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anarky wrote:I just really think the faces on the human characters are too stylistic to work properly with the near-photorealism of everything else. It's distracting. If the people are going to be that abstract, I'd prefer everything to be.

anarky wrote:Releasing the first story arc theatrically isn't unprecedented. Battlestar Galactica did it back in the 70s. IIRC, this was always the plan for this.

I bet they still plan it to be a show, and are just keeping quiet so more people will pay to see it in theaters. I'm sure most would pass if they knew it would be on TV in a few weeks time.

Diabolical wrote:

anarky wrote:I just really think the faces on the human characters are too stylistic to work properly with the near-photorealism of everything else. It's distracting. If the people are going to be that abstract, I'd prefer everything to be.

TMNT had pretty much the same thing going on with its shitty looking humans and realistic backgrounds.

Diabolical wrote:TMNT had pretty much the same thing going on with its shitty looking humans and realistic backgrounds.

anarky wrote:

Diabolical wrote:

anarky wrote:I just really think the faces on the human characters are too stylistic to work properly with the near-photorealism of everything else. It's distracting. If the people are going to be that abstract, I'd prefer everything to be.

TMNT had pretty much the same thing going on with its shitty looking humans and realistic backgrounds.

True that, now that you point it out.

However, TMNT had creatures as the main characters, not Hayden Christensen, so it seemed less noticeable.

There are a couple of quick clips in the trailer footage which suggest that the opening scenes of the movie will show a squid-like spacecraft approaching at Tatooine and seizing a Hutt sail barge in the Dune Sea. Those aren't included in the most thorough reports we've had, so I'm not sure if they've made the final cut or not.

At the start of the movie, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are fighting the droid army in the Crystal City on the planet Christophsis. From Coruscant, Master Yoda dispatches a new padawan to join them--a Togruta girl named Ahsoka Tano.

She brings an urgent message. The two Jedi heroes are to return to the Jedi Temple immediately.

When they meet her, both men assume that Ahsoka is going to be a new apprentice for Obi-Wan, now that Anakin is a knight; but the girl reveals that she is Skywalker's padawan, not Kenobi's.

And they still have to deal with the droid army.

Anakin and Ahsoka stage an assault on the Separatist shield generator, while Obi-Wan and Captain Rex of the 501st fight a street-battle against the forces of the alien general Whorm Loathsom--clone infantry against massive spider droids.

Outnumbered and outgunned, General Kenobi pretends to surrender, but turns the tables on Loathsom, and takes him prisoner instead--just as Anakin and Ahsoka take out their target.

Mission accomplished!

Returning to their cruiser, the three heroes find that Yoda has arrived in person (we saw parts of this scene in the trailer). Here, Anakin and Obi-Wan learn the news that prompted their recall to Coruscant: Jabba the Hutt's son Rotta has been kidnapped.

The Republic wants to win Hutt support by recapturing the Huttlet, so Anakin and Ahsoka will travel to the planet Teth to lead the rescue mission, while Obi-Wan heads to Tatooine to negotiate with Jabba.

On Tatooine, Obi-Wan meets Jabba in his fortress, and engage in a discussion--translated by the Hutt's protocol droid TC-70. Jabba want his "punky muffin" back (a line one of our sources really thought jumped the shark), and also wants the kidnappers--dead, or alive.

Meanwhile, on Teth, Anakin and Ahsoka are flying towards an old Hutt fortress when enemy fire forces their gunship to land. Believing that the Hutt was captured by renegades, they are surprised to find that their attackers are Separatist battle-droids.

With clone troopers and AT-TEs, the two Jedi scale the vertical cliffs on which the Hutt citadel rests. This is the big action scene that's already out there on the internet.

The Jedi emerge victorious, but they're puzzled by why they were facing Separatist soldiers. A servant droid directs them down to the castle dungeons, where they'll find the Huttlet.

Also waiting for them in the lower levels of the fortress is Asajj Ventress, the Sith Apprentice of Separatist leader Count Dooku. In spite of the Jedi victory, she informs him that everything is going according to plan.

As the Jedi enter the dungeons, Ahsoka asks Anakin if he realises they're walking into a trap... and yes, he does.

Soon after that, they find Rotta, leading into a comedy scene with a rather damp baby Hutt. But then the Jedi discover that Rotta is ill. Without urgent help, the Huttlet will die!!

Back on Tatooine, Jabba meets another visitor--Count Dooku himself! The Separatist leader shows the Hutt some holo footage of Anakin and Ahsoka stuffing a sobbing, snuffling "punky muffin" into a backpack. The footage makes it look as though the Jedi captured Rotta, and Dooku urges Jabba to join the Separatist struggle, in return for help in rescuing his boy.

Meanwhile, Anakin contacts Obi-Wan using the holocomm. The Jedi quickly work out Dooku's plan, and they agree that there's only thing they can do: get the sickly Huttlet back home to Jabba before he expires.

Before they can get off-world, though, Anakin's ship is destroyed on the landing pad by Vulture droids (this ISN'T the shot we see in the trailer, which comes later in the movie--it's presumably a cameo for the yellow Jedi Starfighter that LEGO released earlier this year). A renewed battle droid attack forces Anakin, Ahsoka, Rotta and Artoo to flee into the fortress and look for another exit.

The heroes find their way to the temporary shelter of the main Hutt audience chamber, where Artoo accesses the computer to find an exit, and Captain Rex contacts them.

But Anakin realises it's not really Rex. Through the Force, he detects the presence of his old enemy, Asajj Ventress. The heroes try to flee, but find Ventress herself cutting off their escape.

Anakin and Asajj trade insults, squaring off for a rematch after their last duel: but then Artoo manages to send all of them toppling down a hole in the floor--the sort of Hutt trap that Jabba will later send Luke down in Return of the Jedi.

Lightsabers ignite, and battle is joined.

Antropov wrote:"Whorm Loathsom"?! Are you joking? Why not just call him "Badd Guy"? Fucking gay.