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ENTP, Ravenclaw, 5w6

[8unhealthy-obsessed8]

Maybe im delusional but I fully belive that if Obi Wan HAD KEPT HIS ASS ON THE DAMN SHIP Padmè would have been able to talk sense into Anakin

[skyguy8108]

In the ROTS junior novel she thought she had reached him.

Revenge of the Sith junior novel

“I’m not against you. I’m against what you’ve done, and what you’re planning to do. “I don’t know you anymore,” she told him. Couldn’t he see what he was doing? Couldn’t he feel her heart breaking? “I’ll never stop loving you, but you are going down a path I cannot follow.” In despair, she reached for the connection they had had through the Force, for that one moment when she had known him completely even though they hadn’t been together.

But even a Jedi couldn’t create a Force connection just by trying, and Padmé was no Jedi. Desperate as she was, she could find only a faint thread of what they had shared, thinner than a strand of spider silk. It still joined her with a familiar trace of…goodness? Sensing that, she felt a stirring of hope. She spoke to that part of him, trying to call back the Anakin who was her husband, her lover, the father of their child. “Stop now,” she begged. “Come back! I love you.”

For a moment—for the barest instant—she thought she would succeed. Then Anakin’s expression changed. “Liar!” he cried.

He was staring at something behind her. Padmé turned, and saw Obi-Wan standing in the door of the skiff. He tricked me! “No!” she said, knowing that this new Anakin would never listen to her now.

[padawanlost]

Would it be a hot take to say that Yoda likes being in control of things? To an almost problematic degree.

Not to me. If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you certainly know I’ve been openly critical of Yoda in the past. I don’t believe he is a bad person (or a bad character), but he is not this infallible, godlike Jedi that some believe him to be. I see him as flawed, not evil.

That being said, these days, saying that Star Wars characters are flawed can feel like a criminal offense—something that gets you cast out of the fandom. So yeah, some people will definitely see you pointing out that Yoda liked being in control and immediately scream “hater,” maybe even accuse you of ruining the fandom for them.

But again… yes, Yoda did have absolute control over the Jedi Order because of his position within it, and because deference to him was second nature to Temple-raised Jedi:

“Mace nodded silently. One did not argue with Master Yoda; in the Jedi Temple, this was learned in infancy. No Jedi ever forgot it.” — Mace Windu, Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover

And that also helps explain why Anakin had such a hard time bonding with Yoda—and vice versa.

[dosz318]

I don't think Anakin had trouble bonding with Yoda exactly.

He had trouble bonding with the Jedi as a whole because of their inability to accept him as he was.

Because of their detachment philosophy and their abandonment of his mother.

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Yoda made mistake with Anakin of course, but he also seems to be one of the most understanding of Anakin within the Order.

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Yoda was the one who praised Anakin's ability to disobey the Council.

He did it in twice.

When he escaped the Temple with Anakin's help, and when (in a deleted scene) he encouraged Anakin to act to do what was best for Ahsoka.

"Friends, are we?"

"Disobeying the Council, your expertise is."

"What should I do Master Yoda?"

"What you always do. Act. And act quickly, or save your Padawan you may not."

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For someone as traditional, complacent and passive as Yoda (he probably became that way because he lived for nearly 900 years), to recognize and acknowledge Anakin's quality in rebellion and action-driven attitude, is to be commended.

Anakin is in many ways the opposite of Yoda.

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Yoda's season 6 arc also shows us a bit of Yoda's greatest desires for the Order.

We see that he wishes for peace. For the children to play carefree around the Temple.

For the untraditional Jedi who has felt rejected and abandoned (Ahsoka) to get along with the most traditional Jedi (Mace).

For the young (Gungi) to get along with the old (Tera Sinube).

For Qui-Gon to still be alive. For Dooku to not have fallen. For Dooku to speak fondly of his old days as Yoda's Padawan to Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. (He wants the different generations to get along)

And for Anakin to not be isolated as he usually is, but to hang out with the other Jedi.

Yoda desires for peace and harmony, for everybody, no matter their differences to be included.

Yoda is not perfect, but he does his best to accept and include everybody.

And that is why Anakin went to him. He recognizes that Yoda is the one that accepts him the most for who he is (after Ahsoka) within the Order.

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Speaking of which, Yoda was well aware of Anakin and Padmé's relationship. But he kept quiet, and unlike Obi-Wan, he never tried to seperate the two or lecture Anakin about it.

In season 6, during the Clovis/IGBC arc, Yoda sensed Anakin's distrust of Clovis, and his dislike of the idea of Clovis working close to Padmé.

He did not go to Anakin about it. But he did mentioned it to Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan, chose to imply right away to Anakin that his emotions were basically not valid, because he is attached to Padmé. He even finished the conversation with "friends you must remain".

Obi-Wan never made Anakin feel safe about his love for Padmé.

Meanwhile, when Anakin was going to Scipio to rescue Padmé, Yoda simply remarked that Anakin will face difficult emotions. He points out that Anakin was correct about Clovis (validating Anakin's opinion), but then also advise him to not let selfishness drive him so that he can see things clearly.

Yoda doesn't lecture Anakin, he gives him recognition, encourages him to do what he believes is right, while also advising him on what he should and shouldn't for the best of all.

That's why Anakin listens to Yoda but not Obi-Wan.

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And in Episode 3, when Anakin was desperate and sleep deprived, and already unwilling to speak to or ask for help from any Jedi, including Obi-Wan, he trusted Yoda enough to go to him.

It's speaks volume about how Yoda was the one Jedi who had manage to gain Anakin's respect and trust enough for him to open up to Yoda.

Unfortunately, Yoda accidentally gave the worst answer possible.

Yoda has learned long ago to rationalize loss. And while he was able to advice Ahsoka correctly in season 3, when she came to Yoda about her visions of Padmé being assassinated, he was unable to do so for Anakin.

Yoda is wise enough to understand that the young cannot deal with loss like he does. But unfortunately he was currently grieving Dooku, and failed to remember that what he was himself currently doing to deal his loss will not help Anakin.

However season 7, does show that Yoda was still worried about Anakin.

Yoda hoped for a message from Ahsoka to transmit to Anakin.

He hoped that news from Ahsoka would cheer Anakin up.

But Mace's attitude towards Ahsoka moments prior convinced her to keep quiet and wait.

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Anyway, sorry for the long rant, but I wanted to emphasize that Yoda may have been the Jedi who bonded the most with Anakin (in an healthy way) after Ahsoka.

[padawanlost]

But despite the good fortune that had brought those three into her life, improving her lot a millionfold, Shmi Skywalker had always kept a special place in her heart reserved for her Annie, her son, her hero.

And so now, as it seemed the end of her life was imminent, Shmi’s thoughts focused on those memories she had of Anakin, while at the same time, she reached out to him with her heart. He was always different with such feelings, always so attuned to that mysterious Force. The Jedi who had come to Tatooine had seen it in him clearly. Perhaps, then, Annie would feel her love for him now.

She needed that, needed to complete the cycle, to let her son recognize that through it all, through the missing years and the great distances between them, she had loved him unconditionally and had thought of him constantly.

Annie was her comfort, her place to hide from the pain the Tuskens had, and were, exacting upon her battered body.

Every day they came in and tortured her a bit more, prodding her with sharp spears or beating her with the blunt shafts and short whips. It was more than a desire to inflict pain, Shmi realized, though she didn’t speak their croaking language. This was the Tusken way of measuring their enemies, and from the nods and the tone of their voices, she realized that her resilience had impressed them.

They didn’t know that her resilience was wrought of a mother’s love. Without the memories of Annie and the hope that he would feel her love for him, she would surely have given up long ago and allowed herself to die. [R.A. Salvatore. Attack of the Clones]

[fluffanonn]

This scene broke my heart :'( I honestly understand Anakin's reaction then, what they did to her was despicable. I don't get why people defend them. Like they also assaulted Luke and apparently do this often?

[dosz318]

Absolutely. The Tuskens were unforgivable, and deserved the punishment Anakin gave them.

Sure the killing of the children may be wrong, but let's not forget, that they also participated.

Anakin brought them God's wrath as punishment, a lesson some Tuskens learned. As we can see in the Book of Boba Fett, they still kidnapped and used people, but they didn't torture them.

[mirrorofliterature]

anakin's way of loving is not selfish.

[mirrorofliterature]

anakin wanting his loved ones to not die preventable and painful deaths is so selfish everyone. if you listen to yoda.

please stop listening to yoda he is not Correct.

[dosz318]

Absolutely. Being old and speaking backwards does not make one wise.

[cissyknowsall]

⚠️ SPOILERS for The War Between the Land and the Sea ep 5 - post credit scene

Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

[dosz318]

The moment I saw her seeing that therapist, I was thinking, she should go see The Doctor 😅

Maybe some rest with the Nobles would do her some good.

[dwgif]

I met the Doctor once. Last year, in the tower. He said hello and then... Then, off he went.

[dosz318]

I wouldn't be surprised if The War Between is a fixed point in time, and if The Doctor recognized Barclay.

[gch1995]

Now, now! Here I thought that Kenobi was Skywalker's incorrigible abuser. In that case, I truly don't understand what your problem is with saying something nasty to poor woobie Vader. You say that Disney is woobifying Kenobi (not sure where or how exactly), but if anyone suggests for him to do something cruel, you cry foul. To boot, that post was a joke perhaps not a very good one). There's truly no way to please you.

Anakin’s not an innocent. He is worthy of punishment for his crimes, though the narrative of the story does that plenty.

However, I don’t understand how you can’t understand that it’s incredibly fucked up for someone to tell anyone that they should go commit suicide to “make the world a better place,” no matter how morally bankrupt they might be as people themselves.

Committing suicide is a serious issue that people with anxiety, clinical depression, PTSD, BPD, and Bipolar Disorder often commit in real life a lot, especially when they are victims in abusive and oppressive relationships from which safe escape and healthy support is limited to nonexistent. It’s not something to “jokingly” ever tell someone else to go do!

Now, I’ll admit, we don’t have an official diagnosis for Anakin’s mental illness in canon, but he does show symptoms of all these mental health issues throughout canon, both before and after becoming Vader. He also has canonically been an abuse and oppression victim with increasingly compromised agency, limited healthy support, and limited escape opportunities his whole life in slavery, the Jedi Order, and the Sith/Empire. In the comics about him as Vader, a number of which are still considered canon, Anakin has attempted to commit suicide as Darth Vader, too.

Nonny, the fact that you would want your “hero” Obi-Wan Kenobi to “jokingly” tell Anakin to commit suicide is just beyond fucked up, even if it was after he became Darth Vader. The dark side has become addiction for him that amplified negative traits, he’s dissociated himself from the person he was before out of self-loathing to compartmentalize his guilt, his sanity’s gotten worse, and he’s given up on fighting back his darker impulses and Sidious. However, Anakin and Vader are still the same person. Obi-Wan is one of the people throughout Anakin’s life who is primarily responsible for destroying his self-esteem in the first place throughout his formative years.

Like, I don’t understand how you can’t grasp that no one deserves to be told they should go commit suicide. I don’t understand how you don’t grasp how fucked up and wrong it is to tell people to commit it as a “joke?“

[fanfictasia]

These people simply don’t understand anything about Obi-Wan, I’m beginning to think. Like, he always did his best, even he majorly screwed up while training and raising Anakin. But not even Obi-Wan would stoop to such a level and tell Vader that he should kill himself because the world would be better off without him. Obi-Wan isn’t the main villain of SW??? Do they want him to be, maybe, though? I have to wonder...

[dosz318]

No, but Obi-Wan is still the guy who confronted, crippled and left him to burn alive.

Which is just as bad if not worse.

And it is the same Obi-Wan who lies and manipulates Luke to get him to commit patricide, simply because he couldn't be bothered to even try to help Anakin or give him a mercy killing (twice).

True, Obi-Wan would never tell someone to commit suicide, but let's not kid ourselves, he was not a good person.

[galahadwilder]

According to this book from @flashflashitsash, Adrien was born on October 13.

ML, according to astruc, is set in 2014-2015.

Adrien is somewhere between 13-15.

October 13, 200 was a Friday.

Thus, Adrien was born on Friday the 13 in October of 2000.

Explains a lot, doesn’t it.

@strangerahne

[avengerthewarrior]

WAIT A DAMN MINUTE HE IS 20?!

[galahadwilder]

@avengerthewarrior he’s 20 NOW, but during the time the series is set he’s 14-15.

[commonratmiraculous]

Wait. Marinette can’t have been born September 20th. The show Marinette reveals that her astrological sign is a Leo (first in Animan, then in the French version of Ikari Gozen), which places her birthday between July 23rd and August 22nd.

[dosz318]

Actually, I think Marinette says that she thinks it's Leo. She isn't sure, so she may be mistaken.

[moonlight-spectacles]

Rumple deserves to be a father to Gideon.

I’m sitting here in awe of the fact that people are actually defending Belle’s choice to send her child away to keep him from Rumple. Like, didn’t we already go through this issue with Emma, Maleficent and Snowing? Back in season 2, Emma was sad, because although she had reunited with her parents after 28 years, she says no matter what the circumstance was, even if it was to give her, her best chance, it didn’t change the fact that she was alone, and even if she had been cursed, at least she would have had her family. We saw how damaged Emma had become due to this, how hard it was for her to open up to them and others, yet Belle just resigned Gideon to the same fate as Emma, and it speaks of shit writing that Emma was right there and did not bring it up at all. Not to mention the fact that Belle keeps Gideon from his father, similar to how Maleficent had her child taken from her by Snowing, and it was “justified” at the time by the heroes because she was a villain, and would likely corrupt the kid. Yet when she reunites with Lily, revenge is not something on her mind, she simply wanted to be a mother to her. Or hey, how about when Emma initially tried to keep Neal from Henry, and Snow tells Emma that no matter what Neal may have done, he has the right to know his son. And when  Emma tried  to justify it with she “doesn’t want Henry to get hurt”, and that shes simply “trying to protect him”, Snow asks her if she’s sure its just about Henry, and that Emma of all people, should know how it feels to be kept away from a parent! Yet now Belle keeping Rumple from his kid is okay now? Sending him away is okay now? The funny thing is, when it came to Emma and Maleficent, somehow the show emphasizes the pain they went through thanks to the choices of others, whether well intentioned (Snowing by giving Emma up) or downright assumptive (Snowing when it came to Mal). What’s funnier is that even though both of these situations have been essentially combined now with the Rumbelle baby arc, people are on Rumple’s case, saying he doesn’t deserve to know or even see his kid, and defending Belle keeping him away. And for what reason exactly? It’s funny how he apparently doesn’t deserve to know his kid, and he’s going “too far” to try and make sure Belle doesn’t take his child away from him. How the hell one can go “too far” in order to stop someone from kidnapping a child, is beyond me. On top of it, the only “evidence” Belle has to keep Rumple from his child is shaky at best. A guy appears to her in a dream and says to do so. But, how many people have a grudge against Rumple again? Why would Belle so easily trust the word of some man showing up in a dream who didn’t even actually say what Rumple did or how he would be such an awful person that ruins everything? And now that we’ve got Belle sending her kid away to “give him his best chance” the way it happened with Emma, and we’ve got him being taken by fairies, and we’ve learned in the same episode that Rumple’s mom is Black Fairy, I can only guess that she gets her hands on Rumple’s kid and corrupts him. He’s probably even the one under the hood.

[pinchtheprincess]

Yes, and that’s worse, because maybe Belle’s actions contribute to the very outcome she was trying to prevent. 

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[dosz318]

Centuries into the future after they stopped working, their carcasses will be exposed in a Museum or Mausoleum.

The Skywalker Droids, two of the greatest War Heroes of Galactic History!

[rainixdra]

What’s in the Box?

1. A Book of Prophecies that ends with the KH3 ending.

2. A Book of Prophecies that goes beyond the end of KH3.

(or MoM saw two futures. One that ended with Darkness Prevailing and Light Expiring, and the other, where Light prevailed, but its hero vanished.)

[dosz318]

According to Ira, the last page is about the Light expiring and Darkness prevailing. Tg events of KH3 befire the change in the Timeline.

According to Pete, Maleficent is looking for the Box, because someone told her the Book of Prophecies was inside.

Now, why would the MoM save a Book of Prophecies in a box that would only be opened after KH3, if the Book's last page is about the events in KH3.

Surely, it has got to be a New Book of Prophecies, for the events after KH3.

Maybe it's a book for a new apprentice of the MoM? Ava is missing afterall, so he might need a replacement. And maybe the Book would be used to test that new apprentice?

[lieserli]

The Body Language of Namine/Ava

Decided to make another post regarding the gestures and such that pertain to the theory that these characters are one and the same. The images aren't nearly as good of quality as I decided not to download any videos this time and simply made use of YT.

Nevertheless, you'll see the images below the read more.

And there you have it.

[dosz318]

I think it just proves that Ava is Kairi's ancestor.

I don't know about you, but I find their voices quite similar too.

[lieserli]

cough cough

[dosz318]

I don't understand people who say that Sora feels what is in the heart of others.

Has he ever felt Riku's pain before and throughout KH1? No.

He didn't feel Kairi's fear of Riku either.

He only felt Ventus in BBS, because their hearts were connected.

Same with Roxas in KH2, DDD and KH3.

And he only felt Aqua's fear and despair because he was literally in her heart.

None of these instances represents Player's idea of sensing what's in the hearts of others.

[gch1995]

Those of us in the SW fandom who make valid criticisms of the merciless moral hypocrisy of Obi-Wan and the other Jedi in regards to those who turn on them: While Anakin, Dooku, and the other fallen Jedi of the prequels were not innocents who deserved no punishment for their crimes against the Jedi Order and Republic at all, the other members of the Jedi Order in which they grew up in really had a lot of nerve in taking it upon themselves to immediately decide to execute them upon finding out they turned on them without asking any questions about why they went dark in the first place, or offering any sort of legal defense trial.

Jedi apologists and Kenobists: You realize that Anakin murdered children, right? What else was Obi-Wan supposed to do after he found out Anakin had killed younglings and participated in the mass murder of the Jedi Order and the Separatists for Sidious? You only expected for Obi-Wan to go easier on Anakin because you want to fuck Hayden Christensen! You hate children!

Those of us who criticize the Jedi and Kenobi: No, we really don’t hate children, and it’s not about wanting to fuck Anakin. It’s about the fact that Obi-Wan and the majority of the adults in Jedi Order of his time were also deeply fucked up in terms of their morality when it came to creating collateral damage, their treatment of children, their treatment of their recruits, their treatment of their enemies, their treatment of the clones, and their treatment of outsiders for their “greater good,” while continuing to claim they were “peacekeepers,” “fighters for democracy,” “revenge is not the Jedi way,” and “fear is the path to the dark side,” in spite of repeatedly breaking those vows throughout the OT and PT movies before Luke came along.

We’re not saying that Padme should have just immediately taken Anakin back, or that Obi Wan the rest of the Jedi should have just completely let him off the hook for committing terrible crimes, and let him continue to keep doing those terrible things. He should have been taken to court. He should have been arrested with proper therapy until he proved he could be trusted and made an effort to make amends. He should have been in a universe that wasn’t so inherently fucked up in terms of its justice and morality.

In real life, he very well would either be facing imprisonment long term or the death penalty as a sentence for his crimes in court.

However, you know who else would be facing serious charges in court of a death penalty or long term imprisonment for multiple instances of brainwashing recruits, child abandonment, abuse, endangerment, and neglect through the recruiting of children as soldiers, assault, oppression of their army, willingly creating collateral damage of innocents, knowingly perpetuating the crimes of a corrupt government head, murder, trying to commit treason against the head of the government, cruel and unusual punishment, and unlawful execution of enemies without reasonable cause for immediate self-defense for their “greater good” in real life, too?

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui Gonn Jinn, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the other adult members of the Jedi Order before its collapse.

Jedi apologists and Kenobists: Bu-but, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the Jedi are the good guys. The Council and Qui Gonn “had” to recruit preschoolers and children to be soldiers for their Order because “attachments to family and friends are dangerous,” and “Anakin was just an emotionally immature and selfish baby who became excessively terrified of abandonment from loved ones, and grew to hate Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the Jedi for no reason.”

Those of us who make valid criticisms and observations of Obi-Wan and the Jedi Order adults in the prequels and OT films:

Tell that to Luke Skywalker who is able to save the day where his predecessors failed because he had a healthy, normal, and safe childhood with two guardians who raised him to be a good person by just being kind, open-minded, self-aware, and self-confident in his better instincts rather than a good weapon who completely sacrificed himself “for the greater good” of one of those two fucked up space soldier cults.

Throughout the OT movies, Obi-Wan and Yoda literally never atone or express any remorse to Luke Skywalker for deliberately deceiving him, endangering, and manipulating him for their own ends of killing Darth Vader “for the greater good.” Yeah, they say it is all for the “greater good,” and we’re not arguing that a lot of people throughout the galaxy had good reason to hate Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and want him killed for the purposes of justice and safety after all the crimes he committed against many of them over the past two decades, regardless of the mitigating circumstances of heavily compromised agency he was dealing with his whole life that made healthy support extremely limited to nonexistent and escape extremely unsafe, including Luke. We know he’s not a wholly innocent woobie who Luke was obligated to save. We know people had reason to hate him.

However, Obi-Wan and Yoda repeatedly tell Luke to kill just Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker, their former student, who they claim to have helped fuck up and drive away in the first place around two decades earlier. They never tell Luke to destroy the Emperor, too. They’re just focused on using him to clean up a mess they helped create with his father and the galaxy at large. No, not intentionally, and sure, they can’t force Anakin to come back to the light, nor are they obligated to do so if he refuses them. Still, the fact that they are using an innocent to try to absolve themselves is wrong. The fact that they get away with defending themselves for it when others repeatedly call them out on their cowardice and shitty treatment of others is even worse.

Anakin is the only one of his surviving predecessors in the OT movies who gets consistently framed as wrong for using that “greater good” line to compartmentalize his guilt and excuse his crimes in regards to Luke and the galaxy at large for Sidious’s and/or his own ends because they are easier to continue perpetuating than doing the right thing by taking personal accountability and ultimately atones for it by selflessly sacrificing his life to save Luke and letting go of decades of anger, guilt, fear, hatred, and self-loathing borne from a life of betrayal and suffering, not all of which was his fault.

[chromanebula]

Some people seem to feel the need to excuse the misconduct of the Jedi as a reaction to genocide apologia. They can’t see nuance.

“The Jedi were severely flawed” and “The Jedi didn’t deserve to be slaughtered” are two truths that can and should coexist. The Jedi were so focused on the Force and the “greater good” that they often refused to consider the concrete good of the people around them. They were agents of the Republic, which has a history of privileging large corporations and Core powers and ignoring the suffering of those on the Rim. Nonetheless, they did do good, and more importantly they are sentient beings who deserved to live. 

[dosz318]

Probably a result of the education of "if you are a victim of Genocide, then you have a right to do everything you desire"

Which is what has been drilled into the heads of many people with Israel.

Their crimes since 1948 has been washed away because "Jews are victims"

Even though Israelis are not even trully Jews but Zionists.

A tactic they use today to excuse their own Genocide of the Palestinians. Except that it thankfully doesn't work anymore.

[stephencolbertly]

So the clones didn’t kill Barriss in custody because they say she’s not a Jedi anymore, but they attacked Ahsoka who also left the Order and Rex ordered Maul’s execution even though he was also in custody and a Sith? Star Wars staying inconsistent 😘

[dosz318]

Palpatine most likely had a way to update the chips to eliminate different targets.

For starters the chips were created before he met Anakin, therefore he had to add an exception for Anakin, as the Clones will not all automatically know that he ceased to be a Jedi.

This is why Tup never reacted to Anakin under his malfunctioning Chip's influence, but yet locked on the other two Jedi the moment he saw them.

The moment he found out Maul was alive, Palpatine added him as a target. The moment Ahsoka left, he added her as a target.

I imagine he also did the same for Ventress, also we haven't seen her fight any mind-controlled Clone since the war ended.

Barriss completely betrayed the Jedi and was already at his mercy, she was more valuable as a potential Inquisitor, and was therefore not added to the Target List.

It's actually very logical. It's also very consistent with Palpatine's tendency to have contingency plans.

[ivalioneisavenue]

[sayruq]