If you’ve been watching the cable channel Spike lately, you’ve been sufficiently reminded of what a disappointment the Star Wars franchise has become. But if you haven’t caught the station’s heavily advertised run of all six movies, you may not want to watch this leaked trailer for the CGI-animated The Clone Wars, at least if you’re attempting to go on convincing yourself that Star Wars is still cool.

Actually, if you’re still a big Star Wars fan, you’ll probably love this trailer (which may still be on Gizmodo after YouTube takes it down). It features a number of your favorite characters and it may get you excited for the theatrical release of the film, which is sort of a pilot to an animated series coming to the Cartoon Network later in the year.

And if you’re a Star Wars fan, you’re probably a fan of the video games and will therefore have no problem watching a movie that looks like the back story sequences for those games. In fact, this could be the movie that begins blurring the line between cinema and gaming, ushering in that future we’ve all imagined in which movies are replaced by the more-interactive form of visual entertainment. Of course, some of you guys may very well be confused when you realize you can’t control the action in The Clone Wars with your joysticks.

The story may be exciting, though, without your being able to master its outcome. However, personally, I’m sick of watching prequels and other stories that occur prior to Return of the Jedi. When do we get to see (rather than read) what happens next? Last night, a friend and I were watching Jedi and imagining the movie that takes place later, when Leia is pregnant with the twins and Han is neurotically worrying about the birth and having nightmares in which the babies are born half-Wookie. What, too silly? Not any more than the prequels were.