I get that its intended as chapters, but conventionally, in literature anyway, chapters generally are still a complete story within themselves, with their own distinct intended takeaways or lessons from the story in said chapter and such. This is one of the reasons Ive fallen so much in love with the Sapkowski: The Witcher series of books. There is an overall story at play over the entirety of the series, but each book, and each chapter within, serves a incredibly vital world building component to the series. (ironically we just witnessed Netflix and Lauren Hisrich utterly butcher those into nonsensical oblivion as well)
Point being though that Im genuinely not sure what takeaways Im supposed to have absorbed from this 1st season of Ahsoka’s “story telling”.
What is the lesson here?
All I see so far is…
Sabines an absolutely HORRIBLE character who literally suffers no consequences for her incredibly selfish and horrifyingly detrimental actions on the galaxy…
Hera got two people who trusted her killed and its not even brought up 5 minutes after the fact…
Ahsokas lesson was apparently nothing more than “I want to live”…??
Idk.. I’m just having an incredibly hard time figuring out what purpose this show serves beyond being yet another Disney SW transition into more Disney SW mediocrity…
As for Bastards being a no-no thats gotta be a carryover from a much more authoritarian-esque time on the RPF, because thats just goddamn silly
My cold dead heart yearns for SW of old, but survives off the Memes of pathetic Disney SW today
Thanks for responding.
I really feel like I'm wasting my breath, because if I actually explain what I got from the two characters you mentioned, it won't change anyone's outlook on the show or any of the other things they just don't like, or somehow feel it's inferior to what they do, but since you asked, I'll oblige without going into any lore or "Well what happened was...".
Basically this entire series was about trust, in both themselves & each other. They were both damaged by past trauma that limited their ability to have the relationship they needed for the Master/Appreciate roles. Ahsoka walked away from the Order & Anakin, & both fell. There was unresolved guilt that IF she'd stayed, she could've presented Anakin from becoming Vader. It kept her from trusting herself & in a way, Sabine, so neither could achieve what was needed in Sabine's training. Yes, maybe that guilt gave Ahsoka the emotional baggage that made her reckless, but the encounter with Anakin in the WBW showed her none of it was her fault. He had the darkness that he gave into all the time. Before, she probably felt that she'd failed him & owed him, but when she had the opportunity to let Anakin get his 'revenge' for her leaving him, she realized she was wrong. It was all his decisions that led him to Vader, & the "I want to live" line was more an affirmation to herself. When she came back she was free to move on &, as she told Sabine in the last episode, "train your body, train your mind, but TRUST in the Force". Ahsoka herself is doing that now, & when she saw Morai, although everything other than Ezra going home looked like a defeat, she had the confirmation that she was EXACTLY where she needed to be.
Sabine's issues were the same as far as trust, but with wildly different origins. She had made bad decisions for the right reasons in the past & had suffered emotional damage after being betrayed, but much like in the show, her bad decisions were always too help someone else, so that was totally in character for her. She's always had a bit of darkness in her, but it seemed to be more of a Mandalorian mindset rather than blatantly evil. We're at the mercy of our teachers & because Ahsoka was broken, Sabine's training was never going to accomplish anything because there was never the level of trust from either of them. Once Ahsoka got her head on straight, she was able to help Sabine unlock her potential pretty quickly.
To me, that was the story of this season. Finding Ezra & Thrawn were the framing devices of the season that will have their payoff in later chapters of this big story. Much in the same way that Thanos was the overall threat of the MCU , yet he was never the main antagonist until the end, I see Thrawn in much the same way.
As for the no mention of the two dead pilots, you don't mourn on a mission, & all throughout SW, we've seen dozens of pilots & soldiers die, but we've only been shown celebrating of a victory afterwards, so that was a non-issue for me.
Sorry if I've went on to long, but I'm just sharing what I felt about it.
If anyone cares what my feelings are on Thrawn's actions, I'll be glad to share them as well, but it's only sharing. I'm not trying to convince anyone else to see their world through MY eyes.
