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Albert · March 12, 2013

My first thought upon reading this was, "Wow, they're still making The Clone Wars?" My second thought, "I need to start watching them", something I've meant to do from time to time. Whoops, I needed to skip over that third paragraph.

So, they are canceling it in order to do animation in a different timeline?

I just rewatched the Into the Darkness trailer. I didn't see any unbearable lens flare, but I don't think I'm as sensitive to it as you are.

..Al

Nathan Strum · March 12, 2013

The jury is out on Into Darkness, but the amount of lens flares in the last Star Trek film was absolutely ridiculous.

Fortunately, it seems even J.J. agrees. There was other ridiculousness in Star Trek too, that I'm hoping were just part of him trying to reboot that particular universe (like engineering being made out of a giant water treatment plant, endless shaky-cam shots, completely ignoring everything in the history of Star Trek, ever, etc.), and not necessarily just part of how he makes movies.

If I had to guess, I would assume the new series will take place in the (now massive) gap between Episode VI and VII. Given that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford are all-but-confirmed to be coming back, that means a 30+ year gap that they have to fill. If they get into production soon enough, the series can start airing before the next movie, giving them an opportunity to ramp up into the next set of sequels. That seems to be their main focus.

Sorry for the third paragraph - I've added a spoiler tag. I figured by now though, anyone who was going to watch it probably had. (Personally - I hate spoilers.)