#ahsoka show really crapped on her character and they don't even know

[supremechancellorrex]

Haha, it's a shame that they didn't utilise the leftover potential of the character they had, but it would have been a mercy at this point to just let Ahsoka go and die than let her suffer whatever the Ahsoka show was. She gets a show WITH HER NAME and they make her play second fiddle to budget LIve-Action!Sabine and Ezra.

i feel like the ahsoka show is unintentionally proving that her character should have died ages ago unfortunately

[islandofarson]

Hey! I don't know who you or Faith are, but I have to say that after researching the Barriss character, I have to agree with Faith. I know that as an American, it must be normalized for you, but being a mass murderer isn't okay. Bombing a building resulting in peoples deaths isn't either, and nor is framing someone who views you as a friend. This is cruel and uncalled for.

Ahsoka was almost executed for the actions of this Barriss character, and I saw from your interactions with this Ezra person that Ahsoka is your favorite.

I think you need to rethink your stance here.

I know it makes absolutely no sense that I would like a character who almost got my all-time favorite character killed. My reasoning might just seem like it's "She's so babygirl" and "She's innocent it was me", but believe it or not I actually have some reasoning.

First of all, I think I should add that Ahsoka was fine and that she probably wouldn't have survived Order 66 if she hadn't left so I just need to point that out.

Barriss probably grew up under the idea that Jedi were "keepers of the peace", but once the war started, they became soldiers instead.

If I had been raised under that idea and then forced to do essentially the exact opposite while still being told that the Jedi are peacekeepers, I'd probably lose some of my faith in them too. Trying to uphold those beliefs and keep up that image feeling that no one else is trying makes it really hard NOT to snap honestly.

As someone who grew up thinking America was this great country with equal opportunities for everyone, learning that that's 100% NOT true, I'm losing faith too. I feel like I've been lied to my whole life and learning that America is not in fact "the land of the free" it has always claimed to be kind of makes me understand why Barriss did what she did. I kind of want to bomb something too. (FOR ALL LEGAL REASONS THIS IS A JOKE)

Imagine being told that your weapon is your life and then using it to take others. That's kind of how it feels with guns in this country because I've always been told that the right to bear arms is an American right that defines our country and all that crap but it really feels like it's more of a danger than anything at this point.

I know bombing a temple with people inside and then framing your friend isn't a great move, but I can understand why she would go that far.

I feel like I should add that she is a teenage girl forced to fight in a war???? I mean c'mon give her a little grace jesus christ man that's fucking rough.

Also, I mean just imagine having to deal with all of this while still having to be a Jedi, like with controlling your emotions and not having a good place to release and deal with them (I'd assume at least)

But anyway, Tales of the Empire showed more of her story after the fact and it redeemed her, at least in my eyes.

This probably sounds stupid as fuck and I'm probably just rambling but I hope this gets my point across.

TL;DR: I think that Barriss wasn't fully in the wrong because even though she SERIOUSLY fucked up I can understand where she was coming from on an almost personal level.

I know that you're just some random anon who is probably just trying to annoy me and this is probably WAY too passionate so sorry about that 🥰

[fangeek-girl]

My very biased review of the Ahsoka finale

This might thread down the unpopular opinions road. It's all right. That's what opinions are for.

Let me start by saying that I didn't like most of the finale. I had a grand total of 2 scenes I enjoyed: Ezra reuniting with Hera, and the very end scene with Hayden (shocker, I know).

I didn't like most of the show in general, mainly because of the whole clusterfuck with Sabine being trained as a Jedi. I hate it deeply because it undermines Sabine's worth. She was already a great character. She didn't need to be made better or more powerful by becoming Ahsoka's apprentice. She didn't need to suddenly develop Force-sensitivity. The cool thing with Sabine was that she was NORMAL. Yes, she was a Mandalorian and skilled with blasters and explosives, but she was a regular person. She was a non-superpowered human in a galaxy where heroes were known as having superpowers. That's what made her so interesting in Rebels. And this whole season she was at her best when she switched back to what she knew: guns and bombs. Her best scene in the finale (imo) was when she crashed the ship and took 2 TIEs with it. That's who Sabine is.

I'm also mad at how little information we had on Baylann and Shin. They were depicted as the main villains in the beginning, but we never got their back story. By the last two episodes they're discarded to make room for Thrawn, which I understand, but we still don't even know who they are. What's their story? Where did Baylann come from? How does he know Anakin? How did Shin come to be his apprentice? And the worst part is we won't ever get clear answers because Baylann as he was in this season cannot be in the next due to what happened to Ray Stevenson. So this is just a loose thread. And the way it ended doesn't give me hope for Shin either.

Midway through the show it feels like Filoni had a shift and stopped caring about this being the Ahsoka show and just making it a setup for his Thrawn movie. And I hate it. I hate when film and showrunners make what should be a stand-alone (in a previously established universe) into a prequel. It's the crap Marvel did and now Star Wars is trying really hard to copy that. (Yeah I know, it's Disney. Pisses me off all the same.) This show was called "Ahsoka" for fuck sake! And by the end, it was the Thrawn show. We had an entire episode (1x06 Far, Far Away) without Ahsoka in it, except for like one scene in the beginning. Can you imagine a Kenobi episode without Obi-Wan? An Andor episode without Cassian? It makes no sense! It's the same kind of bullshit they pulled with BoBF when it became The Mandalorian s2.5 halfway through. Yes, it progresses the overall story, but in a way to set up something else instead of focusing on your main character.

In the same vein, I hate how Jacen was set up in the beginning, then discarded, how we never even saw Zeb and Agent Kallus, how Hera just became the way to tie Ahsoka back to the New Republic, how Senator Xiono could have been a good antagonist but ended up being an asshole without substance... There were too many things set up for a show this short and most of them ended up fizzling into nothing.

Now, I did like the Anakin parts. Yes, that's because I'm a Hayden stan through and through. Put him anywhere in the GFFA and I'm a goner. The World Between Worlds scenes were absolutely phenomenal, and probably why I'll rewatch this show again. Sorely because of Hayden (although Ariana was incredible too in the TCW scene). His Anakin brought this whole show to another level. No shade to Rosario, I love her. But this show didn't do her justice. Especially not next to Hayden when they had them sparring. The rest of the show I was disappointed in all of her fight scenes because how can I believe the girl who trained under Anakin Skywalker is so slow? They, probably without realizing it, built her up to fail. And it bothers me because we know from the animated series that Ahsoka is amazing in a fight.

I also appreciated the zombie troopers. The rest of the Dathomir storyline is a bit muddy and I'm not sure I love it, but I guess I just have to wait to see how they try to make this fit post-Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor.

I don't even know where I'm going with this by now. I just... I wish this show had been different. The ending is kinda making me cautiously excited for Thrawn. (But only if they bring in the Chiss Ascendancy and Eli. I need my Thranto fix in live action, thank you very much.) There's also all the little easter eggs of Mortis that make me wonder if they didn't pull a Lost and they're all just dead (which I would respect a lot more than whatever else they seem to be building on).

In the end, I am deeply disappointed in what the show ended up being. Apart from a few moments, most of it was "meh" at best for me and I mourn what could be if Filoni stopped trying to make all his female OC the biggest badass that ever was and one-up one another.