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That would have been infinitely better than recycling Sidious.  Unlike his former master, Maul sought to consolidate power throughout the underworld to have the hidden power and influence of the crime families for himself. He, and his successor(s), would have been formidable opponents with that kind of backing.  Further, unlike Palpatine, he could openly threaten innocents to use as leverage, effectively holding entire planets as hostages.

Hell, with just his little impromptu coalition he was able to conquer Mandalore remarkably quick.  Imagine if he could have expanded that power throughout the outer rim.

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In the end, it's kind of a pointless discussion.

The winner is whoever the author/writer decides it is. If a Mandalorian fires off his Whistling Birds and downs a Jedi/Sith or two, it's because the story needed it to happen. He's either the hero, or the villain. If, on the other hand, the Jedi/Sith held up their hand and stopped all the little missiles with telekinesis, or turned them back against the Mandalorian, it's because that's what the writer wanted to happen.

Trying to get consistency out of dozens (hundreds?) of authors over a 40+ year time span isn't really possible. Lucas tried...for a long time everything had to be approved by Lucasfilm, or even by him personally. Eventually that devolved into "don't fuck up what George has already written and you're fine."

For the most part, though, the media portrays the Jedi/Sith as literally superhuman (superalien?). They can accomplish anything and everything with the Force, if they have the will. If they fail, it's because they needed to for the plot or character development journey. The hero or villain can block incoming blaster bolts from a dozen stormtroopers or droids or whatever, but the secondary characters die.

A perfect example is falling. Jedi/Sith can throw themselves out of moving aircraft, fall hundreds or thousands of feet, and land safely in a superhero pose. But when you need one of them to die, you toss them off a building. Maybe after cutting off a limb, but still...the glaring inconsistencies are deeply embedded.

The same thing happens in the philosophy. The Jedi are supposed to be peacekeepers, non-violent, etc. etc. etc., but they never fail to use violence to solve a problem. They're control freaks, and the instant they feel control slipping away, a lightsaber comes out, and the bodies hit the floor. Or, sometimes, that's the go-to-first. Look at Ahsoka in this season of the Mandalorian.

Did she have to run through the forest and literally murder a dozen troopers before approaching the gate to give her demands? Couldn't she, basically being an invincible ninja, have crept into the main compound, cut down the two guard droids as she dropped in, reflected a blaster bolt into Michael Biehn's face, and beat down the woman, all before anyone could have realized what had happened? It's happened before, many times in the shows. Sneak in, maybe have to fight out. Instead, she goes all judge, jury, and executioner on a bunch of flunkies first. That also happens a lot. So much for the ideals of the Jedi. More glaring inconsistencies.

But, back on the point we were discussing, Ahsoka was able to fight Vader almost to a standstill. She would have lost in the end (because everyone has to lose to Vader except Luke in the end...plot), and was saved by Ezra. She would also have gone through the Dark Troopers like they were paper-mache. She could have probably held her own against Luke for quite a while.

Din was about two steps and two seconds from being cut in two. He's alive because that's what the plot said. Had he been one of the faceless Mandalorian cohort that trained him (and that he was no better than), she would have cut down several in the space of that scene.

And that's the problem with arguing who would beat who in any genre of media. Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris. Superman vs Batman. Din vs Ahsoka. Who does the plot say wins? Can you really make a compelling argument of any kind as to who, in our warped imaginations would win any given confrontation between fictional super-beings (Bruce and Chuck included)? Our favorite will win, because that's what our imagination wants to happen, and we'll always come up with some convoluted reason why.

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That was what I thought. Like the wrist rockets, too many at one time for them to block.

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This EP of Mando was the best Star Wars since the Vader scene in Rogue one. R1 was a great SW movie. This EP is how SW movies should be made.



Anyone else thing we will see a Jedi Academy? Luke, Grogu, Kylo and a few others. Will Grogu escape Kylo's wrath?

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100% wrong. His beskar armor fought Ahsoka to a draw for long enough to talk to her. Without that, he'd be a rapidly cooling gut pile. Just like everyone else a skilled Jedi fought. It's one of the problems with having Jedi, actually.

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The clones seemed to wipe most of them out.

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Did she have to run through the forest and literally murder a dozen troopers before approaching the gate to give her demands? Couldn't she, basically being an invincible ninja, have crept into the main compound, cut down the two guard droids as she dropped in, reflected a blaster bolt into Michael Biehn's face, and beat down the woman, all before anyone could have realized what had happened? It's happened before, many times in the shows. Sneak in, maybe have to fight out. Instead, she goes all judge, jury, and executioner on a bunch of flunkies first. That also happens a lot. So much for the ideals of the Jedi. More glaring inconsistencies.
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Actually an interesting thought. No, it wasn't necessary. The thing is though, Ahsoka isn't a Jedi. She never ascended from being a padawan. Her formative years while a padawan were spent almost entirely in war. There's also the influence of her master to be contended with, and I think her behavior here was a nod to Anakin's teachings.  

Think back to Mortis. Anakin embraced the Son because he feared the evil he would become and thought doing so could end evil throughout the galaxy. He justifies betraying Ahsoka and Obi-Wan as being a necessary sacrifice. He was essentially a father to Ahsoka, so it stands to reason she would suffer the same pitfall, justifying immoral acts for the sake of righteousness.  This often makes excellent villains if they believe the ends always justify the means.  

And that's what we see here.  The ends justifying the means. She's judged them evil because they assist in the perpetuation of suffering, irrespective of whether this was done of their own free will.  To her, cutting them down isn't immoral as it tips the balance toward good.  This is what makes her a "Gray Jedi", neither light nor dark, akin to the Father.  Her not tipping to the dark side like her master before her is undoubtedly an influence of the Daughter, whose sacrifice gave Ahsoka new life.

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Ahsoka wasn't a Jedi, she left the order.

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Its going to suck for Baby Yoda when Luke makes Grogu carry him around in a backpack.  Those little feet are going to be working over time.

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Not an unfair point to make, but it's not just Ahsoka who resorts to the lightsaber without hesitation. The stories, books, movies, and games are filled with such incidents. In the distant past of the EU, the point of a lightsaber was to be able to defend yourself against blasters and to be able to incapacitate your enemy without killing them. It wasn't even considered harsh, considering the advanced state of prosthetics.

Somewhere along the way, that seems to have gotten lost. You don't see it as much in TCW, or Episodes 1, 2, and 3 because Lucas was very careful to make the opponent non-living droids that could be slaughtered at will in cool action scenes. Almost everyone else that gets slaughtered is wearing a mask, or armor and a helmet, or something similar. Essentially the message seems to be "if you don't know who your enemy is, and dehumanize them, it's fine to swing away." Sometimes the Jedi seem very Jedi, and sometimes the plot needs an action scene with lightsabers, so a lot of things die. All I'm saying is it's a bit...inconsistent.

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Is there a pared down list of must watch episodes of The Clone Wars, I cant see myself getting through them. I’m like 18 episodes into Season 1 and every time I cue up an episode I turn the TV off.

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Do you really miss out on anything crucial in seasons 1 and 2, because so far I'm not seeing it.

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There's a lot of "throwaway" episodes, but even in those there's usually some form of plot/character development for the overall series. Skipping them just leads to confusion. If you really can't be bothered to sit through a 20-minute episode that you don't really think you like a few times a season, how do you get through ANY SHOW on modern media today? If you like every single episode of a series, it probably means every single episode of a series is exactly the same.

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Sidious would still have been recycled...I am just saying a scene at the end after Sidious is killed and the big victory celebration they cut back to Exegol and we see that the Sith are not dead because of Maul's line of Sith Lords.

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The Rebels were, are and always have been space terrorists.

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As somebody who never watched the animated series but knows a few things, and as my wife knows next to jack shit about SW outside the original three, we didn't find those stale or force fed. Because we don't really know those stories. Those are going to be new and interesting stories to most people.

Force feeding it would've been if Han had shown up, or when they shoved the two guys from the Mos Eisely cantina into Rogue One.