big screen satellite
03-16-2006, 02:27 PM
Rumour has it that they are gonna be doing (at least) 100 shows...*eek*
all set between Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV...
so whadda you reckon...is it gonna be any good??
Personally, i reckon it will get panned critically regardless, but Lucas won't care, and neither will most fans. Either way he's not gonna make Ewoks II or the Holiday Special type mistakes, i think he learnt his lessons on that front.
As far as i understand he and his team are going to make these fairly big budget with proper movie type CGI, so providing the plots are good, it'll be sweet...and providing Lucas doesn't write the dialogue...because he can't direct real 'people'.
What i'd rather see is a basic story arc running through the whole series - which takes the viewer logically from the events of episode III to the start of episode IV, but with the main espidoe theme being one, two or three part shows on one or two characters at a time, such as Bail Organa fleeing the Clones and starting a new life with his wife and child (leia), and episodes on characters that we know little about...which is how i understand they are going to do it...
I really am looking forward to this when it finally arrives, and i really hope it does well, and works, its a big task, and from what we have seen in George's previous forrays into the 'expanded universe' its gotta be good, because nothing can be as bad as the Holiday Spesh.
This being his baby and his name resting on it i think it could work, after all some of the most popular characters in the entire six movies are subplot characters like Boba Fett, and the Hutts...so fans should lap it up.
anyway...any news i'll post it here...save going to the over excited Star Wars 'nerd' sites ;)
any views??
all set between Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV...
so whadda you reckon...is it gonna be any good??
Personally, i reckon it will get panned critically regardless, but Lucas won't care, and neither will most fans. Either way he's not gonna make Ewoks II or the Holiday Special type mistakes, i think he learnt his lessons on that front.
As far as i understand he and his team are going to make these fairly big budget with proper movie type CGI, so providing the plots are good, it'll be sweet...and providing Lucas doesn't write the dialogue...because he can't direct real 'people'.
What i'd rather see is a basic story arc running through the whole series - which takes the viewer logically from the events of episode III to the start of episode IV, but with the main espidoe theme being one, two or three part shows on one or two characters at a time, such as Bail Organa fleeing the Clones and starting a new life with his wife and child (leia), and episodes on characters that we know little about...which is how i understand they are going to do it...
I really am looking forward to this when it finally arrives, and i really hope it does well, and works, its a big task, and from what we have seen in George's previous forrays into the 'expanded universe' its gotta be good, because nothing can be as bad as the Holiday Spesh.
This being his baby and his name resting on it i think it could work, after all some of the most popular characters in the entire six movies are subplot characters like Boba Fett, and the Hutts...so fans should lap it up.
anyway...any news i'll post it here...save going to the over excited Star Wars 'nerd' sites ;)
any views??