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Makes Lucas look pedestrian.
satsugaikaze:
--- Quote from: Ozymandias on 09 Aug 2010, 15:36 ---Well, even beyond the books: Tartakovsky's original Clone Wars microseries was the best part of the prequel trilogy and both Raven and Bioware's forays into the EU in their video games have been spectacular.
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The original Clone Wars series was a literal work of art, to be honest. The whole thing was a spectacle of absurdly awesome action and fight choreography.
I've noticed that with lots of media that aren't the main film series, some of the best instances of Star Wars material is stuff that has very little to do with Jedi. Republic Commando is one of the best examples of that. In terms of music, the KOTOR games won out for me, because they used original themes, added their own material and made the soundtrack their own thing entirely (best example was the opener track to KOTOR 1).
There's still a smidgeon of untapped potential in the series. I'd really like another linear shooter in the vein of Republic Commando, something dark and gritty and immersive in the eyes of a regular clone trooper ala Battlefront, but set pieces that aren't punctuated by "Objective Complete" and "New Objective: Destroy Object X at Location Y".
And also, I am distantly psyched for the distant live-action TV series that has pretty much nothing to do with Jedi in terms of central focus. Probably because at some point I saw "Star Wars" and "Battlestar Galactica" in the same sentence.
Blue Kitty:
I really wish they did more with Republic Commando, especially with the cliffhanger ending it had.
satsugaikaze:
iirc they just followed it up with a couple comic issues. Correct me if I'm wrong.
KvP:
Hey so turns out Return of the Jedi wasn't originally going to end with a rave.
--- Quote from: Gary Kurtz via AV Club ---“We had an outline and George changed everything in it," Kurtz said. “Instead of bittersweet and poignant he wanted a euphoric ending with everybody happy. The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”
The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.
Kurtz said that ending would have been a more emotionally nuanced finale to an epic adventure than the forest celebration of the Ewoks that essentially ended the trilogy with a teddy bear luau.
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Ozymandias:
So it would've been an ending that makes sense when you consider the political ramifications of deposing a massive Empire and Luke's status as the last of the Jedi and a piss-poor one at that.
Still, killing Han would've been a dick move.
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