Jamie Greene of SyFyWire has a great article up looking at the history of the Star Wars: Droids animated series. Here is an extract:
Saturday morning animation in 1985 was a kaleidoscope of candy-coated rainbows and saccharine sweetness designed to be as inoffensive as possible. Shows such as The Smurfs, Muppet Babies, The Wuzzles, Snorks, Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears, and Alvin and the Chipmunks were riding high.
It was in this animated landscape — dominated by an abundance of cuteness and blatant merchandising tie-ins — that Star Wars made its first appearance as a TV series. Two half-hour shows, Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO and Star Wars: Ewoks, formed the heart of ABC’s lineup in the fall of 1985, but it was… different.
Sure, Star Wars was suddenly part of our Saturday morning routine, which was amazing, no doubt. We could watch C-3PO on TV while wearing our X-Wing PJs and eating a bowl of C-3PO’s cereal! How cool was that?
But for the most part, Droids was not the Star Wars we knew. It was something new. And it certainly didn’t look like Muppet Babies.
Take the link to read the full piece.
