Yeah this is kinda great and real. Ultimately he really had no REAL impact on the way things played out and is fairly blameless in the grand scheme - the clones were ALWAYS going to come into play, just slightly differently after all - but without the full context of just how much Sidious played everyone it would…

The more infill content they do, the more the way the sequel trilogy binds them is going to stand in stark relief. The battles that Ahsoka, Mando, Grogu and other characters fight will never be able to show lasting, perpetual gains for the normal parts of the galaxy because it all has to be reverted back to the…

Mistakes were made. 

Oh, Dex. To be fair, you weren’t the genius Jedi Grand Master who thought, “Secret army supposedly commissioned by a mysteriously dead Jedi Master and built from the DNA of a bounty hunter who worked exclusively for a Sith Lord? Hell, yes, I want to use that army!”

So after losing the diner in a” fire “

Why?  Why was this a slideshow?  Did you have to fill a quota?

Thank you. Those last shots in TLJ are so wonderful. 

Why not show more of how the First Order came to be?

tshiiiiiiiii (Chinese for “Disappointed in the cooking of the duck meat.”)

Which is dumb because you don’t just “go a little dark side” once in a while and be ok, the films are quite clear about that. Even have a little speech to make it clear

Right, exactly. Ahsoka is absolutely not a “gray Jedi”, that implies an attempt to sit between the Light and Dark sides of the Force. Ahsoka is Light side through and through, she would never, like, shoot someone with Force Lightning or kill in cold blood. Hell, part of Palpatine’s point of orchestrating the Clone…

you’re calling everyone in the 501st a closeted fascist?

you’re calling an org that has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charity over its lifetime...fascist?

Mandalorian is like 60% about how we got the First Order and New Republic in the movies. Season 3 started tying in both how Palpatine comes back and ties in Thawne as part of that conspiracy. It also shows the Republic is mostly compromised in its methods and ineffectual at governing.

A theory:

TLJ did a great job of laying out how Jedi/Sith were basically fighting a holy war over their very different and narrow views of an otherwise universal truth (the force).

you’re either a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church - or you’re not.
The Jedi Order is (and should be) thought of in the same terms - a religious organization that has rules for membership.
That someone might ‘still live by’ the general rules/beliefs/etc of that order doesn’t change anything.

One of the most interesting episodes of Clone Wars was a weird buddy cop episode featuring Jar Jar and Mace Windu. I can’t remember any plot points other than they went to a planet of an alien race that were all force users, but they go out of their way to say they weren’t like sith or jedi, but something else and…

When I started reading and viewing videos that break down the different factions, orders, cults, groups, etc. I just came to the conclusion for myself that the Force is just an element. Like fire and water, it can be used for both good and evil purposes. Jedis, Sith, and everything else in and out of canon are just…

It’s interesting to compare Ahsoka and Luke here - because Luke learned barely anything about the Jedi from Obi-Wan and Yoda before embracing the label himself (“a Jedi, like my father before me”), when he later turned his back on the Jedi order, he cut himself off from the Force entirely. Because he didn’t know the…