TV: Star Wars - Yay! Netflix.

Post by **Leisher** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:40 pm

For those who don't know, the story goes that Thrawn is the Desert Fox of the Imperial Fleet. The true brains behind the brawn. He wasn't the man behind the curtain and the Emporer's boss or anything, just the best strategic and tactical mind in the Imperial fleet.

The Emporer held him and his fleet back from the battle at the new Death Star. A move Thrawn advised would be unwise.

One of the cool touches of his character is that he studies a civilization's art and finds their weaknesses through it.

Think Hannibal Lecter in space without the flesh eating. Classy, yet vicious.

He's even in Star Wars: Galaxies.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:01 pm

I don't care what it is as long as we can get away from C3PO doing goofy shit.

Post by **Troy** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:15 pm

I read, em, twice, and I'm not huge into star wars and those types of novels.

WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:49 pm

Read the Timothy Zahn novels. It's a trilogy set right after RotJ and was authorized as the "official continuation of the SW story" so sayeth Lucas.

New heros, new villains, new weapons, a new badass Luke who becomes a teacher, Hand and Leia's kids, and Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Can I get an amen for Grand Admiral Thrawn?

The Zahn trilogy was OK. Definatly nothing I would want made into a film though.

Thrawn was a cool bad guy and I liked capt. Pellion but Caboth was only so so and the rest of it wasn't anything special IMO.

It has the tag of official and it is in the sense that when Lucas was given the gist of the story he said he like it and that he is happy how it turned out but it is all but it become void it he ever decides to tell any stories directly after Jedi himself. Not disputing the official part just commenting on what I think is the likely hood of the Zahn books being told on TV/Films.

With that said I wouldn't be suprised to see Thrawn in the live action TV show since he isn't that well known outside of Star Wars circles and they could show him being an up and comer. Him and Daala maybe.

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DoctorChaos · Post by **DoctorChaos** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:26 am

Can I get an amen for Grand Admiral Thrawn?

Amen!

The books were great. Unfortunately they'll never see any screen. They're too cerebral for the general public.

Read the two books Zahn writes that take place after the trilogy. The Empire of the Hand continues.

MommaBear · Post by **MommaBear** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:28 pm

Greetings, all ...

My daughter is really getting into watching the SW film series. I tend to skip through the parts of E:3 that are a tad violent ...still, CJ loves the droids, Princess "Nea", Chewie, the man in black "uh-oh, bad guy". She hums her version of the Imperial March when he comes on screen. Priceless.

I haven't read the Zahn books, just cruised the expanded databank info on the SW website. I'm not sure where my head is regarding continuing the story, in film that is. There are plenty of gaps between E3 and E4, also from there to E6 but dammit wouldn't he'd have to renumber the series altogether, or just forge ahead from E6?

Hmmm ... will meditate on this.

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WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:50 pm

Appreantly Madonna's son is a big star wars fan and so she has been asking for the chance to be in the TV show and she may get it.

Right now the word is that she will play a Sith Witch. Nothing else about the character has been mentioned.

Not a huge fan or a fan at all but if the role calls for a mean bitch then she should be able to pull it off.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:17 pm

Maybe they can work in a scene where she falls off a bantha & breaks her hip or something.

WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:24 am

I don't care what it is as long as we can get away from C3PO doing goofy shit.

You should be OK then. He shouldn't be in it.

WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Thu May 04, 2006 7:48 pm

It is going to revolve around Boba Fett, my guess at least.

Not enough people know IG-88(Which would rock), Bossk, or the others.

Post by **Leisher** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:07 pm

I always prefered IG-88 and Bossk.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:21 pm

Hey, regarding the ongoing "Clone Wars TV show...

I haven't watched much of it, heh. But I have seen a few episodes here and there, and they all ranged from pretty good ---> pretty damned cool. Annakin even has a cute little girl apprentice, and since she wasn't in the Ep 2 movie, we know she must meet a bad end.... which leads me to posting this, which is a trailer for the season 5 finale. I was struck by the cinematic quality of some of these scenes. The girl doing most of the stuff is Annakin's apprentice. Looks like her bad end is coming.

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WSGrundy · Post by **WSGrundy** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:53 pm

I enjoyed these although I always felt like I wasn't sure the directors knew which way they wanted to go. Sometimes you would have joky robots followed by clones going on a suicide mission.

The series is almost all done. 5 was the last full season and anything they were working on for 6 will be put out but no word if it will be TV or what.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:57 pm

Hey, I started watching the Clone Wars series on Netflix with my kid. During almost every episode we say, "That was better than anything in the prequels." It's actually a lot of fun seeing Yoda and Windu being badass, and Annakin not being a whiny teenage asshole. Even my wife catches an episode here and there, and says, "How did the clones go from being so awesome to just wiping out all the jedi?"

This is a very well-done show. We started the second season, tonight.

JJ decided the show was still canon, right? I thought I heard "everything in the movies and on TV since 2000" was official.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:27 pm

The Clone Wars series is in.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:31 pm

Because it's so awesome.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:33 pm

GORDON wrote:Because it's so awesome.

"Awesome" is relative here. Out of all the Star Wars flicks, I see two that climb above average. A cartoon kicking the collective ass of the others isn't hard. I think I saw a few eps. Not bad.

Post by **GORDON** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:36 pm

Malcolm wrote:
GORDON wrote:Because it's so awesome.
"Awesome" is relative here. Out of all the Star Wars flicks, I see two that climb above average. A cartoon kicking the collective ass of the others isn't hard. I think I saw a few eps. Not bad.

It doesn't pull many punches. An assassin comes in and blows up a squad of clones, one survives, and she straight shoots him in the head. Someone in the old discussion mentions clones suiciding for his friends, and even though they are clones, it works. It doesn't show blood, it's the Cartoon Network, but so far it is very well done.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:56 pm

There was a scene in the episode we just watched where a bounty hunter straight-up tortures a jedi to death, on camera. This shit is hard core.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:47 am

GORDON wrote:There was a scene in the episode we just watched where a bounty hunter straight-up tortures a jedi to death, on camera. This shit is hard core.

Locked him in a room with Jar Jar?