{"id":918,"date":"2011-10-21T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vidhero.wordpress.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2011-10-21T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:41:12","slug":"the-big-picture-of-star-wars-currently-playing-out-on-the-small-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/the-big-picture-of-star-wars-currently-playing-out-on-the-small-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"The big picture of Star Wars (currently playing out on the small screen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2011\/10\/clone-wars-season-three-dvd\/\">Wired asks<\/a> the world to comment on how the Clone Wars CGI TV series &#8220;does justice to the sprawling universe birthed by George Lucas a long time ago in an entertainment galaxy far, far away.&#8221;<br \/>\nHere is my thought (part of a larger rant on why people who hate the prequels should shut up):<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis cartoon series is letting Lucas and his team learn how to properly tell Star Wars stories. You can see them experimenting and improving as the shows go on.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to think about it: The OT and the prequels defined two very different ways to handle the sprawling possibilities that Star Wars presents (I&#8217;d argue that Star Wars is an attempt to present every type of story and every genre of film in the same universe &#8211; they just didn&#8217;t have a chance to fully exploring every possible nook and cranny of this idea in the limited running time of the movies).<\/p>\n<p>So in a way, the Clone Wars show presents the cutting edge of how Star Wars can be enjoyed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Clone Wars tv show is worhty &#8211; (part of a larger rant on why people who hate the prequels should shut up)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/the-big-picture-of-star-wars-currently-playing-out-on-the-small-screen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The big picture of Star Wars (currently playing out on the small screen)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[98,425,430],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-review","tag-clone-wars","tag-star-wars","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.solidfuelstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}