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Ahsoka 1x08 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

Yeah, Jess, I knew that this episode was going to induce more screaming and yelling, which after the last episode, isn’t doing much to help you recover from your cold. Tis all worth it though as you said, experiencing the joy of Star Wars. And I’ve just been having so wonderful a time, sharing it with you and fellow patrons and subscribers, just as it is wonderful to continue to hear that the Star Wars fandom has been so lovely and kind to you. Yes, this was a great finale. Loved the Narnia title. I loved when you said, “No. I will NOT CRY this early in the episode.” leading me to quip, “I wonder if your feelings on this matter are clear, dear Jess.” It was emotional seeing Ezra build his new lightsaber with the discussion of Kanan. I am slightly annoyed that he goes back to a blue blade, but I can reconcile for reasons of in group shots, you can tell at a glance who’s who and where everyone is. This being half the reason why Mace Windu’s lightsaber was purple. The other half being purple is Samuel L. Jackson’s favorite color. Sad to hear Huyang tell Ezra about Mandalore and probably dashing hope for the survival of Sabine’s family. You never know though. And at present, I don’t know, merely saying that their survival wouldn’t be the most unbelievable thing. So excellent, your reactions were to Sabine finally using the Force. Loved all your comments on her success with that in getting Ezra onto the Chimaera. You can root for Morgan just a little bit. You know my love of the villains. I’m not one to judge. Her transformation was a scene, love how Thrawn seemed intellectually curious. Thrawn this whole episode, I love that he’s not even trying to kill his enemies, just keep them behind long enough so he can escape. You catch well, Lars selling Thrawn’s concern, and he also showcases barely restrained relief of escape, as well as sadness for fallen comrades. A wonderful moment for the Great Mothers to indulge in their Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath coming to fruition. And I was filled with devious and diabolical glee hearing the strings as the Night Troopers rose again, and I was smiling and saying to myself, “Well, this has the makings of a most momentous Danse Macabre! How enchanting this is!” It greatly pleases me, Jess, to hear and see you say you made the connection with the music as well. Some that I’ve spoken to missed that, so I’m glad you caught that. The fight between Morgan and Ahsoka was fantastic. Diana showed her real skill, and Rosario put in the work to match her. Yeah, so heartwarming when Sabine silently conveys, “I won’t leave you. Not this time.” and it gives Ahsoka her second wind leading to her killing Morgan by giving her the one two slice with her lightsaber and the fiery blade of Talzin, your reaction being fantastic. I lived for Thrawn getting in his parting words, Lars sold them well. One, he finally calls Ahsoka what we’ve known her to be: a ronin. Two, though she has made peace with her trauma, Rosario sells that the one dig is still something of a sore spot, and based on Sabine’s look, I wonder how much she knows about Darth Vader. I cried seeing your reaction to Ezra’s reunion with Hera and Chopper. Mary superbly sold Hera’s reaction, and Eman perfectly delivered Ezra’s “Hi Mom.” line to Hera.

Thomas Corp

Yes, Hera and our heroes have a Dark Force Rising courtesy of the Heir to the Empire to deal with. You spoke of you’d be more forthcoming with the pettiness than Hera. I confess that when it comes to people saying, “I told you so.”, I never say that, and I don’t like people who do. I’d allow it in this case, assuring, “That’s all right. I don’t generally care for it, but that’s all right.” Alas, little of Shin and Baylan in this final episode. The latter is especially tragic as it is the last time that we will ever see Baylan, at least as portrayed by the late Ray Stevenson. Unless they just wish to completely overhaul their plans, they’ll have to recast following Ray’s death, seeing as they clearly had big plans for the character. Given you never mentioned about Ray’s death, I suspect you were unaware of that unfortunate fact. My brother wasn’t aware either until I mentioned it to him, so you’re not alone in that. One area you have the leg up on my brother and my sister in-law is you recognized the statues in Baylan’s last scene. I saw them and channeled Ian as the Emperor, saying, “The Morits Gods.” I keep telling my brother and sister in-law that they need to watch Clone Wars for an answer. When they asked, I said, “Let me explain. ...No. there is too much. Let me sum up. ...Nope, still too much. Watch Clone Wars.” So, Ahsoka and Sabine are stranded, but judging by the appearance of Morai, they are exactly where they need to be. And as you mentioned, it is a nice final scene that serves as a culmination of Ahsoka’s arc this season. She regains hope and learns to live again after so long of keeping herself closed off and more focused on simply surviving, understandably so, as you said. To see the spark in her again is great, perfectly punctuated by one more appearance of Hayden as Anakin showing pride in his little sister, and your reaction to that was perfect, Jess. So, now we have concluded Ahsoka, or at least the first season; I’ve been hearing reports we will have more to come. Like the Obi-Wan show, your reactions were well worth the wait, and were perfect. And now you’ve given the update on Bad Batch, which I am so looking forward to. There’s just one point of concern. If you are planning to do the two episodes per reaction strategy, you should know that the first episode is over an hour, so you might want to consider how to plan the viewing, but it should be an easy enough thing to figure out. In any case, I adored your Ahsoka reactions, Jess. Thank you so much, and may the Force be with you.

Dario Frei

Thank you for all the lovely reactions <3 I'll def be back for the bad batch :)

Ryan
>>128989008

Filoni did confirm that Stevenson filmed all his scenes before his death, so it was always intended for Baylan to have such a small role here rather than it being forced on them like Wilf shooting moles.

Saltire le Hutt

Claudia Black is a beautiful woman, but she is absolutely terrifying in the Nightsister Mother makeup, they did a very good job making them seem otherworldly and downright scary. The Blade Of Talzin they gift to Morgan, was used by Mother Talzin to fight Mace Windu in that weird Jar-Jar team up with him in season 6 of Clone Wars. Nice that they bring it back here for Morgan to duel Ahsoka with. When Ezra is building his lightsabre, he mentions to Huyang that the blade emitter is too narrow, a nice little wink to the thin lightsabres in Rebels (which I adore and wish they continued to use in live action after A New Hope!). I always prefer a green lightsabre blade, but as this lightsabre is a homage to Kanan, then heck yes I'm glad thats what Ezra did to honour him as he comes back to the galaxy as a Jedi Knight. Kanan was the best... I'm glad that Ahsoka mentions to Sabine about there being more to a Jedi than having a lightsabre. The blade was a symbol of the Jedi Order yes, and it allowed Jedi to act as they saw fit in certain situations; but there is much more to being a peacekeeper than that. Of course Sabine brings up that its very much needed at these times, and thats true, most of what we see of the Jedi is them fighting literally to save those they can; but for most of their history a lightsabre was seen as a last resort and that Jedi Knights were able to solve disputes in other more peaceful ways. Obi-Wan was called the Negotiator for example, even though he was the finest swordsman in the order (imo). That, he learnt from Qui-Gon, who in turn learnt to be that from the better side of Dooku. Anakin was much more hands-on, but we see in episode 5 of the series, that he was able to become more than a mere (dark) warrior as he finally found balance within himself, even if that was post-mortem. Ahsoka is all from that lineage, as Sabine could be too. Yes, she can be able to fight even better than she has been if she taps into her potential, but she can also find a balance between being a Mandalorian and Jedi too, as well as being able to move on from all that has happened to her and her family over the years. We see that with Ezra here, who idolised Kanan, but through his teachings, Ezra has become his very own definition of a Jedi Knight. Thrawn planning a ground assault after taking down Ahsoka's ship is smart. A lesser imperial office would say thats job done, but he knows who he is dealing with and that he has merely stalled them for the time being, so is going on the offensive to ensure he completes his own mission rather than wait for them to come to him. I also like the little thing where Morgan tells Thrawn the Night Troopers are willing to stay behind to sacrifice themselves for him, and he corrects her by saying its for the Empire. It seems he doesn't want to become an Emperor himself, just someone who believes in the stability and supposed order that the Empire can bring to the galaxy. He doesn't want power for power's sake. Lars Mikkelsen showing the fury behind the calm demeanour as our crew manage to escape his "hellfire" and get access to the temple underneath his destroyer. Nice touch that, we only ever saw him lose his temper once in Rebels, but he was close to here as his plans are still very much up in the air at this point. He has to send in the Night Troopers and Morgan to slow them down to allow him to depart this galaxy. I love that they are actually zombie stormtroopers too, that is awesome! The actress who playes Morgan Elsbeth, is from a line of martial artists and has family links to the great Bruce Lee, so she knows her stuff, and also choreographed the fight between her and Ahsoka, and it looked boss! She takes out Ahsoka's shoto lightsabre, as she did in Mando, though this time she destroys it, so Ahsoka does one better, disarms the Blade of Talzin from Morgan, and cuts through her with both blades. Nice! Sabine and Ezra running into trouble with those purge troopers upstairs (who wear lightsabre resistant armour as they used to run with Inquisitors to help take out Jedi stragglers), and Sabine is able to call on the force to grab her lightsabre to show she's allowed it to finally speak to her. She was able to call on it to an extent when wielding the darksabre, though unknowingly, and its as the saying goes "the force will be with you, always". She's able to then give Ezra a bit of a force boost to get on board the Chimaera to bring him home. She has to be there now for Ahsoka and abandons the hopes of returning with Ezra momentarily. Ezra mimicking the stormtrooper then dressing up as them, is so like watching Rebels. Eman Esfandi has truly shone as that pesky Loth-rat! Its great that its Chopper who recognises him too when he gets back, and besides Chopper isn't scared of any stormtroopers either, even when the whole hangar has guns pointed at Ezra! Thrawn saying his hello and goodbye to Ahsoka as he departs, bringing up Anakin, and hinting he knew who he became. A few weeks back his conversation may have had a different outcome, but Ahsoka has now moved on from her past, its like water off a duck's back to her now. I do like that he mentions her being a ronin though, as thats what I thought of her when she showed back up in Mando; a masterless peripatetic samurai, righting wrongs wherever they wander. She has become more than that once again though, she is also a teacher, one who carries on the message of the Jedi to others. So Ahsoka and Sabine are left stranded there on Peridea for the time being, but that will be good for Sabine as she can find her balance and get all the training she needs now from Ahsoka so that when they do return, they'll be once more a force to be reckoned with. So we see Baylan standing on one of two momuments, with him on the arm of The Father. We see the Son there too and the Daughter has crumbled a long time ago. Though the spirit of the Daughter is still there, in Morai and Ahsoka. Who are those statues reaching out too? Perhaps The Mother, Abeloth, the most powerful force user in all the EU - so it looks like she could be the one Ahsoka will have to try to deal with in season 2. She has Anakin by her side though, so I'm sure will overcome that monstrosity. In tears at the end music though. The theme Kevin Kiner uses, is from an unaired piece in Rebels at the end of season 2 as Ezra and Kanan come back home wounded in different ways and Ahsoka is gone - like here. The piece they used there was called Its Over Now, here it is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z09ezfIQ_o And this the unaired alternate version which gets used in this finale, called Where The Sun Sails And The Moon Walks : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5hnRQN0vw We can hear that rehashed here in the outro. Its my favourite piece from Rebels, and I often wondered if we might one day hear it if Ahsoka dies someday. So glad we heard it here though, utterly wonderful end to a very enjoyable first season to this, where everything is up in the air; Thrawn has returned to cause further devastation across the galaxy with his army of nightsisters and zombie stormtroopers; Ahsoka and Sabine will have to deal with Abeloth, and I'm sure we'll also delve more into the beginnings of the First Order also. Plenty to look forward to Jess, loved your reactions as always! :D

Saltire le Hutt
>>128989002

Yeah thats a solid question about whether Sabine knows that Vader was Anakin. Ezra knows since he was there on Malachor when they met, but I don't think he ever told Rex as he knew thats would cut him deep, especially when we hear from him jib Kanan in season 3 after Malachor, saying that he was no Skywalker. Hence I don't think Ezra would have told anyone else on the Ghost crew then about Anakin/Vader - even Kanan.

Thomas Corp
>>131484099

I think she still looks great in the Nightsister look. Nice nod to the lightsabers in Rebels. Right, there is much more to being a Jedi than a lightsaber, though it doesn’t hurt sometimes. Loved all of Thrawn’s scenes and Morgan’s scenes in this episode. Diana showed her skill as Morgan. It was amazing. Lars selling the barely restrained emotions was excellent. Great to see Ezra and Sabine work together and Sabine making the sacrifice. I think the bigger tip off for Hera is Chopper going to the supposed stormtrooper and wasn’t subjecting him to violence. I do still like that although, like you note, Ahsoka’s moved past her trauma, you do see a brief look from Ahsoka that she suppresses. I figured you’d like the ronin part as well. The Mother could be what Baylan’s after. Should be interesting to see how that goes if indeed that’s what we’re building towards. Excellent use of that theme. Continued emotions seeing Hayden as force ghost Anakin. I know there’s still the backlash of him replacing Sebastian Shaw, and I’m just old enough that I’m completely sympathetic to those complaints. When my brother and I saw Hayden in that scene for the first time, we went, “Wait, what the hell!?” We made peace with it quickly as continuity-wise, it made sense, though it was jarring and took some time to fully acclimate. I hear younger viewers have an easier time with it, particularly if they do the whole chronological journey.