Star Wars Rebels Season Four (spoilers)
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I just finished a rewatch of Clone Wars and she wasn't nearly as annoying as I remember. The "Sky Guys" are cringe worthy, but that's really typical teenager lameness.
I found Ahsoka so incredibly annoying in the Clone Wars animated theatrical release that I didn't even watch the series until years later when it dropped on Netflix. Now, I think she's one of the best developed and complex characters in the entire saga. (And I still hate the theatrical release.)
Ditto.
you must be forgetting about Ziro the Hutt. I thought he was even more annoying than Ahsoka.
I thought Ziro the Hutt was great, and the plotline involving Sy Snootles was brilliant. 
Honestly, the movie isn't all that bad if you just think of it as four episodes back to back and view it as part of a chronological re-watch. Hell, I'll take the "Jabba's son has been kidnapped" arc over the "R2 and a bunch of other droids get ordered around by a frog" arc any day! Even Ahsoka at her most obnoxious is still preferable to Gascon. Plus of course Ahsoka doesn't grate quite as much when you know this is the starting point of her character arc, not the status quo.
Don't get me wrong though, as a movie in it's own right it doesn't really work at all.
Don't get me wrong though, as a movie in it's own right it doesn't really work at all.
Previously on "Ahsoka Is Somehow Gandalf Apparently"...
And now: a Christmas message from Dave Filloni.
For those not up on their Tolkien lore, that is a verse from 'Upon The Hearth The Fire Is Red' (the third verse of which was quite memorably featured in the RotK movie.) However, this specific verse is from much later in the book and is sung quietly by Frodo as he makes his way with Sam to the Grey Havens, and as such it feels steeped in concepts of death and moving beyond.
Interestingly, "West of the moon, East of the Sun" seems to be an allusion to a Norwegian fairy tale about a girl who must journey to the titular impossible land (an "unknown region", one might say...) to rescue a Prince (who is also a bear...)
As if we needed more evidence that there's some deliberate Tolkien allusions being made with regards to Ahsoka; while browsing the SWR season 2 soundtrack I came across this track from 'Twilight of the Apprentice': Where the Sun Sails and the Moon Walks. The track itself appears to be an alternate composition of the music that plays over the episode's coda, but the title is what really grabbed my attention.
My first thought was that it was just a sideways nod at the Skywalker name (and that may still be partly true) but there was something about it that felt familiar. A quick search later and sure enough, it's a Gandalf quote from 'The Hobbit': -
The significance of this being a farewell shouldn't be lost on anyone given the context of the episode.
Also, I know eagles and owls aren't exactly the same thing, but it's yet another piece of avian imagery associated with Ahsoka. From Morai, to The Daughter's griffon form, and the wing pattern markings on Ahsoka's Jedi shuttle in the 'Family Reunion and Farewell' Epilogue.
You know I swear I don't go looking for this stuff, but for some reason, whenever I see something that seems to draw a line between Ahsoka and Gandalf it just jumps out at me.
Sound familiar, or at least eerily evocative to anyone else, or is it just me?
(For those not so familiar with Tolkien literature, it's this bit in the movies.)
ETA...and right after posting this, it occurred to me that the first part of that passage could be interpreted as being very evocative of how the fight with Vader ended; with him falling down through the floor and the temple ("mountain") discharging it's weapon.
This may be the point where I'm reading too much into this, but the imagery seems to fit.
And now: a Christmas message from Dave Filloni.
For those not up on their Tolkien lore, that is a verse from 'Upon The Hearth The Fire Is Red' (the third verse of which was quite memorably featured in the RotK movie.) However, this specific verse is from much later in the book and is sung quietly by Frodo as he makes his way with Sam to the Grey Havens, and as such it feels steeped in concepts of death and moving beyond.
Interestingly, "West of the moon, East of the Sun" seems to be an allusion to a Norwegian fairy tale about a girl who must journey to the titular impossible land (an "unknown region", one might say...) to rescue a Prince (who is also a bear...)
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Five episodes, since Clone Wars Season One was originally going to be 26 episodes and "Hostage Crisis" would be part of season 2.
It's four. You can see where the episode breaks would be and everything. Besides, the 90 min runtime isn't enough to cram in five 22min episodes, but is just about right for four episodes with an extra scene here and there to make the transitions a little more smooth.
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