#Ahsoka Episode 7

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slim jewel
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It's dropped

slim jewel
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Well that went pretty much as expected

swift widget
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Ok, the court thing went easy

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And you're telling me they just knew to bring a giant amount of mines.

exotic flume
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They could've built some, but that begs the question of what else is going on in this galaxy, industrially.

ionic gorge
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it's funny, I was just coming here to say "not to be excessively nitpicky, but that needs a lot of mines

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but, minor nitpicks aside, I enjoyed that. It seems to leave a lot to resolve, but whatevs

crimson tapir
slim jewel
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The only problem with this show is that it's all very clear set up that's undoing the finale of Rebels

ionic gorge
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oh, it's for sure setting up an heir to the empire series of shows//movies

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like, really blatantly

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I assume blondy jedi lady will play the part of Mara Jade (if she survives)

slim jewel
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Hati?

ionic gorge
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look, I do not know the name at all

slim jewel
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That's fair

crimson tapir
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Well, the character Assasination of Thrawn continues

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I'm not surprised that this is how this was gonna go, but somehow it's still more upsetting when it's Thrawn of all people

slim jewel
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I've only ever known him as a massive dweeb

crimson tapir
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I mean, it's possible he already got ruined in rebels, I didn't watch that

slim jewel
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He and Moff Gideon really put the Weeb in Dweeb

crimson tapir
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Here's an interesting question though - everyone's insisting that Baylan is a mercenary. The show wants us to believe he's not a Sith, but a beige jedi or something. So why does Thrawn randomly refer to him as "Lord"? (Is it the same reason he calls his troop transports 'gunships', a critical lack of script supervision? Or will we have 7000 youtube videos explaining the significance of the top 10 theories by friday? ) Kappa

slim jewel
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I think he's being called Mercenary because he simply has no actual loyalty to the Empire. He'll work for them for money and whatever else he wants, but not because he believes in it

crimson tapir
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No I get the mercenary part

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but then why refer to him as "Lord Baylan"?

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that makes sense for a Sith, or maybe an actual noble, but Baylan is neither and never was

slim jewel
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Respect for his abilities? Maybe he's royalty somewhere

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Dang it, I did it again.

crimson tapir
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I mean, he calls him "lord baylan" in a scene where he's actively questioning his abilities

slim jewel
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Maybe he did it just to be an ass then

crimson tapir
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like, the answer is "no one working on the script cared enough to notice, cause he has a red lightsaber, of course he's called 'lord', all the other lightsaber badguys are"

slim jewel
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Probably. I really need to remember to just not question anything about Star Wars. It's easier that way

ionic gorge
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I mean, he can just have given himself a title

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you don't need to know the life story of every verb or noun in the script

slim jewel
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Not as if anyone can stop him

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And it's not as if Lucas was any better for writing names just cause he thought they sounded cool

crimson tapir
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Sure, maybe Thrawn decided to rename his troop transports "gunships" as a joke, and maybe Baylan claimed the title and never told anyone else about it. Maybe Thrawn got stranded her and found a Rakata mine-factory. By themselves these are all nit picks. In aggregate, they just make me feel like the people writing this didn't feel the need to try very hard, and that's not a feeling I like to have.

ionic gorge
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Gunship is a perfectly cromulent term for them - it's the same as 'helicopter gunship', right?

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it's a troop transport with some guns on it

slim jewel
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And it does kinda look like the TIE version of the Republic Clone Gunships

quaint viper
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One episode left?

slim jewel
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Aye

quaint viper
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In which Thrawn returns to the previous galaxy victorious and our heroes are left behind and are never heard of again.

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I assume.

crimson tapir
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Smash cut to thrawn at the end of Ep 8, with his special hyperdrive destroyed and him still stranded, coping about how in the grand scheme of things he still won Kappa

quaint viper
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there's a trope for that!

slim jewel
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So either Ahsoka and crew are getting captured and dragged along back to the Main Galaxy, or Star Whales Return

crimson tapir
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I mean, I'm almost expecting Baylan to come in with a steel chair at the last moment

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either that or the series ends on a cliffhanger Kappa

slim jewel
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I have no idea what they're going to do with Baelan

crimson tapir
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Like, I fully expect him to have been a 'good guy' all along, but only revealing it after finding some obscure artifact that could briefly be seen in S19E341 of the clone wars

quaint viper
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Another actor pops up and says "It's me, Baylan, the explosion rearranged my body!"

slim jewel
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They're either just gonna fully drop him, or they're gonna have to recast. Leaving him in the Galaxy Far, Far Away seems like a fine way to handle him, after giving some kind of hint at what he's doing. Maybe he ends up needing a Vader Helmet that changes his voice

quaint viper
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Speaking of, as someone else pointed out, the opening with the moving lights? All they have for notable sillouettes is bad guy helmet and droid heads...

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although they do ahve some notable races they could easily throw in there

crimson tapir
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But aliens are only allowed to be fodder or comic relief

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unless they're a blorbo

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I would love if Ahsoka spawned more shows with aliens in prominent roles

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but considering she's the blorboest of all blorbos, I'm not sweating it

slim jewel
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It has been nice to have an alien as the lead in Star Wars for once

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...I just noticed Disney has the WOTC problem. Where despite all the non-human species that could play a leading role, they still have humans front and center, probably because "Marketing"

crimson tapir
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and also most aliens straight up die

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like, the rebel pilots straight up wizened up to this and brought an ablative Rhodian pilot on their rogue mission, so when an x-wing explodes to briefly imply stakes, it won't hit anyone with a speaking role

slim jewel
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Non-Humans: the Red Shirts of Star Wars

crimson tapir
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at least George Lucas had the decency to offscreen many bothans Kappa

grizzled surge
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So was Thrawn always this much of an idiot? This is my first time seeing him.

slim jewel
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Thrawn is the Elon Musk of Star Wars

swift widget
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Their lightsabers don't seem truly "red" to me, they seem more of a burnt orange.

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heady pine
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like, IANAL, but if you're accusing someone of doing something for "personal gain" shouldn't you have to demonstrate said personal gain? This still could've been a movie

arctic ether
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I read the C-3PO cameo more as a way to say "by the way we didn't forget about your heroes, and they aren't caught up in the latest stupid." Because one of the common refrains about the New Republic being incompetent is "our heroes would never stand for this", and they clearly won't. The whole plotline seems weak because we already understand the New Republic is bad at this, and we're spinning our wheels, but the C-3PO but was at least new information.

austere trench
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I think conceptually, that idea of a group of rebels storming the capital, overthrowing the evil dictator and not knowing where to go from there is a very fun concept. With that said I think Star Wars in general handles both in and out of universe politics poorly and struggled to portray the story’s stakes. (With the exception of Andor)

frail pawn
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I like that Thrawn, at the end of the episode, basically points out that this entire episode was basically just everyone spinning their wheels.