re: Ahsoka Season 1 Episode 8 Discussion Thread

Actually agree, every single scene is the same mellow acting and same look. Low eyes, scoffs while blowing air out her nose, arms crossed, slight head tilt back.

For the show being named after her, the majority of her scenes I couldn’t wait to be over.

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And how does Sabine go from having never exhibited any significant force ability and struggling to force grab her light saber from 10’ away to suddenly being able to force throw Ezra onto the ship from a fairly considerable distance away 2 minutes later?

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I didn't mind that, to be honest.

Years ago, I bought a "Force trainer" toy, that was cool as hell. You wore something on your head which would read brainwaves like an EEG, connected to a tube with a ping pong ball in it, and a fan at the bottom. When you got the right brainwaves going (you'd sorta meditate and go into a zen mode), the fan would crank up and the ball would move. LINK


For the record, we do EEGs where I work, I understand the principal behind this, and hoped it would work. For awhile, I couldn't do it, and figured it was a ripoff.
Then, I figured it out- instead of staring intently at it, you kinda let your eyes go dim and start taking controlled deep breaths, and suddenly the fan would crank up. Once I got it, it was suddenly very easy to do.

Take that principal over to the show, Sabine never could make anything move, until she got the lightsaber to come to her. And once she did that, it could be an "oh, THAT'S how you do it" moment, and she could then do Force pushes.

When did everyone in the Star Wars universe turn into idiots?

Thrawn went from being an unbeatable antagonist to a tactical idiot.

This is a reflection of the how stupid modern day writers are. The characters can only be as smart as the writers who write them.

This show was a mess.

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If we are lucky Hondo

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I know they were gear probably towards kids but he could have a great series if done right regarding his adventures.

My guess will be that Ahsoka and Sabine will use the World Between Worlds to return home. That planet has some serious Force Ju-Ju.

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The 2 biggest problems with this show are not enough episodes to cover everything they are trying to cover, and Rosario Dawson moving with the stiffness of a middle aged woman instead of a Jedi.

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Totally agree on Rosario Dawson’s fighting, I think it’s the one negative to her performance. I actually like how she portrays an older/wiser Ahsoka, but she needed a stunt double bad.

My second negative to the show was the acting/direction that they gave Sabine Wren’s character, Natasha Bordizzo. It’s like they told her to act gloomy and down, and that is not the character she was in Rebels. Now, if she is a changed person because of her backstory, then flesh that out, because it didn’t come through in the acting. I wanted to see the fiery Sabine we are used too.

Overall, it was an ambitious script with the time that they had, but I like the series and am looking forward to a season 2.

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yea ffs

The worst part of this show is the dialogue between Sabine and Ahsoka, holy hell I want to fall asleep or fast forward through their parts.

We get this awesome lead up to Thrawn landing on Dathomir and then nothing. Still no idea what their cargo is.

We get Baylan headed to this mysterious light that he's been searching for and then nothing. (and now he's dead IRL, RIP storyline)

Ezra is home, yay.

Sabine and Ahsoka are "where they should be" while Anakin looks on at their failure of living with the hermit crabs.

What was the point in Shin? lol

Pretty letdown

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Someone tell this dude television shows can have multiple seasons.

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I bought a "Force trainer" toy,

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I have watched every Star Wars and Star Trek show/movie and even I'm going to say that's more than a little nerdy.

Just finished watching it and it wasn't bad. It sets up some interesting plot lines for another season if they do one, or leading into the movie.

I liked that Ezra rebuilt a lightsaber that is like Kanan's. When I first saw it on the bench I thought someone on here had correctly predicted a blastersaber. It was a cool opening to have Huyang talk about knowing Caleb as a youngling.

I liked the ending scene with the stone figures of the father and the son. I hope they continue to explore that mythos and we find out what Skoll was looking out at. As others have said, I hope they don't just drop his character arc because we lost the actor.

Was not a fan of the zombie troopers. I guess they weren't really dead the first time, they were just a cadre of stormtroopers that survived the trip on the star destroyer. I had n issue with the night sisters reviving them, but did they really have to act/move like the sterotypical zombie from every zombie movie we've ever seen? I was waiting to hear them start muttering about brains.

Also wasn't a fan of the sound effects during the last fight. Why did Elsbeth's sword make a ping sound? I guess it was supposed to be metal of some kind, but would enchanted metal ping when hit by a laser sword?