By Emwattnot

by emwattnot

Space steak

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

^^ another lazy, half assed attempt to backtrack on a shortsighted mistsake they made

Hot take: The Barriss episodes of TOTE would've been better if they'd been about a random stormtrooper.

I love Barriss, I do, but nothing in this arc had anything to do with her. There's no discussion of her past and how that impacts how she feels about the Empire and the Inquisitors and the choices she's making now. Without that, it could've been a story about literally anyone and there would have been zero differences to the way the story played out.

But the Imperial stormtroopers feel relatively underexplored to me and, unlike the First Order stormtroopers, they joined the Empire willingly for the most part.

This could've EASILY been a story about a random stormtrooper who joined up due to some financial troubles and some propaganda about the Empire bringing safety and security to the galaxy and only realizing later just how bad it is and having to make a choice about whether to stay or leave.

It could've even been a three part exploration of Tala Durith from the Kenobi show and how she got into the Empire and the incident that caused her to defect and then how she ended up finding the Hidden Path, possibly with a cameo appearance by Quinlan Vos to explore him more, too.

I WANT more Barriss, but I want it to be a story about BARRISS, not this half-assed bullshit that just ignores the things she's done and the motivations she might've had that would continue to shape who she becomes later in life.

She is with her doves :3c (Also GW give her a Laurel crown, please)

The Jedi were completely justified in in the Wrong Jedi Arc (Part 1)

You know what, let's take a look at the Jedi interrogation of Ahsoka. Which was so bad that it both justifies Ahsoka's belief that the Order deserved what they got and so traumatic that we (according to Ahsoka fans) shouldn't be surprised that it wiped out her personality for around 30 years.

Let's start with "The Jedi who knew too much" since that's where Ahsoka was first suspected. Now let's look at the case against Ahsoka so far...

-She was seen angrily ranting about wanting Leeta to "pay" for bombing the Temple and was outraged that the military took custody of her because she wanted the Jedi to punish her. She's so angry she even starts questioning the Chancellor straight to the face of an Admiral.

-She's invited to speak to Leeta on her request only for Leeta to end up dead by a Force choke.

-Ahsoka was later found outside her cell, armed with her confiscated weapons. When the guard (quite logically) sounds the alarm, Ahsoka flees right into the path of three dead clones. Fox assumes (again, logically) that she killed them.

-She shouts that she was being set up to Anakin who says he believes her and asks her to come down so they can figure things out, but Ahsoka flees and resists arrest instead.

In response to this, the Jedi Council are understandably suspicious. However, their response was to deploy two teams to capture her alive.

Led by Anakin Skywalker and Plo Koon. AKA the two who most believed in her innocence.

That is an insanely compassionate act on their part. To entrust the mission to the very people who believe in her innocence and who'd do everything they could to bring her in safely.

Also everyone blames Fox for assuming she killed the three dead clones she was standing over but forget that Rex called an alert saying "She killed three clones" causing security to freak out and try to blow her away with a cannon.

If at any point Ahsoka had just stopped or stayed in her cell the frame job would've likely been discovered but she picked the worst possible combination of choices. Great job Ahsoka!