Keith Palmer's Multi-Purpose Journal

After taking care to attend an opening night showing for each of the new Star Wars movies (including The Clone Wars), it was a little frustrating to have to wait two days after the official "Cartoon Network" premiere for the first episode of the Clone Wars series to show up on CTV. It added a little more to that frustration to only get the first episode, putting us that much further behind the American airings in perpetuity, and when the episode did begin at last, it didn't take long to realise it was being shown in "pan-and-scan," which made me think back to how the preview special made specifically for the "Space" channel had included clips in widescreen... (Actually, those clips were pretty good, particularly the ones with Anakin and Padme on the same planet, and George Lucas mentioned that he's been interested in manga and anime for a while. Of course, we all know about his interest in live-action Japanese movies, but I suppose I could wonder how far that interest carried without ever "demanding" anything...) For all of that, though, my enjoyment of what I did get to see wasn't quashed.
( Begun, this clone war has... )

The last time I watched through the Star Wars saga, I managed to see all six movies in one weekend. It was entertaining and might have amplified my emotional responses, but I wound up deciding not to use the extra time to add the two Clone Wars animated "micro-series" in to the sort-of-marathon. That might have let some ambiguous thoughts about them germinate in my mind, thoughts that I was still contemplating when I finally managed to fit Clone Wars into this latest rewatching effort... and for once, I was reassured that I'm not thinking of everything I post before I actually see what I'm posting about.
( 'She is merely an instrument to bring forth the eradication of the Jedi.' )