Just watched Ahsoka refuse to return to the Jedi which explains why she wasn’t in Revenge of the Sith but now I’m sad 🙁

Not because I disagree because Ahsoka is right. The council’s hand was forced, it was politics, but the problem is in one breath the order is family, and in the next it is expediency. She had a right to expect her family to show a little faith, even if politically they couldn’t.

It’s just I like Ahsoka and so I’m sad that it happened to her and I’m also sad because Anakin came within a hair of confessing about Padme and Ahsoka’s “I know” seemed to suggest she knew. It makes me wonder what would have happened if Anakin has had someone to confide in during Revenge of the Sith. I have read lots of “what if he had told Obi-Wan and then Obi-Wan could have given him perspective” (because Anakin getting caught in his own head and only seeing one path was a big part of the problem).

Still what if it had been Ahsoka? Especially as she had gone through this when Anakin was mistrusting the council she would have understood and he would have known that and therefore maybe trusted her opinion on the matter more. Also given Anakin’s unattractive possessiveness, Ahsoka not being Obi-Wan means no rivalry clouding things.

I reckon master or not she would have sat on him until he listened. Which makes me think that if Bariss hadn’t acted on her own, then Palpatine would have taken Ahsoka out of the picture himself eventually. Isolating Anakin and driving a wedge between him and anyone who would support him was essential for the manipulation. So I guess in that light Ahsoka’s decision probably saved her life.