Comments on: Star Wars The Clone Wars: ‘The Gathering’

By: Hal

Hal — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:45:07 +0000

True enough. Quite apart from those films and series etc that *over-explain*, there are a special sub-species that bring up mysteries and ideas but are totally unable to pay them off. After introducing various concepts and then ladling more on top the writers are either too lazy or arrogant to actually answer pertinent questions, there’s a difference between maintaining some useful ambiguity or mystery (and not “explaining” things that require no explanation as well) and refusing to resolve major plot points which is, frankly, not telling a story *properly*. Such bad writing is often accompanied by the writers saying asinine things like “it was never about the destination” in their defense, a statement that deserves a hearty cry of “Bullshit!”. I bet you could name quite a few writers/showrunners who’ve made such petulant comments and who accept no criticism of their lazy writing while trying to traduce their critics (the implication being that the writer is far too great and sophisticated to be criticized and that the critics must have something “wrong” with them, which is almost amusing in its transparent conceit and childishness ).

By: sjv

sjv — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:26:52 +0000

There does seem to be an oft lost skill of determining which things need to be explained and which things do not.

I see an odd mix in a lot of movies and TV shows of things that are way over explained and things that are far under explained.

By: Gavin Bollard

Gavin Bollard — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:23:01 +0000

It’s better than… Hmmm there’s a sith here somewhere. “Ok everybody Lightsaber check, let’s see what colour yours is”.
So, did Count Dooku lose his old one from his jedi days and have to make a new red one instead… or did the crystal sense his mood and start changing?
Does Mace’s purple one signify that he’s much closer to the dark side than his colleages?
Interesting…

By: Hal

Hal — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:46:21 +0000

Now this – THIS is what I find irritating about too many modern stories, EVERYTHING has to be explained even when the “explanations” are awful, dull or awful AND dull. Do we *need* to know why light sabres are the colour they are?! And is the concept of a magical mood crystal good, anyway? Instead of leaving gaps, creating mystery, and thrilling the imagination we now seem to see most things explained away for the hard-of-thinking. How unutterably dull. Ha. Had to get that of my chest. Phew!
I was going to make a crude joke about Mace wanting to show Aayla Secura his throbbing purple weapon but I won’t… (anyway that “joke” won’t work with Master Windu anyway for one obvious reason!)

By: dailypop

dailypop — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:54:06 +0000

… he likes purple?

By: Gavin Bollard

Gavin Bollard — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:36:00 +0000

They were pre-coloured in the old Clone Wars cartoon series. I wonder what it means that Mace Windu ended up with a purple one?