#like your telling me two powerful force users couldn't have pulled Kannan out?

[clairaworlds]

I have no idea if this is a controversial opinion or not, but I've heald this in since like 2017.

Ahsoka SHOULD'VE DIED IN REBELS. there I said it. I've been saying this for years but I'll say it again, and this time on the internet.

Ahsoka was my favorite character growing up, I loved her dearly, I thought she was so cool. Whenever I played lightsabers with my friends/family I'd try to hold my sticks in a reversed grip because I thought she was cool. I loved her character arc and literally wrote essays about her in school. All that is to say, I'm not anti-Ahsoka, if anything I'm probably one of her biggest fans.

it is because I am such a fan of her that I believe she should've died. It was poetic, in a sense, her staying to fight and to die to Anakin. "I won't leave you, not this time" was a heart-wrenching line. It showed how much she'd changed and how much she'd stayed the same since she left the order (keep in mind this was before they went back and finished clone wars and I have aggressively mixed feelings about that lol). The fight was a showcase of how different they were form the people they used to be. Ahsoka with a weight of grief on her shoulders, she was slower, calmer than she'd ever been, because she'd learned to hide, learned to plan. She was fundamentally still her but at the same time starkly different. The same to Anakin, he'd once force-choaked a guy for her, he'd done impossible things, defied the order and turned violent to save her. Now here he is with a familiar violence, and he's turning it onto the person he used to use it to protect. Anakin is dead, and Darth Vader killed him.

Yet at the same time, we see how Ahsoka blamed herself. when she realized who Vader was, when she was so alone for so long, she seemed, to me, to have spent a lot of time wondering what could've been if she'd just stayed. It's why she said she wouldn't leave him. She also sacrificed herself to protect her fellows.

this showed both a sacrafital, universal type of love, the type the Jedi are known for, unattached and layered in the idea of doing "the greatest good for the greatest number" and yet it was also a selfish act. In her own self-blame she couldn't stand the idea of leaving someone she cared so deeply for again, so she looked for both a way to punish herself, and a way to fulfill the desperate attachment she still felt.

In this way it felt immensely poetic to me. Almost shakespearean in its tragedy. It was a true moment that summarized her character, both too much and too little a Jedi, both attached and understanding of what that attachment can do. selfish and selfless.