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This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com.

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Welcome to my fully operational Star Wars analysis. I am talking about Ahsoka Episode 3,

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Make My Way Back Home and Learn to Fly! No, it's just Time to Fly, it's an episode. Anyway,

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this was written by Steph, no, directed by Steph Green and written by Dave Filoni or Dave the Pony,

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if you were an old, I was going to say Rebel Force radio, but it would have been the Force

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cast, I think, at the time, listener. But, you know, whatever, you don't have to be. So anyway,

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the episode was good. It was decent. I was going to say something about the cinematography and the

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establishing shots, but if you listen to my six-part Road or Journey to Ahsoka streaming series,

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available now on Disney+, you would have heard that already, and if you didn't, then I'll just

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quickly recap it. This episode had cool establishing shots, which are a very Star

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Wars-y thing, and a lot of the wide cinematic shots are very Star Wars-y. And I think in clips

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that I've seen in Star Wars documentaries of the old serials, they had a similar vibe and a similar

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look to them. But I don't see great establishing shots much other place than Star Wars, other than

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I have noticed it as I'm watching Ultraman sometimes, which is Japan's greatest hero,

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arguably. Even though Kamen Rider's better. Come on, you guys know Kamen Rider's better.

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Anyway, so that has really great establishing shots, but they do establishing shots to show

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off the base that the heroes occupy and things like that. But it's made in the same tradition

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of those serials where you've got, you know, spaceships on wires and whiskers on kittens.

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So yeah, I like those shots. But overall, I found this episode very enjoyable. It was very

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interesting. I will say, though, one demerit of the episode, less the episode and more the series or

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the story of this Ahsoka streaming series overall, which this is, you know, it's Rebels season or

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it's like, you know, Rebels live action slash Ahsoka's journey as a master or mistress or

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whatever you would call that. We, if you watch the Star Wars Rebels, you saw the Blueberry himself,

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Ezra Bridger struggle to become a Jedi, come in tune with the force and be able to do things like

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move a bowl on a table in his living quarters. Here, you're seeing Sabine Wren struggle to move

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a cup on a table in her living quarters. Ezra Bridger's master was a Jedi Padawan who never

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completed his training. Ahsoka Tano, Sabine Wren's master, is a Jedi Padawan who never finished her

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training. Kanan Jarrus, also known as Caleb Doom, was a Jedi Padawan who, despite the fact that he

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never finished his training, went through a lot of interesting experiences and tangled with Darth

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Vader himself, Dark Lord of the Sith. Ahsoka Tano is a Padawan who, despite the fact that she never

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finished her training, also tangled with the Sith Lord Darth Vader. I don't know if those parallels

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and similarities bother anybody else, and I almost feel as if Filoni's work on Ahsoka is

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erasing the work that was done on Star Wars Rebels. I find it peculiar. I don't want to accuse

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him of retreading Star Wars Rebels in live action here because I want to be nice. I feel like it's

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enough of a novel and different approach and it doesn't matter the way that things are being

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repeated or being echoed from Rebels because after all Star Wars is like poetry, it rhymes.

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But the way that it's rhyming is peculiar, especially because it's rhyming over the course

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of the lives of these characters. When Ezra was struggling to become a Jedi and use his force

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ability that he knew about, Sabine never mentioned it. I know I mentioned this previously covering

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Ahsoka, but it just doesn't make sense to me that we're only finding out now that Sabine Wren has

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some level of force sensitivity. And if it's in a book somewhere, a kid's book somewhere that I

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didn't read, that's weird that I've never heard anybody talk about that because I listened to the

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Rebels report, I listened to various people talking about Star Wars Rebels on podcasts back in the

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day as it was happening live, and nobody ever mentioned it. And it just seems strange that that

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would never get mentioned. So it's odd that there's like this retcon being made and it doesn't make

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any sense. But more to the point, stepping away from the retcon issue, is I don't understand why

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we're having Filoni exploring the same Master Padawan dynamic as was done in Star Wars Rebels.

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And if Sabine and Ahsoka end up having discussions about the lessons of how they're a family,

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even though they're not related to each other by blood, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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I'm going to lose my mind a little bit because Rebels at some point became,

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it's all about family and you know how fast they can drive their cars. So

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that's frustrating to me. And I don't understand why you would just repeat those things because

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throughout Star Wars The Clone Wars, I feel like the show over 100 episodes, I think it's like 112

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episodes total, or is that just a Yuhawk show, the greatest story ever told animation? I don't know.

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Anyway, I feel like over the course of The Clone Wars, there was never really a repetition of

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anything and there was never really a retreading. And I didn't feel like anything in Rebels,

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retread or repeated things from Star Wars The Clone Wars. So it's a little shocking to me that

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going to live action, going to this big, huge stage and platform of live action,

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that you would go ahead and do things that people could point to and accuse you of retreading,

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repeating and replaying the same old song over and over again, Sam. And

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I'm at a loss for why that was done.

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That being said, I really enjoyed the training that Ahsoka is doing. I really enjoy seeing her

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teaching and mentoring Sabine. I enjoyed it when she did similar type of work with the

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younglings in the youngling arc of Star Wars The Clone Wars. I enjoyed it in the Onderon arc

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when she was helping to train Saw Gerrera and his Rebels. And

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something about the approach that Ahsoka has to teaching because she's an incomplete Jedi,

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she's a Padawan who walked away from the Jedi Order after she figured she couldn't trust them

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anymore, and something about her faith in people being who they are despite the fact that they lack

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particular qualifications or certifications given to them by organizations is endearing.

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And kind of wonderful and beautiful. I believe Filoni is like an accredited, you know, arts major

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kind of guy from whatever schools you go to to get that sort of thing. And yet, he doesn't demand

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that his characters have those sorts of similar qualifications, like I said, in order to be

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recognized and competent and to be in these heroic roles. And I do like that. There's a little bit of

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an interesting countercultural, like, I don't know, not punk, but like sub, sub, sub-genre,

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that's not the right way, but like, I don't know, there's a little bit of like a countercultural

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bent in that, where it's like, yeah, I'm unorthodox because I'm not part of this actual, you know,

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legitimate school of, you know, whatever, but I do the business of, I do the duty of, I do the tasks

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demanded by these people, and I do it in a way that's as competent as how they do it, or even,

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you know, more competent than how they do it or what they're supposed to be. Like, I love to do

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the ideals of this organization, even though I'm not an officially recognized or sanctioned member

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of this organization. I think that's a really cool idea, and I think that's a really cool idea.

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And it stresses the ethos that you don't have to actually be a part of a given thing or accepted

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as a part of a given thing by the people who control it and who are the ones who dole out the

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certification and who, you know, decree the dogma and such of the organization. You don't have to

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actually meet their approval in order to actually do something, you know, to do something, you know,

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to actually meet their approval in order to be good and to be correct and to be on the right path.

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You can be a little bit of a renegade. You can be a little bit of a person who's, you know, living on

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the edge or in these, you know, weird places that exist in between, and you can still be seen as

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fully legitimate because it's not how others think about you that matters. It's what you do that

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matters and what that makes you who you are, your choices that make you who you are. And I think

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that's clear in the kind of stories and structures of stories and the types of characters or

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archetypes of characters that Filoni is exploring in the stories that he's run, like Rebels and now

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like with Ahsoka and even the Mandalorian, you could say, you know, because them being part of

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Death Watch and whatnot, or the Lodge, Children of the Lodge, is all kind of, it kind of deals

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with the same, really even, I guess you could say. So I find that really interesting. But talking

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about Star Wars laser stuff, the whole put this visor on and let me walk around you and tap you

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with the sword and challenge you to get in tune with the force. Super cool. Super cool training

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session. I like, just I like how we got to see the full training session with the swords, which

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shows the Shinzo, whatever she said it was. Like that was cool. And then the fact that Sabine,

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like kind of as time went on, she got into it and then she failed by getting angry and frustrated.

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And then Ahsoka told her, look, anger and frustration, they're going to give you power

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and drive, but they're also going to unbalance you and make you fail that very thing you're

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trying to accomplish. So do not rely on them, not because it's evil and it's scary, but like,

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this is an unreliable, unsustainable form of activity or, or mode to put your mind in,

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because it's going to make you fail and slip up ultimately. And then you'll be farther from where

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you want to be instead of closer to where you want to be. So eschew, reject the anger and frustration,

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accept them and know that they are part of who you are. And part of your experience as a

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sentient being, but then set them aside and focus on having the drive, the determination, the core,

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or the, the focus to do what you need to do. Cause that is the true path to mastery, not the,

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the haphazard luck and, uh, I guess, and chance of doing things under duress or, or under anchor.

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That was a really cool lesson. And I liked how she just says, all right, that was good. Let's do that

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again. I didn't quite get the whole dynamic with her and Sabine with the, uh, the gunner, um, pod

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at the back of the ship and like, you know, Sabine's telling her like dive and swing and flip and roll.

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Like I liked that we saw them working together, but I just didn't quite understand why Sabine

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needed them to do it like that. And I also didn't understand why things work that way. Like did

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Sabine learn to shoot like that because she was shooting, uh, from the ghost while Hara was flying

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and Hara was doing all sorts of evasive maneuvers. So Sabine was adapted to shooting like that,

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because I can see, and they say fight, train like you fight. Uh, there's a meme about a guy like

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running around with guns in the woods drunk, you know, cause he's like, Hey, I'm, I want to,

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I'm training. Like I'm going to fight this. The assumption is he's going to be drunk when he needs

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to get into a gunfight. Therefore he needs to be drunk while he's training to get into a gunfight

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so that he fights in the same, in the same way. So is that what it was that Sabine came up under

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Hara's, you know, desperate flying and, uh, that's how she adapted to fighting, um,

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from a gunner pod. And she's asking the same thing with Soka. Soka wants to fly a different way,

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not like Hara and Sabine's asking her to conform to the way Arrow do it. Maybe that's what's going on.

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I don't know. It's unclear. It's unexplained, but I found that kind of interesting dynamic.

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I really liked this idea of Hu Yang having these like, and like these training saber

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safety sword things where they're meant more for like target practice and that they record

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these strikes that the, uh, that's, you know, the student makes through them. That's really cool.

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Um, one, cause I can conceive of how that technology could work too. It made it cool.

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Well, I guess one, it made it cool visual to see how the technology would work and three,

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my mind kind of jumped to the possibilities of how that would work in a, um, like how that would

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serve to train a student and how it would serve to show the efficacy of their, their saber work.

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So that was pretty cool. And also, uh, I don't remember him doing that in Sorrow of the Clone

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Wars, uh, with the protrusions that he's got. And it's, he's kind of like a, like a proto grievance,

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which is pretty cool. Um, it makes me think, well, now it makes me think back on, uh,

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Dooku Taranis, if he maybe was, uh, involved in sabotaging, um, Grievous in his life before he

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became, uh, more machine than man or being whatever he was. Uh, and if like Dooku's thought of the

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Hu Yang design, it was like, if we can get this on a guy who just wanted to kill Jedi, he would do a

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really great job, but the forearms are better than two. Although, you know, there's a lot of

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forearms are better than two, although, you know, there's Basilisks and stuff, but we didn't know

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about that at the time. Um, so by the way, Basilisk is the, I'm not talking about the snake from Harry

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Potter or the thing from mythology, a Basilisk is the, uh, forearm people like Dexter Jester,

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one of the greatest Star Wars characters in all of history. But anyway, um, yeah. So I wonder if he,

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like, I just wondered if that idea like struck Dooku as a kid and he's like, we should do this.

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And he orchestrates, you know, Grievous getting injured and, you know, choosing, choosing. If you

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watch Star Wars The Clone Wars, you'll know that, uh, this like medical droid that Grievous has

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feels like Grievous was like pressured into becoming what he is today. Uh, a killing machine,

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pawn of the Sith. Anyway, so that just kind of made me think about Grievous and those connections.

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So it's, it's fun because it's connecting me to the universe, uh, the broader universe.

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Another couple of things that connected me to the broader universe and were interesting

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were we got to see, uh, spoilers, spoilers, spoilers, Harry's son, Harry's son, who she had

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with Kanan Jarrus, who for some reason, they assured us again and again and again throughout

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the run of Rebels that Kanan and Hera had no romantic relationship whatsoever. Despite the

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fact that they acted like a mother and father to the ghost crew, it turns out they were practicing

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to be a mother and father, not to the ghost crew, but raising the ghost crew was practice for them

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to be mother and father because they ended up having a kid, Jason Sandula, who's, you know,

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half human, half Twi'lek, uh, no leku on this kid, but he does have green hair, which anyway,

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people thought they were going to change the hair from green to black, but it's a very dark green

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and, uh, that's kind of weird, but you know, I'm going to roll with it. I'm going to roll with it.

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But yeah, it was kind of interesting to see that kid and his desire to be a Jedi made me think,

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Oh, maybe he can be a Jedi with Luke. And then I think I thought, Oh no, what if he went,

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was a Jedi with Luke, what would happen to him? And I'm pretty sure TFA came out after,

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uh, after the end of Rebels. So I even thought about Jason being at Luke's, uh, Jedi school

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and then, you know, possibly being killed by Kylo Ren or whatever happened there. Um, it's totally,

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it's still unexplained from, anyway, uh, that's crazy, but regardless, um, yeah, that was, uh,

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that was interesting. Is it unexplained or is it explained in the, uh, rise of Kylo Ren comic,

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but it just doesn't make much sense. I think that's what it is. It just doesn't make much sense.

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Anyway, so I don't dig that. I don't dig that at all. But anyway, it was interesting to see

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little Jason's and Dula. I wonder if they have plans for this kid in the future. I mean, I mean,

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both the actor and the character or what, I think that would be interesting. I don't know if he's

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force sense of, but then again, if he's not force sense of, or he's barely force sense of, like Sabine,

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he could be trained by Ahsoka too. Who knows? Who knows? Um, so yeah, this whole like, I don't know,

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controversy or whatever of Sabine training with her low force aptitude is interesting. And I find

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it interesting that like Vien was a jerk to her. She's being a logical, you know, machine man,

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robot guy. And he's like, Oh, she doesn't have much force potential. And Ahsoka basically tells

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him like, Hey, telling her that's going to bring her down and make her have a harder time focusing

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and tapping into the force and all this stuff. And this idea of Sabine having trouble tapping

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into the force is interesting. And then even again, brings up that like Mandalorians don't

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have a very good track record of being able to be like powerful Jedi or whatever. Kind of doesn't

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make sense. We know the dark saber comes from an ancient Mandalorian Jedi. And I don't know what

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else. I don't know what else, but it's just kind of interesting. Um, yeah, it's interesting. Uh,

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let me see what else. Oh, uh, seeing my mother was cool. Seeing some other senators and like the

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state of the new Republic where they don't want to get involved. And I thought it was very

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interesting. Like Hera's not being a warmonger. She's saying like, Hey, can I get some troops to

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go find a guy who's potentially going to bring war back to the galaxy so we can stop him and

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prevent another war from happening? I thought that was pretty cool. I did not like, and I do object

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to, and I'm not a veteran. Uh, I short, I shortly, I very briefly considered joining the military at

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some point. I have respect for people who joined because I believe they join out of a desire for

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good. But I believe that are, uh, I'm going to break political for like two minutes here.

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I believe that the United States of America has an Imperial, uh, army basically that we use to

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subjugate and subject countries around the world to our will. And I think we're going to see more

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and more other countries break away from partnership with us. They're going to start,

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they're going to stop relying on our empty shell of a paper, you know, fiat US dollar, and they are

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going to have currencies backed by gold or moved to Bitcoin type stuff or whatever. And they're

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going to do the wrong thing. And, uh, you know, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, all these different

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countries are going to become more and more friendly with each other and actually cooperate

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with each other in a peaceful way that will bring more peace to the world as opposed to our quote

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unquote attempts to bring peace to the world by running around shooting at everybody who we don't

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like who costs us some money. Um, so yeah, I believe that the United States has the potential

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to be a great country. It was once a great country and that it's now a oligarchic Imperial shell of

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itself. And that, you know, Lucas in warning about the, you know, how democracy dies and other things

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in the prequels and even in the background of, uh, the original trilogy with like the kind of

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commentary on the Vietnam war and stuff, it was spot on, he was spot on. And he was right that we

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should be skeptical of government, social governments that sees more and more power for themselves,

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and that seek to make enemies so that they can have forever wars that enable them to exact certain,

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exert certain amounts of control over the populace and make them, uh, just like in a

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perpetual state of fear, uh, which leads them to being subjugated and ruled by rulers who were

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willed fear as a weapon, uh, all of the target doctrine and other things. So super interesting,

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uh, political conversation that we had with star wars, but it's interesting that these senators

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don't want to do anything because I think they want to appear dovish and they want to feel like

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they've made peace, but they won't count the costs of things. And they aren't willing to send a

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detachment of troops with a Soca and Sabine and, you know, some others, like a small group, it's a

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whole big galaxy, right? You can't spend like, or send like, you know, a squadron, 10 ships, 20

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ships, a hundred ships. I don't know, you know, a couple, you know, Republic, uh, command ships.

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I don't know what they call them. They're not star destroyed, but the equivalent, they're probably

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equivalent star destroyers send a couple of Mon Calamari battle cruisers or something like that

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with them to go see if Theron is out in wild space. And if he does exist out there, kill him. And

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again, you know, what about the U S assassin? You know what I'm talking about this star wars

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galaxy far, far away. Now, if you want to assassinate a guy who's going to more than likely

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lead a rebellion and start a new war in the galaxy, I'm okay with that. I think it's morally,

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I think it's morally sound to do, especially because once you show up, the guy's going to

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aggress against you and then you can just, you know, shoot them. So anyway, I think that's all

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super interesting. Um, and you know, I think the idea is that this kind of stuff is going to lead

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to the, the first order emerging eventually, and then coming and screwing things up in the sequel

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trilogy. But I didn't like, so that's a lot of stuff. And that was a four minutes probably.

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Uh, and here's another minute of politics. And then I'm going to close out. Uh, I didn't like

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that. Hera said to the, what was the guy Chinese? Zioni, Ziono, uh, that Senator, did you fight in

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the war? Oh no, you waited to see who would come out on top. Basically, if you didn't fight in the

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war, then you have no right to talk about war or foreign policy or politics. And I think that's

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bunk and bogus. And that's a establishment idea that gets weaponized against people like me and

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other anti-war people to say, well, you didn't serve. So therefore you have no opinion. You have

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no right to say the same as you didn't vote. Therefore you have no right to say anything.

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Now I'm, I don't know that I want to vote in, you know, for a monster or an idiot. I given the

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choice of being a monster and an idiot, what am I going to choose? I don't know. It doesn't feel

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like much of a choice to me. So that's all very interesting. Um, but the star warsiness of it all

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is good. Uh, I like the dog fights. I like the aerial combat. I gotta say, I neglected to say this

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Baylin and Shin, they have these similar like armored type tunics with these like Chevron or

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like a triangle overlapping designs on them that point downwards. Uh, I think they look really

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cool. And I wonder like what kind of armor is that some sort of like, you know, whatever weave

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armor that gives them protection, even though it's like a very much like a simple, you know,

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ritualistic, uh, you know, order of something, such and such type of robe. I dunno. It feels

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like that and it's very cool. And I like that you have her clothes mimicking his clothes. Um, but I

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wonder were they just like her lightsaber mimics his lightsaber. I wondered is it that her clothes

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mimic his clothes or is it that her clothes, um, like they got outfitted the same place at some

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point, you know, not too long ago. I think that's interesting. I also am kind of curious about these

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guys who are running around with them. They look a little bit like those weird storm chaser guys from

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the high Republic thing. Um, and also like some of the newer aliens from like, uh, like the, like

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the stupid like Jenga club or Jenga, Jenga, Jax, tell it to Jenga, to concha clubs. That was called

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and he's concha club. Anyway, like I thought those guys look pretty much goofy or maybe it

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wasn't, it wasn't the concha club. It was the other guys, but like, I wasn't impressed with those

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designs too much. Um, and these designs feel reminiscent of them or across between them and

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those like weird Viking space pirate storm chaser guys from the, the high Republic. So, um, that's

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kind of interesting design wise. Um, I don't know much else to say. I mean, it's, it's pretty simple

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that this whole, you know, hyperspace ring thing, the eye of Sion trying to get them to jump to

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another, uh, galaxy. Um, you know, that's to find throwing cause he's off there. I like, I love the

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connection to the pergill and that the pergill, um, do intergalactic, uh, planets are, you know,

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intergalactic, uh, travel along these, you know, ancient, you know, these natural hyperspace lanes

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that exist in the star wars universe. I think that's all really fascinating and cool.

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And I'm curious to see how that, you know, develops throughout the rest of the series. It was

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really cool to see them and it was nice to see a Soca and Sabine have like an emotional moment

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seeing the pergill cause they saw them last with Ezra besides seeing them before them with Ezra.

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So that's a pretty, pretty cool. So I like that a lot, but I think I've worn out my welcome now,

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especially with my political meandering. So I'm going to go ahead and, uh, wish that you folks

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