Star Wars Ahsoka (tv series)

[ScourgiousJinx]

I disagree. While I'm sure that initially he was doing a lot of the work himself, as time went on and real or strong Jedi became few and far between, he decided to delegate the work to the Inquisitors. They probably came about as Vader encountering young Jedi, padawans, or just Jedi who were morally flexible who didn't want to go down with the ship as it were. So they either willingly offered their services to Vader or Vader convinced them to join him. So now they chase down all of the stories and rumors of surviving Jedi and if they aren't too powerful, take care of them for Vader. This leaves him free to take on additional responsibilities on behalf of the Emperor, things like suppressing the Rebellion as it starts to gain momentum.

Of course and that leads into where he was in ANH. It's just that we haven't seen him do much of that work himself before delegating to the inquisitors or even along with them. So his reputation for being a terrifying and formidable Jedi killer doesn't seem to have a strong basis in live action. IMO.

Not everything needs to be demonstrated in live action but if they're going to use pre ANH Vader in new content (arguably a horrible idea in the first place) and he supposedly has that reputation then maybe show us that so that things make sense?

This is part of the reason that less is more because the more they expand on well loved OT characters the higher the probability for inconsistencies, altering lore, retcons and ruining characters. But thats an entirely different conversation.

 

[Kylash]

This is a show about space wizards that can heal a lightsaber wound by touchign their hand to it. I can look past super futuristic medical tech. The bigger problem is that it was played up as a suspending cliffhanger when it really wasnt.

 

[ScourgiousJinx]

Getting impaled through the midsection and surviving is ludicrous, in any universe. But at this point I think it's fair to say that Disney has established that that wound no longer means death in their content and they have no problem with being inconsistent with the past. So fine. They have to deal with the consequences of an audience that calls BS and doesn't buy into the drama and "suspense" of such scenes which will end upon hurting their content & pushing fans away.

 

[robstyle]

I don't have anything nice to say about both episodes so I won't say anything at all except crossed arms and girls making eye gesters at each other.

 

[Lightning]

Also, exactly how old is Balin, if he was a padewan who escaped the Skywalker Special from Anakin? Was he a 30-year old padewan when he escaped? Was he the Bluto Blutarsky of the padewan academy? He took an extra 12 years to graduate? Maybe I missed something

Did they say he was a Padawan at the end of the war, or that was just when he made his lightsaber? I don't remember the exact dialogue either.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

All the talk about the score, on every SW show.

I must be the oddity, I never even notice the background music.

Only two TV shows had soundtracks that really hit my ear and impacted what I was seeing:

- Star Trek
- Ronald Moore’s Battlestar Galactica (probably the best TV score work of the past decade or so)

All the rest seem to be background muzak to me.

I didn’t notice the Ahsoka score, myself.

 

[Riceball]

Getting impaled through the midsection and surviving is ludicrous, in any universe. But at this point I think it's fair to say that Disney has established that that wound no longer means death in their content and they have no problem with being inconsistent with the past. So fine. They have to deal with the consequences of an audience that calls BS and doesn't buy into the drama and "suspense" of such scenes which will end upon hurting their content & pushing fans away.

Why is it so hard to believe that someone could survive being impaled in the midsection? People have had much more traumatic wounds and have survived. There was someone from the 1800s or early 1900 that survived an iron rod going through their skull. Despite what you see in movies and TV, there are ton of places on the human body that you impale or shoot and not cause an instantly fatal wound. Modern medicine has progressed to the point that a gut wound is not fatal if you can get the victim stabilized and to a hospital in a timely manner. And this is with our medical capability, imagine what they could do with the level of tech available in the Star Wars universe., Don't mention that when they showed where here stab wound was in the hospital scene, it wasn't near any vital organs.

 

[nwjedidave]

Only two shows had soundtracks that really hit my ear and impacted what I was seeing:

- Star Trek
- Ronald Moore’s Battlestar Galactica (probably the best TV score work of the past
decade or so)

All the rest seem to be background muzak to me.

I didn’t notice the Ahsoka score, myself.

Totally agree that Bear McCreary's BSG soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks!

I kept waiting to hear a faint Imperial March a few times, but it never happened.

 

[Kylash]

Why is it so hard to believe that someone could survive being impaled in the midsection? People have had much more traumatic wounds and have survived. There was someone from the 1800s or early 1900 that survived an iron rod going through their skull. Despite what you see in movies and TV, there are ton of places on the human body that you impale or shoot and not cause an instantly fatal wound. Modern medicine has progressed to the point that a gut wound is not fatal if you can get the victim stabilized and to a hospital in a timely manner. And this is with our medical capability, imagine what they could do with the level of tech available in the Star Wars universe., Don't mention that when they showed where here stab wound was in the hospital scene, it wasn't near any vital organs.

Also people are acting like she was up and running around instantly. She was in a hospital bed almost the entire episode, get off it.

 

[janglesworthy]

Correct me if I'm wrong but a lightsaber stab is like a boolean subtraction. It deletes your body as it stabs through you vs a knife or sword that is slicing through you?

Second problem, what did her getting stabbed add to the plot? Nothing that I can think of. It felt like a cliffhanger gimmick to keep you watching episode 2.

 

[Kylash]

I believe it also cauterizes the wound, so its not like you're gonna bleed out. Given where she got stabbed on the right lower abdomen, worst case she lost some intestine. But I agree, it was cliffhanger bait.

 

[el toro]

To be fair... we only saw recovery not the actual healing process. The patch might have been the last step of the whole process.

Wait a minute. If you can suffer a lightsaber through the gut and survive, did obi wan give up on qui gonn too early? What about Han before he fell into that fiery pit and Chewbacca blew the place up?

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Wait a minute. If you can suffer a lightsaber through the gut and survive, did obi wan give up on qui gonn too early?

“Tis but a scratch…”

Clearly Liam Neeson is not the “one man army” that his dubious cinematic history these past 15 years has made him out to be.

And this Han Solo guy? Total wimp…

 

[Malibu139]

It is at least a 1 inch diameter wound made by something that’s so hot it’s capable of turning a blast door into a molten blast door.

It’s so hot it’s gotta be vaporizing everything it contacts. Arguably even hot enough to vaporize all internals.

Where she is run through looks higher rather than lower on her torso and her liver, kidney, parts of the colon, and small intestine are all in the viscinity.

However, I am personally willing to suspend disbelief a little on this matter cause it’s Rebels

 

[Jodo]

All the talk about the score, on every SW show.

I must be the oddity, I never even notice the background music.

I actually really liked the JJ Trek-esq. scene on the speeder bike’s song.

 

[Lightning]

Second problem, what did her getting stabbed add to the plot? Nothing that I can think of. It felt like a cliffhanger gimmick to keep you watching episode 2.

It establishes her skill level with a lightsaber, which will be needed for comparison later when she (obviously) fights her again.

 

[Kylash]

Wait a minute. If you can suffer a lightsaber through the gut and survive, did obi wan give up on qui gonn too early? What about Han before he fell into that fiery pit and Chewbacca blew the place up?

Context matters. Ahsoka was on the way to help Sabine so she got help quickly. QuiGon and Obi were deep inside a power facility. Han was inside First Order base that was being attacked. Clearly not going to get fast treatment in those later cases.

 

[Elevader]

It establishes her skill level with a lightsaber, which will be needed for comparison later when she (obviously) fights her again.

I think having her lose and be injured is fine. I just wish they didnt have her stabbed in the gut. Im confused as to why they keep using that when they can give me a good old fashioned limb removal instead.

 

[blewis17]

I had the same thought. We don't know how much time passed between the end of part one and the opening of part two.

Also, Luke was attacked by an animal and subsequently spent the night stuffed in the carcass of another animal. Infection could have been a complication for Luke that Sabine didn't face here. However much time passed, it is clear she got medical attention -- at some sort of well-established, presumably well-equipped hospital — not the GFFA equivalent of a MASH unit — very quickly, which Luke obviously did not.

In other words, Sabine recovering from this particular lightsaber stabbing bothered me much less than some of the other similar saber wounds we've seen. In fact, the only reason it really bothered me at all was the immediate thought of how it would set off some people.

SSB

We brought this up in another post as well... a light saber is NOT a fencing foil or rapier. Why a Sith would STAB someone and then SLIDE THE SABER BLADE OUT along the same path makes no sense. Once you stabbed your victim, you would slash the blade to the side and cut them in half.

 

[blewis17]

I don't have anything nice to say about both episodes so I won't say anything at all except crossed arms and girls making eye gesters at each other.

I did notice ALL the arm crossing. It gives them a "look" when listening to someone else. The 2 episodes definitely could stand for some tighter edits between shots. EVERYONE has a "pregnant pause" in this show.

Also, where is Jacen Syndulla, the son of General Hera Syndulla and the late Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus?