Clone Wars Recap

January 10th 2009

Is There Anything Jar-Jar Can’t Ruin?

You know that there’s something wrong with last night’s Clone Wars episode when the thing I spent most time thinking about while watching it was that Jar-Jar sounded different than usual. Another misfire awaits. The most frustrating thing about “The Gungan General” was that you could, if you squinted a bit and filled in a…

Television Graeme McMillan Jan 10

January 3rd 2009

Clone Wars Makes Pirating Look Like Viable Career Opportunity

Space pirates, shady dealings and a rescue from the clutches of bad guys – It can only be the return of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, with another episode that thrills and impresses… surprisingly. Let’s ignore, for a moment, a plot filled with Star Wars traditions (The hero is captured by the bad guys and…

Television Graeme McMillan Jan 3

December 6th 2008

Batman Vet Raises Clone Wars’ Bar

An episode of Clone Wars in which the good guys lost, the best parts weren’t ripped off from the movies and Ahsoka wasn’t annoying enough to make me want to lightsaber my eyes out? Not only is it not impossible, it also makes for the best episode of the series yet. I was cautiously excited…

io9 Graeme McMillan Dec 6

November 22nd 2008

Jar-Jar Does It Again In This Week’s Sub-Par Clone Wars

It had to happen: In an attempt to use the wide spread of Star Wars characters, the latest episode of The Clone Wars abandoned Anakin, Ahsoka and the clones in favor of the characters that we really didn’t want to see: C3-P0 and Jar-Jar Binks. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the episode also…

Television Graeme McMillan Nov 22

November 15th 2008

Robot Shall Rise Up Against Robot In This Week’s Clone Wars

Of all the loves that dare not speak their name, is there any more beautiful than the one between a man and his droid? That’s the question that this week’s Clone Wars sought to answer and, thanks to some more-impressive than usual visuals and an unexpectedly engaging final battle, the answer may be “We’re still…

io9 Graeme McMillan Nov 15

November 8th 2008

Whiny Anakin And Star Wars Techno Expose Clone Wars’ Shortcomings

Last night’s Clone Wars may not have looked promising from the teasers (Anakin loses R2 and whines about it! Oh no!), and perhaps that lack of interest was felt by the people behind the show, as well. How else to explain the sudden appearance of a distractingly non-John Williams-esque, Alias-like quasi-electronica soundtrack? Or, for that…

Television Graeme McMillan Nov 8

October 25th 2008

Star Wars May Not Be Hell, But It’s Definitely Heck If You’re A Clone

This week’s Clone Wars dumped a lot of the traditional Star Wars trappings – although they kept in the now-expected moment of ripping off the original trilogy – and the result was something that seemed more like a war story than usual… and a welcome reminder that there’s more to George Lucas’ saga of a…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 25

October 18th 2008

Clone Wars Saves Itself By Channeling… George Lucas?!?

This week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars offered thrills and spills, derring-do rescues and damsels in distress, and a breathy bad-guy ditching the flawed giant evil death machine and flying off into deep space at the end of the episode. It all seemed very familiar indeed, like this old movie about Darth something…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 18

October 11th 2008

The Clone Wars Need More Elvis And More Space Whales

We admit it, midway through last night’s third episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we were beginning to think that ol’ Tiger Karate knew what he was talking about when he asked for a little less conversation and a little more action, please. But just when we were on the verge of giving up,…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 11

Is There Anything Jar-Jar Can’t Ruin?

Clone Wars Makes Pirating Look Like Viable Career Opportunity

Batman Vet Raises Clone Wars’ Bar

Jar-Jar Does It Again In This Week’s Sub-Par Clone Wars

Robot Shall Rise Up Against Robot In This Week’s Clone Wars

Whiny Anakin And Star Wars Techno Expose Clone Wars’ Shortcomings

Star Wars May Not Be Hell, But It’s Definitely Heck If You’re A Clone

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