Dave Filoni Teases Ahsoka’s Lonely Journey in Star Wars: Ahsoka

Star Wars is a franchise filled with characters who undergo a lot, and Ahsoka Tano has had a fairly eventful life. Since she debuted on Star Wars: The Clone Wars as an apprentice to Anakin Skywalker in the course of the prequels, she’s been caught up in a single occasion after one other, from participating in navy skirmishes to surviving Order 66 and being a key participant within the rising Insurrection. Together with her upcoming solo series set to debut in just a few months, one of many present’s key threads will see Ahsoka (as performed in live-action by Rosario Dawson) studying to let folks absolutely into her life once more.

Talking to Empire Magazine, showrunner Dave Filoni (and likewise Ahsoka’s co-creator) mentioned the titular present would discover how lonely her life has turn out to be since turning into Not a Jedi and leaping round from place to put. He mentioned the present would begin off together with her as a wanderer who’s “cautious of any group as such due to the ability that comes with it as a bunch.” Through the last season of Clone Wars, this was one thing hinted directly she was reunited with Anakin and Obi-Wan, however can be given extra focus right here.

Jedi dwelling solitary lives is pretty widespread, however the circumstances of Ahsoka’s loneliness are extra sophisticated than others like her. Between surviving Order 66, a number of Inquisitors, and a struggle together with her previous grasp, she’s bought loads of cause to be closed off. And it ought to assist clarify why the character’s live-action appearances in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett have felt so…off in a technique or one other the place she dips out anytime she will get a whiff of neighborhood being fashioned. (It’s not even all that unique to live-action, as she appeared and disappeared all through the second season of Star Wars Rebels.)

Whereas it’s been simple for Ahsoka to come back and go as she pleases from locations up to now, that gained’t be fairly as simple in her present. In Rebels, she was saved by that present’s protagonist Ezra Bridger (performed right here by Eman Esfandi), and he informed her to come back discover him. That is her method of returning the favor, and that’ll require her to associate up with fellow Rebels character Sabine Wren (Natasha Bordizzo) as they journey the galaxy on the lookout for their lacking good friend. Filoni had no downside saying connecting with Sabine throughout their travels collectively could be a problem for her. “[Ahsoka] walks a path that principally died out a very long time in the past,” Filoni noticed. “What’s that life like? If you’re a loner, you may have a really small circle of associates. What’s it like, then, while you attempt to open again up?”

Star Wars: Ahsoka involves Disney+ in August.

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