this is a week when i will miss the first twenty minutes of anything. toonami was showing all twenty episodes of the clone wars at seven this evening. each episode lasts approximately five minutes, and they were shown at such odd hours of the day that i practically miss them when they were first shown on air. not any more. besides, gone are the annoying cliffhangers as we get to see all twenty in one shot. we get to meet some new characters, even one which we’ll get to see in episode iii: the jedi killer, general grievous. when you see how he handles multiple lightsabres during combat, you’d realise no wonder the jedi got such a hard time.
the best sabre fight was of course between anakin skywalker and the sith upstart, asajj ventress, the meanest bald woman since… er… sinead o’connor. okay, with twin red sabres courtesy of darth tyranus/count dooku. location? try the massassi ruins on the fourth moon of yavin. yeah! expect a taste of shaw brothers wire fu in this fight!
the episodes all have a fast momentum to it, commensurate with the five-minute length of each episode. no wonder mace windu could easily decimate entire droid armies with just a purple lightsabre. i just hope they are gonna release these episodes on dvd!
I downloaded the full episodes off torrent, and have to say these shorts have more personality than the two prequels combined!
But then again I was born in 78, so maybe I’m just old.
i agree with ash. the cartoon is way more cool than the movies. and yeah i have seen all 20 too when they showed in cartoon network last month! hopefully episode III won;t be a disappointment!
*Ahem* I have VCDs of the episodes. Asajj Ventress rosks! Too bad she’s not going to be in Episode 3.
Coming up this week: OT on DVD!
ot? apa itu?
original trilogy is it? baru tengok darth vader baru. woohoo!
ye. OT= Original Trilogy. New Vader? Where? You mean the rumour that the ‘old Vader spirit’ in Return of the Jedi will be replaced with Haydyn ‘I’m a wuss’ Christensen ke?
no more a rumour. 🙂
and the episode iii snippet, too.