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[anakinisvaderisanakin]

Nothing like the best Star Wars character to celebrate May the 4th.

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[kenobi-source]

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

[inquisitorius-sin-bin]

The Imperial Inquisitorius

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[nimata-beroya]

Tales of the Jedi ✅

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[bisexualvader]

@prequelsnet Prequels Appreciation Week: Day 6 — Installments

[david-talks-sw]

I think it's interesting that - in order to make his "free-thinking Jedi" characters hold any semblance of rationality in their arguments - Dave Filoni needs to resort to artificially dehumanizing the other Jedi and painting them all with the same "we dogmatically worship protocol" brush.

He does this with Huyang in the recent Ahsoka episode.

"Lolz he's so narrow-minded, preachy and by-the-book, unable to think outside the box, just like the Jedi in the Prequels."

My first reaction was being amused at the fact that Filoni had to resort to making the Jedi Order's ideals and rules be embodied by a literal machine for his anti-Jedi headcanon to start making sense.

But then I remembered: Huyang isn't just any droid.

In The Clone Wars, he had a sassy personality, he had a pep in his step, he had a sense of humor...

This character was human in his behavior, he was fun and whimsical.

But now he's been reduced to, I dunno, "Jedi C-3PO"? Basically?

"Ha! He's blunt and unsympathetic because he's a droid, but it's funny because the Jedi were the same, they were training themselves to be tactless, emotionless droids."

And Filoni does this with Mace Windu too, in Tales of the Jedi.

Mace, who brought a lightsaber to the throat of a planetary leader to defend the endangered Zillo Beast...

... and who went waaay past his mandate by mischievously sneaking around Bardottan authorities and breaking into the Queen's quarters because he felt something bad was afoot...

... was reduced to being an almost droid-like, rule-parotting, protocol purist who sticks to his instructions (and is implied to be willing to let a murder go unsolved so he can get a promotion).

I mentioned this at the end of my first post on Luke in The Last Jedi... while changes in personality do happen overtime and can be explained in-universe... if you don't show us that progression and evolution and just leave us without that context, that'll break the suspension of disbelief, for your audience.

Here, we have two characters with a different (almost caricatural) personality than the one they were originally shown to have.

Now... we could resort to headcanons, to make it all fit together.

We could justify Huyang's tone shift 'cause "Order 66 changed him". And we could make explanations about TotJ's Mace:

Being younger and thus more ambitious and a stickler for the rules, and only really becoming more flexible after getting his seat on the Council and gaining more maturity.

Being such a teacher's pet in the episode because we're seeing him through the eyes of a notorious unreliable narrator, Dooku.

There'd be nothing wrong with opting to go with either of those headcanons to cope with this. After all, Star Wars is meant to help you get creative.

But the problem I encounter is that:

Filoni has an anti-Jedi bias, so the above headcanons clearly wouldn't really track with his intended narrative.

We'd be jumping through hoops to extrapolate and fill in what is, essentially, inconsistent characterization, manufactured to make Ahsoka and Dooku shine under a better light.

And that sours whatever headcanon I come up with.

Edit: Also, yeah, as folks have been saying in the tags... wtf is "Jedi protocol"? The term isn't ever mentioned in the movies, I skimmed through dialog transcripts of TCW, never saw it there.

So it's almost as if - if Filoni wasn't draining characters like Mace and Huyang of all humanity and nuance - his point about "the Jedi were too detached and lost their way, but not free-thinkers like Qui-Gon, Dooku and Ahsoka" wouldn't really hold much water.

[chocomars]

Togs on my mind (and One Rex). Also birthed another OC. Her name’s Leila and I have fallen in love with her 🩷

[darth-memes]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEY ECKSTEIN!!!!

[anakinisvaderisanakin]

The trio.

[billykcplan]

AHSOKA TANO ↪  fighting stances

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

by the way, having dooku's tipping point be killing yaddle in TOTJ is kind of dishonest. since he killed sifo-dyas when valorum was still chancellor, yaddle is confronting a fully fledged sith lord (because he's already received his 'darth' title) who has already killed his best friend in service of the dark side. not much tipping over left to do. i'd much rather have seen that part of dooku's story animated rather than pastalony bringing in a council member just so he could make her an ex council member out of nowhere.

[rochenn]

sorry if you've already been asked this, but what were/are your thoughts on the tales of the jedi dooku eps? i havent seen many people talking about them, even when they came out

-old man enjoyer

Hello old man enjoyer! Just had to check my archive for October 2022 and it turns out I really didn't talk much about TotJ, though I certainly did blog a little about it

So to catch up on that: yeah! I enjoyed the Dooku episodes! His new character model was at times more off-putting than the one from TCW, but the content itself was good. I like that they confirmed he was a principled and just person who got carried away with bad methods. How it started on a small scale and how it snowballed. Especially the pattern of him setting out to confront some injustice or another and causing harm in the end is neat, I think. It's a microcosm of Dooku's whole existence, really, because this whole process repeats and the stakes get higher until he's hurting the entire fucking galaxy in his pursuit of "justice". It's amazing. From a conflict in a small town to a war spanning all of civilization... nice hustle, sir. What a unique talent you have for making people shoot each other.

There are some bones I have to pick with his TotJ episodes and I think he should've been given more time, but I'm happy with what we got. It feels respectful and true to the character painted across the Prequels/TCW. Too bad they can't retcon him to have more of a presence in TPM, he would've been a great addition 😔

[tobytost]

BTW they announced Tales of the Jedi season 2 and if it's not about the shatterpoint lineage I DON'T WANT IT!!!

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