[OOC] Infopost, the I'm not late, everyone else is early edition

[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka Tano, or Why the Dean of Students has taken up day drinking.

A long time ago. In a galaxy far, far way...

The Jedi Council, in its infinite wisdom, decided that the best way to deal with Anakin Skywalker's attachment issues and fear of his loved ones dying was to give him primary responsibility of a fourteen year old girl...in a warzone.



The Hero Without Fear displaying great courage in the face of his new Padawan

Despite the fact anyone with the slightest hint of common sense could see this was a terrible plan, it actually kind of worked. While Obi-Wan gleefully enjoyed the universe gifting Anakin with exactly the kind of Pawadan he deserved. Anakin taught Ahsoka such Jedi skills as:

Diplomacy...


"'Take Ahsoka with you' he says. 'It'll be good for her,' he says"

...dealing with prisoners...


At least no one got force choked?

...the tactical importance of leaping from great heights.


Why do you even look surprised, Anakin?

Okay, so it probably helped that being raised in the Jedi Temple, Ahsoka had actually internalised a lot of Jedi philosophy better than Anakin had, and was a lot more well adjusted to begin with. Still, they were a great team, at least until Ahsoka was framed for a crime she didn't commit, and the Council kicked her out of the Order because it was politically expedient.

No gifs, too sad.

Luckily, Anakin saved her from execution by getting the real culprit to confess, and the Council offered to let Ahsoka back into the order, but strangely enough an apology that consisted of "We thought we were throwing you under the bus, but it was really the Force testing you," did not restore Ahsoka's shaken faith in the Order and herself, and she left.


My feels.

Maybe she might have eventually returned on her own, but then someone fucked up big time...


Anakin, no!

Which is where Ahsoka is coming from. While eventually she's going to get in touch with Bail Organa and help found the Rebel Alliance, and even more eventually spend some time being ex-Padawans with uncertain_dume, right now, she's seventeen, and within the very recent past the vast majority of her friends and family were slaughtered...including Anakin and Obi-Wan.

Yeah, she's in for some awkward times ahead.

Still it could be worse...



SO MUCH WORSE

Ahsoka has the full standard Jedi kit of Force powers, though like Kanan, she's probably not going to be be too open to begin with...though that's likely to pass a whole lot quicker in her case. She also spent a good two years as a commander in the Clone Wars (because the Jedi have never, ever heard of child endangerment laws, apparently) so she had a whole bunch of skills associated with that as well, and of course being Anakin's Padawan meant she got a whole bunch of pilot and mechanic training thrown in.

Further, as you may have noticed from all the gifs, she's not human, she's Togruta, and those horns montrals on her head mean she's got super awesome spatial awareness even without the whole Jedi thing.

However unlike the other Jedi types on the island, Ahsoka currently does not have a lightsaber (not even Kanan's broken in half one) because she lost her old ones when she left the Order, and getting the crystals for new ones is...problematic in the Empire. But she's going to make new ones eventually.


So shiny...

Just not yet.

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[uncertain_dume]

OH NO. GIFS FROM THAT EPISODE.

NOW I HAVE FEELINGS AGAIN.

[suitably_heroic]

HOW DO YOU THINK *I* FEEL

[throughaphase]

I have feels from an infopost. Okay FINE I'll catch up on this show.

[uncertain_dume]

EVERYTHING IS FEELINGS

SO MANY FEELINGS

[snipsnspecks]

AT LEAST YOU CAN BARELY SEE KANAN IN THE ONE GIF HE'S IN?

[snipsnspecks]

Yes, come to the Dark Side, we have Anakin making terrible decisions while the Imperial March plays.

[era_two_triangle]

THERE IS THAT

...

I might have screencapped those three frames and then Photoshop fiddled so that I could see just how bad it was for him there.

IT'S REALLY BAD

[snipsnspecks]

...WHY DID I JUST GO CHECK FOR MYSELF ON THE 1080p I HAVE OF THAT EPISODE BECAUSE I NEEDED TO BE SURE THAT WAS MY GIRL AT THE END?

[uncertain_dume]

BECAUSE WE'RE MASOCHISTS, I THINK?

[snipsnspecks]

WELL, DAVE FILONI IS A SADIST SO IT FITS.

THOUGH I HAVE TO SAY I AM IMPRESSED THAT MANAGED TO GET PAST S&P.

[uncertain_dume]

RIGHT? CHRIST. I GUESS IF YOU WHIZ BY SOMETHING FAST ENOUGH AND DARKEN THE REST, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER.

...

OR ASSORTED OTHER THINGS

[snipsnspecks]

THERE IS PROBABLY A JOKE TO BE MADE ABOUT KANAN BEING DOOMED BY THE INADEQUACIES OF HUMAN VISION BUT IT WOULD BE IN POOR TASTE.

[uncertain_dume]

....

EXCUSE ME I NEED TO CRY AGAIN

[rebelseekspizza]

You KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS and now I'm like, morbidly curious about these frames.

(Every time I go near that episode, I get an Atton in my brain yelling NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MALACHOR FOREVER.)

[uncertain_dume]

... Do you want them with or without the levels fiddling I did? They're not hugely graphic, but I'm a little gobsmacked that they made it into a show marketed to, like, ten year olds.

Which is probably what all of those red frames were about, come to think of it. They probably didn't want to cut the whole scene, but there was stuff the censors wouldn't let them keep.

AND THEY MAKE ME SAD ANYWAY.

[rebelseekspizza]

With. I need to see this.

[uncertain_dume]

Sad whimpering.

(Goes without saying that those are hugely spoilery, I hope. I actually missed those frames entirely the first time I watched, because they just gave everything in the scenes a dark wash of red, and they were only on for blink-and-you-miss-it periods of time.)

[snipsnspecks]

You don't even need fiddling to see that on the 1080p. Like at all.

Though I think they did actually have to edit the first one in post since if you go frame by frame bits of it don't actually follow the model like it would if it were a texture...OF COURSE SOMEHOW THEY MANAGED TO MAKE IT LOOK WORSE THAT WAY.

[era_two_triangle]

Aaagh, I can imagine. I'm gonna need to get my hands on the better quality stuff SO THAT I CAN BE MORE SAD. I bought mine on Google, so it's less frame by frame, and more, "rewind and hit pause and play really fast and pray you get the one frame without the motion blur."

But I don't doubt for a moment that there are tracking issues, yeah. I do remember noticing some hinky stuff going on in that one shot, but even 'I can spot individual frames now and no animation is safe anymore' animator eyes can only catch so much.

[snipsnspecks]

Hang on a tick, I've actually got the file open in virtualdub so it'll be easy enough to just cap the frames and send you a rar.

BECAUSE WHAT ELSE ARE FRIENDS FOR?

[era_two_triangle]

WHAT ELSE IF NOT TRAUMA, TRUE.

Thank you! GUUUH.

[seeks_truth]

... ow.

Honestly, I missed him getting lightsabered in the face when I watched the episode, since I was watching live and it went SO FAST. It is so much worse in retrospect, ow.

[era_two_triangle]

There is a whoole lotta ow. Almost worse than the pictures of the injury themselves are the shots in between, of him with his hands covering it but just smoke coming up from the injury.

Also it makes my heart sad.