The Ahsoka series grabbed me by the hair and scraped my face against a brick wall

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8 long episodes of Filoni playing with his barbie dolls

Okay you made a few good points, but did you notice Anakin called her Snips? You should clap.

Thrawn EU: Playing 5D chess Canon Book Thrawn: Regular chess Rebels Thrawn: Checkers Ahsoka Thrawn: Tic-Tac-Toe played incorrectly.

*Ezra essentially sacrifices himself by trapping him and thrawn in another galaxy Sabine: nah I'm gonna undo all that and doom to galaxy to thrawn Because i miss him Ezra: how'd you find me Sabine: i dunno Ezra: ok

If there's one positive about Ahsoka, it's that it showed Dave Filoni isn't the "savior" of Star Wars, nor is he as good of a writer as people made him out to be. Defenders of him often point out that he worked on the Clone Wars, but they also failed to realize it wasn't him solely working on the show, and some of the ideas they like actually came from Lucas rather than Filoni.

The butchering of thrawn is horrible. Never let anyone but Timathy Zahn write this character.

"Live... or die" is truly a lesson of all time

Can you imagine being Moff Gideon? Doing a whole silly gambit only to find out you could have just got good and learned to use the force.

Asoka’s plot armor is so strong that you could literally leave her in another galaxy and not worry

That drove me nuts when they had that scene with Luke and Ahsoka. They'd have so much to talk about and connect over, and could help each other get through some pretty heavy emotions and trauma. Instead, we were shown a scene with them making small talk like two strangers waiting for the bus.

Andor made Mon Mothma a full fledged, Three Dimensional character for Ahsoka to return her back to numb skull window dressing. Thanks, Dave Filoni

“Why is Zeb not here?” If I had to guess the reason… VFX Budget cuts.

Ahsoka is what happens when writers write an IP rather than a story.

The single most egregious plot point in this series for me is Thrawn "not knowing" that Ahsoka was Anakin's padawan. Like there is no possible way Thrawn never came across that when he knew Vader was Anakin and also would have done his research on Ahsoka during the Rebels series. It's such a minor detail for most people but it assassinates his character so thoroughly it cannot be overlooked.

The Nightsisters really bug me In the original "Courtship of Princess Leia", the Nightsisters just had telekinesis and lightning. They could use it incredibly well, and incredibly powerfully, but the counter was that they needed rituals to focus enough to do it, and it took a massive toll on the body, causing constant bruising and broken limbs (the term nightsister coming from the black blotches of bruising) That worked because it was a natural extension of the preexisting powers The Nightsisters here are just doing whatever. And there's nothing that kills stakes quicker than pulling abilities out of nowhere

Thanks Sheev. Sorry your dude threw you down the reactor shaft. Glad to see you recovered.

There seems to be a sort of underlying narcissism in Dave Filoni’s work. Everything he makes must be central to the core narrative of Star Wars. His work has a parasitic relationship to the main saga; he never makes anything truly original, only ever working in the shadow of another movie or novel made by far more talented writers (Heir to the Empire, OT, PT, etc.); but always, he tries to recontextualize those stories to place his characters at the narrative forefront. All of his OCs are kept alive inexplicably throughout the whole arc of the Skywalker story; often times long after their arcs have reached a natural and satisfactory ending point. Stylistically he relies far too heavily upon callbacks and cameos to keep his stories engaging. He constantly talks about George’s mentorship over him to give people the impression that he is a sort of inheritor to the Star Wars legacy, which legitimizes his fan-fiction. When he wants to be taken more seriously, he parrots the aesthetics of greater respected works like Blade Runner or Akira Kurosawa’s filmography, but always misses what made those films truly special. This became clearer than ever to me with Tales of the Jedi, a darker, self-serious series which attempted to paint itself as mature political and moral commentary (According to Filoni, long, drawn out scenes with no dialogue means his work is deep. He continues this gimmick in Ahsoka). However Ahsoka was released in the shadow of Andor, and when you directly compare how these two works approach the same themes, the surface-level nature of his writing becomes incredibly apparent. Let us also not forget how completely hypocritical Filoni is when it comes to the treatment of writers' original characters. He's against anyone else writing for his own OC's (Ahsoka novel) and demonstrates this in his Tales of the Jedi retcons, yet he'll gladly take another writer's OC (Thrawn) and butcher their character beyond recognition. Filoni has a knack for taking once beloved characters and making them into shells of their former selves to bolster his preferred characters (what he did to Barriss to make Ahsoka look better is a prime example of this). But that's what you have to do when you don't have talent.

48:22 Man, blocking the lightsaber with the Force has to be the most over-used Disney lightsaber trope. After surviving being stabbed by one, that is.

Filoni: *writes a show so vague it defies any logical explanation* The fans: "Reesies' Puffs, Reesies' Puffs, Eat 'em up eat 'em up eat 'em up eat 'em up!"