So... Star Wars: Clone Wars came out today. Yeah, I went to the midnight show... yeah, I saw it again later in the day. Yeah... it was pretty good for what it was. Then again, I'm a child-like sap who gets excited over little things and cries over teacher/ student relationships.Sadly, there wasn't as big of a turnout as I had hoped (which makes me feel slightly better about not dressing up as Ventress like I did for Ep III), but at least the day showings had lots of younglings coming to the show. Entertaining kids is really what it's all about after all.
But seriously, what steams me is that the lack of people is most likely due to the film being animated and it makes me think... would the far superior 2D animated Clone Wars done by Genndy have generated a better or worse turnout? I don't really understand the excitement over CG anyway, let alone live action.
Speaking of turnouts, General Grievous was in the movie for a total of... 1 second within the opening narration. Leaves me to wonder why Hasbro's line manager would choose him for the first wave of Clone Wars figures over Ashoka Tano or Asajj Ventress. In any case, the droid army general earned his spot as my favorite Star Wars character ever since his debut in chapter 20 of the original series and is a rare example of a final product actually being cooler than the concept art.
I got bored waiting for my food at a restaurant after the movie and doodled him as seen above.
On the plus side, the theater played the new Secret Saturdays commercial before the movie and I nearly wet myself. Seriously, I am so psyched, I could have left the theater after that and it would have been worth my $8. October can't come fast enough.
