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I'm leaning toward the B&W line art. The color "mug shot" art, even if it is official, seems too short and doesn't match the height seen in the show in any scene I can think of.

So far, so good! Thanks for keeping us posted on the progress.

No, I assure you these pictures are quite illicit.

[Fanboy] Even though Yoda looks sad, like he just got some bad news....I'm sure Padme will leap onto her feet again seconds later! I'm sure of it! [/Fanboy]

Considering that Slave 1 was inspired by the shape on an antique streetlight, I don't see the big deal. Desides, the Naboo liner was a mix of the B-2, a B-52 with a bit of oldschool radial engine rumble added into the sound mix. And as for arguments of art deco versus the old McQuarrie/Johnston industrial look, as we've already seen that design aesthetic has already reared its intentionally ugly head in AOTC and moreso in ROTS. Or to put it more bluntly... Prequel Trilogy Original Trilogy See the difference?

One more. Looks like an unretouched promo pic.

Palpatine looking at....er, something. (I'm guessing this is on the Seperatist Flagship, probably after he's been rescued and Dooku has been, er...dispatched.)

Sidious makes a collect call to the Seperatist leadership.

Obi Wan sitting on what's left of the Jedi Council.

Palps reveals himself to Mace & posse.

Yoda just got pwn3d in that pic. Trust me.

Oh you have got to be kidding..... I was thinking about buying this one just for the animation (considering how much I hated the 'story") but if that's the kind of subs I can expect, I'll stick with my fansub copy. And here I was hoping that Dreamworks-imported anime would be a good thing.

#17...Like the "truth," it's out there.

In case you've been living under a rock for the last year or so, Xfire is the new messenger/tracker/server browser system that most new games support, some of which allow you to instantly join your friends server. For a full listing of the games supported, go HERE. This way we can find other MW members playing the same game as us and frag them! I'll start off. bsulegato Call of Duty & Call of Duty United Offensive Half Life 1, 2 & mods Far Cry

BTW, Chiang is no longer with ILM. He left shortly after Clones to work on his "Robota" project.

Grevious can dual or even quad (?) wield sabers for one simple reason.

Well that just means I'll need two then. One built closed and one open.

Oh you tease....

Work on Boba seems to have begun almost immediately after preproduction for ESB started. Whatever involvement the "Supertroopers" (as I've seen them referred to) would have had in the film, it must have been discarded in the earliest scripts. And in a related topic, Star Wars.com says Merry Christmas, fanboy. damn, can't link to the stupid flash 'toon. Just click on the wampa at the bottom of the main page.

Oy, so many comments on what was supposed to be a simple, flippant remark. Your problem lies within assuming those officers are stormtroopers in the first place. Nobody has said that the fleet officers, Death Star crew and shield bunker personel were clones. Just the guys in the shiny white armor. You can't argue the economical aspects of a clone army in the Star Wars universe. the films were never intended to stand up to that kind of scrutiny. Just look at that comic posted last week about the feasibility of a city planet like Coruscant for example. This is fantasy, man, not Star Trek. Besides, you wouldn't have to pay a clone army, since they're all sheep. And this is also the empire that built not one, but TWO moon-sized space stations. Do you think Palpatine would be concerned about petty things like the cost-per-clone expenses. He'd just raise your taxes and blow up your planet if you complained too loudly. Again, it all depends on how deeply you're willing to pay attention to this. If you want a compelling enemy, well that's why Vader was in the OT. Well that's almost another whole argument altogether (and I don't entirely disagree with you either) but in the pre-EU days there were rumors of a Boba / Stormtrooper connection. Much of this probably grew out of the fact that in preproduction for ESB, Boba was actually going to be one of a whole new class of Stormtrooper. This got shelved and he evolved into the overrated tertiary character we all know today. "Huh? Oh, the uniform!"

I don't see how the OT troopers being clones in any way takes away from whatever "mystique" they might have had in the films. They were essentially cannon fodder for the heros to mow down anyway, so clones or recruits doesn't affect their place in the story. However, I don't think we're supposed to take the OT troopers (if they are indeed clones) as being from the same batch as the Clone War era clones. When asked about the differences in the OT troopers, Lucas shrugged and merely said they were from different donors. And what will set the Clone Wars apart from other galactic conflicts will be the sheer scale of it, not the fact that the Clone Troopers become known as Storm Troopers. AS we're supposeldy going to see in Sith, no part of the galaxy will be left untouched. That, IMO, is worthy of holding the Clone Wars in some regard. Of course, this whole arguement would probably not even exist if the EU has just left them alone in the first place, like they should have. Initially the Storm Troopers were this mysterious, faceless bunch (who, believe it or not, were rumored to be clones as far back as 1978). Then Kevin J Anderson showed up with his "Caridia" and his "Sun Crusher" and all of a sudden we're treated to Stormtrooper academies and recruits and cosncripts throughout the EU.

You'd think so, but there's also fans who still have difficulty accepting that Stromtroopers are clones. Primarily because it's a dumb idea to have the entire Galactic Army to be nothing but a bunch of nerfed Boba Fetts. But in either case, it's neither been denied or confirmed absolutely (other than some Lucas offhanded commentary, which sometimes changes depending on what state of mind he happens to be) that the Stormies are all clones, all recruits, or some mixture of the two. The only thing we know for sure from AOTC is that the Clone Troopers were the progenitors of the Stormtrooper divisions. Whether they retained the cloned aspect 20 years later isn't something that's been revealed yet. We shall see. -Al Oh come on now. Barring EU for the moment, look at what the films show us. Episode 2 shows the Republic debating about and eventually recieving an army of clones in white armor. From what we've seen of Episode III, these are the same clones that fight through the entirety of the Clone Wars (played by both Temura Morrison and Bodie Taylor) in armor that bridges the two existing designs. Flash forward 20 years to Episode IV, and when the familiar white-clad troopers show up on screen the audience is suddenly expected to intuit that these are now recruits or conscripts? I don't think so. Particulalry when no further mention of them is made? No, they're clones. Its established in AOTC, reinforced in ROTS and by the OT its old news.

Actually, I got the feeling that 7-Zark-7 was this micromanaging, overbearing Big Brother figure. He seems to monitor the G-Force gang 24/7 and comments on everything they do. "Princess, don't you have a hair appointment at 2:00? Don't dawdle! And stop slouching, Keyop!" G-Force aren't superheros. They're prisoners!

And those interminable scenes of 7-Zark-7 hitting on that other computer via the intercom just made me feel dirty. Seriously....wtf?

That was horrible! The exact second the bird-shuriken hits them, Zark is in there assuring us kiddies that they were just "knocked out by the sonic boom." Or there was another episode where G-Force ostensibly rescued some astronauts (who, from what I can tell from the footage alone, seem to have been tortured) then are seen leaving by themselves. Yet 7-Zark-7 chimes in to reassure us that they did indeed rescue the now-invisible astronauts. They would have been better off if they had assumed that kids would have forgotten the astronauts even existed by that point. Besides, everybody knows it was all about 1-Rover-1