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jothra, innerbrat and I finally finished watching season seven yesterday morning and I spent much of the rest of the day telling poor ep_birdsall how much I cared about Rex and Ahsoka whenever we were in the same room for an extended period of time. I'M SORRY THAT ENDING WAS JUST REALLY GOOD.
My brother, who had never seen any Clone Wars before this year, somehow managed to watch all of it plus S7 before me and then spent a lot of time telling me that he thought the last four episodes were the best Star Wars media created since 1983. I think he's probably right but it did make it a little difficult to focus on the first eight episodes of the season; nonetheless, worth watching, I think!
The first arc is a bit difficult because it was so clearly originally planned for Fives and Echo, and instead they've just shoved Rex into Fives' role now that Fives is dead and it doesn't work -- Rex's personality is different, his level of engagement is different, trying to shoehorn him into the lead role here just doesn't land right. Also, the Bad Batch spend too much time parodying the wrong kind of war movie to engage any of my clone feelings at all, which is really too bad because I was ALL ready to care about them then it just didn't deliver.
That said, Rex reluctantly covering for Anakin while Anakin talks to Padme is probably the most I laughed throughout the whole season, so good on them for that.
Then there was the Ahsoka's Underworld Adventures arc, which is a perfectly fine mildly gay Ahsoka adventure and I have no particular beef with it. After much discussion of the dynamics with Nice Teen Pilot with Jedi Issues and her Shady Older Sister we decided that Ahsoka and the Nice Teen Pilot were going to date for a month and have an amiable breakup, but Ahsoka and the Shady Older Sister were still going to be flamboyantly rescuing each other for the sake of one-upsmanship for decades to come while Ahsoka's actual ex was like "guys ... I'm over it ....."
Well,innerbrat and I decided this. jothra was like, "I hate to break it to you guys, but she's never going to see these people again." Counterpoint, Jo: this is Star Wars and recurring characters have unlikely coincidental meetings all the time! It's only the people you really care about that you don't get to see for decades. Speaking of:
AHSOKA AND REX. AHSOKA AND REX!!!! Those last two episodes rang all the pathos out of the clone chips arc that I could possibly have wanted, my GOD, I knew Rex was going to get de-chipped and survive somehow but I did not realize Ahsoka was going to LITERALLY KIDNAP HIM AND PERFORM MINOR SURGERY WHILE BEING HUNTED THROUGHOUT THE SHIP because she couldn't bear to leave him behind! Rex crying under his helmet while telling Ahsoka they were going to have to kill his brothers to survive and Ahsoka refusing to do it asjdf;dsj;lfk thank you for this misery, S7, I'm just so glad to feel like some actual Star Wars media properly cares about the weight of this tragedy as much as I do.
...I realize I skipped over the Anakin-Ahsoka reunion and also over Maul. Those things were also very good! We all cheered when Ahsoka released Maul and then cheerfully kicked him to the curb, thank you, next! Would I read some Ahsoka and Maul fic? Sure I would but what I'm really here to ask for is any good content about Ahsoka and Rex, any at all, I cannot believe they don't see each other again until Rebels, THAT'S TOO LONG, DISNEY! IT'S TOO LONG.
jothra, innerbrat and I finally finished watching season seven yesterday morning and I spent much of the rest of the day telling poor ep_birdsall how much I cared about Rex and Ahsoka whenever we were in the same room for an extended period of time. I'M SORRY THAT ENDING WAS JUST REALLY GOOD.My brother, who had never seen any Clone Wars before this year, somehow managed to watch all of it plus S7 before me and then spent a lot of time telling me that he thought the last four episodes were the best Star Wars media created since 1983. I think he's probably right but it did make it a little difficult to focus on the first eight episodes of the season; nonetheless, worth watching, I think!
The first arc is a bit difficult because it was so clearly originally planned for Fives and Echo, and instead they've just shoved Rex into Fives' role now that Fives is dead and it doesn't work -- Rex's personality is different, his level of engagement is different, trying to shoehorn him into the lead role here just doesn't land right. Also, the Bad Batch spend too much time parodying the wrong kind of war movie to engage any of my clone feelings at all, which is really too bad because I was ALL ready to care about them then it just didn't deliver.
That said, Rex reluctantly covering for Anakin while Anakin talks to Padme is probably the most I laughed throughout the whole season, so good on them for that.
Then there was the Ahsoka's Underworld Adventures arc, which is a perfectly fine mildly gay Ahsoka adventure and I have no particular beef with it. After much discussion of the dynamics with Nice Teen Pilot with Jedi Issues and her Shady Older Sister we decided that Ahsoka and the Nice Teen Pilot were going to date for a month and have an amiable breakup, but Ahsoka and the Shady Older Sister were still going to be flamboyantly rescuing each other for the sake of one-upsmanship for decades to come while Ahsoka's actual ex was like "guys ... I'm over it ....."
Well,
innerbrat and I decided this. jothra was like, "I hate to break it to you guys, but she's never going to see these people again." Counterpoint, Jo: this is Star Wars and recurring characters have unlikely coincidental meetings all the time! It's only the people you really care about that you don't get to see for decades. Speaking of:AHSOKA AND REX. AHSOKA AND REX!!!! Those last two episodes rang all the pathos out of the clone chips arc that I could possibly have wanted, my GOD, I knew Rex was going to get de-chipped and survive somehow but I did not realize Ahsoka was going to LITERALLY KIDNAP HIM AND PERFORM MINOR SURGERY WHILE BEING HUNTED THROUGHOUT THE SHIP because she couldn't bear to leave him behind! Rex crying under his helmet while telling Ahsoka they were going to have to kill his brothers to survive and Ahsoka refusing to do it asjdf;dsj;lfk thank you for this misery, S7, I'm just so glad to feel like some actual Star Wars media properly cares about the weight of this tragedy as much as I do.
...I realize I skipped over the Anakin-Ahsoka reunion and also over Maul. Those things were also very good! We all cheered when Ahsoka released Maul and then cheerfully kicked him to the curb, thank you, next! Would I read some Ahsoka and Maul fic? Sure I would but what I'm really here to ask for is any good content about Ahsoka and Rex, any at all, I cannot believe they don't see each other again until Rebels, THAT'S TOO LONG, DISNEY! IT'S TOO LONG.