Separatist POV: Asajj Ventress Character Discussion on JD Maul Blog

JD Maul Blog Q1) What are your feelings about Asajj Ventress?

Seppie POV: I like her! She is a strong female character and a skilled lightsaber duelist. She holds her own as a Dark Side Acolyte

JD Maul Blog Q2) What are your opinions on how things went with her character in Season 3 of the Clone Wars? What about her being reveled to be a Nightsister?

Seppie POV: The season 3 backstory show written by Katie Lucas was enthralling. She was betrayed by Darth Tyrannus (Count Dooku) who had been ordered by Darth Sidious (Palpatine) to get rid of her. She returned home to her Nightsisters and her "Mother" Talzin - the coven of witches that practiced the Dark Side. Seeing that these Dark Sided women survived without much Sith interference, from a female perspective, it was interesting tosee how intricate their practices and beliefs were. What I like was she had supporters as Nightsisters in those episodes

JD Maul Blog Q3) What are your hopes for her Character development and her sisters going into the Season 4 finale?

Seppie POV: So for Asajj, they have pretty much sealed her fate to make her no longer relevant. My hope is the Lucasfilm revisits that concept, because it would be nice to see a Sith-Lord-like kinds of abilities in women. But something tells me much like Season 4 has been that all major Confederacy of Independent Systems' villains have been strategically terminated

JD Maul Blog Q4) Do you think Dooku thought of her as a serious apprentice and intended to use her to overthrow Palpatine? If not should he have?

Seppie POV: I think at the very beginning with the true animated Clone Wars episode when they first introduced her, he never really liked her. He did not ever think he could use Asajj to take over Palpatine

JD Maul Blog Q5) What do you think her future will be giving up the ways of the sith and joining the Nightsisters? And do you think she will killed off?

Seppie POV: If she doesn't get killed by the end of this Season, then she'd be going back to the Nightsisters. I hope she does not get killed, but something says she will.

JD Maul Blog Q6) How do you think she will play into the story of Darth Maul and Savage Opress?

Seppie POV: No. Savage Opress is 1) searching for his brother and caring for him in some way, if he doesn't kill him first. Then 2) he wants to learn more as to how to use the Force.

JD Maul Blog Q7) Do you think Dooku regrets betraying Ventress? What would you do in Dooku’s place? Betray Ventress or betray Sidious? Would you like to see her survive the Clone Wars and show up in the live action series?

Seppie POV: Asajj Ventress' ending? Hmm? In the comics she appears to be mortally wounded, but she goes into a deep healing trance and wakes up aboard a ship and forces the pilots to take her to another planet. I thought it was Dathomir, but I am unsure. Overall, I would like her to go to the Unknown Regions and meet up with like the Chiss, oddly enough. If Asajj survives the Clone Wars, I think there is a place for her in the live action series.

JD Maul Blog Q8) Lastly, if Katie Lucas asked you to write Asajj Ventress’s ending, what would it be?

Seppie POV: No Dooku is a Sith, they have no regrets. It was owed to the Dark Side of the Force. It judges. A Sith just wants to control it. Dooku knew that his current list of acolytes were not powerful enough to overthrow Sidious. Sidious, of course, proved too powerful in the Dark Side of the Force.

Originally article:

Asajj Ventress Character Discussion

From the Seppie POV: TCW Epi 4.12 - Slaves of the Republic

Those who enslave others, inevitably become slaves themselves...

The video: ( click link here for the good one from StarWars.com> )



SPOILERS!!!

What I thought about the episode in general. I have seen this story before. I have actually written stories like this before. So when I see what they have written in the manner they have written it, I liked it. No one in the right mind GOES to a slave auction when they have been enslaved. One would have to be warped to desire to do that.

Yet, that is exactly what the Jedi do: Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano and one of the Clone Troopers--he did not figure prominently in this episode. They fly to main planet of the Slave Empire, Zygerria.

Immediately, Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi judges that the people going to Zygerria are "High class scum"... Some of those "high class scum" are from the Republic...

When Skywalker walks out to the planet, Obi Wan asks him how is he going to get to the Queen and then it starts! The laying on thickness of the "fresh" attitude. Like he has man-flavor that all the ladies swoon to. As if he is the end all be all.

From a Separatist POV, we do not break our marriages up like that. If Padme had seen the freshness of the Anakin, he would have not been married to her that long.

In less than two minutes, Anakin Skywalker has the full on freshness like his "son's" newly changed diaper on the Queen Miraj Scintel of Zygerria and he life her hot like an oven...

Who knew that Skywalker had that much playa flava?

Then when the Jedi are discovered they are making a ruse to save the Torgutan colonists from Kiros, the gig is up and they were beaten down like a 10 credit whore. They were made into slaves! Caged and spat upon by the Zygerrians. However, what was interesting is that when Anakin regained his consciousness, he almost kills the Queen with a Force Choke -- a dark side power.

Queen Miraj Scintel is attractive, arrogant and harsh. Her power comes from what she was born and educated to do. Strife has never touched her for her to be so brutal.;




But is Queen Miraj Scintel a "strong woman"? Why are there more "strong woman" without Force Powers on the Separatist side? Whereas, Padme Amidala who is sweet, smart and genteel is not seen as absolutely powerful to "enslave people", but is delicate to where by the end of ROTS she dies due to the "will to live"? Come on!

Ahsoka is a Jedi, a force user, she is supposed to fight back. She suffered immensely on the moon Wasskah via Transdoshan Slave Traffickers! And in this "Slaves of the Republic episode, she is relegated to a slinky blue outfit, now? Reminiscent of a Slave Leia. How about FREE SLAVE LEIA?

So like it seems the Republic has no bad women, and the Confederacy of Independent Systems has no good women... Hmm?

The trope is called "woman in the refrigerator".



From an episode POV -- point of clarification:

In this episode, slaves are processed... Processed means being forced and prepared to serve as a slave. The slavers carried light whips and are seen as beating beings.

In this episode slaves go for ~50,000 credits at start bid. Unknown reason why or if it changes.


In this episode, Obi Wan is caught to be sold off as a slave and Queen Miraj Scintel says:

"Do not fear the Jedi, they are no different from others we have forced into submission, for they have forsaken their ideas to serve a corrupt Senate!"

This quote made me think that the layout, images and dialogue were very reminiscent of Egypt and the Judao-Christian Moses...


From a Separatist POV:

There is a lot of "innuendo" in this episode. Masochistic "innuendo". As if both sides, Republic and Separatists wanted to be whipped as slaves for more power. As if it was a turn on for some people.

But is there a different between what the Republic is doing to the Outer Rim Worlds causing them to starve verses what the Confederacy of Independent Systems are doing in publicly broadcasting their business ventures and not hiding it?

Then there is a questions of Force Users being easily subdued by light whips even when they have their lightsabers. For the Separatists, there may be hope to overtake the Jedi and forcing them to submit. Or forcing any Force User to submit... Is there?




My personal POV as the writer of this blog:

I am glad that TCW tackled this issue and LFL approved it. It was good to see this story arc. As a roleplayer, slavery is something I hate with a passion given my ancestors were once slaves in the United States.

Moreover, slavery is still going on in modern times. Human trafficking is still happening in the US and it is horrific.

As a roleplayer, promoting slavery as a public relations firm as cute and glamorous is a warped way of roleplaying and thinking, given the realities of what slavery does and how ugly it is for many people who suffer from its grip.

For LFL to recreate this part of the canon on this issue of slavery and have a Twi'lek slave jump off a building to her death, shows what the canon is for this generation of Star Wars. It is not cute, it is not pleasant and it is humiliating and I think this episode is showing how horrific it is.

If people want to roleplay as slaves being cute and think they are in a powerful position as slaves, fine. But there is no reason for having a PR firm for slaves, especially ones involving girls...

From the Seppie POV: TCW Epi 4.11 - Kidnapped

The running synopsis says:

Zygerrian slavers are behind the sudden disappearance of an entire colony of people on the planet Kiros. As Anakin and Ahsoka rush to defuse a series of bombs planted by the slavers, Obi-Wan must fight with their imposing leader.

The episode is listed here

POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!

In the beginning, Count Dooku, the head of state of the Confederacy meets the Kiros Togrutans who say they are a peaceful people. Count Dooku reassures them, they wish for peace, too. But he uses only what a Force Using Sith would do...The Sith Mind Trick or Force Subjugate -- basically making individuals do what one wants them to do.

It was not obvious.


Then the Zygerrian Slave Empire was introduced as a part of the Star Wars TCW canon. The Zygerrians look like "cats" in TCW, but on Wookieepedia, they appear more human who speak in Easter European accent. They dress like nobility in uniforms and numerous pets. They are stuck on what the Jedi did to them years ago and they are out for revenge. They want to re-introduce the slave auctions.

The parallels for what happened in real life are amusing to say the least.

The Confederacy of the Independent States in the United States during its Civil War, was NOT just about Slavery. It was about ECONOMICS. The Northern States could not compete economically with the Southern States due to the kinds of products and labor they had -- products like sugar and invariably slave labor. But no one really cared about the slaves, except for abolitionists at the time.

If Jedi are abolitionists in the Clone Wars, then why are they not stopping all of enslavement in the galaxy? How could they? They would have enforced the known laws of the Republic and stopped it with their Force Powers, some of those that grazed the Dark Side...

Zygerrian Slavers seem to be more about immolating new slaves than indoctrinating ones from birth. Beating down a new slave is a turn on for people. It is sick and twisted, but for some reason, it is like breaking in a new wild horse. The triumph of dominance. Guess the Zygerrians got off on that? With tropical pets they had, it would seem they specialized in exotic slaves that could be domesticated by warped torture.

What does this have to do with the Separatists? Nothing.

Because watching this episode shows an "Anakin" having another one of his outbursts regarding his "slave" past. But what it neglects is really discussing his "slave" future as Darth Vader except in a snippet pan out comment by Yoda.

There is another possibility, why would the Separatists who have millions of droids at their disposal WANT organic sentient being slaves?

Therein lies the discrepancy, the Separatists who hold true to the Separatist ideals do not want organic sentient being slaves. They enjoy their droid slaves. Droids are after all mechanical, therefore, disposable. No one feels bad for a broken down machine. But connecting with another organic sentient being within a Force powered universe is well, heart-wrenching. Not to mention this happens in real life. One would have to be a sick and twisted being to get off on connecting Force-prescient beings, torture and abuse them, to bend them to their will...

Then, that is what Sith do... And the lead Sith in this picture is none other than --Palpatine or Darth Sidious. The misery of others drives the Dark Side Force Powers. And now this "slave story arc" seems to be a REPUBLIC fabrication to blame the CIS for slavery!

But EVERYONE will blame the CIS for wanting slaves! The lies told by a wily old, benevolent Supreme Chancellor. That is a master plan of the Sith. Treachery. And not even the Jedi can foresee this one.

This story arc will be interesting to say the least.