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[Spoilers] Ahsoka - nature vs. nurture (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to c/star_wars@lemmy.world

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Say what you will about the pacing and stuff, but this show FINALLY gave me a complete force muggle who had no mystical legendary bloodline of famous force space wizards behind her, no cloned mega-space-emperor midichlorian legacy shenanigans that made her the super-special chosen one and she STILL got to use the force through sheer grit and training and determination! Sabine Wren is what the broom kid could have been.

No, you don't have to be the spawn of the force-elite with a meticulous pedigree and breeding to get all forcey, you can do it all on your own! Go get that coffee mug, you can do it!

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[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm just happy someone finally put their money where their mouth was on the 'the Force is in all living creatures' thing and made a Force adept out of someone with no natural ability.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By “a force bloodline” do you mean “literally just the Skywalkers”?

Also doesn’t take into account that Sabine is, as a member of clan Wren/house Viszla, likely related to Tarre Viszla, the first Jedi Mandalorian. More of a force bloodline than most force sensitives we’re aware of.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Hey, it's not like the Skywalkers are the only family with noteworthy force powers. There's also the Palpatines. And in the end, only the Palpatines...

I wonder how common "had a force-capable ancestor a thousand years ago" is in terms of family history. Given the interconnectedness of family trees, it sounds like it should be unavoidable in the long run.

[–] ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meh. She shouldn’t have been able to pull the lightsaber and make Ezra jump so far when an hour before she couldn’t even make a coffee mug move.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It needed a Rocky style training montage to get her from A to Z. Or at least background mentions that she was working on it.

Maybe she let the drk side creep in while she was in that holding cell, increasing her power with consequences yet to be unveiled.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oooh, I wanna find out that Ahsoka deliberately suppressed her force powers while training to make Sabine exert herself even harder and "took the weighted training gear off" when she fought in the end.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Waxing the ship WAS space karate the whole time.

[–] marshadow@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yes! It seems like there’s been a trend of making protagonists/heroes some kind of chosen one. The world needs more stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.