My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 303 - AHSOKA EPISODE 7

Episode Date: September 28, 2023

Robbie and Clem recap 'Dreams and Madness' - the seventh chapter in the Ahsoka series. Thrawn shows off his tactician abilities, Baylan and Shin split off, Ezra denies his old saber, and the New Republic shows off their incompetence early. Plus, we get a great cameo from an old friend! 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)! Celebrity Mint: Sign up for exclusive product updates and drops at CelebrityMint.com and follow Celebrity Mint on social media! Factor: Head to FACTORMEALS.com/lcb50 and use code lcb50 to get 50% off. That’s code lcb50 at FACTORMEALS.com/lcb50 to get 50% off! #StarWars #Ahsoka #Thrawn **************************************** 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 3C and Barstool Sports. I am your host, Robbie Fox, along with my co-host and co-pilot, Clem, and we are here to recap the penultimate episode of Ahsoka. We love penultimate episodes here on My Mom's Basement, and we always want them to live up to the hype of, I would say, the Game of Thrones peak penultimate episodes. It's hard to live up to that hype, the Battle of the Bastards level hype, but every now and then we get a show that does. I wouldn't say this penultimate episode is a Battle of the Bastards level episode, not even close by any means but i thought it was a really good episode of ahsoka and another good episode like last week

to set up a major finale next week what did you think clem yeah so like you said game of thrones penultimate episodes i think are probably the gold standard i'm trying to think of like if Breaking Bad seasons I think the Breaking Bad it was usually the finale episode would usually have the crazy moment maybe the penultimate I can't remember but Game of Thrones I know for sure and you have so many of those moments I remember Battle of the Bastards I was standing up like it was a playoff game like elimination playoff game for one of my teams that's's how I was. And you're like having the feelings like, oh my God, it's all over. The season's over. My favorite character is done. And then you're so happy. You feel like you won a game and you can't go to sleep. You're so

happy afterwards. Definitely wasn't that, but I have to say, I have to admit this, I think was the first episode where I started to feel like this is one of my shows now. It doesn't feel like I'm watching someone else's show because I'm like, oh yeah, like Ahsoka has been with this crew, left them and now come back. And granted, I don't understand what her and Ezra meeting for the first time,

the dynamics of that, her versus Thrawn, I don't have the whole backstory of that. So I'm still kind of a stranger in a foreign land in that sense. But it's just kind of nice to feel like this is a show that was made for me as well as all the other millions of people who are diehard rebels clone wars fans and all that kind of stuff uh and sweet name dreams and nightmares dreams and madness yeah

dreams and i'm talking uh fucking you want me over there i thought meek mill but this is like a meek mill kind of title here but but Dreams of Madness. That's a fucking, that's, is that metal, Bob? I think that's metal. That's a pretty metal. It's pretty metal. Yeah, it is pretty. I could see that being the title of a Slayer song or something.

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is what we want we kind of want the jedi to come here or this is go you know everything's going just as i've foreseen and i'm like i'm sure it's all gonna make sense when it's all said and done but it feels like uh you know if it was a corporate meeting he'd be like all right we're good we'll circle back and we'll see you guys next week and the project just never gets done or it just blows up in your face it's like a roman uh what's his last name shit uh not roman reigns roman from succession roman roy roman roy it's like the rocket exploding right it's like i feel like it's going back in the pocket i feel like thrawn he's kind of like yeah everything's good yeah yeah no this is exactly what a witch is do some magic and we're

good and then it's like i need to see it all come to fruition go oh fuck that's the you know ocean moment actually speaking of breaking bad heisenberg had a lot of those moments where you're just like what is he doing and then when it all comes together and some, let's say a chemical reaction, it all comes together and boom, big explosion. He saves the day. So I am, I give him a lot of credit. You guys,

you're telling me this guy is like 99 overall kind of a, a villain here, right? Yeah. He's the big bad. So I trust me. I'm trying to think. So Vader is,

is, is the gold standard. I'm not going to put this guy on vader's level because vader has fucking space magic on his side kylo ren i don't even know what kylo ren was supposed to be once the sequel trilogy is all said and done right the phantom menace emo bitch by the end of it yeah exactly the phantom menace background to ben solo that was all right darth maul was just kind of darth Maul was awesome, and then they killed him. Darth Jar Jar would have been the greatest villain of all time.

They scrapped that plan. So, in terms of Star Wars villains, you see, I just kind of just sprinkled that in there. I'm not even going to correct you anymore. In terms of Star Wars villains, I'm putting this guy... I'm expecting a lot out of him, but

I need to see some, there was a couple of things this episode that we'll get into and that I had to tip my cap to him for sure. Well, my hope for him, I think his ceiling, his peak, if he's everything we could ever want him to be, is that one day we look at this live action Thrawn performance, not necessarily Ahsoka season one, but if they do the heir to the empire movie or something like that i want him to feel as scary and him to bring as much

tension as christoph waltz in inglorious bastards like that kind of you're terrified of him and you never know his next move but you know he probably knows you know what you're doing so going back to the thrones reference and i thought this a couple days ago i think i saw a little clip about him i forgot just how much i love tywin lannister tywin lannister was so fucking ruthless and so calculating but you also just kind of loved him because he would just tell it like it was like no king that has to remind you that a king is a true king and shit like that and it was maybe because like he was he was real he felt real but he also felt like supremely badass if maybe that's

kind of the the one that i'm looking for for thrawn and everyone forgets like that's the guy who set up the whole red wedding if we have a red moment red wedding moment with thrawn that'll be the moment where i'm like oh shit and i think with star wars we got it with andor which was kind of we were promised that would be our thronesy kind of show for star wars and it definitely played out kind of like that and i feel like this is kind of this is bridging the gap between that and the original star wars kind of movies but there is some of that in there when we see characters like my mom from like oh shit yeah that's right we are in this now we are in this world so it's it's very interesting to see how it all goes so i'm excited for throwing fucking tell me throw was one who said let's name this episode dreams and madness and then i'm like

let's get into it the episode begins on Coruscant, and you see all the New Republic stuff all over the place. They go into a New Republic courtroom. The New Republic outfits, they're so goofy. I think we've talked about it before. Just the way everyone in the New Republic looks. They almost had it coming. I don't want to say they had it coming when they got destroyed,

but they almost had it coming. They look like clowns. I'll say, you're a good kid, and you have a clean conscience i've been working at barcelona you my soul's already the devil's possession they had it coming they had it coming they deserve everyone who got blown up in those like seven planets or whatever they killed in fucking force awakens it's because these goddamn bozos man bozos in the government and i actually do appreciate for the record i do appreciate just how fucking how these all just a bunch of idiots just bumbling all over themselves are the ones who

are in charge of the most important decisions and it feels like real life we just have buffoons on every side of the aisle and it's the same mama luke's that are there now so i'm with you bob and i always like i have to say this I always like being on Coruscant. It always makes me, gives me the little butterflies in my stomach. And I feel like there's a lot more to explore there that we haven't had a chance to do yet. So it may be a prequels planet to some people, but I'm cool with it. I mean, I don't want to speak too soon and make it this, but I feel like it's the anti-Tatooine. And that we get it constantly.

And I'm not tired of it. Tatooine, I i'm sick of we've talked about it on this show constantly we don't want to go back there but coruscant i feel like there's the whole underbelly world the whole like underground the whole uh like prime politician skyscraper world there's so much in coruscant that we haven't discovered yet it's funny because like tatooine is known as a being a place that has absolutely nothing yet it was the only place we ever visited so we they basically like you guys want to know what it was like being anakin and luke during their young days we're just going to make you guys live in tatooine anytime you go to star wars and we're on course on in this court because hera is being court marshaled which i don't even know exactly what that means but it sounds real cool every time

i hear i'm like oh shit she's getting court marshaled right now that's how i knew they were serious i'm like oh fuck court marshal i don't know what that means but that sounds bad that's really bad we got carson teva in the room they make mention of mandalorian season three so we kind of know where we are in this show now because they mentioned the conflict on mandalore moff gideon and they're like he was working by himself there's just this dickhead senator in the room who i believe is from star wars resistance another one of the star wars cartoons and he just refuses to believe harrah he's trying every trick in the book to be like, Nope,

she needs to be court-martialed. She needs this. She needs that. They wind up having to get help from C3PO. What an unexpected cameo in this episode. I thought maybe we could get 3PO or R2 at some point in the show. I didn't think he was going to show up in this moment. He walks in with a message from princess Leia,

hands him a little disc. And this once again he's like we can't trust a fucking droid he's just a droid just a droid about c-3po come on bite your tongue man that motherfucker was through at this point has been through two trilogies of the skywalker saga just fucking making things happen and granted it's the little guy R2 that you know makes it all makes the moves and you know comes through clutch but fuck Death Stars ain't blowing up without C-3PO that's just a fucking fact Jack and C-3PO drives me crazy

like everyone else but man it just felt good to have a familiar voice back and I wasn't sure when they're kind of blocking like is this like a little red herring here they're trying to throw us off and it's not going to be him. And then they had it. Him was like, Oh,

that's nice. And is Anthony Daniels still alive? Cause I feel like we've lost a lot of us. Okay, good. Cause I feel like we've lost a lot of star Wars actors over the years. So I was hoping that was good.

I'm hoping he was still with us. And this wasn't like his last appearance in the universe. No, Kenny Baker had played. R2 is no longer with us you might be confusing him there but yeah anthony daniels one of the few that has appeared in literally every star wars movie except solo and he even appears in solo actually as like a mind worker but not as 3po gotcha did we lose uh the guy who played chewbacca peter peter mayhew we

lost him we lost i, we lost a guy who was in Vader's body as well, right? Yep, David Cross, yeah. So I had a few guys in mind here, and then obviously my guy R2, I know we lost as well. But yeah, this, I don't even know what to call him. I think I called him the Asian Senator last time. He kind of looks like Manny Pacquiao.

Maybe a little, like, Islander in him. Is he even sus? I just think it's so obvious he's a fucking like imperial he has some sort of imperial like background or he's being bribed by an imperial i think i actually don't think that i think he's just so dumb like i i don't know the i i got vibes that obviously he's like trying to like make everyone not look at what's going on but I don't think it's on purpose and if that's the case that's fine

because again there literally are politicians who are that stupid they're stupid in common sense they're good at knowing how to acquire power they just don't know how to do it and listen the basement we'll let it fly in the basement we're not going to give political opinions they all suck I don't give a fucking color red fucking green purple blue uh speaking of green the green dumper was not shown i think they saw our tiktoks and they edited it out because that was the first

time i saw harrah and there wasn't just a dumper going in to lead us into the thing and they could have led us into the court with it and they didn't do it so we're we're apparently making changes and i apologize to anyone out there that was looking for it i think we might have seen our last uh glimpse of the number for this season um eventually the message from leia gets hera out of this little conundrum that she's in and mon mothma pulls her aside after the meeting and she's like just how real is the threat of throng coming back she's like it's pretty fucking real like let's be careful about that boom credit sequence title sequence whatever shout out leia for doing what leia does too like rebel in her own right nose she's just gonna take

care of business and sense it on on her dude r2 would have been better but hey listen c-3po he's a talker completely understand it by the way speaking of the droids again listen you guys promised me that my guy chopper was a bad motherfucker if he had committed an assassination on the senate floor or whatever the fuck that place is then i'd be like yep that's my droid the guy just had like a little and that's it and his whole entire species is being slandered by fucking Senator Pacquiao. I know. I don't, I'm going to need a chopper scene in the finale.

That's huge. I'm going to need like a big, big, because yeah, he's, he's laid a goose egg pretty much this whole season. For, okay. I will tell you this.

If chopper assassinates Senator Pacquiao, I'm in on him. Anything else? Basically I'm out. out on chopper season one and listen i'm not closing the door on chopper because i'm not stupid i know this should be my guy but a whole season and you just have one off cut off you know off the cuff comment yeah we can murder a bunch of people who cares funny entertaining and the flex the flex was a cool flex i have flex that was a cool i love The flex was nice. I loved that, yeah.

But you guys promised me the world, and I'm getting nothing. So I need an assassination. If you give me a live assassination of someone, tip of the phone. I'll count it then. That's fair. No, that's very fair. Ahsoka's on her trip training with an old hologram of Anakin Skywalker. This is really cool.

He's in his Clone Wars gear again, and it's a cool way to use him back in the show. I didn't know how they were going to get him back, but we did get him for another episode. And she even puts the hologram away. Kind of linger on that shot for a second. I think it's got to mean

those holograms are going to Luke. I can't believe they haven't gone to Luke already. She's got like home videos of his father and she's just hoarding them but i think that would be a cool way to i don't know if it'll end this season i don't know if they'll do that yet because i have a feeling we're gonna end on a big thrown winds cliffhanger infinity war style next week but yeah i think they have to transfer those films over and we could get mark hamill quote unquote you know the de-aging

whatever they do to him deep fake on screen with hayden christianson his father i think that'd be cool that would be that would be very cool that would be and the fact that balin is in the mix too i don't know if he'd have a part in it or anything but that like play some cat stevens in the background you know that's in the cradle or father and son from guardians 2 or something and he just kind of sits back and watches them like clark griswold was watching the family movies in the attic of chris's vacation oh wait did you even see chris's vacation no oh that's i didn't like it i've seen a lot of it like i've seen a lot of it you know it's always on around the holidays so i know a lot of it. Like I've seen a lot of it, you know, it's always on or on the holidays.

So I know a lot of the scenes, the electrocution scene, all, and I know all that, but yeah, no. Release the Anakin cut. That's basically the story for,

for Ahsoka here. Give the fucking boy, give the, that sounds kind of weird. Give the boy what he wants, but give him his fucking dad, man. Come on.

What are you doing? Ahsoka? It seems kind of, kind of fucked up that she didn't do it to begin with. And I have to ask this as a non-Rebels or Clone Wars watcher. How was Anakin as a master to his apprentice? Was he like the cool teacher that was really good at teaching? And she kind of followed the lead?

Or did he kind of stumble and wasn't a great teacher because he was battling with his own demons? I don't even know what what to make of anakin here yeah i would say he was the cool teacher for a while he was always like he always knows best anakin i would say as a teacher was never wrong even because as he's teaching ahsoka he's also got obi-wan as his master so he's still like trying to prove himself to obi-wan he's still always doing crazy shit to get out of battles to win battles to get out of situations trying the craziest things much like them being in a whale mouth that's like an anakin move i feel like but eventually yeah he the jedi order like turns on ahsoka he doesn't defend her

as much as he should have she got framed for a bombing she went through a couple rough years there and yeah she as she says to him she he wasn't there for the battle of mandalore because he went off and fucking became darth vader so started off as a good master and it is not so great and obviously so it's jedi stuff so he's not going to stick by their rules i mean he was obviously banging padman backside without anyone knowing which you know is fuck the jedi as well so just it's just good to know like it's like he was so gifted he probably wasn't the best master to be teaching step by step because he could just kind of it's like lawrence taylor and

this is my giant this is my sports analogy analogy. Belichick was Lawrence Taylor's defensive coordinator. That's fucking Obi-Wan and Anakin, right? And Lawrence Taylor would show up to the games, like still drunk from the night before, passed out in the elevator. They'd find him there, wake him up. He'd get his jersey on and he'd go out, have three sacks and, you know, a touchdown, win the fucking game for them.

If then Lawrence Taylor had to teach Michael Strahan to become the next Lawrence Taylor, it's like, well, just wake up and just sack the quarterback and it's like yeah man it takes more than that if you're not lawrence fucking taylor right is that a fair way to put it i think he's just he was gifted rob's like i think so that sounds like right i think it is and i'm going to use that sports analogy to tell everyone about game time exclusive ticketing partner of barstool sports created by fans for fans. GameTime is the ticketing app that makes it easier than ever to score last-minute deals on tickets to sports, concerts, and shows.

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There's a bunch of Empire Strikes Back vibes in this episode, actually. When she's talking to Sabine later on and they're contacting each other, they're flashing back. That was kind of Empire-y. Yeah, I got the same vibes as you did. And I like to think in like the rebel database,

there is like the ESB like technique. It's like, if you find yourself in a, you know, asteroid field, a field of bad things, basically, this is how you should get through it.

And then it's like, do this, that, that, and make sure you're not like inside a space where those are the like check boxes you have to check off. And they nailed it. And this is when this was the moment I saw the,

I go, what the fuck is this? i go oh motherfucking throne just used the minefields on innocent wells that is some ruthless shit he's a ruthless vato in the words of uh the guys from training day that was a move that was the first time i tipped the cap and said this throne guy might have something to him after all and killing whales that was like a big topic of discussion over the last decade you can't be doing that whale fishers and all that that's that's a big no-no thron is definitely pro climate change like he like he's not one of the people that doesn't acknowledge it he acknowledges it and it's like no no i'm happy with it like i live in a place that needs about five degrees worth of

a warming up and if this tides rise i'll have beachfront property and i'll sell it for twice the price that i bought it from like and that's why i have to just tip my cap the throne he's a bad motherfucker i kind of dig him and as far as the empire strikes back technique i wonder if han solo like gave interviews after the war and kind of revealed some secrets of the trade thinking oh we'll never get into a war again kind of like ant-man doing his book after yes endgame and all that i wonder if han did something like i don't know he did a late night show on friggin naboo great call um so thrawn finds out that anakin was ahsoka's master and this was a great moment the way he acknowledges it and looks up for a second and kind of just has this oh shit face is great now in canon anakin and thrawn know

each other or knew each other they met on batuu which you may recognize as disneylands and disney worlds galaxy's edge this is the planet that is based around the theme park this is where they met they were both on independent missions anakin was the first jedi that throne ever met throne was trying to i think recruit forces for the chiss army which is where he's a part of from and anakin was trying to find padme i think padme had been kidnapped or went missing they couldn't get in touch with her they helped each other out on their missions and came to mutual respect for one another. Later on, and this is all from books and comic books you could find online.

Later on, when Anakin becomes Darth Vader, Thrawn is one of the only people in the entire galaxy to be able to just tell that he is Vader. It's like John Blake in The Dark Knight Rises. He looks at Batman. He's like, you're fucking Bruce Wayne. I could tell. And Thrawn knows through all of his characteristics and traits so he starts like trolling him literally he's like oh yeah they go back to Batuu together he's like remember when we were here last time and Vader's like what the fuck and Vader has to like check his emotions with the force and he checks it and Thrawn is like neutral he's right in the middle he's just like he's not doing it for any reason other than to fuck with him I guess and I think at one point Vader like goes to use

some kind of transport machine and it's like some crazy like galaxy hyperspace transport and Thrawn is like you know what we call people that use that back on my planet and that he's like no what he's like skywalkers sends him along so thrawn is like he's got balls you know and he knows anakin or knew at this point anakin's dead i keep saying that and i think him finding out that anakin was ahsoka's master is going to give him a big step ahead i think he's going to fuck with her fuck with her head right when she's getting in a good headspace with her old you know videos and her experience with anakin in the world between worlds he's going to drop some kind of vader reference on her that's going to send her into pieces so now i'm going to be on the lookout for this because i'm excited

about it because we have obviously the same people in charge of this same fucking actor doing all this stuff right yeah so he'll get that see that's the stuff that's a good villain right there kind of one that likes to fuck with you a little again i always love when a wrestler will use another wrestler's finishing move against him this is the same kind of thing just getting in your head fucking with you is thrown like a like neutral evil like i feel like he like he's evil yeah but it's like he's like lawful or neutral evil like it strikes me i think he's like neutral yeah he just kind of likes he does it for the love of the game and if he can check it out amazing i'm just doing this just to fuck with fuck with the fellow uh does he have like a super large brain or something have we learned that yet

i feel like we have to learn this about throw i mean in the animated he kind of has a large forehead he might be pacing a big brain yeah big brain shit so in in the words of right there right the big brain so okay i i need to get some more i need to get some more back stories about this like just the highlight stuff like if there was a lightsaber with a blaster involved if the wrong was making anakin jokes and skywalker references to darth vader there is some that's some good shit right there i i it's like a this league moment like nba kind of stuff right now i should mention disney has retconned disney era canon before like i think the intro to the bad batch like the older 66 stuff retcons what was already written in a disney canon comic so they could always go back and change this stuff dave filoni has said like george lucas only

considered the tv shows and the movies canon everything else was whatever i think there's an aspect of that in dave filoni's mind as well even though that they're saying all of these books and comics and everything are under the same universe they could always go back and change that if it fits the story better so while that is currently the story you know consider it 90 the story maybe and let's be honest this stuff 90 of this star wars stuff is to make money and like you know sell toys at this point to adults though it's weird it used to be a sell toys to kids now it's the sell collectibles to adults and they're also like expanding the story but like 10 of it is to like kind of just fix all the old shit that everyone hated yeah and they and feloni's done a good job

it sounds of that even before like stuff that i haven't even watched yet and it sounds like they're just gonna do more of the same from here on out, which I am 100% behind. Yeah, part of the thing I love that they're doing for the sequel trilogy, it was always confusing to me that Leia was not working for the New Republic even though they won the war together. Like Leia split off and started the resistance. They're kind of making it make sense now.

Like nobody believes them and they're like, all right, I guess we have to fucking break off and use our own resources. Yeah, it's like the people that were actually fighting the wars and doing shit and getting their hands dirty they probably were like all right now let's rebuild this thing from the ground up and then you have all the politicians who didn't do a fucking thing like nope we got it from here we completely fucked this shit up like 50 years ago but no no we'll fix it and everything will be fine

and then sure enough fucking i always get the first order i always call the new order the first order it's gonna pop up and buttfuck us all that's what they did proverbially maybe figuratively meanwhile ezra and sabine are catching up while they're traveling with the and i love how they travel in there it's like a trailer park and they actually can drive their trailers it's awesome and they they look like to me the crabby paddy mobile i think what was it the paddy wagon uh that spongebob patrick ride in it kind of looked like that the way they're like bouncing along and everything um and they have a great sequel trilogy joke in there i think where ezra asks if the emperor is dead and sabine drops a that's what people say kind of sweet eh uh yeah joke funny joke funny joke i think by

that point everyone had i could at least admit that the fucking sequel trilogy was off its fucking rocker and off the rails so that was the best is when what did they say like you found out the emperor was alive in fortnite you found out something else through like a another video game you found out this through like a tv commercial and there was just like oh paps is back who fucking knows that great line i loved it i hope it was a nice little dig at the sequel trilogy but that's my personal i think it's just uh you know one of those like that was that didn't work out the way we thought it would you know and i'm a guy who still to this day i'll defend a lot of aspects of rosa skywalker even the emperor coming back i'm like that's a pretty good performance he gives but

just the whole somehow he returned is it'll be mind-boggling till the day i die yep i appreciate using mind-boggling because as i say it's another another og reference dave would talk about ball don't lie shirts you know every single blog and it was because it was such a flop of a shirt and he had a million of them he never sold and it's like free to ball don't lie shirt whoever does this and it was an old barstool saying and it's kind of like i would love it if like the next 10 episodes of whatever star wars show there is they're like what the fuck is this emperor he's back like i i would love it i would love it it would it would be beating it to the ground like a family guy joke but i'd still be down for it i had love family guy jokes we get a zeb name drop and they say he's training recruits and then ahsoka does her thing where she reaches out

through the force she's actually able to connect to sabine for a second and locate her but as soon as she does the night mothers and her night sisters locate her using their magic they've got those three balls and they put them together and it makes a triangle they locate her with the magic and they send fighters down to draw them down to the planet those three sphere things that they're using we gotta see those get destroyed by a lightsaber at some point just the way that they keep focusing in on them you know they're so important it's going to be a good moment when those get sliced in half fruit ninja style oh fruit ninja style i like that bob such a satisfying game to this day the kids even play it still it still still makes it work man they still this still delivers i have to give them that much

and fuck those witches i oh by the way i can't take this witch serious ever since sherry o'terry and we figured out who the girl dave was talking about that's who it is she's sherry o'terry and i can't see her as anything else and i just i see her and i think she's going to break into the you know cheerleading thing that she did with will fowler on snl i'm like i can't take you seriously as a witch right now. So Balin, in an interesting moment and kind of spur of the moment, tells Shin that they're going to separate. He's like, you go kill Ezra and Sabine and join the newfound empire. Like, you should take your place in this.

But our paths got to separate here. We got to separate. Like, I'm not going to follow you. Very sudden, I thought, even though i you know the whole season we could tell their morals or their mindset isn't completely aligning but he drops a pretty cold exit line he says impatience for victory will guarantee defeat thought that was cold that feels like something every jedi master tells his apprentice at some point it's like the path to the dark side is like the easy path or the you know least resistance don't do that make sure you

know cross your t's dot your i's and your lowercase j's all that kind of stuff and i'm just like well she's gonna like that was like she's gonna do that she's gonna completely fuck up no one ever listens to it if i was a jedi which i would never get into jedi school to be honest but if i could i would just be like i don't know anything to do other than don't take the quickest way to victory because you're gonna fuck that up yeah i've actually this this is maybe i don't know if this is gonna sound lame to say out loud i've been applying this to my real life recently where like any anytime i need patience i say to myself like fucking patience is the trait of a jedi i just say it in my my mind and it kind of like helps

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shelves for some new stuff in the collections i'll put one right back there something boom look thanks to baby yo one of the seven baby yodas there's a couple of them up there yeah something a twitter user noticed this week balan has some writing on his wrist and he has like a it looks like a fucking apple watch to be honest and there's some arabish writing on it this is luke leia han chewy r2 3po and ben very interesting i don't know if it's in reference to ben kenobi or ben solo ben solo is alive at this point i think very interesting i don't know if that's the i don't think it would be this but is that like the production people adding that in as a little easter egg for the fans or is that like he's on a mission to find those people in some way

because he's in the wrong galaxy if he is. That's true. He's as far away from that as basically possible. I didn't think about that if he was looking for them. I just thought he was just a really big fan. Jesus. The fact that someone actually looked all that up in that fictional Star Wars. Some people are just fluent in it at this point.

I know people that go to Disney are pretty good in it at this point i know people that go to disney are pretty good at at this point because there's graffiti all over disney and people wanted to learn it to be able to translate it oh my god those people definitely watch rebels this show is doing a lot more for them than it's doing for me i gotta be honest i've made it a goal at times to like learn it and i just give up like 20 minutes in every time that's i mean learning a new language is a hard thing when you have an actual reason to learn it other than i just want to see the graffiti at star wars or see the easter egg and the guys watch so i can't blame you robbie i can't blame you that now that would definitely be nerdier than using the jedi's you

know patience virtue as your motto in life though. True. So we see some Raiders go after Ezra, Sabine, and the Nody. And the Nody in this moment are super Ewok-y in a way that I enjoyed. They're using slingshots and throwing rocks and putting sticks and spokes. It's a great little chase sequence, even though I know you're not a big chase sequence guy, until they get surrounded. When they get surrounded, Sabine goes to offer ezra his lightsaber back he's like i don't want that fucking lightsaber i don't need it anymore he's been not using a lightsaber for 10

years it might feel a little unnatural for him to even pick it back up at this point but we get a big action sequence where he's force pushing people she's using her mando stuff she's using the lightsaber ahsoka eventually jumps out of her ship to join the fray gotta admit the scene where she jumps out of her ship i actually watched it a couple times over on a rewatch just to be like what went wrong here the cg is so stunningly bad in the scene um i was thinking while she was about to jump out of the ship how do you make that look good and they didn um i was thinking while she was about to jump out of the ship how do you make that look good and they didn't i was i thought there was something a little off there and i didn't know if it was just me and i was you know trying to put a kid i'd see him talking my

ear off during it so i was like that just seemed odd okay so definitely not me uh for like you said when what does he say like i i knew they're peaceful people he's like yeah but i didn't know they're like defenseless or whatever like i love that and then straight e like they they will forever that will be ewok style whenever you have the rudimentary you know beings just using sticks and stones to try to break some imperial bones so i appreciated that as well i liked ezra using the force as something other than just you know guiding the lightsaber or the occasional force choke or push or whatever i like that he was like his weapon that's all he had i imagine if you're 10 years without a lightsaber and you have to stay alive you just figure out

other ways to use your gift and i kind of appreciated that from him um i liked it but did you feel like it was a little underwhelming? I wanted to see him fucking pick someone up and slam them with the force or something. I wanted to see him do something. It was a lot of just push from very close and someone falls backwards. Yeah, he basically had to stay on the light side of the force, so I feel like he couldn't really do anything. You don't get anything cool. You get all the shit stuff on the light side of the you you play the video games you know you're like man if i chose dark side i'd

just be murdering motherfuckers without even trying now but then you put the video game on hard essentially and that's what i was saying here is letting sabine keep the lightsaber was like when your older brother will let you get all the good weapons in the video game and you just stick with like the default gun and you'd have the fucking laser beam and the fire launcher whatever the fuck which by the way sabine using the blowtorch the right way i hope mando was watching last night and he could have actually learned how to use it it was more of a distraction than anything it really didn't do anything as usual she used it like to create distance i feel like because it was as ezra kind of had to save her he kind of like swiped her away from uh lightsaber strike and then she used it as

she was going away so shin couldn't like approach her i thought that was i wrote in my notes like uses it a little more efficiently than mando yes just not much but it's also not a high bar to clear but definitely uses it more efficiently than mando fair point fair point ahsoka runs right into balin and balin's like listen i don't want to do this but i just can't allow you to interfere so they fight again so ahsoka kind of gets put on the ropes by balin but then she uses the gunfire from above to escape back at the noti village shin's fighting with ezra she kind of singes or slices a couple of his hairs off i thought that was a very cool scene he's's like, oh, almost got me.

He eventually stops her blade. You could see the energy like warping when he stops it to another scene where I was like, all right, that's something we haven't seen with lightsabers before. Not necessarily in that visual effects style. And they're surrounded by night troopers, raiders. I don't even know what the scavengers what these people on the planet would be called and they show the whole time thrown almost on like a hunger games level chess board being like all right those losses are okay this is okay we get sabine versus shin three i wrote this is like goddy ward three ezra has to save her life again i don't know why sabine keeps

fighting shin and expecting the outcome to change every time it's you require distraction or someone to come in and save your life she uses the fire as we mentioned until ahsoka shows up to save the day again though sabine the outcome hasn't changed in three fights i think she's got to give it up with shin i think ahsoka's got to take shin next time oh yeah and if sabine just beats her without any kind of like on camera leveling up it's gonna feel like bullshit right like unless it's just like she's she's learned her game plan at this point she's been thinking about it a lot since last time. I don't know. I'm trying to think about it from like a fight fan perspective.

Yeah. So I'm thinking from a wrestling fan perspective and maybe throw some Mr. Fuji salt in her eyes and be fucking like chopper. I don't know what else to do, but she clearly cannot. It's like, yeah, you see the same match every single week. It's like, no, you just get steamrolled. Very annoying. single week it's like no you just get steamrolled very annoying uh the ezra stopping the blade made me think of uh when kylo ren stops the blaster shot which is such a good moment in that

movie that that's how we start like the prequel the sequel trilogy off and i was like oh we're cooking and i actually like forest weekends i think more than most and it did not obviously finish that way but man that was such a cool fucking moment i think everyone was nerding out in the theater when that the whole theater went oh shit yeah everyone you could hear people like gasp like oh he could stop blasters like that i could do that so they made the brilliant brilliant choice in the sequel trilogy to really give sound to the force where we get it a lot now where they give it like i don't even know how to describe it but almost like that almost like that ocean type like glass to a door type sound i don't even know how to describe it but it's a great move creating a sound for the force you

feel it in your soul it's a little bassy too it's it's very very very cool uh and ezra by the way ezra he is fucking piercing blue eye he is he's a handsome he's a handsome lad i think he should be in dune i think he might be in the wrong cinematic i know i was gonna bring that up because i don't like it i i don't like the actor a lot yeah i like the actor a lot i think the personality he's nailing like to a t like ezra is a very jokey fun guy and that's how he seems so far even though he's been stranded on this planet for 10 years he's still optimistic and everything he's at the end of it you know i think we're gonna go home the eyes i and i feel this way about harrah too a little bit are too bright and it's distracting and he looks like a fremen from dune that's what they were right the fremen i don't know i have to ask jeff d lowe i didn't

i saw the movie on an airplane he probably could have just he could have given him brown eyes or whatever natural color eyes he has and i don't think anyone would i mean i'm sure some cartoon people would have complained but like come on it i'll get used to it i'll get used to it but right now i'm not used to it is he super blue-eyed in the cartoons i i don't yeah but it's a cartoon so it's like you know and it's not it's not as pronounced i don't think i mean like he has blue eyes as in he has blue eyes for a person they're not as blue in the cartoon as they are in real life. These are piercing. That's all I could think of.

Maybe you'll hear when you're alone with the force 10 years, your eyes turn extra blue. I don't know. Maybe we'll get that all next episode. It did feel weird. That was just my opinion. It stuck out to me. That's someone that has never seen Rebels. That's how I felt about it.

I don't want the Rebels cartoon people to people to come out animated fans coming at your ass that's one way to fucking go to an early grave my graves how do you feel about thrones eyes though because i think thrones eyes are okay and they're fucking bright red so when the guy has blue skin you kind of just throw it all out you know like i'm i'm already i'm suspending disbelief or i feel like you should be suspending belief during whatever one is the right you are suspending belief or no suspending disbelief no fuck i don't know when i see a dude with blue skin if he has any color eyes i don't care i he already has the blue skin my brain's already confused as it is so whatever it is what uh the cat bane like i already saw cat bane right and that was the same

kind of thing does he have red eyes i think he does so it's like i think he does yeah i think suspension of disbelief by the way suspension of disbelief so we got it here and again when it all comes down to it space magic you know lightning, whatever you want to call it. I can deal with the piercing blue eyes. He's a handsome guy. He's a likable guy. The fact that he's able to act like this after 10 years in isolation, I mean, we were all broken after like two weeks in isolation during the pandemic.

So this fucking guy, shout out to him, man. He's fucking doing it right. And I don't know if people don't like this swordless fighting force fighting i kind of like that like you can kind of be uh he's like someone that's in a fight but trying not to hurt his opponent for some reason because they're like that's the most jedi thing you could do yeah exactly i love it i love my guy my guy balin i feel like he's doing something bigger than him I think he's trying to do something that is trying to bring real balance to the force. I think he knows the dark side is bullshit, but I also think he knows the light side is bullshit. And I think he's trying to get that gray area that I thought the whole Rise of Skywalker was going to be about.

And I think he's going to try to bring balance to the force. And my theory, I don't know if this even makes sense. My theory is somehow, some way, he's going to do something that will lead to Luke starting his camp that leads to Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren and all that stuff. I don't know how. Big implications on the future. Yes, exactly. So I don't know how it's going to happen.

It doesn't really make sense. He might just not do anything this episode, and then the actor dies, and we have to basically start anew with a new actor. have no clue but that's my prediction for balin they're they're saying there's possible zeffo connections with balin like does he know of zeffo beings on this planet or is zeffo being the zeffo beings were mainly i think they were mainly in the jedi fallen order and survivor video games they're these massive almost eternal levels in size beings who are like forest beings that fell to the dark side at some point i gotta read up on

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that's coming back to usa right wwe no raw is still on usa smackdown's coming back to usa now i never knew smackdown was ever on usa so i i was briefly on usa yeah i was gonna make a statement saying that like if justice feels right to have raw back on usa even though i haven't watched wrestling in forever turns out it's been there this whole time it's been there yeah it's coming through or i never knew it was in the first place so i take back my little nostalgia burst that i was about to have as soon as ahsoka shows up they start going to town action wise and shin runs away straight up uh the forces uh retreat thrawn accepts the losses he's like this is fine everything like you kind of were implying later he's like everything's

fine this is this is all part of the plan it's all good and he basically says they provided the perfect distraction while the cargo transfer was completed ahsoka lost the one thing she can't afford to lose time once again we have to ask what are in those coffins we said is it dead bodies that they're trying to reanimate i saw some people thinking are they dead night Nightsisters? So they're trying to get the Nightsisters all spread throughout the galaxy and they could take over as a race or species. I still don't know what they could be. Are they Force users? Are they dead Jedi that I don't know how they would be on this galaxy.

Were they on Thrawn's ship before the Battle of Lothal that they're trying to get back in the same way Gideon wanted Grogu force blood I don't know but clearly that's a big part of it because the way they showed it on the screen the cargo loading screen and everything I think we're gonna find out next week I I didn't I was like I was wondering what the fuck is in this package or you know like you see it all loading there which again always appreciate when we have a nice little graphic to let me know how far the the loading process is going for something and i'm like i just must have missed what what it's ever was in that package there i figure it was a weapon or something like that fuck there could be some

weapons it could be something in this universe that like that is able to get them back and forth is it some kind of coaxium that you know is powerful enough to that they could transfer to and from galaxies because with the introduction of this new galaxy i'm also thinking is this going to be dave filoni's excuse in a way to have his characters not be present during the sequel trilogy, but not die during the sequel trilogy or something like that, you know, where he could be, I'll give the captain Marvel excuse.

Where were you? Oh, there's a lot of galaxies that need saving. One of those. Yeah. Huh, man. I kind of like the idea of like some gnarly shit,

like dead Jedi or something, something that has to be, I would be sick. Yeah. And then they're just gonna like basically mash up the bodies and that's how they're gonna get their like force shit that they were trying to get from baby yo his blood or whatever give me and they were kind of trying to do that with gideon right he had the people in the amber yeah jurassic park they had fucking ken jack was out there trying to milk him like a ninja turtle it was so i'm down for whatever man the gruesome more like twisted the better and anything that kind of makes uh oh god i can't remember his name god damn it what was the the fucking big bad of uh episode

eight who was like the new emperor and ended up just being a fucking mom snoke yeah i give me something that makes snoke make sense that's cool with me whatever it may be so the episode ends with ahsoka getting her reunion with ezra sabine reveals she thought ahsoka was dead they have funny like he thought she was dead oh my god very rebels back and forth and it ends on as we're saying i might be going home after, which to make a wrestling reference again, if the baby face wins or beats down on the champion, the heel champion on the go home show, the show right before the pay-per-view, it usually doesn't spell good news for him on the pay-per-view. They're giving him a one-up to make you think that he's going to do it. He's going to get it. And then he fucking gets

chokeslammed by kane on sunday night and i think that's what's gonna happen to this crew i still think maybe hu yang is the guy you kill to rally them around that little robot but i think someone's gonna die next week i think maybe the new republic is is gonna eat some hard losses thrawn's gotta up the stakes and i think he's going to i think next week's finale is going to eat some hard losses. Thrawn's got to up the stakes, and I think he's going to. I think next week's finale is going to be big time. Empire Strikes Back, Infinity War, Bad Guy Wins, Cliffhanger Fives. Yeah, I'm down for it. Anything to make me love Thrawn as much as I want to love Thrawn.

If that's what it takes, if it it takes gotta gotta crack some eggs to make a tomlet right so that's what we have to do here that's what we're gonna do i don't i don't as crazy as it sounds i don't think i want who yang to be the one to bite the bullet here even though it should open the door hypothetically for my guy chopper to become the droid of the show i think we could have a multi-droid show we've had multiple droids in the past and everything has worked well but i am yeah i'd like to see them become friends who do you want r2d2 style yeah like of the crew like yeah i mean i i said it last week killing sabine or harrah would be like crazy ballsy i just don't think they're gonna do it and i don't even know if it's i don't know if that's the smart thing to do if it's the move yeah sabine i don't think is the move because

they're training her to be a jedi the whole season you would be like what was that just a waste of time for nothing harrah she's got a son so that'd be tough the crew could maybe raise him uncle zeb and uncle friggin ezra i don't know somebody said like there is a chance that if or my shit might have been us who said the last episode they kill the mom and then the sun kind of goes dark from it that could be pretty crazy yeah could he could he be snoke no i don't think the timeline matches up no um could he be a knight of ren i still he could be a knight of ren i still don't hate the idea of andy circus was left behind in andor the empire started experimenting on him and torturing him as punishment for rallying people around that prison break or whatever and he

becomes snoke there we go yeah we talked about that and i like that and the more i think of it like that will i i don't know how many characters i've met in the star wars universe that i like as much as the circus character since like the rise of skywalker and that would be actually absolutely perfect so it would it would be a big stretch though it would take a lot of like yeah you're like that was the guy but i mean at this point like it's he's just gonna somehow be the emperor and then the emperor came back again the next movie as well it doesn't make any fuck it's we don't really know he just came back i was the one while the team returned yeah

and they didn't they we need to do a skit where they cut to like us the two rebels in the back that are like wait what no wait hold go back to that how i want to just have like a talk with seth mcfarland or did they do like a sequel trilogy young family guy i want to just alex sulking about it too and i i said because they made a joke in the last one they said the cleveland show will handle the prequels. And I was like, was that like just you putting it on them or were you actually trying to tease something?

He's like, yeah, we were so fucking tired of doing the parodies by the time return of the Jedi rolled around. We were like, we don't want to do that anymore. Why they're so good. He's a kid.

That was like three years of my life. Just gone an instant. And it's also like they were doing it for movies they loved the first time around to do it for movies you don't love is probably a lot more strenuous i would have liked it because it would have probably gotten mean at one point and i would have just oh yeah giggling the entire time they could i hey this is maybe a hot dig i think family guy could bring sequel trilogy fans together if they made sequel trilogy parodies i think they could poke fun at it in the perfect way where even a last jedi stan like myself could laugh at some of that rose tico canto bite stuff even like if the lego

movie had the license to really get a little mean with it too because they do a good job with the same kind of humor right there so yeah i i would just love to hear if i couldn't see the episode just to hear seth mcfarland's thoughts because i think me and him are probably on the same line there in terms of how we feel about some of the stuff it would be good but nonetheless i think this show as well as andor as well as some other things are going to help fix a lot of the things that some people didn't like about the sequel trilogy more so this era than Andor, which is obviously before episode four. But I do think the whole entire universe is going to make a lot more sense

in like five years from now. And I feel, is it crazy to say, I feel better about the Star Wars galaxy right now than I do about the MCU in terms of just like the way it's heading. That's a, that's a great question. I think I'm with you though.

I think I agree. Yeah. I think i agree yeah i think i have more faith in them that they're on a path that we could actually see that's connecting carson teva is connecting everything you know he's our guy right now yeah he's the spider-man meme trying to push it hold it all together and it's carson fucking teva what the hell we got to get him on the podcast we have to i followed him on twitter this week i bet he's available i bet he's free so he can definitely come on and hey he's he's our white whale now he's our white space whale the writer's strike is over bob fox was fucking fire it is yeah the blog actors should be soon have you heard anything new on that

it i think they're meeting next week by the end of next week they're meeting and hoping to end it hopefully they end it before new york comic-con it'd be nice and i don't know when it's probably sometime next month i don't know if i'm going but it's always a last minute thing with us but it'd be fun to go to that and actually get to see some people and they actually are backed up a little bit so kind of like that scene in scary movie just a full release of like all the stuff they couldn't promote. Like Seth Rogen's probably like, this is bullshit. I had a Ninja Turtles movie come out.

I couldn't say a thing about it was awesome. And I had to just sit there just quiet. And everyone who saw it loved it. And everyone who didn't even know it was out didn't pay a dime for it. So that could end up working out perfectly for New York Comic Con. That's a great point. I didn't think about that. And we got a crazy schedule of shows coming up i mean next week we've got the finale

of ahsoka which will of course be recapping and that will will come out on tuesday the third on friday the sixth i believe it's friday the sixth we're getting loki so we'll probably have to do a weekend episode or something to recap that one. Maybe because I think it's Friday the 6th at 9 p.m. So we'll probably have an episode on Saturday or something, or we'll figure something out for that. And the slate going forward, Fargo season five starring Jon Hamm trailer came out. That comes out in November. Then I think in January, we're getting a new season of True Detective with jody foster oh jesus crazy shit on on the horizon so hopefully the writer strike

and the actor strike isn't going to create too much of a backlog i feel like we probably got through some of the tougher times just like this month and then going into next month we had like the one show netflix got us by with some random docs which i watched episode one of wrestlers you watched the first three right i watched the first three yeah i was impressed with it i i think there's a lot that like i was watching and i was like i think this reality show might be a work but i still thought it was very entertaining like i think it's very well done and like the ending of episode three is like scary and crazy so i would recommend people check out wrestlers i do think it's a pretty i'll say this and i i

don't want to be mean i feel ovw is portrayed in wrestlers as like a step below aew and wwe it it's very much your local wrestling company. Like they have local TV access or whatever, but it's your local, like shindig at the American Legion hall. So on that level, it's a very good look at what it takes in that, but it's, it's not great wrestling.

I'm sorry. Okay. This is, this is kind of like with, with this show where, you know, all the stuff through rebels or in this case wrestling all the the die like the diehard stuff and i've been i would have known this stuff

20 years ago when i was going on wrestlezone.com getting my rumors about who was backstage at raw the night before yeah i don't know anything so when they're telling me i'm like oh they have a tv show and they're one of the only ones that have a tv show they must be just a tier below no sounds like they are like they're a couple tiers below. A couple tiers below. Very cool. Al Snow was in it and he looked so fucking good. I'm just blown away that he is so put together. I figured if you

had told me living or dead, you named 10 wrestlers, Al Snow would have been easily my top three most likely to be dead because I just figured he was a crazy person outside of the ring. He played such a crazy person in the ring. If you're an ECW, you had multiple screws loose to even a crazy person outside of the ring like he played such a crazy person in the ring yeah exactly he was an ec if you're an ecw you had multiple screws loose to even just enter that fucking company and

i love that company uh so uh it was worth checking out though i i do think it's a good watch yeah i also had no clue fargo was coming out in november even though i sent you the trailer i didn't see the the date so that gen v uh oh gen v in two days yeah so i don't know if well we probably won't do a weekly gen v because it's just on top of loki but i i think we'll probably do a episode or a season recap or something of that we'll we'll definitely do something for it and if it kind of grips us like last of Us did, I think we'll just let it ride. I think if it's a weekly release, it makes it a little easier instead of just binging all at once. If there becomes some momentum behind it, it makes sense for us all to jump in together.

Yeah, maybe we'll bring back the quick hitters for it. Do we have a hashtag for the people to use this week? Hashtag, let's see. What's something people to use this week. Hashtag. Let's see. Something we talked about this week. Hashtag no saber. Hashtag no saber. Yep.

Hashtag no saber. A little homage to Ezra. Ezra Bridger. You mentioned them bridging the gap. Ezra Bridger. Bridger the gap. If you made it to the end of the episode, make sure to tweet us with the hashtag no saber and come back next week for the Ahsoka finale reaction recap.

I'm sure it'll be a great show. Fingers crossed. They nail the finale. If they nail the finale, this is going to be one of the best seasons of star Wars television. We've got, let me ask you this, Bob,

what is the lowest number of minutes you could see for this episode where you don't feel sad? I would like the finale to be 39 minutes or above. Wow, that's lower than I would have expected. I thought you were going to say like at least 59 or something like that but that's a fair i would have said that but i feel like they did a very good job with some episodes that were around 39 minutes in this show where i'm like that maybe that's all i need yeah i'm starting to feel the same there's not a lot of fat left on the bone which yeah some we were just eating straight up just 100 fat with some of these star wars shows yeah like this everything we recapped here i felt like not a scene was wasted in this episode yeah yes and more of this and hopefully marvel's watching and they start making their shows Yeah. Like this, everything we recapped here, I felt like not a scene was wasted in this episode. Yes.

And more of this, and hopefully Marvel's watching and they start making their shows like this as well. Exactly. Exactly. All right. We'll see you guys next week.