Stuff That Makes Me Happy 8

[shadowhive]

So today there’s been a new trailer about Ahsoka, so I’ma gonna have a ramble about it.

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Now people that know me well will know I have two main long-standing fandoms above all others: Star Wars and Zelda. (Doctor Who, Pokémon and Star Trek come a bit after them)

So when I first heard there was gonna be an Ahsoka series I was cautiously optimistic, because she’s a character I’d grown to love through The Clone Wars and Rebels. (Especially those lost eps of the Clone Wars that came out a few years back, because damn.)

Over time though I’ve had more mixed feelings. I think my main mixed thing is how… l strangely they treat the people that played the roles in animation. In some cases when people have made the transition to live action (Zeb in The Mandalorian, Cad Bane in Book aid Boba Fett) they’ve kept the original actors. Others (like the grand inquisitor in Obi-Wan) have had new people play them. The Ahsoka series is also a puzzling mix. Thrawn is the same actor, yet Hera, Sabine and Ahsoka are all p different people and…. I dunno it feels kinda... wrong?

Plus the idea of bringing Thrawn back basically feels a bit unnecessary and has just felt like an excuse to do Heir To The Empire (hell those words are even said in both the first trailer and this!).

People were saying a new thing was coming a few days ago. Indeed there was a reveal of a lego set from the show, which looks cool but can’t be the only one because it doesn’t have Ahsoka herself (I might get it for Christmas, we’ll see). Then today out of nowhere they dropped this trailer and, yeah, it’s made me excited for it.

Seeing the New Republic fleet, Hera’s speech before the holo Mon Mothma (and other senators?) and it just feels pretty cool. It all leaves a bunch of questions (Ahsoka was training Sabine??) and I’m curious to see what’s going to happen with it next month.



I mean look tat the Republic fleet!

I do hope that we see a few more characters as well. I know I’d most like to see Sinjir from the Aftermath novels (one character from those books has already jumped to live action) because he’s a great character and it would fit as he ended the books as one of Mon Mothma’s advisors (and he’ll it’d be nice for representation because he’s also gay!)

It has the potential to be really cool I just hope it does mess it up (or, like Andor, become just so fucking grim).

I do hope that we get a future Star Wars series that isn’t about the rise of the Empire, or the empire coming back or the Jedi because there’s so much more than either of those three things.

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