Rebels

Hmm... I can say "Yay, Ahsoka's back" and I'm not sure anyone here really would know or care...

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  1. kyn_elwynnMarch 4, 2015 at 1:11 PM

    Did anyone actually like her?

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  2. marinredwolfMarch 4, 2015 at 3:37 PM

    Yeeees? Not so much in the movie, but I would not be alone in arguing she turned out to be perhaps the best thing to come out of the Clone Wars series.

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  3. kyn_elwynnMarch 5, 2015 at 1:07 PM

    I will grant I didn't see past the season where they first on-screen had interactions with Mandalorians (Season 2? 3?) due to my disgust in how they made a race of warriors have such whiny, back-biting, snivelling politico individuals in their ranks. <.<; Ahsoka never stuck with me as being a character I gave a damn about, knowing the development of Anakin in advance (at some point, this whiny boy is going to be a Darth and there'll be no more Jedi), yeah, I sort of relegated her to being cannon fodder to simply die off at some point.

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  4. marinredwolfMarch 5, 2015 at 2:20 PM

    She really ended up being, in my mind, the heart of what was good in the show. Anakin's arc was a foregone conclusion (though the series helped flesh that out a little bit more, there's only so much you can do without contradicting the radical slide in RotS). Ahsoka was someone who actually could develop and grow. And she becomes someone informed by Anakin's action-oriented approach, but who maintains her morality faced with all the darkness of the period. And in the end, she may be the best example I can name of a (pre-Disney) canon Force-user who can be good/light without being Jedi - someone who sees that, at least outside the Force, the world is very shades-of-grey, and the Jedi Order of the time was absolutely terrible at dealing with that. And now in the "new" continuity, she's been established as someone helping to organize the incipient Rebellion. How that works out longer-term, we'll have to see.

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