is that non-binary rep?? I didnt expect that from this show but thats awesome!
[7.5/10] Hey! Now there’s more of a surprise! If there’s one thing that seems clear about Barriss, good or bad, it’s that she has a strong sense of self-righteousness about her. In a way not unlike Count Dooku in the Tales of the Jedi miniseries from the same crew, you can see all these little things building up that make her lose her faith in the institution she’s a part of...again.
So when she sees Imperial citizens living in squalor, when she sees the Fourth Sister brutalize a square of impoverished people, when she hears excuses about needing to show strength to earn respect, when she sees a potential ally who’s ready to surrender mowed down, she can take no more. “Realization” certainly stacks the deck, but I didn’t see Barriss’ face turn coming, at least not in this episode. Given her history, maybe I should have.
I’m intrigued about where Barriss’ story goes from here. Do she and “The Jedi” she saves become confidantes and kindred spirits? Are they too simply hunted and eliminated by the people Barriss used to fight alongside? Does the Grand Inquisitor engage in even more rigorous “testing” for new recruits to ensure nothing like this ever happens again? Only time (or the finale) will tell.
But in the meantime, I can appreciate this one for showing the depth of the self-justified villainy of the Inquisitors that's enough to turn Barriss’ stomach and change her mind. The fear of children, the harshness of living conditions, the mortal blow on a defenseless person, all excused in the name of their mission, show how blinded and harsh this group can be. While a little heavy-handed in underlining the evil, it's enough to explain why Barriss would turn away from this and betray her erstwhile masters.
(Though hey, spoilers for the Obi-Wan miniseries: Some of the oomph is taken away by the fact that we see the Fourth Sister in that show, so we know she survives. Does a large fall kill any force-sensitive person in this universe?)
Overall, this is fairly standard stuff, but it’s done well, and gives us (or at least me) an unexpected direction for Barriss’ story.
The creators don’t know how to speak English?
Or, hear me out, “they” is just a word, a way of referring to a person without even thinking of or referencing their gender, much in the way of “that person/being” or heck, even “it”.
It doesn’t have to be woke, it can be just a neutral word choice. Relax folks.
Even if it is or was a non-binary reference, it is ONE WORD and was not flashy or overtly in your face at all. It didn’t bother me either way. The negative or hateful comments do, however.
Shout by DBMENBlockedParent2024-05-04T13:56:31Z
I think they made an error in dialogue, Barris is telling the Fourth Sister that they are still alive but there is only one man, so I think originally creators wanted severall Jedi there but ultimately they decided that there will only be one, and they forgot to rerecord the dialogue. Idk it's so weird that they left that mistake in.