#just gonna keep screaming into the void to give me an old republic pre-rule of two cartoon with thousands of jedi and sith running around

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I had a reason to catch up on Rebels so

1) Kanan

I saw some (justifiably, now) angry posts about this a while ago but the fact that Ezra and Kanan probably have had to die all along (I don’t even like this show and I still cried, also man Disney really hates couples, huh?) has been my problem with the show from the beginning and one of the reasons I never liked it, because I think the concept is wrong. There IS no good way for this show to end. The EU established the Jedi Order as having 100,000 years of history and instead of choosing literally ANY OTHER POINT in time... they instead chose to base a tv show around two jedi during the only 19 year period where there should be a jedi moratorium. And then they compounded that problem by having them meet Leia. And Mon Mothma. And Wedge. And Lando. And join the Rebellion. And run missions. And get famous within it. Luke is supposed to represent a new hope. For the Jedi, for the Rebellion, for the Republic, it’s supposed to be amazing and awe-inspiring that we’re seeing someone use the Force again. The jedi are supposed to by mystical and mysterious and fantastical because no one has seen one in 19 years. And even then, they were famous, but most people never actually MET one. But now they’ve all already experienced that. It fucks up Luke’s legacy. Oh, this farm boy showed up with a lightsaber? We already saw two dudes do that, they were with the Rebellion for a few years. Luke is A NEW HOPE and Rebels just completely fucks that up. Setting up a show so that the only two ways for to end it and not fuck up canon even more is for them to die or to exile themselves, is to me a pretty shitty way to set up a plot. And if Ezra manages to live, that makes it even worse than Yoda and Obi-wan, who at least get involved during the four years from ANH to ROTJ. Now, Ezra’s either gonna die like Kanan or else he and Ahsoka have to get stuck on a technology-less planet for the next five years to be discovered afterward.

2) AHSOKA!!!!!

I mean Rebels has continually failed to do her justice but at least we know she’ll be around for the series finale somehow. But really the time travel thing... as much as I love time travel aus in Star Wars fic, the only time I can remember it in canon is when Caedeus used it to basically torture/convince Tahiri to fall by continually showing her Anakin’s death. Which is a whole other fucking issue because everything they did with Tahiri post-NJO is pretty gross (Anakin was not the love of her life, SHE WAS 14, he could have BECOME the love of her life if they had the chance to grow up together, and of course she’s gonna mourn him but jfc I’m so bitter they just wrote her off as never being able to move past it also using men as the motivation for women uuuuuuuuuugh stop) but the whole point of that storyline was that they could WATCH Anakin die over and over again but not change anything. You couldn’t actually alter anything. But this, pulling Ahsoka out of time so that she just lost however long it’s been, ACTUALLY, PHYSICALLY changing the past.... I always hated the Mortis arc because I don’t care for the way it changes the Force mythos, so ugh. But I mean if they’re gonna use time travel for anything at least it was making sure Ahsoka lives.