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> Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid

> Whenever I think of Tartakovsky I also think of his clone wars micro series he did for Cartoon Network. the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has. it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users.

eutropia 1y ago
a million times this. Clone Wars microseries did more for my love of star wars than all the movies put together. pure effing magic.
Dracophoenix 1y ago
> the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has. As a kid, that was my favorite episode of the series first season. I still remember coming back after school catching the 5 minute micro-episodes on Cartoon Network. > it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users. It stops becoming Star Wars as we know it and starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. Quite a number of books and video games in the Expanded Universe/Legends veered in that direction, in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore.
- lazystar 1y ago
  > It ... starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. this is a billion dollar idea. i wish i had the capital to get it off the ground, sigh. > in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore. "Somehow, Palpatine returned" is the current state of the lore. it literally cant get worse, so why not have some fun?
  - Cthulhu_ 1y ago
    Star Wars Visions is probably the closest you'll get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle0NNmvIyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle0NNmvIyU
- anthk 1y ago
  Dragon Ball had Star Wars as inspiration too. Akira Toriyama loved SW.
  - Dracophoenix 1y ago
    And in turn, Star Wars was inspired by the film-work of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's film noir period dramas are different in tone and scope from Toriyama's action-comedy flare and they both differ in subject matter and characterization from Star Wars. For Star Wars, going too far in the pursuit of cool overpowered characters creates difficulties for meaningful plot resolution.
MattGrommes 1y ago
Agree completely. The bit where Mace pulls the screws out of the droids with the Force and then uses them against the other droids is probably my favorite Force move in all of Star Wars.

eutropia 1y ago

a million times this. Clone Wars microseries did more for my love of star wars than all the movies put together. pure effing magic.

Dracophoenix 1y ago

> the episode with mace windu taking on an entire droid army - by himself - is what opened my imagination to the true potential that a jedi master has. As a kid, that was my favorite episode of the series first season. I still remember coming back after school catching the 5 minute micro-episodes on Cartoon Network. > it's a shame that neither the movies, nor any other tv show, have come close to conveying "why" everyone fears and respects force users. It stops becoming Star Wars as we know it and starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. Quite a number of books and video games in the Expanded Universe/Legends veered in that direction, in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore.

lazystar 1y ago
> It ... starts becoming Dragon Ball Z with laser swords. this is a billion dollar idea. i wish i had the capital to get it off the ground, sigh. > in many cases to the detriment of consistency in lore. "Somehow, Palpatine returned" is the current state of the lore. it literally cant get worse, so why not have some fun?
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  Star Wars Visions is probably the closest you'll get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle0NNmvIyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle0NNmvIyU
anthk 1y ago
Dragon Ball had Star Wars as inspiration too. Akira Toriyama loved SW.
- Dracophoenix 1y ago
  And in turn, Star Wars was inspired by the film-work of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa's film noir period dramas are different in tone and scope from Toriyama's action-comedy flare and they both differ in subject matter and characterization from Star Wars. For Star Wars, going too far in the pursuit of cool overpowered characters creates difficulties for meaningful plot resolution.

MattGrommes 1y ago

Agree completely. The bit where Mace pulls the screws out of the droids with the Force and then uses them against the other droids is probably my favorite Force move in all of Star Wars.