Ahsoka
I keep accidentally watching Star Wars: Clone Wars the series, which is ok(ish) but I’d never seen the movie. I finally gave in, called Dachary over for a night of potential misery, and pasta and watched it. I found that it lived up to all of its derisive reviews, but was my improved by ad-libbing extra lines into Obi-Wan’s dialogue. The writing was bad, the plot was horrible, and riddled with holes. But, my favorite part was the mardi-gras style drag queen Hutt Zero. I think they decided to make it a girl and never bothered to change the script. I can’t wait to listen to the director’s commentary on this thing. He’ll either be honest and talking about how it was that it came out so badly, or he’ll be talking from four feet up Lucas’ ass.
Bad movies are always much better with friends.
In the movie we were looking at the clock and wondering how effing long it was because it felt like it had been at least two hours and there was still more to go. Turns out it was only 98 minutes of pain. That works out to roughly 30 minutes of bad plot, 40 minutes of implausible fight scenes, 20 minutes of utter bewilderment, and 8 minutes of credits. I think the series is notably better because it’s 8 minutes of story 7 minutes of fight scenes 5 minutes of cheesy plot devices based on idiotic enemies, and 10 minutes of ads which you can fast-forward through.
It was ultimately two episodes, unrelated by anything but the characters. The plot being “Hey, there was a kidnapping that would be advantageous to our war effort to help with, but instead of exploring that plot, let’s go to an unrelated battle and introduce Anakin to his Padawan. Oh, that’s done? Well uhh… oh yeah, kidnapping! Send the characters off to do that.”
In other news: while most of my drawings take me about 30 minutes tops. This one took an hour, and I’m not even happy with it. It’s just so many layers and so much more work than quick line drawings. This particular style isn’t the easiest with Lineform. It’s much better suited to the type of stuff I usually do.
The character’s name, if you hadn’t guessed is Ahsoka. She’s Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan and for half the movie is giving him looks like she’s desperately in love with him even though I suspect that wasn’t even remotely intended. In the movie she acquires the nickname “snips” for absolutely no reason. Anakin just starts calling her by it and no-one ever asks why. I must admit though, I’m fascinated with her head-tails.
