Cartoon Network Decodes Way to Eke More Viewers Out of Clone Wars
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That way happens to be Clone Wars: Decoded, a pop-up-video-style re-run of the CG cartoon series with Star Wars factoids appearing up every so often with trivia and character and vehicle and alien info. As Topless Robot, I feel like I should be irked by this, but I’m not. First of all, despite the fact that I hated the Clone Wars movie, more than enough of you have talked about how fundamentally decent the regular show is (if not always outright good) to the point where I’m more shocked that there’s a Star Wars cartoon on that I’m not watching.
Plus, it’s not like Cartoon Network and Lucasfilm couldn’t have just re-run the damn cartoon au naturale. They want to put a little extra work into it, I’m down with that — that’s added value, and a socially acceptable way to get Clone Wars‘ young target audience to learn the insane Star Wars facts we had to learn from terrible novels and the RPG sourcebooks. Who wouldn’t approve?
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.