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

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.

I don't know anything about the Gears or Halo tie-ins, but the way she handled being an Star Wars author (namely reacting to fan criticism by calling her detractors 'Talifans' and writing an essay on her website that compared people who liked the Jedi to Nazis) I can totally see her not doing well with those franchises.

Decanonized by word of Lucas, even BEFORE the whole Disney buyout.

That was actually the reason she quit. She basically took her ball and went home, complaining about her stuff being retconned away even though she was more than happy to do it to earlier authors' stuff regarding the Mandos.

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.

One of the best moments in the EU was in the Legacy of the Force series book Invincible where after Karen Traviss had allowed the Mando plot tumor to take over her books in the series and overpowered them to a ridiculous extent, Troy Denning had Darth Caedus kick the shit out of a Mandalorian strike team with barely any effort.
 
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 see it as the opposite as they were constrained in using Lucas's sillier ideas such as Jedi using child slave soldiers, Jedi ripping kids from their mothers as infants, the whole war being started by a trade dispute.
 
I dislike the fact that the clones suffered about 30 casualtites throughout the movie, and in the series the clone-to-drone death ratio is like 1:400:eek:

That really buggers me.
 
I dislike the fact that the clones suffered about 30 casualtites throughout the movie, and in the series the clone-to-drone death ratio is like 1:400:eek:

That really buggers me.

Did somebody count or is that your guess? In any case the droids do seem pretty worthless. Of course when you have Anakin and Obi Wan along with occasionally Mace Windu it helps!
 
Did somebody count or is that your guess? In any case the droids do seem pretty worthless. Of course when you have Anakin and Obi Wan along with occasionally Mace Windu it helps!

I counted in the movie, and estimated for the series. Even without the Jedi the Clones wreck the drones. The only death I remember particularly was that one trooper who stayed behind to allow the rest of the squad to escape when they were surrounded. Rex?
 
I don't know anything about the Gears or Halo tie-ins, but the way she handled being an Star Wars author (namely reacting to fan criticism by calling her detractors 'Talifans' and writing an essay on her website that compared people who liked the Jedi to Nazis) I can totally see her not doing well with those franchises.

Let me put it this way, with Halo at least, she made Dr. Halsey, a sympathetic, somewhat likable character who did horrible things to John and the other Spartans-II's because there was no other choice if the UNSC was to escape another bout of horrific civil war, into someone more like Josef Mengeles. Despite Halsey ALWAYS being portrayed as being deeply regretful of the things she'd done to these kids to make them into living weapons.

One of the best moments in the EU was in the Legacy of the Force series book Invincible where after Karen Traviss had allowed the Mando plot tumor to take over her books in the series and overpowered them to a ridiculous extent, Troy Denning had Darth Caedus kick the shit out of a Mandalorian strike team with barely any effort.

That part was great, I'm glad I borrowed that book from the library to read it after I more or less gave up on the series after Sacrifice.
 
Let me put it this way, with Halo at least, she made Dr. Halsey, a sympathetic, somewhat likable character who did horrible things to John and the other Spartans-II's because there was no other choice if the UNSC was to escape another bout of horrific civil war, into someone more like Josef Mengeles. Despite Halsey ALWAYS being portrayed as being deeply regretful of the things she'd done to these kids to make them into living weapons.



That part was great, I'm glad I borrowed that book from the library to read it after I more or less gave up on the series after Sacrifice.
I never found her all that sympathetic. I mean I think that she decided at some point that as long as she felt really bad about everything then she wasn't a bad person. I mean she never carries through an action that isn't morally questionable and throughout the series she plays her own games and is more than happy to break medical ethnics, military discipline, personal promises and literally any other boundary she needs to cross to do her self appointed task which by the end has morphed from saving humanity to saving her personal projects and molding them into her children obedient to her alone. And that seemed totally in character to her.


Basically I never saw her as a good person forced to do evil or even an evil person trying to do good but rather someone beyond good and evil who was just doing whatever her messiah complex told her needed to be done. She based all her decisions around her own hunches and instincts and never once allowed anything to hold her back.
 
I counted in the movie, and estimated for the series. Even without the Jedi the Clones wreck the drones. The only death I remember particularly was that one trooper who stayed behind to allow the rest of the squad to escape when they were surrounded. Rex?

All five clones in the Domino squad are dead by the end of the series and that isn't counting other clones that you see killed.
 
These are my clone wars

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All five clones in the Domino squad are dead by the end of the series and that isn't counting other clones that you see killed.

As an update, I saw a few the last few days and I counted the dead clones. They were losing around five per episode and nowhere near 2000 droids. I would say you are off by at least a factor of ten.
 
As an update, I saw a few the last few days and I counted the dead clones. They were losing around five per episode and nowhere near 2000 droids. I would say you are off by at least a factor of ten.

The droids lose a dreadnought or a major base or hundreds of their number every other episode and the only heavy losses the clones ever take from my recollection is from one of the top tier bad guys killing them all.

Hell Yoda has a whole episode dedicated to the propisition that one Jedi and a handful of clones can destroy an entire army.
 
The droids lose a dreadnought or a major base or hundreds of their number every other episode and the only heavy losses the clones ever take from my recollection is from one of the top tier bad guys killing them all.

Hell Yoda has a whole episode dedicated to the propisition that one Jedi and a handful of clones can destroy an entire army.

Like I said I counted the dead clones, it was about five an episode. I didn't count bases or dreadnoughts for either side though.

The Republic also loses ships not just the Separatists. Anakin drove one into another ship after it was mostly destroyed after evacuating the surviving crew. In another Anakin was injured and almost died rescuing Jedi from it and then nearly died as a result. Ashoka nearly lost her entire strike force of fighters in one and nearly was overrun in another when Anakin put his foot down and evacuated her and her clones.
 
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