#Droids cartoon

[human-cyborg-relations]

[jessfandrawer]

Characters from the short lived Droids cartoon. Originally made as a gift for my favorite Star Wars fan.

Probably dating myself here, but we used to get this from the video rental store all the time. I thought Jann Tosh was a sweetie, and Jessica Meade was the coolest person ever.

The catchy theme song was co-written by Stewart Copeland, surprisingly prolific composer and drummer of The Police!

[david-talks-sw]

I think it's interesting that - in order to make his "free-thinking Jedi" characters hold any semblance of rationality in their arguments - Dave Filoni needs to resort to artificially dehumanizing the other Jedi and painting them all with the same "we dogmatically worship protocol" brush.

He does this with Huyang in the recent Ahsoka episode.

"Lolz he's so narrow-minded, preachy and by-the-book, unable to think outside the box, just like the Jedi in the Prequels."

My first reaction was being amused at the fact that Filoni had to resort to making the Jedi Order's ideals and rules be embodied by a literal machine for his anti-Jedi headcanon to start making sense.

But then I remembered: Huyang isn't just any droid.

In The Clone Wars, he had a sassy personality, he had a pep in his step, he had a sense of humor...

This character was human in his behavior, he was fun and whimsical.

But now he's been reduced to, I dunno, "Jedi C-3PO"? Basically?

"Ha! He's blunt and unsympathetic because he's a droid, but it's funny because the Jedi were the same, they were training themselves to be tactless, emotionless droids."

And Filoni does this with Mace Windu too, in Tales of the Jedi.

Mace, who brought a lightsaber to the throat of a planetary leader to defend the endangered Zillo Beast...

... and who went waaay past his mandate by mischievously sneaking around Bardottan authorities and breaking into the Queen's quarters because he felt something bad was afoot...

... was reduced to being an almost droid-like, rule-parotting, protocol purist who sticks to his instructions (and is implied to be willing to let a murder go unsolved so he can get a promotion).

I mentioned this at the end of my first post on Luke in The Last Jedi... while changes in personality do happen overtime and can be explained in-universe... if you don't show us that progression and evolution and just leave us without that context, that'll break the suspension of disbelief, for your audience.

Here, we have two characters with a different (almost caricatural) personality than the one they were originally shown to have.

Now... we could resort to headcanons, to make it all fit together.

We could justify Huyang's tone shift 'cause "Order 66 changed him". And we could make explanations about TotJ's Mace:

Being younger and thus more ambitious and a stickler for the rules, and only really becoming more flexible after getting his seat on the Council and gaining more maturity.

Being such a teacher's pet in the episode because we're seeing him through the eyes of a notorious unreliable narrator, Dooku.

There'd be nothing wrong with opting to go with either of those headcanons to cope with this. After all, Star Wars is meant to help you get creative.

But the problem I encounter is that:

Filoni has an anti-Jedi bias, so the above headcanons clearly wouldn't really track with his intended narrative.

We'd be jumping through hoops to extrapolate and fill in what is, essentially, inconsistent characterization, manufactured to make Ahsoka and Dooku shine under a better light.

And that sours whatever headcanon I come up with.

Edit: Also, yeah, as folks have been saying in the tags... wtf is "Jedi protocol"? The term isn't ever mentioned in the movies, I skimmed through dialog transcripts of TCW, never saw it there.

So it's almost as if - if Filoni wasn't draining characters like Mace and Huyang of all humanity and nuance - his point about "the Jedi were too detached and lost their way, but not free-thinkers like Qui-Gon, Dooku and Ahsoka" wouldn't really hold much water.

[peteneems]

[autistickaitovocaloid]

I do think it's really funny how this is the first episode of the droids cartoon starts.

[junimoonyart]

2003 Clone Wars doodles

Happy 20th Anniversary to one of my biggest artstyle inspirations and a favorite animated Star Wars series! Hope I'm not too late!

[grayrazor]

It seems like a recurring thing throughout my life that I discover years later that a movie I saw got a TV show/cartoon that had been running all that time (or that started decades later).

[generalgri3vous]

making art look like an old comic book is hard, but the autism works harder B]

[nerdalmighty]

You cannot take those supplies.

[technovillain]

Username lore?

I was in the obscure blorbo trenches when I made this blog. I was gonna post abt him here but he was so obscure and I was way too invested for some reason that I was too embarrassed to ever actually post about it into an empty tumblr tag lmaoooo....

points at the sign. avert your eyes from the shitty action figure (which is of a character so obscure that somehow it loops back around to being *extremely* expensive. even tho the collectors don't give a hoot about this character. life isn't fair) and look instead at the commemorative fake gold coin, "Tig Fromm, TECHNO-VILLAIN"

Thought "techno villain" sounded rad as hell. Checked and couldn't believe nobody had taken that username yet purely bcuz it sounded cool and took it. Dropped the dash in the center bcuz usernames with dashes in them are for chumps /lh

actually fuck it have some of my old art for droids 1985.

[halestromthewhoobsessed]

Star Wars: Droids is the best Star Wars thing period

[talestoshowcase]

Hello there!

[gameraboy2]

Star Wars: Droids (1985)

[memyselfandtheemperor]

[peteneems]

[automatonz]

he orb