TV Discussion [Poll] If Barriss Offee is the female inquisitor from S2, what should be her fate?

I wasn't being sarcastic. I really didn't think about that.

 

"Don't be smart with me, kid. You can use the Force, can't you? You've got a lightsaber. You saved that shift crew from the refinery chimney with those hunches of yours."

Harun makes a face at her. "What about it?"

"You can say you're not a Jedi all you want. To us regular beings out here in the galaxy, you sure look like one. And don't tell me a Jedi shouldn't stick vibroblades in people," she adds when he opens his mouth. "I fought them, remember? Some of them did much worse than that."

 

Well yeah, to most people lightsaber = Jedi. Even Darth Maul and Savage got mistaken for Jedi.

 

Younger children won't understand the distinction either without explanation. And now that I think of it I can't even come up with a definition for what is a Jedi.

 

"I'm not a jedi, I'm just a guy with a lightsaber and a few questions. " -Kyle Katarn

 

I brought up this up in the Filoni's comments thread, but we don't really know what makes a Jedi, a Jedi. It has never been explained in canon that I can remember. So people have people have lumped good force users into Jedi category, and bad into Sith.

 

Well, right now the only things that differentiate her from Jedi are the colour of her sabers and her statement that she isn't a Jedi. I guess we'll have to wait and see in what other ways she is different from a Jedi.

 

You know with all the talk about Anakin being "special" as the only one to get away from the Sith/Dark Side or whatever earlier in the thread, I have to point out that is already not really the case. While her arc was unfinished Ventress had already gotten away from the Sith and was clearly becoming a more moral and generally not really evil anymore person.

 

Ventress is not good either so I would not count Ventress also the only reason she left was because she was betrayed.

 

Dunno, in the last season she still murdered people for random reasons, like the guy making a drunken pass at her.

 

Ventress and Ahsoka could qualify as "Gray Jedi".
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Jedi

 

But we have never seen Ashoka uses the dark side except once.

 

Well you know, she was still working on it, the important thing is that she was clearly less evil than she was before.

 

She is less eviler than when she slaughtered all the Nightbrothers, I agree.

 

She killed a few, as part of getting a candidate for Dooku-Killer. Enough were still alive to tell Kenobi and Anakin about it.

 

Yea it wasn't until the jerk started getting rowdy with her that she killed him anyway. Also he was a criminal and Boba and Co. Didn't seem to care that much.

 

The term ya'll are looking for is "chaotic neutral".

 

No, the right term is psychopath.

If I murdered every idiot that annoyed me I could rename myself into Charles Manson.

 

Well it is GFFA, and this is a fictional character, and Asajj wasn't necessarily a yoda or Obi-wan type character.

 

Dunno, "murder is bad" is pretty much universal, and I don't know how else you would call what she did to that bar dude and the Nightbrothers. I'll concede she is "not really evil anymore" if she stops with the senseless murdering.

 

No one bates an eye when "holy Ahsoka" does anything wrong. I've seen just about every other character judged to no end though.

 

Sorry, but self defense just doesn't cut it in this case, especially considering that Assajj is a trained killer. Calling it an assault is pretty creative on your part. But I am pretty sure you know the difference between assault and harrassment.

And sorry, if Filoni wants to sell his pet character as anything else as a whimsical murder machine than he shouldn't let her murder for petty reasons.

I am a feminist and I don't want to live in world where women get away with murder while men are judged with the full force of the law for the same thing. Reverse the roles. Would the murder be okay as well for you?

 

I vaguely recall you pointing out a few weeks ago in the feminism thread on JC community - that sexual harassment plus assault does not equal "sexual assault" . The bar guy's grabbing of an arm, is not enough to qualify. Just as Jabba's licking of Leia's face is not enough to qualify.