Its Coming - Ahsoka

Imagine if they had started with this instead of TFA...

There's so much potential in what they are setting up. Not just the Thrawn storyline, but we have Ahsoka being both alive and active, plus Sabine Wren as some sort of pseudo-Padawan, Jacen Syndulla as a potential future Jedi, an introduction to the concept of "Dark Jedi" via Baylan Skoll. Throw in events from The Mandalorain and we also have Grogu, Luke's new Jedi Temple, and a reunited Mandalore. We could have been heading somewhere excellent. Just on the Jedi side alone, we have 4+ different interpretations of what a Jedi should be, following the fall of the old Jedi Order and The Empire.

Instead, we know that everything starts falling apart ~9 years after the events of Ahsoka. And then within a further 7 years or so, the nonsense begins...
 
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Imagine if they had started with this instead of TFA...

There's so much potential in what they are setting up. Not just the Thrawn storyline, but we have Ahsoka being both alive and active, plus Sabine Wren as some sort of pseudo-Padawan, Jacen Syndulla as a potential future Jedi, an introduction to the concept of "Dark Jedi" via Baylan Skoll. Throw in events from The Mandalorain and we also have Grogu, Luke's new Jedi Temple, and a reunited Mandalore. We could have been heading somewhere excellent.

And instead, we know that this all starts falling apart ~9 years after the events of Ahsoka. And then within a further 7 years or so, the nonsense begins...
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Agreed. They had all the building blocks of some great stories with the extended universe after RotJ but couldn't stomach paying royalties to authors and writers so decided to make all this stuff 'Legends' and disregard it. Even Kathleen Kennedy once said that they had to write new stories, as if the books and extended universe didn't exist.

The issue is that they could easily have woven this into a proper series. Even 10-15 Episodes per season or even a full season run of 20 episodes, all weaving all the elements we've seen so far, The Mandalorian, Boba Fett as some middle episodes, Grogu and many others could easily have been woven into dozens of episodes rather than this current 6-8 episode mini series. I think the writing would have been better for it and the likes of Book of Boba Fett and Kenobi could have been used to fill in the gaps between seasons. I mean I only know of Thrawn from the TIE Fighter games and some of the other stuff declared Legends. They could have easily had a few flashback episodes to tell his story. It all feels like a massive lost opportunity for some proper, fleshed out storytelling.
 
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Imagine if they had started with this instead of TFA...
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I'm enjoying this but it would have been a disaster to try and do this as a major film. Imagine launching the new trilogy of Star Wars and telling people they need to watch multiple animated shows which introduced the character. It had to be a fresh character.
 
Anyways...

Good episode tho it got so slow after the world between worlds stuff.
It's like so obvious what is going to happen but it's drip fed slowly, slowly and overly long visual explanation...
 
loved this week's episode. I'm really starting to feel I'm missing some story from rebels this week though, all the whale stuff mainly. I guess the clone wars stuff could have been from specific episodes but it was self explanatory.

Annakin looked almost perfect this week. In each flashback it just looked exactly like the actor and not CGI, even though u could tell he was at different periods of his life.

The only time he looks weird is when he is in the blue part of the world between worlds, which is also what we saw last week.

The young kid (is he biologically Hera's son?) Is really annoying. Hopefully less of him in the future episodes. People discuss intricate plot holes like this stuff is real, wherein the real plothole is why would any adult take a young kid across the galaxy on a mission in the 1st place?!


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Well Ghost is basically Hera's home. And his father isn't around any more so is it better to leave him alone and potentially grow up with no family?

Agreed on Anakin, I thought he looked great in the Clone Wars scenes.
 
oof what an episode. We had :

Hayden in clone wars armour
Vader references
Ahsoka the grey transformation into the white
Rex
Clone wars and siege of mandalore references
Hyperdrive wales
Lots of references to Rebels
Lots and lots of star wars trumpets
What's not to love?

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