Unpopular opinion: You (the haters) are all wrong about Rosario Dawson and the live-action rendition of Ahsoka
I'll not pretend this isn't a rant at no one in particular.
"She's so wooden!"
"Did they forget she's from a cartoon?!"
Did you forget the final episodes of The Clone Wars? Were your eyes closed during Rebels? Does your media literacy and comprehension of a character go beyond base personality traits?
I would almost--almost--understand if Ahsoka was taken over by a different writer/director. Maybe you could pawn off the seasoned personality change on a new set of hands taking over.
But this is Dave Filoni's own character. After almost 20 years, you don't think he understands his own Original Characters, doesn't control the casting of his show? I'm not defending the Ahsoka show whole-heartedly: I quite enjoyed it, particularly the final episodes, but thought it was a little too slow. I'm also not too sure about The World Between Worlds as a concept, but after hearing Dave explain that it's not time travel I'm a little more accepting.
But the constant hate I see about Rosario Dawson is baffling. Do you think she's acting on her own accord with no input from the show runner? Not only is this how Filoni wants Ahsoka--his creation--to look and act, her personality is 100% in line with what one should reasonably expect from a Jedi outcast who witness the genocide of her people and corruption of her beloved mentor.
She's jaded; she still seeks to thwart evil where she can, but she's closed off and stoic because 20+ years of fighting, being hunted, and the complete dissolution of one's beliefs might do that do a person. She's not going to the bubbly preteen from the cartoon, she's should be carrying the weight of her decades of travel and reflection and possible resentment.
She also is fully in line with her later era cartoon. She folds her owns and smirks; she understand what it means to fail and so quickly gives up on teaching; she closes herself off not because of the Force of Jedi teaching, but because of her trauma. Rosaria Dawson not only embodies this character, she nails Ahsoka and gives hes an imposing weight I haven't seen of a live action Jedi before.
If you don't like the show or casting, I mean what can I do about that. I don't honestly care, modern Star Wars is the highest peaks (Andor) and lowest valleys (Skywalker Saga) I've ever seen in an IP. But in my opinion, there's a fundamental misunderstanding of Ahsoka and her actor specifically that I find maddening. It's not only a fantastic portrayal, it's exactly what I expected.
Star Wars isn't a deep world, but c'mon. There's gotta be a little more media literacy than what I've seen so far.