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Ahsoka: Master and Apprentice + Toil and Trouble [1x01 + 1x02] ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2023-08-23 08:00:06 +0000 UTCI'll input the episode titles later this week once they show up on Disney+.
Well, Ahsoka! The reviews in these are the same that will go in the edited reaction. I don't know if I'm Star Wars fatigued or what, but I feel like I was doing a horrible job of recognizing things. 😂 All I will say is that I'm very much looking forward to the rest. Let's talk about it! [Direct link here.]
✦ KL
Comments
Great react! It was fun watching along. I love all of the new characters, especially Baylan Skoll and his apprentice Shin Hati. They have red-orange lightsabers vs pure red. Hmmm... Also, I love that Morgan is a nightsister. YES! I hope we see more of the nightsisters and how they are involved through Morgan, the various clues and the starmap. It seems Ahsoka is traumatized by Anakin and his attachment leading to his downfall. It's why she refused to train Grogu and perhaps why her relationship with Sabine fell apart. Ahsoka is more mature, calm, and steadfast, but she also has some wounds, and I love that her state now is complex.
James M
2023-08-25 15:14:22 +0000 UTCi'm scrolling through the comments here, and it's cool to see everybody seem to have a different favorite character. it's sabine all the way for me. we got so lucky with natasha, she's embodying her so well. she has her look, she's so cool and badass but not invincible as we see. and she gives that classic snark when she's around others but you see her painful history in her eyes when she's alone. ugh, she's so good. i've seen some people complaining that she wouldn't be so immature or rebellious at this point and you're missing the subtext. she's grieving and feels lost. she lost a mentor in kanan, and a best friend in ezra days apart. she started an uprising on mandalore that resulted in the empire torching the planet, after finally reuniting with her estranged family. she may have lost them too after that. her claim to fame when she was younger was unwittingly building a mandalorian genocide weapon. ahsoka started training her and then bailed for some reason, so she probably feels like a failure. the empire is (mostly) gone so she no longer has the fight to keep her going. she's hurting and giving the world the middle finger is how that comes out for some people.
Andrew
2023-08-25 02:15:51 +0000 UTCI also like that we're just jumping right in and not getting much explanation of anything. And yes, slow progression is great to start off the series. Reminds me of Andor and I'm glad we're taking our time. Chopper was EXACTLY like we left him. 😂
kaiielle
2023-08-23 22:22:04 +0000 UTCAhsoka...or live action Rebels? Either way, I'm fucking digging it so far. And the live action actors (so far)? *chef's kiss* Good shit.
Steve Mercier
2023-08-23 21:22:44 +0000 UTCI really loved these two episodes. The actors fit great in comparison to their animated selves, they've grown and with that they are more adult than when we left them. Well, except Chopper who was just like we left him 😂❤️ Live-action Lothal looked amazing. I had no issue with the slow progression as I prefer a good story than instant gratification. I feel like the sceene when Ahsoka came back to pick up Sabine actually was the same scene as we ended Rebels with (been a while since I watched Rebels, so don't remember it excactly) 🥰 Just without any dialogue and Huyang. Also, even if it might be an issue to the casual viewer, I love the fact that there is no hand holding here. That it is assumed that you know the characters and the backstory.
Rune
2023-08-23 20:16:26 +0000 UTCI watched episode 2 again. I think I’m falling love Hera. I love her live action character. She is definitely my favorite. Such a strong character sigh
Perry Campbell
2023-08-23 17:51:14 +0000 UTCOne last thing. I didnt liked the Fight choreography in Episode 2 when Ahsoka fought the Inquisitor and on of the HK´s. It didnt looked good at all but im not sure if it was because of the Lekkus or if the choregraphy was just not good.
Curaitis
2023-08-23 15:33:27 +0000 UTCOverall the first two Episodes were really great (8/10 and 9/10). Personal Favorite is Elizabeh Winstead as Hera. She nailed the role amazingly. Calm, experienced, level headed, a great leader and role model, The COMPLETE opposite to Admiral Holdo(still get triggered when i think about her). Rosario was ok, which means she was great but i expected that from her after she played Ahsoka already and Dave should know how to write her. Natasha Liu Bordizzo also was great although the introduction of Sabine was boring and stereotypical imho but that was not her or Sabines fault. The writing was just, as i said, very stereotypical which is sad because Sabine has way more to offer than just being a rebellious, stubborn "i know everything and dont tell me what to do" Girl after all she went through and all the experience she has. She should have known better than that. Nevertheless just a minor bug imho. Thankfully it got better through the first Episode and was amazing in Episode 2. The Rogue Jedi (Rip Ray Stevenson) and his Padawan were great to watch and their entering Scene was really cool. Baylan reminds me of a mix between Darth Vader and Count Dooku. Imposing and intimidating like Vader and calm and level headed like Dooku. Little side note Ivanna Sakhno was a very pleasant surprise. Didnt knew a lot about her but she was very intruiging as Shin Hati. I will not go deeper into the Lore part cause i dont know what will come up later in the Show but let me say just this we had some nice details. Its so good to know that Sabine will probably (its more or less confirmed) replace Rey in Future Star Wars Projects. She is so more likeable and fleshed out. This is no hate against Daisy Ridley or Rey at all even if might read like that. It was always the writing (Queen of all Mary Sues) and the requirements from KK (the Force is female) that made Rey so stupid. That doesnt mean Sabine will not become a victim of Disneys//KK´s twisted Ideologies but Dave will have somethig to say in it i hope. Anyway, thanks KL for your effort to go through all to be ready for Ahsoka. You are amazing.
Curaitis
2023-08-23 14:53:19 +0000 UTCTo your point about Ahsoka's character - since Dave Filoni is at the head of this, I'm totally fine with her adult personality and trust the choice especially since we saw this in Mando/BBF too, she was just ever so slightly more uppity. I am certainly not the same person that I was when I was a child and I'm far more like adult Ahsoka these days and kid me was like kid Ahsoka, minus all the cool abilities. 🤣
kaiielle
2023-08-23 14:52:32 +0000 UTCIt was really interesting to learn that Sabine has force abilities, even if weak ones, and was, at some point between Rebels and this, supposed to be trained by Ahsoka. Something went wrong between them and I'm curious what it was. Speaking of Sabine, I really didn't think she was going to survive that stab from the end of the first episode. At this point it's my headcanon that medical technology must have improved over the course of the Galactic Civil War, as it often does. It makes sense when you consider that Fennec Shand also survived a fatal injury in a similar location due to technology that seemed to be quite highly advanced. On that entire map topic, at the start of the first episode, I felt vindicated because *finally* a Jedi other than Cal had to endure a dumb Puzzle like the ones they do in the Respawn Star Wars games. I'm half-joking lol but I thought I'd mention it. Other than that, the idea of there being a *second galaxy* that Thrawn and Ezra travelled to is **extremely** intriguing to me. I realise it was a thing in Legends and there were some interesting stories that came out of that. As a friend of expansive worldbuilding, I so so hope that other galaxy is inhabited - An entirely seperate civilization, where they've probably never even heard of the Republic or the Empire, but certainly with its own problems and millenia of history. That would be *super* interesting to me. I love that shit. I very much hope they go somewhere with this. Perhaps there's a way for this Eye that Morgan is building to not be used by her for her purposes but still stick around so that travelling between the galaxies will remain possible in some way? I'm not sure. That said I'm also wondering if this Eye is supposed to be a portal or more of a travelling device similar to the hyperspace rings we see the Jedi fighters use. As far as the live-action actors go, I'm still not sure if I'm fully on board with the version of the character Ahsoka that Rosario Dawson is playing. But it'll be fine I think. And the rest is pretty good so far. I really enjoyed you constantly looking out for Mortis references because I'm exactly the same way. Mortis is one of my favourite story elements in all of Star Wars and I would love more things to be connected to it. I guess we'll keep seeing if there's something in this show that's linked to it, honestly if there's any show that will reference it it's the newest Dave Filoni show! All of the shows he's had full creative control over have brought up Mortis so far lol. Lastly, I enjoy thinking that Huyang is probably very tired of people's bullshit considering how many wars and political shifts he must have experienced after being operational for some 10,000 years. Sorry for the novel, oops.
BratPfanneTV
2023-08-23 14:49:46 +0000 UTCAgreed. It’s a good pace so far…it’s allowing the story to breathe. I dig that.
William
2023-08-23 13:47:59 +0000 UTCThis show so far is a banger. I like the slower start, there was a lot to set up.
Guiguioh
2023-08-23 11:58:44 +0000 UTCLooking forward to getting home from work to watch the episodes on their own and then the reactions. Gonna be a busy evening 😂
Rune
2023-08-23 11:58:41 +0000 UTCFwiw, Qui-Gon and Han Solo were both impaled center mass, which is far a far worse wound than the more glancing blow to the side that Sabine received. Remember, we’ve see folks cut clean in half survive, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also, gravity killed Han…the lightsaber through the gut merely assisted. ;)
William
2023-08-23 11:17:31 +0000 UTCI love the show. I only have one problem. You get stabbed with lightsaber u shouldn’t live, Han Solo or Qui-Gon didn’t live. They should do the classic cutting off hand or arm bit.
Perry Campbell
2023-08-23 10:27:01 +0000 UTC
