Sabine Wren’s problem in Star Wars Ahsoka.
And yes, I do just wanna state right away that OF COURSE I understand that Filoni is borrowing ESB’s interpretation of The Force. Resides in all being, you must open your mind, etc The Midichlorians thing established in TPM served little more than to provide needless scientific edge to The Force and made it more exclusionary, I’m glad it seems to go unused nowadays
My issue is that regardless of how feasible it is, Sabine really DID NOT need to take upon this whole arc of becoming a Jedi. While I do understand that this show isn’t supposed to be about The Mandalorians and we already have a show for this, it is bizarre how Sabine’s arc has taken such a radical change off course after Rebels. Her Mandalorian roots look like they have been utterly buried in favour of this new arc of her learning to become a Jedi, something that wasn’t remotely insinuated towards at any point in Rebels. I think we could agree that seldom anyone felt this is the course her character was going after Rebels, where the character’s arc was largely defined by her shamed past and building up to confronting past mistakes and fixing broken bonds with her people.
Sabine doesn’t really FEEL like the same character anymore. Out of everyone in the show, she has the most radically different course for her arc. You might seldom have even thought it was Sabine if it wasn’t for the armour she wore, pretty much the only reminder of what the character resembles from Rebels left.
Sabine was already a questionably convoluted character, by adding The Force and Jedism to her I believe Filoni has made this character a big red target for Mary Sue debates, which is something I was always afraid of for Sabine and something she was a target enough for as it is during the course of Rebels.
And furthermore, if Filoni wanted to have the classic “learning to be a Jedi” trope, I especially don’t see why he had to make Sabine the subject of this when Jacen is RIGHT THERE, practically BEGGING for it.
Throw in some general issues like the actors/material not being the best, and the problems just get a little more blatant. So even if one were to find this both a feasible and logical arc for Sabine, I think anyone can seldom say it was compelling. There was more gripping storytelling to Sabine in Trials Of The Darksaber, a single episode of Rebels, than there was to the entirety of this show.
Remember when Sabine was an explosives expert who liked graffiti and art? I did, I missed her for years. She’s been my favourite Star Wars character for years now, even back during the earlier Rebels years.
I was really disappointed to not find her again in Ahsoka.
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