General Star Wars Animated Series

Almost done and we still haven't seen that scene from the trailer of them heisting that truck driving on the side of a cliff. We've got two episode left, right?

Tales of the Empire trailer, with a familiar face.

pretty much all of them were familiar, I'd say.

Barris is back, good... yet under the mercy of Vader.

Fuck, inject it straight into my veins.

Like I said on the other thread, I’m a little disappointed they went with making Barriss an Inquisitor, but the whole thing looks absolutely amazing overall. Thrawn looks the best he ever has.

So how big chances we think Barriss has of being alive by the end?

Edited by EmperorGeode on Apr 4th 2024 at 11:08:10 AM

Low.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 4th 2024 at 11:10:55 AM

She’s working under the dude who caught her in the first place.

Super low.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Apr 4th 2024 at 11:12:11 AM

Star Wars animation continues to thrive!

Ngl this looks Amazing. Inquisitor as an Evil Mentor, seeing Grevious as his most dangerous, an alliance with Thrawn.

> Grievous at his most dangerous.

Y’all know that’s definitely a magical hallucination or something, right? Like, I’m not even going to put this in spoilers because the show is called Tales of the Empire, and Grievous is very much dead by the time the Empire exists.

I remember Barriss, but that other person I didn't recognize.

Other one is Morgan Elshbet from Mandalorian and Ashoka series.

There is no death, there is the Force.

Somehow Grievous returned.

I know it's a flashback. I meant most dangerous since this is depicting the night sister genocide. Where he was intimating.

Color me surprised Barriss is even still alive. She was on to the war being part of a greater plot before anyone else was, fully expected old Sheev to give her the Maes Hughes special.

Wait, was she?

It's been a while since I watched that arc, but wasn't the whole reason she became a terrorist because the contradiction between what she was taught Jedi were supposed to be and what they actually had to be during the Clone Wars basically broke her?

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Apr 4th 2024 at 1:02:44 PM

No, she wasn’t. You are correct that her stated reasons for her actions were her belief that the Jedi had betrayed their ideals and purpose, and were responsible for the war continuing.

Which actually makes her a prime candidate for the Inquisitors, since “the Jedi were responsible for all the bad stuff during the war” was basically exactly Palpatine’s story when he reformed the Republic into the Empire in the first place.

Huh. I somehow got the impression that she’d cottoned on to the idea that the Jedi and the war were pawns of someone else.

Bariss was pretty much an extreme outcome of an inner conflict a lot of Jedi were struggling with: You've been trained since you were a small child to be a peacekeeper, yet suddenly you had to be a soldier.

Some Jedi square the circle fairly well (like Obi-Wan), while others pretty much lose themselves (Anakin is sometimes being described as thriving in the war, while Bariss turns into a terrorist).

Heck, Ahsoka's an example of a Jedi who didn't break from this inner conflict, but was left traumatised as a result (Order 66 and later revelation in Rebels of what had become of her master didn't help either) - it takes her until much later to find some kind of inner peace.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Apr 4th 2024 at 1:58:39 PM

Nah. She was noticing the effects, but had no idea of the bigger picture. She saw that the war was ruining the Jedi and making the Republic a darker, more oppressive place, but she had no idea why beyond the people just losing their integrity.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 4th 2024 at 4:59:20 AM

Also, I wonder if the Grand Inquisitor will finally get an actual name? Or does he have one already and I just didn't notice?

He never had a name. And I think they wanted to keep him somewhat of a mystery.

Man, the animation has come a long way since The Clone Wars movie.