I’m reading Star Wars Ahsoka (trying to finish my books TBR this month) and I must say I really like her. It’s an interesting character and a nice addition to SW stellar crew. But I think it’s so upsetting all this discourse of “not being a Jedi” just because she doesn’t belong to the Jedi Temple Studio 54. So, to be a Jedi you must be a member of a country club and that’s it? #starwars#ahsoka#books#reading@bookstodon
4 years ago today, I was holding my nose and watched #TheRiseOfSkywalker on its German premiere. Was really fun to have a few days advance knowledge over the Americans about the HOT MESS they were unaware of. This movie is #StarWars at its least ambitious, most cowardly, most cynical, most... content, most Disney. It's an empty shell of a movie that throws away everything TLJ offered it. In a way I'm not even angry, I'm just disappointed.
⭐️ Battle Star Galactica
⭐️ The Expanse
⭐️ Star Trek: The Next Generation
⭐️ Raised by Wolves
⭐️ Foundation
⭐️ Star Wars: The Mandalorian
⭐️ Star Wars: Andor
⭐️ Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi
⭐️ Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
Now onboard:
⭐️ Star Trek: Deep Space 9
⭐️ For all Mankind
The thing with #Ahsoka is that Thrawn is obviously some badass empire dude who was so evil he was banished to some galaxy only reachable by massive space whales, but unless you're the geekiest of #StarWars nerds then you're like "if Thrawn was such a stalwart of the Empire, where was he in the original trilogy?"
@olimould I don’t think the actor they picked for the live action shows quite matches how he’s been portrayed (visually at least) in the books and cartoons previously. I’m not particularly sold on his performance either although that could just be down to script/directing and no fault of the actor.
@sudoaptgetlife@olimould Lars Mikkelsen first voiced Thrawn in Star Wars Rebels. At the end of the day cartoons and comics, books are just representations ,stylizations, interpretations of their liveaction versions. Thrawn in liveaction looks pretty similar to how he did in Rebels
@darth_hideout@shinjiikarus I want to believe that is a similar situation like with Batman; People argue about the connection between Bruce and Batman but for a commoner will you believe that Bruce is Batman?. Star Wars takes place in an entire galaxy I expect with trillions of people to have enough to repeat names.
Also both Republics are fool enough to oversight that
@rm4@shinjiikarus@plasmagold Yeah but we only ever hear of four with that name (Rey included; Leia & Ben never use it, or Padmé). In the canon novelization of RotS, every youngling knows the name.
So the usual song & dance involves Tatooine being in Hutt space. (“The Republic doesn’t exist out here.”) Even though there was this local kid back when who won the Boonta Eve podrace.
Seeing "Clone Wars"-era Anakin and Ahsoka in live action feels strange. I'm so used to them in animated form.
I was struck by how much younger "Clone Wars" Ahsoka seems in live action. The Jedi throwing an untrained child into battle—in a leadership position, no less—was unconscionable.
There's a lot wrong with the Jedi order by the prequel era. Even before the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan tells a 19 year-old Anakin, "This weapon is your life." Anakin, who was 9 years-old when he got to choose to train to be a Jedi, while the younglings Anakin killed were initiated at such a young age they likely never knew a life outside the Jedi Order.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn the Sith manipulated them into that practice.
For all I like #Ahsoka I do worry a little that it's by far the most intra-referential show yet for nu-#StarWars. Like to get the most from it you need to have seen TCW, Rebels, Mando + played at least Fallen Order, + read Zahn's books and I wonder how sustainable a model that is
@euphoriagremlin Filoni has always referenced a lot of adjacent material, I for one am here to get some resolutions for his setups (Mortis gods, World between Worlds, galaxy hopping, Rakata and Kotor references). But I can see a Marvel-ification stemming from this trend, which would seriously hurt Star Wars in the long run.
@shinjiikarus for sure. I guess it's not really a complaint I have, more just an askance observation. I know I'm already the target audience for the show since I've watched, played, read bloody everything, but I do wonder how sustainable that is long term. For example, I think Ahsoka ep 5 is one of the most closed off SW eps in ages - you need to have seen so much supplementary material to get anything from it
I’m enjoying #Ashoka a little more with Ep 3. Fun action. I didn’t watch Clone Wars or Rebels, so I’m sure there is a lot I’m missing.
I thought some of the “A New Hope” callbacks were a little on the nose, but I didn’t mind them at all (e.g., Force training with the blast helmet, rookie in the tail gunner spot).
@starwars THE POETRY OF STAR WARS. Emperor Palpatine's Speech to the Senate in STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH is written in 9 enclosed quatrains where there's a rhymed couplet sandwiched in between an unrhymed couplet. So the rhyme scheme is this: abbc, deef, ghhi, etc...If I were to perform this poem, I would speak the rhymed lines with great volume and tone than the unrhymed lines and put a brief pause between each stanza. #poetry#starwars#StarWarsTheBadBatch http://jamesivan.poetry.blog/2023/08/26/star-wars-emperor-palpatine-speaks-to-the-senate/
So I watched eps 1 and 2 of Ahsoka and it made me realize what a key role Favreau played on The Mandalorian. Filoni is so in love with the Star Wars lore that every shot is framed like it's Huge and Important, but the show just hasn't earned that yet, so it comes off slow and ponderous. Filoni really needs a co-creator next to him saying "this is boring, how can we make the audience care?" That was Favreau for The Mandalorian and his absence in Ahshoka is palpable. #StarWars#Ahsoka
@rm4 Because that's what art is for: to say something. Otherwise it's just bashing action figures together in a sandbox. (The original trilogy was very much Saying Something, too.)
@fraying What did the OT really have to say that would be more profound than what Rebels (and presumably the Asoka show) had/have to say? There's some elements of post-Vietnam criticism, but Rebels is pretty antifascist, and it seems like Asoka is going to be about at least in part war-profiteering and corruption.
What the OT has on all of Star Wars is precisely that it's the OT. The original. There was nothing to really compare it to when it came out, but I think overall, compared against all of the Star Wars media that it spawned, there are much more profound stories as well as some pretty simplistic ones.