#Star Wars TotJ

[maeve-on-mustafar]

Holy frick, Anakin is such a babyface here. And his hair is so short! And he has this vaguely elfin look going on that fourth gif!

He's nineteen when he gets Ahsoka as a Padawan, and I think that really shows here, which I appreciate, because it demonstrates just how young both of them are when they end up thrown into the war.

TALES OF THE JEDI (2022) Episode 5: Practice Makes Perfect

[anakinisvaderisanakin]

Nothing like the best Star Wars character to celebrate May the 4th.

No, you can't change my mind.

[inquisitorius-sin-bin]

The Imperial Inquisitorius

Nearly 66 hours over 20 days and 1 burst sclera blood vessel later, they're here.

May the Force Ever Serve You

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montral lover until the end

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Tales of the Jedi ✅

Tales of the Empire ✅

Tales of the Clones, next❔

[rebel-ahsoka]

TALES OF THE JEDI, 1.05 STAR WARS REBELS, 2.22

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COUNT DOOKU AND ANAKIN SKYWALKER

“ Perhaps he reminds me too much of myself at the same age. Arrogant. Impulsive. Proud. ” — COUNT DOOKU on ANAKIN SKYWALKER in Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

╰► INSPIRED BY POSTS FROM @david-talks-sw AND @smhalltheurlsaretaken AND @gffa

[ipreferfiction]

"average jedi enclave has approximately two fallen padawans per generation" factoid actually just statistical error. the dantooine enclave, which has a fall rate of every decently strong padawan they've ever trained, is an outlier adn should not be considered

[archfey-edda]

He needed a dramatic moment to match.

No text version & bonus doodle under the cut

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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (1/?)

Star Wars + Text Posts & Headlines

[bisexualvader]

@prequelsnet Prequels Appreciation Week: Day 6 — Installments

[chocmarss]

Tales of the Empire has little effect on me, considering the bad way they treated Barriss. And I think we have enough storylines about the Empire, WHERE is my promised tales of the Jedi where I can watch padawan shenanigans and the deep dive into Jedi teachings. Filoni’s view of them is so skewed, he needs to amend this by actually learning about the Jedi and how they work lmao

[anakinisvaderisanakin]

The trio.

[david-talks-sw]

I think it's interesting that - in order to make his "free-thinking Jedi" characters hold any semblance of rationality in their arguments - Dave Filoni needs to resort to artificially dehumanizing the other Jedi and painting them all with the same "we dogmatically worship protocol" brush.

He does this with Huyang in the recent Ahsoka episode.

"Lolz he's so narrow-minded, preachy and by-the-book, unable to think outside the box, just like the Jedi in the Prequels."

My first reaction was being amused at the fact that Filoni had to resort to making the Jedi Order's ideals and rules be embodied by a literal machine for his anti-Jedi headcanon to start making sense.

But then I remembered: Huyang isn't just any droid.

In The Clone Wars, he had a sassy personality, he had a pep in his step, he had a sense of humor...

This character was human in his behavior, he was fun and whimsical.

But now he's been reduced to, I dunno, "Jedi C-3PO"? Basically?

"Ha! He's blunt and unsympathetic because he's a droid, but it's funny because the Jedi were the same, they were training themselves to be tactless, emotionless droids."

And Filoni does this with Mace Windu too, in Tales of the Jedi.

Mace, who brought a lightsaber to the throat of a planetary leader to defend the endangered Zillo Beast...

... and who went waaay past his mandate by mischievously sneaking around Bardottan authorities and breaking into the Queen's quarters because he felt something bad was afoot...

... was reduced to being an almost droid-like, rule-parotting, protocol purist who sticks to his instructions (and is implied to be willing to let a murder go unsolved so he can get a promotion).

I mentioned this at the end of my first post on Luke in The Last Jedi... while changes in personality do happen overtime and can be explained in-universe... if you don't show us that progression and evolution and just leave us without that context, that'll break the suspension of disbelief, for your audience.

Here, we have two characters with a different (almost caricatural) personality than the one they were originally shown to have.

Now... we could resort to headcanons, to make it all fit together.

We could justify Huyang's tone shift 'cause "Order 66 changed him". And we could make explanations about TotJ's Mace:

Being younger and thus more ambitious and a stickler for the rules, and only really becoming more flexible after getting his seat on the Council and gaining more maturity.

Being such a teacher's pet in the episode because we're seeing him through the eyes of a notorious unreliable narrator, Dooku.

There'd be nothing wrong with opting to go with either of those headcanons to cope with this. After all, Star Wars is meant to help you get creative.

But the problem I encounter is that:

Filoni has an anti-Jedi bias, so the above headcanons clearly wouldn't really track with his intended narrative.

We'd be jumping through hoops to extrapolate and fill in what is, essentially, inconsistent characterization, manufactured to make Ahsoka and Dooku shine under a better light.

And that sours whatever headcanon I come up with.

Edit: Also, yeah, as folks have been saying in the tags... wtf is "Jedi protocol"? The term isn't ever mentioned in the movies, I skimmed through dialog transcripts of TCW, never saw it there.

So it's almost as if - if Filoni wasn't draining characters like Mace and Huyang of all humanity and nuance - his point about "the Jedi were too detached and lost their way, but not free-thinkers like Qui-Gon, Dooku and Ahsoka" wouldn't really hold much water.

[chocomars]

Togs on my mind (and One Rex). Also birthed another OC. Her name’s Leila and I have fallen in love with her 🩷

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY ECKSTEIN!!!!