The primetime Emmy nominations were announced this morning and Clone Wars once again got nuthin’.
You can read my entire dissertation on why, but the Reader’s Digest version is this: Clone Wars doesn’t have a big celebrity following, it’s not edgy or sexual or violent or quirky, and there’s likely resentment of Lucas in the mix.
Tags: Clone Wars
July 19, 2012 at 8:33 pm |
As I said over at the dissertation:
They also didn’t nominate “The Legend of Korra”, “Tron Uprising”, the new “Thundercats” or even any of the DC or Marvel animated series. Everything they nominated falls into the same basic genre of comedy, and mostly edgy comedy for adults (‘cept for the “Madagascar Penguins” show, for some reason). If they really want to be fair, though ought to split the category into “animated comedy” and “animated action” or something, so the right shows are competing against one another.
July 20, 2012 at 7:41 pm |
That’s a fair point. I noticed the other animated shows were comedies. Live action comedies and dramas don’t have to compete against each other yet for some reason all animation fits into a single box.
July 20, 2012 at 2:48 pm |
Wonderful dissertation LP! Couldn’t have said it better myself. Most of the Emmy nods goes to shows not that many people watch save for “Downton Abbey” (which I watch but was surprised it took off the way it did-for a PBS show) and maybe “Glee” but who watches “Modern Family” anyway? Has anyone noticed that this show has no single parent family unit represented? On a positive note Tartakovsky’s “Star Wars: Clone Wars” won the Emmy twice in 2004 and 2005 respectively, but that was along time ago…
July 20, 2012 at 7:27 pm |
And the hateboys have never shut up about how that means Tartakovsky’s series was better than the Lucas/Filoni series…
July 21, 2012 at 1:34 pm
At least Tartakovsky and his crew doesn’t feel that way: they were more than happy to work on something prequel-related.