Full Series Should Barriss Return in Rebels?

That would be interesting to explore, and another good reason to have Barriss in the series. I tend to look at the Jedi and Sith as black and white, while dark Jedi tend to reside in the gray area. The same goes for the Nightsisters & Nightbrothers - that's why I found them to be such interesting characters in the CW series...

 

I do think Rebels will explore the difference of dark siders and Sith. Really hope we get more background on the Inquisitor.

 

I would not mind seeing her again, but which side would they put her on? Would see be for or against the Rebels? If they kill off some of the Rebels (which Im hoping for) maybe she could join the Rebellion, but then she could also be another villain for the Rebels to deal with independent of the Empire. She could fill that Ventress role. If Fulcrum is Ahsoka then yea bring Bariss back as a villain but if Fulcrum is Leia, bring in another female imperial character.

 

Amusingly I like to discover they did turn her but the revelation about her former master resulted in her defecting wanting to become a hermit like Yoda so we'd have someone unexpected to function as an alternative tutor for Ezra and maybe Kanan too even if only on dark side techniques.

 

Unless she turned over yet another leaf acting as "Fulcrum", the likely scenerio is that she's working alongside Sidious, likely not Vader but Sidious.

 

Inquisitor Barriss. Come on Filoni.... Don't let me down!

 

Oh man, I just had a thought:

Fulcrum turns out to be Ahsoka.

The inquisitor we've had on the show so far gets killed off, and is replaced with Inquisitor Barris Offee.

Through some circumstance they soon run smack into eachother, and it's on!

Barriss vs Ahsoka, the rematch! Yee haw!

 

I actually would like an Ahsoka vs Barriss battle. I think bariss wins hands down.

 

Inky is frequently referred to "an" as opposed to "the" Inquisitor, so we can presume there are more than one inquisitors. My guess is that Vader has a hobby of breaking fallen jedi or other force sensitives, turning them into his dark side attack dogs, and given Barriss and Anakin's personal history, it makes sense that Vader might pluck her from prison to become an inquisitor herself. She would make the natural counter to Ahsoka (who we all she'll show up before too long. Additionally, in the event that Inky meets his end, he can be replaced by another, even more relentless foe.

 

Barriss already did win a fight between them, on Coruscant during the S5 finale arc. It was a fight that Ahsoka really should have won, and under most circumstances would have, since she was a stronger combat-oriented Jedi than Barriss, but a bunch of confluent mental and physical factors in play at the time skewed it heavily in Barriss' favor. I analyzed the likely causes of Barriss' victory here a few months back.

Basically at the time of late TCW, I'd rate Ahsoka as a stronger Jedi in combat than Barriss. However, 16 years later, it's anyone's guess who would be ahead. If Barriss joined the Empire and became an inquisitor, it's likely that some kind of formal combat training continued for her up through the years since. In Ahsoka's case, we have absolutely no idea what she's been up to. But if she's always been in war and combat - either as a rebel, or as an independent mercenary or such like fighting for whoever, for much of that time - she would also have grown in capability, simply through combat experience, which tends to make you a more powerful warrior more so than formal training. So in a new Barriss vs Ahsoka encounter in the Rebels timeframe, it's still anyone's guess who would be more powerful. And it still might be Ahsoka.

 

Like a secret Vader is not aware of??

 

More like Mara Jade, I think.

 

What is mara jade?

 

An assassin, basically. An agent for the stealthier missions. Vader isn't exactly an expert at stealth, even without the breathing.

 

Heh maybe Mara a

Heh... maybe Mara and Zare's sister are being trained by Inquisitor Barris and we see them in the background when Barris is contacted with the news of her new mission... imagine she brings them along for on the job experience especially as one of them is familiar with Lothal....

 

Mara has a lot of baggage on her. Even ignoring that I'm not particularly fond of her, does it make sense to bring her in if you can't do the whole "saving the lost girl and marrying her" storyline?

 

And I think they have enough to work with in the "new canon". To bring in Mara just doesn't make any sense. It's much easier to tell their own stories with their own already-established characters.

 

Wheee.... I haven't been following the spoilers / leaks (if any) about Ep. VII at all, but what little has drifted through into my brain seems to indicate that the thing is focusing on / following these younger generation of newcomer heroes, with Luke et al possibly in a fairly minor role.

That being the case, I wonder if they'll make it for definite that he is not married, and never was.

If Luke's part in the ST was so small that the ST somehow didn't really get in the way of Mara's falling-in-love-with-Luke-and-marrying-him storyline, then theoretically the Rebels crew could get away with not only using her, but keeping (most of) her later story more or less as-is.

 

Just rewatched To Catch A Jedi and I'm surprised of how brutal Barris is towards Ahsoka, she's her former friend and she throws her around and kicks her.
Oh how the mighty have fallen

 

EU stuff basically?

 

Yeah she's a big character from it.

 

Remember kids, don't do Dark Side.

But yeah, she does some really nasty things, but considering Anakin is able to delude himself into thinking his child murdering is justifiable very soon after embracing the Dark Side, not too surprising. the corrupting effects of the Dark Side are shockingly fast.

As for Mara Jade, she's probably one of the top 5 most popular EU characters, because of this she probably stands a better chance than most at being reintroduced, also because of this she stands a better chance of people being incredibly pissed off after she's reintroduced because she'd inevitably be different now.

 

I don't see it with Mara Jade I could see thrawn or Revan being reintroduced but not Mara

 

Well Reven wouldn't be hard since his story is so far in the past that it doesn't really need to affect anything going forward save for things set in that time period.

 

And, you know, hopefully they could do it in a way that doesn't suck this time.

*glares at TOR and the Revan novel*