TFN just retweeted these two posts from writer Brent Friedman:
“Best 2012 moment: Sitting in the conference room at Skywalker Ranch w/George, Dave & the gang as we plotted the end of Clone Wars.”
“@chrisjallan “End” is probably the wrong word. I should have said we plotted the transition from our TV series to Episode III.”
Well, that IS effectively the end of the show, no?
In a recent episode review, Eric Geller at TFN mentioned offhand that the show’s probably going to end after the sixth season. Did he know something the rest of us don’t? Anyway, a sixth season would end in 2014, a year before Episode VII comes out. Personally, I hope that if it has to end soon, it would go a seventh season so it would end just as new movies start coming out.
Tags: Clone Wars
January 1, 2013 at 11:42 pm |
Seven seasons is pretty standard for a lot of cable shows – or at least close to that many. Supposedly it’s harder for tv stations to buy episodes of a show past a seventh season. More episodes cost more money and a lot of smaller stations don’t have it. Even if this show comes up short of that it’s still had an impressive run. I remember before the show came out Lucas was saying they wanted it to go about a hundred episodes.
My thing is will the transition of the storylines into Episode III jibe with what was done in the Tartakovsky Clone Wars series? Remember the second series took place right BEFORE the opening of ‘Revenge of the Sith’. I’ve often wondered if they might do an interpretation of THAT show and storyline in the style of the Filoni-run series.
January 2, 2013 at 8:37 am |
I sort of think that LFL wants to “clear the decks” in advance of Episode VII. As much as I love The Clone Wars and will hate to see it end, it makes sense from Disney/LFL’s perspective to want the mass audience to be thinking about/anticipating a post-ROTJ era rather than being engaged in the thick of the Prequel Era. Of course we, as fans, can juggle stories from multiple locations on the Saga’s timeline with no trouble (and actually savor the breadth of it), but I wouldn’t doubt if the corporate thinking is, “If we give them too many options, it’ll dissipate the impact of our big gun [Ep. VII]“.
All that being said, LFL would be foolish to let Dave Filoni and the voice cast of TCW slip away, because they’re all assets to the Star Wars brand. Especially after listening to “Smuggler’s Gambit”, if they’re going to end TCW, I’d love to see its successor be an animated version of the late and great “Star Wars Tales” comic…Keep Dave Filoni at the helm, keep the voice cast, and post-Ep.VII, draw from the full Saga timeline for story content. With that set-up, there could even still be the occasional Clone Wars-era story! Maybe even rope GL in as a “story consultant” on that, too.
January 2, 2013 at 8:39 am |
(I didn’t mean a straight adaptation of Star Wars Tales stories—though they definitely could do that—more the same approach.)
January 29, 2013 at 2:34 am |
I’m completely behind that. It would be incredible!
January 2, 2013 at 12:43 pm |
I’m rather happy they are nailing the endgame down. Best to tie it up on their own terms. Plus this show can’t possibly run that much longer. I still worry about oversaturation. Having said that, I recall quite a few discussions on the CW Roundtables about the show running THROUGH and PAST RotS. Kyle Newman makes an extraordinarily good case for it. Has lots of potential, mesa tinks.
January 2, 2013 at 7:22 pm |
Well, yeah. What happens to Rex? What happens to Ahsoka? What do they do when Order 66 is issued?
January 3, 2013 at 1:09 pm
What happens to Rex and Ahsoka? Don’t they get married? Isn’t that the way it goes?
January 3, 2013 at 4:28 pm
One question about a final season would be -a will it have as full an episode run as previous seasons. Looking back to past animated shows like the Batman series in the 90′s, REBOOT, the Starship Troopers series and even looking back to the Droids/Ewoks series in the 80′s, all ended their runs with a shortened season. Will the final Clone Wars season go a full 22 episodes as the previous seasons or will it be truncated to ONLY a conclusive story arc and out?
January 3, 2013 at 4:20 pm
I’d love to see Ahsoka get frozen in carbonite and thawed out in Ep. VII (played by Ashley). I can just imagine her saying “so what happened to Anakin?”
January 3, 2013 at 5:03 am |
I’ve once seen a nice (fan) picture montage of Darth Vader confronting Ahsoka… I could definitely see something like “Anakin?” – “This name no longer has any meaning to me…”
January 3, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Yeah, there’s one in the Visions book. Ahsoka confronting Vader would hit pretty high on the epic scale. Would be unbelievable.
January 3, 2013 at 8:46 pm |
You know, I’d also love it if it turns out Ahsoka survived, remained in hiding for years, then helped Luke rebuild the Jedi Order.
January 3, 2013 at 11:42 pm |
me too! And why not? You’ve got 200+ year-old Wookiees and 900 year-old Yodas…an Ahsoka in her 60′s or 70′s isn’t that hard to swallow. (and you could make that theoretical kid who loves elderly Star Wars characters SUPER-happy!)