Oh, Dave.

[ladyaeryn]

...or whoever is responsible for this latest WTF-ery.

So. A famously vocal and proud prequel basher has a role in... a prequel-based TV showSo, the lesson is, if I bash the hell out of half of a franchise, I'll get rewarded with an on-screen role? Guess I've been going about it the wrong way since... well, my entire time in Star Wars fandom.

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[lazypadawan]

Clone Wars has jumped the shark. I have no desire to watch on Friday and whatever enthusiasm I have to see the rest of the season is gone.

[ladyaeryn]

I'm not going to go as far as to declare shark-jumpage just yet, because there's been far more about this show that I've enjoyed than I haven't. But more and more so lately I find myself not jumping to watch the newest episode - I'm in it for Anakin, Padmé, Ahsoka, and to a lesser extent Obi-Wan. Ventress is okay in her own right, but I could really care less about the Nightsisters, resurrecting Maul, or [insert bounty hunter's name here].

And even the episodes dealing with the main four are irritating me, because the way they're dealing with the A/P relationship... like you said elsewhere, it's starting to look like Padmé got knocked up via turkey baster.

[lazypadawan]

This upcoming episode looks like pure fanservice anyway. Season Four overall has been terrific but I agree they've been strangely blowing off the A/P relationship.

[ladyaeryn]

There's that possibility, or that GL isn't as involved with TCW as previously thought, neither of which thrills me in the slightest.

I'll watch the episode eventually, I suppose, if for no other reason than to judge it for itself. But I'm not in any hurry.

I kind of expect things to continue as they are with A/P, but when the creators do decide it's twin time, then out of the blue they'll have a big romantic A/P scene just to say "okay, yeah, the twins did come from SOMEWHERE."

[quidawn]

Well, I've always gotten the sense of Papa GL that - he really just takes the intrinsically higher road when it comes to the likes of haters and bashers and, yes, maybe the more generally - and extremely, *ugh*! - ugly fanboy types, as typified by S.P. (dunno as I even want to type out his full name, honestly, it makes me feel a little besmirched....ugh, unclean-!) et al - that he's just so much the better person here, obviously, and obviously behaves with just a whole helluva lot more politeness, patience and tolerance than of course their loathsome, vile ilk could just *ever* deserve, in any case - yet still, though, he seems not to hold a grudge per se, or at least he's certainly not ever stooping down to their level - and it shows, and thus it only further laudably sets him apart, I feel. So here too, yeah, I just get the sense of it that - no matter whatever other concerns or dynamics there are (and aren't there just, phew!) - Papa GL is the one always taking the higher, decent road

[ladyaeryn]

I would like to think it's GL and co. taking the high road too... but if it is, it's a poorly executed attempt. Because from everything I see, it's ONLY the bashers getting rewarded.

Now, if a famously vocal saga defender like, say, Fanboys' Kyle Newman gets a highly-profiled guest role alongside the bitchers like Pegg... that would be a step in the right direction. Not a cure, but a start.

That said, I really am grateful so many of the CW regulars at least speak up positively about the PT. You just never hear about any of it from LFL. Dave himself has declared ROTS his favorite of all six films, both he and James Arnold Taylor volunteered for the "Why We Love the Prequels" Celebration V panel, and Catherine Taber gives frequent interviews praising George's and Natalie's work with the PT and Padmé's character.

[ladyaeryn]

That's really the upsetting part - not that Pegg bashes the PT. Because you know, whatever, there're always going to be haters. But that Lucasfilm is rewarding the haters and taking the rest of us for granted... it's very frustrating.

[krpalmer]

I can't say I'm immune to "stomping off in a huff," but I do have to say it somehow seems less satisfying after a while... At the same time, though, I can contemplate "a completely open Friday evening" and think things like "I could start into those Batman: The Animated Series sets I still have to watch before I open up Avatar: The Last Airbender! I could watch a whole movie! I could work on my tax return!"

Anyway, while I do also see your point about the show just perhaps "choosing its audiences" by not doing very much with the Anakin-Padme relationship, I might have been better able to console myself there by reminding myself I was convinced a decade ago they wouldn't interact in "Episode III" at all, not because of any allergic reaction to Attack of the Clones but just because the RotJ novelisation had mentioned "Anakin didn't know his wife was pregnant"...

[ladyaeryn]

Oooh, please say you mean Avatar the TV series and not the movie - SUCH a good show. :) In fact, Filoni's work on that was one of the reasons I was so glad to have him helm TCW. (There are a lot of connections between the two series, incidentally.) The animated Batman was an awesome series, too... ah, childhood memories.

My initial nasty thought about the lack of A/P was indeed the reaction of certain sectors to the romance in AOTC - until I remembered how relatively little positive treatment Han/Leia themselves got outside the movies. (And even the initial movie reviews of ESB trashed the H/L romance.) Which definitely fuels the theory "SW is nothing but fanboys, and fanboys don't want kissing or girls unless they're naked/blowing up stuff." Meh. Maybe that's part of what's spurred my massive urge lately to snatch up Padmé and Leia collectibles.