Now you might think that six Star Wars movies was adequate enough to tell a story about a little kid named Darth Vader (formally Anakin Skywalker, and, for a short while, Aaron Landrover), but if you thought that 2 trilogies were enough... brace yourself! -- you couldn't be more wrong!

Filmmaker, and professional beard-grower, George Lucas, has been plugging the upcoming computer-animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, set to debut on TV and in theaters (as well) unendingly pirated online.

Upon the plunging, Lucas has said that he thinks the series can live up to the live-action movies.

Now I don't pretend to know everything about Star Wars (I got to a late start because my parents frowned-upon it, feeling Jabba the Hutt looked too much like a penis), but I do know that Lucas has a successful history in guessing how audiences will receive his projects.

Lucas predicted that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will "disappoint," despite the fact that he previously said, "it's going to be the best one yet." Which, of course, means that people HATED Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The Star Wars merchandiser has also been known to compare Star Wars: Clone Wars to Band of Brothers, "but in space, and with Jedi."

I can see the parallel. For example, Anakin is like Capt. Lewis Nixon, and Jar Jar is like... Hitler, using his Gungan propaganda on his Blog to demonize Jawa's in the eyes of the Gungan race.

Lucas feels that when utilizing the TV format, one can tell lots of stories.

I, for one, understand the importance of more Star Wars stories. The Star Wars movies are okay by themselves, but they could use more back-story. For example, why did Obi-Wan decide to grow a beard? There should be a story there. Furthermore, what kind of legislation did Jar Jar bring to the floor when he was in the galactic senate? I mean, sure lightsaber duels and space battles are fine, but did Chancellor Palpatine have any congressional hearings on the Jedi intelligence failure that allowed the Kaminoans to build a clone army without a full delegate vote in the senate, or what? And what about Scarecrow's brain?!

During his expose, Lucas explained that he has always loved television, being a much freer medium than feature film.

I believe this to be true. Lucky for us, the new series gives him the opportunity to expand upon lesser Star Wars Cantina characters, like, Gila Man, Google Eyes, T-Head, Band Member 3, Squid Knees, Four Eyes, Yam Nose, Puppet Head, Vagasil, and United States Senator Ted Stevens.

The animated series "title-crawls" into theaters, Aug. 15.

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