Forgot To Say That, Without Howl Chasing Girls And Sophie Resenting Him For It, The Film Completely Erases

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Actually while I don't think we need an Ahsoka show, as this time period in the franchise has a lot of media already and quite frankly, the direction they chose with her character is boring and irritating, I think the character we get in the show better fits a younger, fresher Ahsoka. Someone still building the Fulcrum network and having to come to terms with the fact that everyone she knew and cared about is gone besides Rex.

We could see her struggle with grief and missing Anakin, and during that reflection realize that some of the lessons he imparted on her were bad. I think a show could do a lot with her having to struggle in this new world, one where she can't be Anakin's mini me. She may be no Jedi like she wants to claim, but perhaps exploring her returning to her roots to find peace.

It would give us more context how Clone Wars Ahsoka, a hot head with a reckless streak and a strong sense of right and wrong that she'd pursue to the ends of the galaxy has mellowed out, be one more peaceful, and is now having to occasionally operate in gray areas to survive and build the rebellion. Because the Ahsoka we see in her show is more inline with her Clone Wars personality and ignoring everything that's happened to the Jedi, Anakin, and everyone she knew. You can't not learn that someone you knew destroyed your people, and then proceeded to be one of the most evil forces in the galaxy, and not have some things come into retrospect. We never actually see her come to terms with Anakin being Darth Vader besides a brief conversation in the World Between Worlds and while a prequel Rebels show wouldn't address that, it could address her character maturing. Because as of now, her character only serves to exist in a story where she's always right, and thus bends her character to the writers' whim.

*kicks my feet playfully whilst lying on my front and lining up my sniper rifle*

oooohhhh you found flowers in the desolate snow landscape .. of course you did .. of course you must give them to your jedi …

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A lot of people seem to have the idea that the point of SW is that Jedi are not automatically good

No

The Jedi are good, full stop, end of discussion

But

Its not that being a Jedi is what makes you good

It's that being good is what makes you a Jedi

To be a Jedi is to choose good, you can't be a Jedi if you're not choosing good, and if you're choosing good you're choosing to be a Jedi

Fwoom (intimidatingly)

WORLDBUILDING RULE NUMBER ONE: PUT A FUCKING EQUATOR IN YOUR WORLD MAP

WORLDBUILDING RULE NUMBER TWO: IF THERE ARE POTATOES IN YOUR WORLD THERE MUST BE AN ANDES FROM WHERE THEY CAME FROM

WORLDBUILDING RULE NUMBER THREE: PUT. A. FUCKING. EQUATOR. IN. YOUR. WORLD. MAP.

WORLDBUILDING RULE NUMBER FOUR: ANY PLACE SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR CAN AND MUST BE AN ARGENTINA EQUIVALENT

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

Image description: It's a drawing of a very young Ahsoka Tano. She's on her knees in front of a Clone Trooper's helmet. She's crying and her hands are tight fists on her lap. She's wearing a light blue Jedi robe with brown gloves and boots. The Clone helmet insta drawn in like her, it's left as a light colored sketch. The prompt for this drawing was the theme of "absence" and Ahsoka's first time mourning one of her fellow soldiers. End of description.