The new “Star Wars: Clone Wars” animated series will be broadcast as part of a Friday night “action/adventure block” on Cartoon Network. IO9.com has details from Lucas on the upcoming series.

Clone Wars is “Star Wars starring an 11-year-old girl,” according to George Lucas, referring to Ahsoka, the “feisty” apprentice to Anakin Skywalker in the cartoon. He showed clips of an acrobatic Yoda, a more menacing version of the evil General Grievous, Anakin and R2D2. Lucas also said that instead of making the show look like Beowulf or The Incredibles, he reached to Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds for inspiration. And he said the big advantage of doing television is that if you make a mistake, people will forget it a week later, when the next episode airs. (Clearly, Lucas doesn’t spend much time on the internet.)

I think I’m going to like the animation style of “Clone Wars”. It seems more inviting than some of the current animation styles out there.

Lucas may be a little naive about television that “people will forget it a week later”. But people do forget it you make up for your mistakes…be it a few weeks later.