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Today in The Clone Wars: It must be Friday

The third episode of The Clone Wars, ‘Shadow of Malevolence,’ is on tonight. (We won’t be throwing a poll this time.) UPDATE: Writer Steve Melching talks about it.

  • Watch online: Last week’s episodes, ‘Ambush’ and ‘Rising Malevolence‘ are now up on StarWars.com.
  • Games: Get a peek at the lovely ladies of The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance, the Nightsisters. There’s a trailer at LucasArts.com for those of you enamored of ‘stylus-driven action.’ (Least sexy game term, or least sexy game term ever?)
  • Databank: New entries on Rys, Jek, Thire and Toydarian. (Is that last one new, or just updated?)
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StarWars.com offers first look at Wild Space

The official site brings us the cover and summary for Karen Miller’s Wild Space, the second novel based on The Clone Wars.

The Separatists have launched a sneak attack on Coruscant. Obi-Wan Kenobi, wounded in battle, insists that Anakin Skywalker and his rookie Padawan Ahsoka leave on a risky mission against General Grievous. But when Senator Bail Organa reveals explosive intelligence that could turn the tide of war in the Republic’s favor, the Jedi Master agrees to accompany him to an obscure planet in the Outer Rim to verify the facts. What Obi-Wan and Bail don’t realize is that they’re walking into a deadly trap concocted by Palpatine… and escape may not be an option.

The book’s street date has also changed – it’s now listed for December 9.

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The Ratings Game – Clone Wars Rocks, Heroes Tanks

Entertainment industry strikes have an interesting way of shaking up the following season.  This one is no exception.

  • Heroes is steadily dropping with each episode:  down 18% from the already-sluggish season premiere.  However, according to EOnline, it’s doing really well on Hulu.  (Have you people learned nothing from Stargate?  TV execs and advertisers don’t understand this whole alternative viewing thing, yet.  Watch it live if you want to keep it!)
  • Sarah Connor is, according to SyFyPortal, on the verge of cancellation, but also thriving in the alternative market.
  • Chuck is holding on, but has also dropped 11%. 

So let’s focus on the happy, shall we?

  • Clone Wars set a new record for Cartoon Network with 4 million viewers.
  • Fringe won the coveted 18-49 demographic
  • And even Sanctuary drummed up strong numbers for SciFi with 2.7 million viewers.  (Although I suspect this will be another that soon bleeds off to online and DVR viewing.)

Remember, fellow geeks, only you can save TV shows:  watch them live!

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Here’s the Shadow of Malevolence Y-Wing

At least, io9 (beware, link contains massive Heroes and Transformers spoilers, among others) says this is a Y-Wing, and since this week’s webcomic deals with them I see no reason to doubt. It actually looks kind of like a cylon raider – something about the bit in the middle – but that’s why I’m not a spaceship guru. (Still, we did see concept art of this one way back.) And is that what I think it is in the background? Bypass the actual spoilers to view a larger version.

…Or just bypass them alltogether with the StarWars.com preview, and another still.