How crazy does that sound, but just think about it. With The Clone Wars ending with a truncated sixth half-season and Star Wars Rebels leaping into action the following year, not only were many threads left unresolved but we also hopped further down the timelines of Ahsoka Tano and Captain Rex, two characters who survive until at least beyond the end of Return of the Jedi. With The Clone Wars now returning for a long-overdue seventh season (how you can claim to have ‘saved’ a show you cancelled – very clever marketing!), the events of Rebels further down the timeline comes in to play.
Speaking recently with Cinemablend, Dave Filoni touched on this.
You know, that’s the interesting thing, when you do these shows and different time periods and cross characters over, but you are laying out a lot of their stories. So now, to be quite honest, no one’s asked me this. It’s interesting, because Clone Wars affects Rebels and that’s progressive, but now I have to look at it in reverse and I have to look at all the things I did with Ahsoka and Rex and say ‘Well, now I know these things happen so how does that affect what they were like now that I’m back in Clone Wars?’ So I have to do this other time of engineering which I didn’t have to do before because Ahsoka in Clone Wars is always forward-moving, and so is Rex. Their futures were undetermined, but now you know something about them, so that’s different. That’s new for new Clone Wars, so we’ll see. Hopefully I can figure it all out.
Of all the people we have faith in, Filoni is right at the top. We have no doubt this will satisfy a lot of lingering questions and continue to cement the years between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, among the most important years in the entire saga.
