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Ceridwen said:
Ok, but I'm allowed to not like it. I would have preferred her to do a different thing than "be a Jedi". (I feel the same way about Sabine.) They didn't go that way, but that doesn't mean I am obligated to cheer it on.
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I didn't like it either but it makes perfect sense to my mind.

Ahsoka left the Order and ended up attacked still, plus funding our that all the clones died for no reason in the war and those she considered comrades she had to kill.

Then, she finds out Anakin survived because he joined the Sith. So, she she's what happens when one is lost to the Dark Side on two different occasions; Bariss and then Anakin.

So, she has a lot of baggage, plus uncertainty on how to move forward as a Force user, yet not able to let go of Jedi teachings.

Luke struggles with the same thing. People tell.them to become a Jedi yet how to cope with a changing galaxy and rather painful losses is not really taught beyond being willing to sacrifice in the name of the greater good, like Yoda tells Luke to do with Han and Leia.

So, unfortunately, Ahsoka's path is not a clear one.
 
Ithekro said:
That was ten or more years ago for her. She's moved past that by taking on Sabine as a Padawan (twice) and finishing her own training with Anakin Skywalker. She's Defacto a Jedi Knight now in the Galaxy that is even Farther Away.
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If there's an episode of the show where she says, "I've embraced my Jedi heritage and now consider myself a Jedi again," I'll allow it. Until then, all you have is speculation. Not everyone with an apprentice is a Jedi (obviously.).
 
Interesting tid-bit from a recent interview with Showrunner and Writer Christopher Ford: contrary to what most assumed, Yasmine Al Massri was in fact not playing Jod's late Master (the clean Jedi costume was a bit of a give-away) but instead part of a recording The Supervisor would have played as part of the whole "but all the Jedi are traitors" conversation. The idea being she was a Jedi at the temple in the midst of Order 66, sending out a call to At Attin.

Though it's still a shame for Yasmine Al Massri as I'm sure she did a great job, but I'm still glad they cut that scene. Quite unnecessary, but I can see why it's the kind of thing one only discovers in the edit. On the page it would have felt like you'd need to illustrate the point, not just have the Supervisor declare it so.

ETA: Some other interesting points include: -
  1. The Tak Rennod "mystery" being quite unintentional; obscuring his face was just an unintended consequence of making the hologram look degraded, reminiscent of an old pirate map that's falling apart.
  2. Neel was indeed intended to be an original Tippet style Ortolan, but it quickly became clear it would be too difficult to pull off, so they made him something new but still closely reminiscent.
  3. The running joke of the kids falling down came from the young actors attempting to constantly one-up each other doing falls and tumbles.
  4. Christopher Ford himself voiced both the "The Prince is in danger!" droid, as well as the "no please Sir, not again!" attendant getting eaten by the Hutt.
  5. During early development they were playing with the idea of Jod being more of a fake Jedi than real, including a gag where he's implied to have magnetic bracers, only to take them off and reveal he really can use the force. That is until they got a memo of a fake Jedi using magnets in the then upcoming Obi-Wan show, and they decided to drop most of that and keep it much simpler.
  6. Jude Law did a minor re-write (rephrasing really) of the speach where Jod gives his backstory, adding in the mention of "living in a hole in the ground", seemingly to draw an mythological parallel to Luke's story . . . who also lived in the literal hole in the ground, was taken in by a ragged Jedi Master who taught him a little, and then had to watch him die.
 
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Yeah, that seems like the kind of thing that would have been cool to see, but was also easy to cut without a big impact.
 
The Tak Rennod "mystery" being quite unintentional; obscuring his face was just an unintended consequence of making the hologram look degraded, reminiscent of an old pirate map that's falling apart.
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I refuse to believe this. Clearly it was Wim's mother ( who is also Captain No Head and the Supervisor ) all along, and they chickened out at the last minute.
 
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It's too bad this didn't do well. I actually enjoyed it, and I usually don't like kid-centric stuff. Prodigy is the only Trek series I haven't watched in it's entirety because I found it way too juvenile. SC had a much better balance of kiddie thrills and adult mystery. I also thought it was loads better than The Acolyte, which I had hoped would show me more of the galaxy pre-Empire but ended up spending most eps on yet another forest planet.
 
arch101 said:
It's too bad this didn't do well. I actually enjoyed it, and I usually don't like kid-centric stuff. Prodigy is the only Trek series I haven't watched in it's entirety because I found it way too juvenile. SC had a much better balance of kiddie thrills and adult mystery. I also thought it was loads better than The Acolyte, which I had hoped would show me more of the galaxy pre-Empire but ended up spending most eps on yet another forest planet.
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Give it time. I feel like this is the sort of show with legs over the longer term. Especially if annual holiday re-watches become a tradition with certain fans.

Just look at Acolyte; the numbers supposedly weren't great at launch, and yet still somehow manages to be #2 on the whole platform? If anything it just shows that early streaming numbers don't really mean much. Indeed the whole point of streaming is so that people can watch whenever they feel like it. It's not broadcast media like normal TV shows, or exhibition media like the cinema, so why expect it to perform the same way? If anything it's closer to traditional physical media releases in terms of viewership patterns . . . just without the actual physical media.

How many acknowledged all-time classic movies "disappointed" if not outright bombed at launch only to find their audience on home video or on TV? 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Citizen Kane', 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'Bladerunner', ' The Rocky Horror Picture Show', 'It's a Wonderful Life', 'Office Space', 'The Thing', 'The Princess Bride', 'Children of Men', 'Donnie Darko', 'The Iron Giant' . . . hell even schloky cult favourites like 'Event Horizon' and 'Tremors' found their audiences long after release!
 
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