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A More Civilized Q&A - January 2022 (Patreon)

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2022-01-26 11:01:01
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Welcome to the first of our Q&A of 2022! Unsurprisingly, the bulk of the questions we received this month were about the nature of the Force and how the Mortis arc may have revealed new info or contradicted knowledge we thought we were sure of. But don't worry, we do find plenty of opportunity to talk about our Mortis furry forms, what sorts of little dark side freaks we'd be, Enjoy?

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Ahsoka Wearing Goggles Reference 

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Matthew R.F. Balousek

Hello from the far-flung future year of 2023. I just want to say that everyone’s little freak’s brought me tremendous delight. In a perfect world someone would have made an incredible animatic of this with everyone turning into their little freak as they’re describing them. (In the meantime I can just imagine it.)

Littleleafers

My little freak form would be like an evil Mogwai with horns, wings and a tail. My Darkside monster form would be like a werewolf mixed with a dragon

Mason

Late to the party, but after hearing all these discussions on the mortis arc, i wonder how its depiction of the force would have been recieved/interpreted if the brother and sister constantly flipped. Like we meet the brother as the darkside and her as light but then the next time they meet them theyve flipped and are constantly at odds with eachother because of it.I think it would help make the ridgity of it less grating with the rest of the force lore and not so black and white. More like anikan has to make them find balance within themselves instead of imposing an external balance. Also we would get a good boy brother and goth sister

Verdigree

I think we are meant to take it that the Jedi unbalanced the Force themselves when they killed the Sith and supressed Dark Side studies and only became more twisted and repressed over time

Emily Prechtl

Absolutely living for the deep dive into Togruta lekku....interestingly, in the novelization of the clone wars movie, Ahsoka is described (from Rex's pov) as a little freak!! The author really took the part of the Togruta wiki describing their ecological role as carnivorous predators to heart and gave Ahsoka sharp canine teeth and predator vision!! Wild stuff!

Emily Prechtl

In a similar vein, the novelization gives a certain insight into clone psychology and dogma that we don't really see reflected in the show until season 5. Not sure if novelizations are canon but I loved the clone wars book for fleshing out the inner lives of the characters in a way that really isn't explicit for most of the show

Pazuzu

I always imagined Ahsoka's lekku were hollow. Like you could rap your knuckles on them and hear a little echo.

Patrick Kay

All my homies love Gorc and Pic

Future Erika

phil collins voice: Two Heads, One Tummy!

Mike

i’m so sorry Rob but based on your description i think your little freak is just that squirrel from Ice Age. again, very very sorry

Peace

I don't necessarily think the Mortis arc confirms the Jedi are "right." Disregarding any EU stuff and just taking what is in the episode, if we think of the whole experience in terms of being similar to the cave on Dagobah, one of the things we know about that place strong with the Force is the only thing there is "What you take with you." We saw the vision of three Jedi who grew up in the Jedi worldview. Who knows what that place might have shown them if they had been followers of a different Force tradition?

Forrest Sarles

Shout-out to Jedi Master Jora Malli of the High Republic for having the absolute thiccest Togruta lekku, I am looking respectfully at those blessed tails

Rad Rodge

I just want to specifically thank Austin for the idea that the Empire is essentially fighting to turn Star Wars into science fiction, that crystallizes it so well

Rad Rodge

The terrific Darth Vader comic run by Kieron Gillen really runs with that w/r/t Vader, incidentally, his way of making the reader want to cheer for Vader as the protagonist is to have Vader battling all these math-y stats-obsessed Imperials and technologically-augmented warriors who are all trying to rob Vader of his mystical-warrior dignity. A whole comic largely spun out of the Death Star conference room scene that Austin cited

Jason

Ah yea. Unfortunately, it isn't canon. The novelisation took some liberties since it was written and released before the movie came out. Also, once the show was released, i think i remember the author saying her vision of the clone wars period kinda didn't fit with the tone that Lucasfilm were making

Zachary Jurbina

Shout outs to the Imperial inspector who is just Sherlock Holmes but isn't Thrawn.

Rad Rodge

I sure like him more than Thrawn, I make no apology for it

BestowalDonkey8

I refuse to believe female twi’leks have weird little nubbin ears. Oola was clearly wearing some sort of headdress that covered them up so I prefer to believe that’s just a custom they have. That level of sexual dimorphism would just be bizarre.

BestowalDonkey8

We’re gonna get some male Torgruta coming up next season.

Kzinssie

I can't vibe with this Salacious Crumb slander

Tanner Wilson

Hey I'm a patron for this podcast, not sure why, I've never watched a single episode of this show. Great podcast though, i love listening, i just never have anything to anchor to because..... Well that's obvious. But after all this time, I finally have something to contribute which has probably been brought up before but whatever. Is Anakin's general aloofness, empty brain, wide eyed optimism (though only for certain issues) some kind of nod to ... Fox Mulder? Don't forget the number of times each character has lost their main weapon. Cheers all, this will likely be my first and last post here!

JennySighs

I always got the impression that while twilek head-tails were fleshy like an octopus tentacle, togruta head-tails are more leathery, or there's cartilage in there. I think I also recall reading that that is the togruta hearing apparatus, but I guess not if you all checked wookiepedia for togruta and didn't find anything about their ears.

Elemei

I loved hearing Austin's confused revelation about the Twi'lek ear situations, I had this exact same discovery and crisis when I was working on a commission of someone's Twi'lek character a few months ago.

MythicalMothman

For the two-headed snake is each head the other one's butt, or maybe it has a magic stomach

Divya M. Persaud

Thanks for this great ep. Would love to hear your thoughts on the use of Mortis in the Duel of the Fates script! Also, I’ve always found the Mortis arc to be stuck in this space between perhaps what Lucas intended for it (maybe just Some Guys on a nexus planet who feel the Force and are themselves subject to their own faults as interpreters of the Force rather than representatives) and Filoni (the Force and its manifestations are immutable). Re: the latter I think there are several points in TCW/Rebels and the new trilogy where we’re shown the Filoni interpretation that the Dark Side of Anakin is a discrete separate entity from the Light Side (we see this with Kylo) thereby imbuing the concept of the Light/Dark with objectivity, painting them as pre-discursive, rather than the Force as a spectrum or amorphous entity that is interpreted subjectively (and is therefore vulnerable to politics etc). I find that this is in conflict with other writers’ framing of the Force in TCW & other media which weakens some of the cohesion of these stories, in particular Anakin’s. I think even in the Mortis arc this conflict is evident - Dark Anakin just appears to be Vader but we also have been shown that Ani is facing internal conflict and Obi-Wan’s conversations with Qui-Gonn reveal the ways Jedi have fallen in many ways, and the ways politics influence who sees Lightness/Darkness in what ways and when are a real gem of TCW and perhaps its main feature. I think this inconsistency is really evident in the role of grey Jedi in various media.