#tales of the empire trailer

[bluedeedeedoop]

My Thoughts on Tales of the Empire; mostly Barriss (spoilers ahead!)

Ah hello all, i have had some days or so to think since watching the show and to say it has completely wiped me of my life force would be... pretty accurate tbh. BUT I HAVE FINALLY DECIDED TO POST MY THOUGHTS. will this cover my entire though process that im sTill working through? PROBABLY NOT! my thoughts are very unorganized and very unstable! ANYWAAAAYS.

Now I just gotta say overall, the show itself definitely passed the test. To be completely honest, i wasn't really paying attention to the Morgan parts as i was the Barriss parts, since it was literally what I was looking forward to this entire time.

Though I will say that the first Morgan episode was pretty neat! it was crazy seeing that perspective of the Nightsisters again and god did they make Grievous fucking terrifying. Honestly, bravo to them, it was amazing. I diiiiid end up just.. kinda spacing out the rest of it tho unfortunately cuz i just wanted to see barriss..

Visuals 10000/10. stunning, amazing, phenomenal, gahdamn. the animation was so smooth and fluid and uGHH it was amazing throughout the entire show. Acting amazing as always. BUT GOD I CANT GET OVER HOW AMAZING THE ANIMATION WAS.

NOW.

In my opinion, they got her character pretty on the dot. I am SO glad they did. I was rlly rlly worried they were totally butcher her character and make her unrecognizable to all of us but oml they didn't completely disappoint us, she has her morals, SHES STILL A HEALER! Im so happy from that.

Now although i did enjoy it, i do have my own little complaints.

Now okay one i noticed since the trailer and has REALLY been bugging me; where are her hand tattoos??? idk i guess i just wasn't expecting them to just be gone?? they couldn't have just forgotten them.. right? I dunno, but unless someone has a genuine answer for that, imma just keep drawing them on her in the future.

??????

Alright another thing i've been seeing ppl post about is how come she looked so old at the end? I am also confused on that and i've seen multiple theories. She should only be like 30-35 max right?? Because i'm assuming the last episode took place a the time in Rebels where the inquisitors were after the force sensitive children, and Ahsoka was around that age a the time, so why is Barriss any different?

I suppose the one i think makes the most sense is the force healing? I guess it could take a toll on her over the years causing her to look more aged, but still, i'd really prefer an explanation. Also what happened to her hair coverings?? Is that not her culture?? I dunno, again, i really need an explanation. I suppose that maybe her perspective has changed since trying to come to terms with her new life, and her ditching the coverings is a way to free herself from her past? Honestly i have no clue but i just need a lot of things answered.

That's mostly my complaints on it! I just felt things weren't explained enough but to be fair, they only gave her like 3 15-ish min episodes?? I really think they got some explaining to do. Which brings me to my next points.

I'm like... 98% sure that the "old friend" is Ahsoka that she was talking about. Who else would it be?? Like cmon. And if it is Ahsoka, why did we not get to see anything about the moment of confrontation? or at least more of a mention? I guess they wouldn't rlly wanna rush that scene, and tbh, im glad they didn't. It's not some "we talk for 5 min and everything is fine" type of situation. it'll take time. time to rebuild that trust. time to discuss. YEAH. I've heard many people state how it would be more likely and realistic to see a novelization of that and i agree. I would want it to take time, showing the build of the relationship over time, going on further into the story as we watch their strong bond mend from the trauma it's faced. I'm not saying this as a crazed Barrissoka shipper, i mean it that I would genuinely want to see how that confrontation is handled, as do many others and not just as a ship!! It's been a decade! the fans wanna know!

And my last point.

I.believe.Barriss.is.alive.

The more i rewatch it, the more i believe it. the first time around i had my doubts, but something tells me they are NOT done with her character. At least before the stabbing scene anyway. There's too much stuff that's left unanswered for it to just end that way! I dunno man, but Lyn's "i'm going to get you out of here" sounded way too determined for a "im going to move your body out of here" type of thing yk? maybe she could sense she was still alive, just barely hanging in there? I don't think they are done with Barriss Offee, and I wont think so unless we see her corpse being fucking BURIED. Not to mention the UNGODLY amount of parallels of that scene along with them exiting the cave. I've already seen so many point it out. Post-Vader and Ahsoka fight on Malachor?? Back when we all thought Ahsoka may or may not be dead?? sounds familiar hello?? Also a parallel from earlier in the show itself when Barriss saves that unnamed jedi! she HEALS them when they were going to be left there. Something tells me the same fate may happen to Barriss. Idk call me crazy but i will say it again, i don't think they are done with her story.

Thank you for reading my very unorganized thoughts! this has taken me longer to write than expected because i did not predict this to make me have to step away from making SEVERAL times- but yeah! lmk what yall think! and yes you can be expecting some art here and there! i know i've been slacking- Also lmk if u want me to post my crazed Barrissoka thoughts! because aHa i have them. i have them a lot. send help.

ALSO KEVIN KINER I GOT MY EYE ON YOU. BRO NEEDS TO RELEASE THE SOUNDTRACK BEFORE I DIE.

#gawd this took a lot more energy than im willing to admit #fuck #idk man just its painful #i think the part that kills me the most is the music at the ending scene in the last ep #yall know what im talking about #i cant #get out #tales of the empire #star wars #tales of the empire spoilers #barriss offee #barrissoka #ahsoka tano #tales of the empire trailer #lyn rakish #star wars tales of the empire #morgan elsbeth #sw tote #star wars clone wars #help my sanity #my thoughts #TUNDRA WIVES PLEASE? #fourth sister #inquisitorius

[thecleverqueer]

Ya’ll. I’m not going to say that she isn’t in it, but that’s NOT Ahsoka in the trailer or on the poster for the Tales of the Empire.

In the trailer, the person in question (you know, the hooded one in the long, dark cloak that everyone says has montrails; appearing right underneath Morgan Elsbeth on the left hand side of the poster) is “force”pushing over half a dozen B2 battle droids on what appears to be Dathomir. The person in question is very likely the Matron of the mountain witches on Dathomir, and the fact that she falls on the Morgan Elsbeth side of the poster and not the Barriss Offee side should likely confirm this. The Matron will likely be the one that saves Elsbeth in some self-sacrificial way that only further fuels Elsbeth’s anger. You’ll see.

EDIT: It isn’t Luminara Unduli either. Once again, she is on the Morgan Elsbeth side of the poster. And also, why would Luminara be on Dathomir pushing B2 battle droids around? In a post-Galactic Republic setting? It doesn’t make sense.

EDIT PART TWO: Also, she’s not going to be “just another nightsister.” Whoever it is will be important in Morgan Elsbeth’s journey.

#star wars #tales of the empire #morgan elsbeth #barriss offee #tales of the empire trailer #fans build shit up in their heads and are then disappointed #i’m not even sure ahsoka and barriss squared off because ahsoka is still bitter about what happened in her series #which happens 20 years later #ahsoka tano #just let ahsoka and barriss kiss and make up #luminara unduli #nightsisters of dathomir

[daily-glup-shitto]

i'm screaming i'm hooting i'm hollering

#star wars #tales of the empire #tales of the empire trailer

[verc0pa]

barrissoka truthers (me) rising from the grave rn

#i cooked this up so quick after the trailer my god #LET THEM HUG AND RECONCILE AND HEAL TOGETHER GODDAMMIT *SLAMS FIST ON TABLE #my delusions are uncontainable #barrisoka #barrissoka #barriss offee #ahsoka tano #tales of the empire #star wars #the clone wars #digital art #my art

[amuelia]

small drawing as im looking forward to watching tales of the empire tomorrow

#star wars #tales of the empire #the grand inquisitor #barriss offee #saw a quote by filoni or whoever #where he was like barriss may have inspired TGI to his turn towards the dark side #so im like hello.... @ them interacting in the trailer #hoping for a nice scene between them #her betrayal turns him inquisitor... he trains her as an inquisitor... its like poetry it rhymes.png #they gotta have a reason to explicitly retcon TGI into the clone wars storyline right #he also baits kanan with luminara... then later is so afraid of the consequences of failure... #idk if done right barriss could retroactively haunt the narrative of rebels s1 #not to get my expectations up cause theres like a dozen other characters and its just 3(?) shorts #but it could be kino #2024 #tote

[sabellart]

Eli really deserves a smoke break

#yes i made this immediately after seeing thrawn in the tales of the empire trailer #what of it #eli vanto #star wars #sabeldraws #thrawn #thranto #fanart #sw #mitth'raw'nuruodo #thrawn 2017 #chiss ascendancy #tales of the empire

[gizkalord]

I’m assuming tales of the empire will also have time skips between episodes like its jedi counterpart did, so my guess is that the barriss inquisitor stuff will be the first and/or second episode, and eventually we’ll see her leave/escape the inquisitorius. And her episodes will be about her struggling with her anger and overcoming it. I really don’t think it fits with her character to be actually on-board with the empire considering that the reason she bombed the temple was because she saw what the republic was turning into.

#like she doesn’t seem happy about all this from the trailer yknow #TRUST THE PROCESS MY BARRISS REDEMPTION BELIEVERS #barriss offee #tales of the empire #star wars

[rubikor]

i know you are not into star wars anymore but they brought barriss back in tales of the empire and she made a reference to ahsoka

i've seen a few pics of barriss around but i didn't know that!

#i watched the trailer and the tales of the empire actually look so interesting #but i do not have the mental space for another media to consume/get into #even tho barriss looks cool #and barrissoka crumbs #thank you for the update!

[chronozen]

Dissecting Tales of the Empire (Barriss stuff)

So let's break down all the Barriss stuff in the trailer:

There's an Inquisitor Shuttle approaching Our - likely after she is freed from prison

When Barriss is freed from her cell

This little bit is actually quite interesting. First of all Barriss is wearing a prison symbol with the emblem of the Jedi Order on the shoulder.

The clone troopers are Republic Shock Troopers, The Coruscant guard.

Fourth Sister is actually wearing Jedi robes not an Inquisitor uniform, she's already fallen to the Dark side as evidenced by the eyes.

This is suggesting that Barriss is freed from somewhat close to the end of Revenge of Sith

Also the framing of Barriss in prison is very similar to Luminara's hologram in Rebels.

Barriss's eyes are really blue in this scene. Like more so than other ones.

Barriss walking down a hallway

Pretty self explanatory. She's walking down a hallway. She's wearing Robes that a likely Inquisitorius initiate robes. (Or maybe it wasn't Laundry day and Barriss's uniform wasn't ready)

The Clones are just Regs in Phase 2 armour. It looks like Fortress Inquisitorius on Nur.

Speculation: Barriss is giving a little side glance, she's either taking her environment or she's plotting something.

The Grand Inquisitor scene

When then see the Grand Inquisitor leading Barriss into a room with several lightsabers

None of the Lightsabers are Luminara's (Trust me i double checked Weapon's Factory.) They are most likely reused models and generic sabres - because animation and props design is hard and short cuts should be taken whenever you can.

.....but two of those lightsabers are very close to Barriss's lightsaber.

The one in the middle doesn't seem to hold a significance (The bottom of the hilt slightly resembles Ahsoka's Padawan lightsaber, and you could go Green symbolic of Luminara.)

....wouldn't it be just awful if its Tutso Mara's lightsaber?

Inquisitor and Barriss have a sparring session, he tries to get her to use Anger and slams her into the roof, she's noticeably angry.

"Mercy only breeds defeat, i will help you overcome this weakness."

This line is interesting because it's not the usual only your Hatred can strike me down line, the Grand Inquisitor is actually being polite and offering a twisted form of assistance.

Which brings me to a thought - The Grand Inquisitor was right beside Barriss during her big confession at Ahsoka's trial, he's probably going to see her as someone that they don't have to break or torture.

Fourth Sister using Spinning Lightsaber

So this is a very short sequence. The Fourth Sister is in an area with a Rock wall, jumps down, glances around nervously, spins her blade and looks up.

Speculation: Something hasn't gone to plan, maybe the Jedi later in trailer is tougher, or maybe someone else has swapped sides...

The Jedi Fight

This shot opens with Barriss in a proper Inquisitor Uniform and her own useless spinning lightsaber running towards Fourth Sister and an unknown Jedi with a blue Saber

During the fight we can see ITS NOT LUMINARA, this Jedi has a different facial structure, skin tone and likely human.

We can also see who i assume is Barriss looking like she is hesitating on what to do.

We then cut to a different seen of a hooded figure using the force to blow away B2 Super Battle Droids. This implies its during the clone wars and the hooded figure is very likely Barriss cause that silhouette is very similar.

The figure is illuminated by a white glow and it's probably a part of sequence meant to show Barriss before she went nuts - cause its been 11 years so new viewers might not know this character who only appeared in technically 7 eps at most is...

FIGHT TO THE DEATH

Fight to death between Barriss and an unknown initiate.

Grand Inquisitor throws a lightsaber between the two - no its not Barriss's lightsaber

Ray shields go up. Initiate who i'm calling Glup, goes for the Saber. The crystal has been bled so it's red.

Glup and Barriss fight and Barriss goes for the sky high kick or possibly punch to the head.

THE NEW MASTER

'it is time to meet your new Master."

This implies the initiates don't meet Vader until they're full members.

We see Barriss lined up with the other Inquisitors - she's in full uniform. Really hard to tell if her eyes are dark side yellow or not. (They still look Blue compared to Fourth's)

Also it's really funny to me that she's lined up with Bird face Inquisitor, Marrok and Fourth Sister, cause everyone said all of those Inquisitors was Barriss Offee.

They all kneel, Barriss goes down first.

Vader walks past and Barriss looks up slightly and watches him...and she immediately frowns and furrows her eyebrows.

She's plotting something....

Interesting note: Since bird face is alive and has his head perfectly attached to his neck still, This places Barriss's eps of Tales of the Empire prior to Ahsoka's last ep of Tales of the Jedi

Look i can hope for Barriss to escape and then we seen the back of Ahsoka walk into frame....

#barrissoffee #barriss offee #tales of the empire #star wars #star wars the clone wars #trailer analysis #I spent way too much time doing this #inquisitorius #fourth sister #grand inquisitor

[alitherandom]

I'm hoping the plotline with Morgan Elsbeth and the nightsisters explains the "Somehow Ventress returned"

#it has to #right?? #tales of the empire trailer just dropped #if you haven't already #go watch it #tales of the empire #tales of the jedi #clone wars #star wars #tcw #bad batch #the bad batch #asajj ventress #tbb #star wars tbb #bad batch ventress #star wars the bad batch #morgan elsbeth

[bberry005]

today is a huge day for all barriss offee fans

#barriss offee #tales of the empire #star wars #the clone wars #my favorite clone wars side character #AND SHE'S BACK ON MAY 4TH #anyway that tales of the empire trailer was insane

[machiavellli]

Btw, they gave us crumbs of the blue man in tales of the empire. CRUMBS. Perhaps I simply gaslighted myself into thinking that he would have get an entire episode or something, but I was disappointed.

#just me? #i was expecting more #from the trailer it looked like it (no???) #me rn: ​“now what?” #tales of the empire #Thrawn #mitth'raw'nuruodo #grand admiral thrawn #Star Wars

[questforgalas]

Say what you want about Star Wars, but their trailer music always slaps

#star wars #how do i get the tales of the empire trailer music on repeat #and the bad batch trailers #all of the trailers

[sudden-stops-kill]

'Tales of the Empire | Official Trailer | Disney+'

#star wars #tales of the empire #official trailer #darth vader #thrawn #morgan elsbeth #bariss offee #inquisitor #Youtube

[yojabari]

Tales of the Empire | Official Trailer | Disney+

#tales of the empire #trailer #star wars #disney+ #Youtube

[spaceprincessleia]

Omg. I'm so excited for Tales of the Empire. I'm SO SO excited for Morgan and Barriss. I'm so happy our tiny fandom is getting more content. And I'm even MORE excited now for meeting Diana Lee this month aaahhh!!!

#tales of the empire #morgan elsbeth #asdfghjkl #ty to everyone who tagged me when the trailer dropped xD