New Clone Wars Trailer Reveals Same Problems
There’s a new Clone Wars trailer skulking through the intertubes, but I can’t find an embeddable version, so you’ll have to watch it here. I honestly think the early Clone Wars trailer was much cooler; plus, thanks an appearance by Jabba the Hutt and Tatooine in the show, Clone Wars looks like it’s going to have the same problems the prequels did, in that it’s just rehashing stuff from the original trilogy. I mean, this is like the smallest galaxy ever?half of the events in whole damn saga take place on Tatooine, which, as you might recall, the first thing we hear about is how boring it’s supposed to be. Sigh. C’mon, Lucas. You used to have new ideas. Remember those?
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