the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

Those shows are way better than the prequels, btw

will never really understand masochism I guess

xp: yes. They are way better than the prequels, although the Truman Capote gay Hutt character is on a par with Jar Jar for me.

The 2d animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky, also called Clone Wars, has more thrill power in 20 3-minute segments than George Lucas managed in all of the prequels.

I've seen some of the Clone Wars series thanks to a friend's kid and yeah, they are really well done. Lucas NOT getting directly involved beyond the basics was probably key. I think by now there's been more hours of them all told than the original six movies.

I only watched a bit but what I saw was super-violent. totally not letting my 4 yo watch that shit

Genndy Tartakovsky did star wars cartoons???! omg

Yeah it was all this mini-episode stuff in the run up to the third movie. And as Andrew sez, it's great.

I admit I was kind of shocked that a recent episode of Clone Wars I saw featured a squad of clones arguing over whether they should hand over a prisoner or execute him vigilante-style. Not quite what I expected from a Cartoon Network show, but entertaining to watch.

you mean a squad of clones WARRING

Get your clone war on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwabxgoSGZY

Love how there's no iconic, pop-culture touchstone voice for Darth Maul for them to do an impression of so they just kind of fuck around improvising for thirty seconds...more dialogue than he had in the whole film, yes?

great commercial

very humourous take on the iconic darth maul character we all love to hate

grrrr... he's so evil!

does make it kinda fun to see him get his, though

disappointed that Lucas is allowing these sacred totems to be exploited by opportunist companies

it's an insult to their native cultures

he cd have just made up some stupid shit

brb

disappointed that Lucas is allowing these sacred totems to be exploited by opportunist companies

Pretty sure when I saw this back in 1994 my reaction was "Whoa, a new Star W...wait, what the hell?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxafIhYFOr0

This was around the same time I think I went "Wait...did I fever-dream it or was there some holiday special nobody talks about any more?"

"simulated demonstration"

http://youtu.be/4OnDizZ7UT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OnDizZ7UT0

another crime: not putting the classic characters in the video games since the SNES days (dancing excepted)

what the

I dunno, I kind of think dancing Han Solo may be the best thing to come from the Star Wars world in a long time.

I can't even deal with that, too much lol

Oh wow i hadn't watched the whole thing. Lando gets his turn in the spotlight too!

another crime: not putting the classic characters in the video games since the SNES days (dancing excepted)

may I remind you of a little thing they call MASTERS OF TERAS KASI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTElGKKnVIY

it was sort of an ill-advised game design

omg i remember that game

The PSX readied the world for 3D character art, albeit in the most painful way possible

that game was p awesome stfu

HOAR

that is cooler than any of the prequels

that's a hella lame lightsaber darth has got.

LOL Masters of Teras Kasi

I think I bought that on my birthday the year it came out...I remember how huge of a letdown it was.

Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is a Lucasarts fighting game released in 1997 and set in the fictional universe of Star Wars. "Teräs Käsi" refers to a martial art used in the game; and, while being in grammatically incorrect form, is Finnish for "steel hand".

the crimes of tuomas ('90s on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJxj1mou03M

It's like they felt the need to rip off Tekken even in the name...

Very well done! The bodies exploding as they fall into the water was Lol.

Giant squid was super well done.

Wait, is that music at 30 secs in a dance-version of the Cannibal Holocaust theme?

Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is a Lucasarts fighting game released in 1997 and set in the fictional universe of Star Wars. "Teräs Käsi" refers to a martial art used in the game; and, while being in grammatically incorrect form, is Finnish for "steel hand".

Haha, this is indeed true! When Kingfish posted the Youtube link I thought it was some Finnish parody because of the name, but apparently it's the real thing!

The correct way to write "steel hand" would be "teräskäsi", btw, since it's a compound word in Finnish.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ter%C3%A4s_K%C3%A4si

I wonder where the heck they got the idea to name it in Finnish?

cos it looks like something spoken by aliens

IIRC, there's some old American sci-fi movie where the "alien" tongue spoken by aliens is actually Finnish! They say something like "Sibelius makes excellent music" in Finnish.

Tolkien's Elvish was based on Finnish too wasn't it?