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stealingpotatoes · 5 months
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Master Tapal and Cal is unironically my favourite Master and Padawan duo, do I have an explanation for why? No(Cal's my fav that's probably why) and I'm sad because there's like, no canon lore about them other than what we've seen, I hope we get to hear more tidbits about their adventures during the clone wars in the next game.
Like Jaro Tapal being Yaddles padawan, that's such a fun lore bit
YES THEYRE SO GOOD!!! I mean. cal being assigned a master way too young bc the temple can't keep up with him being so good at everything (was he using psychometry to learn skills quicker than other padwans, yes or yes) and bc of the war is fun on its own but giving him a master expressly to teach him how to take an L loll?? + i think they gave him tapal bc he can just pick cal up by the back of his tunic so he can't get into trouble. like a mama cat. it's the only way to stop him
ALSO ON THE LAST BIT YEAH THATS MY FAVOURITE THING EVER. can you imagine their lineage family photos its such a funny height difference
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smhalltheurlsaretaken · 6 months
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One thing I do like about TOTJ's take on Dooku's fall is that it really highlights that the Dark Side makes you absolutely masochistic. (Mega long post ahead).
One thing TOTJ establishes is that Qui-Gon's death is absolutely on Dooku (no matter if the show itself doesn't seem to be aware of it).
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His tone is concerned and his attitude sympathetic and supportive, but he knows. He knows it's a Sith Lord (he even knows Maul's name). He knows Qui-Gon almost died and is marching right into another trap, but he asks questions anyway and affects ignorance.
"I've been warning them about the coming darkness for years," he says, "never to be taken seriously." Using the Council's skepticism as an occasion to complain about how they didn't believe him while lying by omission is a great case of that hypocrisy Dooku loves denouncing in others. Dooku would rather Qui-Gon share his disillusionment with the Jedi than actually do anything to help Qui-Gon. The Council don't believe him? Okay, Dooku, but YOU DO. You can just tell him what's going on.
But he doesn't.
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On some level, Dooku has to be aware of what's about to happen. Qui-Gon is walking into grave danger, and Dooku's response to that - before it happens, when there is still time to stop it - is to put the blame on the people who don't know shit while not doing shit himself. (Why can't Dooku be there to protect Qui-Gon, other than because he's already slavishly loyal to Sidious' plans?)
And this moment puts every subsequent action of Dooku's throughout the Prequels in perspective - particularly his relationships with Obi-Wan, Ventress and Yoda.
Dooku is a glutton for punishment.
I've written here about why I think the 'Box' from TCW 4x17 is meant to parallel Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's mission on Naboo. The dioxis, ventilation shafts, the catwalks and lightsabers, the ray shields, the fire pit... Dooku's idea of a test to find the best mercenaries around is to have them survive what killed Qui-Gon (what he allowed to happen).
During the challenge, it's pretty obvious he starts to suspect Hardeen is Obi-Wan.
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Or at the very least, he's taking an interest in the man who supposedly killed Qui-Gon's own apprentice - Dooku's spiritual grandson (see RotS novelization), whom he's been trying very hard to either recruit or kill himself. And what does he do with that interest? Tries to push "Hardeen" to kill Eval in anger.
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Dooku, who still mourns the Padawan he knowingly let walk away to his death, watches a pantomime of his Padawan's death, while putting in mortal danger all he has left of said apprentice. If he knows Hardeen is Obi-Wan (and it's pretty obvious that he does), he tries to get Obi-Wan to Fall (or potentially die) in a scenario reenacting Qui-Gon's death. If he doesn't know for sure, then he's encouraging his all but grandson's killer to win the tournament because he admires him (for killing someone Dooku wanted by his side).
Whatever the outcome, Dooku chooses to relive his guilt and chooses to make the same choice to kill his loved one all over again, even though we know he hates that he made this choice:
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He misses Qui-Gon and needs him but tries to kill or destroy Obi-Wan, whom he needs and wants by his side. (I haven't counted just how many time he does try killing Obi-Wan in TCW while still expressing his indefectible admiration for him - it's frequent, the Box just stands out to me as one of the most noteworthy occasions.)
And he keeps doing stuff like that!! He keeps choosing the path that causes him the most pain. He does it with Sifo-Dyas, he does it with Yaddle, he does it with Yoda and he does it with Ventress.
Just look at him confronting Sidious about Qui-Gon's death:
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He KNOWS following Sidious got Qui-Gon murdered and he KNOWS Sidious will continue to kill or order him to kill people close to him. And yet he's quick to reassure Sidious that this doesn't change anything. Securing his position with Sidious matters more than his rage and grief. The ONLY WAY this behavior makes sense is if Dooku is fully aware that he had a choice about Qui-Gon's fate, and decides that this is the path he's on now: Sidious might make him kill everyone he cares about, but he's going to do it. Every time, things will play out the same.
Sidious tells him to kill Ventress, his new apprentice? Sure, why not!
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(And it's not even out of true loyalty for Sidious, because he constantly tries to double-cross him later on. It's pure self-destruction:)
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He hates it, Sidious promises him more of it, and he goes along with it!
This is why Yaddle's attempts at bringing him back don't work, in my opinion:
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"Whatever lies he's told you, whatever you have done, you can make up for it now by bringing him to justice." This might convince a man who is looking for atonement, except Dooku isn't. He is looking for punishment.
Killing or harming those close to him leaves him broken, furious or in pain? He'll just keep doing it.
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Sidious offers him nothing more than agonizing slavery? He'll keep on kneeling.
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That's when Yaddle literally offers him the Light - the light that is so much more powerful than the Dark that it has Sidious cowering, the light that can save him if he wants - Dooku just strikes her down, even though he was heartbroken over thinking he had killed her just a moment ago.
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He chooses to kill her, regrets it and hates himself for it, and chooses to kill her again. HE KEEPS MAKING THE CHOICE THAT HE KNOWS WILL HURT.
His remedy to guilt is to pick a shovel, because by God if he hasn't hit rock bottom yet he's going to dig!
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skyguygeneraltano · 1 month
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Ranting time
So weird how Anakin is always seen as hating women in the fandom when literally the people he respects and love the most are all the women in his life: Shmi, Padmé and Ahsoka. Even with the other female Jedi, Anakin obviously respected them and never tried to cross them like look at his friendship with Aayla in legends, he was friendly with Adi Gallia and Shaak Ti. Even though he didn’t agreed with Luminara’s methods he never tried to put her down. With Yaddle’s death in legends he was heartbroken and guilt ridden. It’s obvious Shmi raised him to respect women.
But you could argue Anakin had his worst issues with the male figures in his life (besides the clones of course). But that is a topic for another post.
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gffa · 11 months
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"Did you know Master Yaddle?" "Master Yaddle was strong-willed. A strange sense of humor. I enjoyed her company immensely." "My master was her Padawan. He said she trained harder than anyone he knew. Which was really something, if you knew Jaro Tapal." #YADDLE SHOUT-OUT IN JEDI: SURVIVOR #AND JUST FOR REFERENCE JARO TAPAL WAS A LASAT #SO TINY FROG GRANDMA YADDLE AND GIANT MID-TEENAGER JARO TAPAL AS HER PADAWAN #IS MY NEW FAVORITE THING TO HAVE LEARNED
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ankle-beez · 1 year
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since yaddle speaks normally i love the idea that yoda's just a fucking weirdo who speaks backwards for the hell of it
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r-2-peepoo · 1 year
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Yaddle speaking in full sentences is just further proof of my theory that the reason Yoda speaks like that isn’t for any cultural reasons or because it’s natural for his species, he’s just dramatic and likes attention.
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hegodamask · 2 years
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“I want to bring peace and order to the galaxy.”
Jedi Dooku in STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI (2022)
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imperial-spy · 6 months
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How many Jedi lineages actually have names? Cause I know Yoda's and Mace's does, did we ever come up with a name for Cal's? (I'm sure I'm missing other lineages, feel free to let me know of any I didn't list)
Yoda-Dooku-Quigon-Obiwan-Anakin-Ahsoka-Sabine = Disaster Lineage
Coming from Obiwan-Luke-Leia-Grogu-Ben Solo-Rey-(the other kids at the school?)=Also disaster Lineage??
Cyslin Myr-Mace Windu-Depa Billaba-Kanan Jarrus(Caleb Dume)-Ezra Bridger-(Jacen hopefully?) = Shatterpoint Lineage
Yaddle-Jaro Tapal-Cal Kestis-(Kata potentially?) = ???
Also how did Mace's Lineage get its name?
I should draw like, family trees for these
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echo-coyote · 1 month
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Star Women Scribbles Pt.2 Ep.2 The Squeakquel
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david-talks-sw · 1 year
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I think something to bear in mind about Tales of the Jedi episodes "Justice", "Choices" and "The Sith Lord" is that they're seen through Dooku's point-of-view.
And Dooku is an unreliable narrator. He *embellishes* events to fit his own rationalization.
In The Clone Wars Season 6, when talking about Sifo-Dyas, who witnesses confirmed Dooku killed/had assassinated, Dooku says "Sifo-Dyas understood, that is why he helped me!"
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No, Dooku. He didn't. You murdered him, then stole his credentials.
And most of Dooku: Jedi Lost is basically Asajj making up her own mind of him based on Dooku's *likely altered* recounting of the facts... and these three short stories are pretty much the same thing.
Dooku is essentially bullshitting himself.
"I think the audience needs to understand that [Dooku] was a Jedi and a good person and he starts out trying to do the right thing. And often when we’re trying to do the right thing and we take it to extremes, we don’t realize it. Suddenly you’re on the wrong side of things, and then it gets harder and harder. "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny" is as simple as saying when you lie, it gets harder to tell the truth. You tell one lie, another lie, another lie…" - Dave Filoni, Nerdist, 2022
My headcanon is that these episodes are the "tale" Dooku told himself to rationalize his dark deeds. They're the lie he repeated, over and over, until he finally believed it.
It's why a complex character like Mace Windu is portrayed as a one-dimensional "teacher's pet/stickler for the rules". That's how Dooku sees him: a drone who parrots the Councils every word.
Conversely, when Dooku says "I've been warning them about the incoming Darkness"...
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... dude, you're an accomplice of the incoming Darkness! You were working with the incoming Darkness for years before your old Padawan became a victim of it and you're still helping it now!
Like, I gotta question whether Yaddle even said "you were right" or if that's Dooku's warped perspective acting up.
At some point, he'll stop lying to himself and just unabashedly accept he's a monster... but, clearly, not at this stage in his life, beside the occasional moment of clarity, as seen in "The Sith Lord".
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lowcountry-gothic · 26 days
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Star Wars: The Living Force. Art by Oliver Cuthbertson.
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smhalltheurlsaretaken · 7 months
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by the way, having dooku's tipping point be killing yaddle in TOTJ is kind of dishonest. since he killed sifo-dyas when valorum was still chancellor, yaddle is confronting a fully fledged sith lord (because he's already received his 'darth' title) who has already killed his best friend in service of the dark side. not much tipping over left to do. i'd much rather have seen that part of dooku's story animated rather than pastalony bringing in a council member just so he could make her an ex council member out of nowhere.
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padawanlost · 2 months
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"[Anakin] realized what was wrong, what the essential conflict within him was. To be a Jedi was to follow his feelings. But if his feelings tortured him, what was he to do with them? Grief. Guilt. Resentment. Shame. He had felt all of these things. Because of leaving his mother, because of Yaddle, because of Obi-Wan. I don't want to feel! [...] "Anakin!" He could hear Obi-Wan clearly now, his voice strained and desperate. I don't want to feel! The hook in his heart seared him, and he knew its name. It was love. The love he felt for his Master was lodged firmly within him. It was a connection that had grown from the first moment Obi-Wan had told him that he would take him and train him. He had learned one thing about love: It was besides the point. It didn't make anything smoother, or better. Most of the time, it just complicated things. Why would he want to feel again, when feeling hurt so much? Why would he want to remember Shmi with guilt as well as pleasure? Why would he want to revisit his torment over the death of Yaddle? Why would he want to take up the burden of caring what Obi-Wan thought or felt about him? Because it's right."
Jude Watson. Book 08 - The Moment of Truth
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gffa · 1 year
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"Tales of the Jedi," Joe Hogan | Star Wars Celebration 2023
"I knew as soon as Lucasfilm announced the new Tales of the Jedi series that I was going to love it. I even set my alarm for 3 a.m. the morning it debuted so that I could binge it as soon as it released, and then immediately got to work trying to capture all of my favorite moments from the series in this print! As usual, the Clone Wars art style and wonderful visual storytelling of the show inspired me so much that I spent almost 36 straight hours to create this illustration as soon as the end credits rolled.
"One of the things I love about the Tales of the Jedi series is just how different but similar Count Dooku's and Ahsoka's stories are. They were both two Jedi trying to find their roles in a big galaxy, while remaining true to their core beliefs, but diverging paths significantly. I tried to represent that with a limited palette of only eight colors. Using the same blues and oranges, I wanted to show how the same colors could be used to represent very different characters, feelings, and destinies."
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yukipri · 1 year
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comicwaren · 8 months
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From Star Wars: Yoda #010, “The Cave”
Art by Ibraim Roberson and Neeraj Menon
Written by Cavan Scott
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