That new computer animated Star Wars: Clone Wars show on Cartoon Network

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About that.

Why does Lucas have alien beings speak with very obvious accents? The last episode had a bunch of marmot people speaking with Highland Scottish accents! And the bad guy had George Takei's voice! Every time one of those two spoke (either in a Scottish brogue or Takei's voice) it threw me totally out of the story.

Overall I've been enjoying Clone Wars. What annoyed me in the movie isn't so annoying now, with one exception: it bugs me that I KNOW that Anakin is going to go Dark Force, and that he or the clones supporting the Jedi now are going to waste just about every Jedi we meet in this show. What happens to his annoying Padawan Ashoka, whom we have not met before this, and is never mentioned again in any of the live action films? Does she survive getting hacked to pieces by Anakin's light saber?  Does she go into hiding? I guess that's the only real question going on with How This Ends.   Sometimes, though, I kinda wish Anakin would do the audience a favor and eliminate her character a little early on in the storyline.

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[(Anonymous)]

lucas has said that he uses accented actors to make things feel like it just more than american people involved. to add to the "alien-ess" of the SW universe, if you will

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I agree with his sentiment, but it's too bad the accents I heard on the recent two episodes are so...stereotypical. Just like the Japanese accents he used in the movies for the folks who invaded Naboo.

It's something I think he has to be careful about: using accents the way he uses dogawful stereotypes (JarJar Binks, anyone?) can be more insulting than anything else.