Ahsoka Is About Star Wars’ Obsession with Continuity
by verissimoallan
Ahsoka Is About Star Wars’ Obsession with Continuity
by verissimoallan
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I dig Ahsoka and look forward to this Star Wars Avengers film that all of this is building towards.
Ahsoka is more Star Wars than television imo.
The zombie storm trooper scene alone is reason enough not to watch this show. Continuity here means circlejerking fandom. Rosario Dawson’s bored and dull portrayal of a bored and dull character is icing on a messy cake.
A savvy savaging of a sadly confused and lackluster franchise.
I loved Star Wars when the writers had creative freedom and opportunity to move outside the very narrow safe zone of the Empire and the Skywalkers. Now it’s just generic stories and fan service. In my opinion the worst part that it’s enough for fans.
Such a forgettable show
> Watching Ahsoka, it can often feel like the primary purpose of the series has nothing to do with character, theme, or story. It is simply an excuse to bring these fringe elements of larger Star Wars into focus.
This article is spot on about many aspects of the show. I love the show and the continuity/crossovers it’s building, but it really missed the point in flushing out Ashoka’s character, and her connection to everything in the series. She’s as much a spectator of the events as the audience at times.
I am looking forward to season 2 though and have high hopes that Filoni knows what he’s doing.
This show is a terrible waste of a few characters that I very much wanted to see more of. There is no coherent plot or theme or conflict.
I hate these Star Wars shows where they namedrop something or someone and I have to google why that’s important
ahh another star wars product where you have to do research to understand this one show, and even if you finish doing your research for this show it still doesn’t feel worth it whether it be the characters written badly here or is just used to set up more future stories
It’s disappointing seeing people rave about it just because it has references to older star wars media. As if references were all a star wars product needs now to be great.
With the fixation on continuity, I’m kinda dreading what will need to be done to make this story path somehow reach TFA at some point.
On its own, the current story with Mando, Grogu, Ahsoka, Sabine, Ezra etc. works pretty well as far as a continuation from Return of the Jedi, absent Luke/Han/Leia. But unless this current cast of protagonists are doomed to fail horribly and die badly, I don’t see how this eventually leads to the rise of the First Order and Snoke, and the destruction of Luke’s academy and near-extinction of jedi altogether.
Only thing I don’t like is the fights with the light sabers , it’s so amateurish. Other then that I enjoy the series
It lacks a lot of tension.
If you want Star Wars that cares less about continuity watch Star Wars Visions.
It’s silly to expect this show not to care about continuity.
It’s a closure
I’ll die on this hill: Ahsoka is obsessed with continuity, but only Filoni/Favreau continuity.
I can’t really get into the series knowing that the conflict will end with the rise of the First Order with Palpatine returning. They kinda shot themselves in the foot by showing the galaxy will be fine 30 years later.
I know everyone has a raging boner for Ahsoka – but it was honestly just nostalgic garbage.
Ahsoka as a character seemed flat, I couldn’t find any motivation or depth to her character, It’s like the show assumed I knew something about her already from the clone wars and depended on me to just attribute all of that character development so this show wouldn’t need to.
And how much do you need to masturbate over fucking Darth Vader. They’ve basically brought back Darth Vader, without actually bringing back darth vader – by having every show somehow intwine with the same 4 characters as some kind of nostalgic anchor I find that it’s just old now.
Dumb fucking show. Why was Ezra wearing the stormtroopers helmet at the ends? Because reasons?
It’s incredibly pretty and I’ve enjoyed it but
* Thrawn seems weak as fuck. A villain who keeps on telling the audience he is winning while he’s not took down a single enemy or even one of the frogeworks. How many casualties he’s taken to do basically nothing makes him look incompetent.
* there is no sense of danger for the heroes. Andor I was legitimately worried about Cassian and how he would get out of each mess. Even though we know he survives the series.
* the spacewhales was too much of a deus ex maxchina. This mythical map to an unknown place no one in the galaxy even knows exists and a solution is discovered the next day. It just did not seem earned
A bigger cast and episode list with more antagonists and protagonists some of whom don’t make it would have solved this. Allow some of the cute new aliens to die would have given the battle some sense of danger.
The reliance on viewers knowing who these characters are and caring about them is the shows biggest detriment. The only characters I liked were brand new and dark side.
Unfortunately it’s this kind of stuff that limits Star Wars. I love Hayden and his various portrayals of Anakin but they have got to move on. I mean people are seriously wanting a live action clone wars show… what else could they possibly add to that story?
The Ahsoka show is setting up the Heir to the Empire trilogy… but that is already bookended by the sequel trilogy and its characters that frankly not enough people care about.
Trying to backtrack and recast Luke and Leia now is too little, too late. Heir to The Empire should’ve been the first new Star Wars project after the Disney buy.