When People Call The Jedi Order Baby Stealers, I Always Wonder If They Watched The Episode Series Where

When people call the Jedi Order baby stealers, I always wonder if they watched the episode series where Palpatine, the big bad Sith Lord, has Cad Bane break into the Jedi Temple to steal a holocron that contains a record of recently born Force-sensitive children and then use it to go kidnap those kids. And he successfully kidnaps two of them before the Jedi catch up at the third planet, where the mom is surprised that the Jedi, Cad in disguise, is back so soon for her child, as she was told that it would be some months to a year before the Jedi came to get her kid. Which shoots the whole baby stealing argument in the foot. The actual baby stealer is told that the people he is impersonating weren’t coming back as early as he was, and it’s only because Cad is exceptionally skilled at his job that he is able to convince the mom to give up her child. It can also be reasonably assumed that the Jedi act the same way in regards to every parent who has a Force-sensitive child, which make the only baby stealers in the galaxy the Sith, the bad guys, and anyone they employ to help them, who would also be bad guys.

Just “…can we keep her?” got me. Good one.

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Finally, the snow lessened and the crowds thinned, allowing work towards Glain to resume. Cassandra was normally less than thrilled to be awake early in the morning, but the firefighters had found her eagerly awaiting the day. Robert had just chuckled.

"She loves laying track." He explained as he checked her lubricators. "It's what she was assigned to when we arrived on the North Western. She helped build all the new lines, and helped relay most of the old ones too."

"You have truly been her driver since she was new?"

Robert nodded, "the ROD had me and my best mate transferred to what would become the North Western. Along the way, we were sent to pick up a train of supplies pulled by an 'E2 class 0-6-0 tank engine'."

He patted Cassandra's running board, who was humming happily. "I found this lass napping at the head of our train, less than a week from the factory but already dead on her wheels from the war traffic. We woke her and found she was in fact the E2 class, and off to the North Western we went. I've been her driver ever since."

Cassandra affectionately blew steam at her driver, who chuckled warmly. "I met my wife because of her, and found my home on the island, I wouldn't trade her for any other engine, late-night escapades and all."

Screech was quiet for a moment. "Cassandra says your body has been affected by your time with her?" 

Robert stopped and looked at her consideringly, "This is about your crew isn't it?"

Screech shifted uncomfortably, "I was unaware of the effect my presence would have on them."

Robert frowned," I'm afraid I can't predict what will happen in the long term. Cassandra's light is healing, so my body hasn't suffered the wear a man of my age should have, but as far as my doctor can tell I'm not actually any younger than I should be, just in unusually good shape."

"But my shadows aren't healing."

Cassandra tilted her head thoughtfully, "I'm not sure about that."

Screech looked at her in askance. "I destroy anything I touch."

Cassandra locked eyes with the eldritch titan, "as you once were."

"Are you saying..." Abbey trailed off.

Cassandra thought a moment longer, "If I shine the Lady's light on one who has failed to pass without care, it damages them...but that same light comforts or heals living engines."

"If Screech touches us without being careful, it damages us," Avon said slowly, "but if there were another like her..."

"...Her touch would likely comfort them." Cassandra finished.

"There are others like me?" 

"Others that remain despite their death? Absolutely." Cassandra said firmly. "But each one is different, some are just shadows, hoping to be seen once more. Others..." Cassandra's gaze hardened, "others I have met in battle."

'Oh?' The whisper perked up at the idea of such a battle.

Cassandra nodded grimly. "Yes. One went after Stephen, our current controller's son " Her eyes flashed gold with anger at the memory. "Sir Topham had sent that beast away during the war. While away it suffered a boiler explosion, but rather than answer the Lady's call it swore revenge. It tried to kill Stephen, Topham's grandson, one evening at the docks." She growled, "he was just a child, but it mattered not to that beast."

'What did you do to it?' The whisper hissed in anticipation. 

Cassandra snorted at its eagerness, "I held the line long enough for Gordon to arrive and cast it into the sea. The remaining parts of its body were then cut apart and melted down piece by piece until it faded from existence."

'...can we keep her?'

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Considering the drop WildNorWester just did a few days ago, fair.

So guessing by a previous comment you made about the Mid Sodor Engines in Stanley the American Engine (No Tim, no Jim, no Albert”), am I right to assume that Mid Sodor Engines is about them?

Goodness, that's going way back!

Mid Sodor Engines is one of those fics that is stuck waiting for me to find time to write the instalment in the series that precedes it - and you're partly right! It will have Tim and Jim in it, but no Albert. Albert's got plenty of fics about him, and I'd like to do something different.

Mid Sodor Engines probably would also have a Stuart and Falcon story, and of course Duke would be there too. But until then, you'll just have to wait and see!

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Literally so much of this makes so much sense and I love it.

Number 9 for the ask game! For both disneycanon and legends :)

9. worst part of canon

Man, this is a hard question to answer, mostly because there's so many things I could answer.

So I am assuming here that when you say "Legends" you actually just mean Lucas canon that existed pre Disney canon since "Legends" has never been and will never be canon in and of itself. If you were hoping to hear me speak about something that was ACTUALLY from Legends, I'm very sorry, but I'm not familiar enough with it and I don't think it works for the prompt anyway, so all of my answers are going to be from Disney Canon or Lucas Canon.

Some of these will land more in the realm of "the concept is fine/good, the execution was bad" and some will be more "the concept in and of itself is awful regardless of whether it was executed well or not."

In the Ahsoka show, the concept of Ahsoka facing her past with Anakin and how that's impacted who she's become is a great idea and it's really the only way to move her character forward, but the execution of it was so badly done that I wish it had never happened and we'd just never seen Ahsoka again or ever learned what she felt about Anakin. I've spoken enough about this show for anyone more familiar with me to know why I feel that way. If you haven't read my posts about it and want to hear more of them, you can search under the tags "ahsoka show" and "anti ahsoka show."

Turning the Darksaber into Mandalorian Excalibur is, perhaps controversially, a bad concept. It's introduced in the hands of a Mandalorian, sure, but it's also introduced specifically as a stolen Jedi relic. And between those two things, somehow the fact that it was in the hands of a Mandalorian got considered the more important part of it rather than the fact that it was a JEDI relic that got stolen from them.

And unfortunately turning the Darksaber into Mandalorian Excalibur has made the Mandos even more boring than they already were. It forces everything that was established about them in TCW to be basically erased and ignored. The whole aspect of them having a government of any kind, having a Council and a Prime Minister, is gone, and leaders are chosen by who can wield a stolen relic real good (or, more accurately, who can wield a DIFFERENT WEAPON well enough to defeat the person who IS wielding the stolen relic) rather than chosen more democratically by the people themselves.

The Darksaber also just isn't even being used very well in the narrative. It got handed to Sabine and we went through an entire lovely arc for her to earn it both the Jedi way and the Mandalorian way only for her to hand it off the very next season to someone who hadn't earned it at all. Then that person loses it and it somehow ends up in the hands of Din Djarin who seems to START an arc about earning it only for that to just get completely dropped so he can hand it right back to the same person Sabine handed it to last time and then it gets destroyed a few episodes later. There's not been any point to the Darksaber at all since it first showed up in Pre Viszla's hands in TCW. It should've stayed a fancy-looking stolen Jedi relic (and arguably should've just been handed back to the Jedi) if they weren't going to do a single interesting thing with any of the Mandos who ended up with it.

Moving on from the Darksaber, and looking at the Sequels, I think killing off all of Luke's Jedi students and destroying Leia's New Republic was a terrible terrible idea as a concept. I understand the idea of like... "Darkness always comes back, the fight is never completely over" but destroying ALL OF THE PROGRESS made in the last trilogy by the main characters just to force the new characters to do the exact same thing all over again is stupid. There are ways to do "darkness always comes back" as a theme without making Luke, Leia, and Han's arcs completely irrelevant. It doesn't feel hopeful by the end anymore, it just feels a little pointless because if everything is always going to be destroyed over and over again then why try to build anything at all? What's the fucking point of it all if none of the triumphs last long enough to mean anything?

And adding onto that, making the New Republic completely incompetent and also so horrible that they're basically the Empire in all but name feels equally frustrating as a concept because now not only were they destroyed before anything meaningful could be done with them, but it's not even a bad thing that they were destroyed because Leia failed long before Starkiller blew up those five planets. The New Republic was a failure from the moment of its inception because it's just filled with and run by cowards and greedy assholes who won't help anyone or do anything useful at all apparently.

I won't touch on R*ylo much because plenty of other people have, but everything about that was awful and it never should've been made canon.

While we're on romantic failures, I don't think Obi-Wan has ever needed a romantic interest, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be done well. But Obitine just wasn't it. Obitine was executed so incredibly poorly that it just made both characters radically less interesting and if I didn't already enjoy Obi-Wan as a character, his relationship with Satine would probably turn me off of Obi-Wan entirely given that he's literally a sexist asshole to her. Obitine never should've happened and if they HAD to do it, they should've gotten better writers to handle it so that it didn't ruin a beloved character as a result.

I'm sure there's more I could complain about, but that's what's coming to mind right now.