As someone who grew up watching “Clone Wars” and have had a crush on Ahsoka for the longest time, I was very excited to watch this series!
This series starrs Rosario Dawson (“DopeSick”), David Tennant (“Good Omens”), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (“Dayshift”), the legend and may he rest in peace, Ray Stevenson (“Star Wars : The Clone Wars”), Genevieve O’Reilly (“Andor”), Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (“The Mandalorian”), just to name a few!
This series was directed by Dave Filoni he needs no introduction!
This series was released on August 23rd 2023 on Disney Plus! It had eight episodes in its first season! It is an Action/Adventure/Drama/Sci-Fi series. It was rated Tv-14.
Onto the premise: After the fall of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.
In episode one, A valuable prisoner escapes New Republic custody; a search for answers reunites two old friends.
In episode two, Ahsoka and General Hera Syndulla travel to New Republic shipyards and make an unexpected discovery.
In episode three, Hera tangles with New Republic politics while Ahsoka and Sabine Wren voyage to a distant planet.
In episode four, Hera risks her career to help her friends while Ahsoka and Sabine confront enemies.
In episode five, Ahsoka confronts her past, while Hera and her allies undertake a rescue mission.
In episode six, While travelling with the Purgill, Ahsoka and Huyang discuss Wren’s choice in siding with the enemy to find Ezra. Meanwhile, the Eye of Sion arrives on Peridea, the ancient homeworld of Elsbeth’s people known as the Dathomiri. Elsbeth, Skoll, Hati, and Wren meet the Great Mothers, a group of Nightsisters allied with Thrawn. As they wait for the Grand Admiral’s arrival, Skoll relates to Hati his belief that the fall of the Jedi and the rise of the Empire were part of an inevitable cycle, one he intends to break. Thrawn arrives with his Star Destroyer, the Chimaera, and honors Skoll’s promise by providing Wren with provisions, a Howler mount, and the latest intelligence on Bridger’s whereabouts. After Wren leaves, Thrawn orders Skoll and Hati to follow her at their own pace so they can kill both her and Bridger. Surviving an ambush by bandits, Wren encounters the native Noti and follows them to their village where she reunites with Bridger. While tracking Wren, Skoll senses that there is a greater power on Peridea and tells Hati that he intends to find and use it. Anticipating Ahsoka coming with the Purrgil, Thrawn demands all the details of her history from Elsbeth and orders her to kill any arriving Purrgil.
In episode seven, Hera must answer to the New Republic while a reunion takes place far, far away.
In episode eight, the season finale,
I’ll state right off the bat that I have never seen an episode of “Star Wars rebels,” and only a handful of “The Clone Wars” episodes, so I was naturally caught a little off guard with how well received the first few episodes were amongst Star Wars fans. There’s no way for me to sugar coat this, but it was painfully slow. When you take away all the fan service and the joy of seeing animated characters in live-action for the first time, it’s honestly a little bit dull. Episodes 1-3 really should have been combined into one, maybe two, episodes.
Still, I carried on watching because I do enjoy Star Wars and I quite like the character of Ahsoka based on my limited experience with her. And, boy oh boy. Nothing could have prepared me for how good it gets.
Episode 4 is good, for sure. It’s nothing insanely special, but it was refreshing to see the show finally pick up the pace and throw us into the stakes it’s seemingly promised us from Episode One. When the credits rolled, I found myself actually wanting to keep watching for a reason other than saying I watched the whole series.
Now, Episode 4 may be good, but Episode 5? I can confidently say that Episode 5 is one of the best pieces of modern Star Wars media out there. It’s a perfect reminder that fan service is a perfectly valid form of storytelling when combined with genuinely good writing and direction. Yes, there’s plenty of fan service to go around, that even made myself (the casual viewer) lose my mind in anticipation, but the main reason Episode 5 is so good is simply because it was well-put together. It’s a beautiful piece of media that truly makes you realize how much potential “Ahsoka” has.
So, while I do criticize the fact that the show starts off slow (and sometimes the acting seems just a tad bit less-than), I can say with full confidence that “Ahsoka” is shaping up to be a phenomenal show.
My advice? Push yourself threw the first three episodes and forgive your lack of past knowledge, if you have my same inexperience with these characters.
Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are carrying Star Wars on their backs. They’ve adapted George Lucas’s work with so much precision and care. It’s truly unbelievable how different this show feels from everything else fans have gotten from the franchise lately (in the best ways possible).
The cinematography is clean, the action is amazing, the score elevates every scene, the visuals are superb and every character seems perfectly casted so far.
You do not need to have prior knowledge of Rebels or Clone Wars beforehand to enjoy this show but it will elevate your experience if you know anything about it.
A sign of a shows quality is if an episode can end with you wanting to watch more of it and I think Ahsoka managed to do that in its 2 episode premiere. I’m extremely interested to learn more about the antagonists and more about Rebel’s crews past since the series ended.
Overall really enjoyed it and would recommend it to you !
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