Current Events > The best thing to come out of the Ahsoka show for me personally

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People have been saying for years that Rebels is a good show, and The Clone Wars gets really good in later seasons. It's a fair assumption that these same people also think Ahsoka is a really good show.

Based on that assumption, that nagging impulse that I ought to take the time and watch TCW and Rebels is pretty much entirely gone at this point.

Tbh Rebels is better than the other live action shows except Andor, which is the best show / movie in the whole franchise anyway. Ahsoka was alright, but almost entirely geared toward people already familiar with the main characters from Rebels and, to a lesser extent, TCW.

TCW was great, but rebels was awful in my opinion. Along with Ashoka.

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I would not watch it unless you are invested in the Rebels cast.

Ahsoka is better than Rebels. Rebels was held back by its art style and making it a kid's show. Ezra was annoying, they couldn't play up any of the relationship stuff. Filler abounds. Ahsoka makes it seem better in hindsight but like most kids shows it's a slog except for the big episodes.

Jabodie posted...

I would not watch it unless you are invested in the Rebels cast.

Naw, you don't need to be fully invested to enjoy Ahsoka. I never watched Rebels and loved it.

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You don't have to watch those shows. As long as you have a basic understanding of who the characters are, which is pretty easy.

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It was the very definition of mid, imo. Acting and dialogue were wooden as hell, aka exactly what you'd expect from a live-action sequel to a mid-10's cgi cartoon. But it had it's moments, and those moments lent a certain 'epic' quality that's been strangely lacking from SW lately.

I'd still recommend watching it so you can judge for yourself. I don't regret it, and one or two plotlines were just interesting enough that I'll watch S2 to see where they go.

Idk why this Filoni dude is held in such high regard when everything he makes is trash.

masterpug53 posted...

It was the very definition of mid, imo. Acting and dialogue were wooden as hell, aka exactly what you'd expect from a live-action sequel to a mid-10's cgi cartoon. But it had it's moments, and those moments lent a certain 'epic' quality that's been strangely lacking from SW lately.

A pretty fair assessment imo. It may be fair to say I personally didn't think the show was great, but was still invested thanks to my investment in the Rebels cast (although Hera's and especially Sabine's performances missed the mark for me big time). So take my opinion with that context, other posters.

Also not sure when Ahsoka's primary form of communication became constant knowing smiles.

Jabodie posted...

A pretty fair assessment imo. It may be fair to say I personally didn't think the show was great, but was still invested thanks to my investment in the Rebels cast (although Hera's and especially Sabine's performances missed the mark for me big time). So take my opinion with that context, other posters.

As soon as I recognized Mary-Elizabeth Winstead underneath the green makeup - best known to me personally as the actress who turned Ramona Flowers into a stock bland monotone hipster chick - I thought to myself "now here's a character who's going to evoke all the emotional heights of reading a shopping list." She definitely met expectations in that regard.

I didn't recognize Sabine's actress from anything else, but I pretty much knew what I was in for when the big dramatic dialogue between her and Sithgirl Neverblinks was 'I need that map,' and 'that's too bad;' dialogue that incidentally was so dramatic and finely-crafted that the show repeated it not only once, but maybe even twice in the next episode via flashbacks (I might be blurring the ep recap into this, can't remember for certain). I caught myself at some point in the season and said 'hey, stock badass action women have their place in fiction too, you never criticized Din Djarin for having four total lines of dialogue per ep, y'know.' But when the story revolves around a character willing to risk her life to travel to an entirely different galaxy in a one-in-a-million shot to save her long-lost friend, said character needs to shoulder a little more emotional weight than whatever disaffected sighs Sabine could muster.

My friend kept on complaining that Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka was wooden when the animated shows had Ahsoka with a lot of personality. I never watched Rebels or The Clone Wars shows, so I'm only going off what he said.

With that said, Andor is just a masterclass of a show. Shame no one watched it.

Prestoff posted...

My friend kept on complaining that Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka was wooden when the animated shows had Ahsoka with a lot of personality. I never watched Rebels or The Clone Wars shows, so I'm only going off what he said.

With that said, Andor is just a masterclass of a show. Shame no one watched it.

Ahsoka is a lot older now than in the Clone Wars. I would expect some change from her teenage self in TCW. She is probably in her early 40s and much more introspective and reserved with experience. I think Rosario Dawson does a fine job of it, personally. But I can understand not looking the direction for the character.

Jabodie posted...

Ahsoka is a lot older now than in the Clone Wars. I would expect some change from her teenage self in TCW. She is probably in her early 40s and much more introspective and reserved with experience. I think Rosario Dawson does a fine job of it, personally. But I can understand not looking the direction for the character.

Tbh I didn't mind Ahsoka being stoic and wooden. She's a Jedi and she's a Prequel-era holdover character, so being a charisma vacuum at least met expectations. Plus my only previous experience with her character was her original appearance in that Clone Wars movie and the first season of TCW when it originally aired, so I'll readily take 'stock stoic badass' over 'sassy grating teenager.'

The letdown came from Sabine having more-or-less the same personality; so apart from the story having no emotional core, the two of them played off of each other about as well as a game of tetherball.

Ezra injected a little bit of personality into the group by the end of the season, but somewhat predictably, they're now split up again going into S2, which doesn't bode well for the next few eps at minimum.

expected Rosario Dawson full frontal nude scene tbqph