THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT IS A COMEDY

Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine

IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!

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Below will be my submissions, linked.

There were moments about the Ahsoka finale that I very much liked (Huyang talking to Ezra about Kanan!! He saved a matching piece to Kanan's lightsaber and said, "Ahhh, it all makes sense now." when he realized Ezra was building based on his Master's teachings!! And so gave the piece to Ezra as he's done a thousand times before!!!) but it also reconfirmed that I don't think Felony can structure a story for shit. Was it somewhat emotional to have Huyang tell Ezra about what happened to the Wrens? Sure. But you know what would have been a good, interesting story that delivered on everything Rebels built before? SEEING THE STORY UNFOLD. This isn't a story, it's an infodump. It's the same thing with the show's central relationship--Ahsoka and Sabine--that how they came to be where they are with each other, how they vastly changed their dynamic, how they created this dynamic? Told to us in a split second infodump instead of actually delivering us a story. It's the same with everything that happened after Rebels' finale, we only saw a brief CGI bit of Mandalore being carpet bombed by the Empire, but that storyline is fundamentally important to both Bo-Katan's story and Sabine's story, yet we never even see it as a story. It's a split-second flashback or infodump. And don't even get me started on not seeing Hera and Ezra hug or Ahsoka's speech about how Anakin always stood by her, how her entire arc this season has been about coming to terms with his legacy and accepting the good in him, so when his Force Ghost shows up, she should smile and actually see him there, right? It would bring the thematic conclusion to a nice closure, right??? But, no, instead she doesn't even sense him there, Sabine half-senses him, and then Ahsoka is like, "It's time to move on." like are we supposed to tie that to her relationship with Anakin?? Or is that just Felony not knowing how to structure a written scene?? It's not even that his work is bad so much as it's just aggressively so much less than it could be. It's always infodumps to explain why we're suddenly three miles to the left of where we were before, instead of telling that story instead. We could have had a true Rebels sequel by showing us what happened with Mandalore, but instead we get whatever this was. And it wasn't even really about Ahsoka more than like 10% of the time. ;__;

I was so annoyed that I forgot to add in my frustrations with the entirety of everything with the Nightsisters and the Mothers and Morgan Elsbeth. Like, I was willing to overlook that we were never told why the Mothers were so loyal and grateful to Thrawn, I was even okay with the explanation being a throwaway line--that he was the one who woke them, it's a reasonable extrapolation of events from there!--but in the context of everything else, it's just One More Fucking Thing. Like, what is this show even saying about Nightsisters lore? Is it trying to say they all start out looking more peach-colored and human-ish without the markings like Morgan, but once they go through whatever Gift of Shadows the Mother did with her, they develop more of the bone white skin and markings, like Merrin and Asajj have? Or is is that Morgan isn't actually of their race, but is for some reason deeply loyal to Dathomir, or that they somehow recruited her? We can speculate on what the answers are, but once again the show doesn't actually show us much that's actually concrete and it feels like all the details are just there for looking cool or aesthetic callbacks, rather than because Filoni actually has an idea of what he wants to do with Nightsister worldbuilding.

not to beat a months old dead horse but a) who actually cares what pedro has to say and b) that doesn’t make the way it was written any less dog water

Hayden Christensen behind the scenes of Ahsoka TV Series 2023.

finally knowing what happened to clan wren was DEVASTATING even if we knew it was coming, but it makes sabine’s situation on lothal so much sadder. she really is all alone. kanan and ezra are gone, ahsoka left her, zeb is on lira san with kallus and working with the new republic, while hera is neck deep in her work as a general and also raising a son. meanwhile sabine has been sitting on lothal, surrounded by the ghosts of all the family she’s lost, completely alone.

"i don't need Sabine to be a jedi" girl, then stop trying to make her one

this episode felt like it should have been a debate between Favreau and Feloni about what it means to be a Jedi over a beer, not an episode of television

favreau: becoming a Jedi is a serious undertaking that requires giving up your worldly connections in part because learning to wield your innate powerful force abilities requires great mental discipline lest you fall to the darkside. you must choose between being a Mandalorian or being a Jedi. also lol we're trying to make force sensitive clones.

filoni: the force flows through all living beings therefore anyone can become a Jedi if they really put their mind to it, including this random Mandalorian with strong family ties, anger issues, and potentially clinical depression who inherited a lightsaber as a farewell gift from a friend

rebels fans who just want to know where Ezra is:

This is the way…

The amorer is such a fascinating character to me! With the little bits we’ve gotten through the series she’s been shaped into an interesting part of Mandalore and a fun counterpart to Bo Katan. I wanted to draw how I imagine her journey in little important bits. I like to think she was amongst the Mandalorians exiled to Concordia when Satine’s new Mandalorians won the civil war. (I definitely think the tribes exist from before the clone wars, because Din had to end up in one of these to never see a Mandalorian taking their helmet off through his life as a foundling).

I know it sucks that she has banished Din, but it was their adherence to the creed what kept them alive so far, I find reasonable that she’s so harsh when it comes to it. And she still let him keep the dark saber despite not considering him a Mandalorian anymore, which I find super interesting. Emily Swallow, the actress who plays her, once said in an interview that the Armorer sees the potential that Din doesn’t see in himself.

I can only pray there’s a lot of nuance in the way they write her next xD I really don’t see her as a villain at all.

Anyway I had so much fun with this!! and it took me like…half a year to finish it cuz I’ve been so busy kajshdkaj finally it’s done!!!!!

Me: Why was Sabine being trained by Ahsoka? There was never an indication that she had force-sensitivity!

Huyang: Out of all the thousands of padawans I have trained… Sabine sucks ass the most. She is not very force sensitive.

Me: Oh, thanks Huyang!

paddling the luthen/saw canoe by hand through the swift and dangerous rivers of the star wars shipping world. it's rough out here for old man yaoi understanders

I see posts go by periodically about how modern audiences are impatient or unwilling to trust the creator. And I agree that that's true. What the posts almost never mention, though, is that this didn't happen in a vacuum. Audiences have had their patience and trust beaten out of them by the popular media of the past few decades.

J J Abrams is famous for making stories that raise questions he never figures out how to answer. He's also the guy with some weird story about a present he never opened and how that's better than presents you open--failing to see that there's a difference between choosing not to open a present and being forbidden from opening one.

You've got lengthy media franchises where installments undo character development or satisfying resolutions from previous installments. Worse, there are media franchises with "trilogies" that are weird slap fights between the makers of each installment.

You've got wildly popular TV shows that end so poorly and unsatisfyingly that no one speaks of them again.

On top of that, a lot of the media actively punishes people for engaging thoughtfully with it. Creators panic and change their stories if the audience properly reacts to foreshadowing. Emotional parts of storytelling are trampled by jokes. Shocking the audience has become the go to, rather than providing a solid story.

Of course audiences have gotten cynical and untrusting! Of course they're unwilling to form their own expectations of what's coming! Of course they make the worst assumptions based on what's in front of them! The media they've been consuming has trained them well.

JJ Abrams’ mystery box and its consequences has been a disaster for screenwriting.

I want more gremlin Grogu...

I want some more Gremlin interacting with the dark side Grogu tbh, I want Din to get hurt and Grogu just losing it, and yes it has to be better written than it was in the finale of S3.

I want Grogu with flashbacks of his past looking at his father in danger and just going all in, throwing and chocking people around, levitating and crushing things, and healing wounds. Throwing himself at his father once everything is over, clutching his cape and babbling incontrolably.

I want Din at a loss, worried and scared (also mad at himself for putting Grogu through pain again), and seeking advice either from Ahsoka or preferably Luke.

Din’s head spinning cuz Grogu is having dark tendencies bc of him but he’ll go fully dark if he’s not with him, can’t win with this force bs. Parenting is hard.

Din not commenting on the “us”. And wishing space wizards weren’t so vague in their words, oh and wouldn’t it be nice if they didn’t leave their fate to a thing that helps them lift rocks?, but Luke is right in saying Grogu will become a Mandalorian.

I want Din deciding to trust Grogu.

And after some more incidents, Din understanding Grogu’s feelings are no different from his own when he was a scared foundling wanting nothing but to protect his new Mandalorian family.

Din realizing he will not be able to stay long in Grogu’s life...and how the child is actually very aware of that. Grogu doesn’t want their short time together to be cut even shorter. So Din stops treating Grogu’s fears and anger as something bad or dangerous. Instead he starts explaining Mandalorian’s love for family and their defiance of death. How death is never the end for them, how they’ll meet again one day in the Manda. And how he’ll stay with him always through the beskar they share.

I want Grogu learning to let go thanks to Mandalorian culture, he stays a lil gremlin who fiercely protects his father, but the dark side stays away.

I want the force shining and thriving bc of Din and Grogu.