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Welcome to my fully operational Star Wars analysis.
It's time to discuss the big episode. It's actually not the big episode, it's just an okay episode.
Ah, Ahsoka episode 4, Fallen Jedi. Yes. Yes, that's what it's called, Fallen Jedi.
And I'm not 100% sure why it's called Fallen Jedi.
I've got like 6 candidates, no really there's only maybe 3. 3 to 4 candidates for what?
Okay, there's 5 candidates for why the episode is called Fallen Jedi.
And I'm wondering exactly what it means. There's literally, well, I'll get into it later.
But anyway, I like this episode overall. I think...
Huh. So I was going to say I think this episode was faster and more intense than the previous episodes.
But in a way that's not true because it couldn't have been.
Ahsoka and Sabine were stuck on...
Sea Toss? I believe that's what it's called.
Ah, Sea Toss, the least favorite planet of all sailors in the galaxy.
Okay, that was a dad joke.
Anyway, so they're stuck on Sea Toss with their ship not working.
The ship is trying to repair it and I believe they're doing some repairs as well.
They're trying to... they know that they're near the enemy.
Because that's, you know, they went towards the enemy and they know the enemy has a face of some sort.
I don't know if they know about the map reading monument site thing that the, I guess the Nightsisters, the ancient Nightsisters set up.
I don't know if they know about that but they can sense the enemy is close.
And they want to go investigate them so they can get any leads or something.
Probably just stop them from using the map, right?
So anyway, they want to do that and the enemy is like reading a map most of the time and talking a little bit about the Jedi.
And then you have some fights happening.
So I was, you know, the fights are interesting, the fights are good.
But it's, you know, like I said, I wanted to say it was faster and more intense.
There was a lot of sitting around, standing around, looking at stuff, talking, you know, us reading maps.
Which by the way, they did a very good job of through that...
I don't know if it's Dathomir or if it's Nightsister, I don't know which came first.
But that Nightsister, the droid or whatever that's working for Morgan Elizabeth is reading the meter on like the star map.
Which has like eight or nine nodes on it or whatever.
I would think probably because of Stargate that if you're looking for a location in the universe that you would need seven points of reference.
Not like nine or ten or whatever that map had.
So I wonder why they chose nine or ten and what it means.
And I don't need Star Wars to be hard science fiction because it's mostly, you know, space fantasy, space opera.
And I'm happy with that.
But certain things like that don't make sense.
Like if for some reason they went through all this extra work to give people like three fingers instead of four fingers.
You know, three fingers and a thumb instead of four fingers and a thumb as a normal course of action.
And it was like very important to them to get that detail of human anatomy wrong.
I mean, I would buy it. I'd go with it.
But I wouldn't understand why that decision was made.
And similarly, even though I don't think Stargate accurately represents astrophysics, it may.
I don't think it does.
It also doesn't make sense to me to turn your back on like an established science fiction concept of the like the seven points for, I don't know, intergalactic travel or whatever.
That doesn't quite make sense to me.
And like I said, it would make more sense for you to think about the cube with the dot inside of it for the reference for a location in three dimensional space.
That does make a lot more sense. Seven.
But whatever, I don't really care.
That's fine with me.
Maybe you could even do it like the different points of a cube.
Let me think about a cube. How many points are there?
How many corners are there in a cube?
Could the eight corners of a cube give you the orientation of something?
Maybe.
Are there eight corners?
I don't know. I'll have to do the math later.
I'm not doing it right now.
Anyway, so yeah, that was kind of weird that there was a lot of standing around talking and yet it felt faster and more intense.
Well, maybe it felt faster and more intense because of the caliber of the conversations.
And maybe it felt that way because of the actual action fighting that did happen when we got to that point.
Also, there was a little bit with Kara and Jason Sendula talking to the New Republic, dealing with them.
And it's kind of cool that that Carson guy, like I can't tell if that guy's Asian or Mexican, but it doesn't really matter.
But Carson, regardless, the X-wing pilot who let Mando go in Mando season two and helped him out on the ice planet and stuff,
that guy, and I guess he talked to your girl, we're still going to fire her, or I'm going to be fired.
I can't remember the lady's name or the character's name from Mando season one.
The lady drop-trip whatever she was, the Alderaanian lady.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
But yeah, so he talked to her about becoming a reindeer of the New Republic when that show was still going to happen,
which who knows if it will? Probably not.
Especially with the writer's truck. They'll just drop it and it'll go away forever.
So, which that makes me a little sad, but what are you going to do?
You're choosing to cast out people and you're not just choosing to have your vision and make it happen.
So that's on you, boo. That's on you.
Anyway, so yeah, I think that's cool to see him there.
It's odd that he's French with hair or whatever, but then again maybe him being French with hair or knowing her as General Sedula,
that would explain why he's okay with people bending the rules or breaking the rules a little bit in the name of getting good stuff done.
I did like that, I don't know why I'm talking about Jason Sedula,
I just like that Jason Sedula said, Mom, why do you get to break rules and I have to follow them?
I love her response. Well, when you're a general, then you can start breaking rules.
Until then, you know, buckle up, buddy. That was kind of fun.
It was a cool mom moment. It was a cool kid moment.
Like, hey, what are you doing here? Come on, you're not supposed to be doing this, are you?
And yeah, I mean, she is disobeying orders. I wonder if we'll get to see her get in trouble.
I wonder if she will get in that much trouble. I don't really know.
Maybe she's ex- maybe Marmotva and Ziono sign the order for execution.
And that's why we don't see her in the sequel to OZ.
Oh no, the ghost showed up or a ghost like ship showed up in The Rise of Skywalker.
I'm sure Hera was there.
Anyway, so yeah, I thought that was interesting. It's funny.
I read the little synopsis on Disney Plus before I watched the episode and it was like,
Hera risks it all to save her friends. And she was in it for like three minutes, five minutes tops, which is kind of funny.
I did like- I'm going to start on what the actual meat of what happened now.
I did like the fact that- maybe I like the fact that Sabine held her own for so long.
Well, she's been- okay. So I thought it was a little interesting that Sabine was holding her own so well against Shin.
However, we don't know how long Sabine has been training with Ahsoka again.
And she was allegedly rusty. She's a Mandalorian though, so like I expect her battle prowess to be better than the average person,
which is probably why she was able to stand up against Shin who would just like, you know-
well, she'd mow down all those people on that New Republic transport ship,
but who knows how many people she and Balin had been fighting and killing potentially before this.
You know, it sounds like they're mercenaries for Morgan Elizabeth. They could be generic mercenaries though,
and they could do a lot of fighting and killing. So she's very much in practice. Her skills are sharpened.
Whereas Sabine's aren't because she's been used to just, you know, pouting and driving too fast
and threatening the lives of people who she likes with her stupid stunts.
I don't know if I'm ever going to get over that Top Gun BS that she did in that first episode because it was dumb.
Like on so many levels, but anyway, I won't get into it now.
So, you know, that could explain the difference between them.
And then maybe, again, we don't know the timeline exactly, but Sabine and Ahsoka have been training together again.
And so Sabine is sharper. She's also in her Mandalorian armor,
which I don't think it covers the same area in like the lower abdomen where she got stabbed, skewered before by Shin.
But it didn't happen this time. I loved seeing her.
Now that we've seen the Mandalorian and we have the context on Beskar and how it works,
because I didn't know that. I'd never read that in the books.
I think I even read the Mandalorian armor and I didn't know. I don't think it was Beskar.
I'm pretty sure they made that up for the Mando, which I think is great.
As long as it explains how they can go toe to toe with Jedi.
But if you want to hear me talk about that, I'll beg me to re-upload to this feed my Mandalorian episodes
and my Book of Bulba Fett stuff too, as well.
Anyway, so, but I love that like Mandalorians are so cool and so great because they have this special Mandalorian or the Beskar that is lightsaber proof, I believe.
It shrugs off blaster bolts, which is great.
And we saw Sabine getting hit by some blaster bolts and they just bounce right off her.
And she's shooting at these guards, these, were they HK droids there other than the one that fought Huyang?
I don't know. By the way, that was freaking hilarious that Huyang and this HK droid were fighting each other and it was like freaking rock and sock and robots.
That was amazing. Like, I love these droids punching each other. That's so great.
And then like Huyang is calling out to Ahsoka and Sabine and the HK droid is smart enough and sophisticated enough to cover up his vocabulary to shut him up.
And like we've seen people cover up 3PO's mouth to give him a talk.
But like, you know, I don't think it was clear that he was...
Or if it was just like that's a symbol or a sign for shut up and because he's fluent in so many forms of communication, he knew that and went ahead and complied with shutting up.
So I don't know how that works, but that was great. The rock and sock and robots. That was so friggin fun.
And man, I like Huyang. Again, I don't know David Tennant from Doctor Who, but like his personality is very fun.
And I'm sure if I watched a couple episodes of his season of Doctor Who, I'd enjoy it because his personality is so fun and he's like delightfully quirky or charming.
If he gets to be like that, I kind of think he is written like that in the show, but I don't really know.
I don't really know Huyang. I don't know Huyang from who. So anyway, yeah, the rock and sock and robots bit was hilarious.
And I want to know who wrote that and who ordered that to be done.
And if when they did it, they thought if it was Dave, it is going to be a rock and sock and robots moment. It's going to be great.
Or what? But anyway, amazing. So like I said, that was a lot of fun.
And then I thought it was interesting like the like Balens like, I don't know, he seemed to be either disgusted by the witchcraft that Morgan was doing or he was like, I don't know, impressed by it or he was maybe he was dismissive of it.
Witchcraft. I got the force, lady. I'm way better than you.
But it's like, I don't know. Can you make can you power a star map with the force like she's doing with her death of Miri or her night sister magic?
I don't quite know. I don't quite know. But anyway, I like their interactions.
I like that she challenges him that she talks to him and asks him if he's afraid to fight and kill a Soca.
And he basically says no. And then I love his presence.
So like, obviously, Bailey was written a certain way. But I happened to watch this video about I guess the Punisher movie.
It was I'm just going to tell you, get ready to hate me or not. Get ready to hate me or love me.
It was a razor fist video and he was talking about this Ray Stevenson Punisher war zone movie that was this Marvel Knights thing.
It was like super violent and super gory. It was weird and gross in some ways.
But there was also some stuff that was kind of delightful about it.
And especially I don't know if you've ever heard razor fist talk, but he's a he's a joy to listen to as long as you're not going to get your knickers in a bunch over some of the stuff he says.
Which, by the way, he's got the worst the worst tag out of anybody I've ever heard. But anyway, so yeah.
So I had an appreciation for Ray Stevenson. I know he died. So, you know, Bobby, it seems like a lot of people get lion eyes when they're dead.
We just think all these great things about them, which is probably better than the alternative, which is when somebody said, oh, man, that guy, I'm glad he's got a jerk.
But anyway, it was cool. There was a little clip at the end where this.
I don't know if he I think he was like second generation maybe or anyway, whatever.
He was a soldier who did weapons training. And he was like, man, this Ray Stevenson guy, I've been around.
I've been I grew up around guns. I've known guns my whole life. I've been shooting since I was a kid.
And this guy took to the guns and the weapons training and everything like a duck to water.
And it was just amazing. And I thought that was pretty cool.
That's pretty cool that this guy was like either so seriously committed to his job or maybe he was so into the idea of, you know, guns and defense and like everything that means.
And I think like when you take firearms safety courses, they treat you to respect the power of the gun.
Like you're not supposed to do certain things. There's rules you're supposed to know so that you realize like this is a killing weapon that I'm holding in my hands right now.
And I need to be careful with it not to harm myself or anybody else accidentally.
It's a weighty responsibility. And it's something that that is impressed upon you when you first handle a blaster.
So our handle a gun. Sorry, I'm thinking about Star Wars.
I think about Star Wars and Han handing her that gun. He's like, you know, and being all worried about it.
But my man not go over with her the rules of blaster safety. That's a little disappointing.
Anyway, so, yeah. So Ray Stevenson had like a real presence, like getting to see Bailin, you know, mow down people was cool in that first episode.
I love their entrance. It was really fantastic. His little I'm no Jedi line.
It was all really good stuff, right? Like it really made a great impression.
But and I don't know if I'm talking about the man or I'm talking about the actor or talking about the character in the writing of it.
But the way that he presented himself and carried himself and made his offer to Sabine at the end of the episode was like really impressive.
And I thought, man, this guy is like, this guy's really cool. I really like him.
There's something like Dooku's charm. And this is nothing he just really do.
Dooku's charm was like almost like a like a political smarmy, like elite charm, like, oh, I'm so much better than you because I'm from this royal family.
Whereas Bailin feels and they call him Lord Bailin, too.
He feels like, I don't know, like he feels like a tested and tried warrior man who you want to listen to and who carries himself with a weight in authority because of the things that he's seen,
the things that he's done, the things that he's been through.
And like, I kind of feel respect for him. And I wonder if Sabine felt respect for him because of his status.
He was hitting her with exactly what he needed to to get the map back, though.
And I mean, that just shows his cleverness and resourcefulness.
And he's not just a hired gun. He's not just a hired blade.
He's a man who thinks and who knows things.
And he, you know, is good at dealing with people. And I don't know if that's a credit to the Jedi or credit to him being rogue and doing whatever it is he's been doing since the Clone Wars.
By the way, I was looking at his armor and Shin's armor some more.
And I'm thinking that it might be like a modified Clone Wars armor, like the kind of Clone Wars armor that during Star Wars, the Clone Wars, Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi were wearing.
I think it might be like that. And I think Shin's might be based off of his, especially those like shoulder pad pauldrons or anything he's.
They're not actually pauldrons or something else. I don't know what you call those ones.
But anyway, it's interesting. Their armor really looks like it comes from the Clone Wars.
So, you know, hers would be crafted after his because she's so much younger than him.
She was probably, you know, she's probably not more than 28 at the most. She looks younger, though.
She's a pretty crazy teenager. But yeah, anyway, that's pretty interesting.
Maybe he had Clone Wars armor during the Clone Wars as a Jedi.
And then he went off somewhere in the far reaches of space and got diverted and just had, you know, he got used to that and had armor fashioned after that.
I don't know. And then obviously, you know, Padawan copies the Master. So that makes sense.
So anyway, yeah, I really liked his performance. I really liked his like temptation of Sabine.
And I don't know how I feel about her falling to the temptation and going for it.
And it's interesting because, you know, he tells Sabine and the Soka, I want you to promise me that you'll stay together.
And they're, of course, we're going to stay together. You know us.
It's like, yeah, I know you. That's why I'm telling you, please stay together. You two.
Anyway, but I like that. And I like how you can see the negative result.
The result of them splitting up is Sabine can't come through. She doesn't have the Jedi discipline.
She doesn't have the dedication. She's too attached to Ezra to let go, to destroy the map so that nobody can ever find Thrawn
and bring him back and bring war back to the galaxy. So, I mean, honestly, I don't know.
I've got like a big problem with the moral failing of Sabine here where her personal feelings and her wanting to see her brother again
means that she's willing to risk the lives of billions of beings by bringing potentially bringing Thrawn,
letting Thrawn get brought back and bringing war to the galaxy. I don't understand how she can do that.
And I'm going to be real hard on her because like in Star Wars Rebels, we learned that on Mandalore,
she literally built a weapon, a super weapon for the Empire that they turn around and use on Mandal.
I think they use it on Mandalorians and it like specifically like killed them, but left their Beskar armor intact,
which at the time I didn't know is Beskar and I don't think Palloni did either.
So I don't think he knew about its resiliency, but it basically and it left their armor intact, which I don't know,
maybe he didn't know and they wanted to like break it down and mine it or turn it into ingots
or maybe use it for stormtrooper weapons or who knows, or armor I mean. We don't know.
But I believe that was the detail that left their armor and like that was all that was left of them.
And you know, it's creepy. Also, I guess if it just destroys organic material and leaves goods behind,
that's also a good weapon to have if you're, you know, evil and you want to reap the resource.
I said reap, okay. You want to reap the resources from your enemies after you've murdered them.
It's a good way to do it. So anyway, yeah, so like she's all like Sabine's got a lot of blood on her hands.
And I don't know, like and of her own kin. And now this guy's her kin.
But then I guess we learn somehow that Ahsoka abandoning Sabine led to her people, like her literal family.
I think like her mom, because I don't think her mom died until well, when did her mom die? When was that?
I don't know what I don't know what Sabine's complaining about.
Did Ahsoka abandon her after she started training her as a Padawan, which is that's what it sounds like.
Or did Ahsoka abandon her by not being around during parts of Star Wars Rebels that got her family killed?
Because I don't think her mom, it's like her mom and her brother, I don't think her dad was around anymore from Rebels.
And I don't remember them dying in the show.
But if they did, it was probably because of Thrawn, which you would think she the threat of Thrawn coming back and,
you know, getting more people's families killed would be closer to home for her.
So I don't know, man, this lady, uh, me no likey how Davey write her.
She's not making a lot of sense. And I think Sabine is smarter than this, which is why it's so frustrating.
I don't hate the character. I hate the poor writing behind the character that's making them into a stupid, less cool character.
Although, speaking of stupid and less cool,
people were speculating that when Shin was telling Sabine, you don't have any power or whatever in the trailer,
then Sabine was holding up her hand that she was going to hit her with the Force.
And instead she hits her with a Mandalorian weapon, which I prefer.
I think that's way cooler in some ways.
And I like that the expectations were subverted then because people were speculating, talking about the episodes.
Oh, OK, at this point, this is when Sabine is going to really kick it into overdrive.
She'll be able to contact the Force and then, you know, whatever, whatever will happen.
So I don't know that this lady's ever going to get any more Force potential other than being able to successfully wield
or I don't know that she'll be able to tap into the Force except for, and I can accept this.
I don't know if I already said this, being able to successfully wield a lightsaber without hurting herself
and being able to do well in combat against a Force user, um, due to her Mandalorian training,
plus having a little bit of a connection with the Force. That would be cool.
I wouldn't mind that at all, but I don't think she should be pushing and grabbing and choking and all that stuff with the Force.
So, anyway, but if she, I don't know. We'll see where things go because at the end of the episode,
they made the jump in the eye of Osiris, in the eye of Sion, or with the eye of Sion.
So I'm really curious to see where that goes and what that means.
Traveling through hyperspace can take weeks to get from one system to another and they're going to another place.
Is it going to be months? Is it going to be a year before they get to the other galaxy? I have no idea.
I'm sure they have an idea and I'm sure there's a big, I don't know, big plan in place, but we'll see what it is.
Finally, yeah, I'm going to wrap it up because this has been going on way too long.
I want these episodes to be closer to ten minutes and I'm at double that length.
My powers have doubled since we last met, Count.
Sorry. Speaking of which, speaking of Hayden Christensen and his great Anakin line delivery
and Anakin of Revenge of the Sith, when Ahsoka fell off the cliff, does that mean she's the fallen Jedi?
Or does that mean Bailin's the fallen Jedi? Or is your girl Sabine the fallen Jedi Padawan
because she fell to the temptation of Bailin and gave in to her emotions and attachments and whatnot?
Or is Anakin Skywalker, Sky Guy, calling out Snips, is he in the World Between Worlds at the end of the episode
the fallen Jedi that we're talking about? I don't know. I don't know.
But I honestly am like I rolled my eyes. I saw Ahsoka fall off and I thought, oh, wow, I wonder how she's going to recover from this.
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Get the Disney Hulu bundle. Anyway, I didn't know how that was going to happen, that she was going to be OK.
I still don't quite know how it's going to happen, that she's going to be OK, how she's going to recover and get up on that cliff.
I also don't know how it is possible that Sabine got pulled out of the World Between Worlds.
I don't think Hayden or Anakin was rocking the scar on his eye. And he looked, I mean, obviously he's older,
but looks like the guy's in great shape. And I heard he came back in Kenobi, but I don't actually know that.
I don't know how much he was back. We just like voiced a couple of lines or what, because I still haven't watched Kenobi.
But anyway, he looked a little different. I don't think he had the scar.
Wouldn't it be amazing if Anakin, Revenge of the Sith Anakin, was away somewhere
and he fell into the World Between Worlds, because I'm remembering now how the World Between Worlds works.
And he somehow pulled Ahsoka out of the time stream and into the World Between Worlds at that time to save her from death,
because he knew that her destiny was not to die at that time, so he wasn't going to mess with time.
Or maybe because he's Anakin, he's like, you know what? I don't care. I'm going to save my Padawan. Doesn't matter.
And then somehow he gets the scar in there with her, whether alongside her or fighting against her for some reason.
And then he ends up leaving the World Between Worlds. And that's when he goes back to Padme and the twins are conceived.
That is a Genndy Tartakovsky Star Wars micro series Clone Wars deep cut. I hope you got it.
Not as deep. Well, never mind. Anakin's cut was a shell like that, so never mind.
So yeah, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about that to see what happens with him.
But I do not like that it seems like Anakin was in the World Between Worlds and he pulled Ahsoka into it to save her life,
because that doesn't quite make sense. And I know Ahsoka...
I mean, and also that would be the second time she was pulled into the World Between Worlds to have her life saved by somebody.
And that feels like a little too much. Feels like a little too much on a few levels.
And like it didn't have to happen that way. How else? I don't know. How did Ezra get in?
I was expecting Ahsoka to get in the same way. Or in a similar way, in a parallel way.
But instead she like, you know, falls into it, which is super silly. And I don't like that.
If Anakin was in the World Between Worlds, for whatever reason, did he fall and somebody pulled him into it?
Like, do you have to be pulled? No, you don't. Okay? That's not the rules.
So I think it would have been more interesting if he'd gotten pulled in at one time
and she'd gotten pulled in at a later time as an adult Padawan.
Or you know what? In her current state, post-Return of the Jedi, in her Ahsoka show, from that timeline,
if she got pulled in or entered into the World Between Worlds, like maybe after, I don't know, whatever.
Make up a reason for her to go in there. She goes in there and she meets Anakin at that time,
maybe in an attempt to figure out what to do with this whole, my Padawan is gone, Sabine betrayed me,
gave this information over to these bad guys and now Thrawn's going to come into the universe.
Like, yeah, I would have preferred that. But anyway, don't know what they're thinking.
But I'm really interested to see. I really hope all of next episode is just Anakin and Ahsoka talking
with each other in live action. That would be super amazing. That would make me so happy.
And yeah, I don't even know what. Like, I don't want them to sit down and have calf.
But I just want them to talk. I just want them to talk. That would be so cool.
So anyway, that's all I have to say. This is an overstepped episode. This is a bonus.
See, actually, this is not, I didn't fail you by going over the time I'm giving you a gift.
It's the gift of hearing me talk about Star Wars in such a fun way. Fun, casual way.
It's like you're sitting right here next to me in the truck while I'm driving to work.
Anyway, if you've made it this far, God bless you.
I just heard you sneeze. God bless you. And thank you for sticking around.
And I'd love to hear your comments based on the episode itself or on anything I said
about this episode and, you know, the Ahsoka show in general. I touched on some other stuff.
Mostly Ninja Turtles. No, I didn't. I felt like I referenced something from the 80s, but it wasn't Ninja Turtles.
Anyway, that's it. I thank you for your time and attention. Come back for the next one.
Peace out. And this is MJ signing out.