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one of the funniest and most in character things ever is Ahsoka mentioning the whole Vader thing once and Anakin defensively going "is that what this is about" and rolling his eyes like "oh my god I went on ONE 20 year rampage and no one can let it go, I'm on my apology tour right now what more do you people want"

Who cut the onions?! 😭 this is now canon in my mind.

my only thought when Ahsoka had that hologram playing was "SHE NEEDS TO SHOW THIS TO LUKE NOW"

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I wonder if Ahsoka and Sabine will use a wardrobe to get back 🤣

seeing the title of the ahsoka finale like

Schrödinger's loth-cat!

Clearly the loth cat is with Zeb and Kallus since we never see them either!

so true!! this can be the only answer

It’s jarring seeing how young Anakin and Ahsoka are in live action,and that’s the point. You look at these two babies,responsible for hundreds if not thousands of men in the middle of a war zone,with blaster fire reigning down,and you think oh god they’re children. And it’s not the Jedi’s fault,it’s exactly as Anakin says,it’s fight or die. They didn’t want war,to raise their padawans on battlefields or change the entire purpose of their order from keepers of the peace to soldiers.But the Separatists don’t fight fair,and certainly not Sidious backing it all. They pull unwilling planets into war they want no part of,and murder innocent civilians,and conquer entire systems in the name of “freedom and justice.”

The fact is this isn’t a war involving hundreds or thousands,it’s billions upon billions. It’s entire star systems and planets of families and children. The Separatists poison welled entire planets and THAT is what’s on the line for the Jedi. Not politics or the ideals of the Republic,but billions of people they’re meant to protect. And they don’t have a choice,not really,they have their own children on battlefields because of it,because it’s fight or die. And there’s no winning for the Jedi posted out in the field,because they are few and stretched laughably thin,and stuck between saving civilians and taking care of their own men in hopeless situations. They die doing it,one after the other. For a galaxy that turns on them and swallows down Sidious’s poison to believe they were to blame,that it was all their fault and they were greedy and warmongering.

Jedi padawans,children,fought to survive on battlefields,because they had to and for an order sworn on protection,there was no other choice. But as Anakin says,that is not their legacy,and it is not all they are. The Jedi are not the Clone Wars,and they are not children on battlefields,they are more than that. They are sacrifice,and selflessness,and hope,and giving everything for a galaxy that turns its back on them. They are enduring love,endless love.

I know filoni straight up retconned Ahsoka’s tube top, but I think the alternative and funnier explanation is that adult ahsoka was so embarrassed by her 14 year old fashion sense that she imagined herself wearing a better outfit in her own force vision

someone please send Ezra wookiepedia articles, he has noooo idea what is going on

Changing our perspective on a character is important.

Yeah, it’s easy to see Xiono as an Imperial Sympathizer until you stop and say ‘wait, he doesn’t see/know what we know and it’s not a Rebellion anymore and rules have to be followed’.

It’s heartbreaking to see the level of distrust that are going on in the New Republic between different Senators and members of the Military.

They’re not use to the Imperial Moffs/Governors working together and we see in ANH that they’re prone to bickering and it’s implied that Vader does what he wants, when he wants, where he wants and to who he wants unless ordered otherwise.

They’re used to Imperial generals and admirals disobeying orders for glory/revenge/out of spite/etc so to think that they’re actually working together for a bigger goal is borderline unbelievable.

And it’s very believable that Xiono heard the excuses from Imperial Officers as to why mass slaughter was committed that sounded disturbingly similar to what Hera gave for disobeying orders to not go.

Imagine being basically told that because you didn’t pick up a weapon and fight or join the Rebellion that your opinion on something doesn’t matter.

All Xiono sees is a woman getting off scot-free all because she’s a hero and because a high ranking senator forged documents.

How many times did that happen in the Empire in the Senate? That they had an officer dead to rights for war crimes only for them to get off on a technicality or due to fabricated evidence and you know that you can’t pursue them because of what will happen to you if you do.

Xiono can’t call Leia out for fabricating the transcripts because she’s considered a hero and using her position of Head of the Defense Committee to make it look official without him looking like a jerk or having a vendetta with either Leia or Hera.

I believe that, sadly, the New Republic was destined for failure because of distrust and fear.

Leia

You know having seen all of Ahsoka so far, Leia is being shown as the only person in the NR government who seems to have a functioning brain cell. She has no tolerance for political bs and gets shit done. The series has made me love Leia even more. She has Anakin’s intolerance for political bs but has the brain cells of Padme aka she was why the First Order had to wait to invade the Galaxy. 

Well, I would argue Mon also has a brain cell.

But here is the thing. Senator Xiono isn’t an idiot. The only reason we think he’s an idiot is because we know that the Imperial remnants are going to become the First Order. He’s a bit dismissive of that threat, yes. But I cut him a lot of slack because there is a much more familiar threat he sees right in front of him and that is what he is reacting to.

And that threat is Hera.

A high ranking general of the New Republic pretty much told her civilian oversight to go fuck themselves, and disobeyed direct orders. We know Hera was right to do so. But here is the thing, Xiona has no way to know that with the information he has. (Yes, yes, he could stand to go out to the Outer Rim more. But really? He isn’t the only one guilty of that flaw. And even if he did, what proof would he find there was a coordinated effort between the Imperial factions? They went out of their way to make sure it didn’t look like they were working together.)

What Xiona does know? Is that Imperial Generals had no oversight except the Emperor. Who never reigned them in. So you have the New Republic, who acknowledges the need for a military force of some kind, but are wary of military power. Justifiably so, given galactic history of the last 40 years. So they needed accountability for their army, and make the Senate their oversight.

Then Hera comes along and tell them, essentially, “No, I know better,” and doing whatever the hell she wanted. And when she is brought back to the New Republic senate to justify herself, she tells them she did what she did for ‘the security of the New Republic’. 

And this is where Xiono is goddamn right to be riding Hera’s ass. Because that line of justification? Is exactly what Imperial Generals used to say when committing war crimes. Granted Hera didn’t do that. But she did get several X-Wing pilots killed, so her actions had some pretty permanent consequences. Hera feels those consequences, I have no doubt. But that doesn’t take away from the fact those pilots are dead because she chose to disobey direct orders. And gave a rousing speech in her defense that was very Imperial in tone.

Hindsight is 20/20, that is the only reason so many people have taken a great big dislike to Xiono. He isn’t an Imperial sympathizer. From what I’ve gleaned from his wookiepedia page, he isn’t even corrupt. No, he didn’t fight in the Rebellion, but there are a lot of people in SW that is true for. And just because he didn’t fight directly, doesn’t mean he didn’t do anything to help the Rebellion. He was just a guy, who was doing his best. And if it wasn’t for the fact that we know how this particular chapter of SW history ended, we probably wouldn’t be so hard on him. Cause in this case? He had a really good point.

He was so busy worrying about Ahsoka and avoiding a direct confrontation with her that he forgot to worry about Ezra.

Or he made the assumption that if Ezra or Sabine managed to get onboard they would have immediately sought him out and tried to wreck stuff or announced their presence somehow.

Thrawn thinks he got back to the proper galaxy undetected. He thinks Ahsoka, Sabine, etc. are all stranded (true for the most part) and can’t warn anyone of his return.

He has no idea Ezra got on board his ship. He doesn’t know Ezra made it to the New Republic and is able to warn them, ruining Thrawn’s element of surprise. Ezra might even be able to tell the New Republic that Thrawn went to Dathomir.

Once more, Ezra Bridger is going to fuck up all of Thrawn’s plans.

See the brilliant thing is. The thing is. Ahsoka has been in this situation before! Ahsoka responded to losing everyone she cared about all at once—to the genocide of the Jedi—by making a deal with the dark side to save the one (1) person close to her left that she had the power to help—Rex—and in doing so she unleashed Maul on the galaxy. If she'd made the no-attachments choice there she would have let Maul die instead of using him as a distraction, because her personal feelings shouldn't be more important than preventing all of the damage a Sith lord could cause. But instead she saved Rex because she needed to save SOMEONE she loved in the midst of the horror of Order 66—and I don't blame her. Who could? (Other than herself.)

She did the only thing she could, just like decades later Sabine would do the only thing she could. In a moment of love and grief and desperation, Ahsoka unleashed Maul on the galaxy, and in a moment of love and grief and desperation, Sabine unleashed Thrawn on the galaxy. I can't blame either of them. (Just to make sure people know this post isn't meant to hate on either of these characters who I love, lol.)

But if Sabine—a victim of Maul on a personal and cultural level from when she could barely walk—knew that, if she knew that Ahsoka had faced the choice that Sabine did now and failed and what the terrible consequences of that failure had been? Then maybe Sabine wouldn't have hesitated to destroy the map. Then maybe Baylan wouldn't have been able to exploit her fears and her grief and the rift of broken trust between her and Ahsoka to talk her into surrendering.

But she didn't. Because Ahsoka doesn't tell anyone anything about herself ever. She's had her trust betrayed too many times by so many people close to her, she's been hurt too many times by people who were supposed to have her back, she plays everything close to her chest, she puts up a mask and she doesn't trust anyone but herself—of course she doesn't. And of course Sabine—just as burned over her life by abandonment from people she thought would support her—feels that lack of trust.

Ahsoka asked Sabine if she could rely on her, and Sabine was hurt that she needed to ask at all—which is, of course, why she couldn't in the end. Baylan doesn't need to ask Shin if he can rely on her, it goes without question. He trusts her and she knows it.

Ahsoka's Padawan might have joined the long list of people close to her who have betrayed her at one point or another, but she's the first example where it was Ahsoka's trust issues in the first place that created a self-fulfilling prophecy.