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If the show's quality was equivalent to Andor, you wouldn't be arguing that Ahsoka should have been killed off. Ahsoka being pulled into the World Between Worlds by Ezra PreOT, Exiting the World Between Worlds into the PostOT, & Finding Sabine infront of the Rebels mural, harms nothing. Unfortunately that is not what Disney went with.
@TheHardys01 You’re not wrong. I’ve been arguing she should have died on Malachor since Rebels ended, but had we gotten a really good follow-up from her surviving, I’d probably be singing a different tune.
@Lobsterwithinternet halfway through it inexplicably turns from a lighthearted spoof show about a salesman to an incredibly gritty and artistically shot drama about billy struggling to overcome his addiction on the streets of coruscant
The funniest part is that Hayden still knows how to use a lightsaber and it sticks out A LOT compared to everyone else. They just kinda flop around with it while he whips it around like nothing
If you ever watching BTS stuff especially from RotS, they basically went through actual intense swordplay training on top of the fight choreography which helped it feel like they were actual masters. Like in some of the clips, they were going FAST Nowadays, you can tell they maybe get some basic handling training at best but it feels almost painfully obvious that they’re just following choreography
@Add1ctedM to cut them some slack, they use neopixel sabers to film these fights, and even Ewan complained about how they handle. They set themselves up for failure by giving inexperienced actors heavy, thick bladed props. Hayden is also able to swing his faster in Ahsoka visibly than he did in the Kenobi series because the TXQ saber he uses here has a thinner, lighter blade.
And Hayden cares about Star Wars and his character while everyone else seems to be proud of being incompetent idiots with no knowledge of the franchise. I honestly hope that he and Ewan will just refuse to participate in any more assassination of Anakin and Obiwan and just tell Disney to piss off. It really shows when they are there how much skill these actors have compared to the rest of the cast and they are always wasted because Disney is allergic to making money or something.
That's what star wars and really Disney in general have been doing for at least 8 years now... When I say Disney I mean all of Disney. Marvel, star wars, Pixar, Disney animation, live action remakes.
@mysteryperson1958 I call BS on blaming it on Disney. Lucas sold the SW franchise because fans were giving him shit and complaining about the prequels. It was almost as if the fans could write a better SW than the guy who started it all.
@taotzu1339 No he sold it because he wanted to focus his last years on his daughter. He said if he kept it he wouldn't be able to stay away from the sets.
@taotzu1339even if that’s entirely true, which is doubtful, i can still blame it entirely on disney. they’re the ones who wrote it, and they did an absolutely abysmal job, so it’s entirely their fault.
The single most egregious plot point in this series for me is Thrawn "not knowing" that Ahsoka was Anakin's padawan. Like there is no possible way Thrawn never came across that when he knew Vader was Anakin and also would have done his research on Ahsoka during the Rebels series. It's such a minor detail for most people but it assassinates his character so thoroughly it cannot be overlooked.
You’d think a comprehensive list of masters and Padawans of the Jedi Order would be something the Empire would definitely have right? But then again Filoni has never been one to pay attention to continuity and canon.
Him being somehow in awe of her being Anakin's padawan is also hilarious. Like he holds Anakin in high-esteem or something when Anakin was hardly some brilliant steategist. He was the Jedi equivalent of blunt force trauma. The only good line in the Kenobi series was when Obi-Wan said "He doesn't have the patience for a siege."
@Pintoman101 You shouldn’t need a list. Ahsoka would be a well-known figure to anyone high up in the Republic/Empire. Not knowing who Ahsoka Tano is would be like not knowing who Kenobi was. Ahsoka was an active Rebel agent during the height of Thrawn’s military career. Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice was out there smacking down the Inquisitors & Thrawn never heard about that? Did the possible of someone who had to be one of the most notorious rogue Jedi at Malachor make zero waves?
This is also worsened by the fact that upon meeting Baylan, hey just goes “oh you’re Baylan Skoll right?” As if he just knows all Jedi who fought in the clone wars yet he somehow doesn’t know Anakin had a padawan
@pauljohnson2911 On another level, it is just so weird because, okay yes, I get it. If you've only seen the movies, which only depict the first and last battles of the Clone Wars, then you have no idea who Ahosoka is or that Anankin had a padawan. But for people who actually live in the SW universe ... well ... Ahsoka was Anakin's padawan for most of the war, which was the time period he would have been best know to people around the Republic. Anakin Skywalker's most famous era in-universe is the period where Ahsoka was always around. It's like know who Batman is but not Robin. Ahsoka was so respected when she lead the Siege of Mandolore her Clone Trooper battalion painted their helmets in her honor.
Filoni: **writes a show so vague it defies any logical explanation** The fans: "Reesies' Puffs, Reesies' Puffs, Eat 'em up eat 'em up eat 'em up eat 'em up!"
@DashhunterLP How dare we have standards for the content we have to pay to see. What you call complaining is mostly constructive criticism. But nowadays people see any type of negative criticism as bad.
Was so cringe when he said that. It was cringe when he said it in The Clone Wars but Hayden didn't even try to say it with the same inflection or anything.
That drove me nuts when they had that scene with Luke and Ahsoka. They'd have so much to talk about and connect over, and could help each other get through some pretty heavy emotions and trauma. Instead, we were shown a scene with them making small talk like two strangers waiting for the bus.
I really wish he’d gotten another animated SW show so the writers could freely use the OT characters & mix their stories in with the animated characters where that fits. Ahsoka and Ezra are two major characters who would have A LOT to say to Luke … a character that is destined to get sidelined in live-action projects given that Mark Hamill isn’t 25 anymore
@TheJadedJames You know there were rumours abot rebooting the OT, since Matthew Vaughn said that if he made a SW show, it would be about Luke, Han, Leia and Chewie, like Clone Wars but set between ep. 4 and 5.
Yeah! I mean here’s this person who knew and spent years with Anakin at his peak, before his fall. Luke would have so many questions and Asoka would have so much to tell by him. It’s in complete defiance of human nature that these two don’t spend tons of time talking. Also, Asoka was a fully trained Jedi who could share so much with Luke beyond her link with his family. So lame that they missed this.
@davidanderson4748 In Rebels the obvious question I had in regards to Ahsoka was “How is Ahsoka going to react to learning Anakin became Darth Vader?” Now that we are post-ROTJ … Ahsoka has to know that Anakin & Padme had secret twins that Kenobi/Yoda wanted to use to assassinate Anakin/Palpatine. The Ahsoka solo series goes by without us getting to watch her process any of this. Luke would obviously want to know about Jedi who fought alongside Anakin, Kenobi, and Yoda in the Clone Wars. Ahsoka, who left the Jedi Order (and at her age, she likely barely remembers a time before the Clone Wars) would also pass down a very different outlook on the Jedi Order than someone like Kenobi
Ahsoka is basically Dave Filoni’s waifu His obsession with her and the way he makes all of us watch as he plays with his doll/body pillow is beyond creepy
From my understanding most people really liked this show except for the nerds who dive super deep into the lore as this video does. Mind you, there's a lot of great shows that are lore accurate to the timeline. Episodes 7, 8, and 9 were bad not because they weren't accurate to the time, they were since there was nothing interfering with that lore space. However they were all just terrible movies on their own. Ahsoka if you remove the rest of star wars is fine. So if your issue with the show is simply a timeline inaccuracy or what the show means for the rest of the world or making conclusions that don't happen in the show itself, i'd still say then the show on it's own is pretty good.@CyberChrist
1:08:26 “Filoni decided to undo a perfect send off to his first ever OC, because too attached to let her go….” You’d think someone who’s written for Star Wars as long as Dave, you’d be a little more wary of attachments. I mean he essentially used his force, his power as Dave Filoni, to save someone that he loved only to become a monster, abusing his power, lost in his ego and his desires.
He's making the exact same mistake as RTD did with Rose in Dr. Who, and Moffat did with Clara on the same show. They wrote a character they fell in love with, or maybe the character was always an idealised fantasy of what they always loved, and not only refused to let them die or leave, they start warping the world and the characters around them.
Which is basically Luke’s arc in the sequel trilogy: getting credit for Rey’s work to sort of drive home that hero worship allegory. He doesn’t live up to the standards but he still maintains them for the sake of hope(?). I hate it, don’t get me wrong: no matter how you look at it Luke throws everything away for reasons he should arguably be above and even meets his fate and it’s ultimately Rey doing all the work including training herself which means Luke causes all the shit to go down and he does nothing to fix it
I'm fairly certain that Disney will soon be testing the waters to see if fans would be okay with a complete retcon of the OT. Their own canon makes so much more sense without those movies.
I just assumed once she left the World Between Worlds (stupid fucking name) it sent her through time to the post-Return of the Jedi era. Or at the very least, she was stranded on Malachor until she repaired that old Jedi shuttle. Not that she was actually around on Lothal training Sabine during the entire OT, that is just fucking terrible. There has to be an actual reason why Luke couldn't just have her train him, and "Luke was too busy" over the course of 5 years isn't an acceptable answer. You'd think at the very least she'd have heard about the guy who destroyed the Death Star and saved the Rebellion had the last name 'Skywalker' especially on a REBEL-CONTROLLED planet like Lothal. Like seriously, can it get any more obvious how Filoni desperately wants to rewrite the OT with Ahsoka in it?
When I watched Rebels, I felt like the obvious answer was “Ahsoka was stranded on Malachor & probably couldn’t get off the planet until after the Battle of Endor. That is why the ending flashed forward to her collecting Sabine to go save Ezra.” But now I feel like I was giving the show too much credit
I think that’s why they’re only giving Andor one more season. They’re about to give Filoni the keys to the kingdom and let him make his stupid fucking Mando-Ahsoka-Thrawn movie and they can’t have a genuinely good series running simultaneously. Why would you pick your smartedt teammate to lead when your most obnoxious one is making the most noise about it?
@OlgolWABAGunfortunately for you, filoni is in charge of EVERYTHING now, bud. You know why? Cause he knows what he’s doi mg. Everything he has released has been relatively respected and enjoyed by majority of the fandom, ahsoka is his first show that had a slight diversity to the fandom. SLIGHT. Cause most of us liked it.
If there's one positive about Ahsoka, it's that it showed Dave Filoni isn't the "savior" of Star Wars, nor is he as good of a writer as people made him out to be. Defenders of him often point out that he worked on the Clone Wars, but they also failed to realize it wasn't him solely working on the show, and some of the ideas they like actually came from Lucas rather than Filoni.
It's like how everyone was tripping over themselves to paint Hideo Kojima as some sort of genius after Death Stranding released only for them to realize that he really isn't all that good when he doesn't have someone to slap him on the wrist and say 'stop wasting time'
I imagine Dave Feloni has some cool ideas or lore but those ideas need to be taken by an experienced writer and filtered out before they make it to the script. Here, there was no one to call out his silly ideas.
*Ezra essentially sacrifices himself by trapping him and thrawn in another galaxy Sabine: nah I'm gonna undo all that and doom to galaxy to thrawn Because i miss him Ezra: how'd you find me Sabine: i dunno Ezra: ok
and as the good mandalorian with zero force sensitivity.. proceeds to out force him 3 times(force calls being waves should have been sensed by ezra...)
They managed to ruin every character involved. If this show was Filoni’s beloved, how was he so terrible at keeping all of his kids from being destroyed like this?
Yeah it’s rough… I think her character arc would’ve been perfect if it ended on twilight of the apprentice. Instead we just ask ourselves what she was doing all this time during the OT which makes her look a lot more selfish and really damages her character by the time the Ahsoka show starts. Then her own show is just repeating the same beats with her overcoming Anakin/Vader again which felt completely useless with how we saw her at the end of rebels…
But if you kill your darlings you abandon the eternal milk. And eternally milking the fanbase with dead horses is a sacred practice at Disney. It's not about creating a good story, it's about keeping his job.
I think this show really solidified that Dave not only is a bad writer. But that he doesn't understand his own characters or legends as much as he thinks he does
From the clips I've seen of this series, his character definitely shows the most emotion out of anyone in the cast. More than Ahsoka, the former Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, who had a reputation during the Clone Wars for acting before thinking, and not quite having enough control over her emotions. Certainly more than Sabine, the most colorful of the lineup (in multiple ways) who shows emotion probably the most out of anyone else in the crew besides Ezra himself. I freaking hate this trend of emotionless cardboard boxes with familiar names stapled to their heads.
@piotrbuczulinski9369"But, But It this happened before Disney" Still fucking stupid, not to mention that Once is impreasive, but ten times makes me wonder if everything stated by previous content About how the force works was False
I think it's pretty telling just how bad a show is when it's best character (in this case it's Baylan) feels like a generic bad guy half of the time and pretty much exclusively has dialogue that is vague for the sake of it. The only reason he's really the best character imo is because conceptually he is good and Ray Stevenson's acting added a great presence to the show. Rest in Peace Ray...
@futz1llaYeah, I noticed that partway through s2 myself. Had to ask, “wait, if they’re just picking up and raising abandoned kids from around the galaxy, why is every mandolorian human? …are mandolorian’s racist?”
You know what would’ve been infinitely more interesting? Sabine knowing that she HAS to doom Ezra to being lost forever, in order to keep Thrawn away… but she fights to stop Thrawn anyway. In order to protect the galaxy, she has to sacrifice her friend. It weighs on her heavily. She fails. Morgan gets to Thrawn. Sabine meets Ezra. Now she has to admit to him that the only reason they’re meeting is because she failed her mission to keep him in exile. And then you know what could happen? Ezra could tell her she made the right choice to sacrifice him to stop Thrawn. There. Sabine is still a hero and Ezra is as well. Ezra still gets to come home, Sabine still has regret, but her character isn’t damaged.
This is the most obvious thing to write (this does not make it bad; it makes it good, in fact). Yet, this fool wrote some pure nonsense and complete trash.
Yes, but apparently as soon as you start working at Lucasfilm and/or for Kathleen Kennedy, you lose all common sense when it comes to write anything good in Star Wars. Except for Andor, because Tony Gilroy is a competent writer. Also I like to write "and/or" in a sentence. Because Andor. Andor is great. I love Andor. Andor.
@xallive4123I like to think that was how they made his character, some board room where there they were like; "what's our main cast for Rogue 1?" "Well Cassian, And/or..." "Great, but we need a strong female..." "Jen, ...er so-(m)..." *steeples hands while interrupting* "Exxxxcellent... Something something dark side something something something complete."
I used to be a Filoni fan until I took a Bad Batch to the knee. They were the most flat, stereotypical archetype style characters. On top of that, Filoni forgot to even use their niche talents. When Echo returned, he either stepped on every character's toes, serving as the leader, the soldier, and the tech expert or was useless. When Filoni stepped away to focus on Live Action, Bad Batch's quality improved significantly. They even got rid of Echo and began using each character's talent set again. It is clear Filoni was dragging the story down. I think Lucas kept him in line. Sam Witwer and Favreau have proved better at knowledge of lore and storytelling too.
I like how the Bad Batch even ruined the inhibitor chips conception. It's controversal and I dont like it, but the way it works was clear and simple at least, putting the clones on "default settings" so they could kill the jedi and do whatever the Palpy will say without hesitations. After that show I have absolutely no idea how they work, it feels like they start to work only when the writers want to
Thank you for addressing the fact that Rosario Dawson was wasted in this. I don't understand how Disney keeps taking these talented actors and just directs them so badly you'd think they were first year drama students. Who is making these choices!?!?!?
Producers who used to get coffee for Lucas and Spielberg, yet have never had any talent, creativity, or vision of their own. And C-suite apple shiners like Iger.
The retcons are so stupid. Characters are reset, with Sabine being the worst example. The entire Rebels S4 ending is also recontextualized. And the worst part is parts are completely backwards. Hera participated in the Battle of Lothal and its liberation and saw Thrawn & Ezra disappear. Ahsoka was absent from that. Why is Ahsoka the one believing Thrawn is alive, but Hera believes Thrawn died in the battle? Why?
Because Filoni himself said that continuity is for suckers. "Aw, it's all campfire stories. In this one, Hera watched them disappear! But in the story being told in Ahsoka, she wasn't there at all!" Actually, Filoni being Filoni, his example was the color of Ahsoka's lightsaber at a given time. Because the man literally cannot have a thought about Star Wars without putting his waifu at the forefront. I just hope the body pillow is a picture of ADULT Ahsoka.
@moffjendob6796 Filoni, from what ive heard, has just said its ok if star wars continuity is slightly changed if the creator deems it better for the story and that across mediums the stories shouldn't have to be exactly the same; he isn't saying continuity is for suckers. From what I know, most times Filoni himself has changed continuity, besides depa bilabas lightsaber color and obiwans hair in TOTJ, make sense for the story, although I admit I havent read the Ahsoka novel which he retconned parts of. Also, in the Ahsoka show, it's easy to assume that Hera thinks Thrawn died (and probably Ezra too) because they both went into hyperspace dragged by a bunch of space whales (and Hera reacts like she assumed Ezra was dead when she sees him at the end of the season). Also while Filoni does seem attached to the character of ahsoka by not wanting to make her die in TCW and making her alive during the OT era which doesnt make a lot of sense, that doesnt make her his "waifu". That implies he is perverted about her when he has actually shown the opposite; in shows by him featuring ahsoka following the original run of the TCW, he has made her less sexualized by her outfits whereas originally she was sexualized in a tube top and mini skirt because Lucas specifically made her have that outfit.
I just find it really funny how a portion of the people who said Andor was “too boring and was just people talking, bricks and screws, etc” went on to act like this show didn’t just have extremely monotonous pacing in some scenes for no good reason
When you're dead inside and filled with consoomer placeholders, all it takes is a little 'member berry key jangling fan service. Rabid partisan apologists are what this low effort content churn nonsense is for.
The point about Ahsoka disappearing in front of Vader makes me think of when he's stepping on Obi-Wan's cloths, thinking to himself "What the fuck, again?"
Imagine that scene where Sabine pranked Shin by sticking her hand out but instead of Shin (for whatever Filoni reason) bracing for a force push she reacted and tried a counter-push Sabine, inadvertently calling her bluff and and fucking idk, breaking her spine?
@terrified5.7Honestly I’m not sure why Shin ran away from Sabine instead of going for the kill. Especially since she knew Sabine didn’t have the force.
I'm getting a little tired of this pattern where a new Star Wars show comes out and then it tells an underwhelming story but has an episode somewhere in the middle of the season where some unrelated characters and events pop up that are supposed to set up another show, and then the "promise" of the future makes people overlook how completely lackluster the show itself was. Mando teased Ahsoka and Boba Fett, Boba Fett teased Mando and Luke, Ahsoka teased Anakin and the Clone Wars. They keep breadcrumbing the audience and they keep eating up the same shit every time.
@meyeneetuks4680 the only important things that happened were important to a completely different show and most likely confused the SHIT out of anyone who went into Mando S3 without watching BOBF
Ahsoka has become so important to the narrative of Star Wars, it almost feels like she’s fulfilling the role of a Mary Sue. AND BEFORE ANYONE SAYS THIS, I’M NOT SAYING AHSOKA IS A MARY SUE, ONLY THAT SHE FILLS THE SPACE OF ONE!!! Her importance to the story is warping the narrative space around her. She has become so important to Vader’s story that she’s rivaling Obi-wan in relevance. If the OT didn’t exist, Ahsoka would’ve been the one to redeem Anakin Skywalker. But because those pesky movies exist, she isn’t allowed to overtake them, no matter how much it would make sense in the broader context. And even in the context of the OT, you’d think Ahsoka would’ve been interested to meet the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star the second she realized he was Luke SKYWALKER!!! The second she’d have heard his name, nothing would’ve been more important. Meeting the son of her former master would’ve been a game changer for her. And yet, she was nowhere to be found. She never met him, even when every fiber of her character should’ve been rushing to meet the Son of Anakin and Padme. But her biggest problem is that her story isn’t allowed to end because both the fans and writers love her too much to let her go. So instead of sailing into the West, like all good Paragons should, she lingers in this world, fading from relevance yet never removing herself from the spotlight. As much as it pains me to say it, I agree with Creamy Sheev. Ahsoka should’ve died in the Sith Temple fighting Vader.
@achoumachi6695she wasn’t in like the first 5 seasons of the clone wars. She had challenges, had losses, got injured, sick, kidnapped, almost killed, and is stupid. The second she appeared in mando s2, then she became a Mary Sue
@Everseer_1 She beat Maul, she's as strong as Vader and even hurt him, destroyed Boba Fett’s Slave One, stood up to Grievous, defeated number of clones during order 66, was almost always right on everything, beat many inquisitors. She’s always been a mary sue
I actually really liked the fact that sabine betrayed everyone. I thought it was a great subversion with real potential for character tension and a potential fall of sabine to darkness. Aaaaand then they just ignored everything and said 'oopsie daisy'. God damn this show.
Right? This show really could have been so much more if the writing was even mediocre. Imagine if in the years where Ezra was gone, Sabine became increasingly lonely and brooding, pushing away friends and mentors and focusing only on the empty spot in her heart. It'd make sense why she'd take the map to begin with, try to rekindle her apprenticeship to Ahsoka and go with her to recover the map (even though a lot of things still don't make sense). It would have been amazing to portray her slowly succumbing to heightening emotions and stakes, giving in to Baylan's offer despite being wrecked by witnessing Ahsoka "die" and going along if only because there is a chance that she can get back the thing she missed most. The scene of her finding Ezra really should have been an extremely resonant and poignant emotional scene, contrasting Sabine's sheer elation and joy with Ezra being mortified that his sacrifice and exile has been ruined by her making it possible for Thrawn's return. This of course is just my idea, and doesn't touch on the innumerable other problems that would need fixing in this story, but Sabine's arc could very much have been a marked high point of enjoyment had it been handled well.
@PWH_19 to even add on to this, the betrayal of Sabine could have given Ashoka an actual internal conflict to overcome and actually give her an arc. Allowing Ashoka to have credence to not wanting to train Sabine, making her feel as if she is making a mistake in attempting to train someone too old and too attached. Similar to the councils reluctance to train Anakin in episode 1 which eventually brought the entire Jedi order to fall and the empire to grow in its ashes. hell you can even throw in a few lines from Huyang about how training someone like Sabine is against the jedi code if you want to give yourself a victory lap and bash the similarities over the audiences head. And now you have Sabine, which she trained by Ashoka giving into her emotions and being selfish. Wanting to find Ezra no matter the cost to the galaxy at large over being an actual Jedi. Ashoka could be crippled by the realization that she might have made the same mistakes that led to Anakin. Hell, if you really want to go into this, maybe even make Sabine have an arc of while shes trying to learn how to use the force, give her internal conflict with the dark side while your at it, if done properly it might even work! Instead what we got was a large waste of time. Practically all we have is every single character having regression throughout the entire show, actually we dont even have that considering every single character has haphazard "arcs" which lead nowhere. They make bad decisions, yet dont have any of the consequences imposed on them. I think there is one line that can highlight this show. and that is a quote from Episode 9: "somehow, Palpatine returned"
I mean, it's of course they're own fault either way but some of this is due to the larger problem of having to conform to things they produced beforehand but set afterwards. This same issue is very evident in the prequels. The Jedi had to be made completely brain dead to make their near extinction believable so the OT can even happen.
Yeah, it's ok to let characters fall from grace, but there have to be consequences. It would have been awesome, if Asoka tear her a new one for that stupid decision, or if Ezra were angry at her for demining his sacrifice. Wtf?
19:12 It is... interesting that two of the most well-known wise men of fantasy fiction (Gandalf and Dumbledore), whether you take them in their paper or film versions, are able to express a wide range of emotions, while still remaining authoritarian figures.
The Nightsisters really bug me In the original "Courtship of Princess Leia", the Nightsisters just had telekinesis and lightning. They could use it incredibly well, and incredibly powerfully, but the counter was that they needed rituals to focus enough to do it, and it took a massive toll on the body, causing constant bruising and broken limbs (the term nightsister coming from the black blotches of bruising) That worked because it was a natural extension of the preexisting powers The Nightsisters here are just doing whatever. And there's nothing that kills stakes quicker than pulling abilities out of nowhere
My interpretation of the Nightsisters, originally, was that their power was _bound to Dathomir._ Like, yes, they are insanely powerful, but that power it bound to Dathomir through the "ichor" that seems to be unique to that world. They can project that power outward, but it is somewhat limited by needing to be cast very deliberately by a very powerful witch in time consuming and draining rituals. There's still a lot of problems, but they are mitigated _somewhat_ by these things. Yes, they can use their crystal ball to locate anyone they want, but it requires someone of Mother Talzin's power to use and must be done from Dathomir. Yes, Talzin is crazy powerful, but her power comes from her being imbued with the ichor that is only on Dathomir and her ability to leave and use her power elsewhere is limited because that power drains the longer she is away from it (I don't think that "isn't sensitive to the force like a Jedi or Sith" line means she doesn't feel the force at all on her own, I think it means more that the way she uses the force is just completely different from how they do.) Yes, Talzin can use voodoo on Dooku, but I'm pretty sure that this was only possible because (either or both) 1) Talzin had actually met him in person and 2) Ventriss had a bond of sorts with him that could be exploited to accomplish this (I don't remember exactly how it went down, but I have a fuzzy memory of Ventriss needing to focus on him or something like that for Talzin to cast the spell). Like, if someone came to them and just said, "Hey, can you voodoo Palpatine for us?" she wouldn't be able to because she doesn't have any connection to him personally or even through someone else to grab hold of. I'm pretty sure that none of this is explicitly stated in The Clone Wars, by the way, but this was just my casual interpretation and it still _could_ have been clarified as such by later works. Like, I'm not a fanboy of the Nightsisters who has been sitting around trying to think of this shit, it's just sort of what my thoughts on them were on viewing. I'm still writing this in my head for the fucking show, but I think it's at least a reasonable interpretation that _could_ have been validated by later works or at least replaced with an explanation that was as acceptable without breaking the world building. But it looks like this was all just thrown right out the fucking window with Ahsoka, though, so it doesn't matter. It's super obvious that Dave Filoni just wanted to have the cool green ghost sword in live action and so that's what happened and whatever fuck it, right? It's a shame because with the right creative limitations placed on them, the Nightsisters have the potential to be a super cool addition to the Star Wars lore. I love the addition of a new evil faction to the Star Wars galaxy that _isn't_ the Sith and that don't _really_ have megalomaniacal ambitions for power and total control and all that noise. I like them as hermit witches who mostly just want to be left the fuck alone and don't really want to have to cooperate or even deal with outsiders unless they're forced to. I think an important limitation on their power is the fact that dealing with them is dangerous, and that danger only grows the longer you are in contact with them because they are treacherous, fiercely isolationist, and are _completely uninterested_ in the ambitions and opinions of outsiders. Having groups of Nightsisters that are allied to imperial remnants/ Thrawn/ anyone else breaks this. The way it should be is that every time you deal with them, you are rolling the die and if you keep playing that game you _will_ lose.
@Kevin_Narthex idk Ik the Jedi games are different but even then Merrin's Magic looks far better than whatever these 4 are using in the show. The direction there was "Yeah point at the ball and we'll do it in post" and then they lit a Bunsen Burner underneath it.
The way they're presented here is consistent with how they were portrayed in the Clone Wars series. So at least there's that consistency. But it's probably been 30 years since I read Courtship of Princess Leia so I'd forgotten how they were portrayed there.
The understanding in the Courtship of Princess Leia novel (By the way I still chuckle at how Han asked Threepio for advice and at one time Threepio even made a song praising Han) The Nightsisters are in fact darkside Force wielders, and that over the years they largely forgot or converted their conception of their connection to the Force as instead being one of magic and incantation and rituals. Filoni and his ilk no doubt skimmed through it or heard of the Nightsisters through 3rd or 4th hand comments and decided to run with the magic idea, with the blessings of KK no doubt.
I think you're right. I was feeling the same way seeing all these clips. I don't think the actors did a bad job, but none of them quite look right either. And the combat looks so meh in this.
I don't know man, I read the books when I was younger, watched the shows, read the new books from Timothy Zahn (not Timanthy, don't know that guy) and saw the Ahsoka show and I thought Thrawn was pretty spot on. I'm reading this as a prelude and I'm pretty sure we'll witness him in all his splendour in the follow up. It's easy to be pissed, but the current medium is builded about the idea that one part of a story is not meant to encompass the whole saga. In that regard, it is indeed pretty different from what I consider to be the golden age of EU SW,
@floflo6660if you thought Ahsoka thrawn was “spot on” then you have awful reading comprehension or didn’t actually read the books. Exactly the IQ level filoni is writing for
Yes, it's a shame considering how delicatly and carfully he used pre-existing characters like Luke, Leia, Han etc. He dosn't try to mutilate, recaracterize them or in any way put his 'stamp' on them, his new characters are his unique creation and satisfy him. But on the other hand dont let him anywhere near the plot, the number of Mcguffins he uses would actually make modern StarWars writers blush. I thought Thrawn was writen spot on in Rebels, always ahead of the game, ruthless and only undone by insubordinate subordinates and Force magic.
@ThomasGeytenbeek speaking personally, my five year old lego lore was awful so perhaps I'm unlike most. My ten year old lego lore on the other hand was masterful stuff, no notes.
If Thrawn had just shot Sabine, he literally would've won with zero losses. And maintained every advantage. Just putting that out there. You know, if he were an actual genius strategist. And that's what I hated the most.
Idk I think it was smart of him using her to find him. For all he knows he still has access to the space whales and can hinder any escape attempt he would make. Although Ezra being shockingly easy to find does make her usefulness minor
@wisdommanari6701 But he knows where the space whales come and go. He has the Great Mothers, who's ancestors first "rode" them. And Ezra wouldn't have had any idea that Thrawn was attempting to escape the planet if Sabine hadn't told him. Thrawn wouldn't have to care about Ezra escaping, and even if he did manage it, assuming Thrawn didn't manage to shoot Ahsoka's ship beforehand, he would have no way to use the space whales to get them to the known galaxy anyway because their ship is fucked. Ahsoka wouldn't have been able to find Ezra with Sabine dead, and Ezra wouldn't be able to take the news of Thrawn returning with zombie magic to the new republic. He wouldn't have had to needlessly sacrifice troops, wouldn't have had to lose his second in command and her magic sword, since Baylan and Shin would've kept Ahsoka busy long enough for Thrawn to make a clean getaway. If Thrawn shot Sabine in the head when she was defenseless and at his mercy, it would have solved all his problems before they even began. So no, it was absolutely braindead to let Sabine live.
Did Thrawn escape exile? Yes. Did he strand Sabine and Ahsoka with no way back, killing the Hyperspace Whales? Yes. Thrawn won. And he did it without killing a single person.
@cancerconnoisseur it also would be out of character. He doesn't do revenge he doesn't murder helpless prisoners or hold grudges. Now if they want to establish as him being that kind of person now so be it.
There seems to be a sort of underlying narcissism in Dave Filoni’s work. Everything he makes must be central to the core narrative of Star Wars. His work has a parasitic relationship to the main saga; he never makes anything truly original, only ever working in the shadow of another movie or novel made by far more talented writers (Heir to the Empire, OT, PT, etc.); but always, he tries to recontextualize those stories to place his characters at the narrative forefront. All of his OCs are kept alive inexplicably throughout the whole arc of the Skywalker story; often times long after their arcs have reached a natural and satisfactory ending point. Stylistically he relies far too heavily upon callbacks and cameos to keep his stories engaging. He constantly talks about George’s mentorship over him to give people the impression that he is a sort of inheritor to the Star Wars legacy, which legitimizes his fan-fiction. When he wants to be taken more seriously, he parrots the aesthetics of greater respected works like Blade Runner or Akira Kurosawa’s filmography, but always misses what made those films truly special. This became clearer than ever to me with Tales of the Jedi, a darker, self-serious series which attempted to paint itself as mature political and moral commentary (According to Filoni, long, drawn out scenes with no dialogue means his work is deep. He continues this gimmick in Ahsoka). However Ahsoka was released in the shadow of Andor, and when you directly compare how these two works approach the same themes, the surface-level nature of his writing becomes incredibly apparent. Let us also not forget how completely hypocritical Filoni is when it comes to the treatment of writers' original characters. He's against anyone else writing for his own OC's (Ahsoka novel) and demonstrates this in his Tales of the Jedi retcons, yet he'll gladly take another writer's OC (Thrawn) and butcher their character beyond recognition. Filoni has a knack for taking once beloved characters and making them into shells of their former selves to bolster his preferred characters (what he did to Barriss to make Ahsoka look better is a prime example of this). But that's what you have to do when you don't have talent.
I always figured Filoni has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. People with this disorder are unable to self-examine and lack empathy and emotional depth. True to this, his characters lack emotional depth and he only seems to imitate other shows when he does their arcs, rather than create an arc that would take real emotional understanding.
The point you make about Filoni's writing at around the 8:30 mark is telling to me. Filoni is supposed to be the inheritor of all things Lucas when Filoni, amongst his other problems, does something Lucas almost never engaged in: write ambiguous dialogue. Lucas was always clear in his writing and his characters always spoke about things in unambiguous ways (with the possible exception of Obi-Wan talking about Anakin/Vader at times). Filoni's character dialogue is nothing but ambiguity and unnecessary secret-keeping for the sake of creating false tension. It's incredibly aggravating.
I'm not sure I agree. You might be right with the prequels but I feel like there were tons of ambiguous dialogue in the OT. From "size matters not", to Palpatine wanting Luke to "strike him down".
Those examples seem pretty clear; when Yoda is telling Luke “Size matters not” he’s training him to use the force on larger objects; and Palpatine is asking Luke to attack him when he says “strike me down” trying to turn him to the dark side
Filoni is NOT the inheritor of George Lucas. Lucas never wanted Ahsoka to survive past Revenge of the Sith. All Filoni has done is shit all over Lucas work with his own OC characters.
My favorite thing about this show is how the fans put their media literacy on hold for a few weeks to theorize who Marrok is, when he's literally named after a zombie from Arthurian legend, foreshadowing his ending. The fanbase in the early 2010s would have caught that detail.
leonrussell9607For real, when I saw he was just a fart in a suit after seeing all that Starkiller theory bullshit I laughed so fucking hard lol. I can't blame them that much though, when all they're being given is table scraps.
Thanks to Disney (and especially Dave Filoni), Ahsoka has more relevance to the Star Wars universe than Luke Skywalker. I mean, even his dad chose to abandon him to watch over Ahsoka instead.
I blame JJ Abrams. He wiped out Luke's jedi and brought back Palpatine so his OC (Rey) could be the one to kill the Emperor, Destroy the sith, and restore the jedi. On top of that she gets everyone's lightsaber, the Falcon, Red 5, etc. And she's also another desert planet hero who is the secret offspring of a sith lord (so creative) What Filoni did with Ahsoka is child's play compared to the damage Abrams and Johnson did.
I like how in this entire franchise, the most important character just literally isn't touched at all other than taking away Grogu which turned out to be for nothing.
@heebiejeebies4625 Yeah, even the Jedi Knight series did him more justice and there he is just a cameo. Well, a cameo that made sense, one with purpose and an integral part of the plot. In Jedi Academy he is closer to being a supporting character and the story is kinda weak. But not because of Luke. And it never contradicts itself or spits on the canon. Who could have imagined back in 2003 that old timer Luke would just throw his father's lightsaber over his shoulder? After not seeing it for 30+ years. Or indeed, try to kill his nephew. Ridiculous.
Dave Filoni has proven that he doesn't care about continuity as long as he gets to tell his story and will throw as many distracting nostalgic bait onto the screen to hide the fact he is willfully and gleefully shredding Star Wars all so he can get his Ahsoka fetish. He is truly Rian 2.0.
If anything, Filoni is to Star Wars what Ian Flynn is to Sonic : a narcissistic, overrated hack who only relies on memberberries, pushing his lousy OCs, and misrepresenting the core characters time and time again.
@jesuspernia8031 Only took some time after Lucas was out of the picture and too much of the audience held onto the hope that things could get better when that was never gonna happen. This time though, he's been caught red handed with no excuses to save him. His luck and the goodwill given finally ran out.
@smugplush I was fine with her being gone during Rebels. I thought that put a nice bow on her character. Now though? She's definitely overstayed her fucking welcome. Like I said in an earlier comment. I just want Star Wars to...go away for a while. I'm so sick of it. Give people time to miss it. Like, at least a decade and a half, maybe two, then if you wanna do more with SW? Be my fucking guest. Maybe this IP will learn to grow up a bit if it has time away. Doubtful though. It's currently not capable of telling any mature and intelligent stories. Just nostalgia baiting and fan fiction.
I know it's needless to say at this point, but Dave's obsession over Ahsoka is honestly pretty scary at this point. Ahsoka's arc came to its natural conclusion during Rebels S2. I know she didn't technically die there (as Sheev says you can clearly see here in the ending and the stupid World Between Worlds), but still. Dave literally invented time travel just to save her and now she's just literally wandering around the galaxy doing who knows what. She should've just been killed then and there as there was nothing more for her character. Look, I get it. Dave is very proud of Ahsoka. They essentially entered the Star Wars Universe "together" and that's what forms his connection to her. But there comes a point where pride turns into toxic obsession. And Dave has far beyond crossed that point. In the past, Dave was held back from unleashing the worst side of his writing because he had George and others keeping him in check. But now, he's been given far too much power and he's revealed himself as the hack writer, member berries dependent he is. So much for the saviour of Star Wars. 11 years of crap from Disney is the best we've got.
This is like when potterheads point out the obsession of the screenwriter Steve Kloves with Hermione (don't get me wrong, I love her) by giving her the lines that other characters said in the book, he said to Rowling that Mione was his favorite character, so...
Heck, even him retroactively explaining why Ahsoka wasn’t in Revenge of the Sith doesn’t make much sense when you think about it. First, she survived in a duel against Darth Maul and actually beats him when Jedi Knights with far more tenure, like Qui-Gon, struggled and/or died against him. Then you have her surviving Order 66 on a Republic Venator surrounded by clones programmed to kill her, managing to deflect all the blaster bolts shot her way when the likes of Ki-Adi could withstand far less, and surviving the ship crashing against all odds because the plot demanded it.
It's interesting that Filoni would take great pains to put Ahsoka, the character he created, out there in full force, all the while destroying the character created by Zahn, that of the far more intriguing and relatable Thrawn. Almost as if Filoni was jealous of Zahn and was determined to fuck him over in whatever manner he saw fit, by literally pulling the Epic Movie scene, where Peter has the magical remote, freezes the White B-itches Army so that he and his pathetic adopted siblings could cheat kill the bad guys.
Ezra and Hera's "heartfelt reunion" was one of the most eggregious moments for me, this is the boy she took under her wing, convinced Kanan to train, fought alongside him for years and believed him dead and gone like Kanan. WHY DID SHE JUST STAND THERE?!?!
Let alone Ezra's "Dramatic Reveal" of flying in on a stolen ship STILL WEARING the fucking Stormtrooper Armor. Like he probably didn't change armor and instantly throw his clothes out so he probably could have changed on the way back or commed in saying "Hey I am Ezra Bridger." but instead he decides to slowly walk down the ramp with his helmet on and only takes it off when Chopper rolls up to him. Doesn't even say "Thrawn is coming" or anything he just kinda stares smugly at them
So, here's the thing: Anyone can learn to play the piano. Anyone. But not everyone has the skill to be a concert pianist. To quote Charles Winchester from MASH: "Don’t you see? Your hand may be stilled, but your gift cannot be silenced if you refuse to let it be... The gift does not lie in your hands. I have hands, David. Hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life I wanted to play, but I do not have the gift. I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. "You have performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. Even if you never do so again, you’ve already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live. Because the true gift is in your head and in your heart and in your soul. "Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share your gift with the world--through the baton, the classroom, or the pen. As to these works, they’re for you, because you and the piano will always be as one."
I couldn't stop laughing when Sabine told Ezra that Ahsoka took her as her Padawan and he says why because he knows like everyone else she can't use the force
Well, she can't be a formal padawan because 1. Ahsoka was never a Master and 2. Ahsoka left the order entirely, so expecting it to be the same as past relationships would not make much sense anyway.
Regarding Marek, the director of the episode was interviewed, made reference to Kurosawa films as inspiration and mentioned the blood spatter seen in said samurai encounters. But of course since Disney Wars is PG, blood was off the menu. So the director and Feloni then decided 'hey! since we can't do blood, why not use smoke!' and so the green fart death was born. All those theories people had about Marek... way more effort went into it than Feloni and co made. Marek was just another mystery box 'rule of cool' character with no thought beyond the spectacle level applied to it.
Leslye Headland _also_ mentioned Kurosawa when talking about the disaster that was The Acolyte. Maybe Disney should keep their Star Wars creatives away from him because they obviously have NO IDEA what makes his movies so good.
@BiggieTrismegistus 'Creatives' who try to ape real artist's to give their own puddle deep mimicry a veneer of sophistication without any true understanding of what gave those previous works their depth and appeal....
Hollywood's idea of a "strong women" is nothing but a woman who exhibits the traits of "toxic masulinity". They can't show _any_ emotion except maybe anger on occasion.
59:56 I hate how butchered the night sisters are, in fallen order Merrin all but confirms that Raising the dead and low distance teleporting are her most advanced abilities until game 2, where she still isn’t as overpowered as talsin, and only once has green lightning in what could’ve been a visual bug that I witnessed, so the games gave her clear limits, her use of the force also prompts ranged attacks which is amazing as a concept, the force has always been used as telekinesis and not much else before Disney
When talking about that Sabine/Thrawn scene where he "wouldn't understand," ironically the backstory of Thrawn is that he sacrificed being a part of Chiss society in order to protect them from the burgeoning external threats of the Empire and potential Extragalactic invaders. Thrawn knows all about sacrifice in order to protect what you love. Edit: This is covered in the video around 39:00
The producer's waifu cannot die. She cannot fail. She is immortal. She is eternal. All glory to the Ahsoka, the Great Orange Thread That Binds the Universe Together.
Forget the fact that the show is telling us that Thrawn is a threat to the galaxy... in the moment where Sabine strikes a deal with Baylan, she just watched Ahsoka get knocked off a cliff. Baylan likely just killed Ahsoka for all Sabine knew. The fact that she would strike a deal with the man who just murdered her mentor and friend is sociopathic. The only way any of Sabine's actions make sense is if she is canonically an actual psychopath.
Nothing psychopathic about realizing if Ahsoka couldn't beat the guy, she couldn't either, and she might as well let him take her to Ezra and reassess from there
@realQuestion ...except she gets taken prisoner right away and if the series had actual writing instead of the trash it got, she would be dead the second she faced Thrawn. She should have retreated with the McGuffin. If they can't get to the new galaxy with the map and she holds it, there's still a chance to get Ezra back. Giving them the map is the absolute worse thing she could have done and the show lets her get away because it is absolute dog shit.
I don't understand _why_ everyone in the show thinks Thrawn is such a threat. I can understand worrying about an imperial general still being free but as far as the characters know there's nothing particularly dangerous about him. It's like everyone in show read the Heir to the Empire trilogy between Rebels and Ahsoka.
Why is it that RUclipsrs are way better at coming up with compelling stories and character development for free than professional writers making hundreds of thousands lol.
29:20 This, combined with Ahsoka's (let's charitably call it "subdued") reaction, is what killed the series for me. You would think this would be a slam-dunk - not only the characters seeing one another after so long, but the catharsis for the fans who wanted to know what happened to them 5 years after the show ended. It actually blows my mind that they chose this weirdly emotionally stilted tack. And you can't say it's in the style of the OT: Luke was so excited to see Leia after blowing up the Death Star he called her by the wrong name. Even in the prequels Anakin, Padme, & Obi-Wan were permitted to express strong emotions. Just the most baffling decision.
17:33 that bloody smirk. Why is she smiling at the camera? Why does she look so pleased with herself? Cause she did something "cool" or "badass"? Cause murder is fun. She looks like someone who just finished a dance routine at a talent show.
My first act after watching the Ahsoka finale back in October was to unsubscribe from Disney+, forever. “The dreams… the nightmares… they’re finally… over.” ~ Fives
The thing with midichlorians is also that the movies never implied that they are what give you force powers directly, just that by some mechanism someone with a greater connection to the force, you will also attract a larger amount of these force-sensitive microbes. There can be a symbiotic relationship in play, maybe force sense is actually derived from how these microbes react to changes in the force, but a lot of people ran with the rather simpleminded idea that midichlorians are the force which I don't believe Lucas ever intended for them.
My head canon went with "correlation, not causality." That midis are just found in people strong in the force and used as a convenient testing method. Qui-gon was either dumbing it down to explain to child Anakin or he just held a fringe belief since the term is almost never used elsewhere.
Correct. They are a measuring stick, not the totality of the Force or something. Lucas did indeed have a strong interest in relating the Force to the microbiotic world, and had suggestions about more of that in his sequel ideas, but clearly the explanation of the Force is much bigger than this [unless someone thinks Mortis was made of midichlorians or something].
@kaleiohuyes I've always believed correlation is not causation, too. I figured it was more like gut bacteria. As in, different bacteria are found in different environments and can indicate specific conditions in their host. So, I dunno... Maybe midichlorians eat or farm the force and force sensitives have a higher concentration of the force interacting with their physical bodies (hence, luminous being are we) and thus find force-sensitive people more hospitable hosts. And the more force sensitive the more interaction between force and flesh and the more midichlorians are attracted and can be supported.
Not gonna lie: I was 26 when I saw TPM & the collective theatrical reaction to “midichlorian counts” was basically “We’re gonna pretend he never said that.”
Among SO VERY MANY other truly awful things about this terrible, terrible, excruciatingly boring show full of character assassination, the fact that Cassian Andor and Brasso had a more heartfelt reunion after not seeing each other for roughly TWO MONTHS than Ezra and Sabine did made me literally gape with horrified incredulity. Unbelievable.
@mazkeraid4039 What is with this "it doesn't matter because he dies in Rogue One" argument I keep seeing people use to dismiss Andor? I guess nothing in the Prequel trilogy matters because we already know what happens in the Original trilogy: the Empire takes over the galaxy so anything with the Republic or the Separatists doesn't matter; Obi-Wan dies; Anakin/Darth Vader dies; Palpatine dies; all the Jedi (as far as the movies are concerned) are already dead; Yoda dies. But even then, nothing in the OT matters anymore too, because in the Sequel Trilogy: Han dies; Luke dies; Leia dies; the New Republic basically dies (as in their main five planets? are destroyed); Palpatine comes back and dies again; you get my point. If all that ever lent weight to what happens in the story between characters or events was not knowing the outcome, nobody would have ever cared about anything Star Wars made after Return of the Jedi. If anything, knowing the outcome of a character's story and learning more of that character's story up to that point gives even more weight to how it finally ends; there are some amazing works of writing out there where you know the end from the very beginning. Most baffling of all is how I've only ever seen this argument in regards to Andor. Never saw anyone say anything about the main movies or the Clone Wars or any other Star Wars production not mattering or meaning nothing because they already know that character X dies in Y. I can only assume it comes from people dismissing it out of hand because it's a secondary character in another prequel movie that they didn't care about to begin with, or it's out of jealousy that Andor was such a quality show when the rest of the shows that centered around fan-favourite characters were so abysmal in comparison.
I'm not the only one who is worried that Ahsoka can't die, right? And by can't die, I mean because she had her life restored by the Daughter of the force, Filoni might decide this means she literally CAN'T die. Or she can, but the force is working to prevent it and will keep her alive for as long as the force wants her to be alive. She's also hugely inspired by Gandalf, who is extremely difficult to kill in Middle Earth due to reasons I'm not going to pretend to fully understand because I am not versed in LotR lore. I think we shouldn't be surprised if further down the timeline, Ahsoka is comically somehow still alive. Maybe Rey will meet her in the new movies and Ahsoka just shrugs, crosses arms, smirks, and gives a little "The Force works in mysterious ways." and that's that.
Anyone else notice how Filoni seemed to shift the blame for Jedi's genocide from the ones who actually did it (Palpatine and Anakin) to blaming the jedi themselves? As if fighting in a war where you can't be neutral is somehow their fault? Also, Ahsoka forgiving Anakin so easily despite numerous atrocities (including nearly killing her) is kinda weird. Oh, and the show not acknowledging that Sabine is a mando. I feel she would've fit the Darksaber plot in mando s3 better than Bo-Katan. This show feels like several shows in a trenchcoat and none of them are fully formed.
Actually, they are directly responsible for the clone wars happening, but not out of malicious intent. Dooku left the order and was allowed to set up an entire apposing faction, build a support network and recruit an entire clone army without any monitoring. Padme brought up that Dooku *might* be behind it that they simply dismissed as impossible. Then they turned up in force on Genosis, got most of their number present killed in a massive arena battle to rescue three trespassers on neutral space, therefore initiating the clone wars with an army that they hadn't any idea where it had came from. The Jedi were responsible because they were ignorant and had completely lost interest in being actors of peace. They would've let Naboo stave to death in it's concentration camps because the Republic were slow in deliberation, and despite knowing there was Sith in the galaxy was no closer to investigating them 10 years later, and clearly hadn't even considered the prospect that one of their most senior, outspoken adversaries. Sure, by the time the clone wars started the separatists had long made up their mind that they were going to war, but the Jedi clearly hadn't done any homework prior to the conflict starting and... Just immediately got locked into a war they had no hope of ever winning. Not watched the show, so I can't really comment on anything else, but I disagree that the Jedi weren't responsible, their lack of willingness to do the right thing nor monitor Dooku had ultimately lead to them being caught flat footed.
Idk why people hate the concept of midichlorians so much. Like, it isn't rare that a spiritual or religious dogma/concept/pratice can be explained by scientific means
As a kid I really disliked the midichlorians because I felt like it took the "mystique" and vaguely religious aspects of the Force and tried to quantify it in this seemingly normal, almost intrusive presence like a bacteria or something. But as I've gotten older I've come to appreciate that it's fine to have something more physical like that as an explanation. I've bridged the mental gap to link the physical and the spiritual as a concept for what George was going for. Heck, in some ways it makes it cooler, because it's not just communing with the thought of life anymore, it's communing with ALL life, something universal that we can all share in, even when unknown. I think it's fine to be able to put a number on that at this point, even if it doesn't really need it.
@0ctopusComp1etely I get your point but midi chlorians is the only concept that ends up explaining differences in force power or why there can be a chosen one or a jedi grand master. According to the more vague logic sabine could have the same potential as yoda and I do not really buy that.
@henriquenunes3255 Oh, I completely agree. What I meant by it's fine to put a number on that is that not everyone is going to have the SAME midichlorians, or even be able to use what they do have the same/ effectively. In real life people are different. In the same way that I can swim or go running, I'm never going to be as fast as an olympic medalist. And someone that doesn't have the right limbs or mental capabilities might not be able to do those things at all. People are different, and can't all do the same things. I think the Force is the same concept, except... even more exclusive. Which is why I also don't buy Sabine just suddenly clicking and being super capable. Maybe if they built up an internal revelation or something, and even then I don't think she should be very strong, but definitely not what we got.
@0ctopusComp1etely correct but the differences can always be described. Muscle fiber types, muscle mass, bone density, cardiovascular capacities and the list goes on. If the force is just "something that binds the galaxy together", there is no real explanation for why there are such huge discrepancies in affinity.
Thank-you! People made up their own head cannon in order to explain/like episode 5. There wasn't actually any kind of arc. But you can't say that or they will tell you that you're a "fake fan" or aren't paying attention. No I just wanted Ahsoka and Anakin's reunion to make sense and be character driven. I wanted to feel a transformation; I wanted to see emotions on screen.
Lol no those games are just some trash that only exists to further erase the Force Unleashed games. No one but Merrin is even interesting and that was only in the first game where she was last member of her entire species, and a magic space witch. Now she's a generic emo girl and there's more Nightsisters all over the galaxy and even other galaxies. and her relationship with Cal was so forced and only happened because loser "fans" wanted it.
I just assume Anakin was enjoying being dead and didn’t feel like talking to any living people. We already know from Alec Guinness’ performance in “Jedi” that force ghosts can be sick of this shit and super annoyed about having to talk to people who are still alive…
52:30, Sabine broke EVERY SINGLE rule on firearm safety. She had her finger on the trigger when she wasn't ready to fire, and she pointed it directly at Ezra, even hitting his arm with the barrel. I know it's minor but holy gods I cannot unsee that. I don't even own a gun but I've had those rules burned into me by watching videos from people who do. Yet more terrible quality character from the supposedly highly trained soldier.
Imagine if she was holding a sword or a knife and accidentally hit the guy in the arm with the blade. Would the director go "yeah, that seems fine, we'll keep it in"?
@Lemon_Inspector Something that always shocks me about Star Wars, is how people are just carelessely waving around a super hot energy blade that can easily cut through metal like it's made out of butter.
@cubescihist6737yeah, in the original trilogy, the light saber fighting was more like samurai duels, or kendo. Actually realistic. All the acrobatic stuff starting with the prequels is ridiculous. In kendo and Olympic fencing, the duelists are waiting for a split second opening to strike. They aren't flipping around the space and spinning the blades like a baton twirler in a parade. An energy weapon that can cut through anything would be treated even more delicately that a sharp sword.
That’s a laser pistol. If she fired the bolt would go right through Ezra killing him on the spot. At the very best case scenario he’s paralyzed for the rest of his life and needs dialysis performed 4 days a week
It’s funny how Anakin getting a padawan was to learn about letting go of his attachments, but Dave himself refuses to let go of Ahsoka. Which is a path to the dark side Dave……
there was more emotion displayed by the how many days has ezra been missing tumblr blog (and its followers) when he was found than there was from his own friends and family
I feel like there was a great story for Sabine right under the surface: She is so driven by revenge over the actions of the Empire that the idea of them being beaten is slowly eating at her because she has nowhere to direct her anger. She could deal with the internal conflict of using finding Ezra as an excuse to find and kill one more Imperial regiment. Ashoka could then understandably see the parallels between Sabine and Anakin's personalities and struggle to direct Sabine when she's making decisions that only serve her finding an outlet for revenge. But nah... They did nothing.
Sabine never came off as being anything more than an obnoxious young hot heated mandalorian playing the part of a frustrated artist. There was nothing relatable about her.
Not damaging your characters is an amateur mistake in fiction writing, and I've seen overly precious or protected characters be trashed in so many writing workshops over the years (while getting my Masters in Fiction Writing). I keep wondering why someone like Filoni has so much power. Did he just know the right people? I know so many writers who struggle to even get paid at all for their work, and their talent is leagues beyond the Filonis of the world, who just seem to know the right people.
He's got really good PR, oftentimes, that's all you really need. Granted, now that he's the head of what's going down in Lucas's film, I expect this "shield" of his is to get grounded down over time.
I think Dave was just promoted over his level of expertise. Clone Wars and Rebels were flawed but they also had some really great moments. Live action can be tough, though, and when you’ve only got 8 episodes to work with you can afford filler episodes.
Filoni was at the head of the team that wrote what is today regarded as a “peak Star Wars”, and, as often seems to happen, the boss got most of the credit. So on subsequent projects he got full creative control. The same thing happened with George Lucas. During the OT, he had people to keep him in line and correct his mistakes. During the PT, he didn’t, and look what happened. What people need to realize, is that even the most talented writers need supervision.
How does the New Republic even work? Why should the Chancellor hold a vote in the Senate to allow the general (!) to take a squadron if only one senator can approve this mission? Huyang throughout the series: gives logical and rational arguments for why Ahsoka's actions are idiotic. Ahsoka: no. Do as I say, I have plot armor and plot luck. Huyang: Okay. Minefield. Do you have any idea how many mines it takes to mine SPACE? And how long will it take? And why weren't any whales harmed by them? Naturally, flying straight through the wreckage, you won’t damage even the antenna on your boat... Sabin, you still haven’t told Ezra the situation, even though you don’t have time? What a stupid cow you are... How did Beilan and Shin negotiate with the red riders, who obviously do not know their language and who caught them over the corpses of their comrades? Naturally, Ahsoka and Sabine can connect mentally, despite the fact that Sabine is insensitive to the Force... and Ezra is sitting next to her, but Ahsoka does not feel him... Witches can not only sense Ahsoka, but also determine her position on the map with an accuracy of up to a meter? But they couldn't find Ezra for 10 years? Thrawn, if you don't care whether you defeat your enemies or not because you'll get off the planet, why don't you just shoot and bomb them from the air instead of sending a useless landing party? Actually, you don’t have many soldiers left, and you still have to fight the Republic... Ezra. You're a fucking Jedi. Take your fucking lightsaber and fight Shin! Sabin doesn't even use it! Ezra is so strong that he can forcefully stop Shin's blows, but Shin can knock him back and knock him out? The Ninja Turtles invented flying armored personnel carriers, but they shoot with fucking slingshots? By armored riders? How about just running them over? Ahsoka, why did you jump off to fight Baylan if your goal is to help Ezra and Ahsoka and he doesn’t threaten them? And your plan was to let Huyang burn you with flashes? Naturally, Ahsoka can simply drive into the frame through a crowd of stormtroopers, they can’t do anything at all... How about disarming and tying up Shin so you have a hostage and an extra lightsaber? No? In short, I've had enough. The series is shit, which will be licked because they showed us a hologram of Anakin and he said “Ventress.” Filoni is an arrogant hack, no better than Abrams or Johnson. Thanks everyone for reading.
"How does the New Republic even work? Why should the Chancellor hold a vote in the Senate to allow the general (!) to take a squadron if only one senator can approve this mission?" Because, for some ungodly reason, Furloni fucking hates the New Republic. Disney Wars takes every chance they get to show off its incredible incompetence and it's so damn jarring.
@realQuestion They didn't even try to get her to switch sides. Not a hostage, since Baylan and Thrawn don't care about her, but talking to a prisoner has more chance of her switching sides.
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Smash the patriarchy!
I can't believe that I just watched 1 hour plus of a video about this shitty Star Wars lesbian parody of the Disney gay parody channel. ++.🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
Well, I will probably not pre-sub to a channel of which I cannot get at least an idea about what quality it will be. ;)
You probably should have waited with the advertisement until the video is out. I will, however, watch the video once it's available.
If the show's quality was equivalent to Andor, you wouldn't be arguing that Ahsoka should have been killed off.
Ahsoka being pulled into the World Between Worlds by Ezra PreOT,
Exiting the World Between Worlds into the PostOT,
& Finding Sabine infront of the Rebels mural, harms nothing.
Unfortunately that is not what Disney went with.
@TheHardys01 You’re not wrong. I’ve been arguing she should have died on Malachor since Rebels ended, but had we gotten a really good follow-up from her surviving, I’d probably be singing a different tune.
Can you imagine being Moff Gideon? Doing a whole silly gambit only to find out you could have just got good and learned to use the force.
Luke kills all his guards and then goes "Use Force-Eze and you, too, can fight like ME! Ka-BLAM!"
@RyzardMakes me want to see a show about Jedi Master Billy Mays selling OxiClean to the galaxy to fund his Cocaine and Deathstick addiction.
@Lobsterwithinternet halfway through it inexplicably turns from a lighthearted spoof show about a salesman to an incredibly gritty and artistically shot drama about billy struggling to overcome his addiction on the streets of coruscant
Is it weird that I miss Moff Gideon
@harrambou9468 no, it was kinda the end of the good stuff once he was gone, no reason to not miss him :)
Okay but the idea that Anakin would only speak to Asoka and not his actual son or daughter is hilarious.
Just goes to show that she's a Mary Sue.
And she was a good friend
Maybe he did we haven’t see much of what Luke got up to
The funniest part is that Hayden still knows how to use a lightsaber and it sticks out A LOT compared to everyone else. They just kinda flop around with it while he whips it around like nothing
When someone with training actually shows up lmao
Literal Mark Hamill moment
If you ever watching BTS stuff especially from RotS, they basically went through actual intense swordplay training on top of the fight choreography which helped it feel like they were actual masters. Like in some of the clips, they were going FAST
Nowadays, you can tell they maybe get some basic handling training at best but it feels almost painfully obvious that they’re just following choreography
@Add1ctedM to cut them some slack, they use neopixel sabers to film these fights, and even Ewan complained about how they handle. They set themselves up for failure by giving inexperienced actors heavy, thick bladed props. Hayden is also able to swing his faster in Ahsoka visibly than he did in the Kenobi series because the TXQ saber he uses here has a thinner, lighter blade.
And Hayden cares about Star Wars and his character while everyone else seems to be proud of being incompetent idiots with no knowledge of the franchise. I honestly hope that he and Ewan will just refuse to participate in any more assassination of Anakin and Obiwan and just tell Disney to piss off. It really shows when they are there how much skill these actors have compared to the rest of the cast and they are always wasted because Disney is allergic to making money or something.
Ahsoka is what happens when writers write an IP rather than a story.
That's what star wars and really Disney in general have been doing for at least 8 years now...
When I say Disney I mean all of Disney. Marvel, star wars, Pixar, Disney animation, live action remakes.
Disney Star Wars is what happens when non-writers are allowed in the writing room.
@mysteryperson1958 I call BS on blaming it on Disney. Lucas sold the SW franchise because fans were giving him shit and complaining about the prequels. It was almost as if the fans could write a better SW than the guy who started it all.
@taotzu1339 No he sold it because he wanted to focus his last years on his daughter. He said if he kept it he wouldn't be able to stay away from the sets.
@taotzu1339even if that’s entirely true, which is doubtful, i can still blame it entirely on disney. they’re the ones who wrote it, and they did an absolutely abysmal job, so it’s entirely their fault.
The single most egregious plot point in this series for me is Thrawn "not knowing" that Ahsoka was Anakin's padawan. Like there is no possible way Thrawn never came across that when he knew Vader was Anakin and also would have done his research on Ahsoka during the Rebels series. It's such a minor detail for most people but it assassinates his character so thoroughly it cannot be overlooked.
You’d think a comprehensive list of masters and Padawans of the Jedi Order would be something the Empire would definitely have right? But then again Filoni has never been one to pay attention to continuity and canon.
Him being somehow in awe of her being Anakin's padawan is also hilarious. Like he holds Anakin in high-esteem or something when Anakin was hardly some brilliant steategist. He was the Jedi equivalent of blunt force trauma.
The only good line in the Kenobi series was when Obi-Wan said "He doesn't have the patience for a siege."
@Pintoman101 You shouldn’t need a list. Ahsoka would be a well-known figure to anyone high up in the Republic/Empire. Not knowing who Ahsoka Tano is would be like not knowing who Kenobi was. Ahsoka was an active Rebel agent during the height of Thrawn’s military career. Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice was out there smacking down the Inquisitors & Thrawn never heard about that? Did the possible of someone who had to be one of the most notorious rogue Jedi at Malachor make zero waves?
This is also worsened by the fact that upon meeting Baylan, hey just goes “oh you’re Baylan Skoll right?” As if he just knows all Jedi who fought in the clone wars yet he somehow doesn’t know Anakin had a padawan
@pauljohnson2911 On another level, it is just so weird because, okay yes, I get it. If you've only seen the movies, which only depict the first and last battles of the Clone Wars, then you have no idea who Ahosoka is or that Anankin had a padawan. But for people who actually live in the SW universe ... well ... Ahsoka was Anakin's padawan for most of the war, which was the time period he would have been best know to people around the Republic. Anakin Skywalker's most famous era in-universe is the period where Ahsoka was always around. It's like know who Batman is but not Robin. Ahsoka was so respected when she lead the Siege of Mandolore her Clone Trooper battalion painted their helmets in her honor.
Filoni: **writes a show so vague it defies any logical explanation**
The fans: "Reesies' Puffs, Reesies' Puffs,
Eat 'em up eat 'em up eat 'em up eat 'em up!"
*”fans”
@Everseer_1 They're as much fans as anyone else. But their standards are very low.
@Everseer_1Definitely more of a fan than you people are, doing nothing but cry, complain and piss yourselves for well over a decade at this point.
@DashhunterLP How dare we have standards for the content we have to pay to see. What you call complaining is mostly constructive criticism. But nowadays people see any type of negative criticism as bad.
@kylewilliams5454 it's been a decade. Get over yourself
Okay you made a few good points, but did you notice Anakin called her Snips? You should clap.
I came
He vadered
I almost choke on my drink, thank you for that comment
Was so cringe when he said that. It was cringe when he said it in The Clone Wars but Hayden didn't even try to say it with the same inflection or anything.
@nont18411🤣🤣🤣
"He Vadered!" Is so epic CRINGE Grace will never live it down
That drove me nuts when they had that scene with Luke and Ahsoka. They'd have so much to talk about and connect over, and could help each other get through some pretty heavy emotions and trauma. Instead, we were shown a scene with them making small talk like two strangers waiting for the bus.
I really wish he’d gotten another animated SW show so the writers could freely use the OT characters & mix their stories in with the animated characters where that fits. Ahsoka and Ezra are two major characters who would have A LOT to say to Luke … a character that is destined to get sidelined in live-action projects given that Mark Hamill isn’t 25 anymore
@TheJadedJames You know there were rumours abot rebooting the OT, since Matthew Vaughn said that if he made a SW show, it would be about Luke, Han, Leia and Chewie, like Clone Wars but set between ep. 4 and 5.
You saw one scene of an already established relationship you didn't see them meeting for the first time tf
Yeah! I mean here’s this person who knew and spent years with Anakin at his peak, before his fall. Luke would have so many questions and Asoka would have so much to tell by him. It’s in complete defiance of human nature that these two don’t spend tons of time talking. Also, Asoka was a fully trained Jedi who could share so much with Luke beyond her link with his family. So lame that they missed this.
@davidanderson4748 In Rebels the obvious question I had in regards to Ahsoka was “How is Ahsoka going to react to learning Anakin became Darth Vader?” Now that we are post-ROTJ … Ahsoka has to know that Anakin & Padme had secret twins that Kenobi/Yoda wanted to use to assassinate Anakin/Palpatine. The Ahsoka solo series goes by without us getting to watch her process any of this. Luke would obviously want to know about Jedi who fought alongside Anakin, Kenobi, and Yoda in the Clone Wars. Ahsoka, who left the Jedi Order (and at her age, she likely barely remembers a time before the Clone Wars) would also pass down a very different outlook on the Jedi Order than someone like Kenobi
Ahsoka is basically Dave Filoni’s waifu
His obsession with her and the way he makes all of us watch as he plays with his doll/body pillow is beyond creepy
As the owner of a body pillow, I feel insulted ;)
no one made you watch anything.
@w00lleymam0th9 Remember there are people who watch these things thinking they're going to have quality Star Wars entertainment.
From my understanding most people really liked this show except for the nerds who dive super deep into the lore as this video does. Mind you, there's a lot of great shows that are lore accurate to the timeline. Episodes 7, 8, and 9 were bad not because they weren't accurate to the time, they were since there was nothing interfering with that lore space. However they were all just terrible movies on their own. Ahsoka if you remove the rest of star wars is fine. So if your issue with the show is simply a timeline inaccuracy or what the show means for the rest of the world or making conclusions that don't happen in the show itself, i'd still say then the show on it's own is pretty good.@CyberChrist
@w00lleymam0th9 Too bad I don't care about it one bit, lol.
8 long episodes of Filoni playing with his barbie dolls
Filoni playing with his bologna....
Now kith
True
They weren’t all that long
@countof3everybodyOD the best part about this show is that they wasn’t
Asoka’s plot armor is so strong that you could literally leave her in another galaxy and not worry
And Sabine
wOrLD bEtweEn WoRLdS
Good one lol who's Asoka?
@PeteONeillBasswell, they do have a scene where the camera leaves her for like 1 frame then she teloports across the ship like a weeping angel so....
@PeteONeillBassSomehow... Ahsoka returned.
1:08:26 “Filoni decided to undo a perfect send off to his first ever OC, because too attached to let her go….”
You’d think someone who’s written for Star Wars as long as Dave, you’d be a little more wary of attachments.
I mean he essentially used his force, his power as Dave Filoni, to save someone that he loved only to become a monster, abusing his power, lost in his ego and his desires.
He's making the exact same mistake as RTD did with Rose in Dr. Who, and Moffat did with Clara on the same show. They wrote a character they fell in love with, or maybe the character was always an idealised fantasy of what they always loved, and not only refused to let them die or leave, they start warping the world and the characters around them.
Understanding of irony and self-awareness seems to be a very rare trait in people who reach a level of success and fame.
@JCDentonCZ I find your lack of faith well earned and well deserved.
Thrawn EU: Playing 5D chess
Canon Book Thrawn: Regular chess
Rebels Thrawn: Checkers
Ahsoka Thrawn: Tic-Tac-Toe played incorrectly.
LOL
He's just playing tic tac throwing those tiny mints in the air trying to catch em with his mouth
I understand simplifying thrawn for rebels, but god he’s just a husk of himself in ahsoka
Y’all are so dramatic 🤦🏽♂️😂 ahsoka was great. Cope more.
@CaptainRockoBD hey I liked it and even I'll say they did mah boi thrawn a bit dirty
Filoni didn’t explain what Ahsoka was doing during the OT because he doesn’t know that himself.
She did everything that Luke had been doing but Luke, being a toxic white male as he is, always took the credit of her work🤪
Which is basically Luke’s arc in the sequel trilogy: getting credit for Rey’s work to sort of drive home that hero worship allegory. He doesn’t live up to the standards but he still maintains them for the sake of hope(?).
I hate it, don’t get me wrong: no matter how you look at it Luke throws everything away for reasons he should arguably be above and even meets his fate and it’s ultimately Rey doing all the work including training herself which means Luke causes all the shit to go down and he does nothing to fix it
I'm fairly certain that Disney will soon be testing the waters to see if fans would be okay with a complete retcon of the OT. Their own canon makes so much more sense without those movies.
I just assumed once she left the World Between Worlds (stupid fucking name) it sent her through time to the post-Return of the Jedi era. Or at the very least, she was stranded on Malachor until she repaired that old Jedi shuttle. Not that she was actually around on Lothal training Sabine during the entire OT, that is just fucking terrible. There has to be an actual reason why Luke couldn't just have her train him, and "Luke was too busy" over the course of 5 years isn't an acceptable answer. You'd think at the very least she'd have heard about the guy who destroyed the Death Star and saved the Rebellion had the last name 'Skywalker' especially on a REBEL-CONTROLLED planet like Lothal. Like seriously, can it get any more obvious how Filoni desperately wants to rewrite the OT with Ahsoka in it?
When I watched Rebels, I felt like the obvious answer was “Ahsoka was stranded on Malachor & probably couldn’t get off the planet until after the Battle of Endor. That is why the ending flashed forward to her collecting Sabine to go save Ezra.” But now I feel like I was giving the show too much credit
Ahsoka: “WHATEVER YOU DO, DONT GIVE THEM THE ORB.
Sabine: “ nah, ima do my own thing “ 😎
Ahsoka: Never mind, it's no big deal."
Give them the orb? Ok
She’s so quirky!! Love her! 😘
You mean the plot device
except, unlike miles, shes just stupid.
Andor made Mon Mothma a full fledged, Three Dimensional character for Ahsoka to return her back to numb skull window dressing. Thanks, Dave Filoni
I think that’s why they’re only giving Andor one more season. They’re about to give Filoni the keys to the kingdom and let him make his stupid fucking Mando-Ahsoka-Thrawn movie and they can’t have a genuinely good series running simultaneously. Why would you pick your smartedt teammate to lead when your most obnoxious one is making the most noise about it?
It was so jarring to see her like that 😭😭
@pinkfloydguy7781I pray Dave baloni doesn't take over Andor's production
Andor did not do that 😂🤦🏽♂️
@OlgolWABAGunfortunately for you, filoni is in charge of EVERYTHING now, bud. You know why? Cause he knows what he’s doi mg. Everything he has released has been relatively respected and enjoyed by majority of the fandom, ahsoka is his first show that had a slight diversity to the fandom. SLIGHT. Cause most of us liked it.
If there's one positive about Ahsoka, it's that it showed Dave Filoni isn't the "savior" of Star Wars, nor is he as good of a writer as people made him out to be. Defenders of him often point out that he worked on the Clone Wars, but they also failed to realize it wasn't him solely working on the show, and some of the ideas they like actually came from Lucas rather than Filoni.
It's like how everyone was tripping over themselves to paint Hideo Kojima as some sort of genius after Death Stranding released only for them to realize that he really isn't all that good when he doesn't have someone to slap him on the wrist and say 'stop wasting time'
There's another positive: the butt shots. Love the butt shots.
I imagine Dave Feloni has some cool ideas or lore but those ideas need to be taken by an experienced writer and filtered out before they make it to the script. Here, there was no one to call out his silly ideas.
I confess I've lost a lot of respect for Filoni these last few years
@Da_Kow2020 | lost my respect to him fully after Ahoska live-action. He should not write scripts and dialogues at all.
that was the funniest thing to me. Thrawn was there for 10 years and couldn't find Ezra, but Sabine found him in like 20 minutes LOL..
*Ezra essentially sacrifices himself by trapping him and thrawn in another galaxy
Sabine: nah I'm gonna undo all that and doom to galaxy to thrawn Because i miss him
Ezra: how'd you find me
Sabine: i dunno
Ezra: ok
Also, definitely a reasonable action for someone who misses their "sibling."
and as the good mandalorian with zero force sensitivity.. proceeds to out force him 3 times(force calls being waves should have been sensed by ezra...)
Also she sacrificed the whole galaxy for him without even getting the D after... like wtf 🤣
now they gunna gave to save ashoka and sabine from abeloth
They managed to ruin every character involved. If this show was Filoni’s beloved, how was he so terrible at keeping all of his kids from being destroyed like this?
Filloni didnt have the balls to kill ashoka and make a great tragic ending to the character. Instead he chose this...
Yeah it’s rough… I think her character arc would’ve been perfect if it ended on twilight of the apprentice. Instead we just ask ourselves what she was doing all this time during the OT which makes her look a lot more selfish and really damages her character by the time the Ahsoka show starts. Then her own show is just repeating the same beats with her overcoming Anakin/Vader again which felt completely useless with how we saw her at the end of rebels…
But if you kill your darlings you abandon the eternal milk. And eternally milking the fanbase with dead horses is a sacred practice at Disney. It's not about creating a good story, it's about keeping his job.
this was the opener of an obvious larger story arc. She may indeed die when we get to its conclusion
@realQuestion we dont care at that point. At least I dont
@classicbrix if only the order to kill her off in that episode has been made permanent, and next to impossible for Filoni to worm his way around it.
I think this show really solidified that Dave not only is a bad writer. But that he doesn't understand his own characters or legends as much as he thinks he does
TCW was already a big enough sign that he didn't understand the EU
Can we atleast appreciate the actor for Ezra probably having a great time, he always seems to be having a lot of fun acting for Ezra
Undeserved hype for all these shitty oc characters
Yeah he was cast very well, honestly enjoyed seeing him play the character regardless of the shite writing
Yeah he's fun. Wish he had a good show to act in.
From the clips I've seen of this series, his character definitely shows the most emotion out of anyone in the cast.
More than Ahsoka, the former Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, who had a reputation during the Clone Wars for acting before thinking, and not quite having enough control over her emotions.
Certainly more than Sabine, the most colorful of the lineup (in multiple ways) who shows emotion probably the most out of anyone else in the crew besides Ezra himself.
I freaking hate this trend of emotionless cardboard boxes with familiar names stapled to their heads.
No. I dont really care if he has fun.
48:22 Man, blocking the lightsaber with the Force has to be the most over-used Disney lightsaber trope. After surviving being stabbed by one, that is.
You mean the light-Basballbats?
Sabers kill these are just bats that light up 😂
Satele Shan blocked lighsaber with a hand and that was in pre Disney Swtor teaser trailer
I like seeing it sometimes. I think it makes sense for Ezra, having been gone for a decade and needing to still defend himself without a lightsaber
@piotrbuczulinski9369Do not even compare Shan's tutaminis to the shit constantly being done in disney wars. You are dishonest
@piotrbuczulinski9369"But, But It this happened before Disney" Still fucking stupid, not to mention that Once is impreasive, but ten times makes me wonder if everything stated by previous content About how the force works was False
I think it's pretty telling just how bad a show is when it's best character (in this case it's Baylan) feels like a generic bad guy half of the time and pretty much exclusively has dialogue that is vague for the sake of it. The only reason he's really the best character imo is because conceptually he is good and Ray Stevenson's acting added a great presence to the show. Rest in Peace Ray...
He's not the best character, he has no character at all.
Dave resurrected Ashoka three damn times.Time travel,Mordis god life transfer, and what ever this is.
Torguta women die more than once.
@pantheman2842 😂😂
I’m glad you caught that 😂
As the guy said, *Togruta women die more than once* 😂
“Why is Zeb not here?”
If I had to guess the reason…
VFX Budget cuts.
There it is!
same reason why there have literally been no showing of alien mandalorians throughout basically 4 seasons of the Mandolorian and Boba fett 😢
@futz1llaYeah, I noticed that partway through s2 myself. Had to ask, “wait, if they’re just picking up and raising abandoned kids from around the galaxy, why is every mandolorian human? …are mandolorian’s racist?”
Disney has 500 morbillion dollars to throw at every project they have, you'd think some of it would show up in the VFX department
@linuxwizzerd5908 son demasiado tacaños para hacer algo bien.
“Don’t you have a son!?”
Yes but I’m Dave’s head Ashoka was always Anikins favorite child
You know what would’ve been infinitely more interesting?
Sabine knowing that she HAS to doom Ezra to being lost forever, in order to keep Thrawn away… but she fights to stop Thrawn anyway.
In order to protect the galaxy, she has to sacrifice her friend. It weighs on her heavily.
She fails. Morgan gets to Thrawn. Sabine meets Ezra. Now she has to admit to him that the only reason they’re meeting is because she failed her mission to keep him in exile.
And then you know what could happen? Ezra could tell her she made the right choice to sacrifice him to stop Thrawn.
There. Sabine is still a hero and Ezra is as well. Ezra still gets to come home, Sabine still has regret, but her character isn’t damaged.
This is the most obvious thing to write (this does not make it bad; it makes it good, in fact). Yet, this fool wrote some pure nonsense and complete trash.
Brilliant! Simple yet honors all characters.
Yes, but apparently as soon as you start working at Lucasfilm and/or for Kathleen Kennedy, you lose all common sense when it comes to write anything good in Star Wars. Except for Andor, because Tony Gilroy is a competent writer.
Also I like to write "and/or" in a sentence. Because Andor.
Andor is great. I love Andor.
Andor.
@xallive4123I like to think that was how they made his character, some board room where there they were like;
"what's our main cast for Rogue 1?"
"Well Cassian, And/or..."
"Great, but we need a strong female..."
"Jen, ...er so-(m)..."
*steeples hands while interrupting* "Exxxxcellent... Something something dark side something something something complete."
🤯They couldnt have ever thoguht of that, nah no way
I used to be a Filoni fan until I took a Bad Batch to the knee. They were the most flat, stereotypical archetype style characters. On top of that, Filoni forgot to even use their niche talents. When Echo returned, he either stepped on every character's toes, serving as the leader, the soldier, and the tech expert or was useless. When Filoni stepped away to focus on Live Action, Bad Batch's quality improved significantly. They even got rid of Echo and began using each character's talent set again. It is clear Filoni was dragging the story down. I think Lucas kept him in line. Sam Witwer and Favreau have proved better at knowledge of lore and storytelling too.
@BungieStudios Hunter is like Solid Snake if Solid Snake had nothing cool, interesting, charismatic, or generally likable about him
You got the smart guy, the strong guy, and the leader guy. They are archetypes more than actual characters
I like how the Bad Batch even ruined the inhibitor chips conception. It's controversal and I dont like it, but the way it works was clear and simple at least, putting the clones on "default settings" so they could kill the jedi and do whatever the Palpy will say without hesitations.
After that show I have absolutely no idea how they work, it feels like they start to work only when the writers want to
Thank you for addressing the fact that Rosario Dawson was wasted in this. I don't understand how Disney keeps taking these talented actors and just directs them so badly you'd think they were first year drama students. Who is making these choices!?!?!?
Producers who used to get coffee for Lucas and Spielberg, yet have never had any talent, creativity, or vision of their own. And C-suite apple shiners like Iger.
I really don't get where people get this from. She's so bland in everything I've ever seen her in.
Maybe do sum about it 😂
I've seen her good in maybe one movie lol, she's always been a brick
The retcons are so stupid. Characters are reset, with Sabine being the worst example. The entire Rebels S4 ending is also recontextualized. And the worst part is parts are completely backwards. Hera participated in the Battle of Lothal and its liberation and saw Thrawn & Ezra disappear. Ahsoka was absent from that. Why is Ahsoka the one believing Thrawn is alive, but Hera believes Thrawn died in the battle? Why?
Because Filoni himself said that continuity is for suckers. "Aw, it's all campfire stories. In this one, Hera watched them disappear! But in the story being told in Ahsoka, she wasn't there at all!" Actually, Filoni being Filoni, his example was the color of Ahsoka's lightsaber at a given time. Because the man literally cannot have a thought about Star Wars without putting his waifu at the forefront.
I just hope the body pillow is a picture of ADULT Ahsoka.
@moffjendob6796 his Ahsoka in Ahsoka is a physical manifestation of his Ahsoka body pillow. Lifeless and still acting, with no personality
He's probably holding his body pillow with his arm crossed and a smirk on his face... Wait
@AlphaAurora it seems he threw his OC into the dumpster by creating that show.
@moffjendob6796 Filoni, from what ive heard, has just said its ok if star wars continuity is slightly changed if the creator deems it better for the story and that across mediums the stories shouldn't have to be exactly the same; he isn't saying continuity is for suckers. From what I know, most times Filoni himself has changed continuity, besides depa bilabas lightsaber color and obiwans hair in TOTJ, make sense for the story, although I admit I havent read the Ahsoka novel which he retconned parts of. Also, in the Ahsoka show, it's easy to assume that Hera thinks Thrawn died (and probably Ezra too) because they both went into hyperspace dragged by a bunch of space whales (and Hera reacts like she assumed Ezra was dead when she sees him at the end of the season). Also while Filoni does seem attached to the character of ahsoka by not wanting to make her die in TCW and making her alive during the OT era which doesnt make a lot of sense, that doesnt make her his "waifu". That implies he is perverted about her when he has actually shown the opposite; in shows by him featuring ahsoka following the original run of the TCW, he has made her less sexualized by her outfits whereas originally she was sexualized in a tube top and mini skirt because Lucas specifically made her have that outfit.
They should just make "Luke, did I ever tell you about Ashoka Tano?" Cannon
"And she was a friend."
A fine piece of jailbait from a more civilized age. Barely legal in most systems
A fine piece of jailbait from a more civilized age
@bigloopsie I regret looking up what "jailbait" means.
@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κGotta be careful doing that friend 😂
I just find it really funny how a portion of the people who said Andor was “too boring and was just people talking, bricks and screws, etc” went on to act like this show didn’t just have extremely monotonous pacing in some scenes for no good reason
literally the most annoying part of the show besides all the plot holes and wooden dialogue and useless fan service
Theyve been fed with enough member-berries to drug them out of realising the wooden lines and mannequin-like expressions in the show
When you're dead inside and filled with consoomer placeholders, all it takes is a little 'member berry key jangling fan service. Rabid partisan apologists are what this low effort content churn nonsense is for.
Star Wars theory is a clown
Andor's pacing is gold compared to Ahsoka's. As is the acting. And the writing. And...well, nearly everything...
Filoni had no problem having Hera take the kid along because he knows nothing will happen to them. Plot armor is basically just a given at this point
if the character isn't being talked about or on screen then they don't exist
The point about Ahsoka disappearing in front of Vader makes me think of when he's stepping on Obi-Wan's cloths, thinking to himself "What the fuck, again?"
"WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME?"
Why did Moff Gideon need to clone himself to force sensitive users if he could just learn it and "the force resides in all living things"?
Disney: "Don't ask questions and just consume!".
Imagine that scene where Sabine pranked Shin by sticking her hand out but instead of Shin (for whatever Filoni reason) bracing for a force push she reacted and tried a counter-push Sabine, inadvertently calling her bluff and and fucking idk, breaking her spine?
Simple
One writer makes prety good show
One writer says Fuck you to the first writer and makes an idea wich ruins the first writing
Because he didn't have any mentor who could teach him that I think
@terrified5.7Honestly I’m not sure why Shin ran away from Sabine instead of going for the kill. Especially since she knew Sabine didn’t have the force.
It's almost as if having a single person coming up with ideas with no resistance or people telling you no is always a bad idea.
Works for me though!
just kidding :D
@chrisstorrer I mean yeah I personally am also the exception but everyone else's ideas no.
Hmmmm.... It's almost as if it rhymes..
It’s never a bad idea.
I'd assume ahsoka would of trained Luke seeing as she was probably the most available teacher around after Yoda died
I'm getting a little tired of this pattern where a new Star Wars show comes out and then it tells an underwhelming story but has an episode somewhere in the middle of the season where some unrelated characters and events pop up that are supposed to set up another show, and then the "promise" of the future makes people overlook how completely lackluster the show itself was. Mando teased Ahsoka and Boba Fett, Boba Fett teased Mando and Luke, Ahsoka teased Anakin and the Clone Wars. They keep breadcrumbing the audience and they keep eating up the same shit every time.
It's from the MCU playbook
I still don’t know why book odds boba fett exists. Couldn’t tell you anything important that happened
@meyeneetuks4680 the only important things that happened were important to a completely different show and most likely confused the SHIT out of anyone who went into Mando S3 without watching BOBF
Thanks Sheev. Sorry your dude threw you down the reactor shaft. Glad to see you recovered.
Creamy Sheev’s at it again. Uniting the galaxy behind his empire
Somehow Sheev has returned
After every video his current closest friend throws him down a reactor shaft. Dread it. Run from it. It’s still gonna happen no matter what
Ahsoka has become so important to the narrative of Star Wars, it almost feels like she’s fulfilling the role of a Mary Sue. AND BEFORE ANYONE SAYS THIS, I’M NOT SAYING AHSOKA IS A MARY SUE, ONLY THAT SHE FILLS THE SPACE OF ONE!!!
Her importance to the story is warping the narrative space around her. She has become so important to Vader’s story that she’s rivaling Obi-wan in relevance. If the OT didn’t exist, Ahsoka would’ve been the one to redeem Anakin Skywalker. But because those pesky movies exist, she isn’t allowed to overtake them, no matter how much it would make sense in the broader context.
And even in the context of the OT, you’d think Ahsoka would’ve been interested to meet the Rebel who destroyed the Death Star the second she realized he was Luke SKYWALKER!!! The second she’d have heard his name, nothing would’ve been more important. Meeting the son of her former master would’ve been a game changer for her. And yet, she was nowhere to be found. She never met him, even when every fiber of her character should’ve been rushing to meet the Son of Anakin and Padme.
But her biggest problem is that her story isn’t allowed to end because both the fans and writers love her too much to let her go. So instead of sailing into the West, like all good Paragons should, she lingers in this world, fading from relevance yet never removing herself from the spotlight.
As much as it pains me to say it, I agree with Creamy Sheev. Ahsoka should’ve died in the Sith Temple fighting Vader.
She's a mary sue
@achoumachi6695she wasn’t in like the first 5 seasons of the clone wars. She had challenges, had losses, got injured, sick, kidnapped, almost killed, and is stupid. The second she appeared in mando s2, then she became a Mary Sue
@Everseer_1 She beat Maul, she's as strong as Vader and even hurt him, destroyed Boba Fett’s Slave One, stood up to Grievous, defeated number of clones during order 66, was almost always right on everything, beat many inquisitors. She’s always been a mary sue
Bro can't tell the difference between Mary Sue vs woman who is badly written and tries to justify it with "fills the space of a Mary Sue"
@ I might add that in the tales of the jedi, she tames at baby, the beast who terrorized her village. She seems to be the chosen one
I actually really liked the fact that sabine betrayed everyone. I thought it was a great subversion with real potential for character tension and a potential fall of sabine to darkness.
Aaaaand then they just ignored everything and said 'oopsie daisy'. God damn this show.
Right? This show really could have been so much more if the writing was even mediocre. Imagine if in the years where Ezra was gone, Sabine became increasingly lonely and brooding, pushing away friends and mentors and focusing only on the empty spot in her heart. It'd make sense why she'd take the map to begin with, try to rekindle her apprenticeship to Ahsoka and go with her to recover the map (even though a lot of things still don't make sense). It would have been amazing to portray her slowly succumbing to heightening emotions and stakes, giving in to Baylan's offer despite being wrecked by witnessing Ahsoka "die" and going along if only because there is a chance that she can get back the thing she missed most.
The scene of her finding Ezra really should have been an extremely resonant and poignant emotional scene, contrasting Sabine's sheer elation and joy with Ezra being mortified that his sacrifice and exile has been ruined by her making it possible for Thrawn's return. This of course is just my idea, and doesn't touch on the innumerable other problems that would need fixing in this story, but Sabine's arc could very much have been a marked high point of enjoyment had it been handled well.
@PWH_19 to even add on to this, the betrayal of Sabine could have given Ashoka an actual internal conflict to overcome and actually give her an arc. Allowing Ashoka to have credence to not wanting to train Sabine, making her feel as if she is making a mistake in attempting to train someone too old and too attached. Similar to the councils reluctance to train Anakin in episode 1 which eventually brought the entire Jedi order to fall and the empire to grow in its ashes. hell you can even throw in a few lines from Huyang about how training someone like Sabine is against the jedi code if you want to give yourself a victory lap and bash the similarities over the audiences head.
And now you have Sabine, which she trained by Ashoka giving into her emotions and being selfish. Wanting to find Ezra no matter the cost to the galaxy at large over being an actual Jedi. Ashoka could be crippled by the realization that she might have made the same mistakes that led to Anakin.
Hell, if you really want to go into this, maybe even make Sabine have an arc of while shes trying to learn how to use the force, give her internal conflict with the dark side while your at it, if done properly it might even work!
Instead what we got was a large waste of time. Practically all we have is every single character having regression throughout the entire show, actually we dont even have that considering every single character has haphazard "arcs" which lead nowhere. They make bad decisions, yet dont have any of the consequences imposed on them. I think there is one line that can highlight this show. and that is a quote from Episode 9: "somehow, Palpatine returned"
I mean, it's of course they're own fault either way but some of this is due to the larger problem of having to conform to things they produced beforehand but set afterwards. This same issue is very evident in the prequels. The Jedi had to be made completely brain dead to make their near extinction believable so the OT can even happen.
Yeah, it's ok to let characters fall from grace, but there have to be consequences. It would have been awesome, if Asoka tear her a new one for that stupid decision, or if Ezra were angry at her for demining his sacrifice. Wtf?
The way Ashoka comes off when talking to her you'd think that Sabine had just spilled milk because Ashoka's reaction is just so nonchalant.
The best way to describe episode 5 is just, "DID YOU KNOW THAT MANANAKIN IS VADUR????!!!" And all the shills clapped.
"He VaDeReD!!"
@camillecunningham7348 _ignites lightsaber_
"Red. That's RED!"
“I clapped when I saw Darth Vader!”
“Lightsaber…”
"It's Vaderin time"
HE VADERED ALL OVER THE PLACE DUDE
19:12 It is... interesting that two of the most well-known wise men of fantasy fiction (Gandalf and Dumbledore), whether you take them in their paper or film versions, are able to express a wide range of emotions, while still remaining authoritarian figures.
The Nightsisters really bug me
In the original "Courtship of Princess Leia", the Nightsisters just had telekinesis and lightning. They could use it incredibly well, and incredibly powerfully, but the counter was that they needed rituals to focus enough to do it, and it took a massive toll on the body, causing constant bruising and broken limbs (the term nightsister coming from the black blotches of bruising)
That worked because it was a natural extension of the preexisting powers
The Nightsisters here are just doing whatever. And there's nothing that kills stakes quicker than pulling abilities out of nowhere
My interpretation of the Nightsisters, originally, was that their power was _bound to Dathomir._ Like, yes, they are insanely powerful, but that power it bound to Dathomir through the "ichor" that seems to be unique to that world. They can project that power outward, but it is somewhat limited by needing to be cast very deliberately by a very powerful witch in time consuming and draining rituals. There's still a lot of problems, but they are mitigated _somewhat_ by these things.
Yes, they can use their crystal ball to locate anyone they want, but it requires someone of Mother Talzin's power to use and must be done from Dathomir. Yes, Talzin is crazy powerful, but her power comes from her being imbued with the ichor that is only on Dathomir and her ability to leave and use her power elsewhere is limited because that power drains the longer she is away from it (I don't think that "isn't sensitive to the force like a Jedi or Sith" line means she doesn't feel the force at all on her own, I think it means more that the way she uses the force is just completely different from how they do.) Yes, Talzin can use voodoo on Dooku, but I'm pretty sure that this was only possible because (either or both) 1) Talzin had actually met him in person and 2) Ventriss had a bond of sorts with him that could be exploited to accomplish this (I don't remember exactly how it went down, but I have a fuzzy memory of Ventriss needing to focus on him or something like that for Talzin to cast the spell). Like, if someone came to them and just said, "Hey, can you voodoo Palpatine for us?" she wouldn't be able to because she doesn't have any connection to him personally or even through someone else to grab hold of.
I'm pretty sure that none of this is explicitly stated in The Clone Wars, by the way, but this was just my casual interpretation and it still _could_ have been clarified as such by later works. Like, I'm not a fanboy of the Nightsisters who has been sitting around trying to think of this shit, it's just sort of what my thoughts on them were on viewing. I'm still writing this in my head for the fucking show, but I think it's at least a reasonable interpretation that _could_ have been validated by later works or at least replaced with an explanation that was as acceptable without breaking the world building.
But it looks like this was all just thrown right out the fucking window with Ahsoka, though, so it doesn't matter. It's super obvious that Dave Filoni just wanted to have the cool green ghost sword in live action and so that's what happened and whatever fuck it, right? It's a shame because with the right creative limitations placed on them, the Nightsisters have the potential to be a super cool addition to the Star Wars lore. I love the addition of a new evil faction to the Star Wars galaxy that _isn't_ the Sith and that don't _really_ have megalomaniacal ambitions for power and total control and all that noise. I like them as hermit witches who mostly just want to be left the fuck alone and don't really want to have to cooperate or even deal with outsiders unless they're forced to. I think an important limitation on their power is the fact that dealing with them is dangerous, and that danger only grows the longer you are in contact with them because they are treacherous, fiercely isolationist, and are _completely uninterested_ in the ambitions and opinions of outsiders. Having groups of Nightsisters that are allied to imperial remnants/ Thrawn/ anyone else breaks this. The way it should be is that every time you deal with them, you are rolling the die and if you keep playing that game you _will_ lose.
@Kevin_Narthex idk Ik the Jedi games are different but even then Merrin's Magic looks far better than whatever these 4 are using in the show. The direction there was "Yeah point at the ball and we'll do it in post" and then they lit a Bunsen Burner underneath it.
The way they're presented here is consistent with how they were portrayed in the Clone Wars series. So at least there's that consistency. But it's probably been 30 years since I read Courtship of Princess Leia so I'd forgotten how they were portrayed there.
The understanding in the Courtship of Princess Leia novel (By the way I still chuckle at how Han asked Threepio for advice and at one time Threepio even made a song praising Han) The Nightsisters are in fact darkside Force wielders, and that over the years they largely forgot or converted their conception of their connection to the Force as instead being one of magic and incantation and rituals.
Filoni and his ilk no doubt skimmed through it or heard of the Nightsisters through 3rd or 4th hand comments and decided to run with the magic idea, with the blessings of KK no doubt.
My fav part was that they can use their power to sense where Ahsoka is on the planet but never sensed Ezra.
I swear some of the newer star wars stuff just sounds like things I would have come up with playing with legos years ago
High-budget fanfiction (just not the good kind) :D
This show should have been animated.
Change my mind.
Still would be bad because the writing
@IronheartvsMiles true, but it would be more better.
I think you're right. I was feeling the same way seeing all these clips. I don't think the actors did a bad job, but none of them quite look right either. And the combat looks so meh in this.
Yeah and have better writing
@Isaacisaperson4677 yes.
The butchering of thrawn is horrible. Never let anyone but Timathy Zahn write this character.
Amen to that
I don't know man, I read the books when I was younger, watched the shows, read the new books from Timothy Zahn (not Timanthy, don't know that guy) and saw the Ahsoka show and I thought Thrawn was pretty spot on. I'm reading this as a prelude and I'm pretty sure we'll witness him in all his splendour in the follow up. It's easy to be pissed, but the current medium is builded about the idea that one part of a story is not meant to encompass the whole saga. In that regard, it is indeed pretty different from what I consider to be the golden age of EU SW,
@floflo6660if you thought Ahsoka thrawn was “spot on” then you have awful reading comprehension or didn’t actually read the books. Exactly the IQ level filoni is writing for
Yes, it's a shame considering how delicatly and carfully he used pre-existing characters like Luke, Leia, Han etc. He dosn't try to mutilate, recaracterize them or in any way put his 'stamp' on them, his new characters are his unique creation and satisfy him. But on the other hand dont let him anywhere near the plot, the number of Mcguffins he uses would actually make modern StarWars writers blush. I thought Thrawn was writen spot on in Rebels, always ahead of the game, ruthless and only undone by insubordinate subordinates and Force magic.
Also watching a video by a racist is horrible and letting him make more money
My 6 year old lego toy lore be like:
Oi, my Lego lore was WAY better than this, I take offence to that- most five year olds were better than THIS
@ThomasGeytenbeek speaking personally, my five year old lego lore was awful so perhaps I'm unlike most. My ten year old lego lore on the other hand was masterful stuff, no notes.
Whats not to understand? Anakin just really liked Live or Die (2012) Directed by Russel Clay
If Thrawn had just shot Sabine, he literally would've won with zero losses. And maintained every advantage. Just putting that out there. You know, if he were an actual genius strategist. And that's what I hated the most.
Idk I think it was smart of him using her to find him. For all he knows he still has access to the space whales and can hinder any escape attempt he would make.
Although Ezra being shockingly easy to find does make her usefulness minor
@wisdommanari6701 But he knows where the space whales come and go. He has the Great Mothers, who's ancestors first "rode" them. And Ezra wouldn't have had any idea that Thrawn was attempting to escape the planet if Sabine hadn't told him. Thrawn wouldn't have to care about Ezra escaping, and even if he did manage it, assuming Thrawn didn't manage to shoot Ahsoka's ship beforehand, he would have no way to use the space whales to get them to the known galaxy anyway because their ship is fucked. Ahsoka wouldn't have been able to find Ezra with Sabine dead, and Ezra wouldn't be able to take the news of Thrawn returning with zombie magic to the new republic. He wouldn't have had to needlessly sacrifice troops, wouldn't have had to lose his second in command and her magic sword, since Baylan and Shin would've kept Ahsoka busy long enough for Thrawn to make a clean getaway. If Thrawn shot Sabine in the head when she was defenseless and at his mercy, it would have solved all his problems before they even began.
So no, it was absolutely braindead to let Sabine live.
Did Thrawn escape exile? Yes. Did he strand Sabine and Ahsoka with no way back, killing the Hyperspace Whales? Yes. Thrawn won. And he did it without killing a single person.
@cancerconnoisseur it also would be out of character. He doesn't do revenge he doesn't murder helpless prisoners or hold grudges. Now if they want to establish as him being that kind of person now so be it.
@AzguardMikehe did, however, sacrifice a fair number of his troops to do it.
There seems to be a sort of underlying narcissism in Dave Filoni’s work. Everything he makes must be central to the core narrative of Star Wars. His work has a parasitic relationship to the main saga; he never makes anything truly original, only ever working in the shadow of another movie or novel made by far more talented writers (Heir to the Empire, OT, PT, etc.); but always, he tries to recontextualize those stories to place his characters at the narrative forefront. All of his OCs are kept alive inexplicably throughout the whole arc of the Skywalker story; often times long after their arcs have reached a natural and satisfactory ending point. Stylistically he relies far too heavily upon callbacks and cameos to keep his stories engaging. He constantly talks about George’s mentorship over him to give people the impression that he is a sort of inheritor to the Star Wars legacy, which legitimizes his fan-fiction. When he wants to be taken more seriously, he parrots the aesthetics of greater respected works like Blade Runner or Akira Kurosawa’s filmography, but always misses what made those films truly special. This became clearer than ever to me with Tales of the Jedi, a darker, self-serious series which attempted to paint itself as mature political and moral commentary (According to Filoni, long, drawn out scenes with no dialogue means his work is deep. He continues this gimmick in Ahsoka). However Ahsoka was released in the shadow of Andor, and when you directly compare how these two works approach the same themes, the surface-level nature of his writing becomes incredibly apparent.
Let us also not forget how completely hypocritical Filoni is when it comes to the treatment of writers' original characters. He's against anyone else writing for his own OC's (Ahsoka novel) and demonstrates this in his Tales of the Jedi retcons, yet he'll gladly take another writer's OC (Thrawn) and butcher their character beyond recognition. Filoni has a knack for taking once beloved characters and making them into shells of their former selves to bolster his preferred characters (what he did to Barriss to make Ahsoka look better is a prime example of this). But that's what you have to do when you don't have talent.
And my favourite, make Grievous a fool cartoonish villian so he can't kill Ahsoka twice
Legends canon carrying
wow just wow. thank you, this is true.
@anonymus5592who does grievous defeat in rots?
I always figured Filoni has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. People with this disorder are unable to self-examine and lack empathy and emotional depth. True to this, his characters lack emotional depth and he only seems to imitate other shows when he does their arcs, rather than create an arc that would take real emotional understanding.
Thank you a thousand times for saying Sabine’s core of who she is was assassinated in this show.
The point you make about Filoni's writing at around the 8:30 mark is telling to me. Filoni is supposed to be the inheritor of all things Lucas when Filoni, amongst his other problems, does something Lucas almost never engaged in: write ambiguous dialogue. Lucas was always clear in his writing and his characters always spoke about things in unambiguous ways (with the possible exception of Obi-Wan talking about Anakin/Vader at times). Filoni's character dialogue is nothing but ambiguity and unnecessary secret-keeping for the sake of creating false tension. It's incredibly aggravating.
I'm not sure I agree. You might be right with the prequels but I feel like there were tons of ambiguous dialogue in the OT. From "size matters not", to Palpatine wanting Luke to "strike him down".
Those examples seem pretty clear; when Yoda is telling Luke “Size matters not” he’s training him to use the force on larger objects; and Palpatine is asking Luke to attack him when he says “strike me down” trying to turn him to the dark side
Pretentious is the word you're looking for.
Filoni is NOT the inheritor of George Lucas. Lucas never wanted Ahsoka to survive past Revenge of the Sith. All Filoni has done is shit all over Lucas work with his own OC characters.
My favorite thing about this show is how the fans put their media literacy on hold for a few weeks to theorize who Marrok is, when he's literally named after a zombie from Arthurian legend, foreshadowing his ending. The fanbase in the early 2010s would have caught that detail.
Ohhhh neat. See, I didn’t know that.
leonrussell9607 perfect metaphor on the irresponsibility of speculation.
Nah people caught that shit, I just didn’t want it to be something as stupid as zombies lmao.
leonrussell9607For real, when I saw he was just a fart in a suit after seeing all that Starkiller theory bullshit I laughed so fucking hard lol. I can't blame them that much though, when all they're being given is table scraps.
That was literally in every theory video i saw so ok? Maybe you watch trash content? Case in point ur here in these comments.
Technically going to hell would be a "religious experience", too.
Thanks to Disney (and especially Dave Filoni), Ahsoka has more relevance to the Star Wars universe than Luke Skywalker. I mean, even his dad chose to abandon him to watch over Ahsoka instead.
She's the retconned chosen one
Haven't you heard? The Force is female. Luke has to swap gender in order to stay relevant.
I blame JJ Abrams. He wiped out Luke's jedi and brought back Palpatine so his OC (Rey) could be the one to kill the Emperor, Destroy the sith, and restore the jedi.
On top of that she gets everyone's lightsaber, the Falcon, Red 5, etc. And she's also another desert planet hero who is the secret offspring of a sith lord (so creative)
What Filoni did with Ahsoka is child's play compared to the damage Abrams and Johnson did.
I like how in this entire franchise, the most important character just literally isn't touched at all other than taking away Grogu which turned out to be for nothing.
@heebiejeebies4625 Yeah, even the Jedi Knight series did him more justice and there he is just a cameo. Well, a cameo that made sense, one with purpose and an integral part of the plot. In Jedi Academy he is closer to being a supporting character and the story is kinda weak. But not because of Luke. And it never contradicts itself or spits on the canon.
Who could have imagined back in 2003 that old timer Luke would just throw his father's lightsaber over his shoulder? After not seeing it for 30+ years. Or indeed, try to kill his nephew. Ridiculous.
Dave Filoni has proven that he doesn't care about continuity as long as he gets to tell his story and will throw as many distracting nostalgic bait onto the screen to hide the fact he is willfully and gleefully shredding Star Wars all so he can get his Ahsoka fetish. He is truly Rian 2.0.
If anything, Filoni is to Star Wars what Ian Flynn is to Sonic : a narcissistic, overrated hack who only relies on memberberries, pushing his lousy OCs, and misrepresenting the core characters time and time again.
He’s been doing that crap since TCW but everyone wants to fanboy over that mediocre show.
@jesuspernia8031 Only took some time after Lucas was out of the picture and too much of the audience held onto the hope that things could get better when that was never gonna happen.
This time though, he's been caught red handed with no excuses to save him. His luck and the goodwill given finally ran out.
The true problem isn't Rian or Filoni. The problem is the person who consistently selects these people to work on Star Wars.
@smugplush I was fine with her being gone during Rebels. I thought that put a nice bow on her character. Now though? She's definitely overstayed her fucking welcome. Like I said in an earlier comment. I just want Star Wars to...go away for a while. I'm so sick of it. Give people time to miss it. Like, at least a decade and a half, maybe two, then if you wanna do more with SW? Be my fucking guest. Maybe this IP will learn to grow up a bit if it has time away. Doubtful though. It's currently not capable of telling any mature and intelligent stories. Just nostalgia baiting and fan fiction.
Luke would have heard of the almost-jedi rebel who was his father's apprentice and he would want to talk to her about him!
I know it's needless to say at this point, but Dave's obsession over Ahsoka is honestly pretty scary at this point. Ahsoka's arc came to its natural conclusion during Rebels S2. I know she didn't technically die there (as Sheev says you can clearly see here in the ending and the stupid World Between Worlds), but still. Dave literally invented time travel just to save her and now she's just literally wandering around the galaxy doing who knows what. She should've just been killed then and there as there was nothing more for her character. Look, I get it. Dave is very proud of Ahsoka. They essentially entered the Star Wars Universe "together" and that's what forms his connection to her. But there comes a point where pride turns into toxic obsession. And Dave has far beyond crossed that point. In the past, Dave was held back from unleashing the worst side of his writing because he had George and others keeping him in check. But now, he's been given far too much power and he's revealed himself as the hack writer, member berries dependent he is. So much for the saviour of Star Wars. 11 years of crap from Disney is the best we've got.
This is like when potterheads point out the obsession of the screenwriter Steve Kloves with Hermione (don't get me wrong, I love her) by giving her the lines that other characters said in the book, he said to Rowling that Mione was his favorite character, so...
Heck, even him retroactively explaining why Ahsoka wasn’t in Revenge of the Sith doesn’t make much sense when you think about it. First, she survived in a duel against Darth Maul and actually beats him when Jedi Knights with far more tenure, like Qui-Gon, struggled and/or died against him. Then you have her surviving Order 66 on a Republic Venator surrounded by clones programmed to kill her, managing to deflect all the blaster bolts shot her way when the likes of Ki-Adi could withstand far less, and surviving the ship crashing against all odds because the plot demanded it.
@curiousguyontheinternet9023 To be fair to Ki-Adi he was surprised and shot out of nowhere, similar to how Plo Koon died.
@curiousguyontheinternet9023ashoka did board a y wing at the last minute to survive the ship crashing
It's interesting that Filoni would take great pains to put Ahsoka, the character he created, out there in full force, all the while destroying the character created by Zahn, that of the far more intriguing and relatable Thrawn.
Almost as if Filoni was jealous of Zahn and was determined to fuck him over in whatever manner he saw fit, by literally pulling the Epic Movie scene, where Peter has the magical remote, freezes the White B-itches Army so that he and his pathetic adopted siblings could cheat kill the bad guys.
Ezra and Hera's "heartfelt reunion" was one of the most eggregious moments for me, this is the boy she took under her wing, convinced Kanan to train, fought alongside him for years and believed him dead and gone like Kanan. WHY DID SHE JUST STAND THERE?!?!
Let alone Ezra's "Dramatic Reveal" of flying in on a stolen ship STILL WEARING the fucking Stormtrooper Armor. Like he probably didn't change armor and instantly throw his clothes out so he probably could have changed on the way back or commed in saying "Hey I am Ezra Bridger." but instead he decides to slowly walk down the ramp with his helmet on and only takes it off when Chopper rolls up to him. Doesn't even say "Thrawn is coming" or anything he just kinda stares smugly at them
Maybe the writers were self aware enough to realize they couldn't write an appropriate and emotional reunion scene, so they just didn't.
So, here's the thing:
Anyone can learn to play the piano. Anyone.
But not everyone has the skill to be a concert pianist.
To quote Charles Winchester from MASH:
"Don’t you see? Your hand may be stilled, but your gift cannot be silenced if you refuse to let it be... The gift does not lie in your hands. I have hands, David. Hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life I wanted to play, but I do not have the gift. I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music.
"You have performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. Even if you never do so again, you’ve already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live. Because the true gift is in your head and in your heart and in your soul.
"Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share your gift with the world--through the baton, the classroom, or the pen. As to these works, they’re for you, because you and the piano will always be as one."
I couldn't stop laughing when Sabine told Ezra that Ahsoka took her as her Padawan and he says why because he knows like everyone else she can't use the force
Ezra: Why?
Sabine: Cause Filoni wrote it in the script.
Well, she can't be a formal padawan because 1. Ahsoka was never a Master and 2. Ahsoka left the order entirely, so expecting it to be the same as past relationships would not make much sense anyway.
This video is infinitely more entertaining and well thought out than all of Ahsoka. Sweet Jebus.
That doesn't say much though. It's like saying, "This tastes better than a shit sandwich." lol
@Nevir202 "Infinitely" can't be further emphasized.
@themetalchica Okay but my point still stands. Pasta with no sauce is still infinitely more tasty than a poop pot pie, in that it isn't revolting. :-p
@Nevir202 66 people disagree.
Regarding Marek, the director of the episode was interviewed, made reference to Kurosawa films as inspiration and mentioned the blood spatter seen in said samurai encounters. But of course since Disney Wars is PG, blood was off the menu. So the director and Feloni then decided 'hey! since we can't do blood, why not use smoke!' and so the green fart death was born.
All those theories people had about Marek... way more effort went into it than Feloni and co made. Marek was just another mystery box 'rule of cool' character with no thought beyond the spectacle level applied to it.
Leslye Headland _also_ mentioned Kurosawa when talking about the disaster that was The Acolyte. Maybe Disney should keep their Star Wars creatives away from him because they obviously have NO IDEA what makes his movies so good.
@BiggieTrismegistus 'Creatives' who try to ape real artist's to give their own puddle deep mimicry a veneer of sophistication without any true understanding of what gave those previous works their depth and appeal....
I knew there were robots in star wars. I just didnt expect every character to be one. Why are they all so freaking stoic.
The actual droids are significantly less stoic
Hollywood's idea of a "strong women" is nothing but a woman who exhibits the traits of "toxic masulinity". They can't show _any_ emotion except maybe anger on occasion.
Mark my words people, Filoni's prepping Thrawn to be force-sensitive.
Darth Thrawn LOL
Everyone is force sensitive. It's like a participation trophy.
Timothy Zahn forbid him to do that so it's probably gonna happen. F*ck Dave.
Dave "Oprah" Filoni: "...and you get the force, and you get the force"
He can’t. Only female Chiss are force sensitive…
59:56 I hate how butchered the night sisters are, in fallen order Merrin all but confirms that Raising the dead and low distance teleporting are her most advanced abilities until game 2, where she still isn’t as overpowered as talsin, and only once has green lightning in what could’ve been a visual bug that I witnessed, so the games gave her clear limits, her use of the force also prompts ranged attacks which is amazing as a concept, the force has always been used as telekinesis and not much else before Disney
When talking about that Sabine/Thrawn scene where he "wouldn't understand," ironically the backstory of Thrawn is that he sacrificed being a part of Chiss society in order to protect them from the burgeoning external threats of the Empire and potential Extragalactic invaders. Thrawn knows all about sacrifice in order to protect what you love.
Edit: This is covered in the video around 39:00
Simple “The plot demands it”
Honestly they should've let ahsoka die in her fight against Vader to save Ezra. That would've left her on a high note and not fuck with the lore.
Exactly
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The producer's waifu cannot die. She cannot fail. She is immortal. She is eternal. All glory to the Ahsoka, the Great Orange Thread That Binds the Universe Together.
Such a shame, man, honestly
@moffjendob6796😂😂😂
Forget the fact that the show is telling us that Thrawn is a threat to the galaxy... in the moment where Sabine strikes a deal with Baylan, she just watched Ahsoka get knocked off a cliff. Baylan likely just killed Ahsoka for all Sabine knew. The fact that she would strike a deal with the man who just murdered her mentor and friend is sociopathic. The only way any of Sabine's actions make sense is if she is canonically an actual psychopath.
Yeah I thought she was going to the dark side when she did that
Have you seen her new haircut?
Nothing psychopathic about realizing if Ahsoka couldn't beat the guy, she couldn't either, and she might as well let him take her to Ezra and reassess from there
@realQuestion ...except she gets taken prisoner right away and if the series had actual writing instead of the trash it got, she would be dead the second she faced Thrawn. She should have retreated with the McGuffin. If they can't get to the new galaxy with the map and she holds it, there's still a chance to get Ezra back. Giving them the map is the absolute worse thing she could have done and the show lets her get away because it is absolute dog shit.
I don't understand _why_ everyone in the show thinks Thrawn is such a threat. I can understand worrying about an imperial general still being free but as far as the characters know there's nothing particularly dangerous about him. It's like everyone in show read the Heir to the Empire trilogy between Rebels and Ahsoka.
Why is it that RUclipsrs are way better at coming up with compelling stories and character development for free than professional writers making hundreds of thousands lol.
29:20 This, combined with Ahsoka's (let's charitably call it "subdued") reaction, is what killed the series for me. You would think this would be a slam-dunk - not only the characters seeing one another after so long, but the catharsis for the fans who wanted to know what happened to them 5 years after the show ended. It actually blows my mind that they chose this weirdly emotionally stilted tack.
And you can't say it's in the style of the OT: Luke was so excited to see Leia after blowing up the Death Star he called her by the wrong name. Even in the prequels Anakin, Padme, & Obi-Wan were permitted to express strong emotions. Just the most baffling decision.
17:33 that bloody smirk. Why is she smiling at the camera? Why does she look so pleased with herself? Cause she did something "cool" or "badass"? Cause murder is fun.
She looks like someone who just finished a dance routine at a talent show.
My first act after watching the Ahsoka finale back in October was to unsubscribe from Disney+, forever.
“The dreams… the nightmares… they’re finally… over.” ~ Fives
The thing with midichlorians is also that the movies never implied that they are what give you force powers directly, just that by some mechanism someone with a greater connection to the force, you will also attract a larger amount of these force-sensitive microbes. There can be a symbiotic relationship in play, maybe force sense is actually derived from how these microbes react to changes in the force, but a lot of people ran with the rather simpleminded idea that midichlorians are the force which I don't believe Lucas ever intended for them.
I always compared it to athletes. Some people are just born bigger, stronger and generally more physically superior so they have a higher ceiling
My head canon went with "correlation, not causality." That midis are just found in people strong in the force and used as a convenient testing method. Qui-gon was either dumbing it down to explain to child Anakin or he just held a fringe belief since the term is almost never used elsewhere.
Correct. They are a measuring stick, not the totality of the Force or something. Lucas did indeed have a strong interest in relating the Force to the microbiotic world, and had suggestions about more of that in his sequel ideas, but clearly the explanation of the Force is much bigger than this [unless someone thinks Mortis was made of midichlorians or something].
@kaleiohuyes I've always believed correlation is not causation, too. I figured it was more like gut bacteria. As in, different bacteria are found in different environments and can indicate specific conditions in their host. So, I dunno... Maybe midichlorians eat or farm the force and force sensitives have a higher concentration of the force interacting with their physical bodies (hence, luminous being are we) and thus find force-sensitive people more hospitable hosts. And the more force sensitive the more interaction between force and flesh and the more midichlorians are attracted and can be supported.
Not gonna lie: I was 26 when I saw TPM & the collective theatrical reaction to “midichlorian counts” was basically “We’re gonna pretend he never said that.”
Among SO VERY MANY other truly awful things about this terrible, terrible, excruciatingly boring show full of character assassination, the fact that Cassian Andor and Brasso had a more heartfelt reunion after not seeing each other for roughly TWO MONTHS than Ezra and Sabine did made me literally gape with horrified incredulity. Unbelievable.
Cassian and Brasso's reunion scene is literally one of the best scenes out of all SW television imo, it's absolutely heartbreaking.
Hardly heartfelt because it means nothing once Rogue One closes in. Open your eyes, it’s a trap! As in it’s stuck in Disney+.
@mazkeraid4039 What is with this "it doesn't matter because he dies in Rogue One" argument I keep seeing people use to dismiss Andor? I guess nothing in the Prequel trilogy matters because we already know what happens in the Original trilogy: the Empire takes over the galaxy so anything with the Republic or the Separatists doesn't matter; Obi-Wan dies; Anakin/Darth Vader dies; Palpatine dies; all the Jedi (as far as the movies are concerned) are already dead; Yoda dies. But even then, nothing in the OT matters anymore too, because in the Sequel Trilogy: Han dies; Luke dies; Leia dies; the New Republic basically dies (as in their main five planets? are destroyed); Palpatine comes back and dies again; you get my point. If all that ever lent weight to what happens in the story between characters or events was not knowing the outcome, nobody would have ever cared about anything Star Wars made after Return of the Jedi. If anything, knowing the outcome of a character's story and learning more of that character's story up to that point gives even more weight to how it finally ends; there are some amazing works of writing out there where you know the end from the very beginning.
Most baffling of all is how I've only ever seen this argument in regards to Andor. Never saw anyone say anything about the main movies or the Clone Wars or any other Star Wars production not mattering or meaning nothing because they already know that character X dies in Y. I can only assume it comes from people dismissing it out of hand because it's a secondary character in another prequel movie that they didn't care about to begin with, or it's out of jealousy that Andor was such a quality show when the rest of the shows that centered around fan-favourite characters were so abysmal in comparison.
I'm not the only one who is worried that Ahsoka can't die, right? And by can't die, I mean because she had her life restored by the Daughter of the force, Filoni might decide this means she literally CAN'T die. Or she can, but the force is working to prevent it and will keep her alive for as long as the force wants her to be alive. She's also hugely inspired by Gandalf, who is extremely difficult to kill in Middle Earth due to reasons I'm not going to pretend to fully understand because I am not versed in LotR lore.
I think we shouldn't be surprised if further down the timeline, Ahsoka is comically somehow still alive. Maybe Rey will meet her in the new movies and Ahsoka just shrugs, crosses arms, smirks, and gives a little "The Force works in mysterious ways." and that's that.
If Filoni is at the helm and has no one to help him steer, I wouldn’t be surprised if that actually happened
Anyone else notice how Filoni seemed to shift the blame for Jedi's genocide from the ones who actually did it (Palpatine and Anakin) to blaming the jedi themselves? As if fighting in a war where you can't be neutral is somehow their fault?
Also, Ahsoka forgiving Anakin so easily despite numerous atrocities (including nearly killing her) is kinda weird.
Oh, and the show not acknowledging that Sabine is a mando. I feel she would've fit the Darksaber plot in mando s3 better than Bo-Katan.
This show feels like several shows in a trenchcoat and none of them are fully formed.
Yeah, they turned the sacrifice and responsibilities of the Jedi into a conservative political party.
Actually, they are directly responsible for the clone wars happening, but not out of malicious intent. Dooku left the order and was allowed to set up an entire apposing faction, build a support network and recruit an entire clone army without any monitoring. Padme brought up that Dooku *might* be behind it that they simply dismissed as impossible. Then they turned up in force on Genosis, got most of their number present killed in a massive arena battle to rescue three trespassers on neutral space, therefore initiating the clone wars with an army that they hadn't any idea where it had came from.
The Jedi were responsible because they were ignorant and had completely lost interest in being actors of peace. They would've let Naboo stave to death in it's concentration camps because the Republic were slow in deliberation, and despite knowing there was Sith in the galaxy was no closer to investigating them 10 years later, and clearly hadn't even considered the prospect that one of their most senior, outspoken adversaries. Sure, by the time the clone wars started the separatists had long made up their mind that they were going to war, but the Jedi clearly hadn't done any homework prior to the conflict starting and... Just immediately got locked into a war they had no hope of ever winning.
Not watched the show, so I can't really comment on anything else, but I disagree that the Jedi weren't responsible, their lack of willingness to do the right thing nor monitor Dooku had ultimately lead to them being caught flat footed.
@alexanderhagle4520 this became very clear to me when I realized just how badly he handled Mace Windu during TCW
Finally someone with balls to praise midi chlorians understanding nuance and also criticizing in a very constructive and entertaining way great video
Idk why people hate the concept of midichlorians so much. Like, it isn't rare that a spiritual or religious dogma/concept/pratice can be explained by scientific means
As a kid I really disliked the midichlorians because I felt like it took the "mystique" and vaguely religious aspects of the Force and tried to quantify it in this seemingly normal, almost intrusive presence like a bacteria or something.
But as I've gotten older I've come to appreciate that it's fine to have something more physical like that as an explanation. I've bridged the mental gap to link the physical and the spiritual as a concept for what George was going for. Heck, in some ways it makes it cooler, because it's not just communing with the thought of life anymore, it's communing with ALL life, something universal that we can all share in, even when unknown.
I think it's fine to be able to put a number on that at this point, even if it doesn't really need it.
@0ctopusComp1etely I get your point but midi chlorians is the only concept that ends up explaining differences in force power or why there can be a chosen one or a jedi grand master. According to the more vague logic sabine could have the same potential as yoda and I do not really buy that.
@henriquenunes3255 Oh, I completely agree.
What I meant by it's fine to put a number on that is that not everyone is going to have the SAME midichlorians, or even be able to use what they do have the same/ effectively.
In real life people are different. In the same way that I can swim or go running, I'm never going to be as fast as an olympic medalist. And someone that doesn't have the right limbs or mental capabilities might not be able to do those things at all. People are different, and can't all do the same things.
I think the Force is the same concept, except... even more exclusive.
Which is why I also don't buy Sabine just suddenly clicking and being super capable. Maybe if they built up an internal revelation or something, and even then I don't think she should be very strong, but definitely not what we got.
@0ctopusComp1etely correct but the differences can always be described. Muscle fiber types, muscle mass, bone density, cardiovascular capacities and the list goes on. If the force is just "something that binds the galaxy together", there is no real explanation for why there are such huge discrepancies in affinity.
Sabine's smug face smugly looking smug for all eternity.
It pmo 😭
Thank-you! People made up their own head cannon in order to explain/like episode 5. There wasn't actually any kind of arc. But you can't say that or they will tell you that you're a "fake fan" or aren't paying attention.
No I just wanted Ahsoka and Anakin's reunion to make sense and be character driven. I wanted to feel a transformation; I wanted to see emotions on screen.
Cal Kestis and Cassian Andor are carrying Star Wars on their backs right now.
More like Cal alone. Who tf cares about Kyle Katarn's Mexican rip-off with the personality of a wooden plank ?
Nice to see some Cal appreciation
Lol no those games are just some trash that only exists to further erase the Force Unleashed games. No one but Merrin is even interesting and that was only in the first game where she was last member of her entire species, and a magic space witch. Now she's a generic emo girl and there's more Nightsisters all over the galaxy and even other galaxies. and her relationship with Cal was so forced and only happened because loser "fans" wanted it.
Cassian Andor shure does not.
Quite literally carrying Star Wars along with the rest of the Bad Batch.
I just assume Anakin was enjoying being dead and didn’t feel like talking to any living people. We already know from Alec Guinness’ performance in “Jedi” that force ghosts can be sick of this shit and super annoyed about having to talk to people who are still alive…
“Why is any of this happening?” with the shot Saul throwing his briefcase at the wall is honestly a perfect summary of this show
52:30, Sabine broke EVERY SINGLE rule on firearm safety. She had her finger on the trigger when she wasn't ready to fire, and she pointed it directly at Ezra, even hitting his arm with the barrel. I know it's minor but holy gods I cannot unsee that. I don't even own a gun but I've had those rules burned into me by watching videos from people who do.
Yet more terrible quality character from the supposedly highly trained soldier.
The fight choreography on this show was shocking
Imagine if she was holding a sword or a knife and accidentally hit the guy in the arm with the blade. Would the director go "yeah, that seems fine, we'll keep it in"?
@Lemon_Inspector Something that always shocks me about Star Wars, is how people are just carelessely waving around a super hot energy blade that can easily cut through metal like it's made out of butter.
@cubescihist6737yeah, in the original trilogy, the light saber fighting was more like samurai duels, or kendo. Actually realistic. All the acrobatic stuff starting with the prequels is ridiculous. In kendo and Olympic fencing, the duelists are waiting for a split second opening to strike. They aren't flipping around the space and spinning the blades like a baton twirler in a parade. An energy weapon that can cut through anything would be treated even more delicately that a sharp sword.
That’s a laser pistol. If she fired the bolt would go right through Ezra killing him on the spot. At the very best case scenario he’s paralyzed for the rest of his life and needs dialysis performed 4 days a week
It’s funny how Anakin getting a padawan was to learn about letting go of his attachments, but Dave himself refuses to let go of Ahsoka. Which is a path to the dark side Dave……
Sheev comes up with some of the most creative titles I’ve ever seen
One of my favorite aspects of his videos
You do know he shilled across the spiderverse that is a literal woke monster… right? It’s quite literally garbage and trans advocation
@idkanymore3382what
@idkanymore3382right because having One Trans Rights poster apparently makes it woke. 😂
@KingOrange927 no one should support what you do to children
there was more emotion displayed by the how many days has ezra been missing tumblr blog (and its followers) when he was found than there was from his own friends and family
Oohh, are you talking about where-is-ezra blog? Yes, you are so right😂😢
Well since Sabine is a Jedi, I'm gonna turn myself in Professor X cause I'm also in a wheelchair. Easy.
I feel like there was a great story for Sabine right under the surface:
She is so driven by revenge over the actions of the Empire that the idea of them being beaten is slowly eating at her because she has nowhere to direct her anger. She could deal with the internal conflict of using finding Ezra as an excuse to find and kill one more Imperial regiment. Ashoka could then understandably see the parallels between Sabine and Anakin's personalities and struggle to direct Sabine when she's making decisions that only serve her finding an outlet for revenge.
But nah... They did nothing.
Sabine never came off as being anything more than an obnoxious young hot heated mandalorian playing the part of a frustrated artist. There was nothing relatable about her.
I'm shocked they didn't have her say she used "aggressive negotiations" instead.
17:07 I love how they just use climbing ropes to act as a safety line. Amazing imagination for futuristic and alien technology, Dave.
Thrawn looks like a blue Elon Musk 😂
LOL
@programmedgamer7101 I understand they are related to one another, which if true, opens a whole new can of worms regarding nepotism and the like.
Not only is Sabine a Jedi, she’s more powerful than Ezra
7:00 the tension is because they are both Mary Sue's!
Dave Filoni should've capped off the story after s2 of the Mandalorian
Not damaging your characters is an amateur mistake in fiction writing, and I've seen overly precious or protected characters be trashed in so many writing workshops over the years (while getting my Masters in Fiction Writing). I keep wondering why someone like Filoni has so much power. Did he just know the right people? I know so many writers who struggle to even get paid at all for their work, and their talent is leagues beyond the Filonis of the world, who just seem to know the right people.
He's got really good PR, oftentimes, that's all you really need.
Granted, now that he's the head of what's going down in Lucas's film, I expect this "shield" of his is to get grounded down over time.
I think Dave was just promoted over his level of expertise. Clone Wars and Rebels were flawed but they also had some really great moments. Live action can be tough, though, and when you’ve only got 8 episodes to work with you can afford filler episodes.
Filoni was at the head of the team that wrote what is today regarded as a “peak Star Wars”, and, as often seems to happen, the boss got most of the credit. So on subsequent projects he got full creative control.
The same thing happened with George Lucas. During the OT, he had people to keep him in line and correct his mistakes. During the PT, he didn’t, and look what happened.
What people need to realize, is that even the most talented writers need supervision.
How does the New Republic even work? Why should the Chancellor hold a vote in the Senate to allow the general (!) to take a squadron if only one senator can approve this mission?
Huyang throughout the series: gives logical and rational arguments for why Ahsoka's actions are idiotic.
Ahsoka: no. Do as I say, I have plot armor and plot luck.
Huyang: Okay.
Minefield. Do you have any idea how many mines it takes to mine SPACE? And how long will it take? And why weren't any whales harmed by them?
Naturally, flying straight through the wreckage, you won’t damage even the antenna on your boat...
Sabin, you still haven’t told Ezra the situation, even though you don’t have time? What a stupid cow you are...
How did Beilan and Shin negotiate with the red riders, who obviously do not know their language and who caught them over the corpses of their comrades?
Naturally, Ahsoka and Sabine can connect mentally, despite the fact that Sabine is insensitive to the Force... and Ezra is sitting next to her, but Ahsoka does not feel him...
Witches can not only sense Ahsoka, but also determine her position on the map with an accuracy of up to a meter? But they couldn't find Ezra for 10 years?
Thrawn, if you don't care whether you defeat your enemies or not because you'll get off the planet, why don't you just shoot and bomb them from the air instead of sending a useless landing party? Actually, you don’t have many soldiers left, and you still have to fight the Republic...
Ezra. You're a fucking Jedi. Take your fucking lightsaber and fight Shin! Sabin doesn't even use it!
Ezra is so strong that he can forcefully stop Shin's blows, but Shin can knock him back and knock him out?
The Ninja Turtles invented flying armored personnel carriers, but they shoot with fucking slingshots? By armored riders? How about just running them over?
Ahsoka, why did you jump off to fight Baylan if your goal is to help Ezra and Ahsoka and he doesn’t threaten them? And your plan was to let Huyang burn you with flashes?
Naturally, Ahsoka can simply drive into the frame through a crowd of stormtroopers, they can’t do anything at all...
How about disarming and tying up Shin so you have a hostage and an extra lightsaber? No?
In short, I've had enough. The series is shit, which will be licked because they showed us a hologram of Anakin and he said “Ventress.” Filoni is an arrogant hack, no better than Abrams or Johnson. Thanks everyone for reading.
No one knows. They just do nothing to try and justify the sequels' existence. (They have no good reason to exist)
"How does the New Republic even work? Why should the Chancellor hold a vote in the Senate to allow the general (!) to take a squadron if only one senator can approve this mission?"
Because, for some ungodly reason, Furloni fucking hates the New Republic. Disney Wars takes every chance they get to show off its incredible incompetence and it's so damn jarring.
You imagined these characters *taking a hostage* instead of trying to get the girl to switch sides? lol, Star Wars was never for you
@realQuestion They didn't even try to get her to switch sides. Not a hostage, since Baylan and Thrawn don't care about her, but talking to a prisoner has more chance of her switching sides.