Ahsoka - SPOILERS

[A2Z]

I definitely don’t disagree - I loved all those (need to watch some more Bad Batch) and Ahsoka has been one of my favourite characters - but I suspect Disney thinks live action is more lucrative in some way. It’s certainly more expensive.

One thing that’s a bit sad about the transition to live action is that you get different actors, who are great but feel like quite different people. I’d be happy to see Tiya Sircar and Ashley Eckstein reprise their roles. Of course, this doesn’t affect some people (hey, Clancy Brown and Katee Sackhoff) but it can be weird even if it’s the same actor (Lars Mikkelsen is great but he looks a little too much like Elon Musk these days).

Yeah, I don't really like Dawson as Ahsoka. She's a great actress, but I just see her on screen, not Ahsoka.

 

[jian]

I guess there’s Tales of the Jedi/Empire, which have been amazing (and the last time Eckstein played Ahsoka).

 

[Zardnaar]

Yeah, I don't really like Dawson as Ahsoka. She's a great actress, but I just see her on screen, not Ahsoka.

I thought she did alright.

Typical Disney problem of sidelining the main character in her own show though.

 

[jian]

I thought she did alright.

Typical Disney problem of sidelining the main character in her own show though.

I think the main issue is that she’s mostly been playing a completely different character from animated Ahsoka (withdrawn, distant, contemplative; classic Jedi, which Ahsoka never was even when she was Fulcrum) and took a little while to get her groove back as the more sassy, proactive character we all know and love.

 

[Zardnaar]

I think the main issue is that she’s mostly been playing a completely different character from animated Ahsoka (withdrawn, distant, contemplative; classic Jedi, which Ahsoka never was even when she was Fulcrum) and took a little while to get her groove back as the more sassy, proactive character we all know and love.

That to. On rewatch few things wrong with Ahsoka but it lacks the hig problems of BoBF/Acolyte/Obi Wan.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I think the main issue is that she’s mostly been playing a completely different character from animated Ahsoka (withdrawn, distant, contemplative; classic Jedi, which Ahsoka never was even when she was Fulcrum) and took a little while to get her groove back as the more sassy, proactive character we all know and love.

Maybe, but we have no idea what Ahsoka went through during the original trilogy or the first few years after, so all sorts of stuff could have caused the personality change.

 

[Hussar]

I think the main issue is that she’s mostly been playing a completely different character from animated Ahsoka (withdrawn, distant, contemplative; classic Jedi, which Ahsoka never was even when she was Fulcrum) and took a little while to get her groove back as the more sassy, proactive character we all know and love.

Something to remember though is some of us are not hugely steeped in Star Wars lore. I never saw any of the animated Star Wars until much later. So, for me, this Ahsoka is the standard. Well, the one first introduced in Mandalorian anyway.

So we don’t all “know and love” the earlier take.

Disney is not making Star Wars only for those who have followed every single Star Wars product. Some of us judge what’s being offered entirely on its own merits rather than how much it follows earlier materials.

 

[jian]

Maybe, but we have no idea what Ahsoka went through during the original trilogy or the first few years after, so all sorts of stuff could have caused the personality change.

Yes, she’s changed a lot. Even during her child soldier years she became a lot more focused and disciplined, and while we can only guess at what happened after the Clone Wars for 15 years (she hid out on a farm for a bit according to Tales of the Jedi but was quite capable of disarming and eviscerating an Inquisitor in about a second with one hand) we next see her as Fulcrum, where she is more grown-up (she’s about 33 at this point), calm, thoughtful, but still warm and humorous.

Then we jump about a decade to The Mandalorian and Ahsoka and she’s now colder, more withdrawn, and quite unsupportive of Sabine, and it’s not clear why. It becomes clear why later - Sabine was wrecked by the Mandalore genocide and the deaths of her family, and it seems that she wanted to go to them and try and help, and Ahsoka stopped her because she would have died; Sabine still blames her for that and is quite wrapped up in her grief and depression, while Ahsoka feels rejected and isolated. That’s all fine but it wasn’t explained initially, so it led to us being less happy with Dawson’s portrayal.

 

[jian]

Something to remember though is some of us are not hugely steeped in Star Wars lore. I never saw any of the animated Star Wars until much later. So, for me, this Ahsoka is the standard. Well, the one first introduced in Mandalorian anyway.

So we don’t all “know and love” the earlier take.

Disney is not making Star Wars only for those who have followed every single Star Wars product. Some of us judge what’s being offered entirely on its own merits rather than how much it follows earlier materials.

Quite true. I’m not sure what someone seeing Ahsoka for the first time in live action would have made of her. I’m guessing they mostly thought “typical Jedi, interesting character, good actor, I wonder what she was doing during the Imperial era” and left it at that.

 

[Hussar]

Quite true. I’m not sure what someone seeing Ahsoka for the first time in live action would have made of her. I’m guessing they mostly thought “typical Jedi, interesting character, good actor, I wonder what she was doing during the Imperial era” and left it at that.

Pretty much. Yup.