ANIMATION – Genndy Tartakovsky’s Awesome Clone Wars Animated Cartoons

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So, more action-adventure cartoons from me, what a surprise! All right, so today I’m going to be talking about Star Wars: Clone Wars animated 2D directed by Genndy.

You can either watch the video or read the transcription below.  There’s a link an embedded video later down this post with a fantastic Jedi fight scene:

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What is This?

I like these. My kids love these! This is the original Clone Wars animated cartoon. It’s all 2D. It was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. Originally they were just webisodes on Cartoon Network.

And, by the way, Genndy was the director of Hotel Transylvania and the creator of Samurai Jack. So – but he’s directed quite a few things, and one of the things he directed was this.

The art, the designs for these cartoons are incredible.

The first series of web episodes, they were just flashy. You got to see the Jedi do stuff that you only dreamed – let me put it this way, the movies didn’t quite capture how awesome Jedi were in this cartoon.

But these, they’re really dramatic, and it’s really exciting, and I love the designs, and it’s really flat. This is what 2D animation can do, and how exciting it can be, and it’s fantastic. It really is a great, great cartoon.

The Second Series

Then, they were able to do another set of web episodes when the – I’m not sure when, after Attack of the Clones? The first ones where done before the Attack of the Clones live action movie came out, and the second one was after the Clones movie came out.

These things were  supposed to tie into Revenge of the Sith. This is much better than Revenge of the Sith.

It turned out that this is just a fantastic animated cartoon, and, again, fantastic artwork. The action is incredible. I can’t recommend these cartoons enough.

My Kid’s Reactions to These Cartoons

My wife sets up movie nights for my kids, right? So, they tend to pick stuff to watch and, very often, one of my sons picks this series to watch.

To them, this is Star Wars. They don’t watch the live action, they don’t watch any of the cartoons, they don’t watch anything. But this, this, to them, is Star Wars. It’s really interesting.

Have You Watched This?

Star Wars fans you’ve probably seen this already. You probably own this already. If you don’t own it, you’re missing out. This is really, really, fantastic. This is what Star Wars should have been, right, at least the first movies?

So, yeah, I highly recommend Star Wars: Clone Wars if you haven’t seen it.

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All right, if you’ve seen this let me know, what do you think? Did you like this cartoon? If you haven’t seen it and you watched it per my recommendation, what do you think? Let me know! So, I’ll see you next time.

ANIMATION – Why You Owe it to Yourself to Watch Legend of Korra

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Akira: We learn karate, so that we need never use it.

Bart: Um, excuse me, sir. I already know how not to hit a guy. Can we break out the nunchucks?

I often talk about how much I like action-adventure cartoons. I’ve recently spoken about Tron: Uprising.

Today, I’m going to be talking about this other action-adventure cartoon, one that is actually more martial arts based, it is incredible, and that would be Avatar: The Legend of Korra – Book One: Air, from Nickelodeon first season.

I talk about this in the video below.  You can either watch it or you can read the transcription under it (which has pictures and I embedded a trailer so you can see what the show looks like down there):

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My History With the Avatar Series

I didn’t watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. I’ve heard it’s fantastic. I’ve watched half the first season. I don’t know what it is. I’ll watch it, I’ll eventually get through it, but there was something about the quirkiness of the comedy with what seemed to me, was really trying really hard to rip off Miyazaki, and I don’t know what it was, it just didn’t strike me, so I didn’t follow it.

I’ve heard really great things, and I’ve been watching the show, and I think it’s fine.

It doesn’t blow me away, I haven’t gotten to the good parts, apparently, but I’ll eventually keep watching it. I’m kind of upset that Netflix no longer has it streaming, because that’s the way I started watching it, but it’s in my queue.

Do You Need To Watch the First Series to Enjoy This One?

That said, I just went on and just straight up started watching The Legend of Korra. Not having seen the entire run of the first incarnation of The Last Airbender, I can tell you right now that you do not need to watch Airbender to enjoy this show.

You kind of understand that a lot of this other stuff happened in the past, and you kind of know that it’s in another show, so you don’t have to worry about it, you can watch it on your own time and find out the back story of some of the characters. You do not need to watch the whole thing. I think it just makes it better if you have.

Why Watch Korra?

That said, this series is incredible. The art, the draftsmanship for the characters in this cartoon, is fantastic. The designs are great.

They’re very influenced by Japanese cartoons and animation. These are actually very, very attractive, very beautifully, well-drawn characters.

It takes place years, after the Avatar series. It takes place in a 1920s-type environment where there’s cars and machines, but then you’ve got all these incredible martial arts, fantastic fight scenes.

The story of the show, Korra being the new Avatar who can control all the elements, as opposed to all the other martial artists in the world that could only control one. It’s about her going into a new environment and having to deal with being in a new city, and the build-up and the tension and the drama starts up fast, and it doesn’t let up.

This is how they ought to make action-adventure TV shows more. This is how it’s done.

Korra Vs. Young Justice

I’ve talked about Young Justice before. I have to say Korra beats  Young Justice, as far as drama and cohesiveness. The quality of the work is as good as Young Justice.

This story beats  Young Justice because it’s a little bit more concentrated and a little bit more cohesive than Young Justice, who tended to be just a touch episodic.

This is rock solid. I don’t think there’s one bad episode in this series. If you haven’t seen it, if you like things like Kung Fu Panda or anything that’s even remotely action-adventure, martial arts, if you’re into kung fu, if you’re into good, high drama, fantasy, exciting shows, this is really the show for you to watch.

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Have You Seen Legend of Korra

All right, so, if you’ve seen Korra, and I know there’s a huge fan base for this show, if you’ve seen it, let me know, and let me know what you think.

And, if you haven’t seen it, and you decide to watch it because of my recommendation, let me know. I want to know what you think about this show. All right, so I’ll talk to you next time.