Ahsoka - Prepare for Trouble & Make It Double 

I was tripping earlier. That thumbnail cropped up, at some hilarious timing! I couldn’t breathe!

I realize you dont know old star wars very well. Just like all the big critic channels. However the rebels werent completely technologically outclassed. The empire had better capital ships but not better fighters. They opted for a cheaper approach with ties until much much later. X wings had shields and hyperdrives as well as more manueverability in atmosphere.

Two big vids in one day? Have you taken up meth? Or maybe started dating an Italian girl force feeding you espresso?

25:39 Can you stop blaming lucas for everything in the prequels??? The prequels has a director, it's the director's job to make sure the actors act, not the producer which was Lucas... Lucas wasn't the only one in the studio for crying out loud...

25:51 that example you used isn't bad, that's a good thing to tell the actor... Why the fuck didn't Ewan McGregor know that??? The stagger in that scene and his tiredness was actually good acting...i don't understand how you westerners just arbitrarily see things as bad... This is the "I don't like sand" debacle all over again whereby no one can tell me why it's bad, most likely because they were told that it was bad from someone else... You keep on proving more and more how much of a prequel hater you are...

Its a rare condition lol

That thumbnail is most definitely next level, fckn brilliant !

She looks great.

Swap Shop had that as his avatar during Ahsoka. Not sure if he made it or not.

@@chrismatteson1312 she's dating Assy Mcgee

They really fucked up with that. They ruined the lore. Countless characters have been run thru by a light saber and died yet she can have it happen and live?! Da fuq

​@@darbyohara And not just her. Reva, as well as the Grand Inquisitor in the Obi-Wan show. Qui-Gon, the prime example of a rule that you die when impaled by a light saber, has now become the exception.

It’s fine, honest. She’s just really resilient…

@@TheLittlePlatoon Your thumbnail is childish as phk. The immaturity is unneeded. Be better than Drinker.

If only lightsabers where actually lethal, then we'd be smokin on that Mando Pack 🚬🚬💯🤣

He sucks. I dont know why people think he’s so good. He doesn’t understand Star Wars if this is what he came up with

and than made a live action adaptation named after her, but about Sabine.

And gave Sabine all the plot Armour no wonder some now call failoni cowboy cuck.

*Assoka

You could see this coming years ago, glad everyone is realizing it now.

Lazy writing

In all fairness Luke did something really dumb and out of character considering he's the guy who looked at one of the most evil people in the universe and said "I can see the good in you".

​@@Flashboy284Luke in Sequel trilogy is what Katheleen Kennedy want him to be: Old, Dumb and Useless, so that She can force her self insert to Outshine him

That should have been Ahsoka trying to kill Ben Solo, not Luke. Ahsoka knows full well what an evil Skywalker can do.

​@@HolyknightVader999I agree but Ahsoka is a Girl and Girl cannot make mistake in the new Star wars

No worries! Sad that we’re at that point, to be honest, but that’s what Star Wars has become.

I've unsubscribed from the star wars lore channels because I've no interest in this crap. So, it's trickling down beyond just Disney losing viewers.

I think exactly the same. I don't give a rats ass what happens to Star Wars. It's a muppets show for grown ups. I'm surprised so many people love this franchise.

@@ShinkuGouki The Disney adults, bsiclly nerd crew by RLM

I think most of us are tired of watching reviews of bad shows. It's a shame that everyone has to resort to hate views rather than interesting content. I hope that platoon gets out of the habit. Don't become another Disparu.

Someone should page Botox Karen in Mando. They just spray painted a massive sigil on the underside of an Imperial cruiser!

Rip Feral cat that is not merchandise

It's Asotin's headdress.

Her constant smirk would annoy me to hell.

Watch out for when she folds her arms, you know something serious will drop!

​@@tonep3168I hope she's not gonna spew out random shit about the force

*butt

How phukin old are you people??? Jesus Christ...... Bloody 10 year olds🤦‍♂️

except with an acceptable release schedule...

@@Barwasser they are evolving

Did he ever finished his series about the Sequels? 🤔

@@Barwasser Get a load of this guy, expecting longman not to take a long time.

​@@mrbigglezworth42Taking a bit to finish a series is perfectly fine, but being around halfway through (at best) after over 4 years? Yeah, that's just irritating on a whole other level. I love Mauler's videos and his style, but the ridiculous wait-time between episodes and the amount of different projects he jumps into (EFAP, other films) instead of finishing the main one (TFA) strongly reminds me of GRRM and keeps me from supporting him financially, because I'm not going to pay for (at best) two videos a year.

Jeezus. That's fvcking terrible writing.

The map showed the Space Whale migration route

@@OgreJoe And how exactly could anyone possibly know where they ended up? If star whales can travel between galaxies at absurdly fast speeds (something the show does it's best to gloss over, as with many things) Thrawn could have ended up literally anywhere in the universe, which I remind you is magnitudes larger than the human mind can comprehend, not to mention that almost noone even knew he dissappeared in the first place. It was established in this very show that as far as everyone knows he died in the battle of Lothal. And don't even try that nightsister crap. That was most likely just an on-the-spot idea Filoni had to patch up this supercluster-sized plot hole after the fact, as evident by it's complete absence before this.

​@@lordofthepizzapie9319It really is quite strange that they found him so fast. They're in a completely new galaxy. I'd assumed there would be some obstacles. Instead they just arrive and practically instantly find Thrawn.

​@@johannesseyfried7933Basically waited at the airport for his mates holding a neon arrow pointing at him in hand.

Honestly, I think there's a market for your work no matter how bad you think it is. And maybe it *is* bad, but compared to this drivel I'll bet it's downright Shakespearean. The timing really couldn't be better.

Even better examples are everything Star Wars since Disney took over and ruined it all.

It's easy to get published, but getting popular of nation or world wide acclaim, that's the challenge.

I can tell you for certain that the most average person have the competence and naunce to write better than any modern Disney affirmative action hireling…

i have to wonder if the writers of ahsoka had ever written anything before they got hired... id bet your writing is a hundred times better!

Though Pokémon shares the “You should not be alive after that” trope (I just made up a name, so if that’s the actual trope name 😊) And makes it a joke too

He'd deactivate it to save resources and monolog about how he's four steps ahead of them.

@@kylebradley3 I was thinking more he'd slip on a banana peel, break his ankle, accidently hit the switch, look directly at the camera as the nuke goes off and say. "All according to plan baby." Meanwhile Ahsoka jumps off a small box and goes to the world between worlds.

🤣🤣

I want another villain like Thanos from these massive IPs. It's so unfortunate that we "have" to put up with this bad quality of character and world writing.

They were one of the few bright spots in this pile of garbage. RIP RAY STEVENSON

Baylan beat Ahsoka twice in lightsaber combat at least.

@@chasehedges6775Being dead is no guaranty he won’t be back in Season 2.

⁠@@chasehedges6775 what a waste of a final act. Ray deserved a better send off then the Assoka show staring Sabine Ren

@@TheUncivilizedNation 💯

You mean Marrok? The guy we all thought was either Ezra or Starkiller? Regardless I’m glad we were wrong about Starkiller cuz having him in this show would’ve been a worse tragedy then the pitiful performance of Thrawn’s dialogue

I burst out laughing when he burst into green gas. What even is the point?

@@TheLittlePlatoon The point is that Beppo the Clown can now inflate some evil Force-Users at your kid's birthday party. In the past, the best he could do was some animal-balloons but I guess the dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.

I mean, I don't even blame the show for that. They did nothing, eitehr through the writing or the directing, to indicate there was any mystery or reveal to uncover, the dude was just a mini-boss with no personality and only one line. He was just there. People went wild with theorizing simply because he wore a mask.

I can't blame people for expecting more from a show produced by a multi billion dollar cooperation that's famous and beloved worldwide for its stellar outings which cost millions. I can, however, blame the makers of said show for endless key jangling. Never watched the toons since their animation style hurt my eyes even as a wee kid but they gave that gas zombie starkiller's armour and didn't dismiss any of these fan theories (because attention=more money's). Also what made gas zombie so special? Every other zombie was a mindless weapon on legs yet he talked and could think for himself. I'd call that baiting.

It was unknown space not another galaxy

@@JohnSmith-kv1uo The map shows another galaxy. If that's not the case, then the dialogue and the visuals are contradicting each other. Take your pick of which stupid thing they did. Besides, even if we're going to say it's in some part of the vast uncharted space of the home galaxy, it's STILL stupid that they trip over Thrawn in 10 seconds on an entirely boring, been-there-done-that planet. Unless this "unknown space" was literally one single planet somehow missed in the surveys. Fucking Camino wasn't this hard to find.

@@billjacobs521 thrawn from unknown space and ig u look at the map unknown space is like 1/4 of it shit tons of races but thrawn race rules over most of the unknown but cool thing about unknown space is not all explored and u gotta have a Skywalker to fly around in it so weird little army and shit pop out of no where in unknown

@@billjacobs521 and honestly I never watch the show and I won't but nothing have travel to a different glaxey untill Yoda store is cannon or finish

This is the golden age of utter darkness.

@@chasehedges6775 It's like we're living in the Second Age of Lord of the Rings.

@@olafgurke4699 💯💯.

@@olafgurke4699 JRR Tolkien and Peter Jackson were prophets.

@@olafgurke4699 And the White Queens Winter from Chronicles Of Narnia

Cal basically said the same thing they made it very clear that you had to be born with the ability and it would show up during one's childhood.

That reveal of this ability Ahsoka apparently has but never used ever, really pissed me off. She was my favorite SW character, but Tales of the Jedi and now this show keep making her a Mary Sue. I guess Dave forgot that force dichotomy being a rare, born-with ability was something he wrote when he was helping to write the Clone Wars.

Its not even something you’re born with, its ability only Quinlon voss species had only that could be amplified by the force but filoni uses the force for whatever the plot needs, he steals a lot from the EU is

It was fine for Cal as it is consistently used. As well for lore and serves a plot purpose. While Ahsoka uses once and never again.

@@ggt47 its lazy at the end of the day, its always been the case some species in star wars had stronger connections than others, like Togruta but giving out random force powers never forshadowed or used before breaks canon, Disney wants to make everything canon with no consistency in their movies games books and shows. A novel or comic comes out Filoni creates a show in that time period completely decanonizing the book by completely contradicting everything in it while plagiarizing other stuff.

Any clue what show it was?

Or steal them from other shows cuz they’re talentless and lazy

@@John-Doe-Yo Honestly you could probably pick any show within the past decade. I've read so many horror stories about this exact kind of thing from other people in the film industry where so many shows are just haphazardly thrown together. There is absurd amount of this happening in productions costing hundreds of millions. Even scripts for Marvel films don't get finished anymore. They just start writing while filming. Doesn't help directors or producers going in throwing their weight around and changing plot points.

@@John-Doe-Yo im embarrassed to say, but honestly I was just cooking and serving the food. It was called Dwight in shining armor. I never watched it because just the sets and concepts seemed so shit. It may have even been a Mormon show but im not sure.

​@deadbrother5355 don't be embarrassed bro there is nothing wrong with serving food. 🤝

More like a work of FART…I’ll kick myself out…

I cannot unsee it. 😵‍💫

Even if you set TCW for Disney Canon it still contradicts what came before from the films, and either way it was a lose-lose situation. Also, the characters that currently resided in Dathomir such as Talzin, Daka, Karis, Talia, and Naa’leth, can and should work for Post-OT EU’s Dathomir than for TCW’s Dathomir which I aim to rectify it in my reimagined world of TCW into something more meaningful.

i only learned about nightsisters and Dathomir after playing jedi fallen order. i really like that game!

Because Star Wars is left in the hands of amateurs and hacks.

The problem is you still hope that they will

because the IQ of the writers is below room temperature

@@ShinkuGouki You know, I would say Andor, but that makes me realise Andor isn't really like typical Star Wars at all.

Because Disney so woke

You’d think they’d have figured that out. It’s a pretty major design flaw. You might as well just leave your finger prints and spit all over the crime scene.

volatile memory technology is a pretty easy thing at this point and to be fair it's easier to make than non-volatile memory. Once power is lost all data is lost and you have ZERO ability to recover any of it. It's not "corrupted" it's all gone. But the technology part is seconday, this is a major logic fail that assassin droids would not just self-destruct if damaged, especially when it has already been shown they can

@@TheLittlePlatoon HK-47 didn't die five times for his framework to recieve such a major downgrade.

You are incorrect. There isn't a zero ability to recover data from RAM. RAM data can be recovered in some cases if they get to it fast enough, even after power has been lost. It takes time for the data to clear, which can be seconds up to minutes depending on circumstances (and cooling the ram to very low temperatures increases the available time). And it will be "corrupted" because certain bits might have degraded before others or stuff might be at unlabelled places in the memory, making piecing data together quite difficult. Yes, it will take an expert to do, and only works if people are basically standing at the ready to instantly extract the RAM, but it is not impossible. Considering that a captured droid is quite the security risk, adding some safe guards to prevent data extraction a sane thing to do. And just in case you're not interested in googling it for yourself, this is what wikipedia has to say about cold boot attacks: "The attack relies on the data remanence property of DRAM and SRAM to retrieve memory contents that remain readable in the seconds to minutes following a power switch-off."

@@slaapt My man, modern computer DDR RAM refresh rate is in GHz. If it isn't refreshed at that speed the contents are lost. It's very much volatile, that's the tradeoff for its speed. That means with anything remotely modern at room temperature you have milliseconds after power off before it's all gone. And I don't mean corrupted. I mean actually gone, the capacitor of each cell is discharged, it's all zero now. With SDRAM, aka the type of memory used in CPU caches it's even worse because each cell is not a small capacitor but a group of transistors, so you get microseconds after power off before all data is erased. For actual mainstream electronics the attack is called "cold" boot because it requires you to freeze the RAM with liquid nitrogen while it was still on, then you can do the recovery process. If there is no liquid nitrogen involved while it was still on, you have lost the data the moment it is turned off. Period.

Mauler wants to be Mr Plinkett, except he doesn't understand Mike Stoklasa thinks Plinkett is pathetic. Mauler thinks Plinkett is awesome.

​@@jonahfalcon1970What makes you think that?

@jonahfalcon1970 yeah but mauler is actually entertaining and makes legit points unlike plinket or Mike.

​@@jonahfalcon1970 I'd say Mauler is better at this point, at least in terms of long form reviews. Also, Plinkett IS awesome, Mikes feelings on the character are irrelevant at this point.

​@@matthiuskoenig3378Do you not think Mike makes any good points?

I have no idea! But they shot way up in my estimation as soon as they said yes.

THIS!

They're trying to depict a Star Wars version of Modern 2020 America

They are trying really hard to justify the existence of the sequel trillogy but it just doesnt work.

@@javierlopez9789 Exactly

And of course, for this depiction to exist, it pretty much ensures that any number of pivotal characters in power at this time (Leia and Mon Mothma) have to be nerfed beyond recognition.

If I’m going to nit pick technically it was a CIS/Separatist shuttle as Kalani wasn’t with the trade federation and also the Trade Federation shuttles were brown while COS used grey and blue.

The fun is when you go to watch Revenge Of The Sith and realize it's a masterpiece

There does seem to be a new love for shorter TV seasons these days, eight or six episodes and done. This is a shame because fantasy and Sci-Fi shows benefit a lot by having room to breathe to build up the characters and universe.

@@markgrehan3726 With the Star Wars shows it's probably because these mini-series were originally supposed to be movies. That's how you end up with a season that feels like it's sprinting toward a conclusion, yet somehow still bloated with filler. In general it is probably easier to pitch a 6-10 episode show to any big streamer, but I agree, it would be nice if at least a few of these big budget productions took the time to tell a story.

The Yuuzhan Vong would have been perfect basis For the ST

Why the fuck does Filoni hate the KOTOR era??? That's some of THE best Star Wars! I actually had similar thoughts when I was spitballing ideas with my friend about how to improve this disaster of a show. Make the map Ra'katan or Zeffo (Fallen Order) in origin, use that as a way to world build about the very early history of the galaxy.

@@BlargeMan I also still don't know why no one else sees that the Inquisitor lightsaber is a blatant ripoff of the Gundam beam rotor.

​@@BlargeManOdds are good that it's because he steals ideas from it.

I think that's cause Star Wars is George's creation and wanted it to be successful so people could share in his vision of the story/world.

George had real issues with his writing. Retconning, plot holes, rampant character deconstruction, and unnecessary partisan politicking. Disney takes all of that and combines it with misandry and extreme contempt for their audience.

Well damn, good spot!

@@TheLittlePlatoon Thank You

@56:17 "This statement works on multiple levels" had me in stitches 🤣

The Ashoka Stephen King Drinking GAME

That wouldn't even get you drunk considering how long every scene drags on

Blackout by the time the episodes over.😂😂😂

That’s very kind of you! I’ll probably be sticking with the same thumbnail for the rest of the series - unless it gets yeeted by the RU-vid gods, of course.

SOUTH PARK DID IT!!!! /s

@@txag007 You're goddamn right, Matt and Trey would be proud

And gay don't forget she gay lol

It's very rare that I see someone noting Kotor 2 for what it is and not what their 14yr-old brain remembers it as being. I thought it was amazing and genius when I first played it, not unsurprisingly at around the same age I read the Communist Manifesto and thought it was amazing and genius. Think about it for a second as an adult and you realize even entirely within the context of the story, Kreia really was just a bitter old hag using moral relativism as an excuse to be evil. Like everyone else who can't shut up about how the good guys do bad stuff sometimes too, she has infinite criticisms and zero solutions, endless motivation to destroy the current tradition and none to build something better in its place. I find it very odd how everyone memes Palpatine's obviously evil speech about "good is only a point of view" yet will turn around and call Kreia a deep, morally complex character for saying the same thing for the same damn reason (creating an excuse to justify being evil) with fancier words. All that the story ever successfully critiques is Bioware's "be jesus or satan and nothing in between" moral choice system from the first game. Story aside though, gameplay was a marked improvement over the first.

Nope

@@samwellcheck562 I (in)famously hate Chris Avalone's writing by and large. Chris didn't like Starwars to begin with, and KOTOR 1 was probably the epitome of everything he hates ABOUT Starwars. It is a *very* simple plot about good vs. evil, where the good guys range between good to close-minded by well-intentioned and the bad guys are cartoonishly evil, petty, violent people. So he made a game where he got to self insert as a grumpy old lady who preaches all the things Chris feels, and some things he doesnt feel. He's been quoted as saying that *after* doing KOTOR 2 he had a deeper appreciation for Starwars, which suggests to me he got something off his chest during the experience, but I digress. My point is, a lot of people really like that Kreia exists to yell at the Jedi for being dumb, something that the player has likely been doing the whole game, because the jedi are *very* dumb in Kotor 2, even MORE so than in Kotor 1. It's very cathartic to have a character who is able to eloquently, succinctly, and *venomously* tear down your enemies for you. It makes Kreia interesting in that she's a sith, very plainly, who isn't a world sucking space demon. Her plan to *KILL THE FORCE* is no less cartoonishly villainous, her philosophy of "don't help people, don't be good, but don't be total psycho mega evil either, only help people when doing so is something you can directly, demonstrably, and definitively benefit from." is *just* as moronic as the Jedi she lambasts. It's also blatantly evil. "Dont help that homeless man, idiot! He's gonna get beat up because of you! Don't you see?! HELPING PEOPLE ISNT HELPING! You need to let them help themselves! They help themselves or they die!" is an interesting thing to say for a person who, in the same breath, will tell you that the best way to grow is to face adversity. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Kriea, as a character, is a hypocritical, spiteful, emotional old lady. Having your ultimate antagonist be your mentor through the whole journey is a very cool idea, especially so when your interactions with them arent wholly antagonistic. You *understand* them as a person, your fight is not one where it's like "You foolsish fool! You believed me to your friend? Not so! For twas I who was am the Big Baddo all along! Now die!" it's a moment of "I understand you, I understand your motives, I *can't* let you go through with this, and I know you won't stop because of what we are to eachother. I'm sorry." That's a good moment. That's a good character. But the game itself isnt satisfied with letting Kreia be wrong. It has to adopt Chris' stance of moral relativism ACROSS ITS WHOLE. "Don't you see? Kreia is right because all the jedi you meet are total dicks who betray you even though they need to stop a greater evil >:D", and "Don't you see? JEDI as a CONCEPT are bad because its stupid space magic and nobody understands it >:D" which all feels *less* like something that's true to Starwars (especially the Kotor era), and more something directly from Chris' head. Kotor 1 establishes, constantly, that people are widely aware of the differences between Jedi and Sith, because they're able to distinctly identify the differences between the political bodies those "wizards" are associated with. Chris invents the term "jedi civil war" to describe the war between the Galatic Republic, and the Sith Empire, as a means of suggesting the populace at large can't distinguish between Jedi and Sith, while willfully ignoring that Revan (and Malak) were not waging war on THE JEDI, they were wagin war on THE REPUBLIC. Taris isn't a 'jedi' planet, Manaan isn't a 'jedi' planet. Taris is blockaded, and occupied, by Sith Imperial Troops, not ONE of them is so much as brandishing a lightsaber. The sith, during the war, who *were* jedi once, actively *DENOUNCE* the title. They make it *VERY* clear they are *SITH* and affiliate themselves with the empire of the same name. They are cartoonishly hammy about this. There is no way a random passerby could mistake the two, especially when the sith (dark jedi) share the name with the opposing force to the Republic, the Sith. It'd be like calling the American Revolution the British Civil War. You *can't* make that mistake, even as a layman. It's a distinction *MEETRA* knows, and she needed to be *TOLD* about the war! She leaves *BEFORE* the "jedi civil war" begins, she needs to be informed about it, and even she can say "that's stupid it wasnt the jedi fighting the jedi it was the jedi fighting the sith" and then you're condescended to by the game "Pfft. You think anybody cares? All people saw was the wizards fighting eachother." which, ya know, deliberately ignores the fact Ravan and Malak's invasion force has sacked entire worlds and is currently waging war on the Republic, jedi or no jedi. It's also a wierd distinction, because Jolee Bindo served in a war before Kotor 1. That was *was* the jedi civil war, where the jedi ideology schismed to form the Sith ideology, which was called *THE GREAT SITH WAR* This war should have just been called the Second Great Sith War, but that name hurts the narrative the game wants to push. The game wants to push the idea that the Jedi are evil, just like the sith, but in different ways, while ignoring the sith's ideology is quite literally based on Nazi literature 9as per Bioware, the ones who penned the Sith ideology to begin with). It's just... so transparent with its contempt of Starwars, the Jedi, the Force. Kreia ends up being vindicated by the story not because she's actually right, but because the writer writes everyone in such a way as to entirely support her, in the hopes you'll forget her plan is to kill the force, which would require using a weapon of catastrophic destruction that could potentially throw the struggling Republic into ruin, while being *ENTIRELY* aware that Revan is, as she's trying to kill the force, raising an army to fight some unknown threat and would *VERY LIKELY NEED THE FORCE TO DO THAT.* But no. Grey jedi. Grey force. Everyone is evil and stupid except me.

@@nananamamana3591 You wrote this quite a while ago but I just felt like saying I appreciate it, this is an interesting write up and perspective I haven't seen before.

Remember when Starkiller did it and it was supposed to be super epic and like, not just something every Jedi can do.

I wish I’d remembered that. Then again, it was in the Kenobi show, so maybe it’s best I forgot it.

Don’t you gotta be strong as hell to do that? Starkiller and Vader are the only two that’ve done that across Canon and Legends. Rey and Sheev Palpatine are probably the only other two that do that

​@@TheUncivilizedNation Ahsoka did tug of war with Maul's ship in the Clone Wars finale. It's quite comparable to Rey in TROS (minus the force lightning), and that was 25+ (several) years ago for Ahsoka. Regardless, it's not like Disney / Lucasfilm are ever consistent with force powers.

@@TheUncivilizedNation Luke crashed a Star Destroyer onto Jakku in "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Legends of Luke Skywalker". Not that I care to consider what Disney does canon.

Obey Your Thirst: Sprite

Thanks for saying so! There wasn’t really a team at all until a few videos ago - I just went insane all by myself. Now I get to share the pain!

For real. It's like if JK Rowling stopped writing the Harry Potter books and randomly decided to turn it into a show after Goblet of Fire. Such a weird decision.

It's because Filoni has his sights on making a movie, he's switched to live action as a means to achieve that and possibly believes live action carries more prestige than animation.

@@whos-the-stiff can this be animated film instead of life action movie ? After all back in the day Disney was famous for their animation and Filoni's "Clone Wars" started as animated movie released in cinemas back in 2008... If he believes that animation is less prestigious than live action does he thinks that all his previous project were crap just because they were cartoons ?😂

Marion Webster’s new word of the year 2023

Thank you!