Spoilers AHSOKA series [Spoiler Discussion]

[Jedi Marso]

How's that? I mean he still needs to eat just like everyone else, and it's probably been very easy work so far for a person of his talents and flexible morality. Don't forget; Ronin were a real thing for a reason. Samurai were nobles with exactly one skillset, which means 1) they needed a patron or employer to be able to feed themselves, and 2) they were accustomed to a certain type of lifestyle. When their Shogun got knocked off, that left them actively hunting for work.

Baylan (or any Force user without ethics) doesn't need to work to feed himself. He throws the chance cube, it comes up the way he wants, and endless variations on that theme. You use the Jedi mind trick to get the bank teller to hand you that big stack of credits, no questions asked. You do the same to get some Han Solo wannabe to hand over the title and codes to his ship.

Baylan has no worries about where his next meal is coming from. In that sense, working as a mercenary is pointless.

Also, we don't know what his actual motivations and long term plans are here, but from what he said in the previous episode, he believes this quest will lead him and his apprentice to some kind of vast power.

This much is true. Given his sort of melancholy and half-participation so far (his apprentice carries most of the 'work' so far), it'll be interesting to see where he stacks up in the final tally, so to speak.

 

[Iamnotspock]

As for the idea that the far away galaxy might be our own Milky Way, it's not likely, but there is a film that depicts that as a possibility. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. E.T. recognizes Yoda, or at least his species and references him as "Home". Later in The Phantom Menace, we see some of E.T.'s species in the Senate of the Galactic Republic.

E.T. doesn't recognise Elliot's action figures of Boba Fett and Greedo though...

 

[Tarek71]

No, you can't, because the World Between Worlds is not a device for time travel.

Again, if they say it can, then it can. So that ends that concern. Even if you think Filoni ruled it out, and he didnt, the next creative leadership can just say "yes it can be used that way."

Filoni: "You can gain knowledge of the future or futures that may happen, and you can see things that happened in the past. You can at times choose to alter them, but it’s perilous to do so and when you alter something you don’t know if that’s not the way it always happened."

Hard to say you can interact with other times and then say you cant change them. So he ends up saying that you could, but it would be a bad idea, and in any case he isnt going to use it the way we are talking about. Not a completely coherent idea when you listen to him struggle to explain it. Hard to establish that you can see other times, interact with those events, but somehow not alter them, so he concedes that much.

But if it makes you feel any better, we can just say that someone invents a time machine, and goes back and changes history. I am ok with any number of narrative ways of wiping out the RianVerse-JJVerse events. It just so happens that the WBW would work very nicely to do that.

 

[Crewman6]

E.T. doesn't recognise Elliot's action figures of Boba Fett and Greedo though...

The head sculpting back in the late 70s wasn't all that great.

 

[Ithekro]

Yoda was around for a long time. Mandalorians or Rodians might seem common to E.T. and not really think it's the way home, but someone rare, like Yoda's species could be what triggers him (he's a kid it seems). Or perhaps Rodians and Mandalorians are mostly gone by whatever time E.T. arrives on 1980s Earth, but there are still some of Yoda's species around (like say Grogu). Because we know so very little about Yoda's species, we can't even guess where they are from. Only that they are predators based on how Grogu hunts frogs.

E.T. could be from present day, were as the events of Star Wars are still "A Long Time Ago". We have basically two clues that E.T.'s species is from the Star Wars galaxy, and that Yoda's species is at least known to them.

Or course there is also the chance that E.T.'s species is from the Far Away Galaxy, and they use to use the old extra-galactic hyperspace routes in olden times. Or these adventures with Purgil open up our galaxy for exploration in the Far Future.

 

[DigificWriter]

Again, if they say it can, then it can. So that ends that concern. Even if you think Filoni ruled it out, and he didnt, the next creative leadership can just say "yes it can be used that way."

Filoni: "You can gain knowledge of the future or futures that may happen, and you can see things that happened in the past. You can at times choose to alter them, but it’s perilous to do so and when you alter something you don’t know if that’s not the way it always happened."

Hard to say you can interact with other times and then say you cant change them. So he ends up saying that you could, but it would be a bad idea, and in any case he isnt going to use it the way we are talking about. Not a completely coherent idea when you listen to him struggle to explain it. Hard to establish that you can see other times, interact with those events, but somehow not alter them, so he concedes that much.

But if it makes you feel any better, we can just say that someone invents a time machine, and goes back and changes history. I am ok with any number of narrative ways of wiping out the RianVerse-JJVerse events. It just so happens that the WBW would work very nicely to do that.

Like it or not, the Sequel Trilogy happened.

Deal with it.

The World Between Worlds cannot and will not ever be used to change that fact.

 

[Tarek71]

The World Between Worlds cannot and will not ever be used to change that fact.

It obviously CAN be used to do that, and hopefully it will be in the future. We'll see!

 

[fireproof78]

But if it makes you feel any better, we can just say that someone invents a time machine, and goes back and changes history. I

What makes me feel better is enjoying the ST and watching how these shows connect in.

 

[Ithekro]

Since we are getting a Rey film set after the Sequel Trilogy, it is extremely unlikely they will wipe that out.

What we might get is a lesson in the TWBW of why the Sequel Trilogy needs to remain intact. I mean while the EU Legends version of events is well liked, the Galaxy is in a lot worse shape by 35 ABY due to the Vong and a whole lot of the continued decades long war with the Empire and the coming Civil War by Jacen Solo. The old EU was "kind" to the Skywalker-Solo Family with lots to do, and many children and grandchildren. In current Disney Canon, the Galaxy is pretty much fine. Just a few trashed planets by the First Order, and a trashed Mandalor thanks to Moff Gideon. But the Skywalker Line is basically destroyed. Its lineage and legacy in the Force might survive via Rey, Grogu, and Sabine, but otherwise, the Skywalkers will be a legend of a 70 year span in Galactic History.

 

[Crewman6]

Or course there is also the chance that E.T.'s species is from the Far Away Galaxy, and they use to use the old extra-galactic hyperspace routes in olden times. Or these adventures with Purgil open up our galaxy for exploration in the Far Future.

They wouldn't have a seat in the senate, then.

 

[Reverend]

You guys do know what an easter egg is right? You're not supposed to apply logic to it, and there's a reason the ET's have never shown up again; it was just a gag.

Baylan (or any Force user without ethics) doesn't need to work to feed himself. He throws the chance cube, it comes up the way he wants, and endless variations on that theme. You use the Jedi mind trick to get the bank teller to hand you that big stack of credits, no questions asked. You do the same to get some Han Solo wannabe to hand over the title and codes to his ship.

That's certainly one way he could make a living. But it's not the only one.

Baylan has no worries about where his next meal is coming from. In that sense, working as a mercenary is pointless.

. . . unless he enjoys the work, and it pays really, REALLY well. Like imagine if one job that takes all of an afternoon pays more credits than he can make conning marks and skimming sabbac tables all week long, with the added bonus of not having to constantly be on the run, wanted in every system in the galaxy, and with half the hunters in the galaxy holding a bounty puck with his face on it. At a certain point, that kind of thing catches up. There's a certain degree of security in coming upon one's income honestly, at the behest of powerful people.

Honestly though, I don't think any of that fits his personality or demeanour anyway. On top of which, I don't think he'd even have a Padawan if he didn't on some level want to do this kind of thing. It's clearly not just a job, it's a lifestyle and perhaps the only one he knows or wants.

 

[Tuskin38]

I wonder who voiced Marrok. The credits list Paul Darnell as his actor, but he's a stunt guy.
I meant it's entirely possible he also provided the voice I guess.

Could be one of the people credited under additional voices, but that seems odd that a named character voice wouldn't have a direct credit. Unless they're hiding who it actually is.

 

[Set Harth]

He's Batman.

 

[Tuskin38]

Ok I see
In Episodes 1 and 2 he was credited as 'Performance Artist - Marrok' but with Episode 3 he's was credited as just 'Marrok'. So I guess it was him as the voice.

 

[The Wormhole]

Why is it so important to Baylan Skoll and Morgan Elsbeth to find Thrawn? One is a powerful Force user and the other is the last of the Nightsisters of Dathomir (which was not indicated in "The Mandalorian"), who were also Force sensitive. Yet, both seek the likes of Thrawn, who was definitely not a Force user. So, what do they want with him? Or do they want something, where he is located?

They want Thrawn because he's a military tactical genius.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I have to say that I am really looking forward to the inevitable novel and/or comic series that chronicles Ahsoka, Sabine and Huyang's previous adventures.

 

[fireproof78]

You guys do know what an easter egg is right?

I am unfamiliar with this phrase. Perhaps you can explain it with a power point presentation.

 

[Jedi Marso]

You guys do know what an easter egg is right? You're not supposed to apply logic to it, and there's a reason the ET's have never shown up again; it was just a gag.

Thank you. Just like Artoo and Threepio show up as Egyptian heiroglyphs in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Not everything is meant to be taken literally.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

But...but...

 

[Set Harth]

Where was Huyang during the Dark Times/OT?