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OKAY time for a petty star wars rant:
(”aren’t all star wars rants petty?” Very funny, shut up.)
This really has no effect on the universe at all, or involvement in the machinations of reality itself, but I fucking hate live-action Ahsoka’s short-ass Lekkus.
In general, I feel like Ahsoka has been victim of some rare “glow-down” disease which afflicts her with increasing severity in each new iteration.
Just look at the GODESS we were robbed of during Rebels:
(I have problems with the rebels animation style in general-but that’s a rant for another time. ) We can debate to Tuesday and back about the validity of Vision!Ahsoka’s design- and whether or not she is purely a construct of Ahsoka’s imagination. Regardless of that fact, there are a few general inconsistencies in Rebels!Ahsoka’s design: Her bone-structure is narrower across the board, and the patterns on her Lekkus are completely different. The Lekkus are also missing the notch which can be seen on both Vision!Ahsoka and other adult Torgarutas, such as Shaak-ti. Speaking of Shrodinger’s Jedi, Let’s talk Live!Ahsoka.
The original concept art seems a lot closer to Vision!Ahsoka- long Lekkus and all... so what happened? It’s not like they’ve never done these things before:
According to concept designer Brian Matyas, The head-dress was with made movements and stunts in mind. Sure. Makes sense. HOWEVER. There are ways they could have done this without turning Ahsoka into Benjamin Button.
1- Attach the lekkus to the costume. I’d imagine this would be a realistic practice in-universe to assure they don’t get in the way. These longer pieces could be cut into increments and threaded throughout the costume, to give the impression that they were fastened into place, possibly along the opening of Ahsoka’s robe
Even rebels had a similar idea!!!!
2- just CGI the damn things. You’re telling me that you guys will de-age Mark Hammil’s face for EPISODES AT A TIME but you can’t be bothered to animate some Long Bois?? (I’d imagine some light weight mapping material could be, once again, attached to the costume.) Sounds like BS to me.
SO IN SUMMARY
Ahsoka is cool
Her Live action design is not.
Character inconsistencies really bother me.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.