![]() ![]() First it was seeing the shades of gray in the war on her trip to Padme’s opposite among the Separatists, and now realizing that her mentor is not the ideal that she aspires to grow up to be. Last summer, Ashley Eckstein hinted at some big changes in store for Ahsoka’s character, and now we are seeing her grow again. And yet some part of her knows that Anakin is leading her off the regular Jedi path and that her wildness may become her undoing. ![]() But it hasn’t worked out quite right, and Ahsoka recognizes the contradictions – she’s fiercely loyal and trusting to her master, but at the same time constantly warning him not to trust others. When she was first paired with Anakin, it was in an attempt to perhaps tame Anakin’s wild recklessness by making him responsible for someone as equally rebellious. The Qui-Gon apparition serves a check to Obi-wan living up to the standards as the teacher of the Chosen One, and as being as good a teacher as Qui-Gon once was.Īhsoka’s character is put in front of a mirror here, and we see the conflict within her. ![]() Ahsoka has chosen fierce loyalty to Anakin and possibly has seen his dark side but ignored it as something that she as a rebellious youth fancies and now her unconscious is letting her know that maybe it’s time to not ignore it anymore before he leads you astray. While both expressed some new truths, I don’t think they revealed anything that the dreamers didn’t already know at some level. My view is that both cave visions are unconscious expressions of the dreamer. Future Ahsoka – she seemed more corporeal than Ol’ Glowy, but has she sprung from the mind of her current self, or is she a manifestation of Daughter or Son to help push the characters as pawns in their overlord games. If it was really Qui-Gon’s ghost, Obi-wan shouldn’t be too surprised when Yoda mentions talking to him at the end of Episode III. Anakin’s mother, Shmi was clearly established as being Son in disguise, but what about Qui-Gon Jinn and future Ahsoka? Was Qui-Gon really the ghost of Obi-wan’s old master manifested through the greater Force potentials of the Gigaoctahedron, or was he just a pulled from the unconscious mind of Obi-wan? It seems Obi-wan knew he was dealing with some sort of vision – not fully trusting it at first. That’s my theory, so feel free to chime in with your own views.īack to the visions. My view of balance is the creating a clean slate, which in the end, is achieved by Anakin: eradicating the Jedi and their Order, then eradicating the Sith, and only leaving behind a Jedi son with little concept of the way things used to be. Father sees a need to keep light and dark, destruction and creation, in balance with each other, while the Jedi in the prequels seem to think that balance will be struck by defeating the growing menace of the Sith. My view is that the Overlords, while not getting it right, are at least a little bit closer on the path than the Jedi are about the role of the Chosen One. Is this what the Chosen One is supposed to do? Is Anakin not the Chosen One because he chooses not to take the job? Do the Jedi believe that this is what the prophecy meant? This poodoo just got serious. (gets +2 against other Pythagorean solids and +4 against the Death Star). While The Clone Wars has produced many fine episodes that continued to tell the continuing adventures of Anakin and Obi-wan and others, this one kicked it up a notch by adding to the mythology of Star Wars itself – what does the prophecy of the Chosen One bringing balance to the Force mean? The Overlords apparently believe that it applies directly to them – that balance in the Force is kept by the Chosen One through controlling the two aspects on the planet Mortis inside the Giant Space D8. And helping to show Anakin Skywalker’s slow slide toward the dark side, he confronts past guilt but in the end, chooses the path of selfishness. ![]() I think this applies to us as viewers as well as the show tackles one of the most important notions of Star Wars and takes it in a new direction, as well as bringing back some prequel characters (and their actors). “The longer we stay here, the stranger it gets,” says Ahsoka Tano in last week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, ‘Overlords’. ![]()
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