#tales of the jedi - practice makes perfect

[jami-c]

STOP. I've watched this like 10x AT LEAST.

SINCE IT CAME OUT A WHILE BACK.

why did Disney go so hard

[rose-tattoos]

Anakin just loved her so much 🥹

[fangeek-girl]

Rewatching Ahsoka practice fighting the clones with Anakin is even more emotional after watching Ahsoka episode 5.

He trained her so hard to survive anything. And yes he was hard on her and she grew up in the middle of a war, but the most important reason she stayed alive all those years was that Anakin trained her to think differently and predict the unpredictable. Even against himself (although he could never have imagined that at the time).

And when she finally meets him again, after all the pain and heartache and death, it’s that little tidbit of hope she needs to accept her past trauma and keep going.

[aspenstarflare]

Tales of the Jedi Ahsoka looks so freaking cool and I can’t help drawing Ahsoka because SHE ALWAYS LOOKS SO FREAKING COOL

[jonberry555]

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Series Review

I have finally gotten around to watching Tales of the Jedi and just in time for Tales of the Empire to drop tomorrow. Today, I am reviewing all 6 Episodes telling stories of Ahsoka Tano and Count dooku.

[marinamar4]

Tales of the Jedi Episode 5, Practice Makes Perfect

or

How to break a heart in ten minutes

[lifblogs]

Dave Filoni: You get to compose for The Siege of Mandalore again.

Kevin Kiner:

Crying over the use of the snare drums near the end with Ahsoka’s theme because it gives it a militaristic sound. This is Ahsoka, these are her men, and they have been ordered to kill her. Her training with them saves her life from them.

[thecleverqueer]

Every time I rewatch the “Practice Makes Perfect” episode of Tales of the Jedi, I have the same visceral reaction to it.

It’s uncomfortable to watch because it feels like child abuse. Ahsoka gets stunned, is knocked out on a cold floor for an hour, then she gets up stumbling repeating the vicious cycle over and over and over. I feel bad for her, because she’s too damned stubborn to stop until she’s been knocked out at least half a dozen times. It’s kind of a long standing problem that Ahsoka has. She just doesn’t know when to stop.

Anakin’s reaction is also disturbing. He just watches her in the distance with this smug, victorious smile as if he’s enjoying the whole spectacle. As if he knows she’s going to keep doing this to herself, and he’s getting some sort of sadistic entertainment value out of it. It’s sad in a way.

I understand that the point of it all is to show how he taught her how to survive order 66, but that could have been explained in a myriad of different ways. I assumed it was because her species has advanced spacial awareness, she was quick enough to hide, and let’s face it, Ahsoka was constantly having to escape bullshit… I mean, she got abducted every other episode, so… Yeah. This was all painfully unnecessary.

[kenobi-source]

OBI-WAN KENOBI in Tales of the Jedi - 1.05 Practice Makes Perfect

[reedsues]

jedi june 2024 — 30 instances of jedi bonding day 4: caleb dume & depa billaba

tales of the jedi, 1.5 practice makes perfect

[antianakin]

Unpopular opinion: I think Ahsoka is at her best and most interesting in the first two seasons of TCW and has only gotten progressively less nuanced as the years have gone by.

Ahsoka in TCW intentionally has flaws. They're pointed out more than once, there's ENTIRE EPISODES dedicated to Ahsoka having to fix her mistakes or being punished for disobeying orders or having to learn how to be better after she messes up and hurts people. Ahsoka has to keep learning lessons from Tera Sinube, and Aayla, and Luminara, and Padme, and Yoda.

But by the time you hit around season 4, Ahsoka starts being PERFECT. She is suddenly FLAWLESS as far as the narrative seems to see it. Even if she's doing the wrong thing, you're supposed to recognize that she is doing it for the right reasons. She's constantly level-headed, wise, and often treated as though she's practically an adult Jedi by the other Jedi around her despite having been young to be a Padawan at all and with only 2 years of training tops. It's no wonder so many people were so ready to believe that the Jedi were ready to Knight her at the end of the Wrong Jedi arc, Ahsoka's being written as though she's suddenly 25 years old with a decade of training, similar to how we see Obi-Wan acting in TPM instead of the barely trained child she should still be.

And then you hit Rebels and she's literally making entrances BATHED IN LIGHT LIKE AN ANGEL, incapable of being beaten by anyone except Darth Vader himself, she's got lightsabers of PURE WHITE LIGHT, and the other two Jedi characters treat her like a Master. And then she dies, walks off into the shadows, and comes back swathed in white robes and with a white staff, haloed in light like a wise shaman of some kind.

At least Din manages to push back against her choices in The Mandalorian, it's probably the first time we've seen Ahsoka have an opinion that someone else disagreed with and that the narrative explicitly treats as WRONG, forcing her to reconsider and make a different decision.

But by The Book of Boba Fett, she's schooling Din now, back to being the wise shaman who knows everything and can do no wrong.

In Tales of the Jedi, Ahsoka is practically perfection incarnate: more skilled than any other Jedi, more compassionate and connected to the galaxy than anyone else, someone who tamed and rode on the back of an apex predator before she could walk.

I want Ahsoka to have FLAWS again, I want the narrative to let her be WRONG and reap the consequences of that, I want to see Ahsoka LEARN SOMETHING again, I want to see her GROW as a character for the first time in over a decade.

[classicanalyzer]

Tales of the Jedi and Empire - A Neat Foil

When I was rewatching the two shows, I noticed a neat detail in Practice Makes Perfect and Devoted.

The two test chambers contrast each other. The Jedi chamber is filled with several Jedi as the harmless shield closes in to test a Jedi's skills. The Inquisitor's chamber is filled by four people as a harmful burning shield closes in, which would kill them unless one of the two candidates kills the other.

It's a noice detail showing the differences between the Jedi and the Inquisitors.

[kingtuna]

I was rewatching Tales of the Jedi and just

Practice Makes Perfect

(that ending hurts)

but also Rex was so concerned for Ahsoka

"Don't worry Rex she'll wake up"

"I don't know how much she can take" like yeah

he obviously had Thoughts about Anakin making them shoot at their teenage little sister

[monathedefiant]

there's so much about the acolyte that i find really fresh and interesting -- esp in this latest ep. it's such a cautionary tale around concepts that i've never seen interpreted this way. . .

sol and torbin allowing their emotions to drive them down a destructive path. they're not rewarded for their impulsiveness. rather, everything goes terribly wrong because of their failure to check themselves and regulate their responses to the world around them.

(side note: i understand they thought the children were in danger. and if that were the case, their actions would be heroic. in this situation, tho, it's just giving "social worker assumes the worst about a family's cultural practices they don't understand so they decide immediate removal of the children is the only option." which is wild considering the (inaccurate) children snatching allegations against the jedi. but go off kings??)

indara being ignored or talked over while giving good advice being equated with why things go so wrong. she's not framed as a staunchy jedi too obsessed with protocol to take necessary action. instead, the narrative frames her embracing the jedi way as a source of reason. which makes me sad about her death all over again because she got put in such a tough situation and was really doing the best she could with the mess before her.

mother aniseya is ready to let osha go even though it breaks her heart. the show presents this as her honoring osha's wishes over her own desire to keep her daughter at home. meanwhile, mother koril's unwillingness to let go puts mae in a position to cause a level of harm that she quickly loses control over. it's a very jedi concept experienced through non-jedi which i really enjoyed.

all that mixed in with the show's format is just so fascinating to me. like we knew from jump that Something Bad happened. but the buildup and the payoff really sells the whole story for me.

also i don't think the acolyte leans toward being anti or pro jedi. but it does lend nuance to the story of the jedi in a way that they're usually robbed of completely. the jedi aren't perfect and the show has shown time and time again it's willingness to explore that. plus, i would argue that the acolyte has the most compelling jedi fight choreography of any of the new star wars projects.

(disclaimer: i'm just going off of my own interpretations. i haven't read interviews with the cast, creator, or writers because i care more about how the show makes me feel then i do what about their intentions so🤷🏾‍♂️ and i care even less about what haters of the show have to say.)

this show has given me things beyond my wildest dreams. i can't wait to see how this story concludes ^-^

[jonberry555]

Star Wars - Tales of the Jedi: Practice Makes Perfect Review

I have finally gotten around to watching Tales of the Jedi and just in time for Tales of the Empire to drop. Today, I am reviewing the Episode 5: 'Practice Makes Perfect' the second Ahsoka Tano episode.

[dragontopaz]

Tales of the Jedi: Practice Makes Perfect