Star Wars: Ahsoka

[The Buffinator]

Yeah not sure we really needed the entire outfit to be white, maybe just the cloak. But I can't deny that it's a very striking look for her.

And it's not like she emerged from the WBW in all-white, but simply decided to change into this outfit she already had in her closet because it fit her lighter and more upbeat mood better.

Or because it was the one that wasn't sopping wet lol...

 

[Khev]

Watched this a third time. Vision or not this is 100% my favorite version of Anakin. Blunt and kind of a jerk but a super competent and likable jerk. This is the Anakin I wanted in the prequels!!!

And I like that he also taught Ahsoka to lighten up even mid-battle and not be such a damn stick in the mud.

I know that the low visibility look of the Clone Wars sequences were due to the limitations of budget and the Volume but honestly this is the type of "innovation through limitation" that SW used to be so good at because it gave those sequences an artfulness largely lacking in George's "I can do and show anything I want" PT. Man that one shot of Anakin calmly walking into the mist with his clones while flashing into images of Vader was freaking awesome and possibly for the first time *ever* I could see Hayden's character actually seamlessly overlapping with OT Vader. Credit where credit is due, Filoni delivered the goods this episode.

 

[Khev]

Ah thanks, that does make sense. Although I never got the sense from Rosario's performance that Ahsoka felt much weight from the experience. Seemed like she had already let most of that go by the time we saw her in Mando.

True, but I'm not sure that Filoni knew how much of Ahsoka we'd even see post-Mando so I'm guessing she was just a fun inclusion for the fans and then when he got the greenlight to do a whole show about her decided to revise her arc to better address how Anakin's fall would have affected her.

 

[The Buffinator]

I'm inclined to believe that either the entire ocean or that section of the ocean contained a particularly strong concentration of the Force like the cave on Dagobah and gave Ahsoka an extended vision, and accompanying test, based on "what you take with you." Like Luke before her she was focused mostly on Anakin and his actions so that's who greeted her and tested her even though at no point was it really him.

I'm fine with the nature of that environment allowing her to exist in a state of suspended animation until the test was complete.

If Ahsoka becomes a much better teacher for Sabine going forward after hearing TCW Anakin tell her that teaching is hard and not that fun but if she leaves no legacy then all of Obi-Wan and Anakin's combined knowledge that he passed to her will be lost then that will actually be some pretty awesome growth for her character IMO and will cause me to revise my opinion of earlier episodes where I called attention to how crappy a mentor I thought she was being.

I know what you meant here but points deducted for the run-on sentence lol...

 

[The Buffinator]

Watched this a third time. Vision or not this is 100% my favorite version of Anakin. Blunt and kind of a jerk but a super competent and likable jerk. This is the Anakin I wanted in the prequels!!!

And I like that he also taught Ahsoka to lighten up even mid-battle and not be such a damn stick in the mud.

I know that the low visibility look of the Clone Wars sequences were due to the limitations of budget and the Volume but honestly this is the type of "innovation through limitation" that SW used to be so good at because it gave those sequences an artfulness largely lacking in George's "I can do and show anything I want" PT. Man that one shot of Anakin calmly walking into battle with his clones into the mist while flashing into images of Vader was freaking awesome and possibly for the first time *ever* I could see Hayden's character actually seamlessly overlapping with OT Vader. Credit where credit is due, Filoni delivered the goods this episode.

Yes, I was less than impressed with Filoni's writing after the first two episodes but he certainly has delivered with episodes 4 & 5.

 

[Khev]

I know what you meant here but points deducted for the run-on sentence lol...

Dude, you have no idea how many run-on sentences I catch and chop down *before* I click "Post reply," lol. Some slip through the cracks though.

 

[The Buffinator]

Dude, you have no idea how many run-on sentences I catch and chop down *before* I click "Post reply," lol. Some slip through the cracks though.

If I'm being honest, calling you out for that is a case of the pot calling the kettle black lol...

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Yesterday's episode was really good, IMO.

I'm looking forward to the next episode.

 

[Bravomite]

I'm really loving this series. I think the first couple of episodes were a bit clunky on the writing side because Filoni was trying to make it a bit more accessible to non rebels viewers.

I know Jedi Master AJP is shaking his head dissapprovingly somewhere across the space whale inter dimensional interwebs but I can't help but enjoy this show. It is three episodes away from joining Andor, Rogue One and Mando series 1 & 2 in the Bravomite Canon. I feel like jolly General Grievous about to add another lightsaber to my Canon ... I mean collection.

 

[Khev]

Ray Park watching live-action Mauldalorians, Ahsoka, Rex, and even Hayden Christensen who wasn't even in the final Darth Maul episodes all getting cameos:

 

[Khev]

Filoni doing the mythological thing, water being the symbol of the unconscious, feminine energy, birth, etc. and she returns cleansed etc. which cretins like me should appreciate instead of thinking - wait a minute, Jedi float stuff, rocks, fruit so why didn't she just pop up like a Jack in the Box or Shang Chi?

I need to learn to just park while watching this. It's fine. It is.

Come on Snips, lighten up, that was all fun baptism/descent into the Underworld/ascend to the cloudy heavens Hero Journey stuff.

 

[guyver1]

I recognised her name from Barbie, then realised she was in 65 and Love and Monsters.

She also played young Gamora in EG ..I guess they figured ..let’s do it

 

[guyver1]

Ray Park watching live-action Mauldalorians, Ahsoka, Rex, and even Hayden Christensen who wasn't even in the final Darth Maul episodes all getting cameos:

That is strange isn’t it

 

[Mondragon]

Yeah we’re definitely getting another Ahsoka figure from Hot Toys now. And it’s going to be glorious!

Make that 2, they will milk this one:

Rosario Dawson Gandalf the White - Whale Watching Ahsoka

And Ariana Greenblatt Colón as young flashback Ahsoka

 

[Hologram AI]

Crazy how this is the most intense/flashy live action lightsaber action we've gotten since the PTs. Hayden still has it after all these years. That 30 minute EP3 fight is probably ingrained into his brain.

 

[chrisstbh]

Crazy how this is the most intense/flashy live action lightsaber action we've gotten since the PTs. Hayden still has it after all these years. That 30 minute EP3 fight is probably ingrained into his brain.

He’s so fast and his swings have such power behind them. He does make Anakin feel like a force to be reckoned with.

 

[guyver1]

Crazy how this is the most intense/flashy live action lightsaber action we've gotten since the PTs. Hayden still has it after all these years. That 30 minute EP3 fight is probably ingrained into his brain.

This girl is really only 16.yrs old ...she nailed young Ahsoka ..talk about committing to the character

 

[The Buffinator]

Make that 2, they will milk this one:

Gandalf the White Whale Watching Ahsoka

And Ariana Greenblatt Colón as young flashback Ahsoka

So you want a figure of an overweight Gandalf leering at Ahsoka? Ewww.....

 

[denrep-lilium]

Crazy how this is the most intense/flashy live action lightsaber action we've gotten since the PTs. Hayden still has it after all these years. That 30 minute EP3 fight is probably ingrained into his brain.

I missed the proper lightsaber fight scenes in the previous episodes. I can understand the logic, but those before were too comical to watch.

 

[Khev]

For better or worse I feel that Filoni is giving this his all and I can respect that. It is "the George Lucas way" after all.

An argument can definitely be made, especially with regard to the ST, that Disney has been trying to play it safe with middling results or worse.

But Filoni seems to be saying, "nope, I'm going full space whales with WBW imagery and that'll either work or crash and burn but I'm all in" which parallels Ahsoka's journey.

Anakin: "Okay back to the beginning, live...or die."

Ahsoka: "No."

Anakin: "Wrong answer."

And she had to either destroy him or forgive him, no more being a meandering zombie trying to have it both ways.

After making her choice she was all smiles even when having absolutely no idea what the results of the space whale journey will be because at the end of the day aiming for the stars is better than going nowhere.

Lots of fun stuff for over-analytical nerds like me to unpack.