*** warning: spoilers for Ahsoka series ahead***
Well, hello everybody! Welcome back! I partially have energy again...
School is a little less draining now that I'm back in the swing of things, but there's still so. Much. Happening!!! ack.
Anyways.
Before I get into ramblings, I have a quick announcement! My blogversary is coming up next month! I'd like to do a Q&A post on that day. SOOOOOOO if you have any pressing questions about me, my writing, my chaotic anything, or just a general question, pleeeeeease pop it into the comment section, preferably on this post, but if you do it on others that's fine too! Please get your questions to me by November 10th so I have time to work on answering them. Thanks, y'all!!!!
Okay, back to ramblings! Just before the Ahsoka series was released I did a post on Star Wars Rebels and what to expect and why I like it. Now that Ahsoka is fully out and has been for a while, I'd like to do a quick post on my opinion of it!
Right off the bat, I'm gonna say I liked the show. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting, and I feel like a more precise name for it should have been Ahsoka: Although we Focus More on Sabine. They continued the story from where Rebels left off very nicely, and the characters were very much themselves-- except Ahsoka.
In my opinion, the live action Ahsoka's character has changed very dramatically. She was always the headstrong, charge right into a fight without really worrying about the repercussions, let's save as many as we can kind of Jedi, like Anakin. I don't have many really big issues on her growing up and understanding that she isn't the unstoppable hero, but it just kind of happened...
She's the best character in the Clone Wars, the one you really see grow from snippy, annoying, etcetera to smart and experienced. I know it's been twenty odd years since Clone Wars, so obviously she's gonna grow older and wiser, but I just feel like not having anything showing that transition makes her just seem so different. (so if a new show/movie called "Fulcrum" was to be announced, I would all for it... seeing her time growing as a rebel spy/informer? I need that)
Also, there's that one part in episode three, I think, when she tells Sabine something along the lines of, "we might have to choose between saving Ezra and saving the galaxy from the Empire's return. I'm trusting you to make the right choice." I heard that, and I was like, "that's not the Ahsoka I know...?" I mean, where's the Ahsoka that unleashes Maul to be her distraction even though he'll probably escape and wreak havoc who knows where? Where's the Ahsoka who tries to fight an army of Mandalorians UNARMED in order to save a small backwater village not even part of the Republic? Where's-- Okay, I'mma stop.
I just feel like her personality throughout the Clone Wars was set up as ready to save a few, not looking at the bigger picture, ya know, that stuff. I don't like how they just toss that down the drain because it's been several years.
Moving away from ranting about Ahsoka's personality, there's also the fact that Sabine is a Jedi now???
In Rebels, Kanan, a Jedi, literally says that Sabine is the LAST PERSON WHO WILL EVER BE A JEDI OR USE THE FORCE. She has literally closed herself off from ever being able to use the Force. And yet here's Ahsoka telling her anyone can use the Force... Excuse, are you saying then that the entire galaxy could've been Jedi, but only a few tiny infants are kidnapped chosen to be trained?
Also, more character continuity: I thought in Mandalorian Season 2 Ahsoka said she wouldn't train Grogu because he was a) too old and b) too attached to Din Djarin. Sabine is very obviously attached to Ezra/Hera/Zeb/whole Spectre crew. So... is Ahsoka just choosing favorites?? Or... was that statement not a reference to Anakin, but to Sabine? If it's about Sabine, okay, that makes some things better. If it's about Anakin... AHSOKA YOU NEED TO STOP PICKING FAVORITES LIKE THE COUNCIL.
Final issue I'll mention here... every time Ezra's original lightsaber, the one Sabine uses, is mentioned, they say "Ezra gave it to you (Sabine)" or something else in that same framework. I literally found the scene when Ezra goes to confront Thrawn.
He gives his lightsaber to Chopper.
And then Chopper gives the lightsaber to Sabine.
See what I'm saying????? EZRA DIDN'T GIVE HIS SABER TO SABINE. SHE JUST CLAIMED IT AND EVERYONE ROLLED WITH IT.
Sorry.
Anger issues.
Anyways, for a few quick things I did like...
> the fact the Jacen Syndulla existed
> the live action Loth-cat
> the planet visuals (oh my word, Lothal was spot on!!!!!!)
> the Ghost and the Phantom II being accurate
>Ahsoka's dueling
> Sabine's dueling, actually (she does learn how to use a saber in Rebels. I like that bit of continuity)
> THE WHOLE WORLD BETWEEN EPISODE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
> the mural scene in the second (or third?) episode because oh my word it's perfect
> the cameos in the first episode for Ryder Azadi, Jai Kell, and I feel like there was someone else...
> Chopper XD
> THE PERGIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Eigth Brother reincarnated????
> AHCKK EZRA WAS SPOT ON
> when Ezra builds his new lightsaber in the same style as Kanan's.
> the howlers <3
> did I say the World Between episode?
> Sabine and Ezra's Force leap/push (the one time I liked that Sabine used magic, because Kanan/Ezra call back!!!!)
>Ahsoka's white robes
Overall, I thought it was pretty good! I liked it better than the Mandalorian and Andor, but not quite as much as the Bad Batch/Clone Wars/Rebels. I still have not seen Boba Fett, and since I haven't been super enamored with the live action shows, I don't think I will.
I'm just gonna drop one last statement, if you're gonna name a show after one character, try focusing more on them instead of splitting it up so much. I enjoyed Sabine's parts, and I enjoyed Hera's parts, but (Hera's especially) felt like it took away from what was really going on and made Ahsoka's arc feel a bit rushed.
Other than that, and the other ranting from above, I have 0 complaints😇
Thanks for reading along with my ranting ramblings, and I hope you have a great day! PLEEEEEEEASE drop me some questions for my Q&A!
Please.
I beg of you.
Okay, bye.
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