Haha, that's quite funny. Some of the languages in the movies were based on real languages too. Ben Burtt's Galactic Travel Guide & Phrasebook has a lot of interesting information about that kind of stuff.

^ It's all just one big mess... It makes my head hurt trying to put it all together! We need a much stricter continuity authority otherwise it'll happen again!

Palpatine's capture and the chase I just view as a simpler interpretation of events in LoE (all of which couldn't be fitted into such short episodes).

I dunno...they still bug me after reading LoE because the two accounts are SO very different. I would agree that Nelvaan should be knocked back a couple of months officially, since I see no real plot reason why they need to happen immediately before RotS. I would say that the last scene in the cartoon with Anakin and Obi-Wan being called to Coruscant should just be called "unofficial", only there to make the story flow better.

I still don't like that sort of cut-and-pasting, though. I have a hard time enjoying the cartoon now, since I don't know what's "real" and what's "stylized".

Palpatine?s capture and the chase I just view as a simpler interpretation of events in LoE (all of which couldn?t be fitted into such short episodes).

The only thing I really take issue with is Nelvaan. Personally I feel there?s no way Anakin would waste time going to Nelvaan tracking Grievous knowing that Coruscant, and therefore Padmé, is under attack. Plus the one month thing is clearly stated in 22, so there?s no harm done at all in putting it before LoE in the empty months (why force things into a tight gap?). I still take issue with it as I feel that the whole concept of a ?spirit trial? was handled far better in Jedi Trial (even though it was never called spirit trial). His actions after Reija died in his arms were a far greater test of his spirit and showed that at this point he is still essentially a good person (which can be seen in LoE) and it is the one instance where the animated series was given a little too much free reign.

I really hope that they do go according to continuity for the new show but I'm worried about it. Both the start of the war (Boba Fett, Battle of Kamino, CW video game) and the end of the war (LoE, RoF, CW V.2) are covered in several sources. For an ongoing series both introduction and conclusion are important, and it whilst it would satisfy us continuity freaks it would be bad in terms of story telling to do a series based purely on the middle and saying read LoE or watch CW V.2 for the ending. Personally I'm all for the new series showing events from the already released material. It would be nice to see the Clone Wars covered in one style with no continuity clashes and new adventures thrown in to fill in the gaps and show us what other characters were up to during the war and what went on in the large gaps.

As for the LoE vs. CW V.2 debate, I personally am throwing my lot in with LoE. But at the same time I see no problem with the interpretations shown in the CW.

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I vote for a Tasty Empire!

Sounds like part of the M&M Star Wars promotion...

HEH. I love Penny Arcade. I don't think they have anything to worry about, though - if anything, George Lucas keeps travelling further and further from reality...he likes the most extreme concepts. I seriously doubt he would let any seepage from our present impose itself on his universe.

Tycho seems to be for the TV show, though...taken from his blurb: "There is a lot of room for an action-oriented war serial with characters who aren't immortal and more occasional intrusions of the supernatural elements of the Star Wars universe."

But I to get back on topic...is anyone else in favor of voting Tasty some "emergency powahs"?

Emperor Chee has a nice ring to it...

What we really need is a zealous Continuity Emperor that is in charge of coordinating books, comics, games and TV, and who has power to demand that the disperate elements conform to each other.

"That sounds a lot like a dictatorship to me."
"Well...if it works..."

I think the Clone Wars series and Labyrinth of Evil (LoE) were perfect prequels, but I don't know which is better: Clone Wars or LoE, because they both end kinda differently.

I know, it's kinda frustrating...I just finished LoE, and I had to decide which accounting of events to believe. LoE, of course, but unfortunatelythe conflict dimishes my enjoyment of the cartoons, now - I have to watch the Coruscant parts knowing that they aren't "real". According to the same book, though, most of the other stuff that happened in the cartoon was in-continuity, so I just don't know what to think. I love 'em both, though.

Does anyone else fear for the new TV series? The whole Clone Wars vs. LoE thing bodes ill for continuity.