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#THIS IS SO NOT FUNNY MR FILONI. THIS IS NOT FUNNY AT ALL.
legobenkenobi · 1 year
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GOD. LOOK AT CODY’S FACE WHEN CROSSHAIR SAYS THE JEDI ARE TRAITORS. HES SO SAD. FUCK this show will kill me.
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nightfall-1409 · 7 months
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you know im actually going to swing a bat at the hornets nest
it sure is funny how the only character that gets consistently derided as "Dave Filoni's blorbo" is ahsoka tano. Like. "Oh it's just his OC" / all the complaints she hogs up screen time. It sure is fucking funny that it's that complaint specifically. No one's out here deriding Thrawn with comments about being Timothy Zahn's OC or other legends only characters OC's. The one character who gets it more than any other is. Ahsoka Tano.
She was a main character of TCW, and I'm sorry there are so many bitter people that made it their personality trait to hate a teenage girl (and I grew up in that time. I remember). that was just part of that show's pitch. The way her story was wrapped into Anakin and Obi-Wan's was GL's, not Mr Filoni's idea.
IDK. I feel like it's really something that so many people can take characters who have maybe a collective 10 minutes of screen time and cultivate a fan experience around them and then turn around and go "IDK i just never clicked with her Filoni really pushed her on us."
Especially when you can look at their output and notice the general gender ratio of their interest.
It's really something that SW Rebels characters don't get the "Dave Filoni's OC" label. Kanan Jarrus is also his OC. As is Ezra Bridger. As is Captain Rex. I've occasionally seen people real mad about Captain Rex's screen time compared to other clones (including other TCW only staples), but again. Anakin and Ahsoka were the primary main characters of the anthology. Others starred at times, but they were the heart of that show. Of course their clone captain is the one we spend the most time with and the natural choice to center other clone episodes on.
But the character that gets derided the most is Ahsoka Tano. The character I picture when someone refers to his blorbo. Is Ahsoka Tano.
I wonder what the fuck's happening there. I wonder.
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engagemythrusters · 7 months
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okay. ahsoka ep 3.
i already know jacen is in this bc i got SPOILED but let me tell you im gonna still be shocked anyway skldjflkd
k here we go
These introductions are pointless. Like we saw the last ep last week. If we forgot we can just look it up.
OH WOW she’s hot
“Not bad but not good” WOW HUYANG. Oh wow this guys comin for Sabines whole LIFE here damn
Um ig Ahsoka forgot that Mandalorians can hold their own against jedi just damn fine? Sabine once beat KANAN
Ahsoka: okay time to pretend to be Kanan
UH OKAY. UM. “I can’t see how am I supposed to fight” WAS A STUPID LINE TO GIVE TO SABINE WREN, THE WOMAN RAISED BY KANAN JARRUS, A NOTABLE BLIND JEDI
God can you imagine being stupid enough to give that line to her? Did filoni or Favreau write that line? Sounds on par with how idiotic those two dipshits are. Like that is so stupid. Who is that STUPID.
That’s like an anti-Kanan reference. That’s fucking Kanan retconning.
God I’m so MAD.
Honest to god I’m kinda glad this is only 30 mins long this time. I’m fucjing mad.
She fights like Sabine though. I love this actress for her. She’s doing Sabine so well. Thank you <3
Nyooooom
is mON MOT—SHE IS
Hooray chancellor mothma
JACEN!!!!!
I mean in name only so far but still. My lil snow pea boy
“Causing trouble with chopper” I’m so glad that droid is giving the galaxy hell with multiple generations of syndullas. Here’s to chopper outliving us all
HEY SHUT UP ABOUT HRR FINDING HER SON
She should be allowed to find her son the war hero at any costs
GET HIS ASS
“People who were like family to me” okay uh so that’s a workaround for saying Kanan? But Kanan wasn’t even killed by
JACEN
“Aunt” WHAT
She’s his SISTER
He looks a little like Kanan would have looked. AND NOTHING LIKE HERA (enter usual rant about PISS POOR CHARACTER DESIGN)
Also like. He wants to be a jedi 😭
LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE HIM 😭
God that look. She’s thinking of Kanan 😭😭😭
“Everyone could be a jedi” is the STUPIDEST TAKE
God i hate this fucking show
And I fucking hate filoni and Favreau so. Fuckingn. Much.
Huyang does NOT like Sabine
And he’s right about jedi and force wielders
She’s so cute I love u Sabeeen <3
T-6 shuttle shot
I love u T-6 shuttles
Wow those are fuckin… old ass ships. Clone war era.
I mean T-6 is even older but I love it so. I do not care.
Also hang on rewind a sec to the “few mandalorians have ever been jedi” okay how do you KNOW that. The two of you have been at odds so much for so long that I’m sure millions went by unnoticed by the jedi
Downgraded from Spheres In Space to fucking Circle In Space 🙄
I love Huyang he’s a bitch
Oh T-6 shuttle they’re really in it now
Oop floaty in space
Huyang out for the count again xoxo
Shin Hati is such a little shit and I ADORE her
She space-suited up in 3 seconds or some shit. God I hate sci fi.
Get yourself ahsoka you’re the dumbass who chose to stand outside
Shin Hati 👁 👁 fr
Oh
My
God
P U R R G I L
Ezra are u there?! 😭😭😭😭
okay after the initial AAAA umm yeah I’m thoroughly disappointed
The purrgil looked so BEAUTIFUL in design and colour and pattern in Rebels… only to be Giant Grey Things in this show?
God I fucking HATE this show.
Anyway half this episode is literally just space fighting. That’s so stupid.
I do like tbis planet. It’s dull and drab like everything else this show has done BUT at least the aesthetic of this one is meant to be dark and drab and dull
Anyway can they go back and follow the fucking purrgil yet
Mr Inquisitor I kind of hope you’re someone cool we already know. That’s a cool trope that I want to see in canon. If not that’s okay I want a cool inquisitor anyway.
So they’re meant to pick up thrawns ship? Like the way Jedi ships used to—
The way DT says purrgil has shocked me to near silence
That’s so funny it’s great and hard in his voice
So yeah that was stupid and awful and it’s good that was only 30 mins of disappointment rather than fucking 50 or whatever
Still love the vibes of this outtro tho. Wish the rest of the show was this cool.
now we just need -rex - ezra - direct kanan mention (like NAMED)
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sound-overlord · 2 years
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just watched the ending of the second season of rebels and here's the thots that are now in my mind in no particular order:
kanan called maul grandpa
mauls cane saber that he rips apart to be dramatic
how long was maul there before the jedi-ish arrived ? like did he have to wait for them im assuming he had some force vision or w/e that told him both abt the temple/weapon and ezra but like.... was he living there or ?
grandpa maul
what do u think maul and asohka talked abt on their turn in the lift lol ???? like for pacing reasons we dont need to kno and she was probably curt w him obviously but what did he saayyyy killing me
mauls earring gets me everytime like i know its there i can see it i am looking RESPECTFULLY
gpa maul
mauls pls help me im old~ voice is really funny to me
the inquisitors using their sabers to fly is already funny but the helicopter noise the blades made was soo fucking funny smdvkdb
like i know that this was a tragedy for asohka and kanan and ezra and mauls entire life is a tragedy and vader and the inquisitors also did not have a good time there but these episodes made me laugh so much and thats why its a comedy now
maul assigned grandpa at the kanan
ezra just has an evil holocron now i guess ???
asohka fucking DIED and we didnt even get to see the fight im literally so mad like i love violence let me see it 😤
they just pushed maul over the edge
like begone away from the plot
u red and angery grandpa
how tired of being pushed off of things do you think maul is at this point? do u think he'll develop a fear of hights ? much to think abt
what do u think maul was doing after he got thrown off the temple tho like obviously he was unconscious or he wouldve rematerialized on the ledge he was thrown off like a video games character if he wasnt but like do u think he was like *spongebob voice* "oh well. back to the dump. to the dump to the dump to the dump dump dump..." or if he just laid there for a minute
"my apprentice" yeah your apprentice, maul. "your" apprentice is a little RAT boy who's worse at being bad than he is at being good, maul. -_- typical.
"hey ezra whos the red crazy guy ?" "oh thats my grandpa"
mauls genuine excitement when he said "we're on the same side now :)" hskdhdkbdkdbd baby no
do u think at any point one of the writers were like "how do we show like via visual metaphor ezra's-and therefor any padawan's- struggle not to fall to the darkside?" and mr filoni's eyes started glowing as he responded "i know a guy"
its ~grandpa maul~
i wonder who vader was expecting to find at this sith temple tho like did he have any idea
did maul know either?? probably not. i bet he was kinda excited to see lady tano like "bitch u survived too :D!!"
the sith baking "u need two to pass" in everything in the temple is also funny to me like. they really would rip themselves apart as a group otherwise dndjdmd go off with that
maul just. blinding kanan. oOh (gay ooh) hes fucken blind now brugh. he did That.
im pretty mad that they didnt cut to maul's reaction to being called grandpa tho like did he think abt that at all, did he call ezra his apprentice because kanan used a familial term or was it more like he started doing the math like oh maybe i am about that age wait did he ever have sex before the bisection like did he have the time did ol' palpy let him or give him The Talk like obviously everyone in star wars is a virgin like hera and kanan havent even kissed yet wtf- except maybe hondo but like if maul ever DID find himself in that situation..................... oh my god he COULD be a grandpa.................
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vaguely-concerned · 3 years
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The Mandalorian Chapter 14 reactions: HOLY SHIT THAT WAS AWESOME BUT ALSO I’M CRYING edition
- the good good din characterization is back after all the weirdness last episode!!!! that soft way he says ‘no, no, I’m not mad at you’? THAT’S din djarin, he would not be fucking impatient with his son having just been informed and seen for himself that he is terrified, go away mr filoni I know you’ve got all of canon memorized but you don’t get this lol. this feels much more right in how din being conflicted and still thinking he should give the baby away for his own good plays out too  
honestly every line of dialogue for him in this one was perfect I was just whispering ‘I love this awkward clueless wonderful man just doing his best’ to myself any time he said anything. “...does this look Jedi to you?” sir I adore you more than words can describe
- we got din chuckling. asjdklfhsdkafghsdafsadhjkfsdahjkfh. fskahfksjad. side note: I can’t believe my joke post about din desperately trying to Force home school the kid with the one (1) jedi trick he knows about and the baby being delighted by it over and over anyway -- listen to his expectant excited laugh when din takes the ball and sets up the game!!!! -- was canon all along. and then the baby & mando music kicking in when he gently put the silver ball into the baby’s hands again and tells him he’s special (because he IS special. to din)? hmng. hmmmmnnnnn  
they opened on the height of softness so we would all crumple under the weight of the rest of the episode and that was very mean of them in a way I sincerely appreciate 
- nothing to see here... just a dad trying to walk through the literal manifestation of the unassailable underlying forces of the universe to get to his baby again and again........ the desperation in that, the love, the foolhardy devotion................... shit
- okay so I might be a dumbass, but I’d never noticed this before -- the silver ball has a blue spot on the top, like so: 
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and in addition we get the room where the baby goes full darth grogu (I have to laugh so I don’t cry okay) on those storm troopers, and there’s a red light in there dominating the room (and it did even more in the concept art):
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in star wars blue means light side and red means dark side (it’s very sophisticated that way), meaning the visual storytelling here is that there’s a battle for the baby’s soul and gideon and all his nonsense (and the trauma bb’s been through in the wider sense) is pulling towards the dark, while grogu and din’s connection leads him towards the light. just... the image of the baby looking at his own reflection in the symbolic representation of his relationship to din? the way children find their sense of self through being safely reflected and held by their caretakers? god help meeeeeee I will go in there and fistfight gideon myself for disrupting that in any way  
the smaller light seems to be blue too, like there’s still the presence of light even if it’s dimmed and small in that shitty horrible room, which is a change from the concept art!
- FENNEC SHAND SURVIVED BITCHES!!! I even called that she’d be back with new shiny robot parts back in season 1, could not happen to a cooler lady, I hope we get more backstory and interaction from her the next episodes -- sounds like she’s basically sworn herself to boba’s service in gratitude for saving her life, I wonder if that’s a cultural thing of whereever she comes from? does she live aboard slave 1 now too?? because that would be hilarious and amazing, it must be like two strange cats trying to get used to sharing the same space   
- everything I could ever hope for about boba fett in this series came true, they went down the much more interesting and nuanced route with jango and boba’s identities as mandalorians, he looked cool as fuck and made din as a character shine rather than overshadowing him... amazing beautiful yesss 
(I did 100% not anticipate just how ‘cool uncle boba here to help you fuck shit up’ he was going to be but I am delighted to get it anyway. uncle points deducted for getting someone to point a gun at the baby, but the main point still stands lol) 
the power and brutality of his hand to hand fighting too... a w e s o m e , I enjoyed the action scenes a lot in this one
- they even recanonized him actually wearing jango’s armour. what more could I ask for. I’ve had confused parent & child feels about these two since I was like eleven and here we fucking go again. and jango fighting in the mando civil wars too!
- so I’m grieving the razor crest (and I always will be, rip you magnificent jalopy, always in my heart) but also there’s the grim satisfaction that my reading on it was sort of true -- it is (...was. oh god it’s going to take a while to sink in huh) a symbol of din’s self and life, and at this point when they take the baby it tears everything else to pieces. the only thing that’s left in the ashes is the beskar and the thing that connects him to the baby. and there’s... a strange solace in seeing that that’s all he needs to keep going? he’s fucking obliterated from orbit but he still has his love for the baby and the beskar and that can keep him going until he finds something new, everything else can be replaced?????? weirdly healing, though he is probably going to have a solid breakdown at some point after they get the kid back (shut up they are getting the kid back) and the cold distant fog lifts 
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also this scene/shot feels like it carries some Meaning, doesn’t it? I’m on record several times saying I never want din to be mand’alor and that’s still true, but there’s something about the framing of this and the way boba looks at him that’s like... hm. I’m not sure I have the words for it. there’s something heightened about it, anyway, for a moment he looks like something mythic there in the wreckage 
(something I would be much cooler with is our clan of two growing a little bit and those new people rallying behind him, actually, that might be neat. imagine if a force user does show up for the baby and gets adopted into the clan somehow??? so many possibilities.) 
- from the way he picks up the silver ball... din djarin is on his way to straight up murder some people huh
I think part of what reassures me about this scene is the music -- this mando flute is not distant, is not beaten, is not despondent, it’s clear and determined and strong.
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I love this. I love when we get explicit baby POVs, it makes it feel so real and intimate and... like home. (I especially loved baby’s point of view inside the razor crest, which just made me tear up again. baby lost the closest thing he’s had to a home in a long long time on top of it all. everything is suffering)
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Emotionally Significant Thumb Grabbing tm; the show
- din djarin looking for the ‘on’ switch on a magic rock fhsdakjfhsadlfhsdjah I can’t breathe
 “Well, this is the seeing stone. Are you. Seeing anything?” fsafkdsajhfsa sdhfksjalhfkjsdahfkjsdhf
- the energy around the baby as he’s, in ahsoka’s words, ‘choosing his path’ is blue, and the force sort of works across time and space, right?? so there’s definitely still hope for our lil green bean to not have to come up with a really dumb unsubtle sith name for himself, as is regrettably yet delightfully tradition. darth babbu should never come to pass (I do like how they’re interrogating the normal dark/light side dichotomy in this series, seeing as this is a literal baby who can’t really be responsible for that stuff himself yet and has such capacity for both.)  
- listen. listen, the way din says ‘can you please hurry up’ with no sarcasm or real impatience whatsoever, more like a harried worry, to his force-meditating son as he jogs off to make sure no one’s trying to kill them. is hilarious and also YES this is what the character is!!! weirdly and incongruously polite under stress sometimes and with a slightly odd reaction pattern to things!!! he’s not just quiet and badass, he’s a little strange sometimes and it’s so good!  
- a friendly opening volley warning shot from boba there
also din uncertainly asking BOBA FETT if he’s a jedi... now this is the dramatic irony I’ve been looking for haha 
I guess neither shand nor boba actually know din’s name after this either. baby you gotta start introducing yourself at some point it gets real confusing when there are two mandos on screen 
oh the long weary sigh going through din’s frame when boba says he wants ‘the armour’ and he thinks it’s just someone trying to peel the beskar off his corpse again. sorry the galaxy’s so shitty dad   
- “But fate sometimes steps in to rescue the wretched” is a killer line well done mr favreau. I like that boba actually offers din a good deal as well and seems to intend to deliver on it from how things are going. 
- din using his beskar-covered bod to cover someone he’s fighting alongside!!! literal moving cover haha. also I love fennec’s costume design  
- I don’t know where din got more whistling birds from and I don’t care, it was really cool haha 
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wow haha um so anyway -- 
(cue all the ‘who wore it better’ with cobb vanth’s ‘spiderman’s first home made costume’ look on one side and ABSOLUTE UNIT DADDY boba fett on the other side posts lol)
- aaaghh the music almost like a stunned desperate fluttering heart beat as din watches the razor crest be destroyed 
- for someone who has willingly worked for them in the past boba sure sounds less than thrilled about having the empire back in any capacity 
- oof the deadness in din’s voice when he says “The child is gone”. ooooh no that got me  h e l p 
- guessing next episode is at least partly a ‘gathering old allies and preparing the assault’ step before the grand finale, then! they cannot go for the season ender cliffhanger with this, I will fucking riot. anything can be up in the air except baby and dad being separated, I will not allow it
it would be very funny if the force user baby called out to comes stumbling into the middle of all this like the troy entering the room with pizzas meme too 
- the music in the darth grogu scene is partially a dark mirror of the baby & mando music :’( is nothing in this world sacred
also from how he reaches out for it baby might have used a light saber before in the past with the jedi? ngl the idea of baby wielding the dark saber not when he’s all grown up but in like two episodes -- with all the chaos a toddler holding a laser sword would involve -- is all that is keeping me sane here 
‘liable to put an eye out with one of these’ well gideon you sure have doomed someone to lose an eye with that one, here’s to hoping it’s you, for full dramatic payoff 
he is a deliciously smug awful force with great musical cues tho, you have to give it to him
- okay so this
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is obviously awful and horrible and it makes me so sad... but it is undeniably also very very very funny in how it’s framed. you know what? after all this bullshit baby grogu can have a little dark side tantrum, as a treat, we’ve all been there right
(forget finding a jedi, we need to go out there and find a child psychologist who can help him deal with this without adding the fear that he’s on the path to become a two foot tall evil space sorcerer to the mix Y_________Y) 
- rip the razor crest except for the second time :’’’( gone but never forgotten
- the last thing din tells the baby is “I’m gonna protect you; I’ll be back soon”. and I hope that stays with the kid somehow and that it actually comes true, that din will be back for him as soon as humanly possible and all this pain and fear can be repaired. ggggghhhhh my emotions are too big for my dumb human body 
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asunachinadoll · 3 years
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initial thoughts on chapter 13
AJFDLSDLSLJ;AJFL YOU GUYS THE TIME IS HERE!!! It is that time of the week again and VERY BIG THINGS ARE HAPPENING
Seeing the thumbnail of the episode, I freak out
ALS;HDFLDSKJGLDHLJS OMG!!!!!! AHSOKA!!!!!!!!!! 
SK;HGSKGJGLAGSJF
L;ASHGLKSJFL;HGLASKDHG;LSHSA;LKLSDGHSDL
SHE’S SO COOL
MR. FILONI IS REALLY SPOILING US AND WE’RE NOT EVEN THREE MINUTES IN
SHE’S SOOOOO COOOLLLL
HER WHITE SABERS
HER OUTFIT
SHE’S SO BEAUTIFUL AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ahsoka: stealth mode engaged
Yesss my boysssssss
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but I love how much Din talks to baby... so precious 🥰🥰🥰
I love how when they’re just flying, Baby sits up front with Dad
“Hey, what did I tell you? Back in your seat.” *begrudgingly listens* --> Hahaha classic dad and child move
Aww baby looks so solemn... does he know what’s about to happen?
The planet looks very monochromatic
The Amban rifle is back!!!
SACK BABY
When that one guy says, “Nice armor” and Din slightly shifts his vambrace to cover up Baby
Din’s stance
This poor town... Din’s gotta be getting some sus vibes
Din shifting his bag so that Baby is hidden by his cloak!! TvT
Beskar spear? Hmmm....
Din just totally making their preposition work for him XD
“I keep it around for luck.”
 I like the scenery of this planet... just a bunch of barren trees all over the place
OMG AHSOKA DROPPING OUT OF THE SKY LIKE A DROP BEAR
DIN USING HIS VAMBRACES TO DEFLECT THE SABERS
THIS WHOLE FIGHT SCENE
Ahsoka’s little smile omg Im love her
When she sees Baby 👀👀👀
Ahsoka and Baby with the backdrop of the moon!!
Nervous Dad Pacing
They be talkin through the Force!!
L;AHGSDJGLGHAS;KJ; A OMGGG
GROGU
DID WE JUST GET BABY’S NAME!??!?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Din’s reaction to learning the baby’s name!!!
When Din says his name and he TURNS TO LOOK AT DAD 😭😭
GROGU BACK STORY
Sleepy babe TvT
WHEN DIN SETS BABY ON THE ROCK AND HIS LITTLE PAT TO GROGU’S BACK AWWWWW
“He doesn’t understand.” DIN YOU LITERALLY TALK TO BABY ALL THE TIME HE UNDERSTANDS YOU
Omg Din’s little nod of encouragement 
AWWW Grogu’s little hands!!! 
“That would be a first.” Omg such a parent thing to say lolol
“I told you, he’s stubborn.” Aww Din don’t be like that. Just give him a second!
YESSS!!! I love Din squatting with the little knob shifter! That’s more like it!
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW DIN’S IMMEDIATE WORDS OF ASSURANCE TO GROGU AND BEING A SUPER PROUD DAD IM SOB 😭😭😭😭
Now Din’s all “What!?! My son Grogu is the best and deserves to be trained!!”
“I’ve seen what such feelings can do to a fully trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us.” Oh... oh my heart.... 😢😢
Nice to hear Din just list off the threats the Magistrate has. He’s very observational like that.
Ahsoka’s smile!!!
“A Mandalorian and a Jedi? They’ll never see it coming.” AHH I LOVE IT
 AHSOKA IS SO FREAKIN COOL
Love the visual of the bell being sliced in half
Getting major samurai/saving the village/epic stand-off vibes throughout this whole episode and it’s amazing
OMG THE VISUAL OF DIN AND AHSOKA STANDING IN THE BACK IS SOOOOO GOOD
Din talking to these bad guys is so funny cause he’s like... casually vague XD
Ahsoka fight!!! She’s definitely holding back though... I wonder if she just doesn’t want to bother wasting energy on her lolol
Thrawn name drop!!! :O
“Wait here, I’ll go get him” DIN SOUNDS SO SAD 😭😭😭
Ahsoka’s face, omg she knows she can’t separate father and son
AWWW DIN LOOKING AT SLEEPING BABY MY HEART
DIN IS SO SAD IM GONNA CRI
Grogu’s like nah man and goes back to sleep
AWWWWWWWWW THEY’RE SITTING TOGETHER OMGGGG 
DIN IS BEING SO SOFT AND AFFECTIONATE WITH GROGU I CANT HANDLE THIS
And they’re still together!!! Best ending TvT
AHHH SO MANY THINGS IN THIS EPISODE!!! Really enjoyed this one, and so glad to see my girl live action! I’m still nervous as to what’s to come but only time will tell
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