So I was all set to make a TODAY IS THE DAY!!!! Ahsoka post because I saw the schedule had changed to Tuesday’s…. except it hasn’t. With time zones it is still Wednesday in the UK (2am I believe). So I can watch it when I wake up tomorrow.
Honestly teeny bit of relief as I am trying to finish the Hera and Kana prequel novel A New Dawn first and I still have a couple of hundred pages to go. If Ahsoka had been available now I don’t think I would have had the self-control to ignore it to read.
So I was just trying to decide what comics to read as there are so many and I thought “I know I will look and see if there is one about how Satine and Obi-Wan met” and no I don’t know why that popped into my head first.
Anyway I now have 3 Star Wars novels on hold at the library.
You see I discovered the “appearances” tab on the Star Wars wiki and so obviously I checked out Hera to make sure I had seen everything. Apparently there’s a New Republic Squadrons series with “General Syndulla”. All the respect for Hera yay.
Also found some comics. A few editions of the just titled Star Wars run, and Doctor Aphra. Looking up Ahsoka says I should also prioritise Darth Vader. So mission accomplished.
Sadly though google says nothing covers how Hera came to have the Ghost and I really want to know. I mean ships aren’t so common, especially tricked out ships like that, there has to be a story there.
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Last Song: Currently playing Empress by Snow Patrol, and before that so the technical ‘last song’ was Shelter from the Storm by Bob Dylan (I have iTunes on shuffle). The last song I specifically selected was probably Keeping Secrets off the Star Trek musical soundtrack.
Currently watching: Erm oh so many things. My watchlist is stupid. I have 13 shows that I just watch during the two evenings a week mum visits. I have a ton more that I am attempting to watch by myself. I finished The Mandalorian Season 3 last night and I’m counting down to Ahsoka next Wednesday.
Seriously it’s the sheer length of my watchlist which is why it’s been like 6 years and I’ve still not watched all of Star Trek. The shows are in various stages and it bugs me as I love to rewatch. Like Voyager I want to rewatch episodes but I haven’t gone all the way through yet /sigh. I think I need to start targeting TV the way I have shifted to targeting video games. I was notorious for starting and never finishing. So I am making myself play one game (and only one) and getting 100%/Platinum/near enough before I can play anything else.
Current obsession: Hmm interesting. Two schools of thought on this. One is fandom in which case I think my brain is currently kinda split between Star Trek and Star Wars. I am bouncing between SNW’s crew (and that infuriating cliffhanger finale), Seven, Raffi, B’elanna, Kira, Jadzia etc. Then Star Wars – my beloved Rebels, the Ghost crew. Sabine, Hera and of course Ahsoka. That’s not to say my other fandom obsessions have gone. I will forever love say Bering and Wells 😉 but while I can think about more than one thing at once, thinking about obsessions is usually how I keep it to two or maybe even one! thought to try and quiet my otherwise crazy mind. Hence my obsession focus takes turns.
Buuuuut I said there were two schools of thought. The other one is my deep and eternal love for story and my desire to improve my skills in telling it. Everyday I want to work on writing and on art. A lot of the time health doesn’t permit but I am always thinking about it (obsessing about it). I have my dream of where I want my skills to be one day. It’s always a good day if I feel like I made some kind of micro-step towards progress. A lot of days even if I do work on art/writing I feel demoralised like I am getting nowhere, or nowhere fast enough. But everyday I dream and I hope. It’s been the driving force of my life. You are the one that said “small steppy is better than no steppy” to me, and I repeat that to myself daily in the hope my recalcitrant brain will get the message. I am trying, and I am trying to make that enough.
Tagging is scary which is dumb because I really like it when people tag me. Maybe a couple of people. @tinknevertalks, @little-inkstone, @thisgirlshouldbeworking, @urban-trek-thru-middle-earth only if you want. No pressure just fun.
So I finished watching season 3 of the Mandalorian last night. I am terrible about getting round to things but I made a point to finish it in case it was relevant to Ahsoka.
There was that line about “Thrawn’s return” and at least one, maybe two, of this “shadow council” (aka Imperial infrastructure that doesn’t want to lose their fiefdom to the new republic) seem to want Thrawn to come back and run the show.
Now also in prep for Ahsoka I read the Thrawn trilogy that is canon (I understand that there are more but I believe they are legacy?). In the novels they made it pretty clear that the Empire was racist. There was one line about how the separatist worlds were mostly non-human and that’s why there’s so much bad feeling in the first novel. I guess they had to try and explain why the Empire is like 99% human.
Anyway people disliked Thrawn for being alien, even more so with the authority he came to wield and so quick with the promotions. People that worked with him a lot respected his abilities (like the crew of his ship) but again in the novels other admirals etc. seemed to think the stories of Thrawn were exaggerated/that it had been his human crew who deserved the credit and Thrawn was coasting etc. Regardless even if he was respected for being a genius the fact that he failed so utterly at Lothal and got vanished by space whales (purrgil) should have eroded that respect and made him a laughing stock no? I mean if he’d come back quick and taught Lothal a lesson that would be one thing, but he hasn’t been seen/heard from since (like 6+ years I think?).
Moff Gideon is obviously a terrible person but he was right in ridiculing Thrawn’s return as logic says Thrawn is either dead, or so powerless as to be not important, or he’s returned to his own people/isn’t an Empire player anymore. So I am curious as to why the 1-2 imperial officers in that “shadow council” were such staunch Thrawn supporters?
Could Thrawn already have been in contact with them? It might seem odd for them not to admit that when challenged but Thrawn likes to take advantage of peoples overconfidence. Ahsoka trailer referred to Thrawn as “heir to the Empire” so… maybe some kind of game? Though I am very curious as to how he spun his definitely not chosen exile, and very worried for what happened to Ezra.
So Ahsoka is 5 days away (and yes the countdown is completely necessary 😛)
But the Lego Ghost is 2 weeks away and I am so damn torn up about it.
I have never pre-ordered any Lego. There is no benefit to doing so. I’m not getting extra VIP (soon to be called Insider) points for future discounts, there is no cool ‘gift with purchase’. It makes no sense to do it.
What I usually do with my Lego purchases is reverse order buy. So sets that have been out the longest (or are retiring first) I prioritise. The theory is I still have time for the others. Although as they bring out new sets all the time there are always sets I would like that I just can’t budget for (still sad about the Tantive but never mind).
I also sometimes get sets “out of order” if there is a really good discount, or there is a discount + it’s at a more manageable price point. I adore Lego but it’s stupid expensive. I have a ceiling limit and won’t go above it, however cool the set is. With my budget it just feels ridiculous (for me) to drop above a certain amount on a single set. When I can’t sleep and I dream about winning the lottery a big part is always that I would buy so much Lego hehe 😉
Anyway I am rambling. I just keep going to the Lego store page and staring at it. From the moment I came out of my “dark age” and learned that I had missed out on the original Lego Ghost I was sad. I tried to BrickLink some pieces and cobbled together a build (not colour correct and no minifigs). It’s my favourite Star Wars ship, it’s the Ghost! I want it so much but logic says to wait. If I wait it will probably instantly go out of stock, that often happens with pre-orders.
It’s going to be on the shelves for at least a year. There will be a deal, a double VIP points event, a gift with purchase etc. Waiting is the smart move and yet I am still thinking about it.
Recently I got Kanan as a minifig off BrickLink. Twice what I ideally like to spend on a minifig but I made the average work out to be correct by getting 3 other minifigs from the same store. I got Ezra (and Chopper, and the original Phantom) off eBay. Had to pay +50% on original RRP which sucks (it is both cool and annoying that Lego is so valuable second hand) but at least for such a small set that wasn’t too painful. Chopper is also in the new Ghost set with Hera. If I want Sabine I’ll need to get the Jedi ship set as well (they split them to be purposefully evil I swear). Hera’s minifig costs too much on BrickLink for her Rebels version. Sabine is iffy as helmets are an issue. I would be fine with the new versions of both if I can swing it. Shame about Sabine’s hair colours though. Zeb is just never happening. He’s not in the new sets and is crazy money on BrickLink. Still eventually 5/6 Spectres is pretty cool.
Eventually – key word there. I should wait. It’s smarter to wait. I do have impulse control. It’s just The Ghost! Aaaaand around I go in circles again.
6 days until Ahsoka. 6 days!!
I am now thinking about Jacen Syndulla. Why is his hair not green? I’ve a feeling I have made this post before but ehhh this is my ramble place and I can repeat myself if I want.
I mean he’s half Kanan and half Hera. So being human in features, with pointed ears as twi’leks have like a triangular bump for ears (so like the previously established half-human/half twi’lek children in clone wars), with Kanan’s blue eyes, and then green hair because that’s Hera’s colouring. I also thought maybe he had a slightly green pallor. A bit like how Spock is kinda human but has green Vulcan blood.
Anyway mix of both parents. But if they take away his green hair, he loses the feature that marked him the strongest as being half Hera’s.
They seemed to hint with “and we know what his father was like” that Jacen has the force. I want that for him (even while I am scared as we know what happened to Luke’s academy and Jacen isn’t seen in the sequels). But while kids can be mini-versions of one parent, and having a little Kanan around would be so bittersweet for Hera given Kanan’s loss, I don’t know I was just really partial to the green hair. I think with being brown hair it is just so normal, strips some of the half-alien away. Let Jacen be who he is, all his heritage.
I get that Ahsoka already has a non-human lead (yay!) and I also get that humans are easier (less make-up, special effects etc.) but it’s a diverse galaxy, not everything has to be so human.
6 days!!!
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Whaaat? Why is tumblr not nice?
I rarely see anything as if it’s not on my dash when I look then 🤷♂️ I sometimes dig in tags but it’s a once blue moon type thing.
I guess maybe she is mostly perhaps written in as the “love interest” (I think she is capable of so much more) but ok she is connected to Pike, and as he is the MC her fate will probably be based on what material the writers want to give Pike to work with. Is it more drama to have her die? Or more drama to have her live but want then to get married or something and Pike know he has a time limit? Everything is about Pike probably from the writers POV.
But from fandom POV? Let her be free. Let her be the badass captain in her own right. Isn’t that what fandom is for, to give under appreciated women the adventures that screen time doesn’t have the time to show?
Although I guess maybe fandom sees her as an obstacle to a Pike/Una ship? I have never understood that mentality myself. Ship and let ship. Something existing doesn’t invalidate the alternative. And just because something is canon or not really well in my mind doesn’t matter. Are there ships I wish had been explicitly canon? Do I want my ship to kiss? I am human so yeah. But if the dice doesn’t fall that way, it’s the showrunners call. And being mean to a character/being negative in pro tags (anti tags exist) is just bad fandom etiquette IMO
Continue readingSo I have to vent for a second.
Playing through AC: Black Flag. Trying to get 100% sync as that is a requirement of Platinum and I have been trying to do that for my games.
Sequence 10. Sneak about, stay out of combat. Was infuriating but I eventually managed it. Then right at the end almost the last thing is an assassination from a rope swing…
I must have tried… I’m not sure. 50 times? It felt like a ton. If I land on the stairs and then kill him, I have to be quick to reload the previous checkpoint or it’ll save. If I don’t kill him some of the time I can dive off and run around but he doesn’t always reset right/it bugs. Over and over I tried the rope swing. Had to reset that section and clear the watch towers, oh at least half a dozen times when the jumping off the boat failed.
Then finally bam off the rope and assassinated. Success? Well I cleared the rest of the memory (just an easy boat battle) aaaaand no.
It did not check off. And I’m not going through the entire memory again for the third time today. This is where my evening has gone and I am so frustrated. It shouldn’t be this difficult!
Excuse me while I go cry or hit something. Ahhhh!!
Ahsoka is a week tomorrow. A WEEK TOMORROW!!! This is not a drill.
Ahhhhhh
Oh man I am going to be so useless next Wednesday until I watch. I think I read they are doing a double drop and there will be 2 episodes and I’m not sure my heart can take it. One episode will overload me on feelings.
I’ve watched the trailer several times and I am nervous. I am clinging to the “you have no power” from the Dark Jedi because the “master” to Ahsoka is freaking me out. Kanan trained Sabine for a while when she had the darksaber. They specifically discussed her not being force sensitive. I so much do not want them to walk that back. Sabine is amazing as an artist, as someone that loves explosives, as a Mandalorian with a jet pack and blasters. That is more than enough. Mando, Bo-Katan, they fight with the darksaber and aren’t Jedi. Sabine can be awesome with Ezra’s saber without the force too.
Honestly I am just gonna be screaming because Hera! Chopper! The Ghost!!! My beloved Rebels back on screen. Given that Zeb cameoed in the Mandalorian I am bummed he doesn’t seem to be appearing in Ahsoka :/ They are family.
A week tomorrow. I need to remember how to breathe.
I don’t know why I am amused by this right now but I am.
Today I am going to be trapped in a car with people for four hours minimum to visit family. So it’s the kind of stress that means I will probably have a migraine tomorrow.
Anyway, the amusement comes in because I prep like I am taking a five year old on a roadtrip. Making up my bag I charged my iPad and downloaded the next couple of episodes of The Mandalorian on Disney+, I charged my Switch, I charged both sets of headphones and packed the wired ones. I packed the book I am reading. Then it was snack prep time.
Unless we hit traffic it’s 4 hours and I have entertainment for more than twice that. But like a five year old I ensure there are options so I can remain engaged if my brain throws a tantrum. I think it’s funny because it’s so ridiculous. But yeah fun times in the backseat today (hopefully) haha.