#If you can get over the animation jump between TCW season 1-7 you can get over kind of noodle-y bodies and recycled background characters

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

the whole "I couldn't get into Rebels because of the animation" excuse irks the heck out of me because. You certainly seem to have gotten into The Clone Wars despite the Quality of the pilot/seasons 1-2 animation.

[legobiwan]

TCW Rewatch: 1.13 “Jedi Crash”

Wait, really, legobiwan? You’re coming back to this after how many months? (Why yes, I am. Somehow having my schedule overfill with real-life commitments has only emboldened my desire to create content. Blame it on the coffee and sleep deprivation.)

So anyway -

Aayla, Anakin, and Ahoksa (Triple A-Team! Obi-wan would have hated that name) are in the Quell System in the Outer Rim facing off against the droids and some plot machinations which really aren’t all that important. Anakin ends up defending the Gang with a maneuver that is...*puts finger to chin*...somehow familiar... 

I’m onto you, Filoni.

(It should go on the record that just prior to this, we rhyme in A form (as opposed to the above B form) as Anakin jumps from a ship to hang awkwardly off a droid in another act that is wholly reminiscent of someone we know and love quite well.)

No, he’s not sure. He didn’t even consider the question. 

And you have have the absolute gall to complain, Kenobi. Honestly.

Anyway, Anakin’s actions (and Obi-wan’s, by extension, because - let’s be honest, Yularen has already seen the Best Of YouTube channel of Obi-wan’s recklessness and later proclaims him to be more insane than Anakin in the Gambit/Siege series and he knows the space apple doesn’t fall all that far from the space tree). Unsurprisingly, Anakin’s foray into BASE Jumping without a wingsuit prompts Yularen to ask a question he likely knows the answer to already:

To which Aayla responds:

No wonder Yularen defected to the Empire.

So Anakin is more or less taken out Kanan roast-style, but manages to survive the encounter with what I assume is a nasty concussion. Ahsoka and Aayla drag his unconscious form along as the gang lands on some unnamed planet. 

And...they have to leave Anakin behind as they go to find help. This sets up the inevitable “I cannot leave my Master alone” conundrum but what I find interesting is that Rex and a few other clones are going to be there to guard and take care of Anakin. Meaning that Ahsoka 1) doesn’t wholly trust the clones yet (ah, how things will change come Season 7) and 2) that Aayla is actually using this as a teaching moment for Ahsoka as there is no real inherent risk. The clones can guard and look after Anakin just fine. But Aayla wants to convey the message that the Jedi can’t save one life over thousands of lives. (A theme that comes up again and again and is not as straightforward as Aayla puts it here, as it is this exact idea that the Jedi struggle with in terms of how far they can interfere on a galactic scale.)

This notion is also intriguing given the conversation that happens between the droids below. 

I honestly want to see that battle droid go rogue and on a killing spree of droids and sentient alike because of their experiences in the war. That would be...an intriguing story to write. 

I’VE READ THE EU, AAYLA, YOU TWO AREN’T FOOLING ANYONE.

Okay, but Ahsoka gets medical help from the small dude’s son, but not before family leader makes this interesting statement:

“If the protesters didn’t burn shit down/loot/create a disturbance/etc, then I would support them.” It’s not that easy. Nor that straightforward. And what I find interesting is the concept that TCW is overall told from Ahsoka’s point of view, which would explain the more black-and-white morality of the earlier episodes. This being said, it’s something she still struggles with up until the end, not being able to totally understand (or perhaps, more accurately, not willing) the political situation Mace and Obi-wan are in vis-à-vis the invasion of Mandalore and the Council’s actions. And I credit this with her being a student of Anakin, who is the original diametric thinker (you are with me or against me, you love me or you don’t, which makes sense in that as a child, he is either free or not-free - that definition is like being only a “little pregnant.”)

But large philosophical debates aside, can we appreciate the fact the animation team reused the Destroyer Droid rolly thing for our medic friend?

Anakin waking up in a somewhat Lilliputian scenario is hilarious.

And finally, have the random, amusing screengrab for free. Ha!