The habit had caused his distinct cough, which then caused fans to demand more smoking from him.Ī bald, gothic vampire ninja who was apparently female. Due to the extreme stress that he worked under, Grievous took up smoking, and was up to 12 packs a day by the start of season 2.

Dooku thought the Jedi were kind of evil for condoning child clone commandos, and kind of dumb for having giant walking robots, just not human ones like in Gundam.įield agent and Cadaver dog, Grievous was the main character of the series up until the end. He rarely does any work himself, since he's often too busy 'training' his dozens of Dark Acolytes, 80% of whom are angsty, easily-manipulated adolescents the other 20% are when he wants to try something new. The team leader of the show who immigrated from Middle-earth, after getting his butt kicked by some talking trees. ~ General Grievous recounting his more pleasant experiences on the show Count Dooku “We were up at strange hours, they kept changing the script every 10 minutes, and Sev'rance was a complete bitch off stage.”

The show's end was then celebrated by everyone, especially those who worked on it.

After actually taking a look at the ratings for the first time, the producers gave the series a cheap ending, in which everyone was killed by the emo terrorist Anakin Skywalker. The X-Men make a guest appearance in the Clone Wars saga to explain why cloning the genetically magical people makes more sense if you're an evil wizard who rears evil wizard apprentices.īut fortunately, CIS was not to last, for in the fourth season, the show was down to five viewers, plummeting from its all-time high of six. There was even a 30-episode story arc called 'The Clone Wars', in which the CIS battled a green donkey named Jackal, and his army of Spider-Man clones. The third and fourth seasons, in an effort to to appease Republican audiences, concentrated on stem cell research, and how it should not happen. Occasionally the CIS would battle their arch enemies the Jedi, evil cultists who claimed to be 'keepers of the peace' who 'bring balance to the Force', but in fact sought to commit genocide, terrorism, forced celibacy, and other fiendish plots. There was even a 5-episode story arc that centered on Nute Gunray searching for his missing socks. In the first season, the characters mostly solved crimes that they themselves committed. Searching for characters that they hadn't over-milked, Lucas and Zahn eventually came across several characters who made 10-second cameos in Episode II, and slapped them into a CGI cop show setting. After the failure of sitcoms like Two and a Half Droid Attacks on the Wookiees and How I Met Your Master, George Lucas and Timothy Zahn searched for a new idea for a show that would make them more money.

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