Ahsoka - SPOILERS

[Zardnaar]

Liked this episode its probably the one of the weaker ones but still good. We just had 3 very strong episodes in a row.

Unless they flub the ending it might overtake Mando S2. If they flub the ending it will go hang out around Andor or Mando S1 depending on the severity.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Hera didn’t aid the enemy you say?

So she ordered Ahsoka to not go to the planet with Sabine, as per the orders she was given, and then enforced those orders?

Sorry but those were lawful (if stupid) orders. Generals don’t get to disobey those without consequences. And the pilots that went with her? They should also be in jail.

Sorry. I said treason. The proper charge I suppose would be mutiny. Either way.

Btw I said difficult decisions not good decisions. There is a difference. Sabine had no immediate reason to tell Ezra the whole truth. And many (bad) personal reasons for not doing so.

That's certainly how the Empire operated. But the New Republic was built by people who disobeyed orders, wouldn't exist without mutineers and serial disobeyers.

The New Republic wins with leaders who say "send the Light Brigade into the Valley of Death? That's stupid, I'm sending the Heavy Brigade instead."

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Umm. It’s been ten years. It’s not like the Empire fell yesterday.

More like five years. Ezra and Thrawn where Purrgiled just before Rogue One. Return of the Jedi was about five years later. They aren't doing too badly for rebuilding an interplanetary government that originally took thousands of years to build.

Look at Iraq and Afghanistan. How well was rebuilding their governments going after 5 years?

 

[delericho]

For what it is worth Hera bringing Jacen to a gunfight is not that different than the Enterprise or Orville bringing children to gunfights. The ship is sort of their house. We do not even know if Cham Syndulla is still alive, who would be Jacen's only other known relative.

Plus, it's Star Wars. You must never, ever leave your child with anyone else, because they will get abducted.

 

[Zardnaar]

Plus, it's Star Wars. You must never, ever leave your child with anyone else, because they will get abducted.

Applies to D&D as well.

 

[Maxperson]

Btw I said difficult decisions not good decisions. There is a difference. Sabine had no immediate reason to tell Ezra the whole truth. And many (bad) personal reasons for not doing so.

Yes, I ignored the moved goalposts. The person I was responding to said good decisions and bad decisions. Difficult isn't a requirement for either my responses or the point being made in the Mary Sue post.

 

[pukunui]

I think my main issue with this show as a Rebels sequel is pacing. Since Rebels was aimed primarily at kids, it was fast paced and action packed. The first season consisted of fifteen 24-minute episodes. I'm going to guess that's roughly the same amount of screen time as Ahsoka's eight episodes will be, and yet Rebels packs so much more into that runtime. (It's second and third seasons had 22 episodes each, while its fourth when back to fifteen.) Ahsoka just feels so slow in comparison.

 

[Morrus]

I’m predicting that Ezra dies next week or early in the movie. Really disappointed as he acted like he was a character in a nick at night super hero show instead of the confident kid from rebels

The big cameo was awesome and space fights were good but the lightsaber fights were slow and not as good as movies or movies that have sword fights

I, conversely, love these lightsaber fights. They look like sword fights. No random unnecessary spins and flips or weak wavering poses, just strong stances and strikes.

 

[Hussar]

That's certainly how the Empire operated. But the New Republic was built by people who disobeyed orders, wouldn't exist without mutineers and serial disobeyers.

The New Republic wins with leaders who say "send the Light Brigade into the Valley of Death? That's stupid, I'm sending the Heavy Brigade instead.

Not quite the same thing. Again, you've got a general who disobeys a direct order, takes several other pilots with her, brings her own child into a potential battlezone, gets several of those pilots killed as a direct result of her disobeying orders and we're calling this good decision making? The Enterprise and the Orville were not military ships. That whole "peaceful mission" thing.

But, yeah, it's okay because the good guys did it.

OTOH, the way they handled Hera is just as incompetent as anything else the New Republic does, so, it is in keeping there.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not quite the same thing. Again, you've got a general who disobeys a direct order, takes several other pilots with her, brings her own child into a potential battlezone, gets several of those pilots killed as a direct result of her disobeying orders and we're calling this good decision making?

Damn right I do. And it was the whole point of the Rebellion in the first place. If these people blindly followed orders they would still be Imperial.