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
The central question here seems to be what makes one a Jedi? To me it seems to be learning the ways and philosophy of the Jedi and the light side of the force, commitment to the order, and then to be a knight passing the trials. Ahsoka fails #2, having renounced the order. To me, she supersedes the order in #1, and #3, I suppose she never officially passed the trials. But her commitment to the light-side of the force is unquestionable.
All in all, I think it's fair to say Ahsoka is not a Jedi. In fact, she says it herself (spoilers obviously if you haven't seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9k3zy-Rr8c To my mind, she is something beyond the Jedi, especially after season 7 of The Clone Wars. I have an unreasonable attachment to my childhood heroes of the original trilogy, but I think if I had grown up today Ahsoka would be my favorite character.
