Barriss Offee is back

Disney just announced Tales of the Empires, two stories, 3 episodes each tealling the story of two characters: Morgan Elsbeth and.. BARRISS OFFEE

https://x.com/culturecrave/status/1775932477657518463?s=46&t=6DmwDl4-aaE9H0RDmwfuNA

She is offered a chance to become an Inquisitor, apparently. But I think things will not go too smoothly for her

GI looks pretty dope owning Barriss.

Yeah didn't think he was this powerful... then again Barriss has been stuck in a prison out of practice and out of shape for at least 1 year, so she is probably pretty rusty

^ Still defo makes him (and by extension Kanan) better than we thought.

A year isnt too long to be out of action. But if its her first fight or first time using the Force in over a year then that would be a reasonable excuse.

Now that I think of it, Barriss performed worse than Jocasta Nu against the GI. At least she put up a fight

^ That was clearly one very crappy year she had. Maybe they explain it by saying shes been mentally and physically broken by the Empire.

Cato Parasitti posed as Jocasta Nu during season 2 of TCW and had a brief encounter with Ahsoka. She didn't do too bad, landing a couple hits and only being caught when Ahsoka used the Force. At the end of the duel, Ahsoka mentions that Cato "May have Madame Jocasta's shape, but not her skills." To me, this implies Jocasta Nu was probably well above Ahsoka. And we know Ahsoka and Barriss are roughly equal.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPAqVaYYess&pp=ygURYWhzb2thIHZzIGpvY2FzdGE%3D

Yes but in the Vader comic it was stated several times by Sidious and Vader that Jocasta's skills with a lightsaber and the Force were average, it was her knowledge that made her extremely dangerous. At best Jocasta is slightly above your average fodder jedi knight

^ One thing though, I think it's clear at this point that Filoni ignores everything outside of the animation and movies.

I mean heck he rewrote stuff he came up with and approved - Order 66 for Kanan in the Kanan comics and the Battle of Mandalore in the Ahsoka novel. We've yet to see if he outright contradicts Dark Disciple or gives an explanation for it, like Ventress has been resurrected. My guess would be he ignores it and leaves it to comics and novels to explain it.

Originally posted by Total Warrior
Yes but in the Vader comic it was stated several times by Sidious and Vader that Jocasta's skills with a lightsaber and the Force were average, it was her knowledge that made her extremely dangerous. At best Jocasta is slightly above your average fodder jedi knight

"Average" from the perspective of Palpatine is very, very different from "average" from the perspective of a typical Jedi Knight. Palpatine also thought little of Mother Talzin's skills with a blade, and we know Mother Talzin could put up a fight against freaking Mace Windu. Palpatine's whole MO is constantly downplaying even high level adversaries because he's just that much better than them.

What's important for this conversation is that Ahsoka thought highly of Jocasta's lightsaber skill, implying Jocasta is well above S2 Ahsoka. By extension, this puts Jocasta above Barriss from S2 as well. Barriss and Ahsoka both obviously grow between S2 and their big duel in S5, but they're still both at a level that I'd consider a little above an "average Jedi Knight." Neither Barriss or Ahsoka are titans of the era like Anakin, Obi-Wan, Mace, or Yoda. Hell, Ahsoka was still getting hard-stomped by Grievous. It's very believable for me that Jocasta would still be in about the same ballpark as S5 Ahoska/Barriss. That still puts them leagues below Vader level, and definitely what Palpatine would consider "average" from his lofty viewpoint of being literally the strongest in the setting at the time. So, the Grand Inquisitor having a major edge over Barriss is perfectly consistent with the Grand Inquisitor having no real trouble with Jocasta Nu, the way I see it.

Sooo about Barriss’ performance in this episodes (obviously spoilers ahead, so stop reading here if you haven’t watched them).

-Her fight against the GI was a bit longer than in the trailer, of course. At first he dodged her quite easily, claiming she was holding back. He even punched her in the face. She then got pissed off and slashed him on the shoulder, prompting the GI to levitate her against the roof like we’ve seen in the trailer. When she got back up she also force pushed him violently against the wall, making him bleed from his mouth. The fight ended then. Make of that what you want

-Barris was then pitted against Dante, a fellow Jedi who had been recruited to become an inquisitor like her. The two fought in a cramped space, surrounded by energy walls which were even closing in on them. Dante managed to grab the only lightsaber in the room before Barriss and attacked her. Despite being unarmed she held her own quite nicely, kicking and punching him and even disarming him quite easily, until he managed to land a punch which pushed her against the energy wall. She was burned and momentarily stunned. But as Dante was about to finish her off she used the dark side to break his neck.

-In the second episode Barriss and Lyn (the female inquisitor we’ve seen in the Kenobi show) are sent to hunt a Jedi who’s hiding on top of a mountain. While climbing it the Jedi uses the force cause a lamdslide, separating Lyn and Barriss. Lyn catches up to the Jedi first, engaging him in a lightsaber duel. When Barriss finally reaches them, Lyn has just been defeated. Barriss easily defeats him after a short exchange, implying she is much stronger than Lyn.

^ Yeah seen it all. Also wont bother with spoiler tags.

Not sure why she had aged so much in the last one. But yeah from watching the whole thing im guessing she is > GI.

Vader cameo was pretty pointless.

Although the show overall was disappointing, I liked her arc tbh. And hope we see her again.

Yeah I hoped for a better interaction between her and Anakin considering their story. I'm sure we'll see her again, otherwise she would have been killed at the end of her arc. I'm sure this is the beginning of a new story for her. I also liked Grevious, he legit looked creepy, but Morgan's story was pretty boring

Morgans story was pointless.

I would have preferred seeing how Merra survived the Nightsister genocide.