#jedi temple challenge

[arkham-prisoner]

If you gave me 100 pages of paper and told me to write down the names of every possible character who could’ve saved Grogu from Order 66 I never would’ve thought of Kelleran Beq!!! A character made for a children’s game show

I’m so damn happy!!!!

[hawkeyedenjy]

One of my favourite things about the concept art for this episode is that it shows they always planned to use Kelleran Beq as the Jedi who rescued Grogu. No placeholder art with generic Jedi, that is Ahmed Best and this just makes me so happy, especially as I only rewatched Jedi Temple Challenge again recently

[padawansuggest]

Consider

Obi-Wan 7yo, wakes up from naptime in the creche after a Very Important Vision

Immediately skips bail to go out into the temple proper, following whispers of the force (more like cackling lmao) till he gets to a training salle

Training salle is occupied by 15-18yo padawans in the middle of practice, one of which being Kelleran Beq, The Sabered Hand, who is a cheerful teen who wants to be a creche master after he’s knighted

Of course an unaccompanied initiate in the salles is always a cause for concern, so Kelleran comes over to coax the boy into telling him why he’s wandered off

Obi: I’m going with you next month when you go to the production studios for your first filming of the Jedi Temple Challenge

Is questioned on if his creche master just told him that??

Nah he saw it in a dream

Cool cool cool Kelleran LOVES the possessed ones, they’re so cute

Asks kiddo why he thinks he’s going with

Cause Obi-Wan needs an escort to audition for the next season of Sesame System, a show that teaches children and reduces the galaxy’s gap of learning between the poor and the rich, so he can teach the galaxy about what it’s like to be a Jedi!

Okay okay that’s chill lil buddy, Kelleran will be in the production studio anyways cause they’re in the same place

Turns out the REAL Jedi Temple Challenge was the 10 under 10s Kelleran got to help wrangle along the way

Not fully sure where this is going other than Jango Fett (only 3 years older here and not 6) ending up on the same season of Sesame System only for him and Jaster (who’s also got the exact same goals of endearing the public to Mandalorians and is using the show to help point out the Mandalorian kids shows the galaxy can show their kids too, while Obi is pointing at Jedi Temple Challenge) to immediately decide that’s a prime little buddy and now they wanna keep him

The temple settles on a middle ground of letting them babysit Obi sometimes by sticking him in Mando production studios

Kelleran is very worried about baby getting kidnapped by the prince of Mandalore but accepts that Obi also really likes the prince they’re vode now

I. Fucking. Love. Childrens early educational shows and stuff like that. And I want to write an entire series about the shows the Jedi and Mandos could put out to endear themselves to the galaxy and it’s basically propaganda but not bad because the Sith could never get a foothold because Jedi are just sweet little guys with god powers what’s not to love lol

And then the ideas combined in my head when this last Mando episode reminded me of Jedi Temple Challenge (I never actually watched it but I did overall hear about it when it aired) and I decided Kelleran needs to make my dumb ideas a reality.

Obi’s master is a Jedi who’s been doing acting their whole life too but it can’t be Mace because Mace is a theater kid and not a kids show kid he needs a less theatric and more educational master 😔

Ani ends up being on a couple seasons of Sesame System (I specifically chose this as a parody idea because I have BEYOND respect for Sesame Street and I truly believe in the power of kindness and friendship the show likes to give us) when Obi-Wan first finds him and Ani is really nervous at first but they let him rant about sand on the show so they’re chill now

Qui-Gon is not Obi’s master but he DID get wrangled into taking Kelleran and the kids to the studio (it’s in fairly neutral area on a station, but around a planet for outdoor scenes because it’s just easier for legal reasons) and that led to them missing the Telos mission and Xanatos got therapy instead and Qui-Gon isn’t an asshole cause he’s still got his kids

Shmi works on the production station

More kids shows in fantasy and sci-fi settings plz.

[reyturnofbensolo]

Much love for Ahmed Best❣️😍 So good to see him in a Star War again!!

[agentem]

Here is Ahmed Best talking about how he nearly killed himself after Star Wars fans heaped racist abuse on him after he was cast as Jar Jar Binks.

Today his other character, Kelleran Beq, saved Grogu from certain death. So now everyone loves him.

Take that, racists.

[demigodofhoolemere]

Was doing some catching up on The Mandalorian last night and I was already emotional over Ahmed Best getting to come back, as the Jedi who saved Grogu no less, and finally receive some love from the fanbase. Then I looked up the character and learned that he was on a kids’ game show that somehow slipped past my radar when it came out a few years ago. Proceeded to watch half of it in one sitting and grew very attached very quickly to this character and am now retroactively emotional over his Mandalorian appearance for the character himself. He was always so good with the kids and now he’s the hero who saved Grogu, of course he is, who else but sweet Master Beq would be the one to come to the aid of a child in their darkest hour, don’t look at me —

[becrystalamazed]

Kelleran Beq!!! What are you doing outside your gameshow?

Honestly, I was so surprised and so happy when he turned up. I am quite fond of Jedi Temple Challenge, and to see it integrated into the main canon is mildly amusing. Does this mean they’re going to make a second series of it though?

[noddytheornithopod]

so is every kid who starred in jedi temple challenge now doomed to be cut down by darth vader

[khakilike]

Honestly think it’s pretty cool that this is canon now.

[arkham-prisoner]

Then: “How many times have you watched the Kelleran Beq scene?”

Me: “Yes!”

[furious-blueberry0]

✨ Avani of Cathar ✨

For @jazaesis’ DTIYS!

[agentem]

Here is another interview with Ahmed Best about Star Wars (promoting Jedi Temple Challenge). This one is funnier where he talks about being cast, meeting Michael Jackson, and how he's not sure Kelleran Beq is canon (he is now)!

IDK. I never watched the prequels so I can't speak to the Jar Jar hate, but he seems fun to me. And I'm happy for him. (And I totally believe that Star Wars fans can be racist and mean after that Kelly Marie Tran and John Boyega nonsense.)

[winntir]

Hail to the king!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT THEY BROUGHT BACK AHMED BEST BUT ALSO THAT THEY CAST HIM IN THE ROLE OF SOMEONE WHO ALL THE JEDI ARE SAYING TO GET GROGU TO HIM, TO GET THE CHILD TO KELLERAN. IT’S A NOD TO THE ADORABLE JEDI TEMPLE CHALLENGE SERIES WHERE KIDS COMPETED IN A GAME SHOW TO GRADUATE FROM PADAWANS TO JEDI KNIGHTS. HIS NAME WAS KELLERAN BEQ, JEDI MASTER, IN THAT SHOW, SO THIS IS CANONIZING HIM AND DOING SO IN A WAY THAT IMPLIES HE’S EITHER A CRECHEMASTER OR SOMEONE WHO WORKS WITH THE YOUNGLINGS A LOT. I AM SO READY FOR THE KELLERAN BEQ, JEDI CRECHEMASTER, REVIVAL. PUT HIM IN COMICS AND GIVE HIM CAMEOS IN SHORT STORIES AND WHATEVER ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF, LUCASFILM.  GIVE ME MORE AHMED BEST PLAYING HIM BECAUSE I AM GOING TO BE ON CLOUD NINE FOR A WEEK AFTER GETTING KELLERAN BEQ OFFICIALLY CANONIZED INTO SERIOUS CANON.

[thebrainofocto]

Even though Feemor was repudated from the disaster lineage, the ghosts of his original lineage will always be with him.

[valleyofgolg]

|| @vuulpecula asked Leika'le, ❛ Why do we have to go through all of this when it’s already been decided? ' (x.)

Instinctively, she jumped and nearly reached for her training blade-- with the wrong hand-- before she realized it was only Fox. Insomnia clung to her, claws ever digging in, refusing release. Shadows borne of the depths of night terrors danced at the edges of her vision, continually taunting her with a false sense of danger. A fluster as the Kiffar quickly adjusted herself and hoped that her companion didn't find her too unsteady, too quick to react, too unstable. Much like the majority of the masters. Much like everyone except for Saufa, it seemed.

     “What do you mean,” she countered with a lopsided smile, before attempting to present herself as a confident and entirely capable to-be-Jedi instead of jumping at shadows. "You know how it is-- ritual this, ritual that. Creed of the code. Etcetera, etcetera."

Truthfully, this particular occasion bored her. It hardly compared to the Trials or even the Mid-Year Fete. Having already been selected as a padawan, especially, watching in lieu of doing made her itch.

"Hey," a continuation with a lowered voice, conspiratorially, "Want to sneak out and explore the lower levels? I hear some padawans got further than anyone before Master Endel caught them."

[brujaporfavor]

THE MANDALORIAN

Chapter 20: The Foundling