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Ok here's my thing with "The Wrong Jedi" arc, and I'm saying this as someone who actually really likes Ahsoka in TCW.
People use this arc to shit on the Jedi (particularly the Council) so much, but like...Ahsoka was literally doing everything she could to make herself look guilty and give them no other choice but to suspect her.
Like, let's put this in perspective, shall we?
One of the people in your (really fucking large) family--someone you know of, but whom most of the family isn't really close to--gets accused of murdering someone and being a part of a terrorist group--and apparently there's video evidence, although even that doesn't really make it clear what happened.
You, of course, start trying to do everything you can to get said cousin out of jail since--even though you're not close to them--you don't think they would do something like that, and the evidence isn't concrete.
But, while you're trying to help them get released, you find out that your cousin has escaped from the county jail, several police officers are dead from knife wounds, and the only evidence is a knife that specifically belongs to your cousin as well as a couple other things that implicate them.
Your cousin goes on the run, then teams up with a known murderer and terrorist, and hurts even more police officers while on the run until finally they're caught once again.
Now you are left with a choice: you can either continue trying to defend your cousin, or you allow the police to take them into custody to face a trial.
Right now a lot of people hate your family, to the point that they're sending death threats and mail bombs and screaming obscenities outside your ancestral home.
It's already putting everyone else in your family, including literal children and babies, in danger and if you continue defend your cousin--despite all of the evidence that points to them being guilty--they could be put in even more danger and the government funding that your family lives off of could be taken away, since you would be defending a suspected terrorist.
So, in that situation, what would you honestly do?
You would do the smart, and reasonable, thing and stop defending your cousin so the police could take them into custody.
The Council tried to help Ahsoka, but she kept doing things to make herself look guilty and--in doing so--put them in a hard position where they couldn't defend her anymore without causing harm to the rest of the Order.
And would you really, truly, honestly defend someone when all of the evidence points to them being guilty? Of course not!
If you want to blame someone for what happened in that arc, blame Barriss for framing Ahsoka in the first place or Tarkin for being such a dick, but shut the fuck up about the Jedi.
They were put in a shitty position and made the best choices they could in a bad situation.
“Jedi will just say, ‘Oh, this was a test from the Force.’ when anything happens
or say ‘May the Force be with you.’ to someone who’s not a Jedi.” I mean, yeah, they do. Because the Force is a demonstrable, provable thing that tests Jedi all throughout their lives and moves through them and bolsters them. That’s literally how it works in-universe, the Jedi aren’t just going on faith that the Force exists or that it sends them trials, it’s literally what the Force does to Luke on Dagobah, the Jedi on Ilum, Ahsoka and Kanan and Ezra on Lothal. The Jedi are not pulling “the Force is testing me” out of their asses, it’s genuinely just what the Force does.
Reblogging firstly to shine a spotlight on @limnsaber’s excellent tags:
#this is what gets me abt what barriss said to the martez sisters in tcw
#because to outsiders it’s callous and a dismissing phrase #‘the force will be with you’ as a response to something dire and horrible that has happened
#but to the Jedi *they actually mean it* and they mean it as one of their truest kindnesses #that even when things are dire and tragedies never end there’s hope. We may not have an idea of what will come#but we have faith in the Force #and the Force will be with us
#it’s not hypocritical#or hypothetical!! it’s the Force!!
But also to point out that in the later seasons of TCW, you see that there’s a conflicting approach between storytellers in how the Jedi see and treat the Force.
“Obi-Wan doesn’t believe Ahsoka is guilty of these crimes, but he has a very hard time arguing politically that the Jedi Council shouldn’t do what they do to her. He trusts in the Force, which is what they love to say when they don’t know what they’re doing, and they expel her. He doesn’t like Tarkin’s logic [but he can’t argue] that they can’t try her within the Jedi because the public, which we show in this episode arc, who are losing faith in the Jedi, would cry foul ball.”
- Dave Filoni, starwars.com, 2013
It’s no secret that if it was up to George, Ahsoka would’ve stayed with the Jedi at the end of the “Wrong Jedi” storyline, possibly dying during Order 66.
Instead, Filoni thought that having her leave the Jedi would be “something different”. To further justify her departure, he frames the Jedi’s belief in the Force as a platitude, like “the Lord works in mysterious ways”.
But then I look at this:
“You never know what’s going to happen. That’s the challenge. And that’s the drama, which has gone through history. It’s all about what are they going to turn into.”
Paul Duncan: “Even if you don’t know how it’s going to turn out, you still carry on mentoring because you have to live with hope.”
“Hope and faith. I have faith that it’s going to turn out all right. I hope it’ll turn out all right. But either way, it’s the same.”
- George Lucas, The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, 2020
And it’s clear the narrative of the films doesn’t frame “trusting in the Force” as a bullshit thing. It’s a hopeful thing.
So we’re talking about a group of space monks whose faith is part of what makes them capable of levitating objects. Saying “we must trust in the Force” is not a generic phrase they just throw out there to justify some bullshit they’re not sure about.
It’s a fact: the Force exists, they know it, they sense it, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to lift that object, they wouldn’t have “a bad feeling about this”, they wouldn’t hear millions of people screaming when a planet lightyears away gets blown up.
And while they know that it exists and how it works, they’re not arrogant enough to know its will for sure, but all they can do is hope that it’ll turn out okay.
When Mace Windu says that to Ahsoka, seconds prior Plo Koon had apologized in the name of the entire Council.
So if we’re trying to rationalize that moment by having it fit with Lucas’ narrative, then it becomes clear that Mace is not saying:
“Uuuh, yes! It was totally all part of the plan! We didn’t fuck up, this was a test, we just didn’t know it!”
He’s not covering up the Council’s error, even though that’s how Ahsoka takes it. He is complimenting Ahsoka, he’s saying:
“Congrats for sticking to your guts, we made a mistake but, thankfully, the Force had your back”.
Only in a Jedi-ish way.
The Jedi: You know we should probably make the Chancellor step down, as he’s become really powerful and shows no signs of reliquishing any of his emergency powers. We really don’t want to have to do this but if we don’t it could lead to tyranny across the Galaxy.
“Oh my gosh! Look at how corrupt and evil the Jedi have become, conspiring to remove the Chancellor from power! See, Palpatine was right! They’re planning to take over.”
Palpatine: Uses said emergency powers to name himself Emperor, genocides the Jedi, enslaves the Galaxy, builds a planet destroying weapon and violently conquers neutral systems.
“… It’s the Jedi’s fault.”
Hey friends. Do this:
This probably took this person 3 seconds to do but it immediately told me that they liked my story enough to come back and read it again and they liked it again the second time.
Your favorite writers Do Not Know that you think about their stories after you read them. I generally assume that my stories make people happy for the few minutes they’re reading and then they never think about it again. To know that that’s not the case and that someone has returned just makes my little heart swell with joy.
I needed this today. If you’re the person who left this comment (or if you’ve ever commented on any of my writing) I love you.
Yes do this! Literally any version of "I loved this so much I came back to reread" is incredibly encouraging to writers. It's not just a major compliment—it also reminds writers/fandoms that fics/art etc. don't have an expiration date. They're still alive and making people smile.
also please dont think there is a time limit for when you can comment on fics. Its an archive, you read my fic from 2 years ago? 5? 7? you wanna tell me you like it but dont wanna annoy me? lemme tell you sth - you will NEVER annoy me. any comment, long, short, anything, it all means the world. also there isn't such a thing as a too long comment. i will read your essay, i will read your screaming at me, i will read it all, and reread it, and reread it again and again when im feeling down, or when i need inspo, or encouragement, and i will cherish it. leave me multiple coments, a string of emojis, whatever, it will never be annoying. i love interaction in comments, all of us writers do, and there is not expiration date, or statue of limitation on the fics. its just a lil happy loop all around.
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“People who say Satine didn’t commit cultural genocide are gaslighting us [satine haters]”
Buddy… for gaslighting to happen, the thing that someone is saying didn’t happen needs to have actually happened. Where is the canonical evidence that Satine committed cultural genocide. Literally where in TCW is there ANYTHING to support that idea.
NPC: hmmmm, this is a precarious situation, but I’m sure you have this under control :)
Meanwhile, Me Getting absolutely pummeled by the boss: *incoherent screaming*
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