Siege of Mandalore Breakdown Ep 2 - The Phantom Apprentice

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I have a message from the Village Jedi. Max Rebo hit it. Hello, hello, hello, and happy Friday. I hope you had a wonderful week and that you're headed into a fabulous weekend. This is another Star Wars Point of View brought to you by the local Village Jedi. My name is Marina, and if you're new here, welcome. And if you're not, welcome back. As I said, I hope you are having a fabulous week and a fabulous Friday. And you kind of are if you're taking a little bit of time to spend it with me. I'm just gonna gaslight myself into thinking that your time with me is genuinely enjoyable because I know that my time with you is a hoot. A hoot and toot. So last week we went over part one of The Siege of Mandalore. I had a lot of fun recording that episode. I actually have had a lot of fun putting together the show notes for these episodes. I love the Siege of Mandalore. And as I said last week, what's something I could talk about for four weeks straight on my entire show? Take up the entire month of July. Y'all, I just thought of something poetic. It is July, which is the seventh month, and we are going over the final episodes of the seventh season. She's a poet and she didn't even know it. Okay. Y'all, she is also annoying. But that's that's the Village Jedi for you. Um, a little bit about how we run the place. If you want to follow me on Instagram or TikTok at the Village Jedi, I would greatly appreciate it. Or you can get even more involved with the discussion anonymously by sending in an email for me to read and discuss on air at tvjpod at gmail.com. Again, this is part of an audio only exclusive series since I am out of town for the next couple weeks. But don't you worry your pretty little heads, I did not forget you. Let's go ahead and get into part two, but first a brief ad break. Hello there. If you're looking to build your collection, the Village Jedi is now collaborating with Sabermasters to offer you $20 off your first combat ready laser sword. You heard that correctly, Combat Ready. The team at Sabermasters makes it their personal mission to create lightsabers built to last using lightweight polycarbonate blades with customizable settings and simple navigation. Sabermasters has really crafted the ultimate experience.20, you can save an extra $20 at checkout. Simply type in the code at the checkout screen, TVJ20, and you're done. Link will be in the show notes. Part 2 The Phantom Apprentice. This episode runs for 29 minutes. Last time we did a little bit of pre-show info before we deep dove, and y'all know that is what we will be doing this week as well. Gotta stay consistent, at least for two weeks in a row. I wanted to revisit Mall before we get into the episode breakdown show notes. This is our very first time seeing him since this show had gotten canceled. We saw his silhouette last week, we heard references to him, but this week, again, I'm trying to approach these episodes as if we were watching reliving the experience for the first time. It's 2020. The world is crashing out. There's crazy things going on. But you know what you can bet on? That next episode. Next week, I'm gonna be seated. Disney Plus is gonna release that next episode. And guess what? They did part two, The Phantom Apprentice. We are learning in real time what has been happening to Maul since we saw him last. He's been on Mandalore, he's seeking safe haven after brutally losing a 2v1 against Sidious, he lost his brother. His plan right now really hasn't been to get back on Sidious' radar in that way. But as we'll learn through the progression of these episodes, specifically this one, his main plan is to thwart his old master. We specifically see that later on in his own show, Maul Shadow Lord. His character continues to evolve. It has evolved again. His still major plot point is emphasis on his past with Sidious, but it's been interesting to spend more time with this character after being reintroduced to him in Clone Wars. He's been given a huge surge of popularity since his own show came out. And now re-watching these episodes, seeing that every choice is intentional. He even says that every choice you've made has led you to this moment. That is how he lives and operates. And we see that as a key part of his strategy and thinking points throughout not only these four episodes, but the entirety of his own show. He's just entertaining. And I'm pointing all of this out specifically because of this episode's title. We're gonna spend a little bit of time on that. Part two, the Phantom Apprentice. It runs for 29 minutes. On the surface, this is obviously a reference to the Phantom Menace where we initially meet Maul. And in that movie, he is the Phantom Apprentice. But according to Google, a Phantom is specifically something that appears to exist or be sensed, but has no physical reality. So really, is Maul the only reference point in both occasions, the Phantom Menace and the Phantom Apprentice? No. With that ominous definition, it could be argued that Anakin is also the Phantom Apprentice, and later he himself becomes the Phantom Menace. He became something no one had expected. He moved in silence and unexpectation. As this storyline goes on to explain, Maul is the one that senses Anakin becoming the unexpected apprentice, right? Maul is the one that senses Anakin stepping out and into the shadows. But it goes one more layer. Maul invites Ahsoka to become his apprentice. Something completely unexpected for fans everywhere. Essentially joining forces. And I remember thinking, like, oh, that would have been really cool. Well, guess what, honey? Guess what, mama? Fast forward six, six years. That's the whole plot of Maul Shadow Lord. Is he figures out how to make a teenage girl his apprentice, and they become the most iconic duo to run the crime syndicates of the galaxy. Iconic. So, anyways, the fandom apprentice, that's my tangent, that's my soapbox, that is the tone for this episode. Let's get into the breakdown show notes. We pick up from last week. I would love, like any other reasonable, rational human being who enjoys Star Wars animated content, would love to watch this whole thing play out in theaters. It really does watch like a movie. We just jump right back into the action. There's no Admiral, you'll aren't World War II propaganda business. No. We get the ominous red letters, part two, The Phantom Apprentice, and it is about to go down. Maul simply just says, Ahsoka Tano, is it? I can't say yours is a name familiar to me. Ahsoka ends up pressing a little button on her armrist. It calls the clones for help. She knows she's outnumbered, but she keeps Maul talking, and Maul sort of references Anakin saying, like, I wonder if the moment may be upon us. Every I will die on this hill. I am dead. Cold corpse. Every Maul line of dialogue you will hear comes across intentional. Sam Whitwer gets in the studio and has zero throwaway lines, zero filler. He gets every cent of that check. He earns it. Every time Moll opens his mouth, you are hanging on each word. Especially in this episode. He is cunning. He's intelligent. He is he's just him, you know? Like, I don't know if there's any better way to describe it. He is a force-sensitive, messy thrawn. He is a single dad thrawn. So, loving this. He reveals that he was hoping for Kenobi and this stranger Skywalker would be coming. Ahsoka's interest is piqued, and so is Maul's. She tells him to surrender, but Maul admits that soon the Jedi and Republic will no longer be in control and that surrender is useless, and why would I go with you and become a prison for a system that's about to crumble? Ahsoka tries to understand what he's meaning, suggesting that the fallen Sith Lord is proposing the new controlling force would be him, and instead he responds, no. Then with a shaking voice, he can barely get out. Darth Sidious. And the fans started rioting in the streets. A name drop is wild. Again, these four episodes take every single risk and jump off the cliff with it. They are hurling at Mach 4 speed into the abyss of craziness. Do you remember watching this for the first time? Because that's the energy I was trying to put into these episode debriefs. When you are sitting there, it is May 2020. All you have to live for is the next week of Star Wars media and maybe that FaceTime with your bestie so you can play Among Us. Baby doll. What a time to be alive. I'm not saying in any shape or form I would go back, but wow, to relive this kind of moment. And we got a little bit of that back with Maul Shadow Lord. He is just such an exciting, entertaining character to watch, and you never want him to leave your screen. Not even for a second. Everything he says matters. So obviously the conversation gets cut short as the battle ensues. Maul ends up retreating back into the sewer pipe and says, no, not yet. Like this is not the time, Mamacita. I'll meet you back at noon. Same time, same place, baby girl. He still has more to put together. He wants to regroup. This is not going to plan, but he gives absolutely no indication that he's rattled or dissuaded. He's like a master chess player. Like if if he took, if he, if you took his most valuable piece on the board, he would just shrug it off. My man's got a plan B, C, D, and E. And he's got F just for fun. You know? So this is the level of caliber that Ahsoka is going up against, and she she has no idea. And you as a fan kind of have an idea, but you gain more respect and appreciation for his intellect as the episode goes on, which is so exciting to relive this for the first time, I swear. We didn't know how good we had it. Or at least I didn't. We cut to the throne room, there's a holo call update with Kenobi, and at this point, Kenobi reveals that Dooku has been killed, and Sidious is suspectedly the Sith Lord who orchestrated the Clone Wars. He's playing both sides from the beginning, and he references the conversation that he had on Geonosis where Dooku revealed this name and suspected plot. The council didn't take it seriously then, but this information from Ahsoka should have given them more a reason to investigate further. But again, girl, even if they did, that ball has rolled, dropped, and cathumped. Even if it did, it would have been too late. The ball is rolling, there's no stopping its destruction. Only now are people starting to put the pieces together. And by people, I mean an evil horned crazy, as Hondo Onako would say. So we are seeing in real time Kenobi starting to think, hey, maybe Dooku wasn't crazy. Maybe, maybe he wasn't trying to, you know, just yap. Bro. But you as a fan already know how things are gonna go, but you don't care. You're still on the edge of your seat. You can't believe that Kenobi just revealed that to Ahsoka. Ahsoka's shocked to hear that Anakin was the one that killed Dooku. Obi-Wan, in fact, proposes that the team captures Maul in hopes that his information may unlock the key to Dooku's riddles. It ain't gonna. Obi-Wan reveals that he's actually been sent to Udapau, and the audience's hearts drop through their seats. Odapow! We are nearing the bitter end. At this point, we know exactly what's happening, how far into Revenge of the Sith we are, and that this story will not end on Mandalore. We are going to see an animated Order 66. That's when I put it together. The first time I watched these episodes, I was like, oh, we are in for the treat of all treats. We are in for the treat of all treats. I was expecting you to bring out a tray of like store-bought chocolate chip cookies, and instead you came out with a homemade tiramisu. Okay, that's how this felt back in 2020. So Kenobi also ends up revealing to Ahsoka that the council has asked Anakin to spy on the Chancellor, and Ahsoka says, I can't imagine Anakin would be happy about this. Obi-Wan. Palpatine has been a great friend and mentor to Anakin, which is exactly how Anakin describes their relationship in revenge of the Sith. Anakin himself describes Chancellor Palpatine as a great friend and mentor. Peak! It is peak. Every little crumb you catch is just as good as the main dish itself, and that is saying something. So what ends up happening is Obi-Wan pleads with Ahsoka, please speak to Anakin. Obviously, he's not happy about this, but like maybe he'll listen to you. She's interrupted by Rex before she can agree to anything, and before the call is over, she just turns back to Obi-Wan and says, Tell Anakin. And Obi-Wan just goes, I will. Tell Anakin what? In Rebels, we know that they meet on Malicor and that that's sort of their next interaction between Anakin slash Darth Vader and Ahsoka Tano. She says to him, I won't leave you. Not again. So with that line of dialogue, I'm referring, you know, not referring, inferring, I and I'm inferring that she wanted Obi-Wan to tell Anakin, you're not alone, I'm on your side, I won't leave you again. She carries the guilt of walking away from him, knowing he never made peace with her decision to leave the order. She doesn't regret leaving the order or the council, she regrets leaving him. She feels that a part of her betrayed everything that he had taught her, everything he made her, and and that she left him and he could not make peace with that. She carried that guilt until their reunition on Malachore. Reunition, reunion, mama. Let's use English. She carried that guilt until their reunion on Malachor, which we all know how that ended up going. And if you don't watch the show, Rebels, okay. The two part of this this interaction is not only like we're thinking about, oh, she's never going to get to give that message to Anakin, Obi-Wan is also not going to be able to give that message to Anakin. Because the next time they see each other, he's already slaughtered Younglings and turned in the dark side. And Osoka never gets a chance to talk to Obi-Wan again. So I put that together as well that this is their last time meeting. This is their last interaction. Whew! Yikes. So there's sort of this tense music now. We cut to a build-up. We're back down in the sewers, there's carnage, and it's revealed that Arc Trooper Jesse, my king, has been taken by Maul because Maul could somehow sense that Jesse was the eldest of the clones. Therefore, he's gonna know more. So we cut to that interrogation. Maul is using the force to learn information specifically about Ahsoka Tano. Maul says clones, bred for combat, and all part of the plan. He is putting it together. He is reading Sidious like a book, the more pieces he is able to gather. It's all making sense. Maul ends up telling Saxon, hey, go take out the prime minister because he knows too much. And it's at this point that we realize force interrogation is a painful process. Maul says, your mind will speak or it will break. And we see these tactics later used by inquisitors in Maul Shadow Lord. The dark side being used to take something against your will is a powerful analogy of wickedness and what it is capable of in the hands of a greedy person who wants to take something away from you against your will. I'm just gonna leave that out to dry. We cut to prison. Ahsoka and Bo interrogate All Mac about Maul's plan to escape. Maul is not trying to escape. For weeks, he's actually been consumed by dread. It wasn't just Konomi he wanted, there was someone else he was interested in. All Mech continues, Maul had a vision, the name came to him, and his dying breath, he says, Skywalker. Ahsoka is absolutely shook. We hear a couple bars of the Vader theme playing in the background, and at this point, she's just confused. She has a ton of questions, and unfortunately, she understands that Maul is the only one with answers at this point. He holds all the cards, and she just needs to know what kind of game he's playing so that she can play too. She doesn't even know what she's up against. So Saxon returns to the hideout, and we see Maul speaking to his allies, the Black Sun Leader, the Pike Leader, and Dryden Voss of the Crimson Dawn. He tells them to go into hiding. Um, Rookcast, she has a minor role here, but I love that she ends up getting more fleshed out in Shadow Lord. She gets sort of a glow-up with her character design. Huge Rookcast fan. Huge Vanessa Marshall fan here at the Village Jedi podcast. Um, let's see, where are we? We learn that the Maldaloreans were the ones who broke Maul out of Sidious' prison, and that their loyalty would continue to serve his current vision, not only for Mandalore, but his overreaching plot of what is driving him, how he is still moving through the galaxy? We hear one ring of the Death Knell, which is clear indication that something deadly is on the horizon. And I just have to know, did these scenes specifically influence the vibe of the Shadow Lord soundtrack, the Shadow Lord sets, the Underground? Because like it is working. It goes, it pairs so well with the vibes of that show, these four episodes. It just carries right through. Like you can finish Siege of Mandalore and just press play on Maul Shadow Lord, and you will have zero issues, zero complaints, and you will be applauding until your hands bleed. Alright, great color scheme with the black and white as well. I wanted to point that out. Very cool. The citizens are obviously very unhappy about the Republic occupation as it is against the law, and so Bo Katan doesn't want this to last longer than it has to. She's like, all right, we need to wrap this up. And Ahsoka and Rex are like, I agree. They go into the th the throne room, the door is slide open. And Maul is just, you know, perched all cutesy on the throne. He looks impatient, like he's just been waiting there forever. Oh my goodness, you told me six, it's eight thirty. You know, he's just like all sassy. I wanna know. And maybe this isn't really an appropriate question to ask for the rant at hand, but why didn't Ahsoka force sense his presence? We see her fight, we know she lives. How has she cut herself that far off the force that she wasn't able to feel his presence? And part of me thinks, like, okay, maybe she's just kind of out of rhythm, blah, blah, blah. But another part of me feels this is just the wild and you know reckless theory, Sidious put the fear of God into this man. He's gonna do everything he can to stay off Sidious's radar. Even though he knows that he has his hands full with his new apprentice, he knows what that man is capable of. What kind of abuse and assault that that man will come down and crack on him. So I was just thinking maybe Maul somehow manipulated the McClorian so that it was, it was harder for Ahsoka to sense him because he's also trying to protect himself from Sidious's detection. He knows what's at stake and what's at hand. That's just a theory. A fan theory. I do not watch fan theory. I don't know where that came from. I think my brother used to watch it, but it just like it kind of regurged. Like it it triggered, it triggered the uh, what do they call it? Like the um the vocal stim. It triggered the vocal stim. Okay, anyways. Arctrooper Jesse is released back to the team unharmed, and all Maul wants to do is talk. Now, the Maldoloreans begin attacking the city to take it back from the Republic. Like basically, we need to shut these guys down, send a packing. They can't be on this planet. This is what Maul ordered us to do. And so Maul sees all these explosions happening outside through the glass, and he's like, Do you want to you want to take care of that? So Jesse, um, Rex, and now Bo Katan, they all leave, and it's it's just Ahsoka and Maul at this point. I wanted to spend some time in this moment though, because Maul doesn't care. He doesn't care that the Maldaloreans should liberate Mandalore from a republic occupation. He just wants to be alone with Ahsoka. So obviously, he's gonna create a distraction so that they can have a meaningful conversation and he can try to persuade her to the dark side, duh. But my thinking analysis podcast host brain was thinking there's gotta be more to this. I'm missing something. Why did Maul spurn their efforts to create a distraction? It couldn't have just been for the simple fact he needed a distraction so that he could leave, he needed a distraction to have a civilized conversation with a Sogatano. No. It made me wonder did he want the Maldalorians occupied so they wouldn't turn on him? I was thinking also maybe he wanted to create more chaos so that the Republic would be forced to send more help, maybe hopefully sending some Jedi general like Obi-Wan and Anakin. I don't know. Was this plan B? Was this plan C? Was this plan whatever that was shoved in the junk drawer? I don't know. But it just was kind of an interesting perspective. Like, he didn't tell them to attack the Republic soldiers because he actually cares about the welfare of the people and the treaties being broken and the prevention of another war. He doesn't care, he doesn't give a rip. So why did he create those distractions? There's many reasons, but I have a few conclusions that I've come to as I've stated. Bogatan leads to fight, Ahsoka's now alone with Maul, and this is the bulk of the episode. Is this dialogue? This is why we are here. This whole episode runs for 29 minutes, and this is why we're here. This is why I took my 30-minute lunch break. This is why I'm sitting here watching this episode. Mall says, You are the one I wish to speak with. And he reminds her of the past where the Jedi betrayed her trust, her disdain for their hypocrisy. He builds common ground. He says that justice is merely the construct of the current power base, a base on which, according to my calculations, is about to change. Now that is a hot line. That basically your view of justice is only controlled by the powers who execute it. If I'm in control and I tell you how things are going to be done, I am the voice of what is just. And so Maul here is saying, like, you don't actually know what true justice is. You just know what you've been taught justice is. And the justice that you've been taught, because that's what Asoga says. She's like, I'm here to bring you to justice. The justice that you have been taught is to bring me into a corrupt government to stand an unfair rigged trial. A Sith Lord is running your government, baby girl. There's nothing justice about this. Okay? Alright. So we keep moving. Maul begins to sort of snap at his urgency. He has this whole monologue that everybody memorizes. Too late for what the Republic to fall. It already has, and you just can't see it. Like the whole monologue. He's just getting all into it. He extends a truce. He says the Jedi cannot defeat Sidious, but together you and I can. There's this cool shot of an explosion which dramatically shatters the window glass. It's the end of an era. The audience is sensing it as quickly as the characters. Like we are putting together that we are at the peak, we're at the buzz point of the episode. Oh, we are all just on pins and needles. What is gonna happen next? I cannot wait. But then I stop to think. If I had a nickel for every time a Sith user extended his hand to a Jedi in a thrashed throne room, I'd have two nickels. Which, according to Dr. Doofenschmurtz, isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice. Because we also see this in The Last Jedi with Kylo and Ray. Obviously, that was very different, but it's just funny that like to think about it that like a Sith user extending his hand to a Jedi, like, and we're in a thrash throne room, here we are again. It's just kind of interesting. So Ahsoka agrees to help. She's like, I'll help you, but I I just have a question. And Maul's like, you have but to ask, like, whatever you want. And she's like, What do you want with Anakin Skywalker? And then they have this back and forth of her coming to this realization and him too. Him realizing that the the force has shielded her from understanding fully, but her recognizing that he is a lying loser. And so they have these this this go back and forth. He's like, he is the key to everything. And she goes, To bring balance to the force. And he sort of has this question, he's like, to destroy it. He has long been groomed for his role as my master's new apprentice. And Ahsoka's like, you lie. And Maul kind of laughs it off. He's like, I'm afraid not. In fact, I was so certain of his fate, I orchestrated this all to lure him here with Kenobi to kill him, thus depriving Sidious of his prized pupil. The point of these four episodes, why we are even here, why the writer's room clocked in for their nine to five is summed up in this one exchange of dialogue. Ahsoka ends up denying his truth, but Maul has never lied to her. And that is a truth that we as an audience need to sit with. That Ahsoka is like, you're lying. Little does she know, he doesn't lie. Maul doesn't speak falsehoods. There's no reason to. He has no reason to lie. He can manipulate the situation with truths, which is even more dangerous than a good liar. So he ends up saying, Okay, I see the Padawan needs one last lesson, and their duel begins. They use, you know, the same technology that they've used in past animation sequences where they sort of tie the like um, I don't know what they're called, like action capturing beads, Orby cameras on the actors, and they act out some choreography, and the camera is able to capture their emotion. So that's this scene, very well done. I love that we still see Darth Maul's earring, very cutesy. Maul ends up sensing that he's going to be escaping alone. Like Ahsoka is not going to see his side. So he slowly begins his retreat toward the rendezvous point so he can he can escape with his life. At this point, you are realizing they really would not have made a good team. And it's not because she's independent or not naive enough, but it's because their values don't complement each other. He is so much better matched with Devin in terms of that master apprentice relationship because Ahsoka values justice, or at least what she believes justice is, and Devin values revenge. So Maul needed to be with someone who was just as hurt and betrayed as she was. Ahsoka was hurt and betrayed by the Jedi Order, but it didn't affect her as badly as Order 66 affected Devin, reasonably so. So the Maldalorians are also forced to retreat, and so Gar Saxon calls Maul, and Maul is like, you know what? At any moment my ship's arriving, die well, Mandalorian. Hangs up the call like a beast savage. The duel sort of continues high in the air at the top of the city's glass domes, and he says, we could have destroyed Sidious. He's all mad, and Ahsoka's like, only for you to take his place, Girly Goo. No. But again, as a viewer, this is a believable reason why she didn't join him. She's not going to compromise her values. She truly believes what she's doing is right. And you're not thinking as a viewer that this plan is shallow or thinly veiled, or that it's just like I'm not buying into this. No. You believe that there could be a possibility that they do team up. And it's just so well done that it branches off Revenge of the Sith, which is canon. It is set in stone. You know that Revenge of the Sith, the events that happen in that movie are not going to be retcon by this four-episode 29-minute piece. But you also recognize as a viewer that this is being so well done, what if? Like, what are they gonna do? I know they're not gonna do that, but like how close are they going to come? You know, it's just interesting. So Ahsoka ends up winning that duel. She then force grabs Maul before he can fall out of the sky, and he lets out this like blood-curdling, chilly screech. He says, Let me go, let me die, you're all going to burn, we're all going to die, you don't know what you're doing. And at that point, he's sedated. These are not the ravings of a crazy person. This is the pleadings of someone who is convinced of an eminent reality. He knows without a shadow of a doubt what is coming, and he is devastated that he actually has to live through it now. Because he would rather die than go through what the galaxy is about to experience at the hands of his old master, Darth Sidious. So this is where the episode ends. Um, and we are gonna go ahead and read two more submissions from the Instagram form about what you listeners said that you enjoyed about the episode, um, and maybe some things that you would have changed. Okay, anonymously, what did you enjoy about watching the Siege of Mandalore? This person says, I think that it has some of the best rioting in Star Wars, and you can tell how much effort they put into it. The Ahsoka versus Maul fight is truly a chef's kiss. The music, the fact they use motion capture, the monologue beforehand. It's my favorite arc to re-watch, and you can gain something from it each time. I also love Maul and Ahsoka's dynamic and how it points out how Ahsoka is still loyal to Anakin and her Jedi friends, but not the Jedi Order, and how she almost joins Maul because they both know the Jedi Order is corrupt. Also, the fact that there is no dialogue after Ahsoka and Rex's escape, and you just get to sit there with burying the dead at the end of the final episode and watch Ahsoka grieve for her brothers. I think that's the end of my long spiel. Sorry. Girl, do not apologize. Like I said, I could rave and rant about these four episodes and their cinematic masterpiece, their animation breakthroughs, and the absolute peak storytelling that we were able to receive as an audience. Amazing. Okay, so would you change anything optional? We're gonna read a second one from there. Honestly, nothing about the arc itself, but I wish they kept the Ahsoka book canon after their escape from Order 66. So I am going to have to reread the Ahsoka book, but I do remember that. At the beginning of the book, it's the Siege of Mandalore. Something happens with Rex and Ahsoka. I can't totally remember, but I do remember when I read it and then watched these episodes, it didn't match up. Like the book seemed a lot more happy ending, and this is way more intense, gravitating, grounded. And so I feel as though the book was well written and I do enjoy that story. It was my first Star Wars book, but the the absolute art and perfection of these four episodes, I am totally fine if they retcon the book. However, I do recognize if that is something that you would change, I am, I am willing to bend at the knee for that because it is true that sometimes when there are sort of like inconsistencies within the stories, that can be a cause of frustration between fans and discussions and debates. So it is it is frustrating, especially when when the book is right there. You know, you're telling me that while they were writing in the uh in the writer's room and in the storyboarding room, no one had a copy of Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston. You're telling me no one went to a local Barnes and Noble. Like, I just it's it's kind of hard for me to think like, well, we didn't want to go that direction creatively because it fell flat. Well, you know, could you try? Like, so again, I think, I think that one is is definitely debatable and it is a worthy, a worthy aspect to change for sure. Well, another fabulous week down talking about the Siege of Mandalore. We've got two more weeks to go. I'm so excited to get back on the typical schedule recording with you guys, get back to our YouTube. But in the meantime, this is where the fun ends. My only hope is you enjoyed, and I will yap to you guys again next Friday. Bye! This has been The Village Jedi. Thank you so much for listening. 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