Beniboybling
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Originally posted by Selenial
Beni, I'm really not interested in debating this with you, so this will be my last post and a short one at that.You simply seem to be misunderstanding what I'm saying here. I understand entirely the direction they were going with Ahsoka leaving the order, but the fact is, no there really weren't consequences. She wasn't forced to leave, she could have stayed, it was a choice. Even if you think the choice was an easy one. The fact of the matter is though, and you've brought it up already, we know what happens to everyone else. We know that the Jedi get massacred in Order 66, and we know her only escape was to be away from Anakin when it happened. Seeing Ahsoka leave, therefore, wasn't a big deal for anyone. The series was coming to a close, Order 66 was drawing near, and this was her survival.
Cool, but I ask again, how is Ahsoka leaving her life behind, and everyone she cares about, because she can no longer trust them, of no consequence? Your position is baffling to say the least.
And where are you getting this idea that it wasn't a big deal for everyone, did you conduct a survey on reactions of the audience? Maybe it wasn't a big deal for you, but speak for yourself deary.
So no, I really don't see the supposed emotional impact of all of it.
Probably because you just don't like the character, I find it hard to believe you would have shed a tear if she died. mmm
She survived. She avoided everything bad that befell the Jedi order. The fact she leaves the order means she comes out of the entire ordeal in a better position than she left in the grand scheme of things, because we know it just means she lives in the long term. In the grand scheme of things, the audience knows that Ahsoka either leaves or dies, so when she leaves, why are we supposed to see it as a negative event?
Oh yeah having everyone she ever knew and loved slaughtered partially at the hands of her master turned Sith Lord is a great outcome, I'm sure she jumped at the news. 🙄
Regardless, whether it turned out "well" for her or not in the end doesn't alter the tragedy of the moment, for the characters or for the audience. But as I said, it's supposed to be bittersweet, tragic and hopeful, she's leaving behind her old life and starting anew. 👆
The only negative to it is Anakin's emotional state, his friendship with Kenobi and the other Jedi, etc. And that negative feel would have been tenfold as effective if she had died. It emphasizes far more the immorality of the Jedi, it fractures relationships that we've seen Anakin develop with the fellow councilors over the seasons, and makes it so much more believable that he'd throw everything away for a chance to save Padme because he refuses to lose another woman so close to him.
I'm sure, but
at the expense of Ahsoka's character - this is nice and all but not really worth the sacrifice imo, at least not in the contexts of this arc, and certainly not within the contexts of the Jedi being responsible, and especially when Ahsoka's "loss" but not death, lends itself to many of these emotions.
PS: As for Anakin falling to the Dark Side, you seem to be of the belief that the Jedi had any part in her trial, except my extraditing her from the Order. He'd blame them, he wouldn't want them dead. You lack a fundamental understanding of Skywalker's character if you believe he'd go on a rampage, or do anything other than bottle up the feelings of resentment.
I never said he'd want them dead, but the Jedi Order abandoning her to the courts which led her to be executed? Of course he'd blame them.
But yes Anakin is totally a rational and emotional stable person who bottles up his emotions rather than expresses them violently. Clearly I don't understand his character at all. 🙄