The term 'Master' is used too loosely sometimes. Once you are made a Knight, you are thereby qualified to train a Jedi apprentice - just like in say, karate; achieving black belt makes you qualified to teach others. Beyond black belt is the degrees of red to attain.
It seems once you are elected to the rank of Master, you are eligible to sit on the Jedi Council if appointed or chosen. I remember Qui-Gon Jinn being offhand referred to as a Master Jedi, but he didn't sit on the Council due to his maverick streak in following a different code than what the Council wanted. And remember how Anakin was upset when he got elected to the Council (due to wartime pressures) but wasn't given the rank of Master - it seemed like a backhand rebuke.
Anyway, The Clone Wars movie - not the best start. And I watched it with lowered expectations.
A lot of the elements are in place - the animation is quite good, and wasn't expecting the characters to emote as fluidly as a Pixar or Dreamworks film. It's just the storytelling was often clunky instead of sharp, and the attempts at wit mostly fell flat. Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series is way ahead so far.
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I hated the waste.
The chosen style of character design vs the rendering it is in,
the bad, bad, baaaadddd voice acting/casting on Palpatine and Anakin...
The laughing-stock-for-all-the-wrong-reasons battle droids.
(who dont actually have to convey loads of braindead two year old dialogue every three seconds to be funny or to convey their general ineffectiveness, but still take that all the way, becoming decidedly Binksian)
The depthless plot, the generic rookie and master 'mismatch', the lowering of the Star Wars universe with babyish names like Stinky and other issues well summed up by Queeq with the "everybody knowing everybody" thing getting realllll thin..
And the scoring wasn't so great. Alright, but I guess the action it backed up reflected its generic infant's level TV show feel well.
No sir I didn't like it...well not as much as the hype made it out to be, and from the coolness of the first animated seasons/volumes.
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The hype of fan expectation for the last couple of years that this has been coming.
(Not to be confused with mainstream media hype, of which as you rightly note: Has been minimal)
FER TEA!!
Aug 26th, 2008 06:15 AM
