One of the most worrisome parts for me, was when Padme offered to teach Ahsoka about politics. And I can’t remember if that was before, or after Padme had blamed the clones for the state of the war/republic. And that same woman, with such a privileged/elitist mindset is going to teach Ahsoka.
That rubbed me the wrong way.
Padme knows politics, but she is also a senator and she sees it and exercises it in a different way than normal people (people who aren’t politicians). Politics give her power and we’ve seen people–like the clones and Teckla–become victims of Padme because of her power. We’ve seen how Padme’s political power affects the marginalized groups, who are at her mercy.
Ahsoka is on the battlefield constantly, and she is a jedi. She doesn’t need to form a perspective on the political climate or on the current state of the war from Padme. She needs to form it by herself and if she wants to get advice, she needs to maybe ask the clones how they feel about what Padme said/blamed them for (or how they view the war in general). She doesn’t need to listen a rich woman who is clearly out of touch with the groups she speaking about because of her privilege, Ahsoka needs to listen to the people that Padme’s political power actually targets and negatively affects.
I know people thought that scene was cute, and a moment that was like “mother/daughter”, but it always rubbed the the wrong way. And I always speculated that her conversation and closeness toward Padme, was another reason Ahsoka was distant to the clones and may have often mistreated them. Because she learned how to view them from Padme and Anakin, two people who see the clones as either tools or scapegoats to put blame on.
hi just thinking about the potential for togruta lekku markings to develop like tree rings. so the way they develop is indicative of the conditions that a togruta grew up under. and for other togruta to see ahsoka and immediately know she was in a war too young. i am going to throw myself into the sea.
