 

[Shredhead]

The trailer actaully looked pretty cool and I like the idea of it getting darker and edgier. The best stuff in that franchise has always been the darker stuff. They amost always fail when they try and make it lighthearted and silly I mean just look at Jar Jar.

 

[BigMac]

Becoming more darker and violent... nice!

The trailer looked good... now we just have to see the episodes...

 

[Cartoon X]

I enjoyed the trailer as well! Man this season looks so epic, like it was a trailer for an actual movie! I wish that Clone wars movie from last year was in stead all this! I can't wait for fall!

 

[Monte]

I prefer light-hearted action adventure over anything resembling drama. I don't like shows with high body counts or maimings. I don't care if they're 'just clones', too much death turns me off of a show in a big way. Besides, there's still awesome clones like Rex and Cody running around, I don't want to see them die. I like them.

Well, you don't have to worry about Cody... he needs to survive till the episode III

Any of the cast who appeared in ROTS will not be dying at all in the series, which is an awful lot of characters who are "safe", so I don't know what you're getting at. Really, it is just clones who are going to die in droves and get limbs sheared off.

Unless Ahsoka bites it this season, which I wouldn't mind at all.

Ya, i guess that's part of the problem with setting up a series as a prequel...
So when it comes down to it, only "new" characters appearing for the first time are open to possibly dying... which probably does not include Ahsoka as i highly doubt they'd be willing to go THAT dark

CN only edited one episode for the use of the word "hell" and considering the fact that CN is a kids network it was an edit that made sense.

Ok, i fail to see how it makes sense... i don't see what's so taboo about the word "hell"; even for kids... and especially not on network that supposedly wants to cater to an audience as old as 14...

 

[DarthGonzo]

Because that's how you make Star Wars better...up the violence and make everything darker.

From the beginning Star Wars was never about being dark and violent. I don't really understand why this show has to be. Then again I'm not in the target demo for this cartoon.

 

[Rolling Cloud]

I prefer light-hearted action adventure over anything resembling drama. I don't like shows with high body counts or maimings. I don't care if they're 'just clones', too much death turns me off of a show in a big way. Besides, there's still awesome clones like Rex and Cody running around, I don't want to see them die. I like them.

I'm surprised you haven't jumped ship, then with stuff like Ahsoka's fleet getting eradicated being shown

Urgh... And they're putting Boba Fett in there,

He is? Awesome!

So when it comes down to it, only "new" characters appearing for the first time are open to possibly dying... which probably does not include Ahsoka as i highly doubt they'd be willing to go THAT dark

Well, they have to do something with her by the end. They can't just go "Oh, during the Jedi massacre they just happened to miss a girl."

 

[Monte]

Well, they have to do something with her by the end. They can't just go "Oh, during the Jedi massacre they just happened to miss a girl."

Actually they can...
If you look up info on the great jedi purge, it is noted that aside from Obi-wan and Yoda, there were a handful of other survivors... And i'd wager to guess that Ahsoka will likely end up being counted amongst them as they continue her story; at this point, i feel as though they have too much invested in her to let her die as a young teen... she'll likely continue to live on in the comics, novels or whatever; as an adult they'll probably even give her a duel with vader (which could be when she dies... writers feel like they can kill people in comics, not so much in tv shows)

 

[Dingo]

I am looking forward to this latest development. I watched most of the first season and liked it enough, but this new twist proposed could mean it gets better.

 

[Master Toon]

I liked the trailer. It's interesting to see Kanobi might have had a forbidden affair. I especially liked when the lady said "I remember a time when Jedi were not generals, but peace keepers".

 

[JAG]

Originally posted by Master Toon:
"I remember a time when Jedi were not generals, but peace keepers".

Well, considering it was only a year or two earlier, shouldn't she?

On that subject, I wonder if they're ever going to end up retconning the fact that the Clone War only lasts three years. Considering how much of it has been shown so far, they're really starting to run out of space in that time frame.

The main characters are especially overtaxed. At some point, they're going to have to do a scene where the Jedi Council and Palpatine are planning some mission. Yoda gives Palpatine a rundown on the resources they have available.

Yoda: "Lead the assault, Masters Tiin and Kolar will. Two divisions of clones and four Padawan Commanders will they have."

Palpatine: "Very good, Master Yoda. But, if I may inquire, would it be possible to attach Generals Kenobi and Skywalker to the invasion force? As I recall, they just completed their operation on Mon Calamari."

Mace: "No, we won't be able to do that. As we speak, they're already liberating the Toydarian colony on Rugosa, keeping General Grievous from invading Malastare, delivering supplies to bases on Rishi and Kashyyyk, and trying to negotiate a treaty that will keep Corellia from joining the Separatists. I believe Skywalker is also escorting Senator Amidala on her flight back from Bespin."

 

[Mesousa]

I don't think CN will edit anything voilence-related.

If they can keep puking scenes on the Total Drama series, then, they might actually keep slightly more intense violence in the Clone Wars' second season.

 

[Jimmy Kudo]

Actually they can...
If you look up info on the great jedi purge, it is noted that aside from Obi-wan and Yoda, there were a handful of other survivors... And i'd wager to guess that Ahsoka will likely end up being counted amongst them as they continue her story; at this point, i feel as though they have too much invested in her to let her die as a young teen... she'll likely continue to live on in the comics, novels or whatever; as an adult they'll probably even give her a duel with vader (which could be when she dies... writers feel like they can kill people in comics, not so much in tv shows)

Damn. I was hoping the Republic Commandos would make an appearance in the upcoming season and "accidentally" kill Ahsoka...

 

[Kuromi_Star]

I highly doubt Ahsoka is going anywhere. They have invested too much into her and she is who they are expecting the target demo to relate and project onto. Plus she would be more likely to attract females in the target age right?

 

[Mickialla]

I guess that's good, but I agree with macattack that darkness only works with a good plot.

I didn't see anything particularly wrong with Season 1, though I did only see the first half and missed most of the second half of the season due to an increased amount of time out of the house and a slight drop in interest. Hopefully Season 2 will keep me gripped, though I doubt I'll become attached to it, as I'm finding myself out of the house more and more often, as is evident by my lack of activity the past few weeks.

 

[JAG]

I agree that Ahsoka will most likely survive at least the initial execution of Order 66. However, something big is going to have to happen with her at some point. Why, for example, is she not even mentioned in Episode III? And where is she during the Galactic Civil War and the incessant chaos that's taken place since then?

One possibility is that she loses faith in the Jedi Order and leaves. While certainly a big step for this fairly lighthearted show, I don't think it's out of the question. Look at how much the movie and early episodes emphasized her obsession with becoming a Knight. Now, she's finally out in the real world, seeing first hand what that will involve, and decides that she doesn't want that life anymore. Ten minutes later, the 501st launch Operation: Knightfall, but Rex decides to spare this Togruta kid that he notices leaving the Temple. She's not a Jedi anymore, and therefore not a target.

 

[Monte]

I agree that Ahsoka will most likely survive at least the initial execution of Order 66. However, something big is going to have to happen with her at some point. Why, for example, is she not even mentioned in Episode III? And where is she during the Galactic Civil War and the incessant chaos that's taken place since then?

This can be answered with simply, "where was anybody during the galactic civil war."
Like i mentioned before, there were jedi that survived order 66, and their was other jedi around during Episodes 4-6, but where were they during those episodes? Luke, Obi-wan, and Yoda were treated like they were the last of their kind, but there were other jedi, and those being trained to become jedi, but they were no where to be seen in the original movies... they didn't get even the softest mention.

The expanded universe is all about retcon, and inserting new events in the blank spots inbetween the old events (mostly the later)... episodes 4-6 were the beginning of the starwars universe and most of the characters that appeared before and after were barely even conceived at that point and were written into the timeline afterward

Ahsoka can easily end up the same... in the comics and novels they will tell us why she was not mentioned as she was somewhere else... They will tells us that she was working under another jedi knight towards the end of the war, and that when order 66 was handed down, that knight sacrificed himself to make sure Ahsoka escaped... they will then find something for her to do as she grows up. During the galactic civil war she was either in hiding, secretly training force sensitives, or maybe even helping rebels fight the empire in another part of the galaxy...


The events we are told in starwars have plenty of weeks and months of time between them... and they only tells what is going on in one part of the universe at a time... it takes no effort for a writer to place Ahsoka into the timeline and just tell us that she was involved in [insert never before mentioned event] on [insert planet] while [insert pre-existing event] was going on... hell they could say that she was in hiding, and then inbetween episodes 5 and 6, she finally came out of hiding took a shot at vader, lost a hand, got badly injured, and was unable to participate in fighting in episode 6; she would then join the new jedi order afterward and have all sorts of adventures that we previously never heard of... also she has a son and names him after Plo Koon... whatever floats the writer's boat

 

[09MurphyM]

I think that the show is fine the way it is.

 

[Jack_6428]

darker and more violent with more action....only the better...season 1 did felt a bit kidish..

too be honest, i think that the original Clone Wars series from 2003 was better so far

 

[Raidon Makoto]

He is? Awesome!"

No, its not, because depending on the placing, he's either on Aargau or Tatooine working for Jabba the Hutt. Someone's brain is going to explode trying to fit it into continuity, and of course, Lucas' solution is to ignore pre-established continuity in favor of his own, which will then go and wreck the Boba Fett bits in Legacy of the Force.

This is one of the reasons why TCW is not in my personal Star Wars continuity.