Cartoon Network's Clone Wars Overpowered?

[Caliber]

So I've finally gotten a chance to watch the Clone Wars (after downloading them all from the website) and while they are undoubtedly pretty good ... they seem a bit ... overpowered?

I mean, we have guys on hoverbikes with LANCES flipping walkers. You have that underwater Jedi launching a ball of force or something that rips a six foot wide hole through a giant ship (we're talking punches a hole through the front and out the back) Obi Wan deflects blaster shots with his HAND and all the Jedi seem to have crazy types of powers that are rarely hinted at in the movies.

I mean, sure in the first one you had them blurring as they ran and knocking down a couple of droids here and there. And in the second you have the whole telekinesis/force lightning thing. But those abilities and the ones in the cartoons are entirely different levels of power.

Anyone else noticed this?

 

[EricNoah]

Cartoon jedi are broken.

 

[tetsujin28]

Movie jedi got the shaft.

 

[Wolf72]

Movie jedi got the shaft.

you guys are bad!

I almost spit pretzels out of my nose!

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I'm pretty sure those "lances" are meant to be force pikes.

And I'm going to go for the No-Prize on the Jedi power-up too. My guess is that many Jedis, past and future, are capable of doing the things they do (the Dark Horse comics are a good example). But they are used to reining in their powers against living targets (big Dark Side no-no). But against obviously machine targets like battle droids they can really open up. Also remember that the Jedi haven't fought a real war since the time of the Sith. I'm guessing they're learning a lot more powers as they use them in combat more frequently. They're gaining experience points!

 

[Caliber]

Force Pike what now?

 

[Aaron L]

Force pikes are just vibro spears, nothing to do with the Force, don't worry

 

[der_kluge]

Yea, I kind of noticed that, too.

How many episodes are there of this thing?

I've seen 1-10, but 10 ends abruptly. So, I'm sure there are at least 15(?). Have they finally shown them all?

 

[Aaron L]

Only 10 I think, next 10 next spring or something.

 

[Nightfall]

There are a total of 20 episodes. 10 now and 10 in March/April of 2004.