...It's a tap!!!

Clone Wars Chapter 21 premiered last night, quite an introduction to an extraordinary series. This second volume has been described essentially as the opening crawl to Episode III, thus where we leave at the end of these five chapters is exactly where Revenge of the Sith begins. What's even better this time around, is the length of the episodes have been increased from 3 minutes to 12 minutes, a lot of people complained about the length of the earlier cartoons in this series, I actually thought since they were so well executed they came in like a jolt of lightning and as soon as the action maxed out to a peak, it stopped and you had to wait until the next installment. It really fit well wit the episodic nature of the series, and the idea of the cliffhanger serial and what have you, I don't know they just seemed to kick a lot of ass. Last night's was especially interesting because there was a great moment between Anakin and Padme in which we got a great representation of the nature of their relationship. I know this makes me sound like some kind of academic jerk-ass explaining all this stuff in such a way but that's the purpose of the blog isn't it? To make me sound like some kind of gigantic star wars blow-hard. Anyway another key moment was in Anakin's departure from the rank of Padawan to that of Jedi Knight, I thought it was really cool how Yoda snipped away Anakin's little pony tail thing, but he did have his lightsaber awfully close to Anakin's shoulder blade. It most certainly should have chewed through him like a mule eating an apple, but anakin does have the force so... Anyway, great introductory chapter and it can only get better from this point on. What's really cool about all this is that this volume combined with the first will all come out to about 2 hours worth of Clone Wars story telling, which is almost an entire film unto itself, it would be interesting to watch all three prequels with the clone wars shoved in between 2 and 3, anyway that's nerd stuff that I should probably keep to myself. Gettin pumped for tonight, yeah, come on.

"Well, I think Bill's got a point. If you look at the whole life of the planet, we... you know, man, has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality."

And I really liked Millions despite what Anti-Irish/British Children except Freddie Highmore boy said. You heard me...