She was inserted into the canonical gap of time between Ep II and Ep III as Anakin’s Padawan. The Clone Wars series gets into what was going on with her during Ep III. There are three Tales of the Jedi shorts that give cliffs and additional context on her.
Was Anakin even a full Jedi at the time? I thought he was a Padawan also then. Can padawans have their own apprentices?
Idk if he would have had a bigger career, but I loved the stuff he did after Star Wars. Jumper is a true guilty pleasure that reunited him with Mace Windu.
Based on a novel. His girlfriend is played by Rachel Bilson, who went on to be Hayden’s IRL partner for the next decade. They have a kid named Briar Rose 
He advanced from padawan to Jedi knight between II and III, though the only way you can really tell is that he ditched the padawan braid. Sloppy bit of non-storytelling on their part to never be more explicit.
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I am very excited about the addition of Jacen.
Not the same character as the Jacen Solo from the novels, but I can’t imagine there won’t be (maybe just hoping) more parallels than the namesake.
Jacen Solo’s arc in the novels was everything I wanted from the prequels about turning to the Dark Side. Omg if they do this with Hayden in the background as the Yoda character advising Ahsoka how to deal with a powerful Jedi turned evil.
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The lesson:
In Rebels, Ahsoka finds out that Anakin became Vader. She’s carried a lot of guilt since then, thinking she could have done something to prevent that. Baylan kind of goaded her about this in the last episode, talking about how she abandoned Anakin (which was not exactly what happened, she left the Jedi because the Order dicked her over). So basically the lesson was to let go of that guilt, understand that nothing she did could have kept Anakin from falling, and to move on (choose life).
Yes, Dave Filoni loves LOTR, and the change to white robes for Ahsoka is absolutely deliberate.
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Appreciate the write up, I don’t think they did a good job then in this series establishing that guilt, I suppose it’s obvious to informed viewers, but like it seemed to me Ahsoka already “chose life” if choosing life means being a soldier and accepting the consequences? Like re: the story in this series, how is she different now than before the first three episodes; is she less/more likely to choose the people she cares about over saving the universe, about the same, or more? Like she was already pretty committed to sacrificing when the stakes are high, that’s why I wasn’t sure I got the point of it.
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Stephen Glover first dropped the news of a “Lando” movie on a recent appearance on the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast, telling the host, “It’s not even a show…the idea right now is to do a movie. Right now, because of the strike, it’s kind of like telephone, all of the information.” That’s all the info Stephen could provide. Lucasfilm confirmed the news afterwards.
“Lando is charm incarnate,” Glover continued at the time. “He’s kind of a maverick, which I don’t think there’s a lot of anymore. It’s hard to be the smooth talker nowadays. Where’s the line? That’s also where the danger is. How close can you get without tripping over it?”
Glover added, “I would love to play Lando again. It’s a fun time, being him. It just has to be the right way to do it. Time is precious. The past couple of years, this pandemic shit, it really had people experience time… People realize their time is valuable. You only get so much. I’m not interested in doing anything that’s going to be a waste of my time or just a paycheck.
I could be way off, but I think the arc is for her to lean fully into the heroism and hope of being a Jedi – only to face a series-spanning betrayal.
In that sense, Asohka being MORE like the person we saw in ep1 is priming us to feel gutted when that solid sense of self is suddenly ripped apart by a failure beyond her worst fears.
I think in that sense, the series will expand on the themes skydiver described. But you can’t feel her being broken by failure without first making her feel good about herself, only for her to fail when she then faces the worst possible version of her deepest fears.
Does Thrawn look like a blue-skinned, red-eyed Elon Musk?
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He kind of is.
But yes, Lars Mikkelsen looks like Elon Musk.
This episode felt like original trilogy Star Wars, like George did it himself. I don’t know how else to describe it other than it brought back that feeling I had when I first saw a New Hope, with the weird and wild fantasy elements and strange aliens and that almost silly but also menacing atmosphere.
This might be my favorite episode just because it made me nostalgic. I’m a sap.
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I think this was my favorite episode too because of feeling like we’re finally in a new place, across space, plot, characters, like across the franchise, not just this series. Still some flaws, the dialogue is still so bad in spots, but Titus Pullo (rip) does a lot with not much, and Thrawn’s lines were pretty good. I’d love to see Thrawn with Andor’s scriptwriters.
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Turns out that was Claudia Black.
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Baylan remains the most interesting character in this show.
We finished Boba Fett. It was definitely funny how episodes 5 and 6 were just extra Mandalorian episodes.
We enjoyed the show, though! Didn’t think it sucked at all. And the part where Grogu jumped into Mando’s arms hit me right in the feels.
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Farscape ITT
It’s so funny how my impression of what’s popular and well-known is entirely different from everyone else because I’m apparently a weirdo.
All I hear is Morrigan from Dragon Age. Apparently, in here and on twitter, I’m in much smaller a minority than I thought.
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Heh I was already embarrassed I didn’t say Good Guys, Bad Guys 
Dragon Age was a few years after I stopped playing anything but Mario and Mario Kart. I missed out on Claudia’s Stargate years too.
How are the games??? Do you feel like they hold up if I check out a Let’s Play…?
They are Bioware RPGs, which means story/characters over gameplay…but that’s what I love. You could check out a Let’s Play (might be tough to find them for DA, though, since it’s older) but the thing about RPG Let’s Play vids is they almost never make the same decisions you would, which often have lots of effects on the way the story goes as well as how the characters and world interact with you. I find them…unsatisfying because of that. heh
Mass Effect might be a bit more accessible, especially since they just released a legendary edition with all 3 remastered games 2 years ago, and there are a ton of Let’s Play vids on that. Also Bioware. Claudia Black actually does have a small part in the second of those games…heh.
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