Mesanychta III

Like honestly, tales of the empire was really a let down. We finally get Barriss back as a character and an opportunity to really see her continue down the dark path she put herself on in the Clone Wars and the writers seem like they were too cowardly to actually show a previously good character do some dark shit? In star wars of all things????

We get Barriss as an inquisitor for barely even a day before she dips.

The episode shows her being released from prison by the fourth sister, trained once (that we see) by the grand inquisitor, after she passes her test by tapping into the darkside and killing a fellow inquisitor applicant she gets her first mission .

She fights some random Jedi who she feels sorry for and immediately shows mercy to, then kicks the Fourth Sister down a cliff and escapes to what looks like Ilum of all fucking places and becomes a healer and ages like 100+ years in the process? Then we get teased that Vader could have tracked her down and is there to do the deed, it isn’t even him, just the same Fourth Sister inquisitor because shes sooo important to Barriss’ story?? Who then on top of it all kills her by accident and feels bad about it😒

We could’ve had so much better. They don’t even tease/mention Luminara, we could’ve had a real master and apprentice reunion that showed Barris taking her down which ties directly into how they captured Luminara at the Spire. They don’t even show Vader having any reaction to knowing who Barriss is at all and he doesn’t even have any interaction with her period!

Barriss basically gets her character and her story thrown away for the sake of them both wanting to actually show a good person doing bad shit for any longer than the five minutes it took for her to kill a fellow ex jedi and then welp she remembers shes a good person and with the power of good thoughts and disney bullshit shes gonna immediately stop being an inquisitor after one fucking mission. Like they forget this is the same character that quite literally BOMBED THE JEDI TEMPLE, FRAMED HER BEST FRIEND FOR IT, AND STRAIGHT UP PICKED A FIGHT WITH STAR WARS JESUS WITH RED LIGHTSABERS SHE STOLE FROM A SITH ASSASSIN??? And now they’re like oh nah she was just mad at the jedi. Okay that makes sense but how do you let someone go from that, to “oh no this Jedi is hurt they may die we gotta save them” fuck all the way out of here.