I gave episodes 1 & 2 a B- primarily for pacing issues.
Episode 3 resolved my pacing concerns (dialogue seemed to move at a better pace), and the characterization of Hera (the bit we got of her) seemed more consistent with my expectations.
Most importantly, this episode was fun. I enjoyed the interactions between Ahsoka, Sabine, and Huyang. The dynamics of the three are interesting, and Huyang’s pessimism in regards to Sabine’s training gives Ahsoka a chance to be more optimistic than we saw in her interactions with Hera. It’s a good dynamic, and I look forward to seeing it play out further.
Less play with Baylan than I would have liked, but overall I think episode 3 exceeded the expectations I had coming out of the first two episodes.
I think they’ve sufficiently alluded that Ahsoka thinks it’s worth training those with the discipline required but who may lack the talent.
The Jedi Order took those with the talent and tried to teach them discipline. Ahsoka wants to take someone with discipline and teach her to hear and wield the Force.
Theoretically it should be possible. Everyone has the Force, it suffuses all life in the galaxy. But not everyone has the inborn talent that the Jedi sought out.
If you’ve read the Wheel of Time series, think of this as training women who wouldn’t channel on their own but could still learn.
The issue I see here is that the jedi’s perception of the Force is fundamentally a paradigm. The reason Luke was too old, the reason the Jedi Order never took in adults for training was because it’s hard to instill that paradigm into people who already have an established paradigm of their own. It’s very likely the same mental discipline necessary to wield the Force is the very reason that Mandalorian Jedi are so rare. (coupled, of course, with just how hard it would be to steal mandalorian babies to brain wash them…)
according the Jedi dogma… the Force flows through everything, but not everything is aware of it. The rigid discipline of the mandalorians… if there is a Force Tradition there, then their perceptions are different. the Jedi putting everyone and everything on a spectrum (jedi=light, sith=dark. Other bastards=dark, stuff we tolerate = gray) assumes everyone is perceiving the Force in the same way- or is asking the same questions about the Force.
Important to note, Ahsoka does specifically say she isn’t training her to be a Jedi, but to be herself. I doubt any Force skills she gains will be particularly powerful, but I suspect they’ll be useful combined with what she knows already.