My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 301 - AHSOKA EPISODE 5

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

Robbie and Clem recap and review the fifth installment in the 'Ahsoka' series (written and directed by Dave Filoni) where Anakin Skywalker reunites with his former Padawan. It was easily the most hyped episode of the season, so did it live up to expectations?! How will non-Clone Wars fans feel about it?! Did Darth Jar Jar finally appear?! All of these questions are answered in this podcast! 3Chi: Use code BASEMENT15 for 15% off your complete order at 3Chi.com! Gametime: Download the Gametime app or go to the website, enter your email, and redeem code MMB for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply)! EveryPlate: Get started with EveryPlate for just $1.49 per meal by going to EveryPlate dot com slash podcast and entering code 49basement! #Ahsoka #StarWars **************************************** Subscribe to My Mom's Basement on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeZ96PqdsJYQ7DFLRx6MHw My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement, presented by Barstool Sports and 3C, and a very special Ahsoka recap of My Mom's Basement. And this is maybe going to be the biggest Ahsoka recap because, oh my god, it is the most talked about episode of the series so far. Written and directed by Dave Filoni. It's Robbie Fox, my co-host, Clem. Clem, we talked with Dave last week on the 300th episode, a lot about this series and a lot about whether or not it's translating and hitting for fans of The Clone Wars versus non-fans of The Clone Wars

and Rebels and the animated stuff. This episode, pretty much a love letter, I think Jeff called it, to the Clone Wars and Rebels and the animated stuff. This episode, pretty much a love letter, I think Jeff called it, to the Clone Wars and Rebels. We're going back, looking at actual experiences that these characters have gone through in those shows, brought it to live action. For me, this was like a masterpiece, obviously. And I'm not even the biggest Clone Wars fan out there.

Like, I really enjoy the animated stuff, but I'm not the diehard, like fan out there. Like I really enjoy the animated stuff, but I'm not that die hard. Like this is star Wars. I like it, but this was a masterpiece of an episode for me. This combined with last week, I think is one of the best hours of star Wars you could get for you. A total non clone Wars fan.

How did it hit? So it hit very well. I enjoyed it a lot, especially like the first half, all the flashback stuff and everything. I could tell that you guys were going to like it more. I think the animated fans, the prequel fans, I think that was going to be, like you said, almost a love letter.

I also didn't realize Filoni did everything in this episode. So going into it, it would have raised the stakes even more. They put put it in goddamn movie theaters so i don't know how much more you're gonna raise the stakes uh so it i've said it basically throughout the season that i feel like i'm watching someone else's show basically it's like you guys have all the background and i'm kind of catching up but at the same point this episode in particular i know enough about the characters i watched the 10 minute uh recap shout out to the people that sent that on youtube uh did a good enough job and i've seen enough like little clips of ahsoka and stuff just to kind of get the vibe and i'm like holy shit they brought a cartoon to real life because a lot of like the beats that they take and the way that the characters move and the reveals and all that kind of stuff i was like that is straight out of a cartoon yet they brought it

to real life and it's uniquely clone wars rebelzy i don't know how else to describe it so but so for someone like me i still had a blast especially the first half again second half it's getting weird i'm acknowledging the weirdness we're in star wars it's gonna be weird no matter what shit was weird back in the 77 i'm sure like we just take for granted like when obi-wan just disappears with jayder's lightsaber that's a fucking weird thing just to do for people that had no background on the franchise right because it was the first movie in the history of it so i'm just gonna roll with the weirdness and listen i've had people coming up to me like mad at me like you better watch rebels now we need the non-Rebels contingent on this podcast because there are plenty of us. We might be the majority at this point.

You know, like there is a good chunk of us that did not watch Rebels. Hell, fuck, you were outnumbered last week, two to one, right, in terms of Rebels versus non-Rebels. So there needs to be a voice for the people that just do not have that. You can hear my kids running around upstairs. I barely even have an hour to do this podcast right now. I'm going to be having AJ Klaman on me within 10 minutes. So you were trying to start a non-Rebels rebellion is what you're trying to start right now. Yes, exactly.

I'm trying to have an uprising and it's going to get us there. Maybe that's what we should put. We should, you know, promote this podcast. Star Wars podcast for the non-Star Wars fan. We'll trick them. And then they're like, oh, this guy's a fucking lightsaber tattoo the non star Wars fan. We'll trick them. And then they'll be like, Oh wait, this guy's a fucking lightsaber tattooed on his arm.

He's a diehard. That's where long sleeves. I'll be like, no, no, but Hey, I don't know if you saw the hate that I was getting. People are still angry about us saying lightsaber stabs should mean

something at this point. People are still commenting on those tech talks and reels from weeks ago. I got one comment yesterday. They said this guy's never watched an animated series to save his life. He probably started watching Star Wars with Mandalorian, which when I get that, I'm just like, never watched an animated series to save my life. Who do you think this guy is? Who do you think this guy is? This guy has cartoons on his arm.

You literally have cartoon characters on your arm And you have again the aforementioned lightsaber Show the guy your twitter avi You got fucking Luke Skywalker himself Holding your arm So yeah good The better I've learned this Especially with like TikTok and Instagram Short take videos

The dark side of the force is strong on those apps You get those people pissed off And the numbers are just gonna keep going up through the roof. So, again, from my perspective, fun episode, and we're going to get into, obviously, all the beats of it all. But it's still, it was like a more grand version of what the rest of the series is in. I feel like I could, it's just you turn the volume up,

and you guys, I'm telling you right now, I'm guaranteeing it. Somebody, at least one person, came themselves in the movie theater. I'm telling you, I'm guaranteeing one person saw like Anakin back with Ahsoka and they're doing clone war shit and they're doing stuff. And it just like happened on their own. They weren't stroking the word or, you know, whatever the ladies do, whatever you want to call it, moving. It just, it was like anakin

it was it was uh what did they call him he was immaculate conception it was immaculate conception in the movie theater is what happened because they saw their rebels cartoon come to real life and came on their lap listen if i wasn't at a concert last night i would have been that guy probably it probably would have been that south park picture of me that we posted people are like enough with the south park picture probably would have been me i'm not judging i'm not judging see it is what it is we're the star wars podcast that talks about people coming themselves moving dinners we have to zag whatever i know what are we five minutes into this we're trying to retain viewership here people are like are they talking about come five minutes did he say come section

in the lap all right let's get into the episode. Before we get into the nitty-gritty, let me just say this. This is a take I have about the episode that I want to put out there. I genuinely believe, I've watched the episode twice now, this is Hayden Christensen's best performance as Anakin Skywalker ever. We have a lot more of it in episode two and three, obviously. We get a little bit of it in Obi-Wan. But I've never been so

compelled by his performance as anakin like it was awesome yeah i it's the uh sith in revenge of the sith he has that the the arc he takes at the end is so fun but there's i think some other like it it's a clunky movie at some points i never realized it's the best of the three not really saying much in my humble opinion not trying to piss people off here again the star wars community is pretty close to being back together at this point this felt like and and i'm like keep bringing him back let's get you think we'll get more of him by the end of the season or by the end of the series maybe or just you think this was it i think we we might get another like i i bet we will get him again just to kind of like confirm that ahsoka is like on the right

path probably okay okay yeah like him him leaving didn't feel like it didn't feel like it's the last time he's gonna see ahsoka maybe he could become like the oh we want to hurt luke and we could just see him every now and then just pop us pop up as a force ghost yep i wouldn't hate that one bit i wouldn't hate just some he's in the mix knowing he could come kind of like they said with uh joey i said last week with like the jaws theory except it's not vader just fucking shit up but it's just like oh there he is there's our pal obi-wan is the perfect way to put it also would make the return of the jedi like head replacement make a little more sense i guess just been like all right i guess he reverts back to that aged Force ghost. Whatever.

It is what it is. We won't harp on that. Filoni's even fixing the special editions for the people who were mad there. A guy is fixing every Star Wars franchise for every complaint. He just has a list that's like, you know, the Chris Jericho list long, and he's just crossing everything off, man. God bless him well i actually talked about the special edition changes with clemmer and devlin in the office today and one in particular because not to skip ahead but one of the first things anakin says to ahsoka is you look old and i read online that this is because ahsoka is 47 in canon years

old and anakin only lived to 45 the first thing i said i was like holy fuck he was a rough looking 45 at the end i know he got burnt up and everything but president years don't compare to darth vader's it is crazy and i said the one special edition change that i agree with the most i think was the best change is removing sebastian shaw's bushy eyebrows in the original because they would have been burnt off and everything. If you look back at the original, I think that looks so goofy. He looks like Egghead from the 1966 Batman or something. It's strange. Yeah, it is weird when you do the numbers,

but then you're thinking you have burnt to a crisp, you have in a suit, so no sunlight at all, basically. And then the dark side just ages you Terribly, obviously, as anyone who hates Barstool Will say, that's why we age like fucking Milk in the sun So I add it all up, and I do appreciate that I wish, like, the Emperor was like 52

It came out, it's like, can you believe his age? And it's just, he's this old Fucking, and I'm talking Emperor in episode 9 At that point, even though there's no way that It's probably 50 years since the fucking episode one took place and he was already a senator uh so yeah that's a good point uh how did my boy devlin i know he's a diehard uh animated series guy how like was he was he in come was he on the come meter here yeah he was he walked in and we sit next to each other we just locked eyes and i was like dude

what did you think and he was like i cried i cried of course i cried yes how could you not so we talked about it for like a half an hour this morning just gushing about every little detail in it which is what i want to do now this ahsoka recap is brought to you by threechie of all the things in life one of the best has to be getting high wherever you want whenever you want without the paranoia of consuming some sketchy black market stuff. What's the best way to do that? With 3Chi, of course. 3Chi has the highest quality cannabis products from their delicious Delta 9 edibles and their industry-leading Delta 8 products to their new line of Delta 9 O-vapes. Today, we've got something truly revolutionary to talk about, 3Chi's True true strains. You know, we're always looking for that perfect cannabis experience.

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And who Yang is just so sad, like the saddest robot voice I've ever heard in my life. He's like, I told them to stay together. It's always better when they stay together. I felt bad for the guy. That is what every parent does when we're just like to the kids, like guys stop doing that. Just,

you know, stop pulling at the string, stop fighting each other. And then someone gets seriously hurt or two people just disappear know stop pulling at the string stop fighting each other and then someone gets seriously hurt or two people just disappear off the face of the planet my boy he's like i'm not even trying to dunk on him i'm just like saying it here like dead inside kind of like disappointed yeah he's he's brokenhearted man i fell for him there and by the way uh it's the red forest planet that's the name of the planet this is the casual fan

i'm taking over as a casual fan star wars planet uh podcast right now it's red red forest planet. That's the name of the planet. This is the casual fan. I'm taking over as a casual fan, Star Wars podcast right now. It's red, red forest planet. I know there's people who are screaming into theirs, whatever podcast. I like that. I'm trying to pull those guys to the dark side of the hardcore nerd fan.

You're trying to keep them on the casual side. It's fast. Oh, mere seven. It's the moon of it's the forest moon of fast. And you're seven or something. I just made up the planet name, by the way. That sounds like a Star Wars planet. By the way,

the opening sequence, it looks like the if you go to like an electronics store and you just have the TVs and it's playing like the loop where it's showing you like the 4K HD TV and it's just like, where the fuck in the world is this?

It looks awesome. That's what that looked like. It was incredibly shot. And I'm not usually like a stunning visuals guy, but I honestly think they just lifted that from like LG showing off their new HDTVs. And like, yeah, let's just throw this as our new planet here. To be honest, I don't want to disrupt the vibes this early in the podcast.

It reminded me a lot of the way Rian Johnson shot Octo in The Last Jedi. You me a lot of the way ryan johnson shot octo in the last jedi you get a lot of overhead shots like that a lot of like drone helicopter looking shots and it was similar i thought i thought it was really cool too like begun the episode in a way where immediately i was like oh i could see why this is in theaters tonight like this feels cinematic it feels bigger than every other episode in the series. And last episode felt pretty big as well. It just made me want to buy a new TV. Honestly,

I thought it was all right, but, um, Anakin and Ahsoka are in the world between worlds. He tells her she looks old. We went over the age and all that. And then he tells her she lost a fight and she still has a chance because she remembers a little bit of it,

but he's here to finish her training. And I thought this was so cool because I sent you the clip of Yoda fighting Dark Yoda in the Clone Wars. And that's kind of his version of like finishing his training as he has to go into this vision and fight this smoke version of himself. It's such a cool arc in the Clone Wars. But this is kind of ahsoka's version of that she's going back reliving her past it's her version of the dagobah cave you know it's an expanded new age version of that where they're making it a little weirder the force is getting a little zanier but think back to a new hope and empire strikes back when luke lifts that saber

out of the snow for the first time nobody even knew the force could move things by the way for those uh listening i don't know how clear you can hear i think aj is going through his own dagobah cave right now you hear him jumping around i just yeah i think he's going against dark aj right or maybe it's jedi aj and i am dark aj my son i'm not sure which one's which nonetheless in pain of mind everything's fine up there don't worry about it uh yeah it's like uh it's almost like ahsoka took like harder drugs maybe ahsoka took like a harder version of her three chi and she's getting the like the extreme version of dagobah where lukai had the more mellower version it's like hey this guy's still training here just give him a vision evader his

head gets chopped off the thing pops off he sees himself we have to we have to scare him a little, but we're not going to have, you know, a whole bunch of shit, like literal war coming at him. So that's, that's the perfect way to put it, Bob. I, I couldn't have said it better myself. And then she's like, what's the lesson here? And he says, the lesson is live or die. And she says, I won't fight you. And I love this. He says, I've heard that before, which is a reference to return of the Jedi Luke saying, I won't fight you and i love this he says i've heard that before which is a reference to return of the jedi luke saying i won't fight you father now we kind of know this isn't like anakin pulled from you know revenge of the sith era this is like force ghost anakin all knowing knows what his future is and him referencing his son to ahsoka that's so friggin cool and then just a sick

lightsaber fight begins i would have loved it he if he was like, yeah, my bitch-ass son said that. And I would have killed his ass. And I would have killed his ass. If it weren't for those meddling kids. Meddling emperor of mine. Yeah. And like you said, Shadow Warrior. And I'm like, who's Shadow Warrior?

Who are we dealing with? Which, by the way, sweet-ass name for an episode. Another hit there. Shadow Warrior. Really good one yeah fallen jedi though it's hard to beat fallen jedi that just sounds so fucking sweet thousand percent now and so this we got another lightsaber fight this one felt like an actual fight again i think we're i think we're we've gone over the rockiness with the old lightsaber fights that we said were

more like dancing and performance art i saw i forgot about this video i saw it somewhere recently where the the i don't remember which one it is where the guy's just doing the um the he's just moving his arms the lightsaber and they're like what the hell is this even accomplishing right here it's from one of the prequel ones i don't i think it's probably from revenge of the sit the mustafar battle has a lot of just spins where it's just like this is useless but it looks cool it looks nice back to the henge tiva mentions carson tiva mentions senator organa which is the first mention of princess leia in this series and he says she can only provide backup for so long harrah is like i'll just pull rank and get in trouble i don't really care the first thing that frank the tank said to me about this episode,

he's like, the New Republic, they're feeble. They don't know what they're doing. This is why the wars always happen. You would think we were in this galaxy, and we were actually facing the consequences of the New Republic's incompetence, as Frank would put it. But he's got a point. I got to be honest.

Like, Leia, I love you but like you realize another threat like the emperor is already coming in this is only like five years after return of the jedi and she's like i'm sure it's fine just come back yeah they're good at fighting the wars they aren't good at establishing the governments after the wars the thing about frank too like just as a mets fan i know this he'll be very upset as you guys know about like whatever the mets are doing but his solution to the problem always would no doubt only make the problem a thousand times worse he's like we should we should hire wally backman as manager it's like frank we will he'll be canceled by this time

tomorrow and there will just be a lot of lol met stuff and um he would have been the guy been like let's just get this work like in episode one he would have been like let's just appoint this appleteen did i say right no let's just say let's just say let's just put the senator as senator p as the emperor and he would have had the emperor would have been taken over episode one if it was up to frank to think and he would he would have shut up for five minutes about how everything sucks right now and then once he became the emperor and he's like, Oh, the goddamn empire is the worst. We need to get this guy. So, uh, but I,

Frank, Frank talking star Wars is a lot of fun. He's another guy that I like. He's getting fired up right now. These guys are bozos. There's no way there's no way around it. It's going to hurt how much they appear to be bozos in this show. And in other shows,

when in Andor, we're seeing the behind the scenes and we're like the real people who are trying to make the change, our boy Luthan and you know, Mon Mothma. And it's like, you guys get it. But like 99% of these fucking morons you're with don't get it. And therein lies our problem.

And at this point, I love Mon Mothma. I don't need to call her out, but she's the chancellor and she's calling everyone back to Coruscant after the war. Is she getting a little, I don't know, like she's sitting on her ass and not really going after things as much

because she's like, we won. It's, it's all good. Is she fine with that? Is she getting content? That's the word I'm looking for. White sex day would have something about liberals to talk about here.

If he was on the podcast, I'll just say this about my mom. She does strike me as someone that has had grapes hand fed to her in her past and maybe her present and she is getting a little she is getting a little lax she has to think about all the boffins that died to help get her those blueprints once upon a time but i think she's kind of like you know what just because it stopped thundering doesn't mean there isn't more thunder coming maybe even worse thunder these guys have to get their heads out of there. And this is me screaming into a microphone,

knowing that like, we've seen what happens to them. They get washed over by the first order. So it is what it is, but yeah, absolute bozos. It kind of like, it's like real government.

And again, I'm not here to talk politics, both sides, fucking morons. And they never fix anything. So kind of nice to star Wars. It's like, even in the galaxy, far, far away, everyone just completely fucks up it's good for us we know

there's always going to be wars in that galaxy far far away you know there's always going to be content for us to cover on this podcast for the next 300 episodes um jason can faintly hear the lightsaber battle through the force he hears the waves and then he he's like i think i hear a little bit more he calls hera over tells her and she believes him right away she knows he's got a little you know touch touch of the force in him so she goes back out there carson tiva is like what the fuck is going on why is she listening to that kid i love this moment in the episode where hu yang is like his father is kanan jaris a former jed Master. He has the Force too. And Carson Teva is everyone who did not watch Rebels

and he just goes, alright, and he just walks away. He's like, yeah, cool. Thanks for the backstory, man. They say Jason is special or something? Is that what the line that Hu Yang drops? They might have said something like that. It almost feels like

he's on the spectrum, You say it's like he, he, he, he sees stuff a different way and that's how they, they, they present it. Uh, it was very cool.

They mixed the oceans with the lightsabers and then you could hear it as they were going. I thought that was cool. I've been thinking of this for also like three episodes now. And after this episode, I'm just going to come out and say, and listen, you can shame me. You can buy me,

you can do whatever you want our girl Hera the way they shoot her oh I know what you're going to say they do they shoot her from behind they do and every time I see her you know what I say this is a godsend I don't think this word ever I just go she's got a dumper

I think that she's just got a big old dumper there man and that's a good thing she's dragging a wagon she is yeah and i that's how you land yourself at obi-wan right like that's his wife in real life right and that you know i noticed that i i knew what you're gonna say before you said it because like it's a bit gratuitous and star wars never has these shots but i'm not complaining but they they're just shooting her from behind constantly in this show she's kind of walking like she knows she has it too and i mean shit if i had something like that But I'm not complaining, but they're just shooting her from behind constantly in this show. She's kind of walking like she knows she has it, too.

And I mean, shit, if I had something like that, I'd probably do the same. Some my my wife actually says I have a small butt for a big guy. She says I have a small butt. If I had a little more, I could kind of. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I have a hand killed, but God damn it. But she got a dumper. And I'm telling you, now that the glass is shattered for people that go back and watch or I'm telling you, I guarantee it, you're going to see it in the next episode.

They're just going to shoot her from behind, and it's just going to be like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And again, Obi-Wan never broke his vows until he saw that thing, and then he's like, put the ring on it, and he got out of that cave real quickly. What am I doing with the fucking lightsaber? He threw it over his shoulder like Luke in The Last Jedi. He's done with that thing. Back to the fight. Anakin is kind of like... Back to the fight. After the dumper talk, we're going back to the fight now. Back to the fight. Anakin and Ahsoka kind of like talking shit in a friendly

way where she's like, you don't have much more to teach me. And he's like, you don't know everything yet. Slashes the floor of the world between worlds and she falls into an old memory right away as she stands up you can kind of tell oh this looks like a kid it looks like young ahsoka we're getting a flashback to the clone wars and right away like you said i think it looks animated like the way they shot her silhouette at first it could have been a scene out of the Clone Wars. She is literally a child,

and I think this episode accentuated that for a lot of people where it's like, oh my God, in the cartoon, she's just like an alien. Yeah, she's a kid, but she's fun, and she's laughing with Anakin and Snips and all that. In this, they play it a lot harsher and a lot more like this is why she is the way she is. She was traumatized as a kid because she was a child

soldier and the girl playing her is the same girl that was recently in barbie that plays america for her daughter and for this podcast you may know her as young gamora what a friggin one two punch young gamora young ahsoka pretty badass so for all the haters out there about Clem doesn't watch enough Star Wars this is me patting myself on the back I have it in my notes right here I'm getting big Gamora vibes from this kid and I thought it was just like I thought it was just a matter of her being

raised in war kind of having that like vicious side but if you look really deep you can tell this is probably affecting my thing the older Gamora by the time we see her she is so like numbed everything you're raised as thanos's daughter that's gonna happen but when it's that little kid and he's you know slaughtering her half her race and he's you know balanced as all things should be i was like this reminds me of it turns out it's the same girl which i had no clue no clue that that girl again we saw barbara together

we saw barbenheimer yeah was there back in the day and now she's all grown up clue that that girl again we saw barbara together we saw barbenheimer yeah was there back in the day and now she's all grown up so that that was very cool and obviously like a happy coincidence kind of um you know how you knew it wasn't a happy coincidence how it was the force it was the force that's right that's the other thing i'm force sensitive people don't realize that he's special too that's the here's somebody that said that kid clem special over there they're saying i have the force they're not saying I'm a professional idiot or anything like that. No, they would never. I also had to do it to him.

Had to do it, and it's not really saying much. Just because our boy Anakin's saying snips, he's on the sus list. He was on the sus list instantly. I think we all knew that he was going to... We all know he becomes Darth Vader, but it was like, yeah, I'm not buying this snip shit. Get that away from me. But everything about it felt like a cartoon, and i don't know how to really explain it i think anyone

that watched the cartoons agrees it just was shot the way or maybe it's just very very rebelsy the other thing they didn't do um is like darth vader his mask is shaped different in the cartoon and almost like it was that was going to be the case in this show just because everything else was so identical to it all in the cartoon it's more like the original concept art the ralph mcquarrie concept art where it's a little more like stylized he has a little more of a brow like an anger in his face but i loved just seeing anakin with his clone wars haircut in the clone wars armor something we never thought we would see i was haircut in the Clone Wars armor, something we never thought we would see. I was really in the Obi-Wan show asking for a Clone Wars era flashback so we could see that, so we could see him and Anakin in the Clone Wars. Because for me, the best two things the Clone Wars ever did were,

one, establishing that the relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan was worthy of the heartbreak in Revenge of the Sith. Like, they really, truly made them feel like brothers and friends. And then two is making the clones feel like actual people, like making you feel for these basically faceless clones. And this episode kind of hit on both points there where not with the Anakin Obi-Wan thing necessarily, but with Anakin and Ahsoka here,

where it's showing you their relationship, their master-apprentice relationship. and then later on with ahsoka showing she had the feelings for the clones and that one scene i think me and devlet said skipping ahead a little bit obviously with the clones is the most i've ever felt for the clones like being like oh shit they're being carted off the battlefield there's bodies going anakin and ahsoka are like all right on to the next battle pretty much like crazy shit that they did with just short little flashback scenes i think each flashback scene was probably like five minutes if that yeah and it's crazy because like they're going against a droid army and hey as much as we love our droids it is literally just robots and

these poor fucking guys are just getting just shot up and fucking mutilated and experiencing the horrors of war and it is like it just seems so goddamn unfair and like you said a kid growing up in the wars and this is coming from someone who watched like honestly like 20 hours of world war ii content just by coincidence like a week straight i was kind of it was kind of nice to actually see a more warzy star wars because all the other star wars things for the most part especially the early ones storm troopers don't hit anything they they get shot they kind of fall over they're like uh you know disposable characters they're like the foot soldiers and ninja turtles you don't really think about them none of the heroes ever really get heard if they get like glanced with a laser it's like ah and that's it this is like the the fucking mental side of shit

this is like the the people who are going through the the recovery of everything that was one of my favorite things and just like running into the unknown and being like i don't know what the fuck's out there just a bunch of robots that are just shooting lasers at me blindly and kind of just seeing anakin being badass i i loved it and again I don't have the whole rebels and clone wars side of things but I'm someone that loves Star Wars and I love I want so much more Anakin that's basically this is the drug for Anakin I just got my hit and now I'm gonna need more and more and more I would also love to know what and I'm sure we'll get like one of those gallery specials but what the conversations were like between Anakin or between Hayden Christensen and Dave Filoni

in terms of did he tell him to play Anakin more like Anakin was in The Clone Wars, a little more upbeat and friendly and stuff? Did he tell him, hey, go back and watch these specific episodes. This is how I want you to play Anakin. I'd be fascinated to see that. I also love what you said where they're running off into the unknown and there's just complete dust and dirt and things being kicked up those were some of the best shots in attack of the clones and they looked so good here the way they played with the

lighting and stuff dave filoni is not a very experienced live action director he's been doing cartoon stuff forever but he's only really done a couple episodes of Mando and stuff. So I thought he really flexed on everyone with this entire episode. Yeah. Like I said, though, go ahead. The like, again,

kind of going back to like the other war stuff I have been watching again, never been lucky enough, never to actually experience war myself. But in a lot of times in the, in star Wars or a lot of like sci-fi space things, space content, it's like, all right, these two factions are here. We're battling. in Star Wars or a lot of like sci-fi space things, space content. It's like, all right, these two factions are here.

We're battling. And then we go our separate ways. It's like war. It's like, we're taking over this point. Then we got to take over. There's no like battle. Like a lot of times I think in the movie and stuff, it's like, this is the huge battle with all these ships or whatever.

And then we all go home where it's like, no, we're going, we're clawing our way for like to get a half a mile of turf. And that's what it felt like these people were doing. And that's the kind of shit that probably like fucks with Anakin. It fucks with Ahsoka. And I'll tell you what, the Ahsoka stuff, it really hammers home. Fuck the Jedi, man. They just threw her ass and God knows how many people Jedi's ass into this shit. And I know like the emperor,

I'm just trying not to say his name and get embarrassed. I know he was playing everyone like puppets on both sides and keeping it going. But at some point you thought the Jedi, the adults in the building would have figured out a way to get it all done. And they completely just boned it. The Jedi suck too long. Didn't watch too long.

Didn't read the Jedi suck. Fuck. I hate him. I mean, this episode, you see a child soldier on the battlefield like that. You got to ask is Yoda. Kony.

Basically, he's very similar. He's putting children out on the bed. It's not it's not right. What are they doing there? And you could see it in Soka's face. She's devastated to see these clones being carted off because she's like, I gave them their orders. She's literally their leader. She sent them into the battle to die.

And she's just looking at them. Anakin's ready for the next battle. He's like, like come on we got to get on to the next battlefield there's ships here this is going on she's like but aren't you like upset he's trying to crack jokes still anakin i think went into this war in a time where he needed to get some fucking aggression out ahsoka like she says to anakin was not trained to be a soldier she wanted to be a keeper of the peace. And I loved that dialogue because it shows you where the Jedi went wrong, which obviously is becoming soldiers and just becoming these like, all right, I guess we're fighting for the Republic now. Great conversation between them, though.

And she says, what will happen if I stop fighting? He says, then you'll die. And he walks off into that abyss. And we get the first amazing, amazing shot where it flashes a quick Darth Vader. You see his blue lightsaber become red. You see the silhouette become much wider into the Vader costume. Chills instantly. Like one of the coolest shots I'll go out on a limb and say that Disney has ever done. Post the original six. I think that's one of the coolest quick i'll go out on a limb and say that disney has ever done post the original six i think that's one of the coolest quick star wars shots and we get another quick vader shot

later on that one's just as cool theater always plays i mean i almost get scared of saying that because it's like i don't want to tattoo invader and then we're just going to have nothing but vader cuts for like the next three years or something like that but Vader always plays man he's cool as fuck and uh I mean even the the lightsaber changing is just such a cool ass character yeah so I'm with you on all that now you mentioned at the beginning of this episode that sometimes on TikTok it's leaning into the dark side is what gets our stuff to go off if everyone would bear with me now I'd like to lean into the dark side of TikTok, and I'd like to just workshop a TikTok on the show live. I'm going to just give it a take or two, and I'm going to cut this down into a TikTok that hopefully goes off for people roasting me for being obvious about this. One thing you might not have noticed in this week's episode of Ahsoka Anakin actually turns into Darth Vader at two points

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Maybe something like that and people will say this fucking idiot we know and it's one of those where maybe it could go off maybe it won't but workshop it live on the show maybe the guy who was roasting you for never seeing the animated episodes will think you only saw the animated episodes or only saw like you know the uh the sequel trilogy or something you don't even know who the fuck anakin skywalker is it could be crazy no idea that i love the little peek behind the scenes that's that's content baby that's how barstool sports got to the size it is just that kind of those kind of takes and content live a fucking genius at work master master class master class by robbie fox a tiktok

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what do you mean missed show you can't do the show without Steven Tyler like they're delayed canceled whatever you want to call it I'm sorry I thought they trotted someone else out like Joe Perry can't sing these songs I love Joe Perry but yeah that would be amazing like that's someone else out. Like Joe Perry can't sing these songs. I love Joe Perry, but yeah, that would be amazing.

Like that's someone trying to dream on as you don't want anyone with Steven Tyler trying that. He has to be like top three, like irreplaceable just because of his unique sound in terms of for a band. Right. So yeah, that would be replacing Steven Tyler tonight.

We'll be the guy in the third row. Hey, maybe game time. Can you get a cue with something like that? That'd be nice. Game time is essentially the quagmire i'm going to say like robbie they're the quagmire of uh tickets where they take care of you they are the master you're the apprentice and they take care of you the right way if quagmire was still alive

anakin doesn't turn i'm convinced of this take i will go to my grave with that date so game time they get you there safely now the ghost is out looking for ahsoka quick scene where hera is asking who yang what anakin was like and he's just like he was intense that's the only word he could use to describe anakin we get more flashbacks we flash back to the siege of mandalore here which i shouted out right away i saw that outfit ahsoka was wearing turned to my girlfriend i was like this is the fucking siege of of Mandalore. Two seconds later, they said, I was like, you fucking see? It was the Siege of Mandalore. We see some Maul Mandos, these like commando Mandalorians that were at the time under the rule of Darth Maul because he had the Darksaber.

But at this Siege of Mandalore, Ahsoka goes and battles him. It's fucking badass. It's in the last season of The Clone Wars. Some of the best stuff they've ever put out. You see some of the ahsoka painted clones in the background see captain rex one of her favorite clones i would say her favorite clone the one she had the closest relationship with and anakin is like i don't know this battle it's because this battle is going on during revenge of the sith so they've separated. They've gone their separate ways. And Ahsoka's a little pissed about that.

She's like, yeah, because you weren't with me during this. You know, I needed you. You weren't there. He reassures her, like, you're part of this legacy. You realize, like, we all have this legacy. You're part of it, which I liked because a lot of Star Wars fans for years were trying to say Ahsoka like actually wasn't like the first few years of the Clone Wars Ahsoka was hated because people were like there's no way we could

buy that Anakin had an apprentice that was never mentioned in any of the movies which I also felt the same way about for a little while and then it just became so good that I was like I would rather just believe that he did it's it's a cooler story if he did i think so i think them saying you're a part of this and hammering home her being like my legacy is death and destruction and then being like no it's more than that you're part of the story was very nice almost guardians 3-esque and uh lila telling rocket this is your story it's been your story all along that was nice i like that so i the seizure mandalore i'm just like oh shit are we getting the tie bombers bombing the shit out

of everything this different over yep this went way over the purge yes this went over my head uh the mandalorian stuff the the demolions and that's why they have the horns coming out of their helmets and shit like that. That's some cool ass stuff. I fucking dig it. Unfortunately, actually kind of looks like the Magneto helmet here, right?

It kind of has the little horns on the top. So that one, I definitely, there's plenty of stuff that I'm not getting as a rebels watcher or whatever you want to call it. The, the rec stuff missed that too. That's fucking sweet.

So they, and heavy spoilers said it too, they have different titles. Like the guys have different titles as they're jumping through flashbacks, which I mean, like Filoni, when Filoni's doing shit for now, like every time he's doing an episode, I'm like, the little things will be taken care of.

It's kind of like when now Pornhub's back on the blog and I'm like, Pornhub's back on the blog, I'm like, oh yeah, this is going to have everything you want in terms of it's going to be vicious, it's kind of like when now porno is back on the blog and i'm like porno is right on the blog i'm like oh yeah this is gonna have everything you want in terms of it's gonna be vicious it's gonna be funny and it's gonna give you the thoughts straight from the brain to the mouth to the fingers it's gonna be good now i i loved this episode as much as everyone else did so this is why i'm asking this question just putting it out there to the universe not like this is a question you could necessarily answer but feidelberg had a great tweet about football this weekend where he's like why not just run the rush offense all the time if you need points why not just get points 90 of the time if a team needs points they get

points i kind of feel that way about ahsoka like if this is what dave filoni can do when he's writing and directing why are we not running the episode five play every week? Why is this not just the Dave Filoni written and directed show where you're doing this every fucking week? Can we not do this every week? Can you not afford Hayden Christensen every week? What else is he doing? So how do I say this? Not with you,

not with Barstool, or I'm just saying to the listeners, I think that's what I was expecting when i got ahsoka when i was like oh boy clem wait till you meet ahsoka here you're gonna get to nowhere and i was expecting a little more and i don't even know if it's possible from episode one to five it's like at some point you have to establish the run you have to do this and that or else you can i understand all that kind of stuff but i did that's i guess it's what i want from every show it's just it's very rare you get shows like that again i go back to when i remember

like breaking bad if you watch the first episode it's just he wakes up it's fucking chaos he sees dead bodies on the ground and then you're like oh boy we're in for a ride same thing happened i remember with the departed once i got out of the departed i was like oh shit that was a bad ride man like you feel like like you literally end game same kind of thing it's like you just went on this ride and i know episode of tv is much different but it's like the same kind of feeling i would like so that's a good take right there kind of just let's run the two minute offense and get some fucking points here it's up to feloni man i guess trust the feloni forever and a day but

that is a fair point by feidelberg translated by robbie in the star wars language yeah so as they're talking about legacies she mentions that there's a lot of pain and suffering in his legacy what he would go on to be and hayden flips a switch and it's awesome how he flips this switch where he goes from oh this is so cool it's master and apprentice and he's saying snips to oh this is darth vader and you should be afraid of this man and he's like oh is this what that's about fucking hits the lightsaber and it's red and it's just like oh here we go and they have another fight and he force pushes her back into the world between worlds so young ahsoka becomes

rosario dawson ahsoka the one that we know another amazing vader shot of him flashing back and forth between vader he has sith eyes and she steals the lightsaber from him and she like gets sith eyes for a quick second but she throws the lightsaber away when she's defeated him proving that she is not going down the same path he is even though yes they had paths that aligned throughout the Clone Wars that maybe had some death and destruction in their legacy. He went one way and she's going the complete opposite. She says, I'm not killing you.

And he says, there's hope for you yet. And then kind of disappears like Batman and Commissioner Gordon. And the whole world between worlds fills with water. Ahsoka is rescued. The little Easter egg, the guy who rescues Ahsoka is the main body actor for the Mandalorian. So Pedro Pascal is usually doing the voice. The guy who rescues Ahsoka is usually in the suit. And she wakes up the next day on the ship.

Got to say this. Didn't like seeing her without a headpiece. Weird. I didn't. That was strange. I was like, put some clothes on yeah there was she was there there was something just off about it right there was something just odd about it like seeing a professional wrestler without knee pads it looks like they're naked

and it's like i know you're not but like it just puts put some knee pads on it doesn't feel right yeah it's like i remember when patrick Ewing like didn't wear his knee pads. If he like would come out early or something, you're just like, what the fuck? There's something just wrong here with this picture. That's a, that's a great call.

If you take, if you like Photoshop the eyebrows off of somebody at first, you don't notice it. And then you're like, wait, there's something completely afoot, something afoot with this matter. The, the whole Darth Vader thing was,

was just so cool. And it kind of like shows that that Anakin the Good did some pretty good by raising an apprentice the way he did, especially an apprentice that was raised in war, essentially. I also think I have to come to grips with... I don't blame Anakin as much as I should, or as much as other people do, I should say. Because, again, he had a bunch of old bumbling fools

in charge of his training. Again, some of that was like Qui-Gon falling down, becoming the only man to ever die from a lightsaber through the fucking gut. So that was just a bad break for them, I suppose. Don't say gut. It went through his spinal cord, as the TikTok physicians have showed us.

But it's like, if you you were born and you had nothing but sand and you were a slave and your mom was raped and murdered by sand people some rage might fill your heart and then you're just thrown into war and basically these yeah fucking pacifist puppet who completely bungle everything every turn he gets a pass in my book i the youngling stuff i can't get past other than that though i'm and that was the thing i was like is he gonna try to murder young ahsoka i'm like we can't keep doing this you have a fucking problem dude no she was she was too old at that point she needs to be like 10 years even younger yeah exactly he's like oh god it's like leo dicaprio it's like oh she's almost a teenager

by this i can't murder her uh the eye shit was cool though like that was like the oh boy we have it coming right now so you like dave said with the the red lightsaber you throw that red even though red lightsabers are giving out like halloween candy now back in the day the red lights back in my day the red lightsaber used to mean something. So it's just nice to see it back there. And Anakin's old blue lightsaber, man, that still plays. That still plays in the fact that we've got it. Boom. There it is. Yeah, there it is.

That's the one. I wanted to read this post from Star Wars Reddit that I just thought put things very clearly and in a great way. The post is from user TheJawa. Ahsoka became a shell of herself. This is about the lesson that she was taught. Ahsoka became a shell of herself. She wasn't the Snips that Anakin had trained anymore. He was bringing her back around to being herself.

She had become so afraid of becoming Anakin that she no longer trusted herself, fearing that she'd become just like him. But she proved to herself that not striking him down at the end, she was not like him. Even with him attempting to force her into it and strike him down like you have to do it to survive, her legacy is her own, even if part of it includes Anakin's legacy. The battle on Rydloth shows that she had a ton of compassion and desire not just to be a warrior. By the siege of mandalore her separation from anakin she had become nothing more than a warrior like she didn't want to be she had learned the wrong lesson from

anakin at that point that you just needed to be just a warrior it's not who she was so the whole part of him teaching her a lesson and what is that lesson it's become the person you used to be and try some crazy shit and later on in to be and try some crazy shit. And later on in the episode, she tries some crazy shit. That is a classic Anakin Skywalker Clone Wars-esque move. So I feel like the lesson stuck and it worked with her. Hu Yang wakes her up, though, on the ship. And he's like, you have Jason to thank.

You've been asleep a full day. They still haven't found Sabine yet, though. We were hoping you would tell us what happened to Sabine. She doesn't know, but she goes and gets some forced memories from the ball, which is something she's done before. She did it with Grogu. That was the first time we got some backstory with Grogu. She held him and we saw some of Order 66. And she kind of gets the whole scene.

It's kind of a cheap way to like, oh, yeah, she knows what happened last week. But I'm totally OK with it because they've kind of established she could do it already. So when she was doing that and I hadn't looked at how much time was left, I go, all right, here we go. We had our big Anakin moment. That was awesome. This episode. This is movie theater quality we're dealing with here. And I was like, we're meeting through on this episode. I like they just fucking yada yada yada they yada yada

yada all the nonsense she wasn't doing fucking uh batman doing all the fingerprinting and trying to figure everything out she just fast forwarded i'm like let's go and then i'm thinking we're gonna get 10 out of 10 from even the idiots like me that don't know anything about rebels because I'm just going to be drinking up all your guys memories. And, you know, what's the what's the word to really say? I'm still I'm stealing your valor, essentially, by just enjoying the stuff I barely understand. Right. So unfortunately, that didn't happen. But I was fine with it, too, for that reason. I'm like, honestly, at this point, this was episode five, right?

Yeah. We don't have a lot of time left, and we have to meet this guy, have to make him do something. I know he's probably going to be the big guy for, like, season two, I would imagine. But this is the reason why I almost wish, like you said, the two-minute offense, if we had run that, Thrawn would be here episode three, maybe four. And now it's episode six and we're gonna probably meet him then so i'm with you on that just fucking yada yada that shit and let's keep moving now every plate let's tell the people about every plate hoping to budget your food expenses this fall get more bang for your bite with america's best value meal kit every

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Also, we see Ahsoka when she comes out. She's wearing all the white gear. People are calling her Ahsoka the White, like Gandalf the White. Oh, okay. She comes out in that in Rebels, but they kind of like retconned that and made it like this is what it took her to become that i like the idea that she is like a more powerful version of herself now that she's finished her training with her master in whatever realm that was or universe or galaxy whatever it may have been her outfit is also badass like she has arm wraps that remind me a little bit of ray

which i always thought was a cool character trait for Rey, that her arms were, like, wrapped up almost like CM Punk, like a wrestler style. Really cool new outfit for Ahsoka. The hood is also such a cool part of her. The hood over the Tagruta horns. Love that. I would have loved it if, like, she's like, they're like, Ahsoka, like, are you Ahsoka the White now?

Or, like, what's going on here? And she's like, nah, like, my deal with Nike expired. i'm under armor now they gave me a whole new like wardrobe the the air soca ones are coming out next month so we're doing a hard reboot here or the complete opposite direction if she's like it's laundry day no yeah she's like i get blood on this white stuff all the time so i try not to wear i it's all I anything I get that anything, any shirt that I get that's white. Usually it's like something through barstools for free or something. I just tie dye it because I'm like, I'm going to destroy it if it's not tied. So I just tied it.

I don't have a lot of white stuff because of that. I'm constantly getting, you know, ketchup, nacho cheese, whatever it could be. Blood from my thing. I freaking cut my finger on a straw the other day got it all over my base it was a whole thing a straw it was yeah it was a plastic straw i dropped my drink i tried to catch it and the plastic straw sliced my finger open right before we were about to play it was it was a conundrum but don't be saying that was over every plate on the potter but if you just just get a straw, how are we going to have them push some food for people?

My point is all of my clothing is black. So when we do laundry, it looks like I'm a hot topic employee. Like it's just like a sea of black. It's crazy. Mon Mothma tells Hera that she and Ahsoka must return to Coruscant. She's like, I could only hold the Senate off for so long. They're voting on whether or not you should be permanently suspended at this point. To me, it is like what is permanently suspended?

I mean, that means expelled. That's fired. That's not a real thing. Permanently suspended. That's an oxymoron. But again, like Tank said, the New Republic doesn't even know what they're doing. Ahsoka sees some purgles flying up above, though, and she gets an idea. Like I said, this is an anakin skywalker idea

through and through during the clone wars from the first movie they made through the final season he would constantly win battles by doing the craziest most brash outside the box idea almost in that poe dameron way where poe dameron was getting yelled at because he constantly wanted to like let's just fucking kill everyone anakin was kind of that person but it usually worked out for anakin so soka's like fuck it i think it's gonna work out for us they fly up into the pack of purgles they find the leader of the pack and she steps out onto the wing of her ship and she communicates with it through the force and basically hitches a ride so they friggin fly their ship into the mouth of a pergol tiva goes up he's trying to buy time with the fleet because they're like ahsoka's got a

fuck they're kind of trying to arrest her he's like they're not here to help but they weren't there to fight so i was like i think they're just gonna detain her or bring her back just yell at her i don't know they didn't really make that clear they were basically the fuck around and find out guy but they weren't interested in doing either That's how I see it By the way, Hera, right? Hera's her name? Yeah She shouldn't be worried about getting arrested or expelled or anything

She should be worried about Child Protective Services Coming and taking her goddamn son away If he's special or not special He should not be in these like Active fucking battle zones With known Sith adjacent people i guess you could have called them because yeah obviously they're not sith or full bones i'm not

even going to try to figure out all that kind of stuff but i don't care what this this kid's fucking baby is this guy's uh you know yoda himself the guy is still like fucking like mando doesn't just throw baby yoda into the mix even though he can move some pebbles with his brain and occasionally take down a beast that being said she does make the good call to be like all right i can't bring him to the other galaxy i can't fly this kid into the mouth of a fucking space whale and go into hyperspace she's like ahsoka's like sorry you can't come for the trip she's like yeah jason can't go to another fucking galaxy oh that's my point i think he can she was just like here like here boy go sniff around around and figure out where Ahsoka is.

And he did it. He fucking did it. So instead of in the space whale, we'd have Ezra back by the end of the episode, Thrawn be dead, and we'd be fucking running the credits. Instead, I'm telling you, this is bad. This is very bad. Ahsoka is going to be, well, Ahsoka is almost like so chill now, though. It might be the all whites.

I will say this, and you know it too When you do wear the white You feel fucking good Look good, feel good, play good She's in look good, feel good, play good mode And she's just like eh I think it's going to work out I think I kind of talked to the whale in force language Maybe not but we'll see what happens

And I kind of respect it We're just going along for the ride at this point Definitely like the space whale Doesn't get any less weird to me. Has it gotten any less weird to you now that you've had it for years in your life? Oh yeah. Yeah. I feel used to the space whales.

I feel like I could probably hitch a ride with them if I needed to. I was, I was over it and I thought I had gotten there. And then I saw like a hyperdrive engine boot up in its mouth and I'm like, yep, I'm back to square one now. Yeah, that's the thing. It has the rings and I didn't know if they were going to ever show that because in the cartoon,

that's the most cartoonish thing that they have and I didn't think that they would incorporate that. I actually thought it was kind of cool. I also loved the way they shot it when they came out of, I guess, the atmosphere into space. They're like, you're going to want to fucking get that fleet out of the way, Commander. all of the pilots looking at them just with this like fascination of oh my god what you would look at a dinosaur like basically i thought that was really

cool seeing the shadows coming over their ships and everything that they would cast really cool stuff and she gets like a may the force be with you fucking hyperspace or off. It's a cool way to show. Oh, how could we get there? Well, the only way the original hyperspace route mappers. And I love this. Okay.

Is line two where who Yang's like, you know, we don't even know where we're going. We could be going anywhere. She's like, it's better than going nowhere. It's like, that doesn't even,

we don't, I don't know what that means. I don't know if that's rational. He must be like, ah, he's like C3PO, like the odds of this. Yeah, 25,000 years. He ain't fucking built for this kind of game, right?

He's looking to retire, get out of this shit. I like that line. That was a good line, a little bit of like an old sage line, a line your dad drops on you. You're like, oh, fuck, that's actually kind of smart. He has a little bit of sage wisdom to him still after it's all said and done. But, yeah, it's all said and done uh but yeah it's the you said it though i like seeing the wonder in the star wars characters eyes who

are all aliens or whatever in this world and they're still just like what the fuck is a flying whale doing here right now that was that was pretty cool and even though we had seen it in the previous episode or two episodes when smoke boy that fucking fraud even he was amazed by it a big old fart that was the episode though they gotta you know may the force be with you credits next week hopefully thrown i i would be shocked if we didn't get thrown um i'm hoping we get him for more than just like an end of episode tease as well. Something I found interesting on Twitter today was that there's that one shot of Thrawn in the trailer that we've already seen. That's the only shot that from the trailer that we haven't actually seen

in the series so far. Oh, wow. So it's the first time since Mandalorian season two that they've held out 100% of the footage from the final two episodes. Makes me think we're going to get a lot of cool stuff. Probably a lot of Thrawn and Ezra. The two people that you wouldn't want to show in the trailer. So wait. There's two episodes left? There's three left.

But the final two are the ones that we know will probably have footage we've never seen. You would think the one shot of Thrawn will be next week okay i was about to say i was like if we have two left we have a real problem three i'm even feel like we're maybe we're gonna go two minute offense here it's gonna be nothing but the hits nothing but the hits nothing but the mother three i'm okay with three i feel like and or did some great arcs with three where i'm treating this final three as its own arc kind of that would be pretty cool if like star wars like merrill game of thrones was like some great arcs with three where I'm treating this final three as its own

arc. Kind of. That would be pretty cool. If like star Wars, like Mero game of Thrones, it was like, once you hit the pen ultimate, you have some crazy shit.

And the finale still has some really good stuff. If star Wars, if they just follow the, uh, and or our courts, like a holy final trilogy, quote unquote, like,

yeah, that would be, that would be very cool. Um, one thing that I'm hoping to see in the final three episodes uh and i'll be honest i'm not too happy with you and some people on twitter oh am i gonna see chopper murder some motherfuckers here because this guy i knew that was coming he's a babysitter the guy is a fucking r2d2 light babysitter right now it's tough they all he's done is put the tracker on which was

great when he put the tracker on the little hyperspace thing they found the eye of sign it was cool scene he flexed on him but that's all he's done he also said he wanted to like murder everyone he's like let's drop the thing here it's fine it's one of the bomb yeah yeah that so we we do need to see like the best chopper kills are the ones where like someone's standing too close to a barrier and there's no railings because, of course, there's no railings in Star Wars. He just, like, bumps them over. He has no remorse.

He just, boom, hits them with his butt. Like, we need to see one of those for sure before the end of the series. Cold-blooded Chopper. Imagine he kills, like, Shin or something. Imagine Shin gets two fights with Sabine and Chopper just fucking electrocutes her. Or Chopper, you know, we have a little slap in that dumper there maybe, you know, a little sassy. He can do whatever. Like, I don't think he can do whatever. Chopper just fucking electrocutes her or Chopper you know slapping that dumper there maybe you know a little sassy but he's enjoying it I don't think he's doing everything Chopper can't

get cancelled right and then I have one prediction here by the end of this season Ahsoka's gonna say something like see you Sky Guy and that's gonna be like a goodbye and I don't i i know of

the sky guy and you drop those look at this yeah who's the fucking rebels expert this guy's a rebel expert i'm the captain now yeah no me i haven't watched a cartoon to save my life look at this guy by the way who the fuck looks at robbie fox to go that guy's never watched an animated series before what unless he was talking about dave i don't understand like no because no it was a clip from weeks ago before dave even made his first appearance in the basement that there is more of a case for someone to say this guy has only watched animated series and has never seen a live action show in his life that makes no sense looking back yeah strange strange jerk but i always like the strange ones.

The strange ones make me laugh. The ones that are so out there where you're like, what are you talking about? Is that your way of being like, fuck you, dude. You've never watched a fucking cartoon. Like, what? Star Wars fans are a weird group, man. We know that, man. The hive of reverence, villainy, and scumum unlike anything in the world or someone like that i've butchered that line i'm i'm back to being the fucking uh casual fan of the show god damn it

do we have a hashtag for this week we could use i was gonna say sky guy but is that too cartoon fox and fucking cartoon fox that might be yeah we might get like some weird like anime foxes furries oh we're definitely gonna get that let me look into hashtag cartoon fox see if there's anything on there um there's a thing called kaleo fox k-a-l-e-o fox there's a whole bunch of like different things of him nothing nothing uh pornographic i mean it's hard to put anything in twitter as our boy nate said and you don't get a bunch of x-rated content, at least in Nate's world. I don't know what he's looking up.

He says he's got a lot of gay porn on his stuff when he does that. I would back him up a little bit. It wasn't gay porn, but I looked up pup punk on Twitter today, and I saw some naked ladies. I was like, what is happening there? I did the thing of I saw the guy who's facing one of the Paul brothers in the boxing match the other day. It said he who's facing one of the paul brothers in the boxing match the other day it said he was trending yeah and i saw nina agdell in a way i've never seen

nina agdell before so that was yeah yeah and he's now i think he he's uh he's restraining order he's probably canceled it but don't do that chopper if you're listening watching the show do not chopper do not do that so hashtag cartoon fox that works uh hashtag hashtag um green dumper hashtag green dumper i think cartoon fox all right you know you guys choose hashtag war you choose yeah you guys choose hashtag war green dumper versus cartoon fox two very different things people can be like what did they talk about on that star wars show and in the comments for the people that made it all the way to the end god bless you i want to know where this stands in the 2023 star wars show episodes where does this rank is this the best is this you know behind the mando episode was andor this year was that last year last year okay so So I wanted to see where this stood.

Is this better than anything in Andor? That's basically what I want to know because Mandalorian I feel like was hit or miss. Is this episode better than anything Andor had? Tell me in the comments below. Where do you have this rank, this compared to Andor? Because this has to be everyone's number one Ahsoka, right? Yeah. I mean last week was awesome as well, is this is like years and years and years

of stuff that we didn't even know we wanted like i never thought we would get a live action adaptation of the clone wars necessarily with hayden christiansen i just thought oh it's great that we're getting more star wars content being that hayden and all them are done you know when the cartoon originally came out so this was like didn't even know we wanted it and we got it it was awesome that is something you say when you hear they're making the ahsoka show you wouldn't it be cool if they did a flashback and then it actually happened which another thing from heavy spoilers i guess someone had said there was rumors that they were going to do redo the mustafar scene yeah i saw the same rumors and it was going to be Ahsoka instead of Obi-Wan. Yes, which sounds fucking cool.

Yeah, and whether it didn't work or they just kind of like were writing it out of me. It's kind of like when you write a blog, you're like, this sounded a lot better in my brain than it did on virtual paper. So I'd love to know more about that. Filoni, just do it at some point. Just fucking even if you just do it as a cartoon version. I think that would be sweet. Do one of those like Tales of the Jedi, but make it live action, like a little 15 minute thing.

I'd be fine with that. Yes. 100%. Alright, thank you for tuning in. Come back next week for episode 6 of Ahsoka, or instant reactions and whatnot. Hopefully some Thrawn next week. Maybe some Ezra too. Maybe a little Ezra, maybe a little Thrawn. And definitely some hashtag green number.

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