This just in . . . World does not fucking care, orders 40 more years of Star Wars. *sound of a dump truck unloading garbage.

No kidding. What jokes Robot Chicken didn't already do (better) were scraped off the bottom of the barrel by Family Guy. Lucasfilm doesn't get (among many other things, like romantic dialog) that part of the reason the parodies worked is that Lucasfilm didn't seem to want any part in mocking themselves.

Of course, the prequels pretty much tossed that out the window by creating works that are so awful, they almost DEFY parody.

For Star Wars to become cool again, large parts of its canon are going to have to be rewritten and remade. And, in order for that to happen, and this is going to sound really bad, George Lucas has to die, and his toadies need to either be buried with him or let people who actually care and/or have talent take over.

Steam Powered Kleenex, I will label your sentiments as optimistic. Blood from a stone, man. Did you see the Star Wars Kinect bullshit?
The last 15 years of Sting ruined the Police too, man. Sorry.

I didn't say it WAS going to happen, just that Lucas going away would be a prerequisite.

And the Kinect game was a case of the devs realizing the game they wanted to make was impossible, yet they were already committed (someone in power got paid, I suppose0 and they went ahead anyway. The Kinect can do some amazing stuff, but letting you play a game where you swing a lightsaber and jump and run isn't one of them. Sadly, it's best at rhythm, dancing, and gesture-based gaming, which is what they wound up with.

Even if they'd written a really good story that (let's dream here) made one or more of the prequel films make sense, it would have been lambasted for being, at best, a shooter with shitty controls on rails.

I figure the resulting game let us have a simulation into the steady degradation of George Lucas' brain. I'm convinced Han Solo's non-first-shooting character has, in Georgie's dying gray matter, morphed into a bizarro hip-hop dancer as various neurons succumb to a rare degenerative disease contracted from flannel shirts.

I wouldn't be too despondent...that Star Wars 1313 game looks kinda cool and might have some potential to do something not entirely retarded with the SW Universe. (which is good since Battleground 3 got cancelled)

clone wars series? it's pretty good.

this is has brief moments, I'll reserve judgement for after seeing full episodes

As someone who has talked to people who work on the show, the first season and some of the second were the roughest, thanks to Lucas interference. Since then, the writers have been able to do a little more with it and make it, if not halfway entertaining, then "not horrible."

Anyway, this clip above really makes me hope they've shelved the idea for a live-action Star Wars TV show. At least, I hope it won't happen until (again, sorry) George Lucas dies.

The same people who thought the Spaceballs cartoon was a smart move.

People who find FUTURAMA pretentious, and who didn't see the endless FAMILY GUY parodies.

There were plans for a Spaceballs cartoon??

And why the hell is the chick from Hairspray in this?

There WAS a Spaceballs cartoon. It aired on G4tv, which meant (thankfully) few were injured by being exposed to it.

I am thankful I missed that.

I noticed Boba Fett was voiced by the same guy who does his voice on "Robot Chicken".

It sucks because the Boba Fett sketches were the best ones.

Yes, but they've removed what little edge Robot Chicken had and apparently just took all the jokes that were crumpled up in the trashcan of the writing room from the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials.

Little kids love A New Hope, too. They deserve better than this.

Get back to me how a franchise that's supposedly "for kids" includes dismemberment and decapitation.

Granted, a whole lot of the dialogue is as if it's written by a group of five-year-olds, but that's still no excuse.

How much of your internet time do you spend complaining about nerds and neckbeards?

It's all of it, isn't it.

Kids love decapitation and dismemberment, though. You want to get a kid excited about a movie, convince him it's full of flying body parts.

Spaceballs is a horribly unfunny movie.

Spaceballs is a comedic masterpiece compared with this mess.

Obviously no one but nerds went to the theater to see Star Wars movies, it must have been super hard to secure funding for all 6 of them.

Okay, nerds, little children, and a bunch of dopes.

It also makes lots of money.

Family Guy's massive success with that, and "REFERENCE! REMEMBER THAT! SO DO WE! HAHAHAHAHA!" brand of lazy, effortless "humor" has caused tons of other shows to follow. They don't even bother to spoof or make fun of shit anymore, they just scream "MOVIE/TV SHOW/CELEBRITY/INTERNET MEME FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO!" and the audience laughs.

No, not really.

Also Joseph Campbell is as much of a hack as lucas.

You're forgetting us manchildren. We've got plenty of reason to discuss this.

dairyqueenlatifah, will you play wiffleball with me sometime? You speak to me.