[Spoilers] Ahsoka - nature vs. nurture
[Spoilers] Ahsoka - nature vs. nurture
Say what you will about the pacing and stuff, but this show FINALLY gave me a complete force muggle who had no mystical legendary bloodline of famous force space wizards behind her, no cloned mega-space-emperor midichlorian legacy shenanigans that made her the super-special chosen one and she STILL got to use the force through sheer grit and training and determination! Sabine Wren is what the broom kid could have been.
No, you don't have to be the spawn of the force-elite with a meticulous pedigree and breeding to get all forcey, you can do it all on your own! Go get that coffee mug, you can do it!
I'm just happy someone finally put their money where their mouth was on the 'the Force is in all living creatures' thing and made a Force adept out of someone with no natural ability.
11By “a force bloodline” do you mean “literally just the Skywalkers”?
Also doesn’t take into account that Sabine is, as a member of clan Wren/house Viszla, likely related to Tarre Viszla, the first Jedi Mandalorian. More of a force bloodline than most force sensitives we’re aware of.
9Hey, it's not like the Skywalkers are the only family with noteworthy force powers. There's also the Palpatines. And in the end, only the Palpatines...
I wonder how common "had a force-capable ancestor a thousand years ago" is in terms of family history. Given the interconnectedness of family trees, it sounds like it should be unavoidable in the long run.
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Meh. She shouldn’t have been able to pull the lightsaber and make Ezra jump so far when an hour before she couldn’t even make a coffee mug move.
4It needed a Rocky style training montage to get her from A to Z. Or at least background mentions that she was working on it.
Maybe she let the drk side creep in while she was in that holding cell, increasing her power with consequences yet to be unveiled.
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Yes! It seems like there’s been a trend of making protagonists/heroes some kind of chosen one. The world needs more stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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