Clone Wars (cartoon)
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| Clone Wars | |
| Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network | |
| Format | Serial |
| Run time | approx. 0:03 (per episode) |
| Creator | Genndy Tartakovsky Based on George Lucas's Star Wars films |
| Starring | Mat Lucas (voice) James Arnold Taylor (voice) Tom Kane (voice) T.C. Carson (voice) Corey Burton (voice) Richard McGonagle (voice) John Di Maggio (voice) Anthony Daniels (voice) |
| Country | USA |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Original run | November 7, 2003 – March 25, 2005 |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
Star Wars: Clone Wars (November 7, 2003 - March 25, 2005) is an animated Star Wars television series that chronicles the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic under Chancellor Palpatine and the Confederacy of Independent Systems under Count Dooku. Chronologically the series takes place between the events of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
The series is produced by Genndy Tartakovsky and employs a similar animation style to Tartakovsky's Samurai Jack and Dexter's Labratory.
The series consists of three-minute installments for Seasons 1 and 2 (also known as Volume 1) and twelve to fifteen minutes in the Season 3 (which is Volume 2) that are mostly comprised of energetic set-piece battles. The series follows the Jedi on their exploits fighting Dooku's separatist confederation. Many characters in the series are also featured prominently in the films, such as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Mace Windu, Chancellor Palpatine, Count Dooku, General Grievous, C-3PO, R2-D2 and Padmé Amidala, but others such as Kit Fisto, Shaak Ti and Aayla Secura are only seen briefly in the films.
The series (seasons 1 and 2 at the time) won an Emmy award for "Outstanding Animated Program" in 2004.
A fourth season and possibly more of the show has been confirmed. George Lucas said the series might return but in a 3D animation series half-hour format.[1] (http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=9526) Lucas liked the series so much that he let Cartoon Network employees see Revenge of the Sith on May 17th, two days before the official release (according to the "bumps" airing during commercial breaks on Adult Swim).
| Contents |
Voice talent
The Republic
- Mat Lucas - Anakin Skywalker
- James Arnold Taylor - Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Tom Kane - Yoda
- T.C. Carson - Mace Windu
- Daran Norris - Ki-Adi-Mundi and Daakman Barrek
- Kevin Michael Richardson - K'Kruhk
- Cree Summer - Luminara Unduli
- Tatyana Yassukovich - Barriss Offee
- Grey DeLisle - Padmé Amidala and Shaak Ti
- André Sogliuzzo - Captain Typho
- Nick Jameson - Chancellor Palpatine
- Anthony Daniels - C-3PO
The Confederacy
- Corey Burton - Count Dooku and San Hill
- John Di Maggio - General Grievous (Chapter 20)
- Richard McGonagle - General Grievous (Chapters 21-25)
- Grey DeLisle - Asajj Ventress
- Daran Norris - Durge
Main Events
- Introduction of clone ARC troopers
Yoda
- Yoda seeing a possible future with Quigon taking Anakin to a trial in the tree
- Strength of Yoda's force push ability in causing two heavy droid landing craft to crash into one another
- Incredible speed of Yoda
- Yoda's decision to promote Anakin to Jedi Knight
Anakin Skywalker
- Anakin leading forces
- Anakin as impressive pilot
- Anakin with exceptional power with the force
- Anakin disobeying Obi-wan
- Anakin chasing Asajj Ventress on wild goose chase
- Failure of Anakin to control rage in beating Asajj Ventress until she falls
- Anakin's promotion to Jedi Knight despite reservations of the council
- Anakin's braid being cut of by Yoda; later delivered to Padme by C3PO
- Destruction of the temple at Ilum and the rescue of two surivors by Yoda accompanied by Padme
- Distraction of Obi-Wan and Anakin to a far off world; distraction caused by Darth Sidious
- Dream of Anakin about the effect of his mechanical hand and/or his dalience with the dark side
- Failure of Anakin to recognize the mechanisms controling warriors
- Destruction of weather altering machine and Anakin's gold arm
- Anakin felt pain when gold arm was inside electric sphere
- Failure of Anakin to control anger against Techno Guild
- Warriors' destruction of mechanical implants after seeing Anakins vengance
- Replacement hand for Anakin, modified by Anakin with help from R2D2
General Grievous
- Introduction of Grievous
- Death of many Jedi from Grievous
- Collection of lightsabers from defeated Jedi
- Grievous being trained by Count Dooku
- Grievous's inability to defend against force push
- Grievous storming Coruscant in order to capture Palpatine
- Grievous's abilities to clamp with toes plus ability to run down outsides of buildings
- Grievous's spliting arms, to be used to wield four lightsabers at once
- Cause of Grievous's cough after Mace Windu uses the force to damage Grievous's internal organ sack
- Introduction of Magna Guards electric staff swinging droids
Shaak Ti
- Introduced in battle against General Grievous
- Rescued by Jedi and Clone Troopers
- Assigned to guard Senator Palpatine with Roron Corobb & Foul Moudama
- Acted as lead Jedi
- Helped Palpatine to escape from Grievous
- Fear of Grievous during the kidnapping
- Ability to defeat Magna Guards - various means - very effectively
- Inability to stop Grievous from kidnapping Supreme Chancellor Palpatine
Aayla Secura
- Fights against General Grevious
- Rescued by Jedi with Troopers
Internal links
| Star Wars Episodes |
External links
- Clone Wars (http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/C/Cartoon_Network_Studios/Star_Wars__Clone_Wars/index.html) at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Clone Wars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361243/) at the Internet Movie Database
- The current episodes are available at the Cartoon Network site: [2] (http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/promos/200503_starwars/index.html)
Categories: Television miniseries | Star Wars animated television series | Animated television series
