gffa:DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT HOW “OLD FRIENDS NOT FORGOTTEN” MADE NOT JUST &ld

gffa:DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT HOW “OLD FRIENDS NOT FORGOTTEN” MADE NOT JUST “TWILIGHT OF THE APPRENTICE” WORSE BUT ALSO “SHROUD OF DARKNESS”?BECAUSE I DO.  A LOT.The thing about “Shroud of Darkness” is that Ahsoka was with Kanan and Ezra in a Jedi Temple, which the entire point of how it was designed is what the Jedi have taught and practiced all along–you have to face the things you fear.  Not just the apprentices, but the Masters, too.  And, apparently, even no-longer-Jedi are faced with the things that linger in their hearts that they haven’t put to rest.Earlier, Ahsoka talks to Ezra about Anakin Skywalker, her Master.  She mentions the last time she saw him, he was running off to save the Chancellor, which we know was what he was doing in Revenge of the Sith and now we see it in “Old Friends Not Forgotten”.What’s killing me is that Ahsoka must be blaming herself for her distance and coldness towards Anakin and Obi-Wan.  She has her reasons and none of this is her fault, Anakin’s emotional stability is not on her, as well as she had perfectly reasonable expectations to see them all again at some point, and she is not obligated to handle her feelings perfectly.  She’s angry and her feelings did get the better of her in her fight with Obi-Wan, just a little, when she’s unfair to him, when she deliberately needles him by calling him “Obi-Wan” instead of “Master Obi-Wan”, when she angrily gets in his face.  All perfectly understanable and makes us empathize with her a hell of a lot, no matter what the context of those arguments was.But, when she looks back on those final interactions, what must she think?  We all know there was no goodbye hug–and I think that’s what makes the bigger story stronger, because this is a relationship that is not resolved, that if it had been put to rights, it wouldn’t have helped contribute to Anakin’s fall (again, THIS IS NOT ON AHSOKA AT ALL), and it wouldn’t have been eating away at Ahsoka’s heart by the time of Rebels.She feels guilt for walking away from the Jedi Order and Anakin, because she feels like she abandoned him.  The vision of Anakin hurling those accusations isn’t him at all, there’s nothing of the real Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader here, this is the Lothal Jedi Temple and it’s designed to throw your unresolved stuff in your face.  This is Ahsoka’s fears and guilt being shown to her.And how much worse must it be because she feels guilty for not giving him a hug, for not being warmer when he was clearly so pleased to see her, when she was angry and defensive in the last conversation they had as a trio, for not noticing what he was going through, not even picking up on how close he was to falling?Just leaving the Jedi Order is enough to drive her to feel guilty, we see that when she tries desperately to say, “I won’t leave you!  Not this time!”But how much must she feel like she did it twice?  Once, when she walked away at the Jedi Temple and then when she keeps her distance on the Jedi Cruiser, just letting him rush off to save the Chancellor and never looked any deeper?How bad it was in her heart that the Jedi Temple had to poke her, even as she was no longer a Jedi, and said, “You really need to face this about yourself.”?I THINK ABOUT IT A LOT. -- source link

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