 I would have thought you had learned your lesson. I am a slow learner. She's a fast learner. I really wouldn't know. I don't think anyone else loved chewing on their mustache or just me. Welcome back to Life Thousands in Film. Today we're going to be making sense of life through Tales of the Jedi. Episode 5, Practice Makes Perfect. It follows Ahsoka mainly as Homer is begun and she is now Anakin's padawan. Ahsoka is doing a training exercise to get ready. Work her chops up, you know, work on those lightsaber licks, defending herself against probe droids. And Anakin afterwards is like, this ain't no good. This ain't gonna do you any good. It's a lousy test. But it's what every Jedi does. Exactly. Look, you want a real test? Name it. Okay, I'll make you an actual test. And then we'll see what you've really learned. It's better to be better than you need to be or more skilled or more practiced or stronger than you need to be at the real thing, right? Then you'll be super prepared, which makes sense. It's like swinging two bats. You only need to swing one. If you ever have to swing a bat, hopefully you never have to swing a bat. But if you do find yourself in a position where you have to swing a bat, I'm not saying hopefully you never have to swing a bat. If you like swinging bats, perhaps for a sport, you want to play a little B-ball, go ahead with the bats. But in other cases, you know, if you find yourself needing to swing a bat, it's better to be prepared and be used to swinging more than one bat at a time. And then the real thing with one bat will be a breeze. It'll be a kick walk. I never understood where the term kick walk came from. But yeah, I mean, that's basically it. Anakin does his own exercise, battle combat exercise for Ahsoka. And they go through it and they go through it until she masters it. And then it ends with Ahsoka and Rex leading to the Hanger connecting to the last or second last episode of the Clone Wars show. Let's hope all that training pays off. This was a cool episode in that I'd say it was probably my favorite Ahsoka episode. I liked that of all the episodes, it's really the only one that's taking place during the Clone Wars. The last episode kind of happens right after the Clone Wars ends, but this one is kind of in the early days of the Clone Wars. Ahsoka is just starting her training. You know, Obi-Wan. You can tell it's the early days because Obi-Wan is still rocking his delicious Jedi mullet. That was a treat. You got to see the gang back together. I'm gonna die. He's back. He's back. The whole gang. The one guy I forget. The guy's name. Old wizened Jedi. I don't know if he's like the keeper of the holocrons or something. I forget. This is an episode about Jedi training, basically, or combat training. And not only did this episode that was focused basically on just this one training session, it explains how Ahsoka was able to survive basically in Season 7 of the Clone Wars when the clones turned on her. So it's cool to kind of explain how she was able to, you know, hey, you know, when you practice something and then you're able to actually put it into practice, you know, then you'll be perfect at it. A lot of nice tie-ins, you know. The last few episodes before this one ties into the Phantom Menace or ties into Attack the Clones. This one ties into the Clone Wars Season 7. So I like the tie-ins. Big on tie-ins. I like a tie-in. And the series that does tie-ins, tie-ins are the best. More tie-ins, you know. More tie-ins, please. How long was I out? An hour. An hour? Yeah, Jesse really tagged you. Sorry, Commander! I like that Jesse was the first clone to stun her, which is kind of a nice callback, call forth, call forward, to how Jesse then has to stand off. He's like the main guy that stands off against Rex Nisoka in Season 7, so... Jesse, listen to me. We've known each other a long time. If we don't get this right, we will be the ones committing treason, not her. Yeah, what was that? It was fun. And I like to just how much they emphasize Anakin wanting to train Nisoka. The rigorous stuff that he puts her through. Because it's war, you know. It's serious stuff. And I like that they are, again, bringing back the idea that you need training to get better at anything. Star Wars, at one point, in the past little while, in the past few years, was very much about people just being able to do stuff without any real explanation. And maybe some people enjoy that. I don't particularly. Not only do I love a good training montage, even though I was actually pretty old when I saw Rocky, but I understand why that training montage stays in the zeitgeist, in the consciousness, in the collective consciousness. It's great awesome to watch. But yeah, just in general, I think it's important to emphasize for kids that training and practice is required for basically everything. Honestly. And you can even fall out of practice if you stop doing anything. Honestly, even like socializing. For me, I feel like if I don't see people for a month, I'm super rusty with socializing. I'm very awkward. And so yeah, even socializing takes practice. So that's why I think it's silly when you want to make movies or shows where characters are just good at stuff without any explanation. It's hard for me to relate. I don't want to build a relate to something great, you know? Reliability is fun. It's good. I liked seeing how much Ahsoka was put through the ringer and then she struggles for a while, which is natural and normal. That's how it is. You're never good at anything at the beginning. You wouldn't want that. Struggle is good. Enjoy the struggle. I liked, you know, seeing the stun, the gun set to stun again. Just whenever they get to use it again. I love seeing it. So I'm glad they're bringing it back. Phase 1 clones. Maybe this is an unpopular opinion in some ways, I think, for me, I actually like the Phase 1 clones more. Maybe it's because it was the first clone phase that I saw growing up. I've seen the second movie before, the third movie, you know? Maybe it's that. But yeah, there's just something about it. So obviously, good to see both. And I like both. Both are great. I felt like the Clone Wars show is more in the Phase 2 clones of the show. It gets a bigger percentage of the show, I felt like. And I also wish that they had an episode or a scene where they kind of show the clones getting their Phase 2 armor and talking about it. Some not liking it as much. Some wanting it more, you know? I thought that was kind of a missed opportunity. I digress. But yeah, overall, I liked the episode. It touched on a lot of nice things overall. I enjoyed myself. But anyway, that was what I thought about episode 5 of Tales of the Jedi. What did you guys think? Let me know in the comments. Share your thoughts on my thoughts until next time. Thanks for watching. Let's wrap. I guess I was wrong. There was no danger at all.