Did you not see my comments, of course I watched it
Grievous only beat Koth because of his Magna Droids making the fight uneven. Everytime Eeth got an advantage the Magna Guards hit Koth.
Fisto handled Grievous fairly easily in Lair, he took one of his sabers and forced Grievous to retreat.
Only the appearance of the Magna Guards forced Kit to retreat, so he could avoid the same fate as Eeth.
Killing clones and one Jedi just don't make Grievous the threat he needs to be. Right now he's playing the typical cowardly villian, always being thrwarted, always fleeing. We hear about his military victories but never really see one.
See, the Films and the EU exist and create expectations for many fans, not everyone has to like them but they are still there..
This series in and of itself is proving very disrespectful of the EU, to the point where I view it as pretty much a seperate continuity anyway.
By disrespectful I don't mean that its ignoring the EU, that would actually be better. Instead its strip mining the EU taking aspects like Ventress the Mandalorians and more, simply using them to tell only
their story with no regard for the character origins.
George Lucas approves of this and I'm actually fine with that, because as stated I do seperate the continuities into personal canon
.
As someone who thinks Episode 3 is the best Star Wars film thats been made I do find Split Lip's opinion
disturbing (ala Vader
).
But I've found that this series has created a lot of new fans, like Split Lip, and that is a good thing. There is no way around that. The more Star Wars fans there are, the better the franchise will be.
I get that the newer fans don't care if the older stories get overwritten, but just ask yourself how you would feel if a year or two from now The Clone Wars series was completely overwritten by a new live action version, all the while LFL's official policy was that "There is only one continuity".
That means things you liked about the current series would be gone, erased, officially no longer counting from LFL's perspective. Of course they still exist, they just don't count
officially.
And it might not matter to you either, but I'm just trying to give you an idea about where I'm coming from.
In 1994 Lucas told us through the forward of Splinter of the Minds Eye that the EU was a direct continuation of his story, then the prequels came out and he cherry picked(at least we still got Coruscant
), disregarding virtually everything else.
Then he decided that the EU wasn't his story but still forced LFL to have "one contiuity" in the same breath. Which actually worked out not too badly until recent years when he decided to get out the EU eraser and started cherry picking again.
As you can probably tell from this rant I have a high regard for the authors wo have written and maintained the EU for the past 16 years.
I even had a high regard for Dave Filoni, as it was apparent from early on that he was trying to not steam roll the existing EU with the series. He can still restore my faith too, there is time
By all means use Quinlan Vos, just don't erase everything about his history but his dreadlocks. If thats the intention then they shouldn't use him at all. Use some other original Jedi, one that hasn't had 50 comics and a complete history written about him.
It's George Lucas that I've lost some respect for. He'll always be god in the Star Wars Universe and I'll always love his creation. I just don't think he respects us back in some ways.
Anyway I'm concerned that you(Split Lip) view my comments as bashing the show, which I'm in no way trying to do.
I enjoy the show, I like what its adding to the Star Wars Universe. It's just tough to divorce one's self from from an emotional investment in a lifetime of EU story telling just because I'm being told that the shiny new TV series is now the
official story.
This official story keeps getting changed and there is some frustration in that. I admit I'd be much more frustrated if the post ROTJ EU got mucked around with though, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it won't.