*muffled screaming*
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hafitalIt's wild being a Star Wars fan. I mean, you got a story told completely out of order, spanning literal decades both in universe AND in real life, both animation and live action criss crossing all over each other, and the convenience of space magic force shenanigans to make it all work. What more could I want? lol.
I started the AHSOKA series with slight trepidation only because I love her so much that I wasn't certain how to cope with a live action version of her (for more than a random episode here and there) that was always going to be out of sync from the animated version. I could deal with live action Obi-Wan vs Animated Obi-Wan and live action Anakin vs animated Anakin because they started out live action and it had been years of living with the two different versions of the characters, but there was only ever animated Ahsoka for so long and she is perfect just as she was.
Anyways...it's not in my nature to resist new canon so I was willing to accept the live action Ahsoka, and super excited for Sabine Wren and Hera and all Star Wars Rebels characters. And CHOPPER! Who, don't tell R2, is my favorite astromech droid.
~ In accepting live action Ahsoka, it helps that the series is set long after the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Ahsoka was already quite different in Rebels than she was in Clone Wars, and live action Ahsoka is more an outgrowth of the mature, less snippy, older Ahsoka from Rebels.
~ I LOVED seeing Lothal in the series! I love that planet, it's so gorgeous. And the lothcats! Wish we could see a lothwolf.
~ Oh HEY, look at live action Jai Kell. Also he's played by Vinny Thomas!!!! Do you know how many times I've watched Vinny's Earth applies for Galactic Federation video? Countless times. WATCH IT. he's adorable.
~ So far, well, it's a given that I will love Ahsoka Tano in any version even if she doesn't sound like Ashley Eckstein, but my favorite animated to live action character in the series is Sabine Wren. I love her so much!
~ There's some star wars fan grumblings I think on the interwebs about Ahsoka training Sabine as a Jedi when she has no (or almost no) force abilities but I for one am LOVING EVERY GODDAMN SECOND OF IT AND I NEED AND WANT MORE OF THEM TOGETHER HELP. I can understand the grumblings though, because it's all jedi stuff and force stuff and there's always grumblings about that sort of thing.
~ I love Ahsoka's hesitancy and uncertainty and she's acting as if she's not making some of her choices from a place of fear but she definitely is and that's so jedi of her, that I love her even more. To be a jedi is more of a path more than a destination, you know, it's always a journey, you're always having to strive for it, it's never given, and sometimes you go backwards before you can go forwards, or even worse you stagnate, which seems to be what Ahsoka needed to work through in this series, and I love that. I love everything about it.
~ Saying that, the series so far through ep 4 has been mostly just humming along. We learn Morgan Elsbeth is a Night Witch which is cool, and I'm loving the twisted version of Master and Apprentice we get with Balor and Shin (RAY! sob) as foils for both Ahsoka and Sabine and Anakin and Ahsoka (and also, Kanan and Ezra, and Obi-Wan and Anakin). And THEN we get to episode 5.
~ Perhaps you heard my muffled screaming. I thought I was prepared for flashbacks but I was WRONG. Also, they weren't flashbacks but more like flashback visions. But, I don't think I realized we were going to get live action Clone Wars teenager 14 year old Ahsoka but we DID and she was PERFECT. And heck, we also got Siege of Mandalore Ahsoka! Fighting against Maul's mandalorian fighters! AAHHHH. AND THEN, just one brief scene with Ahsoka and Captain Rex and I died.
~ ETA: second to loving live action Sabine Wren the most, whoever they cast as young Ahsoka from the clone wars was absolutely perfect. Better than Rosario, who, to be fair, is doing a great job, but young Ahsoka is the Ahsoka we know the best and seeing a live action version of young Ahsoka being perfectly in character in voice and mannerisms and fighting style and everything had me in tears.
~ And gosh darn it if Hayden wasn't fantastic as Anakin. He was great as Vader in the Obi-Wan Series, but he got to be Clone Wars General Anakin Skywalker in this episode and I am so thrilled and so relieved and its as if this performance can go back in time and retroactively fix the mess that is the prequels. Okay maybe nothing can do that, but it was always difficult to reconcile Animated Anakin from the Clone Wars with Anakin from the prequels. The animated version was supposed to exist between AotC and RotS and the characterization was so far apart and difficult to reconcile. They're just practically two different characters entirely. But seeing Hayden as Anakin portraying Anakin from the Clone Wars interacting with Ahsoka, shifting easily from General Anakin to freshly evil Sith RotS Anakin with the glowing eyes to Vader and back to Anakin was just...I didn't think we would ever get it. I didn't think it was possible. I thought we would only get like a force ghost scene with a long dead Anakin speaking to a full grown Ahsoka. I thought maybe there would be a flashback to the clone wars but I didn't know it would be THIS.
~ Also holy heck did I love Anakin's silhouette sliding to Vader's silhouette, and the signal of the lightsabers going from blue to red. Yesh. A great visual to go with Ahsoka's struggle to come to terms with who her master was and what that means for her as his apprentice and, like Anakin said, how it finished her training. I take this to mean, she's a full on Jedi Knight now, even if she might not say it (and even if she was always that already).
~ I could probably ramble on for longer, but last note -- i would die for Jacen Syndulla, son of Kanan Jarrus, Jedi Knight.
I started the AHSOKA series with slight trepidation only because I love her so much that I wasn't certain how to cope with a live action version of her (for more than a random episode here and there) that was always going to be out of sync from the animated version. I could deal with live action Obi-Wan vs Animated Obi-Wan and live action Anakin vs animated Anakin because they started out live action and it had been years of living with the two different versions of the characters, but there was only ever animated Ahsoka for so long and she is perfect just as she was.
Anyways...it's not in my nature to resist new canon so I was willing to accept the live action Ahsoka, and super excited for Sabine Wren and Hera and all Star Wars Rebels characters. And CHOPPER! Who, don't tell R2, is my favorite astromech droid.
~ In accepting live action Ahsoka, it helps that the series is set long after the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Ahsoka was already quite different in Rebels than she was in Clone Wars, and live action Ahsoka is more an outgrowth of the mature, less snippy, older Ahsoka from Rebels.
~ I LOVED seeing Lothal in the series! I love that planet, it's so gorgeous. And the lothcats! Wish we could see a lothwolf.
~ Oh HEY, look at live action Jai Kell. Also he's played by Vinny Thomas!!!! Do you know how many times I've watched Vinny's Earth applies for Galactic Federation video? Countless times. WATCH IT. he's adorable.
~ So far, well, it's a given that I will love Ahsoka Tano in any version even if she doesn't sound like Ashley Eckstein, but my favorite animated to live action character in the series is Sabine Wren. I love her so much!
~ There's some star wars fan grumblings I think on the interwebs about Ahsoka training Sabine as a Jedi when she has no (or almost no) force abilities but I for one am LOVING EVERY GODDAMN SECOND OF IT AND I NEED AND WANT MORE OF THEM TOGETHER HELP. I can understand the grumblings though, because it's all jedi stuff and force stuff and there's always grumblings about that sort of thing.
~ I love Ahsoka's hesitancy and uncertainty and she's acting as if she's not making some of her choices from a place of fear but she definitely is and that's so jedi of her, that I love her even more. To be a jedi is more of a path more than a destination, you know, it's always a journey, you're always having to strive for it, it's never given, and sometimes you go backwards before you can go forwards, or even worse you stagnate, which seems to be what Ahsoka needed to work through in this series, and I love that. I love everything about it.
~ Saying that, the series so far through ep 4 has been mostly just humming along. We learn Morgan Elsbeth is a Night Witch which is cool, and I'm loving the twisted version of Master and Apprentice we get with Balor and Shin (RAY! sob) as foils for both Ahsoka and Sabine and Anakin and Ahsoka (and also, Kanan and Ezra, and Obi-Wan and Anakin). And THEN we get to episode 5.
~ Perhaps you heard my muffled screaming. I thought I was prepared for flashbacks but I was WRONG. Also, they weren't flashbacks but more like flashback visions. But, I don't think I realized we were going to get live action Clone Wars teenager 14 year old Ahsoka but we DID and she was PERFECT. And heck, we also got Siege of Mandalore Ahsoka! Fighting against Maul's mandalorian fighters! AAHHHH. AND THEN, just one brief scene with Ahsoka and Captain Rex and I died.
~ ETA: second to loving live action Sabine Wren the most, whoever they cast as young Ahsoka from the clone wars was absolutely perfect. Better than Rosario, who, to be fair, is doing a great job, but young Ahsoka is the Ahsoka we know the best and seeing a live action version of young Ahsoka being perfectly in character in voice and mannerisms and fighting style and everything had me in tears.
~ And gosh darn it if Hayden wasn't fantastic as Anakin. He was great as Vader in the Obi-Wan Series, but he got to be Clone Wars General Anakin Skywalker in this episode and I am so thrilled and so relieved and its as if this performance can go back in time and retroactively fix the mess that is the prequels. Okay maybe nothing can do that, but it was always difficult to reconcile Animated Anakin from the Clone Wars with Anakin from the prequels. The animated version was supposed to exist between AotC and RotS and the characterization was so far apart and difficult to reconcile. They're just practically two different characters entirely. But seeing Hayden as Anakin portraying Anakin from the Clone Wars interacting with Ahsoka, shifting easily from General Anakin to freshly evil Sith RotS Anakin with the glowing eyes to Vader and back to Anakin was just...I didn't think we would ever get it. I didn't think it was possible. I thought we would only get like a force ghost scene with a long dead Anakin speaking to a full grown Ahsoka. I thought maybe there would be a flashback to the clone wars but I didn't know it would be THIS.
~ Also holy heck did I love Anakin's silhouette sliding to Vader's silhouette, and the signal of the lightsabers going from blue to red. Yesh. A great visual to go with Ahsoka's struggle to come to terms with who her master was and what that means for her as his apprentice and, like Anakin said, how it finished her training. I take this to mean, she's a full on Jedi Knight now, even if she might not say it (and even if she was always that already).
~ I could probably ramble on for longer, but last note -- i would die for Jacen Syndulla, son of Kanan Jarrus, Jedi Knight.
