This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work
at mjmunoz.com. Welcome to my fully operational Star Wars analysis. I just
finished episode one of Ahsoka. I had to stop to say something about it. I won't
wait until I've seen episode two because each episode of a thing should stand on
its own, shouldn't it? And I gotta say, I like a lot of things about it but I
dislike one thing very much and that one thing that I dislike just got, spoilers,
stabbed in the gut? I don't know. This stab apparently isn't going to be a
problem for Sabine. She's gonna be in the rest of the series I'm sure because of
the promo material whatever that we saw. She's got to cut her hair later and
whatever. So somehow Sabine survived this cut and I get that in the Star Wars
galaxy. There is miraculous healing capabilities but unless, I mean, yeah, I
don't know. That looks like a pretty bad injury and unless it takes them like a couple
weeks for her to heal up in a back to tank or something, I just, I don't know. She's
kind of ridiculous. She shouldn't have got stabbed that bad. I mean, why not, uh, I
mean, I'd almost rather cut off a hand or something if you're gonna cut her real
bad to win the fight and then run because Ahsoka gets there anyway. You
also, I mean, Obi-Wan got stabbed in the shoulder by Dooku and Luke did a
devator. That works, you know, you can get the, get the leg, you know, tear out
chunks of flesh but don't do a torso shot like that and then say, oh the
person's fine, they're going on an adventure next week. Now of course, I
don't know that that's gonna happen but it looks dumb that she got stabbed like
that. So, I don't know, a little extreme, a little extreme but that's not what I
disliked. That's just a thing, another thing to talk about. What I didn't like
at all and didn't make any sense, it's twofold but I'll, I'll excuse one but
not the other. Sabine not showing up to the memorial for Ezra even though, well
no, it's not that she didn't show up. She was there and then she left based on the
dialogue by Azad or Azari, whatever the governor guy is, played by the guy who
voiced him. The guy who did the voice, doesn't matter, the voice of brother.
I can't remember his name, I think it's Brown, I think it's like something Brown and I
can't remember it this time but anyway he's a big deal. He was in the original
Highlander movie as a really cool guy and he was like, you know, Azad or you
know, something like that in this which is fine. He was fine in the show. It's
funny because they got the voice actor, they made the character look like the
voice actor that they chose. I believe that's how they did it and then
Clancy Brown, yes I remember and he also played Savage of Press in the Clone Wars,
Star Wars the Clone Wars, man. Brought to you by George Lucas under the direction
or with the direction of Dave Filoni. So anyway, I'm super glad I remember that. It
was gonna bother me really badly. So anyway, moving on. So based on his
dialogue, Sabine was at the memorial and then based on that other guy, the senator
or representative or whatever he was, you know, Mr. Binks, that guy gave me
hardcore Jar Jar Bones even though he was human. Anyway, so according to that guy
too, Sabine was there and then like a jerk, she left and then she does this, I
guess it's a Top Gun reference, the silly thing where she's driving off on her
motorcycle and they're trying to call her in because you know, the mayor or governor
or whatever asked them for them to and she, you know, does the, no I'm too cool
for that and you know, motorcycle, you know, dips her motorcycle under the jet
or whatever. What? What is she doing? Like why is she being such a jerk? That doesn't
make any sense to me. Now apparently at some point between Rebels and this show,
she became apprentice, this is Sabine Wren, Mandalorian, became apprentice to
Ahsoka Tano, failed Jedi or you know, not fully trained Jedi. So that implies, that
implies, it doesn't say, it's not expressly explicitly said, that implies
that Sabine Wren, who lived with and fought alongside, came in Jarrus for three
years, four years, something like that, while he was training Mr. Blueberry,
Space Aladdin, ironically played by the guy who played Aladdin in that live-action
Disney movie that I liked, he, you know, Ezra, he was training, Kanan was training
Ezra, who had the Force and now it turns out that Sabine also had the Force
somehow unbeknownst to Kanan while he was training this guy, that doesn't make
any sense whatsoever and I'm super curious to see how they did that, unless
of course she, you know, was doping herself with midichlorians like I suspect
a certain somebody was from another Filoni show. So I don't know how that
works and why that would work, but again she didn't need to necessarily be
trained as a Jedi with the Force, she could have just been trained as a
Mandalorian to use, you know, the darksaber like she was and then a
lightsaber but it also then appears as if she constructed her own lightsaber,
however she could have recovered a lightsaber from a fallen Jedi, if
something or a Soka could help her build one I guess, but she seems to have a
kyber crystal and that doesn't make any sense. So I may be salty but I'm not
saltier than Krait, so I actually just discovered that Reddit channel or
whatever recently and I read some stuff on there and it was kind of funny so
anyway I thought I'd reference that real quick, but yeah I don't want to just
complain because I'm not a hater. I liked Sabine in Rebels, although, or is it Rebels?
Yeah, Star Wars Rebels. I liked Sabine in that, although I was mad that they never gave her a
jetpack, I really think they should have given her her flying phoenix and I also
thought it was weird that sometimes they made her like as capable as a Jedi, which
I know Filoni can now say, yeah guys those were clues that she was force
sensitive and everybody know but they just didn't talk about it on the show
because they didn't need to because they already knew that she didn't want to
pursue Jedi training because whatever, which I mean I guess you could do that
but that's obviously retconning things, but Filoni, and this is the last complaint
for now, Filoni hasn't seemed to have had a problem retconning things that he
made did was very much intimately involved with like with the Kain comic
book and stuff with and he did that with Star Wars Misfits, island Misfit
toys, whatever that show is called, the Clone Troopers, the modified clone, Bad
Batch, anyway so it just seems like an odd move to me but whatever I'll roll
with it because it doesn't really matter right? I mean I care, I care, but if they
want to screw around with their own continuity then you know good for them I
guess, but anyway so I really thought that Sabine had some reason to be
frustrated with Ahsoka if it is in fact true that Ahsoka abandoned her, if she
walked away from her while she was her Jedi master training her in the ways of
the Force or if she was just her master, they were master and apprentice and
Ahsoka abandoned her, I can see why she'd be frustrated, I could see why she
would dislike Ahsoka, so while she voluntarily agreed to be at the Ezra
and Ghost Crew monument unveiling thing and then abandoned it and that doesn't
make sense, if she was betrayed, felt betrayed by Ahsoka it would make sense
that she would abandon her or not want her help, of course her foolishness and
pigheadedness seems to me like a regression of the character which if
she's been alone, I don't know how long it's been, I don't know how long it's been
guys, so that seems contrary to me because I thought she was a wiser, smarter,
stronger, more capable character but apparently she's not and this is
something to be proud of I guess, but anyway so her frustration with Ahsoka is
somewhat understandable even though we don't have the context but they want us
to believe it's understandable, Hera is there telling Ahsoka that she should get
it and that it makes sense to her, Huyang sees that they have like a
contentious relationship with each other and he is hoping that they'll work it
out probably but just say he's seen lots of masters and apprentice who have had
contentious relationship with each other and then they worked it out because
that's what you do when you have a relationship with somebody you have
difficulties and then you work through them which is great so anyway that's
kind of interesting by the way I love all the callbacks I love all the
continuity I love all the you know Ahsoka worked with Huyang we saw that in
the gathering in the younglings arc from Columna season four or five whatever
that was so it's cool to see him back it's cool they got the voice actor to
come back who I think like Dr. Who I don't know who he is though because
doesn't matter to me because I'm not a Dr. Who guy I'm a Star Wars guy it's an
other thing guy and I love his like capability to research and to know he's
like the one guy from Harry Potter right he knows every he's a computer so it
makes a little more sense he knows every lightsaber that he's ever overseen the
construction up so that was a really like cool clever nice way to tie that in
to tie him in and to make him useful in that moment to help identify Balin
skull skull Balin skull and indicate that he has taken on an apprentice
sometime after the Clone Wars because this lady is not that old after he left
the Clone Wars like you know 20 plus years ago is this 25 years ago already I
don't know probably closer to around 25 years post Clone Wars yeah that would
make sense if it's supposed to turn the Jedi so anyway actually it'd be closer
to 30 years wouldn't it anyway moving on so that's all interesting to me and I
like those little details I liked Ahsoka exploring the witch temple I was fine
with her killing those droids pretty easily in the way she I don't know it
was kind of funny I feel mostly good about it but it was seems like an odd
choice to drop those three and then fight the two up top and then they when
they come back up then they initiate the self-destruct sequence my biggest
problem and by the way I like how slow it was I like how methodical it was I
like kind of the Indiana Jones you know ruin exploring vibe go and like seeing
Ahsoka like not just be a fighter but be somebody of intelligence and see her
like work out the puzzle and figure out how to get the map to come up that was
pretty cool it frustrates me then two things that she has to go back to
I'm thinking of the actress who played her who the Tia Sircar who did her voice
in Clone Wars that's not in the rebel show that's not who I want to talk I
want to talk about the not the actress who's playing her either I want to talk
about the character Sabine ah yes so Sabine jerk I mean jerk Ren so she has
to go to her at Harry's insistence or she goes to her at Harry's insistence
because she is the artistic eye and she can figure out this puzzle however I
think Ahsoka basically showed that she could have figured out the puzzle too
because she figured out a similar puzzle made by similar people for a similar
purpose of concealing this map and that was demonstrated to us very clearly so
that's like an odd choice it feels like they're shoehorning Sabine in and I'm
like well I like I said I was frustrated about Ahsoka you know being a Sabine
leaving Ahsoka leaving the ship and everything to do this you know to figure
out this map to work it on her own where she could be more comfortable and then
like when the map gets stolen from her I thought you jerk this is your fault you
caused this to happen because you couldn't handle it you couldn't act like
a big girl so you left in a huff and took your map fall and and went home and
it just seems kind of dumb like I don't want I don't know if you could tell but
I like things I like Ahsoka clearly I like aspects of Sabine mostly from the
show even though I have a minor criticism about some of them but then
the way they're the way Dave Filoni who is the executive producer of Star Wars
Rebels is now writing Sabine is incongruent inconsistent and incompatible
with the Sabine Ren we got before and she's irritating and dumb a little bit
and I don't get it beyond whether or not she has the force why is she a jerk now
where she wasn't a jerk before she was like calm cool collected like a rock
solid character so I've been Ezra with it fools who made things harder and it
just seems like a really odd choice to purposely regress your character in
order to do things a certain way when you're the writer and you have absolute
control over how you make this work they could have been working together and
Ahsoka had to go do something and left Sabine alone and she still got attacked
alone and you know who Yang is you know in shutdown mode or something and that's
why they didn't notice the incoming threat or whatever like there's so many
different things you could have done but again I'm trying to complain I'm trying
to just talk about things I like I'm just but I'm also giving you an honest
my honest thoughts on this thing so far I gotta say I loved the assault on the
prison ship and a freeing of wargan Elizabeth which how is that lady a
Nightsister like people were saying from Mando Mando season 2 and she showed up
that she was a Nightsister and they knew she was a Nightsister how is she a
Nightsister when they're all pasty white like non-human or near human like a
humanoid species and she's clearly like a I don't know she a Mexican lady with
Asian eyes because I've you know met plenty of those I'm related to a couple
of those or is she an Asian woman or what but she's clearly not a Nightsister
so I don't know how she's a Nightsister when they're all human like you cannot
get like in the video game the fallen order Jedi survivor thingy they have a
Nightsister who's an ally to the redhead guy and I don't know I don't play these
games so but like she's white skin with like you know platinum blonde hair white
hair and your girl a sage ventress clearly has white skin and like a weird
palette mother Taliesin again all the Nightsisters we saw we saw in Dathomir
the you know who were in the slaughter that dooku did they all don't look human
they all look like they have this you know white power skin and you know their
hairs different colors and like they're obviously non-human or you know they're
near human species from Star Wars not you know a human species so how's this
lady a Nightsister and if you wanted to be a Nightsister and you knew that from
Mando why not give her the white face paint and just just have like a you know
ashen white skinned Dathomir witch lady who is Mexican or Asian underneath the
makeup like why couldn't you just do this that seems silly and it doesn't
make any sense and it wouldn't have stood out to people strange that you
had a white skinned lady there in the episode in that Mando episode where
Sokka showed up like would have been no big deal anyway that just that seems
really odd but Balin and Shin their attack on the on the cruiser and the
prison ship prison transfer whatever to free her was amazing I even like the
like smarmy Republic officer guy who's like you're no Jedi you're Imperial
pretenders and Ray Stevenson's performance was great I don't know the
shin lady's name but she's very intense and creepy and scary I like that she's
still rocking a paddle on braid so like you know he was raised in the Jedi
temple he's kind of carrying on Jedi traditions but he's clearly states he's
not a Jedi so he's something else and I'll be curious to see what that is and
how all that develops and I don't know I like the potential of the show but
they're especially given the fact that this is a Dave Filoni project and he
worked so intimately on Clone Wars and rebels I don't understand why certain
missteps are being made and why certain things are inconsistent with those while
at the same exact time there are things that are so consistent with the rest of
it also he oversaw the night sister stuff in Clone Wars so why then would he
allow John Favreau to write Morgan Elisabeth as a non night sister looking
night sister lady unless there's some stupid complicated lore reason that you
know some nice sister lady hooked up with a human with Paco I don't know she's
Asian or Mexican so I'm gonna keep making jokes about that you know she
hooked up with Paco or you know ping and now you got Morgan Elisabeth so I I just
don't get it seems really weird doesn't make any sense some of the things and
it's upsetting because I like the bulk of the episode and then these little
things are distracting me but that's a bean ran section like the Top Gun
reference section was like way too long but then again I've never watched Top Gun
and I've no desire to so maybe that's maybe that's on me boo maybe that's on
me so anyway I'm gonna go ahead and get out of here I hope that you were well
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