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I'm continuing with Ahsoka.
This is Ahsoka episode 5.
I just, I'm still listening to the credits ending as I start recording this.
And I really liked this episode.
It was very interesting to me.
This is episode 5.
I think this is only going to be 8 episodes total.
So what in the world is going to happen in episode 6, 7, and 8 because they're journeying
to another galaxy by this episode, inside of a purgill.
And I don't know how that's going to work.
I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know if the rest of the three episodes will be inside of the purgill.
I very much doubt that.
And it'll take their whole hyperspace journey or if we're going to get a jump from, you
know, months in space or whatever.
And if, I don't know exactly how hyperspace works.
I don't know how fast the purgill are.
But I do know from reading the Canaan, when Canaan met Hera, also known as the New Dawn
by John Jackson Miller, that the weird realities of hyperspace work with us.
If you are in a ship that has light speed engines of a certain speed or power, and you
have a buddy who's in, or there's somebody else and you guys are going to the same place
and they have a ship that's better, has better hyperdrive, better light speed engines, they
can leave after you, but arrive before you.
Which is weird.
And I don't know how fast the purgill travel versus how fast the eye of sign will travel
with six or eight, whatever hyperdrive engines in it.
So it'll be really interesting.
The purgill could take Ahsoka and, it's just Ahsoka.
Ahsoka and Huyen, they could be there in the other galaxy before Morgan and Shin and Balen
and your girl Sabine.
Or they could arrive at the exact same time or they could arrive way after them.
It all depends on what they want to do for the story.
I'm assuming episode six will start with them out in Wild Space or in this other galaxy.
And that's going to be super interesting.
I thought it was a very entertaining episode overall.
You know, very introspective.
Kind of raised questions of like, I don't know, rebelling against authority for good
purpose and I don't know, it was really interesting.
I mean both, I don't know, it's interesting because it's like, it presents questions to
you and it shows the characters giving their best answers, but they're not telling you
what your answer should be.
And there's not like, I don't know, there wasn't any like moralizing or like, it wasn't
a pedagogic show.
It was just, this is what's going on with these characters and that's what they're doing.
And I really liked, so that's going to, that happens in a couple of ways.
One is Hera is defying and she's getting Carson to join her in defying the New Republic.
And finally Carson breaks down and explains to them what's going on.
And I don't know if they approve of it or if they just know they can't stop of it so
they get out of the way or what.
I don't know if Hera is going to be punished severely for that.
Who knows?
It seems a little ridiculous that they're not like free to go on this mission.
Like who are you to tell them that they can't go, like are you paying them right now?
Is Ahsoka getting paid by the New Republic and she's like stealing from her company because
she's going to get her dry cleaning done instead of actually being at work or getting her leku,
I was going to say her haircut, getting her leku, you know, fluffed or whatever.
So then she's like doing it on company time getting paid for that because that would be
understandable.
Hera, I mean the ghost is her personal ship.
She left and you know, Jason's her son.
He's not like a slave to the New Republic, right?
So like they're free to do whatever the heck they want.
And I don't know, that's just like really weird that the New Republic would have like
all this sway and all this say over what exactly they can do.
Now her taking the X-wing pilots with her, you know, that could be a little bit of a
problem.
I'm not sure if Hera is there now, but she did what she thought was right.
And I just think it's interesting because you know, you've got this interesting moral
defiance of leadership and of the people who are over you.
And there seems to be like a hazy stance taken on that.
In a way Ahsoka defies and goes against Anakin or Anakin's force ghost or whatever that was
in the world between worlds.
I believe it was really Anakin, but it could have just been a manifestation of the, I mean,
if it's like outside of time, it could be Anakin's, well Anakin's dead at this point
anyway.
It could be his force ghost who's coming there and he's bringing aspects of Anakin and Vader
with him in order to teach her a lesson and to show her things that are, I don't know,
show her things that are bigger and that like he's using everything that he has to teach
her.
He's using the dark and the light, which is interesting.
But yeah, man, all that world between the world stuff where they're going back into
the clone wars.
Wow.
That was amazing.
First of all, this is kind of a weird question and like, I don't really care.
I've only seen end game.
Is it end game?
I think it's end game.
I've seen end game once, but I guess the kid shows up in memes.
There's a little Gamora, right?
That shows up in end game.
I don't know if she's any of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies because I haven't watched
any of them, but she's in at least the first end game movie.
You know, what did it cost you?
Everything.
She's that little girl.
Did that little girl, you know, obviously she can, you know, I hope she lived after
doing that movie if she's still alive.
But like, did she grow up and end up taking this role of the Soka because the kid playing
a Soka looks like, look, kind of looks like her.
Something in her face seems similar.
And I just thought that's kind of funny that she would go from being, you know, one painting,
you know, painting green to painting, being painted orange and like, I hope she's not
typecast is like she can only be an alien person.
Anyway, so that funny aside.
Yeah, all the Clone Wars stuff is super cool.
It was hitting all my nostalgia buttons and like.
I don't know.
That's great.
That's great that it was nostalgic, but it was also like introspective.
And like, again, I like that they don't actually tell you what the force vision means.
And this is kind of like an extended Cave of Dagobah type thing.
You know, Luke saw himself in the fallen Vader in the decapitated Vader, his face exploded
in there, you know, the mask exploded and his face was under there.
So he saw I could become Vader and that's echoed.
That's from Empire that's echoed in Return of the Jedi when he sees Vader stump after
he's cut off his hand and he looks at his own right hand and moves it.
And here's the mechanisms in it worrying.
So he sees that he's one step closer to becoming Vader.
He's reminded of the fact that he's already started to become Vader in certain ways or
he's starting to reflect and follow in his father's footsteps.
And he doesn't want to do that by going down the dark side, by going down the dark path.
And that's interesting because like you can put that together over the course of the two
movies and you can put together like, wait, is Luke Vader?
How is he?
And then when you hear Vader said he's his father, that echoes in your mind and I'm sure
that goes in Luke's.
Well, you know, is he my father?
Is that why?
You know, did I?
You know, are we identical twins?
Is it like, you know, I looked exactly like my dad, that kind of thing.
So you know, there's that symbolism and that imagery, but you're not told what it is.
And you can kind of put together later, like I described already.
But because the world between world stuff was so much more extended with Ahsoka, it
was difficult for me to see clearly, you know, what it is, what was being said, what the
message was, what the symbolism is.
And I don't know if there's the same type of symbolism at work or if it's the same kind
of idea being played with or what.
I'm trying to figure out exactly what it means.
I don't quite know all what the lesson is that Ahsoka was supposed to learn.
You know, she's asked, you know, at the end of it, she tells Anakin that she wants to
live because he's presenting her.
You fight or you die.
And she's saying, well, I want the third option.
I want to live.
And what does that mean?
I don't know.
And like, because I know Filoni like samurai stuff and Kurosawa and some anime, you know,
Robotech or whatever.
I know he liked that.
I'm thinking of one of my favorite anime of all time, Ruruna Kenshin, where Kenshin is
able to unlock his greatest level of power.
Almost.
He takes the penultimate step towards getting as powerful as he can be by seizing the will
to live.
And I wonder if that's what's going on here.
I wonder if Anakin has stepped in, you know, sent by the force or whatever, however that
works out to teach Ahsoka that, you know, she can either die now or she can choose to
find the will to live and that in finding the will to live, it's going to open her up
and orient her in a way that's generative, that's life giving, that's life supporting,
that's life sustaining so that throughout whatever trials she faces, she can have that
positivity and have that will to live and find and fight for a way to live through to
have harmony and peace.
Because, you know, she doesn't, you know, she questions if I don't want to fight.
And like, you know, literal combat is not like the necessary core thing to life.
You know, there can be peace, there can be cooperation, there's struggle, but in, you
know, there's like benign, good, holy struggle where the things that you're struggling against,
you know, are yourself and, you know, nature a little bit, but like you can set up, like,
because, you know, people think that the Middle Ages were like awful, right?
John Locke, who is a thought leader and a thought founder who a lot of the founding
fathers read, he has works like On Liberty and Justice and The Two Horns of the Dilemma,
I believe it's called.
Anyway, John Locke writes a lot of interesting stuff about freedom and, you know, the power
of the individual and whatever.
And he likes the idea of freedom and ownership.
So, you know, this is a pro capitalist show over here, otherwise I wouldn't be talking
about Star Wars because if I was anti-capitalist, that that wouldn't make any sense.
Anyway, but anyway, you know, true capitalism isn't it isn't cronyism and it isn't the
corruption of the empire and isn't the fascism of the empire or the republic or the American
government.
It's like this, you know, free, beautiful thing where people voluntarily choose to exchange
with each other, voluntarily choose to exchange with each other.
And that's wonderful.
And that brings, you know, there's a lot of good in that.
You can look into it yourself if you but I'm not going to go on about it right now.
But Locke actually didn't like that the peasants because he was like, you know, he was landed
gentry, I believe he didn't like that the peasants that their fathers had set up like
their fathers or grandfathers or maybe even great grandfathers had set up like a such
a robust system on their farms or whatever that they could be a pig farmer and have,
you know, however many acres to their name and the guys could just like drink and relax
and have like lazy days for long periods of time because the way that the system was set
up, they had like these guys still worked hard and they didn't have running water and
they didn't have all these, you know, modern luxuries that were all spoiled by.
But and like I said, they had to work for a living.
But like they could basically attend to the system, put their hard work in for a short
amount of time and be able to live off of, you know, almost literally the fat of the
land because of the system that was set up.
And again, it takes struggle.
It takes dedication with neglect.
You will destroy the system.
You have to put some effort into it to keep it going and to keep it from burning itself
out like doing animal rotation on the grazing land or whatever.
Like those things still take effort.
But like we can mimic, humans can mimic the balance of nature and like nature doesn't
fight wars.
There's no civil wars in nature that you don't have, you know, cats fighting other cats over.
I mean, like other than like, you know, alley cat territory type stuff, but they don't kill
millions and millions of each other like humans do.
Like we because of, I don't know, ego or something else, like do things, do these, do these things
that are contrary to nature and contrary to humanity and like aggress against the state
of nature and the balance and harmony that, you know, the animal and plant world have
with each other, you know, along with the mineral world, which is, you know, our water,
you know, the dirt itself, all that stuff.
And like we kind of rebel against that state of nature out of greed and selfishness and
all these different things.
And you know, there is another way you can learn to harmonize with all that stuff.
And I don't know if like that's the lesson that Ahsoka is being taught by Anakin or the
force or whatever, or or what's going on.
And I, I don't really know what's going on, but I do find it interesting that at the end
there, you know, he tells her, you know, what if this doesn't send us to Ahsoka?
And she's like, yeah, what if it doesn't?
Or not Ahsoka, but Sabine.
And she's basically saying without saying it, like, I'm going to trust in the force.
I'm going to trust that we're on a path and we're being guided towards where we need to
go.
And I find that really interesting because you would stress out about it and, you know,
try to force it.
But you can also just go with the flow and do your best in whatever situation you're
presented with.
And if you make it through, you make it and if you don't, you don't.
But I think ultimately believing in, you know, a beyond is helpful to people in situations
like that.
Because it's like, look, I don't want to die.
I'm going to try to, I'm going to try to live.
But if I die, I die.
And you know, I did my best.
So that's all I can really ask of myself.
And that's all I can, you know, that's all I can do.
So it's very interesting.
I like it.
It was a cool episode in general and like it's thought provoking and there's lots of
little things in there to kind of chew on and and and think about.
And it's a lot of fun.
That's what I want out of my Star Wars.
Like compelling.
There was even I mean, there was the action between Anakin and Ahsoka.
That was some cool lightsaber fight that we saw.
And then the clone troopers.
Ah, that was so cool.
Oh, I also like and I was very happy about this, that like Ahsoka's weird tube top that
Filoni originally drew for her and that Lucas approved for some strange reason is she's
like a 13 year old Padawan or whatever.
They updated it for the Clone Wars.
Ahsoka says this is one of our first missions and she's wearing like a very age appropriate
and like, well, it's age appropriate and it's just appropriate in general top.
And I do like the the alterations they made to her her costume.
That was a good thing.
That might be one of the best things to come out of Disney Star Wars.
Oh, yeah.
Like a non-groomer, non-jailbait outfit for Ahsoka because the other ones are really
weird.
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