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Review of Ahsoka

by Fergus Duniho

Posted on December 11th, 2023

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Instead of introducing new characters like other Star Wars series have done, this series introduces live action versions of characters from Star Wars cartoons. Ahsoka is from Clone Wars, and most of the rest are from Star Wars: Rebels. It's important to finish these series first, as this is a sequel to the cartoons. I grew to love Ahsoka in Clone Wars, but this version is not as exuberant. This is mainly because she is a grown-up now, and she has lived through the rise of the Empire. She is much more like the version of Ahsoka from Star Wars: Rebels, which was a mature adult. The characters from Star Wars: Rebels vary in how well they resemble the cartoon characters. Chopper, just being a droid, was done perfectly. Hera, who was the maternal figure from Rebels, appeared and sounded younger than she did in Rebels, but the actress managed to act the part very well., and she came across as maternal with Hera and Kanan's son Jacen. I was really impressed with how well Natasha Liu Bordizzo portrayed Sabine Wren. Much of my pleasure in watching this series came from how well she brought Sabine to life. The way she looked, moved, and spoke fit the character very well. Ezra had grown into an adult with a beard, but the actor did come across as Ezra, and Ezra and Sabine behaved around each other the way they did in Rebels. Thrawn first appeared in books, but he also appeared in Rebels. I do prefer his portrayal in Rebels, but I grew used to the actor playing him in this series. For me, it felt like this was the Star Wars series whose characters were the true successors to the original Star Wars characters. The new characters in the sequels failed to interest me as much, and even the Mandalorian and Grogu didn't inspire the same interest as the original characters did. But I had already grown to love Ahsoka and the Star Wars: Rebels characters from the cartoons, and I was happy to see them in a live action series.

Fergus Duniho

My tastes run toward superheroes, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, comedy, dramas, and documentaries. I watch very little of news, sports, game shows, and reality TV. Most of what I watch is in English, but I also watch a fair amount of foreign-language stuff, particularly from East Asia and Western Europe.

To minimize costs, I alternate streaming services. I currently have HIDIVE, Netflix, Peacock, and a free Hulu subscription through Spotify.

I normally have Amazon Prime, Disney+, Netflix, or Max as my main service, and I may also subscribe to some niche services. These may include Crunchyroll or HIDIVE for anime, Viki or Kocowa for Korean dramas, Apple TV+ for some of its original content, and Arrow for horror and cult movies. When they go on sale, I sometimes subscribe to various specialty channels through Amazon Prime. I also sometimes use free services like Freevee, Peacock, TubiTV, and YouTube. In the past, I have subscribed to CBS All Access, which has now become Paramount+, to DC Universe, which has been incorporated into HBO Max, which is just Max now, and to DramaFever, which got shut down. I have not yet subscribed to Kocowa, but I may someday.

I grew up before streaming started providing many viewing options, and pickings were slimmer back then. Being limited to what was on TV at the time, I would watch soap operas, mediocre sit-coms, and children's cartoons. When VCRs and DVD players became available, I appreciated how these gave me more control over what I watched. I didn't have to watch shows when they aired, and I borrowed lots of movies from the public library. But streaming is what has made the biggest difference. With streaming, I have become much more selective in what I watch, and I'm able to avoid the mediocre filler programming I used to watch.

Before finding this site, I was already listing my anime and Asian dramas on sites which specialize in these, and I'm glad I found this site, which lets me list almost all of my movies and programs, whether western or Asian, live-action or animated. Its main drawback seems to be the occasional gap in its catalog. Since I had already watched a lot before finding this site, my listings and ratings here are often based on distant memory, and I've surely missed some things that I've seen. I have relied on my viewing history data from Netflix and Amazon to fill in gaps for the 2010s, and I will add more as memory allows.

The scale I use goes like this: 10 is a masterpiece, 9 is great, 8 is very good, 7 is good, 6 is fine, 5 is so-so, 4 is bad, 3 is very bad, 2 is horrible, and 1 is appalling. This is mostly borrowed from myanimelist.net, but it replaces average with so-so. My average rating skews upward, because I spend more time watching what I like than watching what I don't like.

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