What if the prequels were written by The Clone Wars writers?

The cartoon is actually a lot better than the prequels if you haven't seen them. Anakin is actually charming instead of a spoiled brat. Obi Wan is powerful Jedi instead of being more or less a joke. Anakin's and Obi Wan's snark to snark combat is a joy to watch. In short it is a lot better? What do you think the changes that would have been made?
 
The cartoon is actually a lot better than the prequels if you haven't seen them. Anakin is actually charming instead of a spoiled brat. Obi Wan is powerful Jedi instead of being more or less a joke. Anakin's and Obi Wan's snark to snark combat is a joy to watch. In short it is a lot better? What do you think the changes that would have been made?


The movies had six hours to cover twenty years and two very different plotlines to tie up whilst the Cartoon had dozens of hours.

Hell the Clone Wars movie sucked it was the TV show that gradually became good.
 
I never really saw the appeal of the Clone Wars show. I much preferred the Clone Wars as depicted in Karen Traviss's Republic Commando novels.
 
The movies had six hours to cover twenty years and two very different plotlines to tie up whilst the Cartoon had dozens of hours.

Hell the Clone Wars movie sucked it was the TV show that gradually became good.

The TV show didn't gradually become good. It was recognized as being really, really, really good pretty much immediately.
 
The movies had six hours to cover twenty years and two very different plotlines to tie up whilst the Cartoon had dozens of hours.

Hell the Clone Wars movie sucked it was the TV show that gradually became good.

Even at the beginning it was much, much better than the prequels. For one thing Anakin wasn't the whiney brat he was in the movies.
 

fred1451

Banned
The movies had six hours to cover twenty years and two very different plotlines to tie up whilst the Cartoon had dozens of hours.

Hell the Clone Wars movie sucked it was the TV show that gradually became good.
The Movie was the first three episodes of the show tied together for one go.

I agree though, the show allowed a lot slower development of plots and characters, I doubt they would have made much more use out of the movies.
 
The movies had six hours to cover twenty years and two very different plotlines to tie up whilst the Cartoon had dozens of hours.

Hell the Clone Wars movie sucked it was the TV show that gradually became good.

That's because the movie wasn't supposed to be a movie. They were told basically more than half way through production to be a movie, with no additional time or support.
 
Good luck having Lucas stand down from writing the prequels.

Assuming that (miraculously) happens, are the writers of the series even accomplished enough in the late 90`s to be given a big project like the Prequels?
 
Good luck having Lucas stand down from writing the prequels.

Assuming that (miraculously) happens, are the writers of the series even accomplished enough in the late 90`s to be given a big project like the Prequels?

True about Lucas as, to be fair, Star Wars was his series. But killing his best character in the very first film seems foolish.

They have to do a better job than Lucas. By the last movie you wonder why Obi didn't rejoice and push the whiney brat further into the lava!
 
True about Lucas as, to be fair, Star Wars was his series. But killing his best character in the very first film seems foolish.

Palpatine didn`t die in the first movie. :p

They have to do a better job than Lucas. By the last movie you wonder why Obi didn't rejoice and push the whiney brat further into the lava!

That`s not what I was wondering about. My question wasn`t whether or not they could do a better job, but would the Clone Wars writers even be considered as candidates for writing the Prequels in the late 90`s and early 00`s. If Lucas isn`t writing it, then the job won`t go to just anyone.
 
Palpatine didn`t die in the first movie. :p



That`s not what I was wondering about. My question wasn`t whether or not they could do a better job, but would the Clone Wars writers even be considered as candidates for writing the Prequels in the late 90`s and early 00`s. If Lucas isn`t writing it, then the job won`t go to just anyone.

I admit Palpatine was a rival to Qui Gon as best character.

That I don't know. I have no idea what rep they had.
 
Even at the beginning it was much, much better than the prequels. For one thing Anakin wasn't the whiney brat he was in the movies.

Umm...he spent the entire introduction phase moaning about his padwan and looking after a baby he hinted was doomed to be a monster. Seems far more whiney than the man seeing his loved ones die in agony every night and getting manipulated by a dark lord of the sith.
 
Umm...he spent the entire introduction phase moaning about his padwan and looking after a baby he hinted was doomed to be a monster. Seems far more whiney than the man seeing his loved ones die in agony every night and getting manipulated by a dark lord of the sith.

He and Obi had a better relationship though. It wasn't just his whininess but his whole relationship with Obi Wan. They acted more like rivals than friends.
 
Almost impossible to know, really. Plus, would any of the writers really be in a position to catch Lucas' eye and have him give them control over writing the prequels to his most successful films in 1995?

I never really saw the appeal of the Clone Wars show. I much preferred the Clone Wars as depicted in Karen Traviss's Republic Commando novels.

Honestly, they should have had someone else do the Republic Commando series. It could have been an introspective look into the moral grayness and harsh realities of waging special operations warfare. Especially as the clone commandos began to grow and realize the hypocrisy of the Republic and Palpatine's message of democracy while overthrowing Separatist-led governments and doing Palpatine's dirty work. And the Jedi overseeing the operations having to constantly grapple with their morality and the Jedi code while being forced to order terrible things done to further the Republic war effort.

But instead we got about a book of that in total post-Hard Contact. The rest was taken up by focusing on the Gary Stu Mandos/Mando-trained clones and their relationships and the shoehorning of the Jedi into the role Traviss wanted them to be in despite all other EU depictions of the prequel-era Jedi.
 
It depends. Writing for a television show is rather different from writing for a movie (even over a series of three 2 hour + movies).

Also note that they have to create the entire plotline from scratch. The cartoon show writers have something they can expand on in the prequels as terrible as they were.
 
I never really saw the appeal of the Clone Wars show. I much preferred the Clone Wars as depicted in Karen Traviss's Republic Commando novels.

You mean about one and a half novels worth of actually good stuff, and the rest being all "THE JEDI ARE EVIL BECAUSE THEY'RE USING SLAVE TROOPERS! ALSO LOOK HOW AWESOME MANDOLORIANS ARE!" Honestly that woman poisons any franchise she touches. She did it to Star Wars, did it to Gears of War, and she did it to Halo.
 

Stolengood

Banned
I never really saw the appeal of the Clone Wars show. I much preferred the Clone Wars as depicted in Karen Traviss's Republic Commando novels.
Decanonized by word of Lucas, even BEFORE the whole Disney buyout. NOBODY liked working with Karen Traviss; when it gets to the point that Lucas has to specifically call out your stuff for being against how he sees it, you know you've screwed up.

You mean about one and a half novels worth of actually good stuff, and the rest being all "THE JEDI ARE EVIL BECAUSE THEY'RE USING SLAVE TROOPERS! ALSO LOOK HOW AWESOME MANDALORIANS ARE!" Honestly that woman poisons any franchise she touches. She did it to Star Wars, did it to Gears of War, and she did it to Halo.
Damn you, you said it before I did. :p
 
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