With the long wait to the next Star Wars Mandoverse TV series, we have plenty of time to delve deeper into what we’ve seen in Ahsoka and how the reveals – especially in the fifth episode Shadow Warrior – will have an effect going forward, but there are also plenty of past relationships that still have fuel in the story tank to be driven and Dave Filoni and Rosario Dawson dip into one of the most fascinating, that between Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano.
First, Dawson discusses Ahsoka’s feelings regarding Anakin.
“She had a very particular idea of him, the Jedi order, and who she was in all of that for a very long time until that image was shattered. The point we graduate to here is, yeah, he did some terrible things, and he also did some really great things. And it’s always up to you how you choose the direction. She can look back at her own life. She’s gone through some hardships that could have been the moment that turned her dark. She didn’t go there. So I think she’s starting to trust herself.”
Filoni goes on to explain why further investigation of this relationship was so important to tackle head-on in Ahsoka.
“While I had introduced in Rebels the idea that she came to understand that Anakin had become Darth Vader, I never really dealt with the fallout from that. How does that affect somebody when a person that they really admire and looked up to turned out not to be the person they thought they were? Are we all just capable of a fall from grace? And what is forgiveness? What shape does that look like? Did I take the good parts of this person with me as well as the bad, or am I just the good? I thought there were a lot of interesting challenges for her.”
We discussed Shadow Warrior on Making Tracks Reaction Chat, which you can listen to below.
