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Is this a night scene or just more Hollywood vs the sun? I can’t tell anymore but I still lightened it up.

My usual wakeup podcast wasn’t on this morning, so I watched a replay of yesterday’s The Real BBC. Hosts Gary Buchler (happy birthday, Gary–you old fart), Az, MauLer, and Gary’s producer X-Ray girl discussed, among many other topics, two Star Wars related ones. Apparently Dave Filoni and the Star Wars X-Twitter posted an explanation [that one’s an article] for Yoda’s iconic statement “Do, or do not. There is no try” as if we were too stupid to figure it out at a level that defies simply trying to (doing?) inspire people. We got what Yoda meant when he said the thing. Commit fully, don’t simply attempt. Accept the success or failure that follows.

Then again, look at what Dave Filoni did.

The other topic they went over in the Star Wars segment of the show was a trailer for season two of Filoni’s surrogate daughter, Ahsoka. Clearly his preference to whom should replace Luke Skywalker over Rey Palpatine, Ahsoka Tano’s not that well received series, set after the original trilogy so we know she didn’t die to General Order 66–which at this point has so many Jedi getting past in shows and games you wonder if they truly nailed anyone–is of course getting another season because Filoni plays favorites. She and the cast of the animated Rebels series, which took place during the original trilogy, and Grand Admiral Thrawn (because he was so successful in the books they locked out of continuity they had to have him in official canon) are coming back to tell us how awesome Ashoka and his other surrogate daughter, Sabine Wren, are. You can call it “woke”, I call it Pet Character Syndrome, but either way it shows who Filoni cares about. Mainly Dave Filoni.

If that was it I wouldn’t be doing this article. Even if I had Disney+, and I don’t, I probably wouldn’t watch it for similar reasons to the ones keeping me from watching Lanterns and making me less than excited for the next Avengers movie duology: we don’t care about the same things but they’ll alter what I like to their weak preferences. I only know season 1 third hand, but it doesn’t sound all that interesting OR good. However, having watched the trailer on the new season, and listening to the quartet’s responses, I ended up with a few of my own they missed, and they were just really silly. Let me show you the trailer so we’re all on the same page, and then we’ll set the book on fire.

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