#I LEGIT GASPED OUT LOUD WHEN I SAW HIM #AFTER ALL THE SHIT THIS MAN WENT THROUGH BECAUSE OF THE PREQUELS HATE #TO SEE HIM NOT JUST RETURNING TO STAR WARS #BUT TO PLAY A PREQUELS ERA CHARACTER #A BADASS JEDI MASTER WHO LIVED THROUGH THE EPISODE #WHO DUAL WIELDED LIKE A BADASS #NOT JUST IN THE ADORABLE JEDI TEMPLE CHALLENGE SERIES #BUT IN DISNEY’S BIGGEST AND HOTTEST STAR WARS PROPERTY #I AM CRYING TEARS OF JOY THAT THERE IS JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD FOR AHMED BEST #WE ARE PUTTING RESPECT ON JEDI MASTER KELLERAN BEQ’S NAME WHEN WE SPEAK OF HIM IN THIS HOUSE

Youngling Grogu rescued by Jedi Master Kelleran Beq THE MANDALORIAN Chapter 20: The Foundling

goddamn they really said “we’re going to give him the baddest outfit to ever grace these sad celibate space monks” check out the DRIP on this KING

JEDI MASTER KELLERAN BEQ!!!!

HEADCANON:

This Jedi who gets killed shielding Grogu?

She was Kelleran Beq's friend. They used to share a mug of caf together every Taungsday and vent about the troublesome younglings in their respective care.

So when he picks up her lightsaber...

... he recognizes it. He looks back at the dead Jedi and realizes it's her. And he can't help but feel a surge of emotion.

That's when the clones arrive.

And instead of giving in to his anger, Kelleran uses the emotion to steel his resolve.

Her sacrifice will be honored.

He won't let this youngling die, no matter what.

Seeing Ahmed Best as a badass Jedi Master on the silver screen rescuing one of Star War's most beloved characters is so fucking incredible and a little bittersweet because he never deserved the vitriol he got from those drooling neckbeards that to this day represent the absolute worst element within the fandom, he shouldn't have to prove anything to anybody, but at least now he gets to participate in this world he is already a part of in a way of his choosing, in a way that celebrates his face and his skill and his resilience.

Everything's gonna be alright, kid.

AFKed for a week, came back and saw Ahmed Best.

*cries*

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT THEY BROUGHT BACK AHMED BEST BUT ALSO THAT THEY CAST HIM IN THE ROLE OF SOMEONE WHO ALL THE JEDI ARE SAYING TO GET GROGU TO HIM, TO GET THE CHILD TO KELLERAN. IT’S A NOD TO THE ADORABLE JEDI TEMPLE CHALLENGE SERIES WHERE KIDS COMPETED IN A GAME SHOW TO GRADUATE FROM PADAWANS TO JEDI KNIGHTS. HIS NAME WAS KELLERAN BEQ, JEDI MASTER, IN THAT SHOW, SO THIS IS CANONIZING HIM AND DOING SO IN A WAY THAT IMPLIES HE’S EITHER A CRECHEMASTER OR SOMEONE WHO WORKS WITH THE YOUNGLINGS A LOT. I AM SO READY FOR THE KELLERAN BEQ, JEDI CRECHEMASTER, REVIVAL. PUT HIM IN COMICS AND GIVE HIM CAMEOS IN SHORT STORIES AND WHATEVER ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF, LUCASFILM.  GIVE ME MORE AHMED BEST PLAYING HIM BECAUSE I AM GOING TO BE ON CLOUD NINE FOR A WEEK AFTER GETTING KELLERAN BEQ OFFICIALLY CANONIZED INTO SERIOUS CANON.

So I make fun of recent SW projects a lot but I have to say I do like how they've handled Order 66 so far (when it's directly shown) it does a good job highlighting the tragedy of it.

But also I like that it shows the Jedi actually fighting back. In Revenge of the Sith, it looked they were all slaughtered while barely putting up a fight which... Doesn't track for them. The ones that got ambushed by their own armies in the middle of the battlefield makes sense, but I've always felt like the attack the Jedi Temple shouldn't have gone anywhere near that smoothly.

I think it'd have succeeded ultimately through sheer numbers, but there'd be a lot of dead clones for every Jedi they got. And I think the recent shows have actually done that well.

In Kenobi, it showed a Jedi Knight fighting and protecting a whole pod of younglings while trying to evacuate them, succumbing to their numbers only after dispatching a whole squad of clones.

In the Mandalorian, there was Kelleran Beq managed to fight his way out with Grogu. What I like here is that it showed he had friends and contacts of his own who helped him get off-planet. That's one thing the Jedi would've definitely had. Not that they could call an army in, of course.

And (somewhat cheating since it's not a show) in Fallen Order we saw Cal Kestis and Jaro Tapal straight-up escape a hostile ship (more convincingly than Ahsoka IMO) with Jaro straight-up sabotaging the ship so it blew up on the clones to cover their escape.

I don't blame Revenge of the Sith for not showing this in the limited runtime they had. But I'm glad to see the Jedi resistance highlighted now.

i was like OH SICK! KELLERAN IS A DUAL WIELDER!! AND THEN i saw they were two different colors and realized. the second one is a dead jedi's lightsaber he picked up while running. my god i am sad. shit

Everything is going to be alright, kid. THE MANDALORIAN – Chapter 20: The Foundling (S03E04) ››› Ahmed Best as Kelleran Beq