#that Anakin was even in the episode

[heyclickadee]

Oookay, yeah, I see now why my mom has such a hard time getting into the animated Star Wars shows despite adoring both animation and Star Wars.

Edit: To be clear, I’m not really trying to throw my mom under the bus here. I just didn’t realize my parents do that now until now.

[starry-bi-sky]

realizing i have. a lot of untapped trauma potential for clone^2 danny because i just Fully Processed Four Months Late the fact that his parents were capturing and torturing ghosts in the basement before he became Phantom. and the fact that he was on house rest for 2 weeks. during that time period. and he wasn't really leaving the house. he could hear their screaming through the floorboards

*points at clone danny* i can give you suuuuuuch a bad time babe ahaha. i've got two untouched years before you meet damian what fucks you up before then

[stinkythehutt]

and since i’m posting: that one episode of clone wars where anakin sends c3po to go buy fruit for padme’s banquet is so hilarious for me. because you know coruscant is a capitalist hellhole and the senate apartment building probably has its own built-in mega mall, and anakin sends c3po to the only outdoor market left on that planet to haggle for a deal. he’s so funny

[heartofroses112]

reading Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover and damn it’s only been one chapter but the emphasis on Anakin and Obi-Wan and how intertwined they are is killing me

[inquisitor-apologist]

Have we, as a fandom, progressed to the point that we can realize that Twilight of the Apprentice, while a good episode, is not a particularly great Rebels episode and is certainly the least functional finale in the entirety of Rebels?

[tranakin-skywalker]

how exactly does tcw handle zygerria? i’ve been really adverse to watching it because of what i’ve seen surrounding anakin’s characterisation in that arc and i don’t know if i’d feel up to it even if the angst potential is soo high and fucked up and could be interesting to explore

It's... not great I'll be honest.

I'm not sure how much you're familiar with the arc, but they have Anakin go undercover as a slaver, which, okay sure. Going undercover in a way that is deeply uncomfortable and traumatic for him, but means saving innocent people, really great opportunity to explore Anakin's character and what an experience like that would do to him. Only, the show doesn't bother with any of that.

He acts pretty unbothered about the whole thing. Not in a way that makes it seem like he's deflecting, either. He really doesn't seem all that bothered about pretending to be a slave master, or that he has to whoo the queen of a slave empire.

And it's not like the creators forgot that he was a child slave and lived this reality for the first nine years of his life. He outright mentions the fact that his mother was sold in a slave market like the one they're walking through at one point.

Then there's the whole thing with Ahsoka posing as his slave. I... cannot imagine any universe where Anakin would be okay with something like that. Putting her in that position does not seem in character for him at all.

Then you add in some of the dialogue the writers put in there...

Who are you and what have you done with my boy?

This just does not in any shape way or form seem in character for him? Making light of the situation and joking about things to distract from how viscerally uncomfortable this is all making him? Sure. But not like this.

And then there's the end of the arc, where (spoilers) the Zygerrian Queen dies. This is a character who 1) rules a slave empire, 2) has enslaved and tortured Ahsoka, Obi-Wan and Rex and used them as hostages to get Anakin to do what she wants and 3) was implied by the show to have coerced Anakin into sex (genuinely cannot believe a kids show got away with that one) and the creators had the gall to have Anakin cradle her body as she died. The guy who murdered an entire village for killing his mother, held this woman and looked sad as she died.

I do not understand the decisions made here. I really don't.

Honestly, if you're interested in the angst of the episode but not the execution, just skip the show and read some fanfic about the Zygerria arc. There's a lot of really great ones that focus on the events of the arc and the aftermath.

Some of my favorites:

System Reset by That_Ghost_Kristoff. Honestly, this whole series is great

Dog Bites by Husborth

Goes to Ground also by Husborth cuz she's awesome like that

Time by katierosefun

Or you could read the Clone Wars comic of Slaves of the Republic, which actually handles the arc a lot better.

[justacrazybeing]

Is there an in universe explanation for whenever Anakin gets caught during the Clone Wars they never take off his prosthetic? I can imagine that there is a reason for it considering making animation ect.

[stairset]

I'm not an Anakin defender in a "he was The Real Victim and everything was actually the big mean Jedi's fault" way cause that's stupid and people who think that are stupid however I am an Anakin defender in a "why are you even watching Star Wars if you hate the central character that the entire franchise revolves around" way.

[fangirlforeversthings]

In todays episode of

"temple stories"

Star wars: the sticker wars

Ahsoka running around and placing star stickers on random objects

Obi wan pausing from chatting with windu and fisto: "what are you doing dear?"

Ahsoka pausing for a moment and greeting the trio with a quick nod: "masters hello. Well anakin keeps having his cleptomanic fingers on my stuff, so i told him i'd place star stickers on everything that belongs to me"

Obi wan shaking his head: "you guys could also talk about it."

Master Fisto and windu clancing looks at each other

Ahsoka:"....naah" *hurries back to her task* "So anyway this mug is mine oh and definetly this controller he keeps stealing this the most...*Runs over and places a sticker on obi wans cheek who has gotten back to sipping his tea* *obi just blinking into his tea mug and sighing*

Mace and fisto snorting into their hands barely holding it together.

Ahsoka meawhile pokes her head around the corner yelling: "skyguy i've marked everything mine with a star sticker now, so hands off these."

A few moments later anakin comes around the same corner placing starship stickers on the exact same mug and controller.

Obi: "....Let me guess these are yours?"

Anakin: "yeah from where do you know?" *Casually places a starship sticker on obi wans forehead (who ones again tried to drink his tea) while walking by*

Obi: "Wha..hey Hey!! I'm no...augh *closes his eyes and inhales*" "nevermind obi wan think of your nerves" (to himself) *so he just goes back to actually now drinking his tea*

fisto and mace are now bursting out laughing with anakin walking off

*edit*

Rex is covered and i mean covered in stickers 30% anakin and ahsokas cause they were having a sticker sticking war over him for both claiming him as theirs to death.

The rest is half the armys mostly 501st ones cause everyone keeps claiming sweet pretty rexika as their babygirl property (he is just too sweet shaped to resist)

Cody has one single heart sticker on his helmet cheek that obi wan gently placed on it stating: "i suppose everbody knows it by now but just to be shure *places sticker* my commander *sweet smile*" and walks off while poor cody baby blushed so hard he melted the insides of his helmet💞

He proudly wears that sticker "TO THIS DAYUH!" (His men want to cover him with stickers aswell but no one dares to reach for what the General owns already (also they know, you know?)

Also they are too afraid one tried but cody just gave them one authoritative look through his helmet and that was it "but thank you i appreciate your loyalty respect and admiration" He just said

Obi wan is covered in stickers cause every jedi keeps claiming him as theirs. Either for marriage or adoption.

The most sticked objects in the temple are the best chairs at the cantina and temple Spa.

Most sticked object in the Gar clone barracks and 79s is rex.

[charadreammer]

Me : I'm so normal about Anakin

Also me : *sees Anskin in the Ahsoka series and immediatly cries*

[kyber-kisses]

No one talk to me, I’m gonna need 5-7 business days to recover from the new episode of Ahsoka—

[itsthegirlinthebowtie]

not me lowkey crying at ahsoka saying “he was a good master” it’s ok i’m fine everything is fine

[ravenhairedwaywanderer]

Happy Ahsoka day!

[cubanpetekotrb]

Since episode 5 apparently people DO now understand why Ashoka is the way she is. Even though it was undeniably clear to anyone with a mind that it's INSANE (and problematic) grown ass people expect a 40 something woman to still be like she was as a teenager. All that has nothing today with 'bad writing' or 'bad acting' that was an expectation an awful lot of people had even before watching Ahsoka and IT IS problematic.

Now apparently there is issue with Hera being force sensitive even though there was no problem accepting the explanation that Han Solos amazing piloting skills probably meant he was unconsciously tapping into the force. Hera IS canonically an amazing pilot. Is it easy for her to consciously tapp into the force? Probably not. Would she want to make the enormous effort it would take for her to do that? Hell no! Hera is not interested in becoming a jedi or using the force.

These same people didn't have a problem accepting Baylans obvious stiffness, stoicness and calm. Actually they admired and applauded him for it but punished and judged the hell out of Ahsoka, I'm sensing a pattern here 🤔🤔.

That is also why it really bothers me when people say Ahsokas eyes weren't Sith they were a reflection. Following with an explanation that she was reflecting HIS emotions and that she had to move passed that or whatever. Or maybe not even an explanation but that is not my point, this wasn't about reflecting anything.

This lesson was NOT ABOUT ANAKIN. This was about Ahsoka and her emotions within her. Her OWN PULL to the dark side, her attachements (which includes her attachement to her padawan because she clearly cares about Sabine a lot), her traumas that is partly Anakin but isnt just about Anakin. Ahsokas was pulled to the dark side because that is within HER that was the whole point of the excercise and lesson. To accept who she is fully and that she is not responsible for Anakins fall to the dark.

Anakin knew that. This lesson was for Ahsoka and Ahsoka alone.

Part of the reason I think this wasn't in Ahsokas mind because that IS about Anakin and his development. He is there for Ahsoka, this isn't about him or his ego.

[mandomaya]

Episode 4 of Ahsoka has to be one of the best Star Wars episodes yet. I loved it from start to finish.

I mean right off the bat we have Ahsoka outside reminiscing something, which I haven't figured out yet, but I assume is probably her past.

There's the droid fight which honestly I found hilarious, I love watching droids fight so much its so funny to me.

Then Huyang told Sabine and Ahsoka that they're better off together, and it honestly reminded me of when Obi-Wan in the Clone Wars said that so long as they stick together, they'll be fine. Actually crying.

Then we have the duels, THE DUELS! Oh my god where do I even start. I love duels in Star Wars, they're by far my favourite part about it. It was so cool seeing how Sabine improved drastically since her last fight with Shin. And the way Baylan aggravated Ahsoka by mentioning Anakin and her past made the whole episode so much more emotional than it already was. I could see the pain in Ahsoka's eyes and the emotion behind her moves. It reminded me of Anakin a lot, and how much she takes from him and also when she duelled Vader on Malachor. She doesn't want to remember her past and her guilt caused by it, but Baylan knew how to get to her. And it shattered me in the best way.

And when I tell you I gasped when she got shoved off the cliff oh my god I'm not even joking, thought she was dead for a hot second before I realised it was a show about her.

And don't even get me started on the scene where Sabine hands the map over to Baylan. Baylan again is pushing all the right buttons to get right to her soft spot, and it worked. I loved the incredible amount of time it took Sabine to make the decision because, as an indecisive person, I get it. But also because she knows what she's about to do is wrong. She shouldn't have given the map over, and she should've destroyed it, and she knew that. But she wanted to save Ezra. Ezra was the one person left she could save, rather than fail. And she took the risk, despite what pain it could bring her, and Ahsoka.

And where do I even begin on the ending. There's no word good enough to describe it. First of all, when Ahsoka woke up in the World Between Worlds, I knew immediately that THAT was how she was going to get to Sabine. But what happened next, I did not expect.

ANAKIN APPEARED. AS ANAKIN, NOT VADER!! It made me so emotional the whiplash was unreal. The way he said "Hey Snips" almost exactly how Anakin in the Clone Wars said it, I literally cried. And I cannot even imagine how Ahsoka must feel because bare in mind, she last time she saw Anakin as Anakin and not Vader, was right before Order 66. And they never had a time to catch up. The last time Ahsoka saw Anakin as Vader, she thought she was responsible for what happened to him because she left him. Twice. She's had to live with that guilt for so long and seeing him like that must have been the biggest shock of her life. She spent the rest of her life trying to connect with Anakin but being met with a total darkness. In that moment, she saw him. Again. After 30 years.

Heartbreaking.

[vclkyriess]

me when “hello snips”