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Been trying to sparse out some thoughts on Ahsoka handling the ASOI timeline events. Been trying to figure out which elements actually fit into the story and which I just day dream about a lot. Themes that continue to pop up include:

Ahsoka spends years hearing about how much of a trouble maker Anakin was as a padawan. How much he snuck away from the temple and participated in illegal street racing and got arrested.

Ahsoka proceeds to join a speeder board racing ring to make some money when it's clear that few legitimate businesses are willing to hire someone with such a famous face.

She makes decent money racing but finds her talents in mechanics lead to better opportunities. Still she races occasionally when she needs the extra income.

Several times footage of the races have ended up on the holonews and Ahsoka skating around the nasty alleys of Coruscant in her iconic big pants little shirt outfits become big news.

Some jedi masters talk shit about her for this. Ahsoka retaliates against the shit-talking in very specific keep my name out of your mouth kinda ways

Ahsoka as a celebrity makes some friends with other famous kids/young adults which goes pretty portly for her. Whether it's getting made fun of for not profiting off her career/ being poor. Or having rumors constantly flying around about who she's sleeping with. Or just not having the freedom to relax and dance at a party without footage of her showing up on news sights and tabloid covers bitching about how inappropriate it is for a young Togruta girl to 'behave so provocatively in public'. She cannot catch a break. Turns out rich kids are just not good company.

Ahsoka takes up drinking. Let's be honest she's like 16/17 and loose on Coruscant at the lowest point of her life. Every decision she makes is wrong in some way and she can't escape the gaping loneliness. It makes sense for her to drink. Not enough to be a lasting problem but she definitely gets in trouble.

The coruscant guard is some kind of fucked up about hunting her. Ahsoka is spotted by several troopers visibly flinching away when she sees them in the street and because of this, they do their best to respectfully avoid her.

This also becomes kind of a superpower for her because no matter how many illegal races she participates in or how many government buildings she breaks into they refuse to arrest her. Fox feels so bad about everything that he ordered them not to even speak to her.

With the exception of ending up in the Drunk tank a couple of times Ahsoka never interacts with the Corrie guard.

Also on a few occasions. (at really really low points for her) Ahsoka disguises herself with a shit ton of makeup baggy clothes and a hooded cloak and sneaks into 49s just to sit in a corner and listen to the men act a fool.

She's not nearly as subtle as she thinks (come on a hood is a jedi regulation disguise). And a few clones have tattled on her to her brothers. But she never shows up when any of the 501st are planet side.

Ahsoka also gets a tattoo on her wrist. It starts as just Echo's handprint. Something blue and super small, subtle even. And it ends up being a whole charm bracelet of subtle clone symbols all around her wrist. (I always think of Scarlet Johanson's tattoo).

Ahsoka has to start wearing a head covering over her montrals because of 'cultural modesty' shit like so many of the twi'leks do through out star wars. She doesn't do it by choice tho.

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GOTTEM I GET TO RANT NOW! (thanks so much btw!!!)

apologies this is gonna be really long

format is [lyric]: description; explanation/comments

- [I've earned myself a reputation]: all of the commanders and Rex as cadets; I wanted to start from the beginning

- [That my bark | is much worse than | my bite]: zoom in on cadet wolffe, change to older wolffe; I mean. self explanatory bro chose his name to be a misspelled animal pfff

- [But I keep snapping at Goliath's hands]: the iconic scene when Plo Koon and two of the Wolfpack are stuck and Plo Koon says they’re not expendable; I liked the idea that Plo Koon rebelled in his own way, eg. appreciation of his sons

- [With all of my tiny might]: pan to the two troopers; clones have very little control, but they fight for each other as hard as they can

- [There are no stones at my disposal]: Rex’s helmet; Rex likely often feels powerless to stop Anakin’s antics

- [There's no God to award me a crown]: hands grab Rex’s helmet; Rex means “king,” this is sorta alluding to the idea that he gave himself his own crown (name/helmet/honor)

- [But I am always swinging at]: 501st on umbara

- [Somebody I can't knock down]: pong krell, blasters in peripheral; self explanatory, except they do shoot him down

- [All of the fire I've swallowed]: gree with luminara unduli; no concrete reasoning for this, but possible suspicions that luminara encourages the troopers to hide their feelings for others since she’s like that with barriss

- [All of the sparks that went dark in my gut]: gree watching ahsoka and barriss walk away (gree is slightly smiling); he worries for barriss, especially considering how young padawans are, and he feels like an older brother

- [I am always burning up]: gree watching hologram of the tank getting crushed; canon episode reference! he’s distressed abt potentially losing barriss and has no power to stop it :(

- [Dress me in red and throw your roses]: fox on patrol and a bottle gets thrown at him; red armor! bottle=roses!

- [And I'll wrangle the beast with words]: fox standing behind palpatine; palps is a yapper also fox lies to him to save his brothers (often at his own expense)

- [It's a graceless dance of epithets]: fox standing behind senator chuchi; uhhhh senators scheming but for good ‼️

- [We learn to make somewhat hurt]: fox standing alone without helmet, bleeding; note he has lighting scars (rude palps) and early gray hairs (due to his brothers, but I also like the head canon that he’s “defective” and has been getting these his whole life and that’s why he never takes off his helmet)

- [They will consume your sweet resistance]: bly looking at Ayla; bly is a sweetheart just try to argue with me

- [And they'll carry your heart in their teeth]: Aayla smilkng at bly; teeth literally with the smiling, also blyla <3

- [But I am always feeding them]: Felucia battlefield; very sad parallel with canon

- [The ugliest parts of me]: bly and aayla fighting droid; they for sure don’t want to fight, but they have to

- [All of the words I've swallowed]: ponds fighting with windu on ryloth; as cool as windu is, it must have been difficult to work with him

- [All of the sharp things I've kept in my mouth]: ponds and Zillo beast; teeth. sharp things in mouth are teeth

- [I am always bleeding out]: death by aurra sing; uhhh this was supposed to be aurra sing I drew the wrong person, but symbolically I think I had boba bc he was technically fighting against the other clones (ngl I drew this one a while ago and was very sleep deprived)

- [Take me to war]: cody, obi wan, and anakin at holotable; this was a common scene in the war, eternal planning

- [Honey, I dare you]: obi wan, from over Cody’s shoulder; obi wan had many antics that poor cody had to suffer through, and codywan <3

- [I'll be the sweetest thing]: ghost company with obiwan; they’re all besties ur honor

- [To ever scare you]: obi wan “dead” arc, ghost company watching hologram; BIG sad, wish we could have seen at least ghost company at the “funeral”

- [Give me a fight I can't resist]: numa; this was originally gonna have boil and waxer with her but I got lazy, anyway they want to protect her

- [Give me something to break with my fists]: cody punching droid; the commander class is just Built Different, cody even more so

- [Take me to war]: cody picking up lightsaber; I often think abt the fact cody canonically has a belt clip for a lightsaber

- [Honey, I dare you]: cody handing lightsaber to obi wan; really wanna know how often this happened for the aforementioned belt clip

- [I watched a weed usurp the garden]: a corrie in senate pod, palps at the center of the senate talking from over a guards left shoulder; crusty dusty palps swaying the senate, also over left shoulder indicates “bad people” and the opposite for right

- [And it poisoned the rest of the crops]: senate pods with corrupt sentars going forward

- [Would take days of fighting stubborn roots]: padme, bail, mothma over right shoulder of guard; let them cook ‼️

- [To tear the whole damn thing out]: senate building; the whole place is pretty much corrupt

- [So I will leave it where it's standing]: back to guard looking at senate floor, leaves out of frame

- [And instead I will find me a match]: fox w/blaster facing fives; fives could have been the key to avoiding the Horrors

- [I'll turn it all to kindling]: fox lowers blaster; what I wish could have happened, don’t ask me how this would have been feasible (I hc that palps was controlling fox here)

- [I'll burn it all down to ash]: hologram of The Chip; this could have been the key to fixing it all, so in my delusion fives gets to tell fox and spread the word

- [All of the ire I've swallowed]: fox w/gun; he’s mad when he finds out

- [All of the coals that still sit in my gut]: palps, menacing; he’s actually The Worst

- [I am always burning up]: fox raises gun, blaster pulled, silhouettes, palps shot; man I just wanted fox to shoot palps bc he deserves it the most

- [Take me to war]: plo’s bros on side of ship; this section is all “memories”/ happy times

- [Honey, I dare you]: Rex and ahsoka spying on padme and anakin; bestest siblings, legit one of my favorite ideas, in the original sketch I had anakin ranting abt sand

- [I'll be the sweetest thing]: Ayla leaning against bly, asleep; once again, bly is the sweetest

- [To ever scare you]: coruscant guards laughing around a table with cards and drinks; don’t tell me everyone else wasn’t afraid of the Corries, also I like to think they would have game nights every now and then

- [Give me a fight I can't resist]: ponds at 79’s with others

- [Give me something to break with my fists]: gree is gifted a mug from barriss; this is an extremely obscure call back to another piece of art that I did where obiwan had a mug from ahsoka that says “best grandmaster” and I like to think the padawans have an arts class

- [Take me to war]: ghost company with obi wan at dex’s; the usual suspects including boil, waxer, cody, wooly, AND fanmedic helix (he’s canon in my heart)

- [Honey, I dare you]: fives rescuing ech from skeco minor; echo was def sad when he realized his twin wasn’t there so I fixed that :)

Some general notes on artistic choices:

• While I usually draw in grayscale (rendering scares me), I specifically made any "identifying" features (like armor paint, hair color, etc.) for clones be present, partially for identification and partially with the idea that these are the things that show their individuality. The only exception to this was when there was a lightsaber (I like the cool glowing sticks).

• Characters besides the clones are specifically in a single shade of gray to put more focus on the clones (as this is meant to be an animatic about THEIR tragedy). However, there are a few cases when I made the other characters be "rendered" but in grayscale if what they are doing/their character arc has an impact on the clones in the panel.

• Most of this portrays canon or canon-adjacent to a certain point, I made the second half in mind of "What if Fox was able to chose differently."

• During the final "Take Me to War" section, the panels are specifically grayscale because they are supposed to depict happy "memories" of the war. In my "headcanon what-if" clones no longer need their identifying colors after the war because they have found their autonomy with the end of the war, though many may still keep them. (this is totally not because I didn't want to fully color more panels shhhhhhh)

• I learned how to edit videos in Blender for this

animatic depicting the tragedy of the clone wars and answers the question: what if Commander Fox was able to put down the gun and raise it at at someone else?

Song: Take Me to War (Live) by the Crane Wives

if one (1) person asks I will post an in depth analysis of every panel

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- 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄

- Lmao today at school, this random ass girl held my hand thinking I was her boyfriend like tf- she was cute though ngl.

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Clone Wars Season 1

Episode 1: Ambush

Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

I love how Yoda’s first words is “hmmmm…”

Droid: What a terrible shot

Droid: Aw well, it’s my programming LOL

Red and white troopers with Yoda

"Ok, clankers, suck lazer!"

“Die, Republic dogs…”

“I’m having a serious malfunction.”

“Left behind, no one will be” Yoda...yes!

Rys, Jek, Thire

“Clones, you may be, but the force resides in all forms.”

“Strong you are with the dark side, young one, but not that strong” Yoda just adding salt to the wound, I love it.

Episode 2: Rising Malevolence

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Plo Koon sent to find weapon destroying Republic fleets

"Koh to ya, Master Plo” Aw, she is so cute with Po!

Ahsoka’s walking animation is awkward...and creepy 0_0

“Ah, Master Skywalker…” Chancellor, not so subtle...

Those ships are torn apart quickly 0_0

“We don’t have much time! Quickly into the pods!” Plo

“I value your life more than finding that weapon” Dad!Plo

Obi-Wan and Cody...literal husbands

Oh, there’s Rex behind the Admiral on the screen!

Droid humming The Imperial March...haha

“Put your helmets on.”

“Wolffe, keep the communications alive…”

Wolffe doesn’t have his scar yet and he’s in a grey suit...ok, so we haven't fought Ventress yet...

Boost and Comet look good in their Wolfpack uniform

Dad!Plo: KEEP THE SIGNAL ALIVE, COMMANDER

Dad!Plo: Sinker, your turn! yeets him through the Force

Sinker: I’m on it boss. Eat lazers, clankers!

“Your sense of humor is improving…” Plo quips!

“We’re just clones sir, we’re meant to be expendable...”

“NOT TO ME” YES, DAD!PLO...EPIC, JUST...ICONIC

Ahsoka: your men are safe now

Master Plo: tell me, were there any other suvivors? 😭😭😭

They were the only ones 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Wolffe is wounded poor thing…he thanks Anakin so sweetly. Such a sweetheart!

Binary Sunset playing at the end of the episode [they don't do this every episode, but I thought it was interesting to note which ones it faintly appears in...] I JUST ADORE THIS SCORE, DON'T YOU???

Episode 3: Shadow of Malevolence

Easy is the path to wisdom for those not blinded by ego

“Heh, the head clanker…Skywalker’s getting ambitious”

“Matchstick, you think our squadrom can pull this off?”

Plo: Master Skywalker does seem to invoke confidence in his men

Ahsoka: he does lead by example

Grievous has a coughing attack lol

Damn, this weapon is viscious

Dooku sends Grievous with weapon to attack clone medical recovery facility...NO!

Nala🤬 Se is being helped by Kenobi to help move the wounded in bacta tanks first

Plo Koon as Shadow Escort is ready!

“Broadside, if we make it through this one, drinks on me!”

“I can already taste it” [TOO BAD WE DON'T GET TO SEE IT!]

Shadow Squadron go through nebula

How dare they address Nala Se as madame!!!!

Broadside: I’m going to blow up that battleship

Plo Koon: a clear path if there’s ever one 🤣

Lord Sidious tipped off Dooku to warn Grievous that Skywalker is coming

Matchstick got hit! “I’m ok”

Ahoska: that one looks hungry

Anakin: nah, it’s just smiling at ya 🤣

They lost Matchstick and Tag 🥺🥺

Nala Se wanting to stay and not leave her patients…ugh 🤬

Droid: I have a bad feeling about this [this is a recurring phrase of course]

Nala Se: do not take the lives you saved lightly TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH BITCH

Binary Sunset is playing in the background

Episode 4: Destroy Malevolence

A plan is only as good as those who see it through

Padme the hostage has arrived...yippee

“Padme! What are you doing here? Get out of there as fast as you can!” Anakin is panican 🤣

Anakin orders them to stop firing. Obi-wan scrunches his beard...he knooooows

Plo: there he goes again, craving adventure and excitement

Ahsoka: you get used to it

OBI-WAN THE SASS has arrived 😎

Obi-Wan: Subtlty has never been your strong point, Anakin

Anakin: Everythin I learned I learned from you

Obi-Wan: If only that were true

Obi-Wan: Spinning is not flying

Anakin: But it’s a good trick

Padme: This is where we’re supposed to meet them…he’s probably late again

Padme! Anakin! Yall are not subtle, like, at all...

Anakin: oh, the things you do to get me alone

Padme: Stop talking

Grievous jumps down: HELLO THERE [omg it's the thing! they did the thing!]

Obi wan sasses him off GO OFF, KING!

Lol Grievous just hangs up and runs away from Dooku instead of meeting him

Episode 5: Rookies

The best confidence builder is experience

FINALLY GET TO SEE MY BOYZ

Joined before training is finished

They’re listening to the radio

Hevy, having just won an arm wrestle: Hm, whatda know, all clear

"Echo, what is wrong with you?"

Echo gets made fun of for wanting to go over the manual, bless him, leave my precious sweetheart alone! 😊😩

"Cody!" Obi wan lightens up, then "good man, that Cody"...HUSBANDS...THEY'RE ACTUALLY MARRIED

"You wanted excitement, Hevy"

Hevy: right, ooooo, meteor shower [the sass!]

Fives got his tattoo!

Ventress is a spy on Kamino???? Grievous is planning destruction of Kamino

Cody!: This is the inspection team

Rex!: Something’s not right, here

Cody: well, good luck, I’m putting YOU in charge of this one

What do we do without the serg?

Echo: well, the reg manual says- [Echo! 😂]

Cutup gets eaten by the eel

What the hell was that?

Echo: that was the eel, that’s why we have the regulation not to go outside [go off, bae]

“these boys are sloppy, they should always be on duty"

I have a baaaad feeling about this

Rex and Cody look at each other at the droid in disguise twice, peak comedy

Cody: Rex what the heck are you doing???

Rex: Relax… [Ever since the beginning, Rex has been a feisty one]

Rex: Take them off, now! [Every. Time. He. Gets this way, I 😳]

Way to go, Rex killing the worm in one blow. such a badass

Rex: DOES THE HANDPRINT

Rex: there’s hope for you yet, rookie

Anakin: perhaps Cody is boring Rex with protocol

Echo: but there’s so many of them

Rex: doesn’t matter

Rex: I have a few ideas…

Roger, Roger…

Roger, Roger…

Roger, Roger…

Cody: this is never gonna work

Droid: Clones!

Rex: Roger, Roger…

Rex: I’m always first, kid [that is just, so sexy of him, to be so caring]

Rex just twists a clanker’s neck, GO OFF, BAE

Echo: I got one! YOU'RE DOING GREAT, SWEETIE

Fives: sorry, Echo, I got it LEAVE HIM ALONE, FIVES

Fives: well, buddy [Hevy] you always said you wanted to be in the front lines

Rex: today we fight for more than the Republic, today we fight for all of our brothers back home

Hevy: this one’s mine [holds big gun]

Didn’t say please [fires big gun]

Obi wan: if something were wrong, Cody would contact us [like the good, reliable husband he is ☺️]

Grievous: we can’t let a few puny clones stop us

Hevy works on the detonator

Rex: I don’t like your tone, rookie!

Doids: do we take prisoners?

Hevy: I. don’t. BOOM ✊😔

Echo: Hevy always did hate that place

Echo and Fives get medals...so proud of them!

Echo: we failed this mission

Rex recruits them to 501st

Episode 6: Downfall of a Droid

Trust in your friends, and they’ll have reason to trust in you

Rex standing there as Ahsoka calls Anakin out

Ahsoka: Rex old boy, it’s time you joined the party

“With pleasure, sir” Rex and them climbing on asteroids firing from behind, nice!

Grievous always got that escape ship that he flips into...every time it's the same way 😂

Anakin: I got a bad feeling about this

Rex and Ahsoka are there when Anakin wakes up

Ahsoaka: you owe Rexter your skin, SkyGuy

Rex: just doing my job, sir

Ah Jedi in poncho disguises!

Ahsoka only has one green lightsaber now [just mental note]

Grievous: don’t push me, slime! 🤣

Ahsoka: hit it, Rex!

Twin Suns music playing out the episode

Episode 7: Duel of the Droids

You hold onto friends by keeping your heart a little softer than your head

Rex helping Ahsoka and Anakin search for R2

Anakin recognizing R2’s voice aaawwwww🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Rex: …we’re bringing the droid?

Ahsoka: and you get to carry him

Rex: oh, that’s just great

Rex: next time, YOU’RE lugging this astro-mech around!

Boys laugh 🤣🤣🤣

Rex: oh, this’ll be good

Ahsoka: patience, Captain!

Grievous: they sent a child

Ahsoka: you must be General Grievous

Grievous coughs I.C.O.N.I.C. [BTW I'M WATCHING THESE IN SUBTITLES, SO FAR GRIEVOUS COUGHS IS MY FAVORITE CC]

Rex: Ahsoka, it’s me, Rex

R2 is jealous of R3

Rex: She engaged General Grievous

Anakin: ALONE????

Rex: I can take you to her

Rex: I’ve got a bad feeling about this sir

Look at Rex shooting with both blasters across himself and out from him while running...effortless, smooth, sexy

Anakin: you just let me worry about the details

Rex: sir, yes, sir

R2 is the best

Obi-wan: Oh, Anakin…one day [I feel like every time Obi-Wan says "Anakin", he loses about 1% battery power, just the way he says it]

Episode 8: Bombad Jedi

Heroes are made by the times

Padme episode with C3PO and Jar-Jar…uuuuuuuuugh 😒

JarJar asks whose robe that belongs to

C3PO: I wouldn’t, mhm…know

Smooooooooth

C3PO: I have a really bad feeling about this

Episode 9: Cloak of Darkness

Ignore your instincts at your peril

“That is a very tempting offer, viceroy. In the meantime, I have a gift for you.” Clone with green

Commander Gree in Green to take Gunray

We finally see Palpatine

They have a clone captain dressed in grey suits again

Ahsoka threatens with lightsaber to get the Viceroy to talk…it worked

Clone drops dead, then another immediately jumps into his spot and keeps shooting

“All units! There’s a bald-“ gets decapitated by Ventress 😳

“you know droids don’t like to be called by their nicknames”

Commander Green

“If it isn’t the hairless harpy?” damn, Ahsoka...savage

“If it isn’t Skywalker’s obnoxious little pet”

Ahsoka just drops into the splits to save her life...QUEEN

Ahsoka just called Ventress a bogwitch 👏🤣

Ventress: now you fall, as all Jedi must

“A clone like you wouldn’t understand…a life that you could never have” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Episode 10: Lair of Grievous

Most powerful is he who controls his own power

KIT FISTO! Going after Viceroy Gunray

Fisto: Charming

“we specialize in making entrances” clone captain

Have you ever killed a Jedi?

No, me neither

Human statues of Grievous before he turned into a cyborg...interesting [makes mental note to read up on that]

Dooku to Grievous: Lord Sidious demands more results…more dead Jedi

Capturing Grievous could turn the tide of the war…HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE 🤔

Now Grievous is pulling out four lightsabers…the lighting on his and Fisto’s eyes makes this scarier 😳😳😳😳😳 [I KNOW THE ANIMATION IS STILL ICKY HERE, BUT THIS MOMENT IS CREEPY]

“The clones got in the way, I could’ve taken them…” UM, SHUT UP KID

Grievous coughs 🤣

I have a bad feeling about this

You can see his eyes socket under his damaged armor 😳😳😳

Grievous coughs 🤣

Grievous: Improvements! I submit to no one! I made the choice dangit the camera cut away before we could see his face!

Achievement Unlocked: Grievous adds another saber to his collection

Grievous spin spin spin with four sabers ICONIC

Kit Fisto: smirks and leaps onto ship

Episode 11: Dooku Captured

The winding path to peace is always a worthy one, regardless of how many turns it takes

Obi-Wan goes looking after Anakin who disappeared while looking for Dooku

“Don’t bother to get up. You’re not the prisoner I’m looking for.”

Anakin: How can I become a Jedi Master if I’m always getting caught? excellent point

Rex and Ahsoka attack!

Ahsoka: let’s try not to destroy the ship until after they get off the ship

Obi-Wan: why do I even try?

Anakin: lucky for you, I’m an excellent pilot!

Obi-Wan: for all your expertise, we’d get a better landing!

Anakin is so much taller than Obi-Wan omg🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

PIRATES!

HONDO! : Well, well, what do we have here?

Obi-Wan, unphased: oh, this should be interesting

Obi-Wan: oh, you’re doing fine. She seems to like you.

The mother of all gundocks, precisely

Obi-Wan: Should I leave you two alone? 🤣 The sass is too much

Ahsoka saved the day lol

Ahsoka gives that look 😒

Anakin: Chime in, any time…

Obi-Wan: Oh no, I’m enjoying this far too much HIS SASS IS UNMATCHED

Hondo: we have no interest in getting involved in your war

Rex is at every hollow meeting with Ahsoka...AAWWW BESTIES

[percussive music playing]

Hondo, sitting there like a king: gentlemen! Can I offer you something to drink?

Obi-Wan: look how the mighty sith lord have fallen

Obi-Wan establishes himself as the sass king of the galaxy

Pirate rubs girls’ butt and she smacks him to the ground 😂👏

Episode 12: The Gungan General

Fail with honor rather than succeed by fraud

Anakin: oh great, it’s you…

Hondo: Son, if one hostage is good, two is better, and three is a bargain…thank-you, Mom 😂😂😂

JarJar ruins everything ugh 😒😒😒😒

Obi-Wan: Anakin, control your insolence, the count is concentrating… 😂

“Don’t worry, he’s smarter than he looks…” clone captain about JarJar 🤔

Hondo: what happened to the power? I was having fun! 😂

Dooku makes a pirate shoot his man and then broke his neck 😳

Hondo: very honorable, Master Jedi

Episode 13: Jedi Crash

Greed and fear of loss are the roots that lead to the tree of evil

Rex: hey kid-

Ahsoka: I know, I know, I’m hanging on!

Aayla and Commander Bly being rescued

Anakin on life support kinda sounded like Vader breathing 😳😳

Rex: everyone OUT [EVERY TIME HIS CAPTAIN VOICE COMES OUT, I CAN'T EVEN WITH THIS MAN]

Rex: don’t worry, kid. I’ll take good care of him. Hey kid, good luck smirks 😩❤️

Ahsoka: it’s confusing. We can’t have attachments, but we’re supposed to be compassionate

Rex being pinned by a giant bird 😂

Damn, good shot Bly 👏

Atta boy, Rex, killing one in one shot ✊😘

Episode 14: Defenders of Peace

When surrounded by war, one must eventually choose a side

Bly helping out the locals cute ☺️

Rex: sir, you’re talking about stealing from the Separatists? cocks gun count me in! 😎

“I’ll go with you, Commander” always ready to have fun, Rex? 👏

Anakin: stay down, boys to Rex and Bly

Aayla saving Bly like Tarzan yes 😂

Episode 15: Trespass

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

Clone helmets on spikes…

Rex: I don’t get it 😂

Obi-Wan: patience, maybe they’re smarter than we are

Anakin…well, say something

Obi-Wan: just shut up 😂

Anakin: draws picture peace [ANAKIN STOP PLZ 😂😂😂😂]

Anakin puts his hand up to Rex so he doesn’t have to follow this crazy chairman

C-3PO to the rescue!

When the Chairman told Rex what to do, he looked to Anakin for help, I love their relationship

Rex saving the body of the chairman like a boss, as always 🤗

Rex: good to see you, sir

Anakin: you ok, Rex?

Rex: it’s just a scratch, sir ✊

Anakin: 3PO, get going

3PO: yes, Master Ani

Episode 16: The Hidden Enemy

Truth enlightens the mind, but won’t always bring happiness to your heart

CODY! : we’re back, General [Honey] 😘

Obi-Wan: good, the show is about to begin 😘

Anakin says Rex and the boys are anxious to get started lol yes

501st zipline to the rescue to save the 212th 👏

REX JUST TWISTED OFF HIS HEAD AND TOOK IT WITH HIM 🤣👏

Rex and Cody inspected the head

Rex and Cody after the spy!

Cody: we can’t reach General Kenobi

Rex: R2, come over here and plug in

Cody: what, he just sat down and wrote a note?

Rex: you have to start somewhere 🤣

Rex: of course we did, we’re getting to the bottom of this, now

Cody not wanting to break it to them gently, but get the job done

Obi-Wan: Ventress, and here I thought this mission would go unpleasant [their flirting is hilarious]

Rex: Chopper, old boy, what’s your alibi?

Cody: if you know something kid, you better speak up

Cody, to Chopper: son, we’re going to need better than that

Cody: how did you know the Jedi were gone?

They all looked judgmentally [THE MEME]

Rex: it’s Slick? Slick’s the traitor? Yes, hon, he is

Rex: there’s no escape now, ya piece of rankweed! 🤣👏

Haha turtle!Rex

Ventress: I’m all yours, Obi-wan 🤣

Obi-Wan: bringing us here was a mistake, my sweet 🤣

The FLIRTING

Ventress: super hero landing like Black Widow haha POSER

Cody: hey, there, Slick, gun’s empty 👏👏👏

Slick: all of you blindly following orders for what? At least I get something out of this suffering

Yeah, but she offered me more. Something more important, something you wouldn’t understand. It’s the Jedi who get your brothers enslaved…I love my brothers 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Episode 17: Blue Shadow Virus

Fear is a disease; hope is its only cure

Ugh Padme and JarJar again and C3PO 😒😒😒😒😒

Obi-Wan: better to have one planet eradicated than the entire galaxy

Anakin: so, yes, I’m a bit on edge, how about you?

Obi-Wan: I’m better at hiding it 😘

Rex and the boys led by Ahsoka, Anakin, and Obi-Wan

Obi-Wan:…need some help? smug smile 🤣

Episode 18: Mystery of the Thousand Moons

A single chance is a galaxy of hope

Obi-Wan: oh well, just another boring day saving the universe…

They got locked in sealed when the virus went off 😳

Rex, Ahsoka and the men are contaminated 😭

Anakin is not subtle about this at all 🤣

Obi-wan: I have a bad feeling about this

Anakin, hurry…Anakin, now!

Anakin: ok, ok! 🤣

Rex on a stretcher: I am NOT training him

Episode 19: Storm Over Ryloth

It’s a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness

Ahsoka: this is my first time commanding a squadron YOU'RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE

Anakin: hey, I wouldn’t send you out there if you weren’t ready…may the force be with you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Axe: come on you whiners, let’s get dirty! 🤣

Admiral: did you train her not to follow orders? yes, actually

Ahsoka: cool your jets, Admiral, we’re on our way SASSY

Ahsoka feels awful for losing so many men….Anakin tries to encourage her 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Ahsoka: but you don’t follow orders either! SHE GOT A POINT THOUGH

Anakin: Rex, see if you can find Ahsoka

Anakin scolded her like a child lol

Anakin throws Rex in charge, who immediately takes over ✊

Rex: try to leave some ships for us, General

Well, you heard her, boys, back to work! Come on, move it move it

Commander on deck! HE RESPECTS HER SO MUCH

Ahsoka: at ease

Rex: better fill us in, Commander

Ahsoka: right…

Rex: well, I have to say this plan is…questionable

They doubt her, and Rex feels bad…🥺🥺🥺🥺

Ahsoka, I thought about that, and I have an idea

Rex: go ahead, Commander 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Admiral: the Commander is right

Ahsoka just needed the confidence boost!

Rex: Right, Commander…yes sir

Admiral: Commander, on your order Rex smiles with pride 😭❤️

Anakin: at a girl, Ahsoka ❤️😭

Episode 20: Innocents of Ryloth

The costs of war can never be truly accounted for.

Obi-Wan acknowledging Cody by his first name [WHEN WAS THE WEDDING????]

Obi-Wan: who’s up for a challenge?

212th clone: here we go again…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Obi-Wan to Boil and Waxer: you two wanted action, follow me!

Cody: Boil, Waxer, come with me

Boil: I guess we’re the best… You are, hon

Wooley: it’s not going to be easy getting past them, sir

Cody: there is always a way, Wooley

Boil and Waxer find a girl

Boil: eh, the little tail bit bit me! 🤣

Waxer: relax, she probably thinks we’re droids

Boil: aw, you made a friend, mission accomplished

Waxer is a lot nicer to her than Boil 🤔

Boil: I’m just trying to keep you alive! Darn if I know why…🤣

Kenobi flexing over here with the Force, while Cody keeps his men from firing

“Incredible…”

Cody: QUIET, rookie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 DEFENDING HIS HUSBAND

Cody hands Obi-Wan his lightsaber

Obi-Wan: Nerra…it means brother…🥺🥺🥺❤️❤️❤️

Episode 21: Liberty on Ryloth

Compromise is a virtue to be cultivated, not a weakness to be despised

Mace Windu just puts his hand on the glass, Force breaks it, and yanks his guy out BADASS

Mace and his men running on those little walkers is kinda awesome

Cham Syndulla will be recruited by Windu for help to take the capital

Not us, we’re independent thinkers…

Roger, Roger

Roger, Roger

Roger, Roger

Syndulla and Gobi are so young right now

“The Republic won’t abandon you after the war…��� suuuure Windu 😉

The foreshadowing of Ryloth for post war 😳😳😳😳😳😳

When the bridge went down and the white noise went off 0_0

Mace is incredibly strong in the Force 😱

Episode 22: Hostage Crisis

A secret shared is a trust formed

CAD BANE IS HERE GOING AFTER THE SENATE 😎

Anakin is on leave, wanting to go away where they can be husband and Wife

He rolls his eyes when Padme has work to do 😂

THEY KISS! FINALLY

CAD FUCKING BANE 😎😎😎😎😎😎

What is that lady droid doing by herself in the bedroom??? 0_0😳

Chancellor: my dear boy, I’m glad to hear you’re all right 😒

Ugh, that slug getting released from prison

[hopecomesbacktolife]

- seeing Anakin and Obi-wan train these villagers to wield their farming tools as weapons is so so so endearing, I love them being all mentor-y and teacher-y ♡ I would so gladly learn self defense from them omg

- I swear it’s like, almost impossible for Obi-wan to not have an at least pseudo-flirty interaction with someone 🤣 I love him

- oh, Hondo ( /affectionate /derogatory )

- also mr ‘my wide brimmed hat doubles as a blaster shield’ bounty hunter your hat is so cool and I love that this exists!!! I feel like Padmé and also just the general Naboo royalty (handmaiden culture etc etc) would have an absolute field day incorporating shield hats and the like into their wardrobes. like, imagine… shield hats, chainmaille mesh dresses, blaster-repellant threaded brocades… soooo many fun possibilities and oh I am getting many fanfic ideas about this

- one of my favorite Ahsoka lines, “you don’t have to look tough to be tough” ♡

- Hondo where the kriff did you get a shock staff thing so reminiscent of Lasat honor guard’s ones 👀 there’s got to be a story there

- the Felucian villagers are so friend shaped omg ♡

- this bounty hunter lady’s outfit is so fun. Renaissance bicep puffs + sci fi aesthetic forearm wraps + lived in tank top and cargo pants? an icon tbh. I want to know so much more about her she’s so cool

omg I just started a clone wars rewatch (have not seen most of these episodes since like. 5+ years ago) and literally episode 3 like HELLO DISTANT RELATIONS OF THE PURRGIL?!? :o :o

why are we fighting when we could be friending… I mean it makes the purrgil stuff in rebels very interesting bc. the empire still views them as menaces and it’s part of why everything with Ezra worked, and I know Anakin and even young!Ahsoka’s temperaments are different, but… part of me is just going

but what if friend! lol

[the196thbattalion]

star wars human! high school! au

i’ve seen so many headcanons circling throughout the star wars tumblr about high school au’s, so i wanted to share my bit with all of you :D

anakin skywalker

five words: REBEL CHILD ON A MOTORCYCLE.

he doesn’t like riding the school bus because it makes him feel extremely claustrophobic, so he scrapped and scavenged up parts to make his own customized motorcycle, which he lovingly dubbed artoo.

the blue and silver detailing was the joint effort of ahsoka and obi-wan, because anakin doesn’t know how to paint.

if he can catch up to the bus, he’ll ride alongside it and flip off the students on it before revving on ahead of them. (the freshmen think it’s the funniest thing in the universe)

probably one of the most well-known juniors in the entirety of temple high school (mostly because of his shenanigans but partly because he’s dating padme fuckiNG AMIDALA, PRETTIEST GIRL IN THE DAMN SCHOOL)

he always wears this worn-down leather jacket his mom gave to him before she passed away, and refuses to take it off, even though it’s somehow “a violation of the dress code and should be outlawed.”

his hair alone has seduced eight different students (boys and girls)

sometimes during study hall, ahsoka or padme will get a hold of his hair and style it into little braids or make a super rad ponytail.

he really likes iced coffee with milk and sugar. he puts in the milk to make it nice and light (it’s aesthetically pleasing, obi-wan!), and then like eight tablespoons of sugar to make it actually taste good.

his favorite class is mechanics, taught by kit fisto.

anakin spent months on a mechanical arm project to replace his clunky plastic prosthetic, and he was so freaking happy when it was finished; he almost cried. (he did cry and ahsoka got it on video)

obi-wan kenobi

a mixture of the soft™, pretty™, hippie™, grunge™, vsco™ and nerd™ tropes.

he really likes peppermint tea with lots of honey but takes his coffee black.

he has had too much tea.

someone needs to stop him.

almost all of his classes are ap courses, and if cody hadn’t been watching when obi-wan was making his schedule, all of them would be.

him, cody and padme have ap english with mace windu, and cody knows how much his classes stress him out, so he lets obi-wan sleep during class and sends him the notes

the only ap class obi-wan doesn’t take is mechanics, and he shares that class with anakin.

anakin and obi-wan are super close with each other. kenobi was there when ahsoka was adopted, and anakin was there when kenobi got his cat. (they were like 5 okay)

“NAME IT C3PO OBI-WAN, OR I SWEAR TO FUCK-” “what kind of name is that, and why would i - anAKIN PUT HIM DOWN!?”.

mr. fisto constantly has to split them up for disrupting the class, but it’s almost like they can communicate telepathically, and the teachers have a running bet

mace windu literally bet $50 on these fucking nerds so you know it’s for realsies

in reality, they’ve just gotten super creative with passing notes.

kind of off topic, but he has these brown harry potter glasses that he uses (kinda for reading???? but mostly so he can do that anime pushing up glasses thing)

cody thinks it’s the funniest shit ever

whenever cody is feeling stressed, obi-wan just does the thing™ and BOOM! happiness.

people think he’s a goodie two shoes, and honestly, it’s really easy to think that. if the iconics are trying to do something stupid, he’s usually the voice of reason.

but parties?

…

you know what, just ask anakin for the video footage.

ahsoka tano

this hs!au ahsoka tano turned me bisexual confirmed ✔

okay before i go into her style, which is mainly what made me drool over my computer, can i just put skatergirl!ahsoka out there?

spray painting of the rebellion symbol all over the bottom of her board and on items in a couple of the places where she skates the most (like the back of an abandoned car yard)

her instagram is filled with these super cool vhs-tape recorded skate videos (u know)

lots crackhead 3am visits (starring anakin, rex, kenobi and barris) to a gas station to get slushies and grind the shit out of the curb connecting the store to the parking lot

trying to teach anakin how to skateboard but he just can’t figure it out? uh yes

“try to balance skyguy!” “HOW DO I MOVE? DO I SCOOT? SNIPS THIS ISN’T FUNNY AND I WANT TO GET OFF – GUYS, STOP LAUGHING!”

okay okay okay i’m done

for now

anyway, her style???? is so???? fucking????? cool!!!!!

her genetics gave her a 80% of having vitiligo, so it really wasn’t a surprise when patches of her skin got lighter, but it still freaked her out a little bit.

basically, went like this: “DAD, I’M TURNING WHITE!” “???? oh my gosh ‘soka, no.”

she has long braided dreadlocks she dyed a super bright orange with various colored beads woven into them with the help of anakin and padme. she usually styles them into little space buns atop her head.

her entire clothing wardrobe consists of fishnets, neon bomber jackets, at least 11 bisexual beanies™, handmade patchy jeans, white tank tops, and light-up platform shoes.

she doesn’t give two flying fucks about the dress code, and – IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOST BUSY HALLWAY - punched principal sidious over whether or not she “could wear shorts that short” (anakin may or may not have cheered when she broke his nose).

the fetts (chuck have mercy)

*cracks le knuckles* i’ve put it off long enough

we have: fox (24), wolffe (19), cody (17), rex (17), echo (16), fives (16), boil (15), waxer (14), hardcase (13), jesse (12), longshot (8), kix (6), tup (3), gree (2) and boba (9mo)

wolffe is off at college - fox already graduated and moved out, that cheeky little fucking shit - but both still keep in good contact with the fam, and it’s a constant clamor between eleven of the siblings of who gets to talk to them first

fox majored in government/politics, bly is majoring in space/astronomy, and wolffe is majoring in police/law enforcement shit (i don’t know how college works, so sue me)

cody and rex are juniors, and despite their similar looks, the amount of schoolwork each of them completes drastically varies

cody is the honor roll student, valedictorian, whatever you want to call it

rex kinda just either does the work really well or 9/10 times gets distracted by anakin or ahsoka sending him some nice spicy memes

cody tried to tutor rex but it ended up almost landing tup in the hospital

“that’s really simple, actually. if you – vod? rex, are you okay? what are you oH NO TUP DON’T PUT THAT IN YOUR MOUTH-”

fetts on the varsity football team is like a right of passage in the family

right now, only the juniors of the fett family are on the team, but the coach has eyes on fives and echo for next years team

SPEAKING OF

echo, fives and boil are the infamous sophomore trio that pulled the milk bucket prank on the gym teacher, pong krell.

they had to help the janitor (99) clean up afterwards, but they genuinely enjoyed 99’s company, because he’s rad as shit and knows all the secret school passageways.

to be honest, not one person (except maybe sidious) was complaining

that motherfucker makes everyone run like eight laps during gym class

even mr. windu gives them a small smile in the hallways after that

boil says he was blackmailed into it

waxer is a freshman (the poor dude, i’m so sorry), and he always looks out for the nervous freshies

if someone is having a bad day, he’ll give them a lollipop (he carries around a whole bag), a place to sit during lunch, and a shoulder to cry on

all you need to do to find waxer is to locate this long ass line of children

the school counselor, plo koon, sometimes brings his niece numa into school during the day because he can’t find a babysitter, and waxer. fucking. loves. her. PERIOD.

w+n pull these tiny little pranks on teachers, and the staff pretends not to notice, but numa always giggles and gives them away.

boil has a soft spot for numa too, and sneaks her rice krispies.

bonus shit i want to add in but can’t figure out where to put it (or i’m just gonna add it on and shit)

plo koon adopted anakin after his mother died (him and anakin’s mother were good friends), and found ahsoka on the side of the street, shivering like a maniac.

he doesn’t know where ahsoka came from, but he loves her so gOD DAMN MUCH.

he’s the school counselor, and still keeps in touch with a lot of students even after the graduated (he thinks that majoring in law enforcement/police is a bit dangerous for wolffe but he still supports his unofficial but basically son 100%)

yoda is the super old but radically rad english teacher.

his entire point of existence in my mind fic is to troll the shit out of palpatine.

a recent conversation starring yoda and palps: “did you give the students the mountain of extra work i assigned them?” “for the students, that was?” i’m sorry. my bad, that is.” “this is the seventh time, yoda.”

okay but for real

mace windu violently roots for the school football team.

“BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM, CODY! YOU TOO...OTHER CODY!”

“THAT’S A HOLDING! THAT’S A HOLDING!”

“REF IF YOU DON’T COUNT THAT TOUCHDOWN THEN I SWEAR TO SAMUEL L. JACKSON I WILL COME DOWN THERE AND BEAT YOUR SORRY PINSTRIPED ASS!”

[nimsajlove]

road to recovery (II/?)

Second part, I dont really know WHAT this is. But it still ended up here, so you jugde it.

Ao3     Brothers-AU          Part I , Part III

*~*

„That's it for today, let's set up the camp.“, Cody instructed over the com, general relief and approval got back to him and the men crashed down, right where they were standing. The few shinys they had with them were careful to set up the tents immediately. The older clones watched them for a few seconds, amused, and Cody finally took pity on them. „Put that stuff away and sit down for a moment. This is not going to be rated by anyone.“, he instructed the younger ones and reluctantly they let go of their tasks.

Cody watched with a smile as the men gathered in groups to take a few minutes to breath, he was about to do the same and had just put his backpack down when his communicator flashed. Huh, so was the cruiser back? Unusual, the Admiral had planned to stay away for at least two more rotations. He took the call, an unexpected voice greeted him. „Commander Cody, I hope it's going well with the new men.“ It sounded like Plo Koon was smiling. Cody was never quite sure about that, the General rarely sounded worried or restless. He always seemed to be at peace. „General Plo Koon, what can I do for you?“, Cody answered and decided that he could sit down despite the conversation. „Nothing for me Commander, but I'm here to do a favor for Ahsoka.“, Plo Koon admitted. Ah, things got a little clearer now. Cody didn't know much about what Ahsoka had to do in the Jedi Temple. But he knew she hadn't left the temple walls in weeks. A message from Rex, full of concern for the young woman, had also made Cody thoughtful. „She convinced the council to send Kenobi back to you. The shuttle is just getting ready to take off.“, Plo Koon explained when Cody didn't react immediately.

That was good! Even if this was more of an enjoyable hunt than a battlefield, the presence of the General would lift the spirits of the men even further. Hardly thought through, a fine drizzle set in and sullenly Cody glanced up at the darkening sky, which peered through the canopy of leaves. In a short period of time, the rain would continue to pick up and guaranteed not to stop at night. It made the nights on that moon surprisingly cold. The men around him began to pitch the tents and Cody remembered the blank look General Kenobi had had when he left a few days ago. „Is there anything I and the men should watch out for?“, Cody asked and he heard a low murmur on the other end, was that Wolffe? „I think you will know best how to handle him, that is all.“, Plo Koon replied. „Got it, General.“, Cody muttered thoughtfully and cut the connection. That was... not particularly helpful. So was Kenobi's condition unchanged?

Cody was about to take off his helmet when a message appeared. Cody fixed the little icon and it opened.

‚The General is not sure himself. Tano seems to be the only one to know whats going on.‘

So Wolffe was there after all! It was disturbing that the Jedi could not assess the condition of one of their own. On the other hand, it was kind of nothing new after so many suicide missions they had sent Kenobi on... If Kenobi was still as moody and slow as he was a few days ago, then Cody had to keep as much stress away from him as possible . He looked around, took off his helmet and put it next to his backpack. Then he went to help with the tents.

*~*

The last tent was up, the rain had gotten heavier and pattered relentlessly on Cody's helmet. Even though he was leaning directly against a tree. He wondered briefly if he should wait outside any longer, when a noise caught his attention. He looked up hastily and took a few steps away from the tree, a shuttle flew over the camp and landed in the small clearing on the edge of which Cody was standing. As soon as it touched down, the door opened and the ramp extended.

Kenobi wasn't the first figure Cody saw. In fact, it was a different, familiar face. Echo took a step forward on the ramp before waiting and looking back. The Jedi appeared behind him, Cody saw at first glance that his condition had only worsened. He moved slowly, his shoulders pulled forward and his hands hanging limply by his sides. Kenobi followed Echo and as he approached, Cody saw the deep shadows under the Jedi's eyes. „General.“, Cody greeted him carefully and Kenobi nodded once. Echo approached Cody and handed him a datapad, so was he just a messenger? „Wolffe had asked me to accompany him, and on the occasion Ahsoka thought I would give you all the information about the enemy positions that she could find here.“, the ARC explainedand although his calm voice sounded forced. There was deep concern in his eyes. It was clear that Kenobi's condition had caught his eye too. „Thanks, I'll take care of everything.“, Cody muttered, taking another look at his General, Echo nodded and turned back. Cody waited until he disappeared into the shuttle and took off again. Only then did he fully turn to Kenobi.

On closer inspection, the General didn't just look tired. His cheeks looked thinner than a few weeks ago. A development that he had been watching concerned for some time. And nothing seemed to have improved in his absence! The reddish hair stuck close to Kenobis skull, the rain had soaked the General in no time. An annoying quirk of the place, Cody liked it less and less. Maybe he should just make sure that Kenobi got dry as soon as possible... „Sir, we've set up a place to sleep for you.“, Cody started carefully and when the Jedi slowly nodded, he waited. But instead of answering, he just pulled a stiff hand from the folds of his cloak and told Cody to go ahead. He did so hesitantly, every few steps he glanced over his shoulder. The General didn't walk right next to him, as usual. No, he trudged a few steps behind Cody, placing his feet so unevenly that Cody feared he would fall. Where was the great General Kenobi? This was worse than any injury, any period of insomnia Kenobi had had during the war. And Cody knew exactly when the Jedi was sleeping and when not! He had spent an eternity studying Obi Wan Kenobi and knew the difference between a wakeful look and the soft shadows that did not disappear even after long meditation.

Kenobi didn't even look like he was meditating at the moment. He was just... empty. From the glassy gaze that was dull on the floor to the sagging shoulders. Oh, thank the maker that the men were already in their tents. Cody himself probably wouldn't sleep that night, he had sacrificed his tent for his General and would just make sure that the Jedi would actually sleep. Then he would find a nice tree for himself, hide from the rain, and study Ahsoka's plans. This was exactly how the evening would go and no different!

Cody quickly threw these plans overboard when he opend the entry of the tent and Kenobi looked at him confused. „This is not my tent.“, stated the Jedi, so he was still mentally present after all. Impressive. „Right Sir, this is mine. We don't have yours with us, so you will stay here.“, Cody explained and when Kenobi still looked at him confused, without moving, he reconsidered his judgment on the General's condition. His eyes seemed even more glassy than a few moments ago. And he was still wet. Sighing, Cody put a hand on the Jedi's shoulder and pushed him into the tent, then locked the entrance behind him. There was a soft splash and Cody whirled around, Kenobi was sitting on the floor in his wet clothes and didn't seem to notice that he was shaking.

Great, Plo Koon could have mentioned that Kenobi's condition had gotten worse. A little uncertainly, Cody took off his helmet and put it on the floor next to the entrance so that he wouldn't forget it later. Kenobi shifted a bit and whatever he was trying to do, it seemed to cost energy. The tremors got worse, if Cody didn't intervene... „Sir, we put a set of Blacks aside for you.“, Cody muttered and approached his General, he had noticed that Kenobi was traveling without luggage. Again. Cody would contact the Admiral at the earliest opportunity to get some things from Kenobi's quarters. Kenobi didn't react, so he put a hand on the Jedi's shoulder and squeezed lightly, he looked up. At least something! „It's okay, I just have to keep an eye on her...“, the Jedi muttered. Cody didn't understand any of it. Wow, something new. Couldn't the Jedi speak clearly? But this was HIS Jedi, so it would be worth a try… „Her?“, Cody asked carefully and crouched down so he brought himself to Kenobi's eye level. The General's gaze seemed far away. „Ahsoka.“ So that was the simple answer, Kenobi wanted to keep protecting her despite the huge distance between him and Ahsoka Tano? There was no longer any reason to do so, the war was over and Ahsoka was bound to new duties in the temple. At least for now. Besides, the girl was great at taking care of herself!

Cody sent a quick prayer to whoever and asked for a little more patience, this would probably be his job for quite some time. Taking care of his lost Jedi. He had to admit there were worse things than getting your own General back on his feet. But there was something in him that didn't like it when Kenobi looked at him blankly. It almost hurt. He knew the feeling, mostly it occurred when Kenobi was floating in a bacta tank for more than 24 hours and Cody had no choice but to trust the technology and medics. Maybe it was the helplessness that always came over him. Maybe not. There were more important puzzles to be solved now. For example, whether the death of Skywalker really had grown such strong fear of loss in Kenobi. Cody eyed his General one more time and decided, yes. „She is in the temple, safe. As soon as she moves, Rex knows it.“, Cody tried to get rid of the fear. Chaos in his head, infinite calm in his voice. He had always been able to do that. Kenobi still didn't move, okay. Fine. Then Cody would have to resort to good old trooper methods now. “I'm sorry Sir, you are not a shiny. But you act like one, so…”, Cody muttered, reaching with his hands under Kenobi's arms, heaving him back onto his feet. The Jedi swayed briefly, then caught himself and rubbed his face with one hand. That was still soaking wet! Kriff.

With one hand, Cody supported Kenobi at the elbow, he didn't trust the Jedi's legs, with the other he grabbed the clothes that he had put aside for the General. Ah, a medic had been so free to contribute a towel. Very nice. "Change, now.", instructed Cody and indeed his command tone seemed to get through to Kenobi. With still stiff hands the Jedi tried to open the outer robe, no chance. Cody knew that since an injury on such a stupid chunk of ice of planet, Kenobi's hands had been reluctant to cooperate on bad days. Today was a bad day, and Cody dared to say the worst of them all. Sighing, he put the things on the nearby bunk before he began to help the Jedi with quick fingers. If another member of the Order entered this tent now, he would find himself in serious need of explanation as a Commander. But, luckily for him, Kenobi was the only Jedi around in the system. So it was easy to get him out of his layered robes quickly. Hey, the undershirt was dry. That was at least something. Cody quickly took the black top from the bunk, held it open with his hands and held it so that Kenobi only had to stick his arms and head into it. He looked up briefly and when he met the confused and tired gaze of the Jedi, Cody's thoughts suddenly smoothed out. How many of his men had looked at him like that at least once? He never thought that it would be his own General's turn at some point. Even though he was taller than Cody, he looked so small and confused. „It's okay, I'll help you. Okay?“, Cody muttered, this time his gentle tone echoing the tenor of his thoughts. This was perhaps more familiar to him than he had initially thought. Kenobi slowly reached out his hands and Cody helped him into the top with a gentle smile. Well, that looked a lot better than the wet robes. Cody was glad that Kenobi wasn't that much bigger than the clones, otherwise they would have had serious problems finding clothes.

When Kenobi's head came back into his visual he blinked a few times and his eyes seemed clearer. „I am sorry Commander.“, he muttered, and Cody felt a small flicker of pride. He had made part of the way, Kenobi sought contact with him on his own initiative. That was good, for Cody it was a sign that the initial shock had been overcome. Well, better late than never. Right? „It's okay.“, he muttered and directed Kenobi to the bunk, there he pressed the black pants into the Jedi's hand. „You can do that?“, he asked and couldn't hide the slightly teasing tone. Kenobi nodded, satisfied Cody straightened up again and began to dispose of all weapons, carefully stacking them next to his helmet. Because no matter how calm and familiar the whole thing was, watching his General was definitely not appropriate. Only when Kenobi sat down again with a sigh, Cody glanced back and smiled contentedly, he came back over to the bunk and grabbed the towel. And while Kenobi stared a little annoyed at his unruly hands, Cody began carefully to dry the Jedi's wet hair. Well, as good as possible with a towel. „Cody?“, Kenobi asked softly. „Mhm?“ „Why did that happen?“ Ah, at this point they have been allready a few weeks ago, the Jedi seemed to keep spinning in circles. And Cody followed, of course, and was ready to have that conversation again. Until Kenobi would break out of this cycle. „Because Sidius planned it that way.“, he muttered his answer, waiting and knowing Kenobi would ponder Sidius now. About the failure of the Jedi. He had done that the last couple of times. „Was I a bad master?“ Cody paused, that was a different question than usual. He had no pre-planned answer for this one! Kriff. His pause seemed to prompt Kenobi to just keep babbling. „I should have saved him...“ „Sir...“ „Why was I so blind?“ „General?“ „I was his master and I betrayed him, like I left down Ahsoka before.“ „General Kenobi.“ „It was my fau-“ „Obi Wan!“

Cody grumpily took the towel down and stared at the Jedi, he had finally managed to break through Kenobi's senseless talk. He looked up at Cody with sad blue eyes. Cody wasn't exactly sure what he was up to. But gently straightening Obi Wan Kenobi's head seemed like a good option. „You are an excellent master. Ahsoka survived this war because she watched you just like she watched Skywalker. It's not your fault that your padawan chose a path, where you can't follow him.” Obi Wan blinked slowly, then looked down. Had Cody ruined today's little progress? He hoped not, to start all over again might get his patience to snap for today. But well... had there ever been anything Cody hadn't done for his General? Okay, maybe he would be able to start all over again, should it be necessary.

„Sorry.“, Obi Wan muttered into his beard and sighing, Cody put the towel aside. „It's okay, neither you nor I can help it.“, he tried to calm down and although Obi Wan nodded, Cody could not fail to see that he had started to shiver again. However, this could also come from the cold and exhaustion. Because Cody was sure Obi Wan wasn't crying. Not yet at least, this phase would definitely come. „How about some sleep?“, Cody suggested, sitting on the bunk next to Obi Wan. He had never dropped formality with his General. But tonight was sure to be okay, Obi Wan needed a friend, not a Commander.

„Can‘t.“ Obi Wan sounded as exhausted and empty as he looked. The Jedi tapped his temple with one hand. „Too loud.“ Then he let his head fall to one side, landing on Cody's shoulder. That was okay too. Reluctantly, he raised a hand and ran his fingers through Obi Wan's hair, slid up to the inclined temple and began to massage it in gentle circular movements. Despite the armor, he could feel the tension leaving Obi Wan's body. „Better?“, he asked anyway and got a weak sound of approval. Well then, he probably wouldn't leave this tent today after all. „Sleep, I'll stay here.“

*~*

The rain outside was pounding heavily on the tent, the temperature was cool and the air was uncomfortably wet. But Cody made no move to at least keep the cold away. Instead, he wrapped the thin blanket from his backpack a little tighter around his shoulders, reached into his helmet, which was lying next to him, and found the regulator for the usually very helpful warming function of his armor. That would keep his legs warm, the upper part of the armor he had piled next to the bunk.

Like that he sat slightly bent forward on the foot end of the bunk and while his left hand rested on Obi Wan's lower leg, he used the data pad on his knees with his right. Beside him Obi Wan was shaking, despite the thick blanket and insulating blacks, and Cody Thumb ran reassuring circles over the Jedi's lower leg. They urgently needed to get rations, preferably the red ones for high energy needs. If his body was supplied with enough energy, Obi Wan wouldn't suffer from the cold too much... For a moment he heard the footsteps of the two troopers on guard outside, then they fell silent again. He turned his attention to the datapad, a file at the top of the list could only have been written by Ahsoka. It was handwritten, kriff that girl had a bad hand. Sighing, he concentrated to decipher the sentences.

A brief account of how she organized Kenobi's trip. That she had personally chosen Echo to go with him. That she hoped it would help the Jedi.

‚He's very attached to you and if I'm right and you reciprocate those feelings, then I'm confident things will turn out better. I entrust you with its wellbeing.

P.S. Ask your men about the red ration bars. I gave them a few more shortly before you left. I had the feeling that they could be unsefull.‘

Well done, Ahs‘ika. She must have been one step ahead of him then. Maybe two. Cody glanced at the sleeping figure of Obi Wan, the light from the datapad just enough to see his face. Cody leaned forward carefully and pulled the covers a little higher until they almost touched Obi Wan's chin. The Sith should get him if he wouldn't help his Jedi. Ahsoka could rely on Cody.

[elenathehun]

Watching the Clone Wars, Part 5

Hey, I’m actually being prompt this time, and not letting this sit on my desk for the rest of the week.  Good for me!  In this viewing session, we watch one “good” arc, and one terrible one.  Guess which is which ;)

“Storm Over Ryloth” (1x19)

Aw, the fourteen year old is going to engage in very dangerous dogfighting?  For those of you old enough to remember X-Wing: Rogue Squadron, remember how leery Starfighter Command was of letting sixteen year old Gavin Darklighter join Rogue Squadron?  More innocent times, for sure.

Anyway, Ahsoka just got eleven men summarily killed, all to set up a tedious episode on the nature of command.  It’s so wild how Rex and the bridge officer clone actually defer to her.  Maybe, just maybe, GAR would win if they gave a bit more power to the highly-trained war machines the Jedi purchased, eh?  Instead of the barely-trained teenagers with no business in a war zone.

I’m not even going to talk about the actual tactics because they’re superfluous.  It’s a shame the jedi don’t understand the purpose of consolidating their force and utilizing a joint attack.  Maybe Anakin could have saved a ship or two if he, Mace, and Obi-Wan had attacked as a group.

No, you’re right.  That’s too smart.

“Innocents of Ryloth” (1x20)

Obi-Wan’s low-impact strategy is a bit stupid.  Like, the CIS is explicitly engaging in terrorist tactics on Ryloth, the Twi’leks most likely have no homes to return to.  But, whatever, that’s not the point of the episode.  The point of this episode is Waxer and Boil.  I love them, but I also love the casual specie-ism/racism on Boil’s part.  Dude grew up on Kamino, which is basically an isolated military boarding school, where would have learned a word like “tailhead”?

Oh, that’s right, the scum of the earth working as trainers.  Never mind!  I like to think that the clones, while generally very nice and polite young men, also have a very strange idea of appropriate language and conduct outside of their very isolated, insular upbringing.  I do love ye olde culture clash plotline!

The CIS continues to devolve with internment camps, animal cruelty, and yes, weaponizing animals to kill clones in a suitably horrific way.  Good job, guys, way to lower the bar!  With that said, Numa is adorable, and it’s amazing that she managed to survive on her own in this ghost-town while her family and community have been rounded up into camps.  

Obi-Wan may be a subpar general, but he is definitely a very capable psychic super-soldier.  The fight scenes were incredibly enjoyable to watch, and although it’s a bit silly, I did really like the Twi’leks pulling the tactical droid who was their warden out of his tank with their bare hands - they definitely deserved that.

“Liberty on Ryloth” (1x21)

This is a Mace Windu episode, and I am here for it.  What an icon, what a legend.  I do think that he is portrayed as having exceptional control of the Force, and it’s always really interesting to see him use it in a fight.  The episode is a fairly basic one: He’s trying to link up with Cham Syndulla to get rid of the rest of the CIS army; the senator for Ryloth, Orn Free Taa, is more concerned about the disposition of political power on Ryloth after the invasion is complete.  I have...so many questions about how political power on Ryloth is distributed: is Orn Free Taa the ruler of the planet and the Senator, or is there a different kind of power-sharing agreement?  Is Cham Syndulla just the sort or ordinary person thrust into extraordinary times, especially by the abandonment of their people by their leadership and the Republic?  It strikes me as a setting rich with potential plots.

Of course, that’s only a small part of the episode, which is mostly Mace being a badass and basically being a one-man army.  Again, the direction is remarkably good in this episode.  As usual, air supremacy is not a factor in this war.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.  Even though AT-RTs really make no sense, I want one very badly.  Lastly, based on the clone trying to pet the blurrg and Boil and Waxer’s treatment of Numa last episode, I believe the clones are going through that stage where they just want a pet of their very own.  It is actually a little adorable.  

Shout-out to the tactical droid obtaining full sentience and ditching his boss and lying to Dooku.  Still wish that a subplot of Dooku’s droids turning against him had been a thing.

Season 1 Restrospective:  It only took five weeks, but we are finally finished with this season, save for 1x22, which is actually set sometime in the third season.  There were some high points, but man, this was an absolute slog mostly.  There were way too many Jar Jar episodes, and the clones were not given nearly enough screen time.  “Rookies” and “Lair of Grievous” were the outstanding stand-alone episodes imho, and the “Ryloth” and “Malevolence” arcs were generally ok, with two of their three episodes being rewatchable.  

But in a series about the clone wars, there is very little character development of the actual clones - like, poor Rex is barely a presence in this season.  And the CIS is just so cartoonishly awful that I can’t take it seriously at all.  It actually does strain my belief that Palpatine could keep these plates spinning for more than a week.  Anakin is just...blah.  And although I know I’m supposed to like Ahsoka, I just can’t help but find her annoying, mostly because she’s a kid.

Well, we’re about one-sixth of the way through.  She’s got another six seasons to grow on me - and hopefully she will, because otherwise this will be very tedious.

“Holocron Heist” (2x01)

No sooner do I say that than Ahsoka reverts to being a dumb fucking kid.  However, is a full Council meeting to investigate the fact that she’s a dumb fucking kid actually a good use of the High Council’s time?  Just curious.  This arc is honestly really stupid, so I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this, only to say that Cad Bane’s aesthetic is very choice for an outlaw, and the Jedi have laughable security.

“Cargo of Doom” (2x02)

Another Anakin & Ahsoka episode where they and Yularen share one braincell, and Rex is the one who holds it most of the time.  Also really love how the Jedi with the list of all the potential Jedi recruits apparently took his sole record with him to a warzone.  That makes perfect sense.  I’m not really going to get into this episode, except to point out that we saw a Jedi tortured to death on-screen, which leads me to my most pressing question: how much money, per episode, did Lucasfilm have to use to bribe the MPA?  

As for the choice Cade Bane gave Anakin at the end?  As @spiraling pointed out, people don’t die of decompression and vacuum exposure immediately.  Anakin could easily take Bane out and rescue Asohka in that time.  She’d need a dip in bacta, but she’d live.  

“Children of the Force” (2x03)

This episode is actually the worst of all, because the Jedi (who, by the by, are an actual government entity with access to priority comms and lots and lots of computer space) don’t have backup lists of their recruits, nor do they, say, call ahead with the address and have the local government set a trap before they arrive.  Poorly done, Obi-Wan, poorly done.  

Anyway, the kids are rescued from the unspeakable horrors that later children will be exposed to, children like Mara Jade and Lumiya.  Good for Anakin and Ahsoka!  However, I’d like to present a more awful possibility:  If it weren’t for the need for a holocron, Cad Bane (and by extension, Palpatine) would have gotten away with it.  Like, Palpatine is a Sith Lord, trained by a Sith Lord, and his putative apprentice is a former Jedi who had access to the temple and the various Jedi stores until about a year ago.  Do you really think he doesn’t already have a holocron ready to go?

So instead of stealing a holocron to start off with, Cad Bane just... targets and captures Bolla Ropal under the guise of a CIS attack.  He steals the kyber crystal.  The Jedi are very, very worried, of course, but it takes time for them to realize it’s gone missing.  in the meantime, however, Cad Bane just takes it to Dooku, they pull and copy the list, and the harvesting of Force-sensitive children can continue.

This is, I think, one of the great disappointments of TCW.  For a show that likes to use the model the Justice League cartoon of the early 2000s pioneered, they haven’t quite figured it out yet.  This is the sort of plot that could fuel an entire season of investigation, but instead they have these little three-episode arcs that never connect to the rest.  It’s a real shame.

Next week: We continue Season 2 with “Bounty Hunters”, “The Zillo Beast”, “The Zillo Beast Strikes Back”, “Senate Spy”, “Landing at Point Rain”, “Weapons Factory”, and (time permitting) “Legacy of Terror”.

[agent-barnes40]

Watching The Empire Strikes back

The old sounding theme

Didn’t Mark Hamill get into an accident before filming this one?

What is up with the Dalek looking probes?

Mark Hamill looks so young.

He sounds so young.

Bruh, Luke wtf?

Y’all I fucking see it! I paused it at 4:27 and for a moment thought that Han was being played by Adam Driver. I definitely see the resemblance now.

Rip Chewie’s original actor

Wheretf is Leia?

There she is.

SPACE MOM LOOKS SO YOUNG

Rip Carrie Fisher while we’re here

Damn, Carrie talks so quietly during this scene.

Damn, Leia’s sass is amazing.

Leia hiding her feelings. Are we positive that Leia wouldn’t be an awesome Gen-Z?

Everyone walking in-between Leia and Han as they fight, iconic!

The angry “YOU COULD USE A GOOD KISS!” Sounds so much like Ben/Kylo. It’s nuts.

Above scene is at 6:27.

3P0! R2!

“OH SWITCH OFF!”

Han looks feral, that’s all I’m saying.

Han’s concern for Luke and Leia warms my heart.

“Between ourselves, I think Master Luke is in conciderable danger.”

“That’s right. My friends right out in it.”

Han, admit it, you’re attached to Luke.

“Then I’ll see you in hell.”

Damn Han.

Ya’ll I forgot that most of the “cgi” was stop motion in these first three.

The old force theme.

Rancor? Thingy is cool.

R2 willing to freeze for his Skywalker master makes me want to cry.

R2 DONT SOUND SAD!

Are we close to shoving Luke into a tauntaun yet?

The rebellion people being concerned for Leia’s worry over Luke and Han while C3P0 just walks up.

Leia closing the doors to the base and Chewie looks so sad.

I’m legit about to cry. They mimicked Chewies cry from this to put into TROS when they tell Poe, Finn and Chewie that Leia’s dead.

Shelby is joining me in my watch of Star Wars.

We’re shoving Luke into a tauntaun now!

Obi-Wan absolutely dissing Qui-Gon.

Glad to know the Tauntaun died of the cold,

Han wielding the lightsaber!

They’re so happy to have found Luke and Han

The bacta tank

Luke is like, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED WHILE I WAS ABOUT TO GET EATEN!?

The iconic Laserbrain scene.

Chewie laughing and Han looks so betrayed.

NERF HERDER!

Have I mentioned I love Leia?

The sad look on Han’s face when Leia calls him scruffy.

Luke’s like PLEASE DONT GET ME IN THIS!

I forgot Luke and Leia kiss!

3P0 casually mentioning that it isn’t a rebellion signal

Oop, here comes Anakin “So, do you like my plan?” Vader Skywalker.

The Falcon absolutely wreaking Han.

Han and Luke silently communicating.

Vader’s egg.

Vader casually killing someone while talking.

Have I mentioned I love Leia?

The stop motion is amazing.

THE AT-AT!

3P0 casually reminding R2 to be safe.

Luke trying to save his friend

Han running back for Leia.

Han catching 3P0.

Anthony Daniel’s autotune.

The very old sounding theme.

Luke gets his dumbass traits from Anakin.

Carries scream.

Where in the hell is the scene where 3P0 rips the warning on a door?

R2 being worried about Luke.

“Take Evasive action!” Almost dies.

The scene where Han is on the pole and his ass is on display, thank god Harrison Ford got paid for that.

Leia trying to fly falcon shows that she’s a Skywalker and has that natural ability to fly.

Had to switch over to my computer.

“Never tell me the odds!”

Oof, Dagobah.

Here comes the green dwarf who drinks coke every day.

Luke’s X-wing.

R2 falling into the water

R2 scream

Yoda should show up soon.

Vader’s egg.

Anakin’s crusty head.

Han catching Leia

Leia getting pissed

Han flirting

Here comes Yoda, the coke drinker.

Yoda’s so damn high. I’m meaning weed type of high

R2 getting beat by Yoda.

You know for a fact Yoda was beating R2 because he remembers Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker’s way too damn modified Astromech.

How the fuck is Frank Oz still alive?

3P0 wants his husband.

Oop, here comes the kiss scene with Han and Leia.

Han calling Leia by her first name for the first time.

“Scoundrel?”

“I happen to like nice men.”

Finally!

Fucking 3P0!

Han looks so vulnerable.

Oop Palpatine.

Vader’s egg.

Ian McDiarmid has been playing Palpatine since 1980.

Anakin learning that Luke Skywalker is his son and having to pick between killing him and wanting to finish raising Luke. It’s quite sad actually.

R2 getting drenched scares me.

Luke hiding his distaste for Yoda’s food.

Yoda and Obi-Wan talking.

I’m gonna be honest, I hate Yoda. He’s an old man who is doesn’t want change until literally episode 8. He may have taught Luke something but Luke had to learn the way of the force by himself.

Also, Yoda scares me.

Have I mentioned that I love Leia?

“I have a bad feeling about this.”

C3P0 yelling at the Mynock.

Leia faceplanting into the Falcon.

“I am not a committee!”

I don’t like the Luke/Yoda training scene.

The only thing that I believe that Yoda taught look was to absolutely fear his connection with the force.

The whole under the tree Luke/Vader “fight” was to allude to “hey, Vader is this Anakin guy we keep talking about.”

Is that Boba I see?

The light speed fail x2.

“Shut up!”

I don’t like this Luke/Yoda training scene either.

“No! Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.”

Unpopular opinion: Palpatine should’ve killed Yoda.

The soft flute force theme.

Bruh, I forgot Han landed the Falcon on Vader’s ship.

Leia turning 3P0 off.

“He’s a card player, gambler, scoundrel. You’d like him.

“Thanks.”

You can see Anthony Daniels or his stand in breathing in the 3P0 outfit.

Boba following them.

Again, I hate each and every single Yoda/Luke training scene.

“Han. Leia!”

Yoda constantly belittling Luke’s compassion for his friends that he sees as his family. This is why I don’t like Yoda.

The landing on cloud city.

I forgot how much Cloud city looks like Corucant.

Lando Calrissian

Han pointing to himself, *me?*

Lando Calrissian.

“What have you done to my ship?”

“Your ship? Hey, remember, you lost her to me fair and square.”

They are literal children and I love it.

Lando immediately flirting.

Also, what the fuck was George Lucas thinking on letting 5ft something men get chest to chest with Carrie and try to intimidate her with their height whilst trying to flirt with her?

Wtf was he thinking! Carrie Fisher is 4ft something and I feel bad for her.

“She’s the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.”

Chewie going to look for C3P0.

The soft force theme.

The force theme turning to the imperial march.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, you let 12-year old Ahsoka Tano on a battlefield with Anakin fucking Skywalker, the man who stared General Grevious in the face and basically told him to fuck off, and you’re not letting Anakin’s literal son go save his sister and future brother in law! So shut the fuck up dead guy and let Luke save his friends.

Yoda can go die for all I care. I forgot how much of an asshole he is.

God, I fucking hate Yoda.

Leia’s Bespin outfit.

Leia worried over 3P0 is the sweetest thing. This shows just how great of a mom she’ll be.

“I don’t trust Lando.”

Have I said that I appreciate how pretty Harrison Ford is?

Yo! Mandalorian!

Also, chewie finding C3P0!

Leia covering her body when she realizes Lando is watching her is something I thought I’d never relate to but whelp, here we are.

Lando Calrissian is very creepy actually in how he treats Leia every chance he can get.

Han’s ready to punch him.

“Would you join me for a refreshment?”

“No!” I never realized how protective Chewie is of Leia until this scene. Chewbacca immediately is ready to rip Lando apart.

“Having a problem with your droid?”

Han immediately realizes how vulnerable Leia can get when C3P0 is involved and when people she’s intimidated by. Han drew away Lando’s attention on 3P0 to him.

Han drank his appreciating women juice.

Is Boba wearing a death watch thingy on his shoulder?

Leia looks so damn scared.

Han grabbing Leia’s hand tighter to protect her.

Chewie trying to work on C3P0.

The imperial march.

Han’s super pale. “I feel terrible.”

Leia’s vulnerable and even though Han’s hurting he jumps in to protect her and how angry Leia gets, that’s when everyone knows that Leia’s feeling and anger is her protection emotion.

Honestly, I’m ready to skip the rest of Lando’s scenes.

Carbonite.

Okay so when Vader tells the Troopers to put Han into the carbon freezer, Chewbacca attacks, if you notice, Vader just lets him. It’s not because, “hey let’s not anger the Wookiee more.” It’s because according to a scene in The Clone Wars animated TV show, Chewbacca saved Anakin’s padawan, Ahsoka. I like to think Vader was finally paying his debt to the Shriwook for saving Ahsoka.

Han calming down Chewie by telling him to look after Leia.

Han and Leia’s second kiss

“I love you.”

“I know.”

Leia looks so damn sad and scared.

Chewie literally pulling Leia into his body to try and lessen the pain she was in.

The fact that Luke doesn’t realize that it’s Han.

Luke slowly realizing that he didn’t see Han with Leia and Chewie.

The only lightsaber fight between Luke and a Vader that I remember.

I’m not gonna comment on Chewie chocking Lando.

That force jump.

The biggest plot twist in cinematic history, according to the Internet, is about to happen.

R2 getting electrocuted

R2 going to fix his husband.

Oop, Luke’s hands about to get cut off.

Mark Hamill’s scream.

“Luke, there is no escape. Don’t make me destroy you. Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.”

“I’ll never join you!”

“If you only knew the power of the dark side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.”

“He told me enough. He told me you killed him.”

“No. I am your father.”

“No, no, that’s not true. That’s impossible!”

“Search your feelings. You know it to be true.”

The iconic “Noooo.”

“Luke. You can destroy the emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Come with me. It is the only way.”

Skywalker men are such idiots and always are so dramatic.

The poor film editor, having to make it look like Luke is falling and is just playing with the footage they got of Mark Hamill writhing around.

And here we see just how powerful Leia and Luke are.

“Leia. Hear me. Leia”

“Luke.”

Luke’s just swinging his legs.

Light speed fail x3

“Luke.”

“Father.”

“Come with me.”

“Ben. Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Luke, it’s your destiny.”

Mark Hamill is such a talented actor

Welp, Anakin’s gonna kill everyone.

“May the Force be with you.”

Luke’s fake hand.

The chills I get during the ending music.

And that was The Empire Strikes Back. All in all a good classic.

[screametc]

15, 16, 20 ??

15. Favorite iconic bella look™?

oh it’s GOTTA be any time she wears flannel, man… or any look from twilight (2008), dir. catherine hardwicke… or that SPECIFIC navy blue tank top she was wearing during the bella/edward makeout scene in twilight (2008), dir. catherine hardwicke… miss cathy h did my girl bella RIGHT!!!!

16. Which extra vampire power would you most want?

this is such a hard question because like, benjamin is literally the avatar… but edward can read minds… but kate can immobilise any bitch that touches her without her permission… but alice can see the future… but siobhan can INFLUENCE the future… but ahsoka can use the force (which, btw, what the plagiarism??)… but benjamin is LITERALLY THE AVATAR… hrghhghh anyway i think i’d go with force wielding/telekinesis

20. If you could change one (1) thing about the series, what would it be

ohhhh god… just one thing…. its so hard to choose between the misappropriation of quileute culture and stephenie “p*dophile apologist” meyer’s weird imprinting subplot… but probably the former, just because it probably had the most tangible negative effect on real, living people, whereas at least renesmee was “aged up” and there was a CHANCE that her and jacob’s relationship could remain platonic :/ sucks that i have to choose between erasing racism and child predation but here we are!

send me a twilight ask!

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The Clone Wars (2008)

Well, this one was certainly different.  And not just because this movie was completely computer animated instead of live-action like all the other Star Wars movies.  Though I suppose that’s to be expected, since this was obviously designed to be a movie-length pilot for the TV series of the same name.  And believe me, it shows.  But, for what it was, I suppose it was decent enough.  I think the most jarring part for me was that, instead of the iconic text crawl, this movie opens with a narrator voice over, telling the audience that the Clone Wars are still going on. That part was kinda odd. It made me feel like I was watching a documentary set in the Star Wars universe.

But anyway, the movie opens with Obi-Wan, who has been given the rank of General (so much for Mace Windu’s statement in Attack of the Clones that Jedi weren’t soldiers), and Anakin.  They’re off with the Clone Army, fighting the Separatists on a planet called Christophsis.  They eventually realize that they’re in need of reinforcements, but their communications equipment is out of commission so they can’t call for help.  Out of nowhere, a Republic shuttle lands.  At first, they believe the shuttle is carrying their needed reinforcements, but a transmission from Yoda reveals that is not the case.  Instead, the shuttle is carrying a young female alien named Ahsoka Tano, who is a Jedi Padawan.  

Here, we learn that Obi-Wan had requested to take a new Padawan under his wing.  Which really makes no sense, considering Phantom Menace made it quite clear that you could only train one Padawan at a time.  So how can Obi-Wan take on a new Padawan, considering he’s still supposed to be training Anakin at this point?  But it gets even stranger when Ahsoka stats she has been assigned to Anakin, meaning she’s his Padawan.  I thought only Jedi Masters were allowed to train Padawans.  Did they change the rules?  I suppose it’s possible that Anakin was elevated to full-fledged Jedi during the course of the Clone Wars, but I distinctly remember it being stated in Episode 3, which takes place after this TV Pilot movie, that Anakin wasn’t a Jedi Master yet.  So right away, we’re getting a pretty significant continuity error.

But, for the sake of the movie, let’s try to overlook that.  Anakin isn’t exactly pleased to learn he’s been tasked with training a Padawan as he had no desire to teach anyone.   He even tries to say that Ahsoka is too young to be a Padawan. Which is kinda dumb, considering he was nine when Obi-Wan took him on as a Padawan.  But despite Anakin’s objections, he’s pretty much told that he has no choice.  And the battle with the Separatists continues on.  It’s discovered a battalion of Droids and Separatist Tanks are heading their way, with a force field surrounding the Droids, preventing the Republic artillery from striking out at them.  A plan is made, and Anakin and Ahsoka are tasked with sneaking past enemy lines and disabling the shield.  To stall for time, Obi-Wan stages a fake surrender, which takes the Separatist General Loathsom by surprise.  And Obi-Wan is just all kinds of extra in this fake surrender, suggesting they discuss the terms of the surrender over tea.  In the end, Anakin and Ahsoka manage to disable the shields.  But Anakin is still being a bit of a jerk towards Ahsoka, even after she saves him from a group of droids.  He also fails to see the irony of the situation.  At one point, he tells Ahsoka off for being headstrong and impulsive, telling her that she should never rush into battle and needs to learn to be patient.  Well, there’s the pot calling the kettle black, you hypocrite!  Though I suppose it could be argued that you’re speaking from experience and have learned your lesson about acting rashly in Attack of the Clones.

When the Clone Army wins this battle, Obi-Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka are notified of a new task they need to address.  It turns out that Jabba the Hutt has a son. (Who knew?)  But the son has recently been kidnapped, and Jabba has requested the Jedi’s help in getting his son back.  While the Jedi aren’t exactly pleased at the notion of helping a notorious gangster like Jabba, they know that doing so is in the best interests of the Republic.  Turns out, Count Dooku and the Separatists have taken over most of the hyperspace routes, which makes it difficult for the Republic to continue sending supplies and reinforcements to the Clone Army.  So the Republic is hoping to sign a treaty with Jabba, which will allow them to utilize the trade routes under his control.  Because of that, it’s really important to make him happy.  

So while Obi-Wan heads off to Tatooine to present the proposition to Jabba, Anakin and Ahsoka head off with select members of the Clone Army to retrieve Jabba’s son, Rotta.  They manage to track Baby Rotta to a monastery in the jungle planet of Teth. After a whole action sequence, with them scaling to the top of a tall pillar to reach the monastery, Anakin and Ahsoka find Baby Rotta, who has fallen ill, possibly because the unfamiliar climate isn’t contusive to a Hutt’s physiology.  Before Anakin and Ahsoka could start to return Baby Rotta back to Tatooine, they are held up by some woman named Ventress.  Who is Ventress?  I have no idea.  She’s just some sort of mysterious alien female who works for Count Dooku.  We’re not told a single thing about her beyond that. Maybe they explore this more  in the TV series.  But I never saw it, so I can only guess on that.  Eventually, however, Anakin and Ahsoka manage to get away with Baby Rotta and start making their way back to Tatooine to return Baby Rotta to Jabba, with Ahsoka tending to the sick Huttlet and trying to cure him.

Throughout the movie, it comes out that Count Dooku had organized the kidnapping of Baby Rotta as part of an elaborate scheme to frame the Jedi for the kidnapping.  He hoped to get Jabba to turn against the Jedi and join the Separatists.  But things get more complicated after Anakin and Ahsoka manage to save Baby Rotta.  As Ventress pursues them in order to stop them, she sends a message to Jabba, falsely telling him that the Jedi killed Baby Rotta and are now coming to kill him.  Which, of course, makes Jabba even more distrustful of the Jedi.

Meanwhile, back on Coruscant, Obi-Wan has relayed Count Dooku’s plot to Palpatine, Yoda and Mace Windu.  When Padmé overhears the trouble Anakin is in, she comes up with a plan to approach Jabba’s uncle, Ziro, who lives on Coruscant, hoping that she can convince him to reason with Jabba and see that the Jedi are not the ones responsible for Baby Rotta’s abduction.  But Ziro seems purely uninterested in helping and has Padmé thrown out.  Padmé doesn’t give up, however, and sneaks back into Ziro’s place.  Upon doing so, she discovers Ziro had been working alongside Count Dooku and had actually helped organize Baby Rotta’s kidnaping.  

Unfortunately, Padmé is discovered before she can sneak out, and Ziro has her captured, planning to have her executed.  Luckily, Padmé manages to send out a message to C-3PO, who apparently lives with her now. 3PO, in turn, notifies the Coruscant Guard that Padmé is in trouble.  And they stage a rescue.  Once Padmé is free and Ziro is surrounded, the’ Hutt immediately backs down, stating that Count Dooku had forced him to aiding in Baby Rotta’s kidnapping.  

On a side note, I have to comment on the irony.  R2-D2 was originally built to be an Astromech Droid belonging to Padmé when she was still Queen of Naboo.  And C-3PO was built by Anakin.  But now, R2 is mainly in the company of Anakin while 3PO now is  Padmé’s companion.  Logically, it makes sense since Anakin is the one off fighting in space battles and Padmé is a senator, and therefore the Droid they keep with them is the one whose designated purpose best suits their needs.  But it’s still ironic that they’ve basically swapped ‘ownership’ of the two Droids.

Back on Tatooine, Anakin and Ahsoka had been shot down by Ventress as they were entering Tatooine’s atmosphere.  As a result, they have to make their way to Jabba’s Palace on foot.  Along the way, Ahsoka tries to get Anakin to open up to her, as she knows he was born on Tatooine and is concerned that he doesn’t seem to want to talk about it.  Which makes sense, as the last time he’d been here, he’d had to bury his mother.  (By the way, kudos to the people who made this movie for this one scene in this movie.  When they were approaching Tatooine, Anakin is stating he never wanted to set foot on that planet again.  And as the camera focuses on him, we briefly hear the bellows of the Tusken Raiders playing over the scene.  I thought that was a REALLY nice touch there.)

Along the way to Jabba’s palace, Anakin, realizing they’re still being followed by the people who kidnapped Baby Rotta in the first place, comes up with a ruse. He sends Ahsoka ahead of him with Baby Rotta while he fills up the backpack he’d been carrying the Huttlet in with rocks.  As such, when Count Dooku catches up to Anakin in order to kill Baby Rotta and ensure Ventress’ claims won’t be contradicted, Baby Rotta is out of harm’s way. Anakin manages to escape Count Dooku and makes his way to Jabbah’ palace.  

As for Ahsoka, she manages to nearly make it to Jabba’s palace when she is also ambushed by some of the Separatist Droids.  After a short battle, she manages to defeat them, though it was a close battle.  In the end, both Anakin and Ahsoka manage to reach their destination and return Baby Rotta to Jabba.

However, Jabba is still convinced that the Jedi kidnapped Baby Rotta, and immediately orders the pair to be executed.  Before his order could be carried out, Padmé manages to send a message to Jabba.  In the message, she gets Ziro to confess to his nephew what really happened.  Now that Jabba knows the truth, he allows the Jedi to leave, and even states he is willing to allow the Republic to use his trade routes during the ongoing Clone War. He only has one condition- that the Jedi make sure Dooku pay dearly for his trickery.  

And so the movie comes to an end.  And as they are triumphantly picked up by Obi-Wan, Yoda and the Clone Army, Anakin states that he’s decided to keep Ahsoka as his Padawan, as this adventure has helped the two bond.

I’m guessing that this is where the TV show picks up.  But I have no intention of watching that at present.  Though Ahsoka seems like a pretty good character.  Even though she shares some of Anakin’s impulsiveness, she doesn’t really have any moments when she becomes unlikable.  And while Anakin does have a bit of an attitude at times, he’s much more tolerable than his live-action counterpart.  I also admit I enjoyed the musical score in this movie.  So props to Kevin Kiner on that count.  Maybe I’ll give the TV series a look in the future, but that remains to be seen.

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Link Tank: Facts About Cast Away on Its 20th Anniversary

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Cast Away starring Tom Hanks celebrates its 20th anniversary today. Check out some surprising facts about this movie.

“Deemed an ‘existential blockbuster’ for the 21st century, not a whole lot of action occurs during Cast Away’s 143-minute running time. But Hanks’s long beard and survival scenarios generated an iconic character and film.”

Read more at Mental Floss.

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The Mandalorian Season 2 finale may have confirmed a mind-blowing Star Wars fan theory about R2-D2.

“The Mandalorian season 2 finale shocked everyone with its big Jedi cameo, but that might not be the most important moment. Even with Luke Skywalker swooping into action in an X-wing, the return of everyone’s favorite droid reminded viewers that there’s no such thing as a Star Wars property without a little R2-D2 moment.”

Read more at Inverse.

The future of Wonder Woman 3 is looking uncertain over at Warner Bros, but that may not necessarily be a bad thing.

“I trust Patty Jenkins with Wonder Woman more than anything in this world, mainly because our views on Diana Prince align more often than not. She understands what makes Diana tick and knows how to bring that to life onscreen, and nothing shows that understanding better than Wonder Woman 1984.”

Read more at The Mary Sue.

The Cyberpunk 2077 launch debacle continues this week as Microsoft added performance warning for the game on Xbox.

“Sony decided to remove Cyberpunk 2077 from sale last week due to all the problems faced attempting to play the game. Microsoft hasn’t gone that far, but its game listing now includes a warning. As Videogamer reports, Microsoft has reacted to the poor performance of Cyberpunk 2077 by adding a performance warning to the game’s page on the Microsoft Store.”

Read more at PCMag.

With Soul about to arrive on Disney+ this week, our friends over at Thrillist ranked every Pixar movie from worst to best.

“Choosing a favorite Pixar movie is an impossible task we wouldn’t wish on anyone—not even Sid, the toy-torturing bully first introduced to audiences back in 1995. But with the release of the life-affirming, genuinely experimental Soul on Disney+, we revisited all 23 Pixar feature films that have made us laugh and (especially) cry over the past 25 years to assess them from worst to best.”

Read more at Thrillist.

From Abby Anderson in The Last of Us 2 to Star Wars‘ Ahsoka Tano, here are some of the best characters from pop culture who have helped us tolerate 2020.

“Twenty-twenty has been a year of seeking comfort in media, both in the nostalgia of old favorites and the exciting discovery of new and excellent stories. This year, more than any recently, we’ve looked for new bonds and new characters to fall in love with. Here are the heroes who kept us going as this long, long year trundled on.”

Read more at Gizmodo.

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for the character meme: pan, gary, blacksuit sam, herc (and if u'd like to indulge outside of ags multiverse: ahsoka and anakin)

thanks for the ask my friend

Pan

1: sexuality headcanon: she’s demi and pan (romantic and sexual)2: otp: listen, I’ve got to go with peen here, ags really has me rooting for them3: brotp: Night. Full stop, I love these two4: notp: I forget the name of the jackass French guy but we really dodged a bullet there (also, whoever the hell her abuser was can stay the fuck away from her, on a more serious note)5: first headcanon that pops into my head: Tank tops constantly. Suns out guns out but she has to put on sunscreen first bc she’s pale and will burn6: favorite line from this character: I’m bad at remembering specific quotes but damn, that time she just TELLS Mammon that her name is Pan, as a clone fan, I am a sucker for chosen names7: one way in which I relate to this character: I don’t really relate to Pan, but I guess I relate to the headcanon of her frying in the gd sun8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: Pan, please stop trying to be the shadowy mysterious badass, drop the shadow9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: problematic roll

Gary

1: sexuality headcanon: I don’t think about it much but is anyone in Furnace really straight2: otp: uhhhh nobody really but that Gary/Bodie art from a few years ago was pretty swell3: brotp: again, quite a twisted one with Bodie4: notp: idk can I have an notp in a fandom this tiny5: first headcanon that pops into my head: that one where Gary had braces pre-furnace is great and I love it6: favorite line from this character: the one about the mark of the red hand7: one way in which I relate to this character: uhhhhh8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: Gary, why’d you make Bodie pee on Alex’s bed. Think for a hard minute.9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: the most problematic of faves

Blacksuit Sam:

1: sexuality headcanon: idk really what to think about blacksuit sam because I’ve never once considered shipping him2: otp: maybe there was some dude he fell in love with before they both up and blacksuited3: brotp: The time he and Alex spent together was precious, honestly. Zee comes in at a close second4: notp: him/being anywhere near Furnace’s gross ideologies5: first headcanon that pops into my head: relating to the above, Sam really had a hard time when he finally snapped out of Furnace’s haze, Cross’s whole background was so against who he was as a person that he just turns so resolute and horrified at what he’s done that he takes up arms for Alex with no hesitation6: favorite line from this character: “I don’t drink tea” [proceeds to drink tea when nobody is looking]7: one way in which I relate to this character: need boots to protect my feet8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: “practically indecent exposure”9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: problematic roll

Herc:

1: sexuality headcanon: also haven’t thought much about this, probably not straight2: otp: he’s too old to place with most of the main engineers tbh so I hope he finds somebody nice after the events of the series3: brotp: he and Pan are great4: notp: I’ve gotta say him and any of the main engineers minus Truck because age5: first headcanon that pops into my head: I picture him having this strong jawline, kind of lowkey looks like the Rock but with more scars6: favorite line from this character: can’t remember, which is unfortunate because I know there’s some great line about being prepared with a bazooka/rocket launcher7: one way in which I relate to this character: “I must keep these kids in line”8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: nothing really tbh9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: such a cinnamon roll

Ahsoka:

1: sexuality headcanon: so bi2: otp: kaesoka, full steam ahead!!!3: brotp: she and Anakin are the best brotp 4: notp: aside from all the nasty art I’ve seen of her and men twice her age when she’s 14, luxsoka5: first headcanon that pops into my head: is the malachor au really the first thing. really. I’m in too deep6: favorite line from this character: so many of them, but “don’t choke on your stupidity” as the obvious precursor to “don’t choke on your aspirations”? iconic as hell7: one way in which I relate to this character: so much impulse8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: see the above9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: the cinnamoniest of rolls

Anakin:

1: sexuality headcanon: demi as hell2: otp: eeeehhhh I guess anidala but I don’t ship it too hard tbqh3: brotp: he and Ahsoka are the best brotp4: notp: Miraj Scintel can get her nasty hands 50000 parsecs away from him5: first headcanon that pops into my head: the “getting the 501st pizza” one comes to mind6: favorite line from this character: “or, one must have the will to jump”7: one way in which I relate to this character: overly emotional, jumps to conclusions8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: Anakin, please consider the consequences of your actions for one second before you become buddy-buddy with a SITH LORD9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?: the most problematic of faves

[goforcechokeyourself]

Everything Ahsoka ever did or said was iconic. Saving Anakin's life on the first day? Iconic. Taking out an entire factory with a tank? Iconic. Obi-Wan nearly being defeated by 2 deathwatch members and ahsoka basically only leaving 2 alive? Iconic. "Try not to choke on your stupidity"?? ICONIC.

well as long as you got that off your chest.