Kitchen, + Ahsoka in trouble
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schneefinkI have a kitchen! It looks great! They finished installing it today and I'm really happy with it. My mom helped me clean my room and it looks even better now, it's amazing how much clean windows can do.
I'm moving on the 25th, it seems simultaneously very soon and still some time away. Ten days! I'm excited :)
(I should probably start tidying up my room in preparation for packing...)
More Clone Wars episodes reviews from yesterday. Today during the kitchen installation I read Homestuck fic instead, which surprised me a lot because it's been a long time since I read Homestuck. If it wasn't so extremely long I'd like to reread it. Maybe I could jump in somewhere in the middle where I still remember the plot. Is anyone here still following it? How are the recent updates?
Sabotage:
- The war is becoming increasingly unpopular, so public opinion is turning against the Jedi. I wonder who arranged that. /s
- Anakin and Ahsoka are NOT trained investigators, that's extremely obvious.
- nanodroids, very dangerous… Is that how the face transformation thing worked?
- see, another humanoid droid! Russo the detective.
- Anakin thinks that even though there will always be disappointing Jedi, as long as there is at least one good one it's all worthwhile. I'dbet he's thinking of Obi-Wan.
The Jedi Who Knew Too Much:
- The Chancellor tries to remove Jedi from military matters, really? I thought connecting the Jedi to the military would benefit his Jedi defamation campain. It's probably just about influence.
- Anakin about Ahsoka: "Sometimes she's still very young" – no kidding! She's, what, 15? Jedi become Padawans when they're 12-13, iirc. She's flying spaceships and leading troops into battle!
- According to Barriss, Jedi "ignore emotions." Ahsoka says they should "move past them." Which sounds very different imo… Ahsoka still wants the saboteur to pay. It's hard.
- "The Jedi have become warmongers. They have become military weapons. And they're killing when they should be keeping the peace." (Letta, the saboteur)
- Rex: I know Commander Tano. She would never do something like this. (why do I love clone loyalty so much)
- Anakin doing everything he can to persuade Ahsoka to come back, but she's too panicky. (also thinking of Tarkin I bet, what an asshole) Poor Anakin.
- Ahsoka being very good and escaping all those clone troopers and her master! Yay competence. (Also she looks pretty.)
To Catch a Jedi:
- New and improved Ventress! If only she would not have been knocked out… She actually started to like Ahsoka, a little bit, I think. Like an annoying naïve tiny sister.
- Ahsoka didn't notice that it wasn't Ventress? What about fighting style etc.? How did Barriss get so good?
The Wrong Jedi:
- Shouldn't there be standard procedures about who has jurisdiction when, the Jedi Council or the Senate? I can understand that the military wants to hold a trial over Ahsoka and therefore wants her not to be a Jedi, but that the Council complies with that and expels Ahsoka from the order without even waiting for further investigations or conducting their own trial is terrible.
(At least Obi-Wan was against it, I was very glad to see that.)
- Much is clouded by the Dark Side these days, apparently. Everywhere? Still seems like the Jedi should be able to sense much more, at least if someone is lying when they're not shielding.
- Padmé is not a lawyer… oh well, they want a known character.
- The chancellor himself leads the trial? Because it's such a high-profile case? He's not a judge either. And he's completely biased, as he proves when he holds a speech about "do consider it could be a Separatist plot even though it might not look that way."
- Tarkin is evil. Also, do they still have the death penalty? In that case, why would it be applied to Ahsoka, but not to other terrorists like Eval or Bane, who've (presumably) committed worse acts?
- I hope Ventress gets her lightsabers back. I find myself unexpectedly rooting for her.
- Barriss, then. (How did she get good enough at dueling to hold off Anakin Skywalker?) At first she says the red lightsabers suit her, but then at the trial she seems more like an, idk, traditionalist extremist? Not the typical Sith ideas anyway. She says that the Jedi have lost their way, that they've become an army fighting for the Republic and that the Republic is failing, that the Jedi should be put on trial. (She says that extremely publically – really bad PR.) I really like that they went there with her, because the Jedi becoming more of a military and following orders is something that's been mostly happening in the background but is very worrying.
- What the fuck is that Council apology. They were wrong to accuse her?! She was a suspect, you were just wrong to expel her without a proper trial. Suddenly her attempts to prove her innocence are laudable even though she didn't follow procedure or trust the Council, because it turned out the Council wasn't actually trustworthy. This trial made you stronger, oh screw you.
- Ahsoka leaving :( because if the order doesn't trust her, how can she trust herself? I'm pretty sure that's only part of it and that she also lost a big part of her trust in the order, maybe also in the Republic, and she needs to know where she stands. I'm sure Barriss' words also affected her. Important to remember is also that she's fifteen! (plus minus a year or two. Force.)
- Yes of course Anakin understands wanting to leave the order… and Ahsoka knows, of course she does. While in RotS I got the impression that he didn't really consider leaving the order partly because that's just not what a Jedi does and partly because of arrogance; here I also got the sense that he feels like he's badly needed for the war – and he's not wrong! –which makes him more sympathetic. Ahsoka is a Padawan, so she doesn't feel that strong pressure yet that Anakin does, especially with his known status as the Chosen One.
- I can't help but wonder how the events of RotS might have changed had Ahsoka stayed…
I'm moving on the 25th, it seems simultaneously very soon and still some time away. Ten days! I'm excited :)
(I should probably start tidying up my room in preparation for packing...)
More Clone Wars episodes reviews from yesterday. Today during the kitchen installation I read Homestuck fic instead, which surprised me a lot because it's been a long time since I read Homestuck. If it wasn't so extremely long I'd like to reread it. Maybe I could jump in somewhere in the middle where I still remember the plot. Is anyone here still following it? How are the recent updates?
Sabotage:
- The war is becoming increasingly unpopular, so public opinion is turning against the Jedi. I wonder who arranged that. /s
- Anakin and Ahsoka are NOT trained investigators, that's extremely obvious.
- nanodroids, very dangerous… Is that how the face transformation thing worked?
- see, another humanoid droid! Russo the detective.
- Anakin thinks that even though there will always be disappointing Jedi, as long as there is at least one good one it's all worthwhile. I'dbet he's thinking of Obi-Wan.
The Jedi Who Knew Too Much:
- The Chancellor tries to remove Jedi from military matters, really? I thought connecting the Jedi to the military would benefit his Jedi defamation campain. It's probably just about influence.
- Anakin about Ahsoka: "Sometimes she's still very young" – no kidding! She's, what, 15? Jedi become Padawans when they're 12-13, iirc. She's flying spaceships and leading troops into battle!
- According to Barriss, Jedi "ignore emotions." Ahsoka says they should "move past them." Which sounds very different imo… Ahsoka still wants the saboteur to pay. It's hard.
- "The Jedi have become warmongers. They have become military weapons. And they're killing when they should be keeping the peace." (Letta, the saboteur)
- Rex: I know Commander Tano. She would never do something like this. (why do I love clone loyalty so much)
- Anakin doing everything he can to persuade Ahsoka to come back, but she's too panicky. (also thinking of Tarkin I bet, what an asshole) Poor Anakin.
- Ahsoka being very good and escaping all those clone troopers and her master! Yay competence. (Also she looks pretty.)
To Catch a Jedi:
- New and improved Ventress! If only she would not have been knocked out… She actually started to like Ahsoka, a little bit, I think. Like an annoying naïve tiny sister.
- Ahsoka didn't notice that it wasn't Ventress? What about fighting style etc.? How did Barriss get so good?
The Wrong Jedi:
- Shouldn't there be standard procedures about who has jurisdiction when, the Jedi Council or the Senate? I can understand that the military wants to hold a trial over Ahsoka and therefore wants her not to be a Jedi, but that the Council complies with that and expels Ahsoka from the order without even waiting for further investigations or conducting their own trial is terrible.
(At least Obi-Wan was against it, I was very glad to see that.)
- Much is clouded by the Dark Side these days, apparently. Everywhere? Still seems like the Jedi should be able to sense much more, at least if someone is lying when they're not shielding.
- Padmé is not a lawyer… oh well, they want a known character.
- The chancellor himself leads the trial? Because it's such a high-profile case? He's not a judge either. And he's completely biased, as he proves when he holds a speech about "do consider it could be a Separatist plot even though it might not look that way."
- Tarkin is evil. Also, do they still have the death penalty? In that case, why would it be applied to Ahsoka, but not to other terrorists like Eval or Bane, who've (presumably) committed worse acts?
- I hope Ventress gets her lightsabers back. I find myself unexpectedly rooting for her.
- Barriss, then. (How did she get good enough at dueling to hold off Anakin Skywalker?) At first she says the red lightsabers suit her, but then at the trial she seems more like an, idk, traditionalist extremist? Not the typical Sith ideas anyway. She says that the Jedi have lost their way, that they've become an army fighting for the Republic and that the Republic is failing, that the Jedi should be put on trial. (She says that extremely publically – really bad PR.) I really like that they went there with her, because the Jedi becoming more of a military and following orders is something that's been mostly happening in the background but is very worrying.
- What the fuck is that Council apology. They were wrong to accuse her?! She was a suspect, you were just wrong to expel her without a proper trial. Suddenly her attempts to prove her innocence are laudable even though she didn't follow procedure or trust the Council, because it turned out the Council wasn't actually trustworthy. This trial made you stronger, oh screw you.
- Ahsoka leaving :( because if the order doesn't trust her, how can she trust herself? I'm pretty sure that's only part of it and that she also lost a big part of her trust in the order, maybe also in the Republic, and she needs to know where she stands. I'm sure Barriss' words also affected her. Important to remember is also that she's fifteen! (plus minus a year or two. Force.)
- Yes of course Anakin understands wanting to leave the order… and Ahsoka knows, of course she does. While in RotS I got the impression that he didn't really consider leaving the order partly because that's just not what a Jedi does and partly because of arrogance; here I also got the sense that he feels like he's badly needed for the war – and he's not wrong! –which makes him more sympathetic. Ahsoka is a Padawan, so she doesn't feel that strong pressure yet that Anakin does, especially with his known status as the Chosen One.
- I can't help but wonder how the events of RotS might have changed had Ahsoka stayed…
