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The funniest part of being told there cannot POSSIBLY be a version of Star Wars that focuses on the Jedi ALONE and is pure fluff is that this is in production and set to be released next year:
A show made for PRESCHOOLERS focused in on the Jedi in a time when they're doing pretty well and likely isn't going to have a ton of heavy political or dark themes to it given its target audience.
"Skywalker & Master Dooku's Tree"
No, but do you know what TCW arc is the most underrated one imo?
Yoda's journey arc
Not only is it my favourite arc of the entire series, but I consider one of the best stories in the entire saga.
Reasons:
1) Light vs Dark debate
2) Yoda's demons and how he overcomes them
3) Qui-Gon Jinn.
4) Darth Bane is canoon!!!
5) THE FORCE LORE
6) Yoda and R2D2 bonding
AMAZING!!!
One of Yoda’s favorite Life Day traditions is telling scary ghost stories (he has some GOOD ones). It’s not a real Life Day tradition, but the padawans don’t know that!
A random thought:
you know who I didn't appreciate enough in 2022?
BAIL ORGANA
Man, if all senators were like him, Palpatine would have been banned in SECONDS.
What is more, I like how he is always there for a Jedi who needs his help.
First, with Ahsoka in TOTJ. Then, with Obi-Wan.
He helps them remember who they are. What are they fighting for. WHO are they fighting for.
What it means to be a Jedi.
What a legend.
The symbolism of the Mortis arc!
I already kinda talked about this a while ago, but let’s get into more details!
This arc is so underrated! This trilogy of episodes is basically one long Dagobah cave sequence, and the more I watch it, the more I keep finding stuff that the LucasFilm animation team put here and there that shows how this is arc in line with how Lucas said the Force works. Here’s 5 examples of why!
First off: are the Mortis Gods, the Force? This is something that often gets confused. As Obi-Wan puts it:
The planet itself is the Force. The day, the night, the blossoming flora, the thunder and lightning, all of it.
What the Mortis Gods represent are aspects of the Force. They are embodiments of concepts, Namely:
The Balance of the Force, embodied by the Father.
The Light Side of the Force, aka the Daughter.
The Dark Side of the Force, the Son.
Now, though they perfectly embody these concepts, but they themselves aren’t literally these concepts. They’re a family of powerful seemingly ageless immortal (except if you kill them with the Mortis Dagger) Force wielders.
They’re essentially walking, talking metaphors.
But how they interact with each other, as people, basically tells us all we need to know about the Force.
1. It’s very easy for the Dark Side to become the enemy of Balance.
The Force is inherently balanced, with Light and Dark co-existing. But seeing as the Dark Side “weighs” more in the Force, just a simple boost can galvanize it into spreading. In George Lucas’s words:
“I wanted to have this mythological footing because I was basing the films on the idea that the Force has two sides, the good side, the evil side, and they both need to be there. Most religions are built on that, whether it’s called yin and yang, God and the Devil — everything is built on the push/pull tension created by two sides of the equation.”
“They both need to be there.” The problem is, the Dark Side will have a tendency of going “no, only me”, whenever it gets even just a bit more power than it should.
In a similar way, the Daughter and Son live in a sort of harmonious equilibrium, she’s the day, he’s the night…
… but only a day after Anakin arrived on Mortis (bringing his guilt, his anger issues and past traumas with him), it tips the scale, the Son’s powers grow and he decides to consume everything in his path.
When the Dark Side gets too powerful compared to the Light, for example, when the Sith cause too much death and destruction and actively try to undermine the Force itself, this brings about unbalance… And when the Son becomes more powerful, he actively tries to kill the Father.
2. The Dark Side itself is not evil… but it is empowered by evil people (like the Sith).
Here’s another Lucas quote:
“The Force has two sides. It is not a malevolent or a benevolent thing. It has a bad side to it, involving hate and fear, and it has a good side, involving love, charity, fairness and hope.”
The Force and its sides aren’t malevolent or benevolent. They just exist.
This is echoed in the Mortis arc, when the Daughter points out that the Son acts the way he does because it’s in his nature.
“It is not his fault. My nature is to do what is selfless, but my brother’s will always be to do what is selfish.”
Later, when she gets stabbed by the Son, she tells her father:
“Do not hate him, Father. It is his nature.”
It is the nature of the Dark Side to be selfish, to corrupt and easily grow in power the second you feed it just a bit. Hence why it is more tempting. And it is also in its nature to have destructive tendencies, once its power grows.
But the Dark or Light sides aren’t inherently good or evil. Again: they’re concepts, they’re metaphysical aspects of the Force. The Dark Side isn’t going “muahahaha, let’s fuck shit up”, it’s just doing what it does… just like fire isn’t evil, and yet if you touch it, it will burn you and try to kill you. Because that’s what fire does, that’s its nature.
But if the Sith - who are evil, who are galactic criminals - decide to go “you know what, let’s make some noise”, the Dark Side, by its very nature, will grow powerful, as will the Sith who will slowly but surely get consumed by this power.
3. The Light Side champions and defends the Balance (and so do the Jedi).
The Daughter helps her Father whenever she can…
… just like the Jedi champion Balance and strive to maintain it.
They’re okay with there being both a Light and a Dark Side (eg: the Jedi let the Nightsisters do their own thing despite the fact that they worship the Dark Side), they simply choose to feed the Light more, as it naturally weighs less than the Dark, thus maintaining the Balance.
Fact is: it’s easier to be a bad person than it is to be a good person.
There’s enough crime, corruption and violence in the galaxy as it is to keep the Dark Side constantly sustained. The Dark Side doesn’t need a champion, it already has an unfair advantage (which is why, when the Sith start showing up, it makes the Dark Side walk out of its boundaries and threaten Balance).
As George Lucas puts it:
“As evil begins to take over, it pushes the Force out of balance. It’s easier to succumb to evil than it is to be a hero and try to work things through on the good side. Evil is inherently more powerful—it doesn’t have the burden of worrying about other people.”
But the Light Side? The Light Side needs all the help it can get.
So the Jedi champion the Light, knowing that it needs a helping hand, in order to make sure that Balance is kept.
Just like the Daughter helps the Father, any chance she can get.
4. The Cosmic Force & following your destiny.
Lucas describes the Force as having two aspects:
“The Living Force and a greater, Cosmic Force. The Living Force makes you sensitive to other living things, makes you intuitive, and allows you to read other people’s minds, et cetera. But the greater Cosmic Force has to do with destiny. In working with the Force, you can find your destiny and you can choose to either follow it, or not.”
Almost mimicking the Cosmic Force, the Father confronts Anakin with a test:
Now, letting go has always been the one thing Anakin struggled with doing. Letting go of his attachments, of his anger, his fear… and ever since he saw Shmi die, his sense of guilt, which then feeds and reinforces the previous three.
But he is the Chosen One. As in, he’s been *chosen* by the Force to destroy the Sith and restore the Force to its natural balanced state. That’s his destiny.
If he chooses to follow his destiny, then all he needs to do is overcome his one character flaw. And despite being encouraged by both the Father and, later, Qui-Gon’s spirit… he doesn’t.
He doesn’t do it in Palpatine’s office, either, he chooses to defy his own destiny for selfish reasons, which plunges the galaxy further into chaos than it already had been. And so, to all the things Vader kept hanging on to and never letting go, we add an extra dose of pain… pain of the flesh and pain of the mind.
Just like the Father predicted:
“Your selfishness shall haunt you, and the galaxy…!”
It takes Anakin 20+ years to finally let go of it all, in order to save his son. But he does do it, he does eventually choose to follow his destiny.
Because there was still good in him.
Which brings me to the final awesome thing about this arc:
5. The actual symbols of the Mortis trilogy
And this is where we see how intricate the work of the LucasFilm Animation team is! Throughout the three episodes, we see three symbols, all of which are basically in-universe variations of the Yin & Yang symbol.
“As the keeper of the balance,the Father quite literally sits at the center of a scale-like statue,with gong-like discs emblazoned with icons representing the daughter (to his right) and the son (to his left).” - Overlords - Concept Art Gallery
Here they are:
In each of these icons, the rounded “flower” motif represents the Light Side (reminiscent of the flourishing Mortis flora during the day) and that the spiky “cross” motif represents the Dark Side (reminiscent of the lightning-peppered nights on Mortis).
The Symbol of Balance, is seen multiple times, mainly in the Father’s monastery and courtyard. This icon is composed of two crosses and three flowers, all concentric…
The final symbol, at the center, is a flower, indicating ‘good’. Considering that Balance is the Force’s natural state, we can infer the takeaway from this symbol is that Balance is good.
Then you have the Daughter’s icon, the Symbol of the Light Side, which is also seen in the Daughter’s shrine, but also - and I love this - everywhere in the Jedi’s Crystal Caves of Ilum and at the doorstep of the Jedi Temple of Lothal!
Finally, the Son’s icon, the Symbol of the Dark Side. This symbol is also seen at the Son’s monastery and at the Well of the Dark Side, where the Son gives Anakin visions of his dark future.
The latter two symbols have much more Yin & Yang-reminiscent iconography, with pretty much the same takeaway: there can be Evil, in anything good (the Republic)… but more importantly, there is still Good at the heart of Evil.
Just like there was still good in the Mortis Son… and just like there was still good in Vader.
Which I think is interesting because the Dark Side symbol itself also seems to have de-evolved into the Sith Empire’s logo…
… only, if you notice, the flower motif in the middle changed or rather, was removed.
The “there is good deep down” message was stripped away from the symbol because - unlike the Son, who is aware that there can be no Darkness without Light - the Sith are all about repressing any non-negative feelings, killing your inner goodness, destroying the Light because “fuck Balance, I wanna make the Force my bitch!” :D
Typical Sith.
ANYWAY!
That’s why I think the Mortis trilogy is awesome and the best series of episodes TCW teams made.
Thank you for making it through this really really long post (I wanted to get all my thoughts down)! I’m gonna go lie down, now.
I’m in a lot of pain, so I want to write sad stuff.
I want to write about Obi-Wan spending nearly twenty years watching his best friend’s, his brother’s, his favourite person’s kid and how he realizes, even as he watches, that Luke looks like Anakin and sometimes he acts like Anakin, but Luke isn’t Anakin and will never be Anakin. And Obi-Wan doesn’t want him to be Anakin, but a part of him does, a part of him wants that camaraderie and that easy affection and the boy he spent ten years watching grow to come back to him.
I want to write about Luke and how he loses so many people. He never had his parents, he loses his aunt and uncle, he loses Ben, and when he finally gets to meet his dad, which is the only thing he’s wanted for years (to meet and be like his dad), Anakin dies in his arms. Luke sees his aunt and uncle’s smoldering bodies and watches Obi-Wan die right in front of him and Yoda die right in front of him and Anakin die in his arms. Luke would only have a familial connection to his sister, and then he finds out Jedi aren’t supposed to have attachments and it must break a part of him. He spent so long trying to be like his father, to be a Jedi like his father before him, and his attachment to the one person he has left in the world would be enough to take that all away from him.
I want to write about Leia and the crushing realization that the man she’s hated her entire life, the man she has always seen as pure evil and nothing but evil, the man who tortured her and stood by while she had to watch her home explode, is her father. That she has that guy’s DNA, she’s blood relatives with the symbol of evil, in her mind. But, to throw away her father would be to deny that she and Luke are twins. And she depends on Luke as much as Luke depends on her, they’re a duo that’s nigh inseparable even before they know they’re related. But, Luke accepts their father, and Leia doesn’t want to accept their father, and it’s hard to get around that. Leia doesn’t know Anakin as a good person. She knows him as a murderer and a torturer and a kidnapper and the man who cut off her brother’s hand. It’s hard to think of him as anything else.
I want to write about Anakin. Anakin watches his mother die due to actions outside of his control, and he blames himself forever. He’s told by the only person he still trusts that he killed his own wife and their unborn child. Then, he stands there, watching as the child who should be impossible, who cannot possibly have been born, the child he’s spent years and years chasing after, watching his son is die, right in front of him. His son who is a twin. His son who is Vader’s only evidence that he and Padme loved each other. His son who begs him for help and believes that he’s still good even after the Jedi Order and the rest of the galaxy and Anakin’s own Master believe that all the good has died. His son who is stupid and reckless and came onto this ship with half a plan and hope.
I want to write about Yoda and how he watches his whole line fall apart. Dooku betrays the Order. Qui-Gon is killed by the Sith, who have been assumed dead for years. Obi-Wan is left as the only other Jedi Master who still lives, but he’s forced to hide on the desert planet where Qui-Gon died to watch the son of his Padawan who wants him dead. Anakin grew from a nervous but excited little boy into the most feared man in all of the galaxy. Ahsoka left the Order before it fell to pieces, and nobody knows where she is or what happened to her. Then, Obi-Wan dies, but asks Yoda to teach Anakin’s son. A Skywalker who is impatient and rash and angry, just like his father. But, what else can Yoda do? And the more time he spends with him, the more he realizes that Luke isn’t like Anakin. The more he realizes that Luke is strong in ways Anakin was not. Strong in ways none of the Jedi were. And for the first time in over two decades, he feels hope that the galaxy can be saved. That the Jedi Order, his family, can be saved.
Luke Skywalker and the heavy burden placed on his shoulders. To be a Jedi and a General the likes of Anakin Skywalker. Maybe destined to fall and become evil like Darth Vader. He stands at a crossroads where he barely knows what it even means to be a Jedi and he doesn’t want to hurt his father, the man who he’s always aspired to be, but the other path is death and betrayal and pain and destruction and slavery to the Emperor. And Luke forges his own path, even though the Jedi warn against it. He tries to save his father or die trying. He knows Vader might kill him, but he’s willing to bet on the most infinitisimal odds that Anakin is still there, somewhere. Luke saves his father with the power of attachment, with the love that Anakin tried to use to save his mother and Padme and everyone he’s ever loved.
The Skywalkers are so depressing. The Disaster Lineage is depressing. Star Wars is depressing. And I am still in horrible pain
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I KNOW STAR WARS IS PROBABLY GOING TO TRY TO FORGET THIS PART, BUT I’M NOT GOING TO. HERE IS WHY AHSOKA’S WORDS AREN’T FAIR AND WHY SHE’S RIGHT THAT SHE’S NOT TRYING TO BE AND WHY OBI-WAN ISN’T PUTTING POLITICS AHEAD OF PEOPLE’S LIVES JUST FOR THE SAKE OF POLITICS.
Ahsoka wants the Jedi to go to Mandalore because the people there need them. And she’s right! And she’s right that people have lost faith in the Jedi Order, but there is no way that going to Mandalore–or even any mission like it–was going to make the Jedi any more popular/have more faith in them. (Nor, would I argue, that they should be doing things based on what other people think of them or what makes them popular, especially when the general public’s view of things are, uh, not always the greatest or most reliable, I mean, these are the people who think Palpatine’s great, maybe they’re not the most narratively reliable???) But the above cannot come without context of the bigger war, because I remember Ryloth. And I remember Mon Calamari. And I remember Kiros. And I remember Revenge of the Sith, I remember the Battle Over Coruscant, I remember that the Separatists aren’t just kidnapping Palpatine, THEY ARE THERE ON CORUSCANT. GRIEVIOUS AND DOOKU AND THEIR BATTLE DROIDS ARE RIGHT THERE. ATTACKING THE PLANET. And I remember what the Separatists do to worlds they invade. They slaughter them, they oppress them, they enslave them. Now they’re heading towards Coruscant. They’re not suddenly going to be nice to the capital of the Republic, Grievous and Dooku aren’t going to have a sudden change of heart and go, well, it’s Coruscant, I guess we won’t do the same thing we always do to planets who resist. Here’s how the bit right before their conversation goes, by the way: the sirens go off, the clones start dashing around to prepare, it’s clear they’re going to battle. Anakin assumes the attack on Mandalore was what set this off, but Obi-Wan says, no, it’s Coruscant.
When Obi-Wan talks about the mission they’re being tasked with, he doesn’t mention the Chancellor at all, it’s Anakin who asks after his friend. In all the conversation around this episode, it took even me having to go back to make gifs to get me to realize, oh, they don’t even know Palpatine is going to be kidnapped at this point! THAT HASN’T HAPPENED YET. They’ve lost contact with him, but the danger is that Grievous has attacked Coruscant. THIS ISN’T ABOUT PALPATINE BEING IN DANGER. HE HASN’T BEEN KIDNAPPED YET. THEY MIGHT BE WORRIED ABOUT HIM, BUT THAT’S NOT THE IMPORTANT PART UNTIL ANAKIN MENTIONS HIM. (This reading is furthered by how Obi-Wan’s voice goes significantly gentler when he says, “Not to worry. Our fleet can be there within the hour.” He is specifically saying this to Anakin, he is gentling his tone because he knows Anakin will worry about his friend, not because he’s prioritizing Palpatine.) THIS IS ABOUT WHAT OBI-WAN SAYS: GRIEVOUS HAS ATTACKED THE CAPITAL. So when Ahsoka says the Jedi are going to Coruscant because of Palpatine, it’s not a fair accusation to say that the people of Coruscant don’t need them. She’s saying that the Jedi are protecting Coruscant because it’s important to the Chancellor, not because Coruscant’s people are important, when Obi-Wan is saying, yes, the people of Coruscant are important and her accusation isn’t fair or correct in that sense. The battle is on their planet now, the Separatists are there, if they lose that battle, the people of Coruscant will be facing the same thing those other planets did and it’ll go exactly the same way–utter horror unless the Jedi are there to protect them. Coruscant doesn’t just need their Chancellor rescued, Coruscant needs protection to not be the next Ryloth, to not be the next Mon Calamari, to not be the next Kiros, because the Separatists are there and that’s what they do. Ahsoka’s wrong that the people of Coruscant don’t need the Jedi. She’s right that Mandalore needs help, but in her letting her emotions cloud her judgement, she would be condemning the heart of the Republic (the only thing that stands between the Separatists and unfettered atrocity after atrocity, they’re the only thing that can stand against those horrible things Dooku and Grievous do). She’s being unfair about how Coruscant does need their help. She can try to frame it as what they’re really doing is rescuing the Chancellor or sucking up to him or whatever, but this is also Obi-Wan Kenobi and he doesn’t come without context as well, that he’s not the type to not want to help someone just because it’s inconvenient. Seriously, this is Obi-Wan, that guy is all about helping people! Yes, the Chancellor is there, but, you know, that’s also where Dooku and Grievous and the Separatists are. They’re going to fight the Separatists, we see that when they’re in battle over Coruscant, when they board the Invisible Hand, when they face off against Grievous and Dooku. They’re rescuing Palpatine, but they’re also protecting the planet below them from some genuinely awful shit that’s going to happen if they’re not there. And I know Star Wars will probably want to forget that part, in order to accuse the Jedi of playing politics in a bad way, but it’s still true. Without the Jedi on Coruscant, Dooku would have done to the people there what he’s done to so many other worlds. We’ve seen him do it again and again. The people of Coruscant are going to be dead or in chains or used as human shields or put in concentration camps (all things the Separatists have done in canon) if they put Mandalore first, just like the Mon Cal, the Togruta, and the Twi’leks.
Not to mention, there’s a little more than just “playing politics” at stake here, it’s not just the civilians ON Coruscant who are in danger right now from this attack, because Coruscant? Is literally the capital of the Republic.
I know that’s been said, but this just needs repeating.
Coruscant is THE capital of the entire Galactic Republic.
Interstate wars are usually won when one side takes the other’s capital/headquarters.
If Dooku and Grievous take Coruscant, they can easily take the Galactic Senate
If Dooku and Grievous take Coruscant, there’s a damn good chance they could take the Jedi Temple.
If Coruscant falls, with no Jedi and no Senate, THERE IS NO REPUBLIC. The Separatists will have won.
We’ve seen what happens when the capital planet falls in Star Wars in the Sequel Trilogy when the Hosnian System is destroyed. The entire force behind the opposition to the aggressors vanishes and without a centralized government, planets all shut down to try and protect themselves and end up invaded and conquered by the aggressors anyway.
Without a centralized government, there is no one to command the Jedi and their clone troops to come help other planets. No one to provide money or send aid and supplies.
Ryloth and Mon Cala and Kiros would get enslaved all over again except this time, there would be no one to call for help, no one to save them.
As unfortunate as it is, Coruscant is one planet the Republic cannot afford to lose because it basically is the Republic.
You can’t keep on playing chess if the other side has captured your King.
#yeah this way of thinking might be technically considered ‘playing politics’ and it does place Coruscant as a higher priority but like.#this is literally not a question because the alternative would be to prioritize Mandalore over the ENTIRE Republic#so yeah (via @twilightofthe) Yes, exactly! It is playing politics, in the sense that strategy has to be part of the war and that means politics. I get that Ahsoka means they’re choosing Coruscant because it’s more politically convenient to do what the Chancellor says, than to help the people of Mandalore, but she is stripping away the context we have seen with our own eyes–ie, what the Separatists do to the planets they conquer and that the people of the Republic genuinely are in danger. And, frankly, if Coruscant falls, the Republic will fall, and then Mandalore will fall to the Separatists anyway. Mandalore is suffering, no one’s saying it’s not, but Coruscant is in just as much/possibly more danger and their position in the war means that, if they fall, everything falls. And if everything falls, then they’re all completely fucked and there’s no one left to save anyone anymore. We know that, because we see what happens when the Jedi are gone and the unchecked government does whatever the fuck it wants–it takes Sidious a bit longer, but he eventually achieves this with his Empire, that the Senate is disbanded, slave labor runs rampant across the galaxy, worlds upon worlds are used for bio-weapons testing grounds, religious/culture genocides happening, worlds are strip-mined and people left in poverty, and so much more. And there’s no one left to save them, because what little the Republic was holding this kind of thing back is now just as dead as the Jedi are.
THIS SCENE, HOLY CRAP. “IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO LOOK AT IT.” I actually really loved Anakin’s characterization in this episode, because it’s an arc that’s been showing a lot of signposts that are heading right towards ROTS, that one of Anakin’s key character components has to be the balance between the good person that he was, the charming person he was, and the fragile person he is, the person who will murder a room full of children in about a week because he thinks it’ll make him strong enough to save Padme’s life from a phantom fear of her death. The way he treats Ahsoka, there’s just a slight edge of mania to it, nothing that’s worrying enough on its own, by itself, to send up too big of a red flag, but when we’re actively looking for things that will connect him to the murdering of the Jedi, the murdering of the Jedi children, the turning on the Republic, suddenly Anakin’s view of Ahsoka coming back has a new lens to view it through. This is someone who has felt he’s been losing things, piece by piece, who has been in a war for three or four years now that has ground him and everyone he knows into exhaustion. It never ends and the peace he once knew is gone, even the people around him who love him, who support him, who would be there for him if he truly asked, are bone-tired. We see in this episode that Obi-Wan is exhausted down to his soul, how much has this war taken from Obi-Wan, too? And then Bo-Katan is showing up, throwing Satine’s memory in his face, snarling at him that he doesn’t want to help Mandalore, Ahsoka accuses him of abandoning Mandalore when the Republic is pulling on him at the same time, he can’t be in two places at once, he already tried to save Mandalore and Satine and defeat Maul and he failed, he failed to defeat Maul, how much has that taken from Obi-Wan? Yeah, no fucking wonder he’s “cautiously optimistic” instead of flinging himself whole-heartedly into “this is all happening for a reason!” Oh, Obi-Wan will dust himself off and keep moving forward, that’s what he does. And once Dooku is dead, once they have a real shot at Grievous, then he’ll be a little more optimistic. But in the meantime, the contrast really highlights how they’re both handling this. They’re both exhausted, the war has taken so much from them, right from their very bones. And Anakin is turning towards the idea that Ahsoka must have left for a reason, that it must all mean something, there must be meaning to be found in all this. So, he practically chirps at her while she’s there, and she’s so distant with him, she doesn’t even have time for a proper hello or a hug. Yet Anakin clings to the idea that this must be meaningful because he’s trying desperately to make sense of everything and grabbing onto the idea that it’s For A Reason, rather than accepting that sometimes shitty things just happen. It’ll be the same with his visions of Padme, that it can’t be his own anxieties manifesting, it can’t be something else at play, the ONLY way to look at it is that they’re real and the only way to save her is through the dark side. I’ve long argued that Anakin’s turn in Revenge of the Sith doesn’t make sense from a logical standpoint, that it’s not truly ideological for him, that instead he’s just parroting what Palpatine told him, that he has almost no core beliefs other than his very personal ones of what he wants and fears. His turn was never about the Jedi actually being evil or that he had a leg to stand on with that argument, but that he’s grasping desperately for a reason because he’s angry and trying to make it fit into a worldview that makes sense to him, rather than the one that actually is. Because Anakin still struggles with Ahsoka’s decision, it can’t be that she had to go find her path elsewhere, that she needed to figure herself out, so it has to be something else. And that’s the exact same mindset that will lead to Revenge of the Sith, that there’s an element of how maybe Anakin’s not totally wrong, that Ahsoka left and she’ll survive Order 66 because of it (though, we can’t know that for certain), that the Force led her on this path because it’ll give her the chance to face Maul in a way the Jedi cannot reasonably achieve here. But I don’t think so, I think she walked away for her own reasons (and because the writers wanted her to, obv.) and that just sails right over Anakin’s head, just like Padme’s reasons and Obi-Wan’s reasons and the Jedi’s reasons for the things they do are going to sail right over his head.
This is the Jedi way!
Ok idk if I'm dumb but I only just noticed that Luke's failure in the cave of Dagobah in ESB by taking his weapons despite Yoda telling him not to and immediately going for the kill with the Vader illusion connects right to ROTJ when Luke stops himself from killing Vader and throws away his lightsaber. Luke learned the lesson that Yoda was trying to teach him since ESB.
So all this talk of Luke "defying" the old Jedi way and making a new way is bullshit. He literally followed Yoda's teachings that was taught a whole ass movie ago. The lesson he once failed, he has now succeeded and that is such a beautiful interconnectivity between movies. Just another reason why ROTJ will always be my favorite of the OT.
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I think the Jedi council should have at least considered sending obi-wan over to Dooku to be like “yes hello I am here for sith training” just to see what would happen
Like, we know from the rako hardeen arc that he’s a good enough actor to pull this off. Combined with Dooku’s clear affection(?) for him, I think the council would have most of the separatists’ top military secrets in a month, max
I mean, even if Obi-Wan got caught transmitting information
Dooku:…what are you doing
Obi-Wan, panicking slightly: I’m a double agent. Passing them bad intel.
Dooku: I didn’t ask you to do that
Obi-Wan: …i’m taking initiative????
Dooku:
Dooku: We’ll it’s about time SOMEONE around here did
Palpatine: There have been far too many “coincidences” with the Jedi lately. The information your new apprentice is transmitting is accurate, I’m sure of it.
Dooku: My boy would never do such a thing
Palpatine: Your b— you know, the whole “no attachments” is a Jedi thing but I think we need to have a talk
Luminara Unduli having lunch with youngling Barriss Offee by redhoodie1723
I have the headcan in that luminara spent time with barriss before she became her Padawan to teach her about their species culture. Barriss really wanted luminara to like her so she claimed to have many of the same favorite things as luminara including favorite food. Barriss unfortunately didn't know that luminara likes spicy food.
‘‘ It begins with the ancient times. They were not sand people, for there was no sand. The land was green with life, and they walk without wrappings.
Though the land was beautiful, they lived apart from the land. They built their walls high, and saw beyond the horizon. They dared to reach the stars.
There are no words for how long ago this was. It was before the outsiders, before the abduction, before the cities fell. Before the Builders. ’’
