Dave Filoni can honestly be so petty in the ways he tries to get Ahsoka to one-up all the other characters in Star Wars. Just to make sure his original OC’s still the best.
Rey: I can hold a slow moving ship back with the Force!
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well I’ll just have Ahsoka hold back a fast moving ship, piloted by a Sith Lord, while surrounded by hostile Clone troopers! Take that Rey!
Fans: Aww Grogu’s so cute and it’s cool he can use the force so well!
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well here’s baby Ahsoka and the story of how she tamed a ferocious predator as a toddler! See? She’s still the best! Take that baby Yoda!
Luke Skywalker: I’m the son of Anakin Skywalker.
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka’s the padawan of Anakin Skywalker and actually has this really important backstory with him that Vader’s never mentioned! Take that Skywalker!
Anakin Skywalker: I’m the Chosen One!
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka’s chosen by the goddess of the light side herself and is now Gandalf the White! Take that Chosen One!
The Jedi: *All die in Order 66.*
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka survives thanks to some never aforementioned training that makes her smarter, faster, more skilled, and therefore better than all the other Jedi! Take that Order 66!
Everyone: *Dies eventually*
Dave Filoni: Oh yeah? Well Ahsoka’s going to survive all the ages of SW without physically aging past 30! Just so she can stay young and pretty for all canon! Take that Father Time!
I wanted to add this:
Luminara and Barriss peacefully being Master and Padawan as George Lucas himself intended.
Dave Feloni: Oh yeah? Well they suck! I’m gonna make Ahsoka and Anakin look like supreme beings against them and oh while I’m at it I’m gonna make Barriss a terrorist for no reason and I’m going to have Luminara die a horrible death and string her body up for Empire use. Yes…Yes…that will do.
This one doesn’t bother me OVERLY much, although it obviously does fall into the category of making Ahsoka kind-of ridiculously overpowered sometimes.
The only person who gets one-upped by this is, in fact, Qui-Gon Jinn. You know, Filoni’s other pet fave that he often uses to bash the Jedi and lift up as better than everyone else. So in that sense it’s almost funny that Ahsoka beat Maul 1v1.
Obi-Wan beats Maul 1v1 himself in TPM, and then beats both Maul AND Savage 1v2 later in TCW and then in like 3 moves when 1v1 in Rebels, so it’s not like Ahsoka’s fight really makes Obi-Wan look all that bad. Kanan beats Maul while BLIND 1v1 in Rebels later, too. Palpatine kicks his ass SO HARD, even with Savage there, as well. The last person I could think of who ends up looking a little bad as a result of this is Pre Viszla, but Ahsoka kicks Mandalorian ass in season 4 when she gets captured by Death Watch anyway, so this isn’t exactly the first time she’s one-upped Pre Viszla. Pre Viszla’s also just not Force sensitive, so Ahsoka beating him is kind-of a given, to be honest.
Ahsoka’s also canonically supposed to be pretty advanced and Maul is, well, something of a has-been who gets beaten by other people pretty often. He’s not ACTUALLY that powerful and when he DOES win it’s usually because he’s managed to catch the other person by surprise, has an army behind him, his opponent isn’t Force sensitive, or it’s Qui-Gon and he dies to send a thematic narrative message. Maul is just sort-of canonically a loser, let’s be honest. The only reason Ahsoka ends up seeming overpowered by beating him is because she’s literally had like a year and a half of training at this point, while everyone else who’s gone up against him and beaten him has had at least 10 years of training or experience. Which again means that the only person she ends up one-upping is Qui-Gon Jinn, which is the funniest possible Jedi for her to one-up given how much Filoni loves Qui-Gon and thinks he’s better than all the other Jedi.
I think the reason Filoni is so feral about having Ahsoka be very Mary Sueish is…. in the end, she IRRELEVANT. By the time Ahsoka was created, the main story of Star Wars was over. And no matter what he does. No matter how hard he tries, the story is over; And Ahsoka had nothing to do with it. And I think that drives him CRAZY.
And then it happened again with the sequels-which were created almost a decade after ahsoka-they came and went with only a vocal cameo of her, she is as irrelevant to them as she is to the others
She is! I honestly haven’t watched passed the second Sequel movie, but she wasn’t in those either! The story NEEDS Anakin. It NEEDS Obi Wan and Luke and Leia and Han and Chewbacca. NEEDS Padme and her terrible life choices, NEEDS the JEDI. But… it doesn’t need Ahsoka. It hadn’t needed her since 1977.
It’s so sad to me that a huge part of the Star Wars fandom still talks about how the Jedi lost their way and one of the main reasons is that the fought in the clone wars.
Because this is a children’s show. For children. And in the Jedi crash episode they literally bring up this argument.
This old man goes off on them. He chooses peace. But what does his peace look like?
The separatists come in and are like “our planet now” and he’s like “ok fine”
And then they use the planet to test out a HUGE weapon that would killed MILLIONS of innocent people and clones. So already his “peace” is just breeding more violence.
But then they decide to use his people as test subjects.
What he was doing wasn’t “peace” it was compliance. He was aiding colonizers and invaders and then they were going to kill him and his entire community because of it.
The separatists were literally conquering planets and killing and enslaving the inhabitants. You wanted the Jedi to sit back and go “sorry man. We like peace. Can’t get involved.”
I just… how can so many people in this fandom misinterpret something that was shoved down their throats??
People talk about “The Shape of Water” like it’s just the fish fucking movie as if it wasn’t about a mute woman feeling truly understood for the first time in her entire life and then yeah fucking a fish
My expectations for the new episode: Maybe aliens invade Alabama and the Doctor has to fight them with Rosa’s help
The reality: OH MY GOD THIS EPISODE IS SO WELL WRITTEN. IT’S ACTUAL HISTORY. IT’S GOD TIER. IT’S UP THERE WITH THE VINCENT EPISODE AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL. WE STAN DOCTOR WHO.
A mad scientist who doesn’t understand why their plan to create a hybrid of two hated/feared animals in an attempt to make them cute and make people like them failed. They think their waspyena is ADORABLE! And it’s an even more effective predator now that it can fly and has a stinger! Why are you screaming???
men in black still holds up so well imo the jaded old man getting partnered with an insubordinate rookie (and it works bc they’re both fucking insane). the lore. the creepy cockroach alien wearing a human as a suit & planning world domination. the kitty and his lil necklace. the wazzzzzzzzup aliens & talking pug. the special effects and pre digital haze. the quote where k says “fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the earth was the center of the universe. five hundred years ago, everybody knew the earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. imagine what you’ll know tomorrow”