Thanks for all of the input gang. I'm loving reading your takes on the whole thing. Sadly, I'm one of those people who don't like Ahsoka, and I hate that they try to shoe-horn her into everything now.
Her and Rex. Dave Filoni is such a greasy rat, trying to retcon
Nik Sant into being his Clone Trooper OC...
Long story short, I've found her incredibly annoying from Day 1 and Anakin should never have had a padawan.
LOL I think I've found my soul-mate...
Ahsoka is indeed incredibly annoying, and her irritating personality is compounded by Filoni constantly giving her unearned victories (really, any one of the adult characters that she dueled with over the course of the series should have easily killed her), such as allowing her to take out Droidekas, which are presented, in the movies, as such a threat that the Jedi
run away when they encounter them rather than stand and fight, but the worst of it is that, as I understand it, Lucas had intended for Ahsoka to die at some point over the course of the series so as to add more weight to Anakin's personality conflicts in
Revenge of the Sith, but Filoni apparently took advantage of the fact that Lucas was no longer in control of the SW brand at that point to have her survive not only the Clone Wars but the ensuing Jedi Purge. That would be bad enough of itself, but he then retconned a perfectly good death for her at Vader's hands by introducing actual, honest-to-God
time-travel to the SW universe in
Rebels and now it seems like he actually wants her to literally live forever, as he allegedly lobbied against her being one of the disembodied voices of deceased Jedi heroes speaking to Rey in
The Rise of Skywalker and has been seen on Twitter directly comparing Ahsoka to J.R.R. Tolkien's immortal wizard Gandalf, who influenced the course of events in Middle-Earth for thousands of years:
ClanVizsla , I have also always had somewhat of an issue with how history is so condensed. For example, the big bad Clone Wars that Obi-Wan speaks of in A New Hope as being long and ravaging and pretty much decimated the galaxy, lasted all of .....three years. A lot can happen in three years, I get it, but something as big and history-changing as the Clone Wars should maybe have been a bit longer. Like maybe start them at the end of Phantom Menace and then see where it goes. I don't know.
I think that you're probably right, and that the reason that the Clone Wars ended up the way it did was because of two objectives Lucas had, if I recall correctly: First, he wanted to introduce Anakin Skywalker as an innocent and good-natured child without even a hint of a dark sid, and secondly, he wanted to show the pre-Imperial galaxy in a state of peace (mostly). Unfortunately, that meant that he had to jump ten years between the first and second Prequel films to age Anakin up to the point where he was old enough and experienced enough to be a credible lightsaber combatant and romantic interest for Padme (which I believe created the additional problem of making the onscreen interactions between Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman more awkward; Anakin wouldn't have seemed so weird and vaguely creepy if he and Padme had first met as young adults, and then been separated for a couple of years, rather than as a 9 and 14-year-old who were then apart from each other for a full decade).
OMG THANK YOU! Someone else who sees it the way I do haha.
My pleasure LOL
Which seems to be taken right out of EU's KotOR set some 4000 years prior, yet Jedi are a household name for generation up until post ROTS through Empire's reign.
I don't know how they could pull off such a disconnect, because from what I've heard/read, everything in TCW is Canon for Mandalorian society and history. The only way i can see this new sect having no knowledge of Jedi would be if none of hem are true Mandalorians, or related to any of the ones from event in TCW or Rebels.
You would think so, but that doesn't appear to be the case, since our hero apparently has some direct connection to the Mandalorian homeworld around the end of the Clone Wars, and yet he's apparently never heard of the Jedi or the Force before.
And I still find it a bit odd that no one has heard of Jedi even after one was responsible for assisting in the fall the Empire, seems to me news like that would travel.
Especially since the Rebels eventually start making a point of using "May the Force be with you" as a standard farewell, though the disconnect there there may be the result of
The Mandalorian having to work with Disney's post-ROTJ continuity, which apparently sees Luke training only a small number of students before his nephew runs off and all the rest get killed somehow, and then Luke goes into exile and becomes a "legend" that most of the galaxy's inhabitants, if I recall correctly, don't believe actually exists.
