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Back to the Clone Wars: Jedi Crash
At long last I've got around to rewatching another one of the first season Clone Wars episodes. While the third season may be distracting me from my DVD sets, another thing slowing me down may well be thinking I ought to find the time not just to watch the episode but to set down a few thoughts about it, even if I'm not as obsessed as when I started with having to comment on the creators drawing links to the old movies in particular. While I might have started off thinking of that, though, there was a surprise of sorts for me: I found myself thinking "she's so young here!" about Ahsoka, a probably peculiar thought to have about a computer-animated character.
In any case, I might have been somewhere between looking forward to and feeling concerned about commenting on "Jedi Crash" because of some small controversy on its first airing about it making a big deal of the pacifism of the lemur people. I suppose there should be a distinction between "we're not perfect" and "there's no difference between us and the other side," but then I also suppose there should be a distinction between "we can argue we hold the moral high ground" and "we don't have to question ourselves at all."
However, it might well be that when controversy picked up about that, I might have had the slightest trace of relief that Katie Lucas's first credit for Clone Wars was being criticized for something big, and not just for the familiar complaints her father's writing got. Of course, her work is quite respected now. I still had something of a feeling that with this first effort, there's a lot going on, starting with a large-scale space battle that at times felt just a little like "an episode to itself." As well, so far as the little documentary went, the creators might have started off trying to compare the "coming out of hyperspace" effects to the old movies, but they also mentioned referencing comics and unused concepts from the new movies. They didn't say anything about Katie Lucas, but I was interested to hear that George Lucas had suggested that Anakin be injured to contrast his usual heroism.
In any case, I might have been somewhere between looking forward to and feeling concerned about commenting on "Jedi Crash" because of some small controversy on its first airing about it making a big deal of the pacifism of the lemur people. I suppose there should be a distinction between "we're not perfect" and "there's no difference between us and the other side," but then I also suppose there should be a distinction between "we can argue we hold the moral high ground" and "we don't have to question ourselves at all."
However, it might well be that when controversy picked up about that, I might have had the slightest trace of relief that Katie Lucas's first credit for Clone Wars was being criticized for something big, and not just for the familiar complaints her father's writing got. Of course, her work is quite respected now. I still had something of a feeling that with this first effort, there's a lot going on, starting with a large-scale space battle that at times felt just a little like "an episode to itself." As well, so far as the little documentary went, the creators might have started off trying to compare the "coming out of hyperspace" effects to the old movies, but they also mentioned referencing comics and unused concepts from the new movies. They didn't say anything about Katie Lucas, but I was interested to hear that George Lucas had suggested that Anakin be injured to contrast his usual heroism.