My excitement would come from the idea of an all-cgi series with substantial backing -- at some point a CGI show is going to make a *big* impact and change how CGI is perceived by the general populace, and that will result in a lot more investment and intrest in the medium.

That said, the series is bound to suck, because these sort of things almost allways do! /me hopes he's wrong though -- SW-TAS would have a better chance of succeeding than most.

I'd love to see a Star Wars television series....but I'd prefer it to be set after Return Of The Jedi and to centre around a less well known character....Taking the Rogue Squadron books and making them into a television series would be brilliant(one of the main characters is Wedge Antilles for the uninitiated, the man who had to pull out of the trench run on the first Death Star and who helped Lando destroy the second Death Star)

Not sure how much I'd enjoy an all CGI series....wasn't too enamoured with Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which was all CGI

Well its set during the clone wars, theres no suggestion that it will feature the same characters as epides 3 and 4.

My guess is we will have some of the peripheral characters, like the lesser known jedi council members, and flesh them out, maybe Mace, who for such a high profile character has had little screen time, plus some new 'human' characters.

The clone war is certainly big enough to focus elswhere.

And lets not forget that the original trilogy made it clear that C3PO and R2 were involved, they would be easy to do.

Im thinking of how they handled Ewoks and Droids, the previous two spin offs, they always avoided Luke, Han and the rest.

A lot of it comes down to how / when ep3 ends. There's certainly a lot of space in between the end of ep2 and the start of ep4 in which to place the series, and if it's set immediately after ep3 then there's still going to be about 15 years (depending on when ep3 ends) before the start of ep4. If the 'clone wars' series proves a success then there's a lot of space to expand, following the rise of first the empire and then the rebellion.

IM now reading that it may take place between ep2 and ep3, basically following on from the battle scenes at the end of attack of the clones

Not so keen on that idea -- sounds far too bounded, I suspect that if they skip over enough material between 2 and 3 to make a series viable then there will be uproar when ep 3 comes out and we suddenly find they skipped over minor little things like AS becoming DV and killing all the jedi

Any series that was made would have to have new characters or secondary characters played by different actors as I can't see Hayden Christian and Natalie Portman signing up for a tv show

(Edited by Milky 16/11/2002 11:50)

Interesting... but will it be any good?

slashdot.org/articles/02/11/17/1440240.shtml?tid=101

There actually already has been a star wars cartoon.

It was called 'Droids' and it was the adventures of C3PO and R2D2, and was set before Episode 4. Of course now with Ep1 & 2 the cartoon story doesn't fit anymore.

Also as the star wars saga is meant to be a trilogy of trilogies (ie 9 films) they would have to be careful where they put a cartoon so as not to interfear with the master film plan.

PS: WhooHoo me a Convert now

(Edited by Vinnie 18/11/2002 16:33)

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by Vinnie
Also as the star wars saga is meant to be a trilogy of trilogies (ie 9 films) they would have to be careful where they put a cartoon so as not to interfear with the master film plan.

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Thought George Lucas had given up on doing Episodes 7-9.

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by Whistler
Thought George Lucas had given up on doing Episodes 7-9.

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Oh...

Me is EXCITED There ares omany possibilities that they could use - how about the story of Boba Fett? Or set it way before episode 1, or even after 6

Well... I think I'd watch it anyway, and probably enjoy it because I'm not really what you'd call a 'hard core' fan like some others.

I actually like the CGI FF - The Spirits Within, so if its anything like that I'll be watching.