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Literally so much of this makes so much sense and I love it.

Number 9 for the ask game! For both disneycanon and legends :)

9. worst part of canon

Man, this is a hard question to answer, mostly because there's so many things I could answer.

So I am assuming here that when you say "Legends" you actually just mean Lucas canon that existed pre Disney canon since "Legends" has never been and will never be canon in and of itself. If you were hoping to hear me speak about something that was ACTUALLY from Legends, I'm very sorry, but I'm not familiar enough with it and I don't think it works for the prompt anyway, so all of my answers are going to be from Disney Canon or Lucas Canon.

Some of these will land more in the realm of "the concept is fine/good, the execution was bad" and some will be more "the concept in and of itself is awful regardless of whether it was executed well or not."

In the Ahsoka show, the concept of Ahsoka facing her past with Anakin and how that's impacted who she's become is a great idea and it's really the only way to move her character forward, but the execution of it was so badly done that I wish it had never happened and we'd just never seen Ahsoka again or ever learned what she felt about Anakin. I've spoken enough about this show for anyone more familiar with me to know why I feel that way. If you haven't read my posts about it and want to hear more of them, you can search under the tags "ahsoka show" and "anti ahsoka show."

Turning the Darksaber into Mandalorian Excalibur is, perhaps controversially, a bad concept. It's introduced in the hands of a Mandalorian, sure, but it's also introduced specifically as a stolen Jedi relic. And between those two things, somehow the fact that it was in the hands of a Mandalorian got considered the more important part of it rather than the fact that it was a JEDI relic that got stolen from them.

And unfortunately turning the Darksaber into Mandalorian Excalibur has made the Mandos even more boring than they already were. It forces everything that was established about them in TCW to be basically erased and ignored. The whole aspect of them having a government of any kind, having a Council and a Prime Minister, is gone, and leaders are chosen by who can wield a stolen relic real good (or, more accurately, who can wield a DIFFERENT WEAPON well enough to defeat the person who IS wielding the stolen relic) rather than chosen more democratically by the people themselves.

The Darksaber also just isn't even being used very well in the narrative. It got handed to Sabine and we went through an entire lovely arc for her to earn it both the Jedi way and the Mandalorian way only for her to hand it off the very next season to someone who hadn't earned it at all. Then that person loses it and it somehow ends up in the hands of Din Djarin who seems to START an arc about earning it only for that to just get completely dropped so he can hand it right back to the same person Sabine handed it to last time and then it gets destroyed a few episodes later. There's not been any point to the Darksaber at all since it first showed up in Pre Viszla's hands in TCW. It should've stayed a fancy-looking stolen Jedi relic (and arguably should've just been handed back to the Jedi) if they weren't going to do a single interesting thing with any of the Mandos who ended up with it.

Moving on from the Darksaber, and looking at the Sequels, I think killing off all of Luke's Jedi students and destroying Leia's New Republic was a terrible terrible idea as a concept. I understand the idea of like... "Darkness always comes back, the fight is never completely over" but destroying ALL OF THE PROGRESS made in the last trilogy by the main characters just to force the new characters to do the exact same thing all over again is stupid. There are ways to do "darkness always comes back" as a theme without making Luke, Leia, and Han's arcs completely irrelevant. It doesn't feel hopeful by the end anymore, it just feels a little pointless because if everything is always going to be destroyed over and over again then why try to build anything at all? What's the fucking point of it all if none of the triumphs last long enough to mean anything?

And adding onto that, making the New Republic completely incompetent and also so horrible that they're basically the Empire in all but name feels equally frustrating as a concept because now not only were they destroyed before anything meaningful could be done with them, but it's not even a bad thing that they were destroyed because Leia failed long before Starkiller blew up those five planets. The New Republic was a failure from the moment of its inception because it's just filled with and run by cowards and greedy assholes who won't help anyone or do anything useful at all apparently.

I won't touch on R*ylo much because plenty of other people have, but everything about that was awful and it never should've been made canon.

While we're on romantic failures, I don't think Obi-Wan has ever needed a romantic interest, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be done well. But Obitine just wasn't it. Obitine was executed so incredibly poorly that it just made both characters radically less interesting and if I didn't already enjoy Obi-Wan as a character, his relationship with Satine would probably turn me off of Obi-Wan entirely given that he's literally a sexist asshole to her. Obitine never should've happened and if they HAD to do it, they should've gotten better writers to handle it so that it didn't ruin a beloved character as a result.

I'm sure there's more I could complain about, but that's what's coming to mind right now.

What I got out of the last episode of the mandalorian

Stormtroopers can not fucking shoot

*IG starts a mass murder*

Baby yoda- :)

Cara protecting her bestfriend

Baby yodas a fire bender convince me I’m wrong

WE GOT TO SEE HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE ( even though the hole fandom knows what he looks like 😂)

Dadalorian is canon I love it

He believes baby yoda is a magician

Mando go a jet pack nice nice very nice

I fucking love this so much

IM FUCKING SHOOK

That’s all folks (even though there would be a lot more but in detail)

If Kanan Jarrus isn’t a Mandalorian, then explain this:

When Darth Vader hits Kanan’s pauldron with his lightsaber, it doesn’t damage the material, it just strips the paint off of it. From just this info alone, it seems like Kanan’s pauldron is made of Beskar.

Every other material looks roughly like this when a lightsaber strikes it with that amount of pressure (I couldn’t find a picture of that scene from Rebels where Ahsoka was touching the marks left by fifth brother’s lightsaber):

But Kanan’s pauldron isn’t indented where the lightsaber struck it, it’s pretty smooth and even as you can see down below:

We know that beskar is lightsaber-proof from the Mandalorian

So is it a stretch to speculate that Kanan’s season 1/2 armor is beskar?

I personally think that his eye covering in season 3/4 is made from beaker as well, possibly even made from his season 1/2 armor.

What’s crazy about the eye covering is that it has Jaig Eyes painted on it. Jaig eyes were a Mandalorian symbol of honor worn by warriors. Why would Kanan appropriate Mandalorian culture?

Also, Kanan knew to ask Fenn Rau about the Darksaber. Maybe he didn’t know exactly what it was or the story behind it, but he knew it was a lightsaber, and a Mandalorian one at that.

Seeing as Kanan was taken into the order as a toddler, it’s impossible to know where he was originally from or who his parents are. I couldn’t find anything that indicated Kanan’s home planet. I think it’s possible that he was a Mandalorian by blood but now we‘ll never know.

I was rewatching the lightsaber duel between Sabine Wren and Gar Saxon...and I think Sabine may be Force sensitive...

If you watch the scene, you can hear the Force Suite a couple of times during the duel in addition to Sabine’s theme.

It plays when she’s dodging Saxon’s particularly fast and hard swings and then blocks his hit with Ezra’s lightsaber, and then when she decides to let Saxon live after she wins. It actually plays as she says “That may be the Mandalorian way, but it’s not my way” as she proceeds to do the most Jedi thing ever by letting her enemy live.

Not to mention during the Trial of the Darksaber when she beat Kanan in a mock duel. Did he let her win? Maybe. Was he distracted because he was paying more attention to her words rather than her actions? Possibly. Was it harder for him to keep up because he was distracted on top of being blind? Not likely, but possible. I think she genuinely won because Kanan seemed kinda shocked and overwhelmed.

When he was talking with Hera before the duel about why they were using wooden sticks instead of the real deal, and Hera thought it was because Sabine couldn’t use the Force, Kanan said “the Force resides in all living things, but you have to be open to it. Sabine is blocked.” Maybe, when she was being so open about her past and letting her feelings guide her, she because attuned to the Force, and was able to beat Kanan. Maybe that’s why he was shocked and overwhelmed.

I also think it’s interesting how often Ezra lets Sabine use his lightsaber. He clearly trusts her and her ability to use it. When he decided to give in to Thrawn’s demands in the Rebels finale, he gave his lightsaber to Chopper, who then gave it to Sabine when they were escaping the Imperial Dome. Sabine had Ezra’s lightsaber in her possession throughout the time he was missing. Maybe Chopper gave it to her because he recorded Ezra’s message to her and the rest of the Ghost Crew and he knew what Ezra meant by “I’m counting on you.” Maybe Ezra trusts her to find him with the Force. He wanted Ahsoka to find him, but did he know that they would be teaming up to find him together? Probably not...

In the Rebels finale epilogue, when Sabine is riding her speeder from the communications tower to her meeting spot with Ahsoka, two Loth Wolves follow her for a short time before letting her go on. Kanan had previously said that they were very attuned to the Force as beings, which is why I think the wolves following her is significant.

Additionally, when Sabine is walking towards Ahsoka, the Force Suite plays again. Whether that’s because Ahsoka is there or not is debatable. However, I think it symbolizes and foreshadows how Sabine and Ahsoka are going to find Ezra using the Force. It plays as Sabine is talking about her personal mission to find Ezra.

It is also interesting how Sabine is House Vizsla, meaning she is descended from Tarre Vizsla, the only known Mandalorian Jedi. Sure, many Mandalorians are House Vizsla, but I think Sabine is different. There is genuine evidence that points to her being force sensitive. Perhaps that’s why the Darksaber found its way to her. If she was the only other force sensitive Mandalorian in Tarre Vizsla’s line, then it should rightfully belong to her and she should be his true successor. That might be why Bo-Katan lost the Darksaber after Rebels and then failed to earn it in the Mandalorian season 2 finale. If it is meant for Sabine, then it might try to make its way back to her via Din Djarin (and maybe it chose him because he has no desire to become the Mand’alor or rule Mandalore).

I really do think she’s force sensitive and I hope it’s shown in the Ahsoka series. Thank you for reading if you’ve come this far. I’d love additional thoughts/feedback! :)

Sabine Wren: *brand new vambrace gets damaged by the darksaber during training*

Din Djarin: *laughs in pure beskar*

i really thought din was gonna lose the darksaber when he bag checked it

“YOU LOST AN ANCIENT RELIC ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION??”

it's a busy busy time but I did manage to bang out this one prompt for @sabineweek

I want Korkie to hold the Darksaber at one point (grabbing it to hand it to Bo before she lost it?) and he suddenly sees Dead Mand'alor'e

THE MANDALORIAN | Chapter 16: The Rescue

The subtext of Din Djarin, Mand’alor riding a ship that has emotional significance for both of Luke’s parents is to much for my heart. (And they are possible future coparents of a violent green Jedi baby)

The Sith Code

@swsource​ one year celebration: Day 4 - Music (insp + insp)

↳ Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown