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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9385195" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah that was a prime example of a writer defeating himself. I like a lot of Filoni's work, and he simply doesn't make outright mistakes like that in the animated shows, but here, they not only do they refuse to send a task force to what is, frankly, a highly credible threat at least worth investigating (they could have sent scout ships and so on, at least), but when they turn out to be idiots, and a whole bunch of ships presumably record this bizarre, gigantic hyper-ring attacking them and then jumping out at impossible speed, and we're supposed to believe that even after this, the well-respected general and war hero and all the sensor data and other pilots (including long-serving veterans) would just be treated as liars without so much as a thought.It just wasn't plausible. It didn't work as a plotline. The particular scenes where Hera was denied just seemed implausible. Like at least play up that secret Imperials are influencing the council or something. If after WW2, someone found a bunch of secret Nazis in a place building gigantic diesel engines or nuclear reactors or something, there'd be significant alarm. Instead, everyone is like completely passive about this whole nest of secret Imperials.As you say - it wouldn't even have been hard to make the scenes plausible - the secret Imperials are more than capable of creating a distraction and maybe making the Republic think they need to be elsewhere - but that wasn't the case! And even then, not sending scouts when a well-respected general wants to send scouts is just implausible - it wouldn't have been something you'd even be talking to a public committee to about - Hera would either have been able to order it herself, or would have had friendly officers in the military who would do it.Plus like, her taking her kid with her just seemed really off in live-action in a way it wouldn't have in a cartoon, even though I liked the scenes that lead to. Like that would be more plausible if the plotline was that Hera didn't really believe it.I could go on. And I hate nicking SW stuff in this way, but Ahsoka was just full of weird bits of bad writing where Filoni seemed to have created dumb situations entirely by himself, where like, he could just have not written it that way. He knows what to do with the characters, but it feels like he just cannot handle the actual writing and direction at all.</blockquote>

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